The Miami Herald has officially found its new home. The newspaper is moving to the former headquarters of the United States Southern Command in Doral. Publisher David Landsberg sent out a memo to staff this morning announcing the move. The Herald has sold its current headquarters, right off Biscayne Bay…
Tyler Weinman, the Palmetto Bay man who was once accused of killing several pet cats, is now suing Miami-Dade County for negligence that led to his false arrest. The case was dropped in 2010 after an expert hired by the defense found that several of the carcasses of the cats…
Everybody likes to talk about how LeBron James can’t get it done in the fourth quarter, that he isn’t clutch, that he’s a righteous ass-wrecking machine for the first three quarters of games but then inexplicably turns into a little old Chinese woman in the fourth quarter, costing his team…
Our profile of Victoria Jackson, Saturday Night Live cast member turned Tea Party-lovin’, Bible-thumpin’ Fox News screamer, was published in several Village Voice Media newspapers yesterday. Jackson made clear late last night she thought it was a “hit piece” typical of the liberal media. She sent us a “rebuttal,” which…
The small Panhandle town of Crestview is evidently home to the most despicable bunch of parents and guardians in all of Florida. Yesterday, a woman from the burg of 20,000 was booked for trying to run over her ex-husband while screaming that her daughters were going to grow up to…
Mitt Romney has a square jaw and looks good on camera, but he has the real-life charisma of a bucket of hammers. It’s like he chopped up and snorted a pile of Al Gore before his speech at Freedom Tower yesterday. Still, his uncanny resemblance to Sesame Street hero Guy…
Victoria Jackson’s excellent Tea Party adventure
Victoria Jackson’s rebuttal to this story (and New Times‘ counter-rebuttal)
Miami-Dade’s pit bull ban might finally be killed for good
Mitt Romney must be destroyed: 15 reasons to stop the Mormon cyborg
Weirdest Crime Capital: Florida vs. Texas
Not so fast, Newt.Three separate polls released in the past 24 hours and just days ahead of the Florida primary show that Mitt Romney may be one his way to retaking the lead once again. Two polls shows Romney with a slight lead of two percent (those are within the…
Tyree Lincoln Smith, a Florida man, has been arrested in Lynn Haven, Florida, for allegedly beating a Connecticut man to death with an axe and then eating his eyeball and part of his brain in a nearby cemetery.According to warrant application obtained by The Connecticut Post, Smith told his cousin…
We’ve got a new entrant for Florida’s Mom of the Year Award (Note: the award is not given to the best mother in Florida, but rather the most “Floridian” mother): Jennifer Lee Collinsworth of Crestview. She stands accused of trying to run over the father of her children with her…
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In a move that Republican presidential hopefuls will probably milk for all it’s worth as they travel in and out of Miami this week, former Cuban President Fidel Castro today called the field competing for the Republican presidential nomination, “the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.”Though,…
If you’re going to take the risk of setting up an illegal marijuana growhouse, it’s best to take just the littlest bit of caution and make sure that growhouse isn’t directly next door to a school where kids as young as kindergarteners study.Three Miami men weren’t so smart and set…
South Florida Representative and Democratic National Committee chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz is one of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords closest friends in the House. Giffords, who is still recovering after being shot in the head during a meeting with her constituents last year, offered her official resignation from Congress today in order…
Marco Rubio is sticking to his promise to stay officially neutral in the GOP primary, but earlier this week Newt Gingrich started running around the state and basically inferring that he was the Marco Rubio to Mitt Romney’s Charlie Crist. At least when he wasn’t busy calling Romney “anit-immigrant.”Well, Rubio…
The two leading lights of the Republican primary are stumping for votes all over the Magic City today, leading to the obvious question: When is someone from the Florida gay rights movement going to glitter-bomb these guys?We’re not saying it’s the right thing to do, throwing glitter all over Newt…
The Miami Heat seemed to have been sleepwalking through the first three quarters of last night’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. And all that dicking around might have cost them the game if not for Chris Bosh blowing up with his 17 fourth-quarter points.Miami was able to sustain some furious…
Whenever the world reads a bizarre headline, the first question is always: “Did it happen in Florida or Texas?” Scientists, after all, have proven that 98.7 percent of truly messed up crimes originate the two Southern states. But that begs the question: Which is truly the most WTF state in…
Before we spent way too much time with Victoria Jackson– the Miami-residing former Saturday Night Live castmember who has become a raving Tea Party luminary– we got to know her new she-can’t-be-serious persona the way the rest of America did: by gawking at online videos of her being bizarrely riveting…
