All Jordan Berean wanted was to get her glow on. The pretty brunette was worn out after her sophomore year at an interior design school in New Jersey. So when she and some friends arrived at the Howard Johnson Hotel in Miami Beach in July 2010, she went straight to…
The W South Beach has to deal with four angry NFL players. The player have filed four separate lawsuits against the developers of the Residences at W South Beach. All four put down deposits on condos back in 2006 and 2007 but want that money back…
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Either you’re too busy staining your sheets with sweat and other bodily fluids to read this right now, or your secret suspicions that everyone else in town is constantly getting laid are about to be confirmed. According to a Trojan Condoms survey, Miami is America’s sex capital. We rate first…
Miami’s Extreme Body Modifiers Brave Social Stigma and Legal Action to Pursue Their PassionPhotos: Miami’s Extreme Body ModifiersRiptide: Coco Stabs Talks His First Piercing, Clitoral Hood (Video)Mike Alberta has a portrait of Albert Einstein on the left side of his head, and one of Stephen Hawking on the back of…
Forget condo building. Like we said yesterday, this decade’s Miami building boom appears to be all about retail. Now come reports that developers are looking to build a major retail center in Brickell with big-box stores in the vein of the Midblock area of the Shops at Midtown Miami. According…
Don’t expect anything nearly as drastic as the makeover the Marlins just received, but the Miami Dolphins are moving ahead with plans for a slight revamp of their logo and uniform for the the 2013 season. According to reports, all the major traditional elements of the logo will remain in…
See also “Connie Mack Now Leads Bill Nelson by Nine Points in Major Reversal.”Yesterday, a Rasumussen Reports poll indicated that Republican challenger Rep. Connie Mack IV had taken a commanding nine-point lead in the the race against incumbent Senator Bill Nelson.But not so fast. A new poll released today shows…
Animal lovers across the globe united in outrage over the plight of Lennox, a dog euthanized in Belfast, Ireland, on Wednesday. Lennox was killed by authorities for being a dangerous “pit bull-type,” despite his owners’ pleas that he had never attacked anybody, and wasn’t even a pit bull mix. There’s…
A mentally disabled woman is now suing the Liberty City living facility where she was sexually assaulted and impregnated by a caretaker.Two years ago, 27-year-old Katrina Whitehead arrived at Westchester Hospital with stomach swelling. Instead, doctors quickly discovered that she was four months pregnant. She was forced to have an…
With Rick Scott’s dismal approval ratings, Democrats from all corners of the state are salivating over the chance to take him on in 2014. Jimmy Morales, the former chairmen of the Miami-Dade County Commission and the man who lost the mayoral race to Carlos Alvarez in 2004, has announced he’s…
New York City can sometimes get a bit hotter than Miami. In fact, NYC’s temperatures over the next few days will peak in the 90s, while Miami is projected to stay in the 80s. So, it’s a nice gesture that the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau is sending the…
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Dan Rotta recently got a brand-new daughter-in-law and a sentence of 180 days in jail. The Fisher Island millionaire took his 16-year-old son to Las Vegas and let him marry his housekeeper’s daughter. Because the boy is married, he’s now legally considered an adult, and his mother, Rotta’s ex-wife, Renee…
The condo boom was so last decade. In the 2010s it’s all about a retail boom in Miami. The Design District is being redeveloped into a glorified luxury outdoor shopping mall. A large development centered around a megamall is being planned for downtown. And now there are plans afoot to…
When it comes to finding a home for your small business, there are a lot of factors to consider: the cost of rent, where your customers are located, how much space you need. But it’s also worth trying to figure out if your neighbors run a drug lab full of…
While polling in Florida of the presidential race has fluctuated, the polling in our Senate race had been pretty consistent: Incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson was kicking ass.Well, no more, at least according to one poll. Rasmussen Reports shows that, in a major shift, Republican challenger Rep. Connie Mack IV is now leading Nelson…
London, Paris, Milan… Miami? According to research from Bundle.com, Miami is one of America’s most fashion-conscious cities. Which isn’t to say we dress well, just that we spend a lot of money on expensive designer clothes.As Dolly Parton once said: “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.”…
Alexander J. Labora says he is running for circuit court judge to help the people. But an investigation by Florida’s Justice Administrative Commission found that the Wharton School-educated attorney helped himself to $41,312 in taxpayer funds in 2005 and 2006 by overbilling a court program that provides legal representation to…
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