If all of this talk about Charlie Crist facing an electoral backlash from the right wing of his party in his quest for a Senate seat amounts to anything, Sen. Bill Nelson should perhaps worry about a backlash from Florida’s progressive and liberally inclined voters.Nelson has basically called supporters of the…
So Chad Pennington is out for the season, but the Dolphin Nation shouldn’t be too concerned. Chad Henne was supposed to assume starting QB duties sooner or later — it just turned out to be sooner.He was always the quarterback of tomorrow, and hey, if he didn’t work out, there…
Even though the average price for a hotel room dropped 21 percent for the period between January and June compared to the same time last year, Miami still has, on average, some of the most expensive room rates in the nation. But the data reflects only bookings made on Hotels.com, so we…
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El Niño, the noted periodic Pacific Ocean warming thing, has a positive effect for us living on the East Coast: It depresses strong hurricane activity.According to a new study in the journal Nature, global warming could mess all of that up by strengthening El Niño’s obscure twin — also called El Niño…
Just about every interesting statistic in the news these days somehow relates to the economy — or at least the talking heads try to relate it to the economy. Fewer Cubans migrating to America? It’s because of the recession. Lower divorce rate? The recession. People trying their hand at prostitution?…
Sorry Hurricanes fans. We’re really not trying to kidney-punch you this afternoon. (Virginia Tech already took care of that this weekend.)It’s just that we can’t resist feeding you Larry Coker updates. No 1., it gives us all the license we need to link to the greatest college football brawl of…
Bill Clinton will be at the Biltmore today to address the America’s Conference. [CBS4]Is Charlie Crist dissing Jeb Bush? He seems to have done so in a recent speech — enough for the Times to run with it on a slow news day. [SPTimes]Heat management has banned players from using Twitter at…
Dolphins QB Chad Pennington is done for 2009, according to ESPN. Sources tell the network he’s been “initially diagnosed with a torn capsule in his throwing shoulder and the Dolphins expect him to miss the rest of the season.”Pennington was injured early in the second half of yesterday’s loss to…
Now that Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin is allowed to air his libertarian views once in a while in a separate column, you’d think he’d stop hiding them in his boob tube reviews. Boy, would you be wrong, you satanist tree hugger.Garvin sinks into Ken Burns’s The National Parks: America’s Best…
Every once in a while, Gov. Charlie Crist remembers he is indeed a member of the Republican Party and not the sole member of the Crist Populist Party of Florida. As a Republican, he must occasionally take a swipe at the Democratic leadership. He decided to do so while pulling…
On Justin Shaw’s forearms just below the elbow, there are silky light-blond masses of hair. The curly tufts might look at home on the chin of an albino or the skull of Barbie. The longest of these hairs could stretch the diameter of a large grapefruit. For this, Justin hopes…
What’s it like to be a fan of the Miami Dolphins? All you need to do is look at the team’s very first drive of Sunday’s clustercrap of a game to know. That or have someone take a crowbar to your crotch, full Gillooly.The Fins opened things with a perfectly…
As part of his punishment, a 22-year-old Cutler Bay man who somehow stole a 120-ton train has been ordered to stay away from railroads. [SunSent]The City of Miami and the police union have reached a tentative deal that should keep cops on the street while effectively dealing with the city’s…
Tweetups are great for social networking, but what’s not great is the business card clutter the next morning. At that point, you’re possibly hung over, sifting through card after card, and you don’t know who in hell was who. Then you think: What’s the point if I’m just going to…
Tenacity. Vision. Honesty.Tomas Regalado seems pretty upfront about his core values. Those three words are printed in bold atop of hundreds of blue-and-red billboards and bus ads all over town proclaiming his run for mayor. So why won’t he admit that he once helped raise thousands of dollars for a…
While we and others were trying to frame today’s game around the question “Is Miami Back?” others, including the ABC/ESPN commentary crew were wondering “Is Miami for real?” Well, if we’re talking matters of reality here, I guess the Hurricanes were proven to be the figment of some possessed 5 year old girl’s…
Miami Dolphins @ San Diego Chargers, Sunday at 4:15 p.m. CBS Right now the Dolphins are looking as lame as those dead, topless fish people in Bayfront yesterday. But, hey, that’s exactly how they looked going into their third game last year. History repeats itself, right? Problem is, they probably don’t have…
So many rappers in the last year have spit some Obama-inspired verses about presidential politics, but it takes a truly politically involved wordsmith to keep a lyrical eye on state politics. But we all know that Trick Daddy is the real Mayor of Miami, so of course he’s keeping tabs…
Today’s photo, of the entrance to the Jakmel Gallery in the Design District, comes from Miamism’s Flickr. …
See that charming woman pictured below? She may have just orchestrated the cruelest crime yet tied to the Great Recession of 2009.Miami police say that Illeana Pillarte, a 35-year-old, scammed more than 70 unemployed people into believing she represented Jackson Memorial Hospital and had jobs available. Last week, Pillarte, who…
