There’s some sort of collection of men purporting to be a football team who still suit up every Sunday in the Dolphin’s traditional aqua and orange and attempt to play something vaguely resembling pro football. It’s almost cute how they’re still pretending to even compete. In their latest move they’ve…
In Florida we’re used to things like whales, cocaine and various human body parts washing up on our beaches, but sun seekers on Siesta Key were in for something of a surprise this morning when they discovered an eight-foot-tall Lego man had mysteriously wound up sitting in the sand…
Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times.The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds. Neither government officials nor God’s advocates…
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After passing four different bills last year placing restrictions on abortion, is the Republican dominated Florida legislature ready to totally ban abortion in Florida? House Republican Charles Van Zant hopes so. He’s once again introducing his “Florida for Life” bill that would almost completely outlaw abortion in the state and…
Miami Beach traffic is already hell — especially on Collins Avenue, where the lack of left-turn lanes combined with miles of buses and cabs waiting to get into tiny art deco hotel driveways equals nightmarish gridlock. It’s about to get even worse.The Florida Department of Transportation wants to spend $2.5…
Quickly developing Hurricane Rina has now achieved Category 2-strength winds less than a day after becoming a hurricane, and there’s no sign she’s about to slow down. Forecasters now expect the storm to make a hard right turn, with the Florida Keys in its possible path…
Apparently in Myrtle Beach they do prostitution a bit differently. Instead of putting women on street corners, they have two-bit pimps stand in driveways like kids trying to hawk lemonade by waving down cars and randomly asking drivers if they’re looking for some paid sex. Unfortunately for 29-year-old Caid Kennedy Nobles,…
But no, it is not real. For the past week, graffiti artist Above has been working on a giant, attention-grabbing mural in Wynwood next to the I-95 northbound lanes as part of Primary Flight. It reads in block letters: “Give a Wall Street banker enough rope and he will hang…
This past August, Emerson Callum and Lavont Flanders Jr., a former Miami Beach police officer, were arrested for allegedly luring women to a warehouse under the pretense they were setting up modeling auditions. They then drugged the women, police said, and Callum would rape them while Flanders videotaped the assault…
It only makes sense that Michael Lohan, the man whose total lack of basic human and parenting skills gives us some empathy for the hot mess that is Lindsay Lohan, now makes his home in Florida. It is, after all, a sunny place for shady people, and Lohan was arrested…
Apparently Shaq Fu — despite a personal life that reads like bad urban fiction — hasn’t given up on his dream of being a top cop somewhere in America. Over the weekend, the New York Times published a fluffy “thirty second” interview with Shaquille O’Neal, in which he said: “I’m…
Even though her husband has been out of office for nearly a year, former first lady of Florida Carole Crist still makes the gossip pages. First there was the news that she was registered as a Democrat and was openly asking top Democrats if her hubby Charlie Crist had any chance…
The gritty rooftop “Miami Kiwanis Club League” might be every bit as much a fantasy as the idea of seeing The Heatles destroy the NBA again before Christmastime — but damn if it doesn’t look like a hell of a fun game.Dwyane Wade dominates for a “Little Havana” team in…
In a murky, garbage-strewn canal next to a dilapidated apartment complex, a mossy-colored beast breaks the water’s surface. The manatee looks as out of place in this hood as a three-piece-suit-clad banker chillin’ at Churchill’s.Kit Curtin, a veteran biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, says it ain’t easy being a…
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Rina has now officially reached hurricane-strength winds. The storm is currently trudging slowly off of the coast Honduras in the Caribbean Sea, with Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. It’s way too early to predict with any certainty its ultimate path, but the storm is expected to strengthen over the next few days…
It’s that time again when Coca-Cola holiday commercials constantly remind you ’tis the season to be giving.But every time you plug in that Christmas tree, electric Hanukkah ornament, or turkey carver, you’re only donating to one company: Florida Power and Light.Today, state regulators ignored arguments by consumer advocates and politicians,…
Jerome Emery Pearson, a Hialeah resident and former math teacher at a Broward public school, has plead guilty to possession of child pornography after a gigantic stash of lewd images were found on his personal laptop computer. Pearson was initially released on bond, but couldn’t keep away from porn. He…
In a little over two years, Chris Dorworth will be the second-most powerful man in Tallahassee. Barring some sort of momentous Democratic take over, the Republican has already been elected to serve as Speaker of the House from 2014 to 2016. Funny thing is, back in 2009, Dorworth was nearly…
A police chase almost turned tragic last night when the driver of a stolen SUV hit two young boys playing in front of their grandfather’s house.The incident occurred last night near NW 39th Place in Miami Gardens. The suspect has stolen the vehicle and was driving at speeds up to…
Commuting on Florida’s highways often feels like bumper cars with Ferrari engines. So what would happen if those heavy-footed douches no longer faced the specter of speeding tickets?Thanks to a couple of enterprising young entrepreneurs, we might just find out. Indian River County’s Ian Sidles, age 25, and Dustin Boring,…
