Like a cockroach, Fidel Castro just won’t die. After the American press began printing speculative stories about Fidel’s relative silence in the past few months, the Cuban government has finally released new pictures of everyone’s least favorite retired dictator demonstrating the great feat of being alive…
As Miami Dolphins fans, our gut reaction to Tom Brady is “ugh,” so we guess it’s only fitting he’s the new poster boy for Ugg for Men boots. Yes, Uggs, those horribly ugly sheepskin affronts to footwear decency favored by circa 2005 UM sorority girls (paired with miniskirts, naturally) and…
Yesterday, President Obama outline a proposed $447 billion jobs bill that would cut payroll taxes, increase spending on infrastructure and public works programs, and extend unemployment benefits.Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, with lightning-fast speed, released a statement and video response last night claiming much of the bill “just won’t work.” However,…
Miami freight shipper Robert Matson Conyers was charged with animal cruelty yesterday after a tri-continental shipment of monkeys turned into a cannibalistic simian catastrophe.Guyanese animal supplier Akhtar Hussain hired Conyers to help ship 25 monkeys — 14 marmosets, five white-fronted capuchins, and six squirrel monkeys — to a buyer in…
Update: Here’s kind of a creepy correction: FPL spokesperson Robbins emailed us to say, “The NRC report states: ‘The employee’s access to the plant has been terminated.’ It does not say that the employee was fired. As to whether or not the employee was fired, that is a personnel matter…
A woman was run over and killed by her own BMW SUV in a freak accident yesterday afternoon in the parking garage of Burger King’s corporate headquarters in Miami. The woman had hit another car and got out to inspect the damage but forgot to put her car in park…
n 2009, the Homestead City Council wanted to fire City Manager Mike Shehadeh, but Shehadeh wouldn’t leave without a good severance package. So the council, being as it is a Miami-Dade government body, decided to hire a private investigator. Shehedah, being as he is a Miami-Dade government official, of course…
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It is important not only to know your rights when a cop shows up at your door so that you avoid extra trouble, but also to know proper procedure so that you can spot when four crooks pretending to be cops show up at your door with the intent to…
David Bitner, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, has died after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Bitner had announced his resignation due to health concerns last week, but his resignation date was set for September 23. A former state representative…
Oh sure, it looks easy. And there isn’t any sort of rigorous training or certification required, but it’s always best to leave stripping to the professionals. Just ask Natalie M. Behnke of Clearwater. She tried to strip down and collect money at the Baby Dolls club in Tampa Bay but…
To be alive on the Metromover is a horrifying experience. To die there is just tragic.Officials temporarily shut down service on the inner loop of the Metromover in downtown Miami this morning after a man’s body was found in one of the cars…
We all come into this world naked, screaming, and wildly swinging our limbs. Baby, we were born that way, but most of us get over it within an hour of birth. Twenty-one-year-old Jonny Fernandez, a student at Brevard Community College, reverted back to babydom on Tuesday and was arrested after…
Considering the state of the Dolphins right now, a ranking of 16th isn’t bad. Though, the ranking was awarded by Forbes.com on a list of the most valuable NFL teams. Forbes estimates that the Dolphins are worth $1.01 billion. Slightly less than the $1.04 billion average…
This morning Miami-Dade Judge Barbara Areces threw out suspended Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito’s lawsuit against the city, putting his fate back into the hands of the commission.In case you’ve forgotten that we live in a very strange city, Areces decision essentially means that Michelle Spence-Jones — who, until about…
It seems Nevin Shapiro, the scrawny, debauched Ponzi schemer currently trying to dynamite University of Miami athletics, is even slimier than we thought. A woman now claims that Shapiro, along with his convicted felon stepdad, once helped launder drug profits for the PKK, a notorious Turkish terrorist group. The claims…
Well, it took 13 months, but we were right: a top-level US diplomat is visiting Cuba.And although former New Mexico governor and UN Ambassador Bill Richardson is no Hillary Clinton, he’s a proven negotiator who just might be able to talk Cuban dictator Fidel Castro out of holding onto American…
Hialeah’s Executive Palace Hotel gives you more bang for your buck
A private garage, a stripper pole, and hard-core porn on the tube. This ain’t no Radisson.
Behold, the big, gay odyssey of Shawn Loftis. A graduate of Florida International University, where he studied international relations with a focus on the Middle East, and the Master of Public Administration Program at the University of Miami, Loftis — like so many of us — began acting in hard-core…
Global warming could put Turkey Point nuclear reactors under water
University of Miami professor cracks MLB’s umpire code
Miami-Dade firefighter claims to be a victim of a hate crime
