Listen, if you’ve been stashing singles every day since the beginning of the regular season for some big playoff bet, it wouldn’t be entirely ill advised to go against your hometeam Miami Heat instincts and take the Boston Celtics to win in the first round of the 2010 NBA Playoffs…
Ronnie E. Bass Sr. has lost quite a few teeth over the years. Smoking crack and spending 21 months in jail did the damage. Rock also separated the old man from his computer-whiz son, whom he hasn’t heard from since the early 1990s. Yet Pops takes in stride that his…
We have no idea how a tax refund works. All we know is Uncle Sam is a greedy bastard all but one day of the year, when he sends us a fat check with no strings attached. What a nasty little sycophant. That government check just scorches our wallet if…
Think about the sheer shitty luck to be a sea turtle egg laid on South Beach. Drunks and party girls stumble over you and the neon lights of Ocean Drive lure you to sure death. “Hundreds, just hundreds of baby turtles die out here,” says Cliff Buchanan, a trim, 40-something…
The Royal Palm Hotel on 16th Street and Collins Avenue was supposed to be a beacon of atonement for Miami-Dade County’s racist past. In 1989, county officials snubbed South African leader Nelson Mandela when he visited Miami. African Americans across the country boycotted Miami-Dade, costing the area tens of millions…
Around about the lunch hour in Vale, South Dakota, on February 5, a 33-year-old cattle rancher finished a morning of blogging, then stepped outside with a bottle of wine and a Flip video camera. “Hello, my name is Troy Hadrick. I’m a fifth-generation United States rancher in South Dakota,” the…
Trouble is brewing at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Faculty members charge Dean Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver rarely shows up for work, retaliates against dissenters, allows classes of as many as 200 students to be crammed into a single auditorium, and has failed to raise much-needed funds. “I…
Almost like visiting a surgeon, an undertaker or a divorce lawyer, heading to a car repair shop is never a fun time. With Miami’s reputation for dirty driving and traffic, it’s something we’ve all had to do. Oddly, a new study by AutoMD.com shows that while Miami may be the…
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The deadline to officially register to run for Senate is coming up, and speculation that Gov. Charlie Crist could shift out of the difficult Republican primary against Marco Rubio and run as an independent has reached a fever pitch. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Crist is being advised…
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has turned his back on the political process of the state he used to be governor of, Arkansas, and has apparently registered himself to vote in Florida. The Huckster doesn’t own property here, but he rents a beach house in the Panhandle, which is apparently…
Want to own a picture of Marilyn Monroe’s chest in a way you’ve never seen it before? Luckily for you, an image of the iconic star’s famous breasts will be up for auction this June, and it’s not X-rated. It’s x-rayed.The x-ray images were believed to be taken at the…
The Dolphins have traded with the Broncos to bring in wide receiver Brandon Marshall. He’s been a Pro Bowl selection for the past two years and holds an NFL record for most receptions in a single game. The former UCF star has some off-the-field issues; let’s hope playing in Miami…
Twenty-year-old University of Miami student Bianca Milov was crossing a street in Coral Gables at 1 a.m. September 11 last year when she was run over by a street sweeper and ejected out the other end. She racked up more than $1.25 million in medical bills, and now the City…
Yoani Sánchez is on the cover of Italian Wired this month. In the three years she’s been online, the 32-year-old blogger has become Cuba’s Arianna Huffington.She’s now a tweeter, a blogger on the actual Huffington Post, and her blog, Generation Y, gets 14 million page views a month, according to…
Richard L. Scott, a businessman who lives in Naples, has thrown his hat into the ring for the Republican’s gubernatorial nomination against Attorney General Bill McCollum and state Sen. Paula Dockery. Don’t know anything about him? Here’s some fun facts:He hates President Obama’s health care reform so much that he…
Responding to reports of “foul odors” at a small ranch house on NW 41st Street just north of the Airport Expressway, Miami police made a gruesome discovery this morning. Inside the home, at 1860 NW 41st Street, cops stumbled on three “badly decomposed” bodies, says Officer Jeffrey Giordano, Miami PD…
In the News Roundup each morning we’ve been keeping an eye on the plight of Diana Smith, a local mother battling a rare form of leukemia. Smith was almost denied a life saving treatment when Social Security disability payments made to her son raised her income enough to where she…
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The Catholic Church! Man, they are in the pits, right? Their Q score right now rivals Kate Gosselin’s. Heck, it’s probably worse than Michelle “Bombshell” McGee’s.Ever since international media reported the Pope, wacky Benedict, willfully ignored reports of kiddie-diddling priests, the church has had to go on a public relations…
View Larger Map Just before 10 p.m. last night, Miami-Dade cops discovered the body of a 23-year-old Hialeah woman in a vacant lot across from a $800,000 waterfront home in Biscayne Gardens. Officers don’t know much about Nazelene Khan, the young woman, but court records show she was charged with…
Days before Fountainbleau’s nightclub LIV sinks to a new low by hosting Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, they’ll be welcoming a slightly higher profile bold face name who was caught up in a super-sized infidelity scandal of his own: Bill Clinton…
