Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade will soon have a new place to call home. According to The Wall Street Journal Wade recently paid $10.65 million dollars for an expansive 6 bedroom mansion on La Gorce Island in Miami Beach. The Mediterranean-style house has more than 13,000 sq. ft. of living…
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Hey, looks like Rod Smith will finally win an election. The failed candidate for Governor in 2006 and Lt. Governor in 2010 is all be guaranteed to be the next chair of the Florida Democratic Party. Supposedly Smith’s record of astounding personal failure in statewide races and wishy-washy moderate political…
The Miami Heat travels to Cleveland tonight for LeBron James’s first appearance at the Q as a member of the visiting squad. As if the story line didn’t already make for one of the most dramatic and emotional regular-season matchups in NBA history, Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has added fuel…
This might be the first you’ve heard of it, but apparently LeBron James used to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers. And over the summer, after his seven-year contract with the Cavaliers expired, he decided to go play for the Miami Heat with his good friends Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.The…
The fact that Miami is America’s second most Jewish city really isn’t much of a surprise. The fact that the Daily Beast decided to rank America’s city by Jewishness is, well, actually not a surprise either as much as it is kind of weird. But the Daily Beast loves creating rankings…
The floor of the United States House of Representatives will remain a boring chapeau-free waste land. Representative-elect Frederica Wilson will give up on her erstwhile fight to get Speaker-elect John Boehner to end a ban on hats while the body is in session…
This mug shot tells only half the story, but it tells it clearly: Sterling Roderick Wilde, a 26-year-old Atlanta tourist allegedly found sleeping in a South Beach hotel hallway, tangled with the wrong lady cop…
Liberty City stalwart stalls big developers
Downtown Miami’s no-panhandling zone displaces homeless
Miami Science Museum’s asbestos scare
FAIRY-y tales: The immigration saga continues
After escaping major damage from the BP oil spill this year, the people of Florida should breath a sigh of relief that the Obama administration announced today that offshore drilling will be banned in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the Atlantic coast of Florida for at least the next seven year…
For once Jeb Bush is saying something liberals want to hear. He thinks that Barack Obama could easily be reelected in 2012, and says that the 2010 midterm election wasn’t so much a vote of confidence in the Republican party as it was an expression of people basically being pissed…
Breaking news: Nothing happened in a meeting between University of Miami Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt and ESPN Monday Night Football analysts Jon Gruden this morning.The Miami Herald is reporting that The U will not be making any head coaching announcements today, even though ESPN and twitter and SI.com and that…
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Douche respects douche. So it’s really no surprise that Donald Trump, of all people, really wants the University of Miami to hire Mike Leach, of all coaches. The Donald, or perhaps some sentient being living deep in the recesses of his hair, ripped out a page from The Palm Beach…
Well, with Rick Scott set to take the Governor’s chair and Republicans with super-majorities in both houses of the legislature, it was only a matter of time before the Florida GOP got cracking on delivering Arizona-style immigration laws in the sunshine state. Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, fired…
The Miami Museum of Science is open once again after closing for a week to remove asbestos uncovered by a New Times investigation.The museum is back up and running just in time for a party tomorrow night to celebrate Art Basel and the unveiling of plans for a new science…
Hurricanes fans are caught up in the midst of Gruden-mania right now (AD Kirby Hocutt is reportedly set to meet with Jon Gruden today in Tampa), but the other side of the puzzle resulting from Miami’s newly vacant head coaching position is where former coach Randy Shannon will land. Well,…
You’d never guess it by the numbers retail stores pulled in over the busiest shopping weekend of the year, but the National unemployment rate is 9.6 percent. And by month’s end, close to 2 million will have lost their extended unemployment benefits, according MSNBC.com. In Florida, 100,000 residents are expected to…
The Sun-Sentinel was one of the first to report that former Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden may be the man to take the newly opened job with the University of Miami Hurricanes, which, as our Broward brothers in blogdom pointed out, seemed slightly embarrassing as Gruden quickly issued a statement that…
