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Mississippi thug, David Banner, is in Miami working on his next album: The Greatest Story Ever Told. In Stores June 3rd. We drove around Miami together on a recent Saturday night. I met up with him at Emeril’s on Miami Beach. After some drama with a valet, who locked my…

Most of this weekend was probably a blur, and it wasn’t just because yesterday was 4/20. There were enough shows and concerts going on to make sure that most folk didn’t see their bed until late Sunday night. The Miami Beach Convention Center housed a porn convention, a bike show…

“Oh, I stopped going there a while ago. I wasn’t impressed with the results,” said my college friend. “I just don’t like their method,” said my co-worker, wrinkling her nose in disdain. “I went once and never went back.” They were both warning me about their experiences at popular local…

In his first visit to the United States as Pope, Benedict XVI has met with sex abuse victims from Boston, ground zero for the abuse scandals that rocked the church in 2002. Since that time, however, similar scandals have erupted in dozens of other metropolitan areas. In the Archdiocese of…

Pope Visit – Pope Benedict XVI visited the U.S. Tuesday in what is deemed to be a historic a visit. He said he is ashamed of “pedophile priests,” but some catholics are demanding more action. Delta, NWA Merge – Delta and Northwest Airlines settled on a deal to merge that…

Thanks to G-Dub’s economic stimulus package, Uncle Sam’s blessing your recession-thin pockets with some righteous green sometime soon. Financial gurus might advise you to spend that money on “investing in the future,” “starting an emergency fund,” or “paying off bills,” to which we say, WWGWD? What would George W. do?…

With the way the economy is going and magazine and newspaper readership on the decline, it is understandable that the print media are scrambling to find new ways to increase revenues. But selling out to the proportion that the Official XBox Magazine has done is pretty damn ridiculous. According to…

Hello, Kitty I’m in a relationship with a guy who works long hours and is often called to go out of town on short notice. I understand that this is part of the job and has been forever, but the problem is that he talks to one of his female…

Angie Martinez, an alluring, curly-haired entertainment lawyer, poses near a walk-in closet exploding with limited-edition Pumas, heels, and secondhand purses. It’s a random steamy Thursday afternoon in Coral Gables. “Tell me about this outfit,” says Bill Teck, a 40-year-old in blue jeans, as he turns his Sony video camera on…

News Toke It Easy Snap out of it, 4/20 revelers: Florida legislators want to stomp on your buzz. By Francisco Alvarado The good people who run the State of Florida are celebrating the cannabis culture’s favorite day, April 20, by ruining it for weed lovers. In Tallahassee, an enthusiastic majority…

Around the age of eight, a boy we’ll call Sam made a new friend — a man in his early fifties. Rev. Neil Doherty was pastor at St. Vincent Catholic Church, which was across the street from Sam’s Margate home. Sam’s family was not religious, and as the boy spent…

When drag queen Shirley Q. Liquor takes the spotlight at this weekend’s Exxxotica convention in Miami Beach, she will say something like this to her audience: “I’m gonna burn me up some chitlins and put some ketchup on there and aks Jesus to forgive my sins.” The muumuu-clad, garishly made-up…

Student activists suspect a fast food giant could be behind a woman who posed as a student to spy on the organization. For months, the Student/Farmworker Alliance and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers have been pressuring Miami-based Burger King to give tomato pickers a needed raise. The Home of the…

Marco Kornfeld Click here to see a slide show of the driving school. BMW launched its performance driving school program yesterday on a mild April morning at the Homestead International Speedway. I was invited to take photos and join this very exclusive opportunity — $1,495 for the one-day school –…

Click here to see the slide show presentation given at the meeting. FIU President Modesto Maidique spoke about priorities. He placed the schools of education, and journalism below the, yet to be open, school of medicine and the school of hospitality management. At the meeting yesterday, Maidique revealed that schools…

Bay of Pigs Museum (Kinda) Moves Forward Miami-Dade officials begrudgingly cleared the Bay of Pigs Museum & Library Monday to inch forward in its pitch to build a new center on a public slice of downtown waterfront. They did so with marked reservation. Last fall, museum supporters asked the county…

Hello, Kitty My girl complains about my body hair, saying that I need to wax and/or shave my chest and pubic area – but the vision of Steve Carell getting waxed in that movie has me thinking that it’s not worth the pain. My hairy bod has never bothered me,…

Elvis Ramirez Where: Mi Peru, 1760 Miami Gardens Drive, Aventura, (305) 940 9404. What $15 Gets You: A big plate of chaufa with meat and a drink. For those who lump Latin cuisine into a category consisting of rice, beans and some sort of meat, Mi Peru in Aventura is…

“We went out and we saw that there was bleeding everywhere and we’re like, ‘Dude this guy’s in pain,’ ” said Sam Lucaciu, a tourist from Australia who was walking down Collins Avenue Sunday morning when he spotted a 200-pound man impaled on a black metal fence spike. Sam hoisted…

There was plenty to do this weekend, and plenty of places to escape the sweltering heat (and it’s not even summer yet), although there was certainly no place to escape the crowd. So if you stayed home to dodge the hassle (and who could blame you), here’s what you missed:…