For years, someone calling himself “The Weedmanhippy” has been wedging cryptic, self-promoting fliers into the front of New Times boxes across Miami Beach. At first, we were kind of annoyed. Then, earlier this week, we finally gave in and called him.The Weedmanhippy is actually Billy Blank: part SoBe Socrates, part…
Elias Garcia Garcia and Maria Angela Plancarte, both 53-year-old residents of La Feria, Texas, have plead guilty to selling jaguar skins throughout South Florida. Jaguars are of course protected by the Endangered Species Act, and the sale of their pelts is explicitly outlawed…
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For almost the past nine years, at least one former player for the Miami Hurricanes has scored a touchdown in a regular season NFL game. That historic streak came to an end last night. After U alums went scoreless on Sunday, the sole Cane playing in Monday Night Football, nose…
Since the arrest of Oneal Ron Morris on Friday made headlines across the country, several other victims of the fake doctor have now come forward. Morris, who identifies as a transgendered woman, was accused of injecting a patient looking for butt implants with a mixture of super glue, cement and…
Ten cats were found dead in a yard in the Hammocks on Monday morning, and another three were so ill they had to be euthanized. One of the cats was found with signs of head trauma, but authorities suspect that all of the felines were likely poisoned…
Almost one in four children in Florida lived below the poverty line in 2010, according to data from the US Census. That means 923,963 Florida kids live in poverty (defined as a family of four living on less than $22,314-a-year). That works out to 23.5 percent of all kids in the state…
As the NBA lockout drags on, fears grow that local stars like Dwayne Wade and LeBron James will spend the next nine months playing overseas or, even worse, on weird tours through the Midwest. LeBron has even hinted that he might swap the hardcourt for the gridiron.But will he go…
Horsing around with a coworker on an active construction site already seems like a fairly terrible idea — but when the play-fighting includes a real knife and an accidentally loaded gun, the game is downright fatal. Police now say that’s exactly what went down at an abandoned lot in El…
A tip for all the Tony Sopranos out there: If you decide to flip, testify to the feds, and then enjoy every mobster’s retirement dream — running a pizza shop named “Goomba’s” in Florida, naturally — try to keep your temper under control behind the front counter. All your hard…
Video of America’s first African-American first lady being booed by a largely white crowd of NASCAR fans this weekend in Homestead was a slightly troubling sight, but Rush Limbaugh predictably hasn’t helped the matter much. He went on his radio show today to defend the NASCAR fans and excuse the…
Welcome the latest entrant into the South Florida media cemetery: City Link, the alt(ish)-weekly published by Tribune Corp., which also publishes the Sun-Sentinel. According to our BroCo sister blog the Pulp, the paper is expected to close down in the next couple of weeks…
Dhafir Harris, AKA Dada 5000, king of back-yard fights, has plenty to be thankful for. Three years ago, the Perrine native decided being a member of Kimbo Slice’s entourage wasn’t for him, so he set out to become the P.T. Barnum of Miami’s back-yard fighting circuit. We chronicled the early…
Ritch Workman, the Republican state representative from Melbourne who has already introduced a bill to legalize dwarf tossing, is back with another stunningly stupid and controversial bill. Just eight days after Workman finalized his own divorce, he introduced a new piece of legislation that would radically rewrite the state’s alimony…
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The Heat’s LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are about to embark on a “homecoming tour” of charity games with several other NBA stars. Unfortunately for us, “homecoming” does not mean another charity game in Florida. Instead, the four-city tour will include James’s and Wade’s actual hometowns of Akron and Chicago,…
A few months ago, Yahoo! Sports’ piece about claims made by convicted Ponzi schemer and Miami Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro put the phrase death penalty on a lot of folks’ lips. As the months have passed, though, there’s little indication that the NCAA’s punishment will be so severe. Sure, the…
The first steps towards the possibility of legalizing medical marijuana in Florida are underway. Last month State Rep. Jeff Session, a Democrat from Lake Worth, introduced a resolution that would allow Floridians to vote on the matter in 2012. Now, state Sen. Larcenia Bullard, a Miami Democrat, has stepped up…
If you watched the video we posted Saturday of a hog being slaughtered in incredibly brutal fashion, these are the three fellows you should thank for putting you off your lechón forever. Fifty-seven-year-old Rudesindo “Rudy” Acosta, 43-year-old Javier Estevanez, and 24-year-old Luis Cardoza were booked Saturday by Hialeah police after…
The Miami Dolphins beat the struggling Buffalo Bills yesterday 35-8, with help from a defense that hasn’t allowed a touchdown in 12 consecutive quarters. Miami’s defense created turnovers, set up touchdowns for the offense, and scored a special teams touchdown, suddenly making the Dolphins the hottest team in football outside of Green…
This really is the only logical endpoint in a state so obsessed with sex crimes that we banished sex offenders to live under a bridge and unleashed prosecutors onto sexting teens: A teacher sees two 12-year-old students smooching in gym class and tells the school’s principal, who then reports the kids…
OK, so maybe Michelle Obama didn’t actually break any barriers yesterday in Homestead as the first black woman ever to watch a NASCAR race. She may well have set a different, all-too-predictable record, though: most heartily booed MC at the season-ending race south of Miami.Broadcast live on ESPN, Obama and Dr…
