Move over, PETA — there’s a new publicity-hungry organization in town that isn’t afraid to shock. To protest hot dogs, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group of vegan doctors, is unveiling a billboard linking hot dogs to “butt cancer” right outside the new Marlins Stadium…
Fun is not really in the job description of being a doctor. Bal Harbour plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer found that out the hard way after facing heat by commissioning a teen-targeting music video promoting nose jobs called “Jewcan Sam, a Nose Job Love song.” Salzhauer even planned to have people submit…
There are already 35 incorporated municipalities within Miami-Dade County, and if the county commission lifts a ban on incorporating others, five new ones could pop up. Some people say a government can be held more accountable the more local it is. From our point of view, more governments just mean…
In a statement released today, new Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez identified Michael Veski as the officer under investigation for drinking a beer in a police car, and said that the officer has now been relieved of duty. Random Pixels also reports that a second officer, Eric Dominguez, has…
Two men pretending to be cops ransacked a Little Havana home this morning and tied up a woman in front of her two children. The incident occurred in the 300 block of SW 12th Avenue shortly before 11:30 a.m. …
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Looks like Star Island is losing one of its longtime celebrity residents. Comedian and talk show host Rosie O’Donnell has put her 11,000-square-foot spread on the market for a whopping $19.5 million. The real estate move comes just days after O’Donnell’s talk show on Oprah’s OWN network was cancelled…
Well, not really, but the fourth installment of the dance series Step Up takes place in Miami and centers around some of the city’s most pressing issues: over-development and gentrification. Oh yeah, shit gets serious. Might this be the most important Miami political dance film ever? The first official trailer…
Thousands are expected to show up at Bayfront Park this weekend for a planned hometown rally to remember slain 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson is organizing the rally, and Rev. Jesse Jackson and singer Chaka Kahn are scheduled to attend…
The family that grows drugs together takes mugs together.Over in Charlotte County, Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a mother, father and son after they discovered that the family was growing psychedelic mushrooms…
The racist smear campaign against Trayvon Martin has hit a stomach churning low. Gawker reports that a self proclaimed white supremacist using the internet handle “Klanklannon” has hacked into multiple email and social media accounts used by the deceased teen…
Remember when Chris Brown was accused of stealing a fan’s iPhone on South Beach? Well, the investigation is still underway, and in what is almost a non-development, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle just released a statement saying that the case is still open…
Did you know that every year moose attack more people than bears and wolves combined? Did you know that you’re apparently not supposed to go up and pet them? As Floridians we didn’t. Neither did native Miamian Chantelle Hernandez, the unwitting star of a minor viral video in which she’s…
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A new census report of American migration between 2005 and 2009 shows that, well, Americans are mostly staying put, and if they are migrating elsewhere, they’re not moving very far. Underscoring that fact is the finding that the only sizable group of Americans moving to Miami-Dade came from Broward County…
In perhaps the most important meeting of octogenarians all year, Fidel Castro and Pope Benedict XVI sat down yesterday in Havana for a brief, 30-minute tête-à-tête. During the meeting, Castro asked Benedict what exactly a pope does, while Benedict made a bit of a zinger about their old age…
Just two weeks ago, a Rasmussen poll showed Republican Connie Mack IV beating incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson by seven points, but now a new Quinnipiac poll shows an almost opposite picture. According to Q, Nelson now leads Mack by eight points in the battle of Senator Spacesnakes vs. “the…
Much has been made of the pictures of a younger Trayvon Martin released to the media by his family’s lawyers, but until now, the only image seen in the media of shooter George Zimmerman has been a years-old mug shot. ABC News has now obtained police surveillance video of Zimmerman at…
Man, Rick Scott can’t catch a break. Back in January his approval rating was 38 percent. Yeah, that’s still pathetic, but for Scott they were amazing and perhaps a sign his popularity could be improving. Well, no such luck. In the latest Quinnipiac Poll he was back down to 36…
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So what was Dwyane Wade up to during his lockout free time? Apparently penning a memoir about his experiences as a child and as a father to his children. The book, A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger than Basketball, is expected to be released in September…
Two Transportation Security Administration officers are under arrest after trashing a South Beach hotel room last night and then shooting off guns into the air. The shots first rang out at about 11:15 last night near a hotel on the 800 block of Collins Avenue…
