Finding out oral sex may lead to higher incidences of certain types of cancer is like finding out puppies may give you a stroke or rainbows can blind you. It is just horrible. Yet, that’s exactly what a new study suggests. The study links the up-tick in certain types of…
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Beanie Babies, Nintendo video games, souvenir baseball bats and bicycles: all part of a wholesome, suburban Central Florida childhood, right? Well two teenagers in St. Cloud, Florida managed to combine all of these things into a chilling yet almost comically inept home invasion. Ah, the youth of today, so twisted…
No one in South Florida is keeping up with the Joneses. That’s because there’s probably not that many Joneses here. Instead, we’re trying to keep step with the Garcias, Gonzalezes and Wilsons. National Geographic has put together a pretty stunning map to represent the prevalence of common surnames through out…
During his seven year career with the Miami Dolphins in the ’80s tight end Dan Johnson became known as the King of Pain for being able to bounce back from numerous injuries and broken bones, but following two back surgeries he became the King of Pain Pills. Unfortunately, Johnson’s addiction…
Amanda Ros, the mother of U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, has passed away today at the age 84 following a fight with Alzheimer’s disease. Ros-Lehtinen, who represents a district that stretches from South Beach to Key West, is currently the longest serving female Republican member of the House, and has recently…
Shamefully there’s only one bookstore within City of Miami limits, and that’s in Coconut Grove. Which isn’t exactly centrally located. Finally, local, independent book chain Books & Books is opening a window to the literally world in the urban core of the city with a small location set to open…
Something doesn’t smell right about the actions of The Mosaic Co., a leading Florida fertilizer company. OK, nothing ever smells good about the fertilizer business, but in this sense we mean it smells politically funny. The company ended up shelling out $10,000 at a fair auction for a cake baked…
Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) runs out in two weeks. The problem is, new funding doesn’t kick-in until April. That shortfall has left legislators and activists scrambling to secure extra funds to keep anti-retroviral medication flowing to the Sunshine State’s 10,600 ADAP recipients.But even if Florida plugs the funding…
Dwyane Wade’s magic goggles seemed to run out of awesome juice in the fourth quarter of Thursday night’s 93-88 loss to the New York Knicks.Because after Wade started the game hitting pretty much every shot he threw up (except his free throws… hit those goddamn free throws, D-Wade!!), he missed…
One of the oldest ideals of this country is freedom of the press, an idea taken even further here in Florida thanks to the Sunshine Law. However, newly elected Governor Rick Scott seems to have some trouble fully grasping the idea of a free press and apparently wants to hand…
During the last week of June something kind of sucky and boring we don’t care about at all will happen in Sun Life Stadium, which tends to happen a lot in the Stadium during baseball season. Except this time it’s because U2 is playing, forcing the Marlins to play “home”…
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Governor Rick Scott remains steadfast in bringing Arizona-style immigration laws to Florida even as members of the state GOP remain wary of the idea. Today, State Rep. William Snyder, R-Stuart, held the first hearing on his bill that would bring such new laws to Florida…
North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre seems to have some secretive and flashy quirks, which would be fine if it didn’t involve public money and shady ethics. A few months after being forced to return a borrowed Porsche he was driving around town and never reporting who lent him the car,…
After the disastrous Sun Bowl against Notre Dame, many ‘Canes fans thought that Jacory Harris’ days as the starting quarterback were done. Not necessarily, says new offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch. He wants Harris to know that along with Stephen Morris, he’s still very much in the running for the position,…
Former Miami Heat star Tim Hardaway made close to $50 million during his NBA career, but apparently that wasn’t enough to keep him out of tax troubles. After a lien was placed on his house by the IRS for a $120,000 tax debt, the Miami Heat bought the mansion, according…
Kids snort the darnedest things. Apparently, they’ve been sniffing a substance sold at specialty and head shops marketed as bath salts that mimics the effects of cocaine and LSD. Yesterday, newly elected Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an emergency rule banning the substance while the legislature works to make…
The Miami Heat may be the most talked about NBA team this season, but they aren’t the most valuable. However, the signing of LeBron James and Chris Bosh saw the team’s value increase by 17 percent since last year, according to Forbes.com. That’s the biggest increase in value over one…
Warning: The following page contains some graphic and disturbing images.Richard “Kudo” Couto is the renegade animal activist who virtually single-handedly forced the closure of an entire thriving district of unlicensed slaughterhouses, pissing off loads of live-off-the-land Cubans in the process. Now he’s turning his attention to publicizing the animal “torture”…
There’s one hitch in Fidel Castro’s plan to lug the Cuban economy closer to capitalism by laying off 500,000 state workers so they can start private businesses: None of these people have ever paid taxes before.So how to teach a new generation of Cubans that government tithes come hand-in-hand with…
When Robert Hammonds and a friend, Brent Bredwell, finished filming a DJ show at Jazid in South Beach, it was around 3 a.m. on a Sunday in September. A few minutes later, after they jumped into a car and headed down Washington Avenue, a drunk-looking driver swerved across traffic and…
