Miami Gardens police were following a stolen car last night when one of the suspects pulled out a gun and began firing at a police cruiser. Police are now searching for the gunman, but have not released a description…
Art Basel Miami Beach and the surrounding bacchanal kicks off this week, and on the tenth anniversary of the festivities we’ve realized the entire week comes down to two factors: expensive artwork and free booze. So it’s about time that an artist fully combines the two into one work. Austrian…
Maybe police officers need to take sensitivity training to better understand the time honored traditions of the noble redneck people. That’s what Mark Thomas Wach seems to think.After the Palm City man was arrested for shooting a lawnmower and pointing a gun at his son, he told police, “Fighting is…
September’s fatal shooting at Nocturnal got us wondering: What really goes on behind the velvet ropes in Miami’s most chichi clubs? Our sickly journalist physique hardly qualified us to infiltrate the tanned and Ed Hardy-clad world, so instead we requested 12 months of police reports from one SoBe hot spot:…
It’s a holiday miracle! NBA players and owners have reached a tentative deal to save the NBA season. Training camp and the free agency period will begin on December 9, with the first games to start on Christmas day. That means that the previously scheduled December 25 match up of…
Last year the Miami Hurricanes finished a pathetically mediocre season with an embarrassing home loss to an inferior opponent and fired their head coach. This year they finished yet another pathetically mediocre season with an embarrassing home loss to an inferior opponent and gave their head coach a four year…
The unsung victims of the bizarre display of capitalism we call Black Friday? The hundreds of thousands of retail workers who have their Thanksgiving marred by having to get show up to work later that night to prepare.A worker at a Target in Palm Beach was so exhausted after working…
Want to know what a man with a multi-million dollar Miami Heat contract serves his family on Thanksgiving? It probably wasn’t all that different from what you ate yesterday. LeBron James, an occasional over-sharer, decided to tweet a video of his family’s Turkey Day spread yesterday…
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Back when Jerry Powers agreed to take the reigns as CEO of Plum TV, he had to pay Niche Media, the luxury publishing company he sold Ocean Drive magazine to, $3.5 million to get out of a non-compete clause in his contract. Now that he’s resigned from Plum TV after…
For years Miami’s most exclusive enclave, Fisher Island, reigned as the country’s most expensive zip code. Falling real estate prices have knocked it down a few pegs on that list in recent years, but the people who call the insular island home, many of whom probably bought their homes at…
Dr. Julian White, the longtime and highly decorated band director of the Florida A&M University Marching 100, has been effectively fired following the hazing-related death of 26-year-old drum major Robert Champion. Champion’s family now also plans to file a lawsuit against the university…
Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade has filmed a dancing cameo in an upcoming ensemble comedy based on What To Expect When You’re Expecting. Yes, an NBA star is dancing in a Love Actually-style ensemble movie based on a popular non-fiction pregnancy guide because Hollywood is horrible and out of ideas…
Your Miami Dolphins played in yesterday’s Thanksgiving Day game against the Dallas Cowboys and lost, ending their three-game winning streak and putting their playoff hopes on life support with someone standing by ready to smother it with a pillow. The Dolphins defense did what it could, intercepting Tony Romo twice…
In terms of effectiveness, ramming a front-end loader into a rental trailer home is certainly a good way to evict your tenants. In terms of legality, not so much. Especially if there are children in the trailer…
We’re not sure if we should be flattered or slightly afraid that Xiamen, a major city in China, has decided to model its future growth after our humble little town.”Xiamen and Miami are at the same altitude, and I believe Xiamen has the potential to be a global tourist destination…
Yesterday, while most of us were busy making our asses fat the traditional way — with lots and lots of delicious stuffing and turkey — police were still busy dealing with the saga of Oneal Ron Morris, the fake doctor accused of injecting patients’ butts with a mix of cement…
Concert promoters and musicians sue each other all the damn time over everything from disputed fees to canceled dates to whether all the M&Ms in the dressing room were green as specifically noted in the rider. Never before has a promoter taken a legal fight quite as hard, though, as…
Getting scantily clad women to play basketball while wearing stripper heels is either a shrewd business move in the face of the NBA lockout or a recipe for some very disastrous ankle injuries.Regardless, the girls of Tootsie’s Cabaret in Miami Gardens are going to give it a shot as part…
What an embarassment of riches the last year has been, huh? Yep, we’re living the American dream down here in Miami. [Ducks stray bullet, which hits unemployed guy standing in line outside temp agency. He dies and foreclosure papers fall out of his pocket and flutter into the wind.] Those…
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