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One of Miami’s best known blogs is saying farewell. Critical Miami, New Times’ pick as Best Website of 2007, will no longer be updated but will remain live for those who still want to look through its archives. It’s sole blogger, Alesh Houdek says in his final post: The truth…

Tracy Block Carmen Electra takes time out of her slammin’ schedule to host the launch of blackjack at the Hard Rock Sunday night, seemingly the best course since a juicy cut of Filet Mignon. The town’s gone crazy, that is for certain. Whether it’s over sun exposure, we just can’t…

It rained all week long, dampening the mood a bit. Still, plenty of outdoor events continued on as planned, just a little wetter than expected. Hey, at least there weren’t any hurricanes, right? Score: 1 for Miami, for Mother Nature. Universe Weekend Marco Kornfeld What do get when you…

While mayors from all over the United States gathered inside the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Miami, hundreds gathered outside to give a voice to those activists say government officials ignore. Videographer Jacob Katel captures the people who marched through the streets over the weekend asking for a chance to be…

It sounds so easy when yoga teachers tell you to relax into Savasana, or corpse, the final resting pose that can stretch five to fifteen minutes. Physically, it is: You lie on your back, eyes closed and palms up with your arms and legs slightly spread and feet falling apart…

Videographer Jacob Katel takes a look at the March on the Mayors protests happening this weekend in reaction to the United States Conference of Mayors, which has brought 700 mayors from around the country to our city. The activists are taking advantage of the media spotlight on the city to…

It was the dude in the middle of Kendall Drive who got me. He stood on the middle of the center island, right in the middle of the hustle and bustle near the Town and Country Mall, waving a red sign. “FREE WAXING,” the sign said. Forget where I was…

Well this is not so much as the Blog of the Week as it is a comment that caused much debate around the blogosphere. With McClatchy, the Miami Herald’s parent company, cutting jobs, Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote this week some suggestions on how the local newspaper could remain…

Carlos Miller So much for First Amendment rights. Carlos Miller, a local blogger and photographer, was arrested on February 20, 2007 for allegedly obstructing traffic as he was taking pictures of Miami police officers in a public space after they order him not to. After he started arguing with them…

The US Conference of Mayors conference kicks off tomorrow in Miami, and Manny Diaz is stepping out. The Miami mayor — the conference’s leader this year — will talk about green initiatives. Barack Obama and the Billmeister will follow him. But Manny, whom Vanity Fair mag named one of the…

I hate to admit it, but Saturday, for the first time in weeks, I wandered over the causeway to South Beach. Why? Well I had bumped into DJ Lazaro Casanova at the Daily and he said I should stop by and check out his set at Mansion. I’ve been curious…

Hello, Kitty My friends and family tease me about it, and I don’t deny it – I’m a bona fide party girl. I go out at least 5 or 6 nights a week and always drink and drug a little more than a lady should. But haha that’s not my…

Jack Thompson looks nothing like 9/11 orchestrator Mohamed Atta. He wears a slick business suit and lives in a million-dollar home in Coral Gables. Yet the 56-year-old lawyer hand-delivered a letter to U.S. District Court Chief Judge Federico A. Moreno last week that sounded a lot like terrorism: “Maybe,” he…

Matt Rotolante is a third-generation Miami Hurricane fan. His parents were Canes. His grandmother was a Cane. So there was no better place for him to be Monday afternoon than Coconut Grove’s Sandbar Sports Grill, watching the University of Miami baseball team battle to avoid elimination from the College World…

News Unlucky Number A Miami Artist becomes an accidental witness to manslaughter. By Carlos Suarez De Jesus Last year, Miami Beach artist Steven Gagnon created a video installation on wheels, about the plight of illegal aliens, which patrolled local streets during Art Basel and earned a trip to Houston’s ArtCar…

Robert Platshorn was a hostage, all right, but you wouldn’t have known it from the lush Caribbean scenery outside his hotel window. You wouldn’t have figured it from his carefree fishing excursions for marlin and sailfish on luxury yachts or from the big fat joints of Colombia’s finest marijuana that…

Jogging in Miami at noon is a lot like setting yourself on fire. But I’m the masochistic type when it comes to working out, so I went for a run in South Beach the other day – under a burning ball of flames. Five or six blocks from home and…

Hello, Kitty My wife and I have been married for 14 years and have 2 tween-aged girls. Shes’s a stay-at-home mom, treats me like a king, our kids are happy, etcetera etcetera. The one complaint I have with her is that she is super up-tight in the bedroom and only…

Russ and Kevin Otway could be poster boys for South Florida’s green set. The 29-year-old twins grew up on a 32-foot boat in the Virgin Islands without a refrigerator. By age 6, they were diving for lobster. Their family wasted little and lived from the sea. After graduating high school…

The bomb has dropped in the Herald newsroom. According to a story posted on the newspaper’s website, the newsroom will “lose about 60 positions, including some now vacant.” Overlooked in the bloodletting is that the International Edition, which has lots to do with the newspaper’s reputation, “will be outsourced to…