Accused terrorist Luis Posada Carriles has been awaiting trial for more than a year. But prosecutors keep delaying the damn thing, and Venezuela wants to see some blood already. Today a judge there decided to do the next best thing and extradited a close associate of Carriles’s, Francisco Chávez Abarca (no…
Dwyane Wade let Miami’s oft-tortured sports fans breathe a heavy sigh of relief this morning by re-signing with the Miami Heat and bringing Chris Bosh with him. Wade certainly stoked our abandonment complex at times, but he just put up a YouTube video thanking “the real fans that really gave me…
Do you guys know who this Jason Taylor fellow is? Sounds vaguely familiar. Apparently, he has written a short article for the Sporting News extolling the greatness of Dolphins linebacker Cameron Wake. “I think maybe five years from now, maybe one year from now,” Taylor writes, “people in Miami will…
If you don’t understand the raw anger and grief coursing through Overtown this week over Monday’s police shooting of an unarmed man at a traffic stop, check out this video.The emotion is palpable inside Overtown’s St. John’s Baptist Church, where almost 200 gathered last night to demand answers from Mayor…
Perhaps no human invention has influenced the history of Miami more than air conditioning. It helped fuel our population boom, and without it, this place would be an inhospitable heat trap with average indoor temperatures suitable only for nude Bikram yoga. So, yeah, air conditioning is pretty great, but did you know…
In today’s roundup, a missing boater’s body is found washed ashore, an arrest is made in the accidental shooting death of a 4-year old, and dozens of veterans weren’t notified they might have been exposed to hepatitis and HIV…
Heat fans: Put down the gin, back away from the train tracks, and climb down from the edge of the AA Arena roof (talking to you now, Burnie).Superstar Chris Bosh will join über-superstar Dwyane Wade on the hardwood for your Miami Heat next season. So says ESPN, which is so…
Are you obsessed with everything Mac/Apple related? If you found out about the iPhone 4 before Gizmodo did and every tech gadget in your house has a bitten apple logo on it, this one’s for you. IT product and service provider Loop USA is hosting the Apple Business Expo 2K10…
Lists. They’re arbitrary, subjective, equal parts enraging and traffic-baiting. Every day there’s a new top ten gassiest this or best of that. Yet they persist. They’re comforting, helping us organize our increasingly chaotic world into digestible bouillon cubes of information. So when The New Yorker published its list of the…
University of South California coach Lane Kiffin announced today that he’s releasing highly recruited offensive lineman Seantrel Henderson from his Letter of Internet with the school. It’s still possible that after all that he could decided to play with the Trojans. Though, it’s looking more and more likely that he…
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Just a friendly reminder: In 110 years, Miami as we know it will be a nearly ruined, flooded wasteland thanks to rising sea levels. That’s one of the hypotheses of University of Washington professor and popular science writer Peter D. Ward’s latest book, The Flooded Earth. The introductory chapter is titled…
Billionaire Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott visited the Little Havana Activities Center today to schmooze with Miami’s older Cuban-American constituency. He kept your abuelos entertained by playing dominoes, and he danced with your abuelas. Shockingly, though, Scott cannot dance. His moves are about as stiff as a domino. Is his…
Nothing better than watching a college football recruiting saga play out. While the Canes have been on the more painful end of some recent ones (Bryce Brown and Willie Williams, to name just two), the Seantrel Williams saga looks like it might end up in Miami’s favor. There are dueling…
In today’s roundup of the travesties and tragedies of South Florida: A 4-year-old boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the head, a police officer shoots and kills a man during a traffic stop, the search for a missing boater has turned into a homicide investigation, and a teen…
Yes, you read right: The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech have just announced they’re working together to build a car that a visually impaired person can drive independently. And Florida has something to do with it. It was announced Friday that the vehicle in question is scheduled…
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s another terrible Romero Britto sculpture, only this time it’s not just hurting your eyes but also taking your spare change. Meters designed by the local hack artist have made their first appearance in Brickell. But don’t blame Britto; blame another Miami-Dade dunce: Ron…
With Dwyane Wade set to return to Miami from Chicago this morning, the Miami Heat sent out a call via Twitter to all fans, gas stations, residences, warehouses, farmhouses, henhouses, outhouses, and doghouses in the area to meet D-Wade at Miami International Airport and show him some love. It was…
Amidst all the fireworks, Budweiser and drunken yells of “America, fuck yeah!” this weekend, our Independence Day festivities turned out to be a busy couple days for the drug that built Miami.Not only did Colombian cops seize a full-size, gold painted replica of the World Cup made entirely out of…
There are lots of condo association spats and scams in the tiny, scandal-ridden hamlet of North Bay Village. Most of them are pretty boring. That’s because most of them don’t involve a wrathful warlock. A group of condo owners at South Treasure Drive’s North Bay Villas want their property manager,…
Wanted: The Community Redevelopment Agency, in charge of revitalizing the blighted downtown and Overtown districts, seeks publicist. Pay: $27,000, including a $2,500 expense account. Only well-connected flacks apply. After that call went out in April, three firms applied for the job with the agency chaired by Marc Sarnoff, city commissioner,…
Scientists predicted today that the BP oil spill has a 61-80 percent chance of reaching South Florida. Unlike the west coast, which is likely to not be affected at all, the Florida Keys, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami have “a greater probability due to the potential influence of the Loop Current,”…
