Miami Hurricanes linebacker Ramon Buchanon’s arrest on felony charges in Coconut Grove last month may have put a dent on the team’s recent clean image, but the felony charges against him will be dropped assuming he completes a pre-trial diversion program. Buchanon had previously been reinstated to the team…
Haven’t heard of Barry Jenkins? You will, soon enough.The indie movie director’s latest film, Chlorophyl, opens this weekend at Miami’s very own seventh annual Borscht Film Festival. His first feature film Medicine for Melancholy was called one of the best flicks of 2009 by the New York Times. And he’s…
Lyglenson Lemorin’s life already read like a John Grisham novel with a particularly cruel ending: acquitted in court of cooked-up, Bush-era terrorism charges, the legal U.S. resident with no criminal record was deported anyway to his native, earthquake-ravaged Haiti, leaving his family behind in Miami. Now Lemorin’s tale has taken…
After a sluggish start that undoubtedly had everyone jumping through plate glass windows and setting their pants on fire, the Miami Heat managed to get their shit together to beat the Philadelphia 76ers 97-89 and take Game One of their first-round series.The 76ers proved to be a scrappy bunch, mounting…
The day is almost here. After one of the most scrutinized regular seasons afforded to any team in just about all of NBA history the Miami Heat are set to play their first play-off game with LeBron James and Chris Bosh joining Dwyane Wade in red and black tomorrow. They’ll…
While much of the world will be focusing on Cuba’s Communist Party Congress when it kicks off on the island Saturday, one group seems to care less what happens during what is being billed as a turning point for the totalitarian regime. At Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho, ground zero…
Miami-Dade politics is a complicated beast, and the recall of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez has set off a lot of dominoes. Commissioner Carlos Gimenez’s decision to resign from his county commission seat to run for mayor means it’s now up for grabs. And guess who’s running? Former City of Miami…
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Child porn is a cut-and-dry legal situation, but rare cases where an underage performer deceives otherwise legitimate producers of adult pornography by producing forged legal documents has a much more murky legal history.RK Netmedia, producers of the popular Reality Kings network of sites, finds themselves in hot legal water for…
We’ve got a theory that mayoral candidate, New Times columnist and 2 Live Crew visionary Luther Campbell is becoming something of a Miami hipster icon. For one thing he’s a New Times columnist. He’s also been hosting parties at downtown haunt Grand Central. Now he’s lent his acting skills to…
They landed silently in the pre-dawn darkness: small groups of armed men seeking to overthrow Fidel Castro and his young government. Then everything went wrong. Two days later, the mission was in flames.This Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, when 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles…
Perhaps Rick Scott’s biggest action during his first 100 days in office was the killing of Florida’s federally funded high-speed rail project. It would have revolutionized our transit system and had an effect on the economy like no other project in recent Florida history. So, you would have hoped he…
Police are searching for a man who possibly drugged and abducted a woman from the popular Mansion nightclub in South Beach in March and then drove her to a motel in Westchester to rape her. The man also stole his victim’s credit cards but was caught on video when he…
On Monday, we met Bobby Kent, former San Diego Chargers musical director, and the man who claims he’s responsible for ‘da da da da da da… CHARGE!’ However on Wednesday, Tony Fox, director of the USC Trojan Marching Band, told us that former USC student Tommy Walker came up with…
Economic reports are clear that South Florida’s third largest industry — after fabricating massive housing bubbles and churning out “I’m In Miami Bitch” t-shirts — is marijuana grow houses. One in every three homes in Kendall, in fact, is actually an empty shell full of sophisticated pot-farming equipment.*So South Florida’s…
When North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre’s wife spotted a man stealing campaign signs off their front lawn this weekend, she hopped into her car and followed him. A few blocks later, when Bernadette Pierre pulled alongside his Jeep, 65-year-old David Leven hollered racist, sexist slurs at her — apparently not…
Asking your girlfriend to marry you by hiring a plane to spell it out in the sky is so over. Nope, now you have to take your girlfriend up in a plane and have the question spelled out in giant letters on the ground. That’s the new trend. Florencia Gonzalez,…
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Poor Sorel Rockfeller. The Fontainebleau parking attendant who got bitch-slapped by a drunk 42-year-old woman has apparently lost his ability to enjoy life. TMZ has obtained Sorel’s lawsuit against Gloria James, LeBron’s mom, after she slapped him following an early-morning disagreement at the Miami Beach hotel. He’s seeking $15,000 (which,…
We’ve theorized that the main reason University of Miami hasn’t called basketball coach Frank Martin yet is because of his scandalous past at a Miami High School. Well, today an off-the-record source tells The Miami Herald that those skeletons in the closet may very well in fact be the main…
Everyone in Florida knows that Gov. Rick Scott has long opposed the state legislature-approved prescription pill database like a grumpy 2-year-old refusing to eat his vegetables. Of course, he also killed the Office of Drug Control because he thought it was a waste of money.But that didn’t stop him from…
The U, Rakontur’s documentary about the Miami Hurricanes football team in the ’80s, was the highest-rated documentary ever to air on ESPN, so it makes sense the channel is eager for some more Miami documentary magic. While plans for a sequel to The U have been put on hold, ESPNU…
