A tanning salon owner in Key West who increasingly blamed his personal struggles on President Obama warned his partner that “I’m not going to be around long” if the president won reelection last week.Two days after the president’s victory over Mitt Romney, Keys police found Henry Hamilton dead of a…
Ever since Election Day, the New Times office has descended into tribal taunts as each employee has tried to claim that his or her ‘hood was the nail in Mitt Romney’s coffin or the only thing keeping Democrats from ransacking the House of Representatives.To settle the issue, we’ve prepared a…
One year after the taxpayers of Miami-Dade gave Jeffrey Loria a brand new, $515 million ballpark, he’s already given up even pretending to field a major league baseball team. In one of the largest salary dumps in the history of baseball, the Marlins are reportedly shipping basically every player on…
Looks like Ryan Tannehill could use some extra cash. He’s renting himself out for the low, low price of just $5,000-an-hour. Of course, all money exchanged between consenting adults is for time and companionship only. Whatever happens during the time, happens…
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Two years after his fall from grace at CNN, Rick Sanchez has finally snagged a new regular TV job. He’s headed to MundoFOX, Fox’s newly created Spanish-language TV network aimed at Hispanics. According to The New York Times, he’ll be filing daily news stories for the network, and hosting news…
Mitt Romney had binders full of women. The Florida GOP might have had golf carts full of hookers.Rumors of a strange “men’s only” trip to the Bahamas, meant as a thank you to some of the Republican Party of Florida’s biggest donors, have been swirling for years, but new details…
Much like a gossip blog, the Miami Hurricanes have been chugging along with scandals, crime and epic fails for the past few years, so head coach Al Golden pretty much hit it on the head when he said, “It’s been TMZ since I’ve been here.”…
The old line goes that “the great thing about Miami is how close it is to the United States.” The truth is, though, the worst thing about Miami is how close it is to Florida.So, when we learned yesterday that there was an effort underway to have Florida secede from…
When the news broke Friday that Gen. David Petraeus was stepping down from the CIA over an affair, the old adage that “every crazy story has a tie to Florida” seemed like a stretch. What possible link could the Sunshine State have to Petraeus’ unwise liaison with his biographer?Doubt Florida’s…
Who owns the idea of shooting giant laser beams into the night sky? That’s the question at the heart of a simmering dispute threatening a signature project at Miami’s new mega music and art festival, UR1, where Andy Warhol associate Ultra Violet plans to beam a huge laser across Biscayne…
Somewhere in Tallahassee, someone in the FSU athletics department is drafting up the open letter Jimbo Fisher is going to send out apologizing for using the word “retarded.”You see, Fisher is pretty frustrated with the BCS rankings, and decided to drop the R word to describe the system…
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Love it or leave it.It appears there are at least a few thousand Floridians out there who hate the United States of America so much in the wake of Obama’s reelection that they want to pull Florida out of the Union…
Not only did Floridians vote to reelect President Obama on Tuesday, they also, by a wider margin, voted down a proposed state constitutional amendment that sought, in theory at least, to limit the effects of Obamacare in Florida.Dejected, Rick Scott, the former health care CEO, is now backing down on…
“There are a million arguments as to why Mitt Romney lost the election…,” writes Luis Gonzalez over at Miami’s favorite right wing blog, Babalu Blog.Well, you could certainly say that.”But everything boils down to one simple fact…,” he continues.Uh, huh, and what would that be exactly? “We have become a…
When Yankee third-baseman Alex Rodriguez moved into his $24 million mansion on Miami Beach’s North Bay Road last December, next door neighbor Irwin Friedman assumed the celebrity slugger would want some privacy. Instead, A-Rod immediately started renting out his bachelor pad to camera crews shooting everything from X-Factor to a…
For two years now, William Britt has been subbing in classrooms around the Florida Keys, including inside a handful of local elementary schools. At home, Britt was stockpiling hundreds of images of child pornography.After a landlord spotted the illegal porn and called the police, Britt admitted he was “sick” and…
Despite winning the majority of white voters, the Republican Party had their asses handed to them by minority voters last Tuesday. The beat-down has left the GOP in a race to figure out how, at the very least, to get more of the Hispanic vote.Bill O’Reilly has a novel idea…
Miami’s economy might soon get a deep injection of revenue from an unlikely source: the adult-film industry. Because amid all the hoopla of last week’s presidential election, a new law passed in California that might shift hundreds of porn jobs to the Sunshine State. Last Tuesday, Los Angeles residents left…
So how good do you feel about Jeff Ireland and the Dolphins’ talent level today?Two weeks after a convincing victory over a floundering Jets team, the Dolphins are 4-5 and facing “must win” scenarios for most of their remaining seven games in order to salvage the season after getting completely…
To say the web ties worlds together seamlessly with invisible streams of data would be a gross understatement. So New Times is celebrating Miami’s greatest with our first annual South Florida Web Awards. We’ve scoured online media from news, to arts and culture, to food and music, and Twitter and…
