If the phrase private school conjures up mental images of idyllic campuses of ivy and brick, you haven’t spent much time slogging through some of the two-bit institutions that are steadily infesting the state. Florida’s McKay Scholarship program, which doled out $149 million in the past 12 months, is at…
Trader Jack is back. They’ve taken him out of the mothballs and planted him back in the Marlins dugout, and he made a great stride forward by taking Hanley Ramirez out of the starting lineup as soon as he marched into town.Who is this guy? Where did he come from?…
Gov. Rick Scott’s first months running Florida have yielded plenty of gems that would be comedy gold if we didn’t actually have to live with them in real life. Drug testing every state employee? To benefit a medical company he co-founded? Didn’t we see that one in Naked Gun 4?A…
If you’re a fan of firsthand accounts, Michael O. Munday is something of a local treasure. Almost every one of his colleagues is dead, in prison, or underground. But 65-year-old Mickey Munday — as the served-his-time cocaine megasmuggler is known — just won’t shut up. Now the gregarious native Miamian…
Former Dolphins quarterback Chad Pennington isn’t ready to accept that his playing career is over just yet, but he’s already accepted a job on the other side. He’s just signed with Fox Sports to provide analysis during NFL football games. Though he still hopes to return to playing one day…
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Nobody’s saying Miami-Dade is particularly well-behaved, but GOOD LORD, Palm Beach, you kicked our ass on this one. What a mug shot. Such emotion, such conflict. And a faint suggestion of artful composition too.Oh — and this isn’t his first arrest…
Florida’s Rick Scott is the most unpopular governor in the nation, and while his administration is sticking to a Bush-like refrain that poll numbers don’t matter, it sure seems that deep down he realizes that his basement-level approval ratings spell trouble. So in an effort to turn public perception around,…
You can get a counterfeit version of almost anything in Miami. Apparently even cigarettes. Tobacco giant Philip Morris has filed suit against 17 Miami-area retailers for stocking fake cigarettes. We all know that the stuff in the name-brand smokes will kill you. We can’t imagine what kind of stuff is…
Terrence Malick’s latest wandering epic The Tree of Life may very well lend itself to some chemically altered viewing. It is not however the kind of film that benefits from some sort of crackhead breaking into a screening and starting to shout things like “Tupac’s back!” Welcome to life in…
After six months of doing exactly nothing about a police department in disarray and a looming $40 million budget gap, Miami City Manager Tony Crapp Jr. is packing up his office this afternoon and bailing for a cushy private-sector job in Broward County.Gee, thanks for all the hard work, Tony…
In a dramatic, albeit not totally surprising development, a poll conducted by the Miami Herald shows that former county Commissioner Carlos Gimenez leads former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina in the county mayoral race by a healthy 11 points. Kudos to the Herald for printing a quote from a 21-year-old voter explaining his reasoning…
Update 5:20 p.m.: McKeon is officially the team’s interim manager — he answered questions about his age at a press conference Monday and said he thought the Marlins had a shot to play in October even though he’s “not hip with the Twitter or Facebook or something like that,” according…
As Miami continues to emerge as a serious art center, the city’s infatuation with the colorful yet shallow work of pop artist Romero Britto continues to be a source of embarrassment and frustration for some. Usually that frustration emerges in derogatory jokes or blog comments, but an unknown vandal has taken…
In the early ’80s, two militant young friends from Carol City decided to join a black-power sect in Liberty City led by a preacher later called Yahweh ben Yahweh. Thirty-odd years later, the sect is scattered, Yahweh is dead — after serving time for orchestrating 14 gruesome murders — and…
Father’s Day is Sunday and you haven’t bought him anything, you ungrateful pud. Here are some items you can bid on as of Friday afternoon to thank the man who watched your mom give birth to you. They’re all within 50 miles of Miami, so you can run and pick…
Last year, she was undermined by stinging jellyfish and wicked ocean currents. This time around, it was all smooth paddling.Cynthia Aguilar, a Miami Beach lifeguard featured in our November People issue, completed a 103-mile journey from near Cuba to Key West — all on her paddleboard.”I’m still a little sore,”…
Seven people have been arrested by the Miami-Dade Police Department for running a ring of brothels in Homestead that possibly exploited human trafficking victims. 53-year-old Daysi Jaques, known around the neighborhood as “Mami,” is believed to be one of the heads of the ring and explained to neighbors that men…
Miami’s favorite backyard brawler Kimbo Slice never quite made it in the professional MMA ranks, but he could become a hit in theaters. Kevin Connolly, who plays Bro #2 (or #3 maybe) on HBO’s bro-tastic Entourage is planning on producing and directing a Slice biopic after the final season of…
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Considering Rep. David Rivera is under numerous investigations for scandals that, in the grand scheme of things, are far more serious than sending pictures of your junk to ladies on Twitter, it was a given that the Democrats would run a serious campaign against him in 2012. Now it appears…
Florida senator Marco Rubio is supposed to be the Republican party’s great Latino hope, but an upstart Latino Republican group, Somos Republicans, has just dubbed Rubio “unfriendly to Latinos.” The group claims that because of Rubio’s Cuban-American “privilege” he fails to appreciate the important immigration issues facing the Latino community…
