What you see on your right is not an image from your nightmare nor a still from a Kubrick-inspired horror film. What you see is a capture from security footage depicting a very real Florida robbery in which a man dressed in a SpongeBob SquarePants mask held up a 7-Eleven…
Attention, modern criminals and/or wayward offspring of public officials: We know that you, like all of us, are pressed for time. And sometimes it’s so much easier to send a text than to meet on a misty loading dock under the cover of night. But we still advise you against…
So long, Channing Crowder. According to CBS Miami, the Dolphins have cut the always entertaining linebacker. A former Florida Gator, Crowder was drafted by the Fins in 2005 and has played his entire pro career in Miami…
Hugo Chavez certainly isn’t helping the notion that he’s not some sort of brutal dictator. We mean, how many non-dictators declare they hope to continue ruling their country for at least 20 more years? A cancer-stricken Chavez celebrated his 57th birthday yesterday and told the crowd he hoped to remain…
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Apparently, a Casey Anthony Halloween mask is worth nearly a million dollars, but naked Casey Anthony pictures are only worth half that. Hustler kingpin Larry Flynt was on Nancy Grace last night for some reason, where he announced a $500,000 offer to “Tot Mom” to bare all in his magazine…
It takes quite an ass to steal the show at a royal wedding, but the world’s eyes couldn’t help but steal a few glimpses at Pippa Middleton’s rear during her sister’s wedding to Prince William. So of course a Miami plastic surgeon is claiming her assets have created a collective…
Well, that didn’t take long. According to the Oregonian, quarterback Matt Moore has signed a two-year deal with the Miami Dolphins. This pretty much ends any speculation that the Fins would sign a proven QB better than Chad Henne…
Rest assured, Dolfans, your team’s hunt for another quarterback isn’t over. Owner Stephen Ross told the media today he expects the team to sign somebody. Possibly even anybody. Just don’t hold your breath hoping that anybody is necessarily going to be better than Chad Henne…
It’s not often you see a commissioner from one Miami-Dade municipality protesting outside another’s city hall. Yet that’s exactly what South Miami Commissioner Walter Harris did when he recently carried a poster board depicting a giant marijuana leaf outside Miami Beach City Hall. Harris joined other protesters to try to persuade Miami…
In an often emotional trial, Andy Rodriguez stands accused of fatally stabbing classmate Juan Carlos Rivera with a box cutter in the halls of Coral Gables Senior High School in 2009. Rodriguez’s defense team is trying to paint his actions as merely in self-defense.Days after jurors viewed surveillance footage of…
A 12-year-old girl was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital last night after she was shot by her brother. The brother, in his early 20s, was carrying a gun when it accidentally discharged and sent a bullet into the girl’s leg. She’s recovering and in stable condition. Update: The brother has…
Old habits die hard, it seems. Between 1977 and 1984, Ocean Drive founder and current Plum TV exec Jerry Powers was sued 13 times for money owed.”I was dependent on drugs when I did those things,” he told New Times two years ago. “I was stoned and broke. There is…
If there’s one thing I learned in college journalism, it’s that the word me should never show up in a story. Nobody cares about “me.” But the Powers That Be asked me to write something, so if you don’t want to indulge a punk college kid in a couple hundred…
Seems like the Dolphin’s hunt for a new QB may have hit a snag. The Denver Broncos are keen to keep Kyle Orton and released quotes to the media today from Orton in which he claims he expects to be the team’s starting quarterback next year…
Oh, Jesus Christ. Gawker has a whopper of a story today accusing Archbishop Emeritus John C. Favalora of running the Miami Archdiocese of the Catholic Church like some sort of gay sex mafia.The report, penned by former New Times contributor and theater critic Brandon K. Thorp, gathers information from an intensive…
We all know the Rick Scott administration isn’t big on creating new government programs, but Scott’s former chief of staff, Mike Prendergast, who now heads the state Department of Veterans Affairs, wants to institute a Florida Veterans Hall of Fame. Scott signed off on a bill authorizing the creation of…
We were under the impression that any time a sports superstar decided to take his talents to South Beach, his former fans erupted in mass hysteria and jersey burning. Perhaps over-eagerly anticipating another LeBron-like situation, The New Orleans Times-Picayune decided to ask its readers if they planned any Reggie Bush…
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Forty years ago, Patricia and Bruce Wright promised to love each other until death do them part at the Friendship United Methodist Church in Punta Gorda, Florida. In a tragic tale, the couple, who had most recently lived in Las Vegas, returned to the church on Sunday and killed themselves…
A Miami-Dade Police officer is accused of arresting a Guatemalan man on trumped up charges and calling him a “fucking immigrant” after asking where the man was from. Cases like this sure don’t help those in favor of bringing Arizona-style immigration laws to Florida and claim that they wouldn’t lead…
Mustafa Cornelius Lee, 28, and Francisco Henriquez, 35, have been charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting off-duty New York City Police Department Detective Harold Thomas in South Beach over the weekend. The shooting appears to have stemmed from a robbery attempt…
