After stinging losses in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Rick Santorum came to Florida this weekend hoping to reboot his push toward the White House. But the ex-senator may want to vette his opening acts a bit better: At a Coral Springs rally yesterday, he invited local conservative Michael the…
Think your commute sucks? South Florida market analyst Carlos Edde, 25, and graphic design consultant Alex Pretelt, 26, are preparing to driving 10,000 miles from England to Mongolia — all without a GPS system in a 1.2 liter car. The insane drive is part of the international Mongol Rally, a…
Rick Perry has dropped out of the race and returned to Racial Slur Hideaway, Herman Cain is now making unwanted advances on his housecats, Rick Santorum’s last name is a synonym for booty juice, and Newt Gingrich is an angry, sexed-up troll with facial hemorrhoids. Even with Newt’s victory in…
When the Miami Marlins splashed $58 million last month to land ace Mark Buehrle, diehard Fish fans weren’t the only ones celebrating. Pit bull advocates in the Florida’s only county that bans the breed also did cartwheels, because Buehrle — who owns a pit bull named Slater and lamented publicly…
Will Florida’s Evangelical voters line up behind a thrice-divorced serial adulterer with, reportedly, a thing for open marriages? Newt Gingrich’s campaign sure thinks so, and hopes that Mitt Romney’s flip-floppy past on things like gay marriage and abortion seals the deal with values voters. So, uh, Evangelicals would rather vote for a man…
Sea breezes and sunshine apparently aren’t stress busters, as five Florida cities have found themselves in CNBC.com’s top ten list of America’s most stressful cities. Miami came in third thanks in part to crime, crappy traffic and high unemployment. …
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Four more FAMU band members found themselves under arrest for taking part in hazing rituals. The arrests were not related to the November death of drum major Robert Champion, but instead for a separate incidents. …
The Heat won’t stop the little fact that they didn’t become a franchise until the late ’80s get in their way of having a little 1970’s throwback uniform fun. The Heat will be wearing uniforms inspired by the old pink, err, excuse us, “magenta” and orange of the ABA’s Floridians…
Former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles may have beaten charges in Texas last year, but the aging anti-communist operative ain’t in the clear just yet.A Panamanian lawyer requested his extradition today on charges that he plotted to kill then-Cuban president Fidel Castro while in Panama back in 2000.Carriles was controversially…
Hours after being released from jail on charges he impersonated a Miami Beach police officer, Matthew Scheidt was arrested yet again on theft charges in Homestead. Police arrested the little Scheidt for stealing items he may have used to help him impersonate a police officer in the first place. …
It’s a slippery slope down the path of transportation socialism, ain’t it? First it starts with public buses, then the City of Miami Beach got a taste of bike sharing with DecoBike, and now the city is about to launch a car sharing service. The city has partnered with Hertz…
LeBron James told the flu to go fuck itself, and then promptly became a righteous wrecker of ass, as he led the Miami Heat to their 98-87 beatdown of the L.A. Lakers last night. James, who dropped 31 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists, killed a baseball team owner, and made…
When Tiffany Dallas, a master’s student at Florida International University, started researching her thesis on redeveloping Overtown, she was fascinated by Grand Central owner Brad Knoefler’s plan to turn a blighted patch of land opposite his club — once the home of the Miami Arena — into a temporary urban…
The best part of last night’s game wasn’t that LeBron James dropped 31 points, or that the Heat crushed Kobe’s Lakers without Dwyane Wade. Honestly, the best part wasn’t even when LeBron James absolutely pancaked Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria on the sideline while chasing a loose ball (although every…
If you’re a DirectTV subscriber in South Florida you haven’t been able to see Fox since last weekend. That’s because Sunbeam Television Corp., the owners of Fox affiliate WSVN, are locked in a battle with DirectTV over the amount of money the satellite provider pays the station. That means you may have…
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PETA, a sad, attention-trolling parody of an animal rights organization, never lets a prime opportunity for cheap publicity go to waste, so they’ve decided to jump on the news that OJ Simpson’s Kendall close is in foreclosure. PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has penned a letter to the foreclosing bank, JP Morgan, and…
Michael Juchnowski, A City of Miami Police officer, has been fired for a variety of reasons including his part in a bizarre pepper spraying incident on Miami Beach last month. Juchnowski, who lives in Miami Beach, was apparently distraught after his firing, so much so that the Miami Beach police…
You thought the name “Blue Ivy” was a bit strange? Turns out that Miami Heat guard has a daughter who goes by the quite regal name of “Queen Elizabeth.” She’s twenty-months-old now, but Heat fans didn’t get the birth announcement because Chalmers was only recently found to be the girl’s…
Maybe when Matthew Scheidt heard “you can be anything you want to be when your grow up” as a child, he took it the wrong way, because the Florida teen has a strange habit of pretending to be, well, just about anything he wants to be. Scheidt was arrested by Miami Beach…
It’s a big day in the GOP primary. Rick Perry, once perceived as a conservative savior has dropped out after one of the most hilariously horribly run candidacies of all time. Meanwhile, Rick Santorum has been revealed as the real winner of the Iowa Caucus. And yet, probably the juiciest…
