Northerners like to rag on Miamians when we complain about our cold, dropping comment like “You don’t even know what cold is.” Which is exactly the point. We don’t know what cold is! It confuses us, and we are not at all prepared to responsibly deal with it. Many of…
While Frederica Wilson is up in D.C. preparing to be sworn into the U.S. Congress, her seat in the Florida Senate sits empty. Yesterday, outgoing Governor Charlie Crist announced that the primary election to replace Wilson will take place on February 8, while the general election will be March 1st,…
Al Golden isn’t the only coach from Temple making the move to Miami. According to several reports out of the Philadelphia media, it seems that his defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio is likely to join him. Going solely by this year’s ranking, D’Onofrio is a pretty good choice. The Miami Hurricanes…
The resurgent Fidel Castro — riding a new high as the world’s foremost peddler of Bilderberg conspiracies — has lately been helping his island nation lurch toward the Information Age. Last year, we wrote about Cuba’s answer to Craigslist, Revolico.cu, where jerry-rigged ’50s Buicks are hot sellers.Now, Castro’s regime has…
So the state of Florida has pardoned Doors frontman Jim Morrison. That may be a good thing for artistic freedom and all, but I still want my money back. I was a kid living in Westchester when my friend’s parents took the neighborhood gang to see our favorite band at…
Inside Miami Beach City Hall early this month, two fully grown men — highly paid public servants — had a staring contest. “Liar,” seethed Emanuel Mayer, an assistant to the city manager. “Stop calling me a liar,” said Charles Carreño, director of capital improvement projects, “or I’ll come over there…
Nevin Shapiro reclines on a deck chair, pulls his plush bathrobe tight, chews a cigar, and grins. All around him on the wooden deck, hundreds of drunken revelers shout, dance, and ratchet up the sexual tension. They’re framed by downtown Miami’s silhouette, which glitters atop the black depths of Biscayne…
This past December 3, in the early evening, a man in an unkempt, dirt-stained Santa Claus suit with a ratty fake white beard twirled a placard that read: KB’s Christmas trees. 34 years. Don’t be fooled by impostors! He was on the sidewalk in front of a candy cane-colored tent…
Fisher Island, the status-obsessed millionaire’s hamlet just south of Miami Beach, can’t seem to shake itself of masturbation-related litigation. Last year, condo-owner Raul Quintana sued porno giant BangBros.com after he was deceived, he claimed, into hosting a golf-themed skin flick in his $3 million apartment. Now Jose Canizales, a former…
Anastasio Hernandez Rojas screamed in agony as U.S. border agents rained blows on him and delivered 50,000 volts of electricity to his body over and over. “No! No! Ayuda!” the 42-year-old Mexican wailed, pleading for help in Spanish. “Ayudenme [help me]!” It was late in the evening of May 28,…
Following the biggest scandal involving a trip since that Linda woman was involved in the Lewinsky affair, the Jets announced that they had fined and suspended strength training coach Sal Alosi. Though, they said their was no formal instruction to create a “human wall” of sorts against the sideline. Well,…
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We don’t know about you, but Riptide is still fishing soda cans out of Lincoln Road trash bins to scrounge up enough pocket change to pay rent. But apparently the Great Recessiongeddon really is over for some folks in the 305.Case in point: A cozy little pad on Indian Creek…
There’s already at least one online moment hoping to draft Marco Rubio to run for President in 2012. Those supporters might not be completely insane. An analysis by former ABC News journalist and media professional Brad Phillips rates Rubio the best communicator of all potential Republican candidates. He got an…
Back in September we showed you Eric Fischer’s amazing maps of American cities, including Miami, that highlight racial segregation based on 2000 census data. Well, The New York Times seems to have been either inspired, or just straight up in a rip-off mode, and has produced a similar interactive map…
Back in the ’90s, Jeff Farmer was a regular in the pro-wrestling world portraying the evil-minded impostor of popular superstar Sting. Yes, wrestling really is like soap operas for men, and this was basically an evil-twin storyline. His gimmick was basically that he tricked fans and fellow wrestlers into thinking…
Jets strength training coach Sal Alosi has already been fined and suspended for the trip seen ’round the world. Though, it’s likely he’ll never be able to totally live it down completely. While sports blogs, ESPN talking heads, and, of course, Channing Crowder have already ripped into the guy, last…
It’s been eight months since we dived headlong into hip-hop megaproducer Scott Storch’s life and came up with this feature, but one thing continues to haunt us: The persistent misinformation that Storch was born in Canada. Even the Associated Press insists that it is so. It is not. Storch was…
First there was the human stew discovered in a bucket behind the Egg and U diner in Fort Lauderdale. Then there was the head found in another bucket a few days later in Dania Beach and the male torso spotted inside a storage container near the Country Club of Miami.Now…
Former Arkansas Governor turned Fox News host (and now Florida resident) Mike Huckabee says he won’t run for President in 2012. Well, he won’t if former Florida Governor Jeb Bush decides to run. Huckebee came out of national obscurity to place second in the 2008 Republican Primary, and is widely…
Ciara Lee, 24, and her two-year-old son were the victims of an all-out assault by high-powered rifle. Police say their home in the Victory Homes housing project in Model City was riddled with bullets shortly after 1 a.m. Lee had worked as a corrections officer at the South Florida Reception…
There are certain things that studies and data analysis don’t really need to tell us, like, for example, that the commute-time traffic in Miami is pretty horrible. Yet, whenever these scientist or mathematicians or data-obsessed journalists tell us something we already know, and perhaps rank it, we feel validated. “See,…
