February is like the Superbowl of Geekdom. Everyone will be playing with apps instead of balls. Here’s what’s coming up. BarCamp Miami 2010 gets first mention here because it’s FREE and open to all — absolutely anyone interested in technology and social media is welcome to attend, present or simply…
Northwest Dade’s C-9 Basin goes dark after the county cuts the electricity
The Stripper Mobile rolled into Miami Super Bowl weekend, and no one noticed
Cuban Commies give Avatar the thumbs-down
Bad Surfside cop Woodward Brooks finally gets busted
Miami’s Chicken Busters are no more
Pablo Guzman ran away from a Super Bowl week shooting outside a downtown club, evaded an off-duty cop’s barrage of bullets, and successfully made his escape to Cancun, Mexico. But his luck ran out when he tried to catch a flight from Cancun to Panama City over the weekend. Guzman,…
Tiger Woods, that famous golfer you might have heard got caught having sex with many, many women who weren’t his wife, will hold his first press conference Friday morning since the affairs came to light. He’ll talk to a small gathering of reporters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida at 11…
You mean to tell us that a barely-famous reality TV star came down to Miami and went on non-stop search for cocaine? Well, we never in all our years… Oh wait, this is exactly what we expect of reality TV “stars” who come down to Miami. US Weekly reports that The…
Some have always contended that Jeb was the smarter of the Bush brothers, and when he spoke alongside his brother in Naples today he certainly proved that he is, understandably, more knowledgeable on one subject: Florida Politics.When asked about the heated Republican Senate primary between moderate Governor Charlie Crist and…
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The exact reasoning for Lincoln Diaz-Balart’s retirement from congress still seems a bit of a mystery. At 55 years-old he could have sat in the seat, political dynamics willing, for at least two more decades if he wanted. If he was considering retiring, why didn’t he go out with a…
Elizabeth Edwards is scheduled to speak at Nova South Eastern University tomorrow night, in an event open to students and faculty and closed to the general public.That’s interesting in itself, considering her slime ball of an estranged-husband Sen. John Edwards fathered a child with his mistress while she was going…
Three weeks on the Miami City Commission, and already the Rev. Richard Dunn has figured out Miami politics. Contacted Tuesday to comment on a story about his driving record, the newly appointed replacement for Michelle Spence-Jones went on the offensive, attacking District 2’s Marc Sarnoff. “Does this proposed article have…
Since last October, Burger King corporate headquarters in Miami has been in a bit of a feud with many of its franchise owners over a very serious issue: $1 double cheeseburgers.BK introduced the value menu item in hopes of increasing traffic in stores, but franchise owners say the margins on the…
As Lil Wayne gets ready to trade in his baller lifestyle for a jail cell, he’s liquidating his Miami real estate portfolio. He’s put his four-bedroom condo in the Murano Grande on South Beach up for sale for $2.8 million, according to AllHipHop.com.This isn’t the same apartment Weezy was renting that…
There are several ways a team can kick off the second half of an NBA season following an All-Star break. One is to come out of the gates stumbling and disorganized, setting a terrible precedent for the remainder of the season. Another is to come out on fire, playing sound…
Who executed a career criminal wanted in connection with a February slaying in Miami? That’s what the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Department is trying to piece together this morning after a 21-year-old Miami native named Travis John Lattimore was found dead behind an a abandoned house outside Fort Pierce. Lattimore’s…
William and Michael Achenbaum, the father-and-son team that own the Gansevoort Hotel in New York City, now have officially nothing to do with the massive Gansevoort South in South Beach. The duo officially lost ownership of the hotel-and-condominium building last month when they failed to find a another buyer, Credit…
There was a time when you could get in real trouble for helping Cuban ball players defect from the Communist island. Ask Juan Ignacio Hernandez Nodar, the Cuban agent profiled by the New Times last year. He spent 13 years in a Cuban prison for trying to help El Duque and…
88 Haitians found trying to reach America in a 50-ft sail boat were returned by the Coast Guard. [CBS4]The body of a 21-year-old man wanted for murder in Miami was found dead in a field near Fort Pierce next to the body of his 35-year-old girlfriend. [Herald]A female student at…
The big ol’ Conservative Political Action Conference will kick off in Washington, D.C., in two days. Thousands of conservative activists will gather to exchange ideas and hear speeches. In fact, this year’s keynote address will be given by none other than Marco Rubio. But this year, a CPAC event is reaching out…
