Ever seen The Great Escape? That’s the movie based on the incredible real life story of Nazi prisoners who manage to flee from their camp through an incredibly elaborate series of tunnels, fake clothing and distractions. The Florida version of that movie would be a hell of a lot less…
Self-taken photos are — as a general rule — of no use or interest to anyone but the narcissistic subject. From the era of Myspace angle shots to the age of the Instagram duck face, this has been a true, verifiable fact. A Florida high school student has just shattered…
The Dolphins are fresh off their bye week, players are relatively healthy, and they’re playing a Buffalo team at home that has a homeless guy named “Jeff” that draws pictures for you outside of Churchill’s starting at QB. What could go wrong?…
It’s not uncommon for people to toss their relatives’ ashes in the Atlantic during a Florida sunset. Some rabid football boosters even request to have their remains be scattered in the Swamp. Others who are fans of neither metaphors nor SEC sports sometimes seek eternal rest in shopping malls. At…
When the Miami Herald company announced they’d be producing a free Spanish-language tabloid called Caliente, they got tons of criticism for announcing they’d be including a picture of a weekly bikini babe. That’s pretty standard for tabloids across the globe, but let’s give Caliente credit for breaking new ground in…
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It’s an understatement that LeBron James is no stranger to heavy criticism for ditching one team for another, and as the team prepare to play a preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets it appears he’s still exercising some of those demons. He called out the hypocrisy of Kevin Garnett and…
University of Miami is top ten material, and we’re not talking about the football team. The Daily Beast compiled the stats on America’s sexiest colleges, and ol’ Suntan U came in at number eight…
A South Miami teacher is out of a job after she tried to make sure her students had a little too much fun after prom. Isabel Diaz-Almaraz, a teacher at South Miami High, allegedly rented a $1,000-a-night suite for students to party after prom and provided them with booze and…
No one would ever call Rondell Johnson a good criminal. A creative one? Perhaps. But an adroit practitioner of the malignant arts? Never. The Jacksonville man’s fecklessness was once again laid bare in Winnipeg, Canada, earlier this week when a local trial court convicted him of robbing a bank. During…
If you woke up this morning with a hard-on for sky-high interest rates, a hankering for anarchy, and hopes of seeing the sobbing shell of our once-stately president crumpled over the corpse of Obamacare, we have some bad news for you. Last night, Congress voted to end the 16-day government…
The night of the beating, the beach bar pulsed with drunken euphoria. It was well past midnight on that cool December evening last year, a moment for celebration for two Canadians who ambled inside Dirty Blondes. One of the men, Erik Kormos, a yacht captain, had just gotten engaged to…
Ryan Seay’s life was turned upside down by a phone call. It was late October of last year, and the sound engineer was celebrating his 28th birthday in Sarasota. Exhausted after a day at the Ringling Museum of Art, Seay and his girlfriend fell asleep on their lumpy hotel room…
Who’s at fault when internet celebrities become targets of real-life harassment? Are they victims of their own narcissism? What about when they’re under the age of consent? Last week’s New Times feature (“Lonely Lolita,” Allie Conti, October 10) looked at what happens to a young girl when she achieves pseudo-fame…
When Dr. Norman Block got the news in May 2012, he was incredulous. The Nobel Laureate he’d brought to the University of Miami to work on cancer research — a groundbreaking drug researcher named Andrew Schally — would lose $150,000 in funding. Schally would have to lay off two researchers…
Apparently when it comes to the government shutdown battle over the implications of Obamacare, all Senator Marco Rubio has to offer is lame pop culture jokes. In the same day that Rubio said he will not vote for a deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt limit, he…
Less than a year after gaining seats and ending the Republican’s supermajoirty in the state house, Florida Democrats picked up another seat last night in a bit of a special election upset. Despite being out-funded by a near 3-to-1 ratio, first time candidate Amanda Murphy beat Republican Bill Gunter in…
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The Miami Heat dropped a preseason away game to the Washington Wizards last night, but perhaps the Verizon Center’s crab dip had just as much to do with it as the team. Mario Chalmers was pretty much a non-factor last night, and he blames his poor performance on downing the…
Everyone in Miami has theories about what happened after the closing credits of Scarface. Was Elvira pregnant? Did Tony somehow survive? Was it all a dream and then Elvira, Tony, Manolo, and Chi-Chi move to New York City, where they complained about everything and nothing and found odd, very particular…
Miami Beach might be underwater in 100 years, but good things never last long. Livability.com has ranked Miami Beach fifth in America on its 2014 list of 100 best places to live…
Earlier this summer, Dirty Blondes on Fort Lauderdale Beach absorbed sweeping castigation after its bouncers beat two men who, according to video at the time, appeared nonviolent. But, as this week’s New Times cover story has shown, bar security staff might not be the only ones at fault for the…
