Are you a happy happy worker? You should be, according to CareerBliss.com. The site calculated a lot of data and decided that Miami is the happiest city to work in the entire United States according to Forbes. Of special note to a Mr. LeBron James: Cleveland, Ohio came in dead…
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In the absence of real news, rumors start to spread. Considering there hasn’t been any real news on David Beckham’s planned Miami Major League Soccer franchise in months, it’s only natural for outrageous rumors to surface. The latest: Instead of starting a team from scratch, David Beckham intends to buy…
Some people protest against systematic racism and inequality. Others against mistreating animals. Some take up at the picket line anytime a war strikes up. And then there are people whose dearest issue revolves around a little bit of penis skin. Yes, anti-circumcision activists have picked a Florida case as their…
Miami drivers are used to plenty of odd sights on I-95, but the late-afternoon holiday crowd yesterday caught an eyeful even for South Florida: hundreds of riders on dirt bikes, motorcycles, and ATVs swarming through the highway traffic, many of them popping wheelies and weaving between lanes. Motorists and cops…
Last week, photos posted to Tumblr claiming to show that Miami Sunset High has a filth problem — showing spoiled juice, a moldy shower, and a cockroach allegedly inside the building — went viral on social media, prompting an official probe from public school officials. But some Sunset alumni say…
In just under a month, Tony Bosch is scheduled to face the music for his years selling steroids to ballplayers from his Coral Galbes clinic Biogenesis. In the meantime, though, Bosch has been trying to work through his own addiction to decidedly non-performance enhancing drugs. Bosch lost his bail back…
Well, well, well, what do we have here, Heat fans? It seems to me what we have here is some members of what many refer to as the best fan base in sports leaving a championship game early with their team on the verge of a loss. Crazy, right? Damn,…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here to give you the week’s weirdest…
It’s no secret that University of Miami men’s basketball coach Jim Larranaga has a rather zen outlook on life and basketball. He schools his team on the teachings of Deepak Chopra. Yet, we couldn’t have imagined that the team’s success in knocking off highly ranked programs this year could be…
In the wake of the massacre at the offices of the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, the American media, both mainstream and social, has almost become a satire of itself. We have a media landscape in which everyone feels the need to say everything there is to say about an…
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As the North American Bitcoin Conference begins today in Miami, thousands of techies and enthusiasts are converging upon the city ready to learn all about the digital currency. But Roger Ver won’t be coming. Ver — a 35-year-old, self-made millionaire — was denied a U.S. visa, even though he was…
Nationwide and in Miami, outrage over police violence against African-Americans has reached a boiling point, fueled by the lack of indictments in the Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice cases. So it’s beyond baffling why the North Miami Beach Police Department not only used photos of local black men…
The fight over an endangered patch of native pine rocklands has sparked a planned rally at the site of the two highly controversial development projects — a proposed Walmart and the theme park Miami Wilds. “We’ll do two for the price of one,” says Matthew Schwartz, executive director of the…
Miami is a melting pot of douchebags. Seriously, so many types of douchebag. In fact, happy long-term social survival in Miami means quickly spotting douchebags and avoiding them at all costs or dealing with them properly. To help you with that task, we’ve prepared this guide to various kinds of…
In December, Citi Bike crossed the bridge from South Beach to the mainland and celebrated its 50 new stations with a party at Bayfront Park. Some residents in Brickell haven’t been celebrating the arrival of the bike share, though. In fact, so many residents complained about the 38-foot racks eating…
In Miami not even superstar athletes are immune from getting played by shady conmen. Today, a judge sentenced Haidar Zafar to six years in prison for defrauding former Miami Heat players Mike Miller, James Jones, and Rashard Lewis out of $7.5 million. To add insult to injury, Zafar then used…
After Buzzfeed published a post reporting that an apparent Miami Sunset High student had taken pictures of filthy conditions at the school, including disgustingly spoiled juice, a moldy shower, and a cockroach problem, a Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesman says some of the claims might have been doctored by a…
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Considering numerous Real Housewives have been in the news more for their legal battles than their television show, the latest development connected to the reality show only makes sense. Joanna Krupa, one of the stars of Real Housewives of Miami, is suing Brandi Glanville of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,…
In December, Barack Obama announced he would normalize relations with Cuba and ease some travel restrictions, but he didn’t give a clear timeline for when that would happen. Well, surprise, the Treasury Department announced today that the new travel rules will go into effect tomorrow. See also: America’s Cuba Ties…
