Right now, winning is the Miami Heat’s business, and business is good. For the 19th straight time, the Miami Heat won, this time 98-81 over the Atlanta Hawks Tuesday night. The Heat never trailed in this game, because trailing is the cousin of losing, and losing is not an option in…
Today, Miami Beach city commissioners are considering a proposal to legalize drinking on the sand. But according to one local activist, the idea is idiotic.”Nobody wants kids getting drunk on the beach,” says South Beach gadfly Frank Del Vecchio. “They already throw bottles, vomit, and urinate all over the place…
It’s a particularly strange time for the Democratic Party of Florida, considering that two of the bigger names considering a run for the party’s 2014 gubernatorial nomination have never held office as a Democrat before. Now one of them, former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, may pull out of the race…
Someone appears to have fallen from the 79th Street Causeway, although it’s not yet clear whether it was a suicide attempt or an accident.”We do have a person in the water, but we are not sure of their condition,” said Miami Police spokesman Freddie Cruz. A spokesman for North Bay…
On March 1, students who tried to log on to the Internet using the free Wi-Fi network on Florida State University’s Panama City campus found themselves automatically redirected to an infamous Internet shock site called Meatspin.com. In case you’re unfamiliar, the site does not feature a 24-ounce porterhouse steak on…
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While several other states are grappling with the idea of same-sex marriage, down here in Florida, we still have problems passing a statewide domestic partnership bill. One would think it wouldn’t be quite so controversial considering more than a third of Floridians already live in counties that have established local…
Sure, no one wants to visit one of Florida’s beaches to find it littered with trash, but lately we think tourists might be more wary of getting their face bitten off than encountering garbage.So while we’re glad 20-year-old Keys resident Cassi Lyn Stanton was trying to keep her beach clean,…
Ernesto Velazquez did not want to sit outside last night. In fact, the 29-year-old who uses a wheelchair was so insulted when a waitress at Finnegan’s 2 tried to give him a table on Lincoln Road Mall that he pulled out a pistol and fired into the air.Panicked managers called…
Five months ago in Brandon, Florida, 70-year-old Ralph Lewis Wald married his neighbor Johnna Flores. Flores is 29 years younger than Wald, who also notched his fifth wife in the ceremony. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t as jealous as any newlywed, though.So when he walked out of his bedroom for a…
Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. has a problem: He needs to fill his 1,500-seat evangelical mega-church in Miami Gardens on a Tuesday night. Solution: The holy man is promising to eat a cockroach live onstage tonight if enough worshippers come out. It’s just the latest attendance-boosting stunt from a pastor who’s…
“I am looking for this bunny,” reads the enigmatic February 26 Craigslist ad. Beneath a photo of an absurdly cute rabbit with sparkling blue eyes, it continues: “I had it on hold for my daughter and it was not supposed to be sold. My daughter is devastated and she won’t…
It’s not uncommon to see people getting blitzed on the sands of South Beach, but it’s technically illegal. City Attorney Jose Smith decided in 2010 that even the practice of hotels serving cocktails to their guests on the beach was illegal.Well, after apparently realizing that everyone does it anyway, the…
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If regular mosquitoes are like chihuahuas, small ankle-biting little buggers, then gallinippers would be pit bulls. They’re twenty times the size of a regular mosquito, and have mouthparts so strong they can pierce through clothing. Their eggs can lie dormant for years, but scientists warn that weather conditions over the…
Do you ever find yourself wondering about the personal life of Miami Heat coach Erik Spolestra? Surely, you’ve thought, “I bet he’s got a wife. Maybe married his college sweetheart or something. Probably got a couple of cute, young cerubric young children.” Clearly someone has, because when you type his…
Miami police are searching for a butt bandit who made Calle Ocho a real pain in the ass this weekend.Yes, America’s biggest Latin block party was disturbed Sunday after a brawl broke out and a man ended up taking a bullet in the butt cheek…
Eighteen have entered. Zero have gone home victorious. The Indiana Pacers became just the latest victim of the Heat’s insane win streak as Miami defeated the Pacers 105-91 Sunday night. The win also gave the Heat victories over every other team in the NBA this season, a franchise first. BUT…
Nancy Brewer decided to take a page out of the Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes school of couples counseling, by dealing with her relationship problems with a City of Miami police officer by setting his Lauderhill home on fire…
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After pleading guilty to possession of child porn, a judge allowed Nelson Carrizo to spend one last holiday season at home before heading to the big house. It’s a pretty common practice for nonviolent criminals who strike plea deals, but Carrizo spent his final months of freedom trolling around on…
In February 2011 near Homestead, a Department of Transportation worker discovered an alligator with a man’s body in its mouth, thrashing him back and forth. It didn’t turn out to be a case of a man going for a swim in the wrong pond. After investigating, authorities determined the man had…
