Leisure City K-8 Center, an elementary and middle school in Homestead, is on lockdown after a police chase ended nearby and a group of suspects ran into the school to escape police. Details on the situation are foggy at the moment, but police have set up a perimeter around the…
Since it opened in 1987, downtown Miami’s elite New World School of the Arts has churned out generations of top local artists, from visual geniuses like Hernan Bas to Emmy-winning choreographers like Mia Michaels to playwrights like Tarell Alvin McCraney.For up-and-coming musical theater stars, the school’s über-competitive troupe, the Connection,…
Mitt Romney is still reeling today from the leaked video showing him hobnobbing wealthy donors with the worst kind of rich guy bashing on the lazy 47 percent. But who was Romney wining and dining with such a cringe-worthy speech?A South Florida millionaire playboy, of course! Turns out he was…
Mitt Romney, the least Hispanic person ever, really, really wishes he was actually Hispanic. Yes, the man who has accidentally quoted Fidel Castro and flubbed Cuban slang for lady parts thinks that if he was of Mexican decent, he’d have an easier time beating Barack Obama…
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Saturday Night Live premiered its 38th season over the weekend, and as expected in an election year, kicked the political comedy into overdrive. Aside from the debut of a new Obama impersonator and a riff on Clint Eastwood’s empty chair obsessions, the show got into some Florida specific (well, kinda)…
Smarting from yet another season ending playoff defeat to the Miami Heat, Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers has unveiled his main focus for the offseason: installing pure hate for the Miami Heat deep inside the heart of every single member of the Celtics team.Uh, yeah, brainwashing your underlinings into blindly…
The Magic Kingdom is about to get a little bit more magical. For the first time in the Disney park’s 41-year history it will sell alcohol to its guests. Now, before you make plans to get blitzed and see how many times you can ride Space Mountain without ralphin’, we…
Facing a below-average Oakland Raiders yesterday, it was generally believed the Dolphins had a very good chance of beating their former AFC rival and notching the first victory for both Head Coach Joe Philbin and QB Ryan Tannehill. Then Reggie Bush came out of nowhere and decided to show everyone…
Despite the fact David Rivera has been continuously under investigation for one thing or another since even before taken his seat in the U.S. House, and despite the fact that there’s now suspicions that Rivera helped run the campaign of an apparent ringer in the Democratic primary in his district,…
Plans to erect a giant Walmart smack dab in the middle of the Wynwood/Midtown area have garnered headlines, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg for Walmart’s plans for Miami-Dade. The controversial big-box chain is looking to add six more stores in Miami-Dade in the next two years…
Remember the good ol’ days when the Florida Marlins played at Sun Life and the blinding sight of tens of thousands of empty orange seats mocked the athletes toiling inside the echoing, empty stadium?It was throwback day in Miami Gardens on Saturday, as Canes fans — still burned by a…
When Commissioner Rebeca Sosa introduced a resolution last month asking FDOT consult with Miami-Dade before it installs new bike lanes, cyclists reacted with fury. Sosa was deluged with calls and emails from advocates convinced the resolution was a sneak-attack to prevent new bike lanes in a town already sorely lacking…
Jorge L. Godoy is behind bars today after appearing quite creepily behind a lot of windows. Police say Godoy made a habit of leering at woman through their windows, often while they were in a state of undress, while pleasuring himself. A handful of victims, including young girls, have been…
Usually halftime contests involving fans at sporting games are silly affairs, but the contest slated to go down at the Miami Dolphins’ home opener this weekend seems ridiculously tough. The team will give three fans a chance to win $10,000 if they can kick a 60-yard field goal. Think about…
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For years Republicans have been able to rely on solid support from the majority of Florida’s Cuban community, but one of the few public polls that actually includes figures specifically on Cuban voters says that President Barack Obama actually has a 16-point advantage over Mitt Romney among Florida Cubans…
After years of controversy, the NFL finally decided to ease its blackout rules this season. The Dolphins now only have to sell out 85 percent of Sun Life Stadium to ensure their games are broadcast on TV. Well, despite the eased rule and the fact that this weekend’s game is…
Fausto Lopez, the Miami police officer who was arrested by a Florida Highway Patrol office after speeding 120 mph on the Florida Turnpike, was fired by the City of Miami Police Department yesterday, according to CBS Miami. The termination comes after an internal probe found that Lopez had a long…
Obama has opened up leads outside the margin of error in Florida and two other swing states, Ohio and Virginia, at least according to a new poll from NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and Marist College. The survey of registered voters in the Sunshine State found Obama with 49…
Only in Miami could our inboxes be flooded with press releases like this Wednesday’s police announcement: “Clandestine Dentist Arrested.” Oh, thank God, you say. Then you think, what kind of a city has fake dentists? I mean, how hard can it be to graduate from dental school?But this is Miami,…
Yesterday, a Miami-Dade judge declared a mistrial in a murder case after a public defender mocked her client’s choice of underwear on her private Facebook page. The family of defendant Fermin Recalde, who stands accused of a 2010 Hialeah murder, dropped off a bag of clothes to wear during trial. Public defender…
