Anthony Bourdain has the best travel show on television not just because he’s an asshole, but because he’s such a damn astute one. He doesn’t buy the Chamber of Commerce’s bullshit, but he also doesn’t lean on cynicism for its own sake. Like any good journalist, in other words, he…
At the corner of SW Tenth Street and First Avenue, tucked among the gleaming glass high-rises of Brickell, is a portal to the Cuban campo. On the tiny lot sit a half-dozen majestic mango and avocado trees. And in their shade strut a handful of scrawny roosters, their black, white,…
British Alexander Mitchell, better known as rapper Brisco, turned himself in to North Miami police last night to face a charge of aggravated battery. Police say he savagely beat an 18-year-old last week after — yes, really — heatedly arguing with the teen’s mom.Brisco’s mug shot, meanwhile, may not rise…
Who knew the Casey Anthony verdict would have implications on the United States’ interpretation of the Geneva Conventions? According to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the failure of a Florida jury to convict Anthony proves the need to try terrorist suspects at military tribunals outside of the American legal system…
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Former Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal will be joining the studio team on “NBA on TNT,” the popular basketball show also featuring noted Heat hater Charles Barkley, according to unnamed reports in the Orlando Sentinel.The reports cast an eerie glow around former Heat owner Micky Arison’s reaction last month to Shaq’s…
Three California men accused of the brutal gang rape of a visiting college student at the Fontainebleau resort on Miami Beach will be allowed to walk free without facing trial. The state attorney’s office has dropped all charges, reportedly due to lack of evidence…
You might not know it from trying to find parking at Aventura Mall, but apparently Miamians love to do a good bulk of their shopping online. More than residents in any other major city in America, actually, and by a large margin…
What is it about trees?Terrence Malick’s award-winning, foliage-filled movie Tree of Life has been plagued by walk-out audiences and at least one crazy crackhead.Now Notre Dame D’Haiti’s long-awaited expansion is being uprooted by opposition to the church’s plan to cut down nearly a dozen oak trees — some 150 years old…
In another astonishing chapter of staggering ineptitude surrounding the Miami Beach Police Department, the officer fired last week for running over a couple on the beach during an on-duty ATV joyride was one of the officers involved in the Memorial Day shooting death of Raymond Herisse…
After years of flirting with the line, it has become official: It’s more expensive to drink one beer at Sun Life Stadium than it is to watch nine innings of professional baseball.There really isn’t much else to say — parking is $10, a beer is $8, and the Marlins sent…
Where do you take your pregnant wife for your first wedding anniversary after the very public exposure of your extramarital online dalliances forced you to resign your congressional seat? Miami Beach, apparently. And where do you dine so news of your apparently loving dinner gets leaked to the gossip press?…
From the unsubstantiated-hearsay-but-come-on-obviously-it’s-true category comes news of what could potentially be the best marriage since Michael Jackson and Elvis’ daughter: Publicly shamed, fired, and exiled unhinged news anchor Rick Sanchez, meet anything-goes Spanish-language channel Mega TV. We know we gave Rick the dubious award of “Best Departure” when he left…
LeBron James helped turn Miami, a pretty solid football town, into a major basketball loving city almost over night, but can he get people interested in the University of Miami men’s basketball team? The Heat superstar has inked a sponsorship deal with the Hurricanes team, and next season the team…
For years after she moved to Sderot, a town near Israel’s border with Gaza, life was quiet for Michelle Fendel. With her husband, Rabbi David Fendel, the Long Island-born transplant helped start a school in the countryside.Today, Sderot isn’t so mundane. When an alarm network blares — a weekly occurrence…
If your child has visited a popular Liberty City park, the county suggests a lead poisoning test may be in order. Lead levels that are more than 200 percent higher than normal have been found at the 6.5-acre Olinda Park at 5100 Northwest 21st Ave., according to the Environmental Protection…
Dwyane Wade could be taking his talents across the ocean. The Miami Heat guard was in suburban Chicago with Chicago Bears (and former Miami Hurricanes) player David Hester while the two were hosting camps for kids. Wade told the AP he’d be open to playing for the foreign league if…
Somehow all crazy things in Miami-Dade County are connected. Rolando Gutierrez, the second Miami Beach cop fired today for this weekend’s bizarre ATV crash, is married to Marisleysis Gonzalez. She’s better known as the woman who was Elian Gonzalez’s “foster mom” while he was in Miami…
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Tallahassee finally got around to putting an end to Florida’s out-of-control pill-mill mania, and the move couldn’t have come soon enough. New numbers released today show that deaths linked to prescription pill overdoses were up 61 percent between 2003 and 2009, and 16,650 Floridians were killed by prescription pill ODs in…
To those of you who thought that picture on the front of the St. Pete Times in May was a once-in-a-lifetime shot, well, we have another couple of them. We don’t use the word awesome very often. This, though, inspires awe…
Rapper Brisco is wanted for knocking a teenager unconscious and then fleeing in his white Range Rover last Thursday. North Miami Police though say they have no idea where the man born British Alexander Mitchell is. Right now he’s more elusive than his debut album. …
