Juan Pereda Asbun only served as President of Bolivia for four months back in 1978, but is notable for being elected through fraud, pissing a lot of people off, feeling betrayed by everyone he pissed off, and kicking off an era of instability in the Bolivian government. History has not…
Hey, hunters, now that the thrill of python-hunting season has come and gone, it’s time to get out there and kill some indigenous deadly reptiles. Yes, it’s time once again for one of Florida’s public alligator hunts. The season kicked off last Sunday and will continue through September 12. Of…
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Marlins rookie outfielder Mike Stanton was named NL Player of the Week. He was given the honor after bludgeoning the Nationals and Reds collective pitching staffs last week using only his bat and his boyish good looks. Stanton collected a total of eight hits and six RBI in a three-game…
Gilt Groupe has become one of the biggest successes in online retail in years. The company got its start by working with luxury clothing brands to sell merchandise at heavily discounted prices. The catch is that each sale is available for a limited time. The service has since moved on…
With some polls showing Rick Scott now more than ten points behind Bill McCollum in the Republican primary, the billionaire candidate has decided to pull out all the stops in the final days before the election. He has sent out an ad attacking McCollum for hiring now-disgraced George Rekers to…
You have only two people “following” you in common with your dream guy or gal, and you have a humble Twifficiency rating of 17 percent, compared to their 37 percent. Face it — you’re just not as Twitter-popular as your other half, but does that alone mean it’s time to…
Sort of. According to the Tri-Cities Blotter, a group of grifters recently tried to use our favorite erstwhile Palm Island Lothario’s name to steal a $330 Dyson fan…
A day after ex-prez Bill Clinton turned on the smiles for U.S. Senate-hopeful Kendrick Meek, none other than President Obama himself is set to visit Miami today to stump for the Democratic candidate for governor, Alex Sink.And for those of you with $10,000 to burn and an empty picture frame…
LeBron James is the cover boy for the all-important September issue of GQ, and in the interview, he has some perplexing things to say about Cleveland. Namely, that growing up in nearby Akron, he kind of hated Cleveland, but he’s open to the idea of one day returning to the…
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Here is the first trailer for Joaquin Phoenix’s college project went-crazy-for-a-year documentary, I’m Still Here. There’s a guy with a “the dude abides” voice talking about mountaintop waterdrops and other Zen things while Phoenix does his best Zach Galifianakis impression, including angrily hurtling himself into a crowd at the Fontainebleau’s LIV nightclub…
According to two state papers, Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink is set to announce Rod Smith as her running mate this Thursday at an event in West Palm Beach. Yawn. A former state senator, Smith lost the 2006 Democratic primary for governor to similarly boring Jim Davis. The move seems…
Under President Donna Shalala, the University of Miami has seen a slow but steady rise in U.S. News & World Report’s highly touted college rankings. Last year, it became a top 50 university for the first time. This year, it continued to climb and became the highest-rated school in Florida…
In his young bid to become Haiti’s next president, Wyclef Jean has already weathered more criticism than Rick Santorum at a Dan Savage house party. Mostly, he’s been hammered for his record running his charity, Yéle, which paid hundreds of thousands in fishy fees to Wyclef himself or his friends. And mostly…
Cuban dissident Ariel Sigler Amaya is recovering slowly but successfully from his seven-and-a-half-year stint in a Castro prison.Sigler, 46, began physical therapy last week at Jackson Memorial Hospital. He remains rail-thin and wheelchair-bound but is already visibly healthier than when he first arrived in Miami on July 28.Now Sigler says…
Last week was a busy one for Taser-toting police officers in South Florida. First, Key West cops used their stun guns on a local luminary armed with a ninja sword and a baseball bat who was ranting about a dude who owed him $160. Then, our sister paper in Broward…
The second the N word left Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s mouth on her nationally syndicated radio show last week she must have known she started another N word related crap storm. Dr. Laura doesn’t have near the street cred a white person needs to get away with saying the most taboo…
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Billionaire businessman Rick Scott has so much money to spend on TV ads in his self-funded quest to buy the governor’s seat that it seems he has run out of issues that matter to Floridians. Now he’s just buying airtime to apparently talk about any old thing on his mind…
Normally when a sports star gets arrested on drug charges, it’s the athlete who has to answer the hard questions. But following yesterday’s arrest of Miami Heat fan favorite Udonis Haslem, it’s the Florida Highway Patrol that seems to have some explaining to do…
You probably know what a Facebook box is: those little profile decorations that announce what books you’re reading, reviews of movies you’ve just watched, recent tweets, and other related info. Well, as of next Monday, August 23, they’ll be wiped from your Facebook profile and newsfeeds for good. Facebook subtly…
