We haven’t checked in with Miami’s own SNL alum Victoria Jackson since she compared Barack Obama to the Antichrist and then endorsed Rush Limbaugh for president. Apparently now she is walking out of all of these Jew-produced movies in tears. This weekend she took to Big Hollywood, a place for conservatives in…
Yesterday we broke some sort of heat record, and today we may do it again. [CBS4]Our five favorite congressmen (Wasserman Schultz, Meek, Ros-Lehtinen, and the Diaz-Balarts) will be heading off to meet with the president of Haiti. [USAToday]You know those charter schools that some politicians think are the future of…
On a Sunday night last January, a bubbly brunette waitress named Courtney Rhon stopped for takeout at El Toro Taco in Homestead. The 32-year-old mother of two ordered a beef chimichanga and a taco dish for her 14-year-old son. There was food at home for her two-year-old. They ate together…
The Marlins’ recent cakewalk against the beasts of the AL East revealed that Josh Johnson is a Cy Young contender, Chris Coghlan is a talented lead-off hitter, and after going 6-3 against Toronto, Boston, and New York, the Marlins are actually pretty good. Oh, and Matt Lindstrom needs to be…
A Palm Coast man was arrested and charged with first degree murder of a Miami man, on Thursday. Antoin Lennard Eleby, 31, was apprehended by Daytona Beach police at a bus station without incident, Miami-Dade police said. He is charged with fatally shooting Eckerd Pugh, 25, outside of Pugh’s residence at Northwest…
You know the economy has really gotten bad when our beloved sports stars start filing for bankruptcy. Former UM quarterback and NFL star Bernie Kosar filed for chapter 11 today, according to the Herald.According to the filings, Kosar reported his assets are only worth between $1 million and $10 million…
The Magic Fingers vibrating beds were without a doubt the classiest motel beds of the ’60s and ’70s. Sure, anyone could afford a couple hours at a cheap motel, but only the big ballers could spring the extra few quarters to make their bed vibrate. John Joseph Houghtaling was the…
North Miami Beach’s St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church is the oldest building in the Western Hemisphere. Of course, like every other thing in North Miami Beach, it didn’t start off life there. It just retired there. It was built in Segovia, Spain in the 12th Century. It sat there until…
Warning to anyone who wants to believe MSNBC reporter Carlos Watson’s recent profile of Marco Rubio, in which the former House Speaker is praised as the “GOP’s Barack Obama”: It’s a trap! Watson, a Miami native, proclaims, “He’s young. He’s attractive. He easily connects with crowds. Remind you of anyone we know? Ten-to-one, this guy…
This is almost too much to believe. Just months after news broke that Vince Shlomi, better known as the ShamWow guy, got into a tongue-biting fight with a hooker he met at Louis, comes a report that he was involved in the crash that shut down traffic on the MacArthur Causeway. An…
Back in April, New Times wrote the first in-depth story about the numerous warning signs over the years that once-billionaire Allen Stanford was running a gigantic $8 billion Ponzi scheme out of Miami, Houston and Antigua.Today, Stanford is finally in custody and charged with 21 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud,…
It’s safe to say: When there’s a big black bag of cash, a decent story almost always follows. Just ask airport novelists. Or Robert De Niro, back when he was in good movies. But as 18-year-old teller Michael Rodriguez learned a couple of rainy Saturdays ago, that stuff’s best saved…
LocalSome guy hijacked a taxi on Alton, then drove west up the eastbound lanes of the MacArthur Causeway. Police shot him. He’s dead. The road was shut down. [SunSent] The Herald and CBS4 are so hungry for Cat Killer fodder that they’ve sued to get sealed information about the arrest…
Last month, we reported that Riptide’s boxing match against Michael Lohan would still go on even though Jose Canseco got his ass kicked in Japan by a Korean giant. Huh? Y’know, you should probably just read it.Anyway, earlier this week, former Miamian-and-now-despised-jerk Shaquille O’Neal challenged Hong Man Choi — the Mixed…
Some of the largest crowds of the season are expected at Land Shark Stadium when the Marlins take on the Yankees this weekend and the Marlins’ brass hopes to earn some serious coin. Fans interested in catching a glimpse of a 2003 World Series rematch will be subjected to big…
Just yesterday, PETA tried to jump on the coattails of the cat killer case by pushing their anti-dissection agenda, but we’ve got a feeling the fallout from their latest stunt is really going to make certain corners of Miami explode with outrage. They’ve convinced Lydia Guevara, granddaughter of Che and a vegetarian, to pose topless…
The inside of the Knight Concert Hall taken during last year’s FOWA Miami conference, from Hyku’s flickr. …
That Horatio Cain has it so easy. All he has to do is connect the dots and run some lab tests on human DNA, but in the case of the Cat Killer, the real life Miami-area police might have to adapt their forensic techniques normally used on humans to animals. While the official…
Here’s the bad news: According to a new study of the 100 most populous metro areas in America by the Brookings Institution, the Miami area, including the rest of South Florida, is one of the 20 economically weakest metro areas in the country. Here’s the good news: We’re only 82,…
Hello, Kitty: My girlfriend recently bought a vibrator and I don’t know what to think of it. She’s never told me she wanted (or needed) sexual help from an electronic device, and I’ve never been a fan of something I think is kind of a substitute for what’s in my…
The judge who let the cat killer suspect out on bond says the kid is no danger to the community. [ABCNews]Yeah, so Alonzo Mourning and his wife will have a school named after them. You think he’d be like, “You know guy, I will let this old lady lawyer have…
You already know the Marlins aren’t so hot at this whole baseball-playin’ gig. Last night, they went for 15 with runners in scoring position and tanked another game at Fenway Park.But even as they sink into the depths of the NL East, the Fish probably shouldn’t think about giving…
