Despite the fact he may have already gotten legally married, Chris Bosh is officially walking down the aisle with Adrienne Williams next month. Like any respectable sports star, Bosh had to have one hell of a bachelor party. A four-day trip to Las Vegas that Bosh dubbed “The Hangover 3″…
Elisha Dawkins immigrated to Miami from the Bahamas as a young boy. It was only until after he served in both the Army and Navy and found himself in jail on a passport flap that he discovered that he was not a legal citizen. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami…
Dirk Nowitzki may have walked away with the finals MVP award after the Dallas Maverick’s drubbing of the Miami Heat, but he couldn’t have done it without the explosive play of J.J. Barea. That fact was made all the more painful because Barea is a graduate of Miami Christian and…
It’s been almost three weeks since Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had an operation in Cuba and essentially disappeared from public view, and his citizens are, in short, losing their shit over it. He reappeared in images and a video released late Tuesday wearing what appears to be the same shirt…
Nobody is going to argue that underage sex trafficking is a good thing, but what happens when media panic spreads false information? Does it really help the cause? As part of Village Voice Media’s investigative series on The Truth Behind Sex Trafficking, “Real Men Get Their Facts Straight” takes…
On Monday, Riptide exposed that three local charities — including one providing plastic surgery to children in Third-World countries — had some very befuddling connections to the local porn industry. The three non-profits — Child Foundation, American Love & Appreciation Fund, and the Click Charity — have shared addresses with…
By a surprisingly slim margin, Miami-Dade voters have picked Carlos Gimenez to serve as the county’s next mayor. Gimenez received just 51 percent of the vote in the special runoff election triggered by the recall of former mayor Carlos Alvarez. Opponent Julio Robaina has offered his concession.Though it was a…
We don’t believe a guy as politically ambitious as Charlie Crist would be happy for long at an ambulance-chasing law firm. Though, now that he’s left the Republican party there are few clear paths for him to get back into any office. Unless, of course, he becomes a full-fledged Democrat…
You just want to zen out and listen to the waves crash against the sand as the sun’s rays shine down on you. Don’t count on it in Miami Beach. There’s the asshole from Kendall blasting Power 96 from his radio, the guy playing bongos, and the idiot who gets…
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Surprisingly, Marlins interim manager Jack McKeon and 23-year-old outfielder Logan Morrison don’t see eye-to-eye when it comes to Twitter.On Saturday, the same day McKeon benched Morrison after a 4-for-33 batting slump, the Miami Herald quoted the 80-year-old McKeon telling him that he needs “to start spending more time on baseball…
The City of Orlando’s days are numbered. The loosely organized online group Anonymous has threatened to wage war on the city. Well, the city’s website. Following the arrests of members of non-profit group Food Not Bombs for feeding homeless people in a city park without a permit, the “hacktivist” group…
Rick Scott wants to be known as the job creation governor, but almost seven months into office he’s become more known for what he’s destroyed, or tried to. After killing Florida’s federally funded high-speed rail program, and reports that he attempted to do away with Citizens Property Insurance, a new…
Well, Katy Perry, for your information Florida does feel like a paper bag. A dry, worn out paper bag that could catch fire at any moment and cause millions of acres of forest to go up in smoke thanks to the drought.According to The Palm Beach Post, while firework sales…
Eugene Hickman, 54, of DeFuniak Springs, Florida, may become one of the first people prosecuted under Florida’s new anti-bestiality laws. Though, whatever punishment he gets is probably nothing compared to the years of therapy his poor grandson is going to have to go through. Yeah, Hickman was caught after his…
Hazel Mays is 85-years-old, frail and hard of hearing. But according to one Miami police officer, the elderly Coconut Grove woman was strong enough to push him around and try steal his gun.Mays, though, tells a local TV station that the police used excessive force after she simply couldn’t hear…
In a miscalculated move to try and boast public support, Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s website asked his fervent supporters, all five of them, to sign their name to a pre-written letter and send them off to Florida’s newspapers letter to the editor section.Well, at least one fake conservative pundit is…
Ana Teresa Martin had only one simple wish when she agreed to let an Univision TV crew dig up her mother’s bones and ship them off to a University of Florida expert: To find out whether she was secretly descended from the Russian Romanov dynasty. Who can’t empathize with that?But…
The gunman squeezes the trigger on his Glock. His victim slumps to the ground. And without a cop in sight, the murderer thinks he’s in the clear. But the light poles are listening. In seconds, small sensors determine the location of the sound and send it to police headquarters. Microphones…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is still officially recovering from surgery. Although, we think his people would have come up with a better excuse than he needed to have an abscess removed from his pelvic region. Cuz that only makes us wonder where he’s been dipping his stick if you catch…
Concern over a looming budget gap and leadership turmoil has led Moody’s, the bond rating agency, to downgrade its outlook on the City of Miami’s $226 million in obligations from “stable” to “negative,” according to an investor’s report obtained by blogger Al Crespo. The agency also downgraded the city’s tax and…
When employees showed up to the Casablanca Fish Market yesterday, they noticed that the building’s normally fishy smell had turned rancid. Inside, they found a broken cash register missing at least $2,000 in cash and a trail of shrimp and crab meat.They followed the smell to the roof, where they…
