photo by Kai Mork, via Wikimedia CommonsAlvarez has been known to favor expensive BMWs like this.You know that fancy new BMW Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez drives around town? The one that you, Miami-Dade taxpayer, helped pay for? Well, it seems it was in a bit of a fender-bender today. Alvarez…
The cyclist seriously injured in an accident in Coconut Grove yesterday morning has been identified as 20-year-old Michael Lum. Miami Police say Lum was attempting to cross South Dixie Highway at SW 17th Avenue just before 6 a.m. Tuesday when a car struck him. He remains in critical condition at…
Tea Party fave Marco Rubio has been urged by the Council on American-Islamic Relations to boycott a North Florida event headlined by Brigitte Gabriel, a fiery anti-Islam speaker. But the event’s organizer says Gabriel is staying on the schedule — and Rubio should think twice about declining his invite because…
In today’s roundup of the shame of South Florida: The caretaker of Jimmy Johnson’s Keys mansion has a five-hour standoff with police, a man is shot for his necklace outside a day-care center, the house of a soldier serving in the Middle East is burglarized, and, oh yeah, the Metromover…
OK, so we all know how annoying it can be to plug in to social media sometimes, and have to check all of the outlets, sift through spam bots, junk tweets, retweets, and boring statuses. But what if all of the most interesting information that comes from your social media…
As if Dwyane Wade needed anymore good news after settling a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that’s been haunting him for years, finalizing his divorce and winning custody of his kids, and luring dream teammates Chris Bosh and LeBron James to Miami: His nemesis Richard von Houtman has been charged with a felony…
If you’re like us you probably missed Miami Herald FIU sports reporter Pete Pelegrin’s epic, bridge burning farewell notice to the paper this morning. Probably because it was posted on the Herald’s own oft-neglected FIU sports blog, and really who cares enough about FIU sports enough to read much about it?…
Can we propose a moratorium on criticizing LeBron James’ move to the Heat? What’s done is done, and we won’t even have a solid idea on how the new-look Heat will preform until at least a few months into the season. Hasn’t stopped a never ending stream of former NBA all stars from throwing…
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Nathan Turner, an avowed Communist and teacher at a renowned New York prep school, took a boatload of his kids to Cuba to see El Jefe Supremo “one more time before he died.” So says the New York City School District, which released a report today saying that Turner knowingly…
With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, and the Marlins trailing 8-7, pinch-hitter Donnie Murphy came off the bench and hit a two-run opposite field jack that gave the Fish the walk-off win. The only way last night’s ending could be scripted any better is if Sun Life…
A cyclist remains in critical condition after an accident on South Dixie Highway at SW 17th Avenue early this morning. The rider was hit by a car sometime before 7 a.m., according to Miami Police. His fixed-gear bike was left crumpled next to the road, according to passersby, and the…
Hey, Miami, you wanna know how The Daily Beast knows you’re gay? Because the Gay/Lesbian Index developed by demographer Gary Gates at UCLA’s Williams Institute says so. The index measures the prevalence of same-sex households in metro areas, and the South Florida area made the top 20 with 4.81 same-sex households per 1,000. …
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released a list of “Crooked Candidates,” which, according to the organization, includes “the most corrupt and unethical candidates vying for federal office in 2010.” The list includes only 11 names, and three of them are running for Florida’s vacant Senate seat. Yes, Charlie Crist, Marco…
In today’s roundup of troubling things: A Dolphins player is formally charged for hitting his pregnant girlfriend, city leaders claim Miami’s teen curfew is reducing crime, a Hialeah bank robber is on the run, and the Biltmore has finally reached an agreement with Coral Gables…
In 1988, Rony Seikaly became the first Lebanese player in the history of the NBA when he signed with the Miami Heat. Today, he is believed to be the tallest disc jockey in the world — sorry, Aaron Traylor. No obscure milestone, it seems, is safe from this man. Seikaly…
Multiple reports claim LeBron James is about to officially become a resident of Miami-Dade by purchasing a $49.5 megamansion in Coral Gables that once belonged to his new boss, Pat Riley. Nestled in the waterfront Gables Estates section of Coral Gables, it’s probably one of the grandest properties on the…
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It’s apparently OK to use 9/11 metaphors only if you’re a war-hawk politician on the campaign trail. Dwyane Wade had to find out the hard way. The Miami Heat star has apologized after an off-the-cuff comment to the media this past weekend made it seem like he was comparing the possibility of a Heat…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez seems to be acting absolutely insane. At least more than usual. He took to Twitter to let the world know he cried tears of joy after seeing the 180-year-old remains of South American hero Simón Bolívar. Chávez had the corpse exhumed with the hopes of somehow proving Bolívar died due…
The Washington Nationals did everything to thwart Marlins ace Josh Johnson this past Saturday. They made him throw 30 pitches in the first inning before he could record his first out. They brought in Stephen Strasburg the previous night to throw some rookie-phenom mojo at him. They even trotted out…
Last Friday, 64-year-old Armand M. Pacher of Aventura was arrested for suspicion of having sex with his female Great Dane. Pacher’s lawyer says the whole thing is a miscommunication started by a bad joke. It doesn’t help his case any, though, that the dog was named for supermodel and sex…
