Breaking news from the best twitter in the land, Playboy's: the University of Miami is no longer the number one party school in the country. It is with a heavy heart that we report that the University of Texas at Austin is the new champion, thanks to its "big-time sports,...
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That condo you bought in downtown as an investment property in 2005? You might not be able to make a reasonable profit on it until sometime after 2030.Moody's Economy.com says housing prices in Miami-Dade and most other southern Florida counties won't recover until 2030. The predictions are based on Fiserv's Leading Case-Shiller...
In just a few years, DJ/producer Mark Henning has managed to rise from mere hobbyist -- juggling his fledgling musical pursuits and a full-time corporate job -- to internationally acclaimed touring artist. And it's all been by sheer virtue of his talent and uncompromising work ethic.Henning's musical development and sound...
For Romero Britto, luck and charm trump talent
As far as Latin American dictators go, Augusto Pinochet doesn't get nearly enough hate in these parts. I mean, this is what Miami does: hate Latin American dictators. Philly has cheese steaks, Orlando has theme parks, Miami has its undying hate for Latin American dictators.Oh, that's right! Pinochet was a...
On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants
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Welcome to 2010. Newsflash Fontainebleau: Where mainstream, corporate, and alternative media cameras cannot shoot Lady Gaga, citizen cameras can, and this year they'll get better and more able to easily subvert your stupid rules.Here's video of Lady Gaga in a bikini (does her cock flop out the side? Is Lady...
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Notes from a Miami dominatrix
Cuban killer Luis Posada Carriles goes on trial
Using your own two feet as your primary means of conveyance in Florida won't just get you drenched in sweat most of the year, it's also more likely to put you in the path of danger.According to Transportation for America's Pedestrian Danger Index, the top four most dangerous metropolitans in...
Sean Penn is playing "journalist" once again and has landed in Cuba, a country that routinely censors journalists, ranks near the bottom of the Press Freedom Index and has imprisoned more journalists than any other country except for China. So it makes sense the ideological actor is donning his amateur...
Tarot cards predict vampires, Ikea orgies, and a crabs pandemic for 2010
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Held November 18 at the Mutiny Hotel in Coconut Grove, Refresh Miami was tame but very tropical. The location just about upstaged last month's meeting at the Mayfair Hotel, what with the Mutiny being a grand dame of the 1980s, notorious for drug activity and crazy parties when Coconut Grove...
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Bayfront Rocks to the Occasion
You don't need fancy statistics and indices to tell you the obvious: Traffic in Miami sucks. Alas, we still have fancy statistics and indices to make it official. According to IBM's Commuter Pain Index, Miami has the third worst traffic in the nation. Additionally, the index shows these to be the...
Lithium from Bolivia could reshape Miami and the world
Miami 2009: The seven signs are in place that the End Times are nigh
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Sandwich Slingers and Zingers
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We're not sure what the editors of Vogue would think, but the Global Language Monitor has an interesting ranking of the world's top fashion hot spots. The Austin, Texas-based company used its Predictive Quantities Index to make the list, a measure that, according to GLM's website, is "a proprietary algorithm that tracks words and...
Here's the bad news: According to a new study of the 100 most populous metro areas in America by the Brookings Institution, the Miami area, including the rest of South Florida, is one of the 20 economically weakest metro areas in the country. Here's the good news: We're only 82,...
According to the Millman Index, the average total medical costs for a family of four rose 7.4% in the past year to $16,771. Miami has the heaviest costs in the entire country, with an average of $20,280. That costs includes employer contributions, deductibles, and co-pays. Americans pay about 15.2% of...
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