National signing day started out with a bang for Al Golden and his Miami Hurricanes. Tracy Howard, the number one cover cornerback in the nation and a Miramar High star, surprisingly picked the U over both FSU and UF after only making his first official visit to the school last…
Note: We don’t want Ron Paul to stop existing from this earthly plane, Paul-heads. We want him to stop existing in politics, in the Herman Cain way.Click here to read our favorite comments left on this blog. Ron Paul, the frantic and slightly unnerving uncle at Thanksgiving dinner who won’t…
After a fantastic performance over the past few years — from backing a grotesquely bad Marlins stadium deal to voting for a billion-dollar tunnel to nowhere to faithfully rewarding their corporate backers — Miami-Dade County commissioners sure seemed due for a hefty pay raise. Right?Nah, Dade voters aren’t that dumb…
Hundreds of Miami and Miami-Dade police dressed in riot gear forcibly evicted the Occupy Miami campground last night outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, about 10 hours after the Occupiers had been served with an eviction notice. At least four people were arrested, including photojournalist Carlos Miiler, and no…
Mitt Romney won yesterday’s Florida GOP primary, but we all know who the real victor was. Not Obama. And certainly not the country. No, el gran ganador was Willard’s perfectly sculpted mop of Mittitude: his hair.Here are five other things we’ll miss now that the political spotlight has shifted away…
There’s no shortage of lists purporting to rank America’s gayest cities, but those often come from a gay male point of view. And those lists tend to leave both lesbians and Miami in the cold. For example, a recent Advocate list somehow concluded that Orlando is gayer than Miami.Thankfully, a…
What a difference four years make. Back in 2008, Charlie Crist played a crucial in the Republican primary by working to deliver Florida to John McCain. Now, in 2012, he’s so fed up with shenanigans of this Primary season that according to Politico the now independent says he might just…
We might have been a bit hyperbolic in calling LeBron James’ crazy over-the-head-of-an-opponent drunk the “most awesome dunk ever.” Sure, it was awesome, but it’s not even LeBron James’ favorite dunk of his career. He told ESPN’s Brian Windhorst his favorite five dunks. Here’s video of each…
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Two days after Oakland police arrested hundreds of protesters in violent clashes, Occupy Miami activists are facing their own impending deadline: Miami-Dade County has ordered them to leave their campsite outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center by sundown tonight or face arrest for trespassing.Organizers say they expect some Miami…
It’s always fun to see different strains of a political ideology rub against each other in conflict, and that’s exactly what’s happening as a Florida House committee ponders whether or not to limit the kinds of foods that can be bought with food stamps. On one hand you have the…
Newt Gingrich is all but certain to lose today’s Florida Primary, but he’s not going out without a fight. In a last-ditch effort to secure the Jewish vote, Gingrich’s campaign is running Robocalls in Florida claiming that as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney literally took Kosher food out of the…
Peter Cottontail’s Florida cousin is no longer hopping down any bunny trails in the Everglades. That’s because he was eaten by a python.A new study says that rabbits may have been completely eliminated from areas of the Everglades where invasive snake populations are the most heavy. Bobcats, raccoons, white-tailed deer,…
Marian Searchwell may have wound up behind bars for domestic violence, but frankly it’s hard to blame her for her actions. The 56-year-old resident of Vero Beach was at the home she shared with her husband of 5 months when the man showed up around 10 p.m. on a Thursday…
Somewhere in the world exists a person who has decided that it would be a good idea to upload 2,600 YouTube videos in which he mispronounces various names in a strange inflection. As part of this person’s RunTheCube YouTube channel he has uploaded videos mispronouncing the name of every single…
In early January, Miami Beach lifeguards suddenly began ordering surfers, paddleboarders, and kitesurfers to ditch their local haunts and move south of Third Street. City officials had supposedly just rediscovered an obscure 1964 law banning the sports from guarded beaches.But while the media focused on the surf scuffle, another battle…
Early morning yesterday, Miami super-strippers Skrawberry (left) and Tip Drill vaulted to the top of the political punditry heap when they crashed a South Beach filming of Morning Joe. With the Florida primary vote going down today, we caught up with these acrobatic pole-dancing Howard Zinns for their take on…
For the second time in a matter of months a South Florida woman has been killed in after being run over by her own car. The latest incident happened Sunday around 11 p.m. in the 4200 block of Northwest Fourth Street in Miami according to The Miami Herald…
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Joe Scarborough’s political news show came to South Beach this morning, and was crashed by two of Miami’s most badass strippers and a presumed beef magnate. We’re loyal fans of King of Diamonds’ top dancer Tip Drill, who topped our prestigious list of the ten best strippers under forty. We’re…
FIU fans recently breathed a sigh of relief when Mario Cristobal was passed over for the head coaching job at Pitt, but fans are tense again this morning as several reports indicate that Cristobal is close to be being named the new head coach at Rutgers…
There’s a reason the Miami Dolphins pay Brandon Marshall all that money. He’s a damn good wide receiver. That’s a fact he reminded everyone of with his MVP performance in yesterday’s Pro Bowl; the kind of performance we see far too little of when he’s actually in a Dolphins jersey.After…
