One of the most common complaints about universal health care is that it will turn doctors’ offices into overcrowded, beaurecratic nightmares resembling the DMV. These snide dismissals might be a bit overdramatic, but they aren’t totally out of touch as the number of primary care physicians continues to dwindle. But…
After a few false alarms, Miami-Dade can now be added to the list of counties with confirmed swine flu cases. Two cases were confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and the Florida Department of Health, one involving a 13-year-old girl and another a 47-year-old man. Identities weren’t released, but it…
The Father Cutié story has gone national (guess the national media was bored of swine flu), and Cutié has agreed to be interviewed on CBS’s Early Show next Monday morning. Miami native and former CBS4 anchor Maggie Rodriguez will conduct the sit-down. [CBS: Priest in Steamy Pics to Break His Silence]…
LocalThe press continues to hound Father Cutié’s newly ID’ed gal pal. [CBS4]Congrats to Myriam Marquez for being named the Herald’s new editorial page editor. She’ll be the first lady and the first Hispanic to hold the job. [AP]Nestor Estefani’s doctor boyfriend is out of town for the weekend, so he…
Surrounded by a circle of grinning undercover cops in jeans and polo shirts, their badges swinging from silver chains around their necks, Miami Police Chief John Timoney stands on the most dangerous corner in Overtown.”The vast majority of homicides in Overtown happen within two blocks of this corner,” Timoney says,…
Lawyers working for Jackson Memorial Hospital have their hands full. The mammoth, publicly-funded facility has been sued over 160 times in the past five years. But few complaints are as disturbing as the one filed yesterday. It came from Lisa Burton, former acting director of patient care in the mental…
It was bound to happen: the identification of Father Cutié’s gal pal was released by América TV. El Nuevo Herald quickly followed suit. Then the Herald broke it down in English for us. Interesting tidbit: in the latest version, El Nuevo Herald prints her exact address, while The Herald only tells…
I know this doesn’t have the strongest tie to Miami, but I’m a graduate of Wesleyan University, and I’m absolutely floored by the new developments that are coming out regarding yesterday’s shooting of Johanna Justin-Jinich, 21.First, it was revealed that the Middletown, CT police had the suspect Stephen Morgan, 29,…
Our corporate cousins out in Lala-land ran their review of Outrage, a new documentary that explores the culture of closeted homosexual politicians and gives special attention to our own Governor Charlie Crist, and made it their cover story this week. Gee, one of the cover boys certainly looks familiar. I…
Duane Starks started his football career at the age of eight in a local optimist club program, he became a star quarterback for Miami Beach Senior High, briefly attended Miami-Dade Community College and then played as a starting cornerback for the University of Miami Hurricanes. He entered the NFL, and…
It’s like deja vu. Alex Rodriguez, a baseball superstar, got caught in a banned substance scandal and tried to claim that he didn’t know exactly what he was putting in his body, but some guy in Miami told him to do it. Now, Manny Ramirez, a baseball superstar, gets caught in a banned…
Last year, in the hey day of Juicy Campus there were unconfirmed rumors circulating that the porn site BrandyBelle.com, a local amateur porn site, had filmed scenes in dorm rooms at both University of Miami and Florida International University. I say unconfirmed because if the schools decided to investigate it the…
The Marlins came so close to signing Manny Ramirez a year ago, and the fact that we didn’t still has some fans mad. Turns out even if we had signed Ramirez, he’d be no good to us for the next fifty games. Ramirez, a Dodgers player and an off-season resident of…
The Buzz reports that Larry Cretul, the Republican speaker of the state house, will apparently now be humming the Beatles’ “Come Together” all day. He found it on the Internet radio app Pandora. “It’s a Beatles song and it’s called ‘Come Together.’ If you hear me humming it from the podium…
The Gumball Rally is an annual 3,000-mile road rally that’s always heavy on kitsch, nostalgia, sponsorship deals, and the finest C-list celebrities. In its ten-year history, the rally has scheduled stops in locales such as Paris, Beijing, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Berlin, but this year, it chose a simple, all-American coast-to-coast…
The Father Cutié scandal is so surreal I still don’t even believe it: A media-savvy South Beach Catholic priest with a bit of celebrity and a name that is an accent away from “cutie,” is caught by paparazzi caressing a bikini-clad woman on the beach. But the reaction has served…
Twice before, the government tried to build a laughably flimsy case that six poor Haitian guys from Liberty City were getting ready to “wage a ground war against the United States,” in the silly words of disgraced uber-clown Alberto Gonzalez.Twice before, juries deadlocked and couldn’t come up with a verdict…
Lt. Gov. Steve Kottkamp has made such a joke out of his job that some people are seriously wondering if we really need a lieutenant governor. Even though he “works” in Tallahassee, he lives in Fort Myers — and billed taxpayers for his transportation between the two places. He ended…
Local The Fontainebleau has decided to tone down its sexy image to attract families. A little less Dirty Hairy, a little more dirty diapers. [Herald] Costumes officials found bottles of “snake wine.” Which is basically posionous snakes stuffed inside bottle of alchohol, and then served. [NBCMiami] A Father Cutié article…
Hello, KittyI’m a 41-year-old woman and have been married to the same guy for 15 years. I am thinking of taking a lover because my husband does not fulfill me sexually, and I can’t stand it anymore. When we met, he had a problem of finishing fast, but with time…
When the economy tanked, student haircuts and generic-brand sodas stopped sounding so bad. Sometimes you have to get crafty to keep yourself from going broke. But leave it to South Florida to take it one step further. Miami-Dade cops recently arrested Juan David Acosta – a Colombian-born 37-year-old with shoulder-length…
Obama for Beer and Cigarettes in Liberty City
