Trade between the U.S. and Cuba may be reaching its nadir, but prisoner exchanges seem to be just getting started.On the day when paraplegic political prisoner Ariel Sigler Amaya arrived in Miami, a video of Fidel Castro shows the jefe supremo predicting the release of “The Cuban Five” by year’s…
The City of Miami is facing a $100 million budget hole thanks to a 15 percent drop in property values. City hall has vowed not to raise taxes, and while Commission Chairman Marc Sarnoff has talked openly about the possibility of bankruptcy, the city is trying some pretty dumb and desperate…
Not since Beelzebub was dumped from Heaven by the Big Guy himself has somebody been so deserving of losing his job as BP’s CEO Tony Hayward. The greasy executive will officially step down October 1, and his imminent departure got us thinking about other famous firings in history. Take it…
At 10:30 this morning, twenty local activists will descend on Attorney General Bill McCollum’s Miami office on Brickell Avenue bearing a letter with a simple message: Back off Arizona’s SB 1070. McCollum, the brilliant legal mind who spent six figures of your tax dollars to hire Rent Boy George Rekers to…
Today’s wrapup of the sins of South Florida is a doozy: Remains found in the Everglades have been identified as Marisol Ramon’s, and police are searching for her abusive ex-boyfriend; one person is dead after a crash on an I-95 exit ramp; a man is shot at a Metrorail station;…
In May, a tropical storm and a volcano eruption devastated Guatemala, leaving hundreds dead, and a giant sinkhole that swallowed a three-story building in the heart of the capital city. In response to the natural disasters, its government asked the United States to extend Temporary Protected Status, a special temporary…
Blackman: Overtown comic-book hero saves Miami
Miller Dawkins’s name on Miami parks and pool makes few waves
Hamid Karzai al guardaespaldas Louis Maxwell?
Get Out!: Arizona and America join Joe Arpaio in rushing to inquire: Are your papers in order?
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Miami Commissioners Marc Sarnoff and Richard Dunn hoard money at CRAs while Overtown and Omni suffer
Not to make outrageous, blanket statements like “White people in Naples are generally closed minded idiots unaware of cultures and the world at large outside of their sunny little resort town bubble,” but let’s just say after having grown up there I’m not surprised at this latest news. An oddly…
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The Miami Heat are the new evil empire, yeah, yeah, yeah. In fact, before they’ve even hit the court, the 2010-2011 Heat have been ranked the 25th most hated sports team of all time by Sports Illustrated. You can hate all you want, because this city is used to it…
There’s been a lot of leaking lately. First, it was Mel Gibson’s heavy-breathing tirade, and now something that is just a tad more relevant — WikiLeaks’ releasing thousands of pages of allegedly classified documents pertaining to the War in Afghanistan. It’s official. The leaks are gushing. It’s time to honor other seminal moments…
You guys! You guys! You guys! We’re like really, really excited right now! The Daily Beast has posted yet another inane, weird ranking of cities! Oh, my God! This time, the Beast ranked the top 20 most caffeinated cities in America! And Miami/Fort Lauderdale came in at number 13! Put your…
In today’s roundup of horrible things: a hit-and-run sends a woman flying into the air in South Beach, someone slams a car into a Hialeah McDonald’s, a toddler who went for a tumble should be fine, and there might be a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow…
When Allison Kent met her new client at the Krome Detention Center — a Haitian man she now calls Mike C. — should couldn’t believe he’d been allowed to represent himself for weeks in court. Mike C., she learned, had an IQ of 56 and bipolar disorder.Yet after two screenings, immigration prosecutors…
In the chaos that followed the attacks of September 11, 2001, David H. Brooks got rich. He transformed a small, struggling company called DHB Industries into one of the biggest body armor manufacturers in the nation, supplying American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Stock prices soared from $2 to $20.But…
Whether or not we’d actually admit to it in public, we can’t look away from the train wreck that is Jersey Shore. It’s just one of those shows we love to hate and can’t stop imitating or deriding.Everywhere we look lately, we see the Situation fist-pumping, JWoww getting into a fistfight,…
The police officers of the sleepy hamlet of Surfside usually spend their days hiding in bushes trying to trap drivers going 37 mph. But for the past year, they’ve had a real whodunit on their hands. More specifically, a who-jacked-it…
