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Image via Jeremy Scott It only makes sense that you could pick up some weed at the same place you stock up on belly shirts, Brazilian jeans, and Chinese slippers. The DEA busted a grow operation at The Mall of Americas, a.k.a. the epicenter of all that is Chongadom. Over…

Miami’s heat index seems finally to be falling. Nights don’t feel like an asphyxiophilia’s (look it up) dream. While we still have a few more months of crazy weather and hurricane threats, the city’s low-season is finally coming to an end and with it come back the tourists and big…

Image via Nostalgia Finder Don’t expect The Miami Herald to accept The Sun-Sentinel’s MySpace friend request any time soon. South Florida’s two biggest dailies recently got involved in a catty blog based e-fight that dragged almost every local paper into the fray. The Herald’s Marc Caputo was the first to…

Photo via UM Sebastian taunts incoming UM Freshman with a license plate they won’t be able to use. What do you do to put a positive spin on a potentially controversial action? Break out a brush and paint yourself a pretty shade of environmentally friendly green. That’s what the University…

via Wikimedia Commons Maybe they’re reading a bit too much into the tea leaves but Wonkette noticed that the web address ObamaNelson.com redirects to Barack Obama’s official website. The internet never lies. While similar combinations of Obama and suspected Veep’s names lead to Go Daddy holding sites or other internet…

After reading about that prostitution spa scandal, it’s more than understandable why some Miami wives and girlfriends might raise an eyebrow if their fella expresses an interest in going to the spa. We’ll have you know, not every guy who makes an appointment for a treatment is looking for a…

via wikimedia commons Politicians, as you may know, don’t have hearts. Since “home is where the heart is,” it’s no surprise that so many of them can’t keep track of exactly where they live. Take John McCain. The 71-year-old senility major recently couldn’t recall how many houses he owns. Barack…

Photo via Political Masks Two Miami-based corporations reported their recent earnings this week, and taken together we can only assume Americans are getting fatter and wearing less clothes. Burger King reported a profit surge of 42% in its fiscal fourth quarter due to increased sales, but margins are down. High…

True faces of Grandma evil. Who will clean up Miami-Dade and rid us once and for all of the terrible destruction Grandmas have done to our community? Forget Crips, Bloods or Latino Kings, these hooligans are the most feared gang now. If this week is any indication they’re ramping up…

Veep announcements could come any second now, like half-way through the writing of this, rendering this post useless. The press has whittled down its collective predictions to a handful of names on each side, but which ones will have the most reverberations in Florida? So far polling data shows the…

Paranormal activity? Storm-related atmospheric dramatics? Alien invasion? While we’re not so sure calling in the feds for help with Fay is the greatest idea, maybe Gov. Crist should call in whatever organization Mulder and Scully worked for to check out a reported mysterious light show that occurred during the storm…

Photo via ((april))’s flickr An unidentified South Florida man prepares for Fay, the storm that apparently overwhelmed state emergency officials, with grace and style. Notoriously non-fay Governor Charlie Crist has requested a disaster-area declaration (and the federal money that comes with it) to deal with the damage brought on by…

Photo via Barackobama.com Yesterday’s Herald article covering Barack Obama’s Tuesday speech at the VFW convention in Orlando claimed “the GOP criticized Obama, a member of the veterans services committee, for voting against $120 billion for the war last year.” While it’s totally true that the GOP has nailed Obama (Imagine…

Embattled Miami-Dade County Public Schools Rudy Crew is in hot water with the School Board again. Not over his shoddy handling of the budget. Not over the the failing results of his improvement plans. Not over his questionable hiring and firing tactics, but over snubbing a school board meeting. Tensions…

Hello, Kitty After 12 years of marriage to a wonderful woman, I’ve been seriously considering asking my wife to join me in “swinging.” Not as in what kids do at a playground, but what adults do when they and their spouse have sex with other couples. I vowed to be…

It seems everyone makes an appearance on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, which The New York Times says is more influential than ever, in order to score some cool points with the Gen X and Y set. John Stewart sits down with Florida Senator Mel Martinez and mild mannerly asks…

With a crocodile’s calm grin, Ricardo Corona rises from his chair near the end of a long table of coiffed women and conservatively suited men, grabs a microphone, and tells a roomful of college students why they should elect him a Florida circuit court judge. “I was mainly in business…

A white boat about the size of a Cadillac labors out of the shadows beneath the 17th Street Causeway just south of Fort Lauderdale. The tiny vessel — flying the French national flag — crawls across the Intracoastal toward a small cement pier. As the craft coasts in, the man…

Like so many other Americans these days, Delma Mercado let her mortgage get the best of her. Unlike most other estados-unidenses, she dreamed up a seemingly rock-solid solution to her financial woes. One problem: It involved stealing rent from the poorest tenants in Hialeah. As media across the county reported…