Over 800 manatees have died this year in Florida waters; the highest number of deaths recorded since records were initiated back in the ’70s. That’s sixteen percent of the state’s total population, and more than twice the number of manatees that died last year…
For Trey Radel, anything must seem possible. He’s already performed the insane mental gymnastics required to re-imagine Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” as a conservative anthem. And he was able to withstand the cognitive dissonance that must come from being a narcotics abuser and alcoholic who insists that food stamps…
Local chiropractor Dennis Nobbe, a rotund, ruddy-faced Scientologist allegedly forced employees to scream at ashtrays, perform lengthy staring contests, and convert to his church. Now, the man who says he “used L. Ron Hubbard Technology to build the largest chiropractic office in all of South Florida.” is backtracking. After former…
The Dolphins head up to Buffalo this Sunday to take on the Bills in what is essentially a must-win situation for the Dolphins if they hope to advance unimpeded into the playoffs. It’s simple: the Dolphins whack the Bills and then the Jets next weekend and they’re in the playoffs…
Publix Super Markets: great for deli sandwiches. Bad for gay employees. That’s according to the Human Rights Campaign and several local LGBT activists. Publix does not provide benefits to domestic partners, they point out. Nor does it have non-discrimination policies in place to protect LGBT employees. “I think it’s still…
LeBron James is still the king in the land of NBA jersey sales. Which shouldn’t come as much surprise considering he’s the reigning MVP and is sporting back-to-back rings…
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If there’s one thing worse than dumb reality television, it’s the dumb reality television scandal. We place nobodies who might be better off keeping their opinions to themselves on a national stage because they’re a whole lot of odd and a little delightfully stupid, and then act all scandalized when…
For the past year, real estate site Movoto has ranked American cities by just about every criteria it can think of. Everything from smartest cities and best cities for homebuyers to more esoteric rankings like most steampunk city and preppiest city. With the year drawing to a close, it only…
Four people are dead, including a five-year-old girl, after a fiery crash on Okeechobee Road. The incident happened at about 8:30 p.m. last night just a mile north of the Turnpike. Police believe that the driver of the northbound car lost control and slipped into the southbound lane, according to…
The Indiana Pacers came into Wednesday night’s game against the Miami Heat feeling real king shit about themselves, having beat the Heat 90-84 just eight days ago. They acted as if THIS GAME was no big whoop, after acting like the first meeting was the meaning of their entire life…
The poker player’s white Nikes had just hit the concrete outside New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport the night before Thanksgiving. The sky was bruising over with twilight. Terminal 5 was a hectic holiday beehive of passengers hustling for last-minute JetBlue hops. And there was Eric Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years…
Kira Lee Grossman wants you to know this isn’t news. She wants you to suspend your powers of reasoning for a moment and surmise that her driving record isn’t remarkable. She urges you to ignore her powerful position as senior adviser to the Miami Parking Authority and ignore the fact…
On November 11 — Veteran’s Day — 59-year-old Sunrise man Fredy Gutierrez climbed onto an overpass with a rifle as morning rush-hour traffic flowed below on I-595. Police scrambled to the scene. Miles of traffic stalled. For the next few hours, as Gutierrez drank a beer, put a noose around…
Outside a $600,000 Coconut Grove condo, the pool glittered blue in the afternoon sunlight and tennis balls popped off a green asphalt court. Inside, a tornado hit. Sharon Cohen watched her heavily tattooed Spanish husband, Alvaro, slam his head over and over against a TV set. She’d recently filed for…
Dean Moreau is a businessman in Florida City. He runs a Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q there and once received a free membership to the Cutler Bay Business Association for donating food to a luncheon. On the side, he is also a managing member of Gringo Travel LLC, which until recently…
Four years ago someone handed a Salvation Army bell ringer a gold nugget worth up to $4,000. The next year a gold and diamond ring popped up in one of the buckets. Last year ten $100 bills were found with Bible passages affixed. This year another gold and diamond ring…
Gerardo Benedit and Victoria Lopez apparently have hearts two sizes too small. They went on a crime spree that can be described only as Grinchian. The pair was arrested for stealing several packages full of Christmas presents from outside homes in Miami-Dade…
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The most anticipated merchandising ploy of the NBA season is almost upon us: The Miami Heat will soon debut its “nickname” jerseys that will swap out, well, nicknames for the players’ last names on the back of their jerseys. Knicks fan Spike Lee, of all people, apparently got one of…
Life in Florida imitates art — especially the kind of art that deals with drug dealing. Last week we noted a Miami cocaine shipping case that eerily mirrored the second season of The Wire. This week we bring you something of a real-life Breaking Bad. Well, at least it involves…
There’s no such thing as a free ride. The popularity of the City of Miami’s 2-year-old free trolley system has surpassed expectations, but so has its budget. Though the city allocated $2.36 million a year to the system, operating costs are closer to about $3.8 million. So to fill the…
