In what has to be one of the most absurd match-ups in Mixed Martial Arts history, former Miami backyard street fighter Rene “Level” Martinez is facing off against ex-professional boxing champ Ricardo Mayorga in Managua, Nicaragua this Saturday. Mayorga’s boxing career washed out in 2011 after losing to Miguel Cotto…
Next time you’re sprawled out on a towel on South Bech or lying in a hammock under a palm tree on Key Biscayne, don’t be alarmed if a man comes stumbling by wearing a backpack with more than 15 cameras sticking out in every direction. He’s probably not a Girls…
Every door inside the former home of the slain fashion icon Gianni Versace was unlocked. Now on the auction block after its owner filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, the opulent 23,000-square-foot manse now known as Casa Casuarina was an open house this week as a team of lawyers, auctioneers,…
Leaving a 3-year-old home alone: bad. Leaving a 3-year-old home alone with the door open so the child can wander the hallways of your apartment building: very bad. Leaving a 3-year-old home alone with the door open in an apartment packed full of assault rifles, a grenade, and ammo: next-level,…
On a scalding Saturday afternoon, nearly a dozen Miami Beach Police cars are jammed up on the lawns of a shady residential street near Mount Sinai Hospital. Cops lean against their cruisers as a mangy group of about 20 protesters spills out onto the overgrown lawn before a white, single-story…
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You won’t believe how much insurance against voodoo curses costs nowadays. Apparently your bill can get as high as $800,000 over the course of a decade. (And we thought flood insurance was pricey.) However, it appears the government does not view voodoo protection as a legitimate business, and Peaches T…
Regular readers of best-selling life manual the Bible will know it’s a big no-no to trumpet your own good deeds in public, but that didn’t stop George Zimmerman and his attorneys from trying to stage a news conference after word broke this week that he helped pull a family of…
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It’s a question that factors into so many lesbian breakups: Who gets to keep the strap-ons? A Florida woman and her ex couldn’t come to a civil agreement on the matter, and Ashley Rivera had her ex-girlfriend arrested after she allegedly broke into a storage unit and stole three strap-ons…
Come next November, Michelle Spence-Jones will no longer be part of the Miami City Commission. Despite the fact that she spent 21 months out of office while on suspension as she fought two felony charges, an appeals court ruled today that since Spence-Jones was successfully elected to two consecutive terms…
A common problem for working mothers in Florida is that strip clubs tend not to offer onsite child care for the dancers’ kids. Of course, working mothers should never leave their children alone at a hotel while they’re at their job, no matter what their occupation. Brittany Renee Roman, 21,…
With the 2013 Miami Dolphins football season nearing, fans of all shapes, sizes, and attitudes are readying themselves for the return of the NFL. Some of us are 75 years old and lived through a time when this franchise was second to none. Others are in our mid-30s and for…
It’s not easy becoming a firefighter, but there’s a fairly established path to take if that’s your dream: starting intense workouts, studying up on fire codes, maybe getting some sweet tribal tattoos to fit in. Police say an 18-year-old from Florida went a different route, by buying a bunch of…
Tomorrow afternoon, Miami commissioners will vote whether to declare historic a 66-year-old church surrounded by skyscrapers in Brickell. For the past year, a small group of parishioners has drummed up support for officially protecting St. Jude Melkite Catholic Church. At first, the petition sounded like something you’d be asked to…
Thanks to Anthony Weiner’s inhuman drive to keep sexy talking ladies online, Carlos Danger has ruled Twitter this afternoon. Based on screen caps posted to the Dirty — and partially confirmed in a statement from the ex-congressman — “Carlos Danger” was the hilariously dashing pseudonym he used in his latest…
Never much of a fan of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is more peeved than usual at the NGO. Today she blasted UNESCO for preserving the works of Che Guevara in its “Memory of the World Register.”…
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The Miami Dolphins have assembled for training camp with expectations set higher for the promising revamped roster than they have been in years, but that doesn’t mean the mood is too heavy. Team veterans put Dolphins rookies through some playful hazing by playing hairstylist with a bit of bleach and…
Further illustrating the racial divide in response to the death of Trayvon Martin and the trial of his killer, George Zimmerman, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll has found that while the majority of non-Hispanic white people agree with the not-guilty verdict the jury handed down to Zimmerman, the majority…
Prison guards make sure to keep their jails free of items that could be used as makeshift weapons, but what do you do when you have an inmate who is already in custody for allegedly killing his girlfriend with toilet paper? Do you treat toilet paper as contraband? Apparently the…
