Those snooty, Wayfarer-wearing jazz fans over at GQ have been crunching the numbers and actually came out with something quite meaningful: Out of the 2,364 four-year, degree-granting institutions in the U.S., the University of Florida is douchier than all but nine…
Yesterday, Honest Tea, a beverage brand owned partially by Coca-Cola, set up kiosks across 12 cities in America stocked with chilled bottles of its iced tea. Though, instead of an actual cashier, the company only placed a clear plastic box near the center with a sign asking for a dollar…
Hey Jets fans! There’s a new place to pick up fan gear — Sun Life Stadium. But hurry.Miami Herald columnist Armando Salguero tweeted a picture this morning of a shirt on sale in the Dolphins pro shop: “NEW YORK: Home of the Jets,” in that self-satisfied hunter green, hung proudly…
Is anyone all that surprised when someone associated with NASCAR continually spouts racist, ignorant garbage? Not really. Sure, it’s an image the league is trying to move past, but Bruton Smith, an owner of several NASCAR tracks, is sure making it hard. The guy is full of more hot air…
Did anybody lose a rare, five-and-a-half foot snake? We can’t imagine it’s the kind of thing that you wouldn’t notice was missing, because Miami-Dade police sure noticed it when they found it wandering through a neighborhood in the Northwest area of the county this morning…
Federal prosecutors this morning charged 16 hackers linked to the Anonymous ring that targeted PayPal last year. Among those charged: Scott Matthew Arciszewski, a 21-year-old computer major at the University of Central Florida, who the feds say hacked into an FBI-linked firm then bragged about it on Twitter under his…
Nevermind the heat or your safety, Miami is apparently America’s 8th most “walkable” city in all of America. That’s according to Walk Score. Though, the high ranking is a bit deceiving. It only applies to the City of Miami, and is only in relation to America’s 50 largest cities by population…
Republican Congressman Allen West, everyone’s favorite Iraqi-torturing politician from the 22nd district, has given us another lesson in the statesmanship he holds so dear.West sent an email to fellow Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz late yesterday after she made remarks on the House floor that referenced him after he left…
A warning to taxpayers: Never read Florida statute before bed. You may wake up in a cold sweat. Last month, New Times published a lengthy exposé on the McKay Scholarship program, a nine-figure state fund that is supposed to help disabled kids get specialized schooling but has been hijacked by…
Not everyone in Miami is on the up & up. Sure, your neighbor could have bought that brand-new Mercedes-Benz with the Christmas bonus. Or it could have been that narco slush fund in the Cayman Islands. The truth is that the Magic City is awash in foreign funds — much…
Former Heat star Shaquille O’Neal made his big debut as an NBA analyst today on an show announcing the release of the season schedule. He had nice things to say about the Heat actually, which was refreshing in the wake of Charles Barkley’s mouth’s year-long perpetual word vomit. Unless, of…
No one is saying bearded celebrity pretty boy Ashton Kutcher is wrong for using his public influence to help combat underage sex trafficking. But when we published a feature calling him out for his obviously phony stats, he got a little peeved. It got ugly.Now he’s naked on a billboard…
A judge in Baker County, Florida, has awarded custody of Miranda Wilkerson, a 3-year-old girl, to a registered sex offender whom she is not related to. The girl will be removed from her grandmother’s house, where she has lived since her mother was killed in a car crash just a month…
You know it’s time to rethink US-Cuba relations when 61-year-olds start swimming between the two countries.Granted, Diana Nyad is no abuelita doggy paddling for a taste of American freedom. As today’s New York Times explains, she’s an American endurance athlete who, much like local paddleboarder Cynthia Aguilar, sees the Straits…
People have hated it from the beginning. The Transportation Security Administration’s “advanced imaging technology,” rolled out in November 2010, has caused all kinds of drama — there was the breast cancer survivor who had to take off her prosthesis, the bladder cancer survivor who was left soaked in urine, the…
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The NBA has released its 2012 schedule (assuming the lockout doesn’t delay play), and the Miami Heat will kick off its season at Madison Square Garden against the Knicks. The team will also be working on Christmas Day this year in an NBA Finals rematch against the Dallas Mavericks in…
Ten people have been arrested and two others are wanted in a case involving the abduction of a 15-year-old girl from the Universal Studios area in Orlando who was then forced into prostitution in Miami. The girl had run away from a group home with a friend and, after meeting…
Shortly after promising to love, cherish, and obey, a Florida woman had to agree that she had the right to remain silent. Tammy Lee Hinton — who was living in New Port Richey, Florida — was a wanted woman in Michigan. Michigan cops, acting on a tip that she’d be returning to…
Dwyane Wade has a message for all his hackers out there: He’s going to sue you. He just has to figure out who you are first. In a lawsuit filed in Texas last Friday, Wade claims hackers have routinely logged into his personal email and social media accounts since 2007…
The Miami television market usually leads the nation in viewership of the men’s World Cup, but apparently couldn’t be bothered on Sunday to tune into the final of the ladies’ version. The Miami market only ranked 25th in viewership…
Could the Miami Dolphins have one of the most elite receiving corps in the NFL year with Plaxico Burress and Brandon Marshall? Well, that’s certainly a recipe for one of the most controversial receiving corps, and we also have to wonder if the Fins will have a QB reliable enough…
