In August 2009, Florida Memorial University, the historic black school rich in history but more recently notorious for a grade-fixing scheme that had students trading sex for A’s, abruptly canned its president, Karl S. Wright. No explanation was given, and the search for his replacement seemed casual at best…
Yes, we know it’s a week after Halloween. But as a Miami blog with a taste for the ridiculous we just couldn’t sleep with ourselves if we didn’t post the following video of Shaq channeling Beyonce in his “Shaquita” Halloween get-up — which, by the way, is worlds funkier than…
Well, no, he didn’t… we think. But the Miami Dolphins linebacker did somehow confuse the diary-writing Holocaust victim with deaf and blind author Helen Keller, which is a front-runner for this month’s Most Ignorant Comment By an Athlete Award…
If developer Mark Siffin keeps getting his way, Miami’s skyline could soon be bisected by two towering, 40-story digital billboards. Sure, the glowing monstrosities would probably induce regular epileptic seizures on the MacArthur Causeway, but they’re far from the craziest plan ever foisted upon the Magic City. Don’t forget this…
It’s Friday afternoon on a particularly slow news day, a time when Village Voice Media news bloggers tend to go a bit off the reservation. Our counterparts at LA Weekly just dashed off a post about how the City of Angels is “The Douche Capital of the World,” while calling…
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LeBron James’ latest Nike ad continues to be parodied, and this latest version featuring the pissed off citizens of Cleveland is some serious shit. The bitterness and pure unadulterated hate emanating from these people is, honestly, quite scary. Mixed in with footage from the original commercial is clips of various…
After nearly 22 years in the House and becoming the Republican’s longest serving female member of that body, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is about to get her biggest taste of power yet in DC. When the GOP assumes control of the House in January, Ros-Lehtinen will become the chair of the Committee…
Depending on your point of view Marco Rubio looks like a lot of things: a red blooded American hunk set to save the county, an overgrown 12-year-old with a Justin Bieber mop haircut, or, apparently, a Central American dictator. Liberal web empress Arianna Huffington stands accused of throwing the latest,…
Oh how it must eat away at Isiah Thomas every day that he’s sitting in his FIU offices coaching a Sun Belt team, while just a few miles away the Miami Heat have become the most talked about team in the NBA. In a chat with ESPN New York, Thomas…
A typical week at Miami New Times involves long hours of intense typing and photo cropping, web browsing, and transcribing. Needless to say, our three-year-old MacBook Pro undergoes a series of vigorous tests each week, and is often on the verge of internally combusting.As reported on Monday, we bought a…
From denying us an interview with Banana Man, to issuing an all-expenses-paid invitation to The Guy Who Wore a Heat LeBron Jersey to a Cleveland Indians Game, to rescinding said invitation, is anybody else getting the feeling that the Miami Heat’s PR office is a very bizarre place?…
This 20,000-square-foot, Tony Montana-esque mansion at 70 Palm Island is Miami embodied. It’s been bought for a lavish price during boom times, foreclosed on during lean times, seen monstrous amounts of cocaine snorted within its walls, swapped between new money, and now, with the real estate market just getting its…
We are a sickly lot here at the New Times. Our desks are covered with asthma inhalers and antibacterial gel. We are still wearing surgical masks 16 months after swine flu ended. Hell, we even have to bathe in SPF 90 sunscreen every morning lest we burst into flames walking…
So remember Matthew Bellamy? He was the brave man who got booed and escorted out of a Cleveland Indians home game by police simply because he dared to wear LeBron James’ Miami Heat jersey. Yeah, we never thought we’d ever hear about him again. Well, according to an unconfirmed report…
As Miami’s Haitian community has struggled to help their homeland since January’s earthquake, one fear has lingered always in the back of their minds: What if a hurricane blows through while half of Port-au-Prince is still stuck in tent cities?That nightmare could become real by tomorrow morning, when Tropical Storm…
Four Loko, the caffeinated magically demented booze in a can, has already made headline news on the University of Miami student newspaper, and now concerned administrators are plastering the campus in anti-Loko flyers warning apparently dumb college kids that, no, downing numerous 23.5-ounce cans of highly caffeinated cheap malt liquor…
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What the hell did you have going on Tuesday where you couldn’t vote? Yes, I’m talking to you, South Florida. Because a stronger turn out in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach which happen to be the most populace counties in the state and all voted super strongly for Alex Sink…
South Park works in fast and mysterious ways. LeBron James’ new “What Should I Do?” Nike ad only premiered last week, and the team found a way to write it into the conclusion of a two part episode lampooning the BP oil spill…
I think a lot of people love David Cassidy, so what are they so afraid of? Maybe that he’ll swerve into them in his white Mercedes while allegedly driving drunk. Yes, the former teen idol and Partridge Family star, now 60, was arrested in South Florida for driving drunk. When…
Lost among the noise of a thousand tea baggings at the polls yesterday was the runaway victory of Frederica Wilson, the cowboy-hat rockin’ Democrat who picked up 86 percent of the vote to replace Kendrick Meek in Congress. Wilson has never shied away from a fight — her political career…
