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Miami Edison High Football Star Makes a Great Escape

If ya’ll don’t know by now, we’re a sucker for fancy photography shot in Miami. Normally we get more excited about the pictorials that highlight the character of our city, rather than the endless parade of models on beachs, but we’ll make an exception for these, because come on, just…

The Organization of American States is one of those regional political forums that is made up of 35 independent nations in North, South and Central America. Technically that includes Cuba, but they’ve been on suspension since 1962. Now it appears they’re being welcome back to the big boy’s table after…

We’re going to experiment with a new picture of the day feature showcasing some of the best photos we come across by our staff, in the seas of public domain, in Creative Commons-licensed works or by you (seriously, email us if you have some really interesting pictures taking in Miami…

We had our fun popping the balloon of the swine flu, excuse me, H1N1 hysteria, but we never once told you to abandon your hourly ritual of hand sanitizer cleansing. Since Miami is a major hub of international travel, especially to Latin America, it always made sense to us that the…

Our favorite quote from last week’s lookback on the first 10 years of indie super-party Poplife comes from co-proprieter Barbie Basti: “Miami wasn’t that diverse back then. It was either mainstream or goth — nothing in between.”It’s always kind of puzzled us that Miami has been such a goth haven, considering how…

So, the Miami Herald, the Palm Beach Post and the Sun-Sentinel still share stories as part of their agreement. The Sun-Sentinel and the Orlando Sentinel share content because they’re both part of the troubled Tribune Corp. The Miami Herald consolidated their Tallahassee bureau with the St. Petersburg Times and share…

The cat killer of Cutler Bay is still terrorizing South Dade neighborhoods, and the brutal killings only seem to get worse. Authorities believe the criminal strikes the cats with an unknown object before mutilating them with a knife. He then leaves the bodies for the owners or neighbors to find. He most recently…

Officially, edgy advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky decided to auction off the services of their interns as a way to compensate the underpaid labor, but probably just to remind everyone how quirky the company is and get some press. Brammo, a maker of electronic mini-motorcycles, won the auction for a…

LocalThe City is trying to squeeze out the under-the-Tuttle sex offenders by citing a nearby island as a park, but since there’s no playground on the island the State doesn’t really care. [Herald]Andre Pierre is now the mayor of North Miami. Haitian Americans also regained their majority on the city council. [Herald]Mayor…

Time Magazine has a burning question: What’s up with all the horny female teachers in Florida? The publication ran a story a couple days ago, inspired by Maria Guzman Hernandez. You know, the 32-year-old Hialeah teacher who was arrested for allegedly seducing a 15-year-old boy last week. We’re guessing writers…

As you’re probably aware Dr. George Tiller, the medical director of a Wichita, Kansas clinic that provided late-term abortions, was killed this weekend while attending a church ceremony. Scott Roeder, a far-right anti-tax nut with a history of mental illness and a taste for the fire and brimstone of the Old…

Sorry to be so GitMo heavy today, but ehgads there is a Guantanamo Bay video game in development. Yeah, we thought the idea of escaping from GitMo was and idea best reserved for fiction, and apparently we were right.  T-Enterprises, the British software company developing the game, says Rendition: Guantanamo…

According to a new USA Today/Gallup poll Americans overwhelmingly oppose the closure of the Gaunatanmo Bay detention camp by 65%. Only 32% favor closing the base down. 54% said they would actually be upset if the base closed, and 74% oppose its closure if it meant moving some of the inmates to the respondent’s state…

Esteban Cortazar, at only 23 years-old, has moved up the fashion food chain from peddling sketches to Todd Oldham at the News Cafe as a precocious tween, to Miami and New York’s fashion weeks, to heading up the design end of Paris fashion house Ungaro. He may be young, but he’s worked hard…

For some hunters, it is never really about the catch. It’s about being one with nature, trekking through the wilderness, the thrill of the hunt, and the bond formed with your fellow hunters. For others, it really is just about killing things. So much so, that driving up and down…