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Today’s photo, of a palm tree at sunrise on Key Biscayne, comes from the Flickr stream of alexdecarvalho…

An OK was given to move the urban development boundary even farther west, but not to accommodate a giant Lowes. [SFBJ]Moments after a rescued dolphin was returned to the wild, it was attacked and killed by sharks. NBCMiami’s newly designed website is really sad about it. It says so. [NBCMiami]Law enforcement officers…

This is just shameful. Volunteering in America released its annual report about the community service habits of residents of major U.S. cities. Of the 51 cities, Miami came in dead last on the volunteer rate. Only 14.3 percent of Miamians volunteered. New York City and Las Vegas tied for the…

Today’s picture comes from TattooLaPalooza, held earlier this month at the Miami Beach Convention Center. As you can clearly see, it’s a bunch of clowns who’ve stapled dollar bills to their flesh. Maybe it’s a clever way of showing how the things we put onto our bodies are often meant…

Riptide is not part of the liberal media elite. Not yet anway, but it sure doesn’t help that we’re not reading the latest Maureen Dowd columns in a timely manner. Dowd’s Sunday column about the Henry Gates hiccup takes inspiration from a familiar source. Apparently, she watched Miami Police Chief John…

Using “The nation’s only frozen cocktail on a stick” as your tag line is kind of like using “The nation’s only chicken nugget milkshake” or “The nation’s only pizza available through an IV.”As in, there’s a reason it’s the only one in the nation (then again, it makes us wonder: Do other…

You know what’s the best? Winning stuff. Especially when there’s money involved! And everybody knows the best way to celebrate a victory: rip off your shirt, flex, and then do a little dance.Which is why we were a little disappointed in Hulk Hogan today. Sure, settling a court case isn’t…

We dream of the day when Louis Aguirre packs up and heads far, far away from the Miami TV landscape. Luckily, SFLTV informs us we can nudge him in the right direction, and he can be Kelly Ripa’s problem for a day. Live with Regis and Kelly is looking for five male fill-in…

​We saw this and immediately thought of you. You’re young by international city standards, and you certainly are fabulous. As for the broke part? Well, let’s just say you should keep this book handy in the next few months. …

A boat carrying about 200 Haitians capsized. Two are dead and about 85 are missing. [AFP]Found in Miami: Another dead horse, believed to have been killed for meat. [NBCMiami]”Can you tweet your way to a job?” Maybe, but it just sounds sad. [Herald]”Miami Hurricanes coach Randy Shannon: Top concern is…

James Grayson went job hunting in August 2003. He found the kitchen from hell. A gay 38-year-old with a thin mustache, Grayson was hired as a line cook at Golden Corral on South Dixie Highway in Homestead. He made ham omelets and bloody steaks at the buffet table for mostly…

The Princeton Review’s annual rankings of college is out for 2009, and University of Miami took the top stop in the Race/Class Interaction category. Basically 122,000 of the students surveyed agreed that, “different types of students (black/white, rich/poor) interact frequently and easily.” Which sounds pretty right. I guess this mean UM is…

We’re going to pretend this is a cute visual metaphor for diversity in Miami. Anyway, it comes from MigRodz’s flickr stream. By the way Flickr users, please join our shiny, new Miami New Times Flickr pool. Eventually we’ll start picking the best as photo of the day. …

Showtime, Marc Ecko Entertainment, and Icarus Entertainment are bringing a Dexter videogame to the iPhone. Which means hot, 3-D Miami-murder action. From the looks of the Dexter game trailer, GTA: Vice City might be a more accurate graphical representation of the Magic City, but nonetheless, here’s the extended trailer straight out of…

As has been reported just about everywhere, U.S. Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon sent a sexual harassment complaint to Miami Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal about the behavior of the paper’s Guantánamo Bay correspondent, Carol Rosenberg.  Among using other choice words, Rosenberg allegedly asked Gordon the following: “Have you ever had…

I guess it is possible a news ticker could bring down an oppressive regime, but in reality it’s just going to serve as another silly point of conflict. The U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana turned on the five-foot high, 25-windows-long news ticker in January 2006. The first message, to celebrate Martin…

Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon is a 41-year-old career military officer. He is the chief spokesman for the most controversial outpost on the planet, the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. And, if you’re to believe a letter he sent to the Miami Herald last week, veteran Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg so…