We’re not going to say that bicyclists are better than everyone. We’re just going to tell you that LeBron James rode his bicycle to work yesterday and then made one of the most awesome slam dunks in NBA history by literally jumping over an opponent. We’re going to let you…
Sure, most women can thanks their enhanced bust lines for landing a man, cutting the line at a club, or getting inundated with cat calls, but only one can claim that her boob job literally saved her life.An unidentified Florida woman was stabbed in through the chest, but her saline…
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A four-month-old baby boy was on life support at Jackson Memorial Hospital this morning while his father appeared in court on charges of putting him there. Yosi Mahlab, 30 of North Miami, stands accused of beating his own son on January 21. The child lost brain activity as a result…
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez may think America is an evil imperialist empire, but his teenage daughter Rosines sure seems to love our dollar, dollar bill, y’all. The 14-year-old snapped a picture of herself posing behind a fan of United States currency and shared it on Instagram…
Portraying our first African-American president as the captain of a slave ship in a political ad probably isn’t the world’s best idea. Mark Oxner, a Republican running for Congress in the Orlando area, did just that. It’s not so much offensive, really, as it is laughably terrible…
Mitt Romney has got his groove back.Earlier this week, polls showed Newt Gingrich firmly in control of the Florida primary with a lead of as many as nine points. Then it became a virtual tie. Now two major polls show Romney is once again ahead of the former House speaker just days before…
Increasingly distant third place candidate Rick Santorum is desperately trying to jump start his campaign, so he’s come out with a bold new attack on the Obama administration: college is evil.”It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go college,” Santorum told an audience in Naples, Florida, yesterday according…
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You’ve surely heard Martin Niemöller famous quote about the German intellectual and religious communities complacency during the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany. It includes the line, “Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.”Well, Rick Scott decided to appropriate the…
The annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index is out, and Cuba continues to have the least freedom of the press in our part of the globe. No other country in the Americas even comes close to Cuba’s lowly ranking. Meanwhile, the United States fell 27 places in the rankings…
Click here to read Cultist’s interview with “Shit Miami Girls Say” co-star Michelle Sicars.Miami may pride itself as a trendy city, but we sure do take a long, long time catching up on Internet trends. Finally, more than a month after the initial “Shit Girls Say” video dropped and then…
Things aren’t getting much better for Newt Gingrich in Florida. Yesterday, three different polls showed that he’s lost his lead over Romney in the state, and now his campaign has admitted his now infamously fiery response to a South Carolina debate question about his ex-wife’s claims he wanted an open…
It’s a not a true Miami saga unless it includes a full out brawl on a Spanish language talk show, so it’s really no surprise that during a taping of Cristina Saralegui’s Telemundo show yesterday Corey Eubanks, the man who was arrested as an accomplice in the case of accused…
The Miami Herald has officially found its new home. The newspaper is moving to the former headquarters of the United States Southern Command in Doral. Publisher David Landsberg sent out a memo to staff this morning announcing the move. The Herald has sold its current headquarters, right off Biscayne Bay…
Tyler Weinman, the Palmetto Bay man who was once accused of killing several pet cats, is now suing Miami-Dade County for negligence that led to his false arrest. The case was dropped in 2010 after an expert hired by the defense found that several of the carcasses of the cats…
Not so fast, Newt.Three separate polls released in the past 24 hours and just days ahead of the Florida primary show that Mitt Romney may be one his way to retaking the lead once again. Two polls shows Romney with a slight lead of two percent (those are within the…
Tyree Lincoln Smith, a Florida man, has been arrested in Lynn Haven, Florida, for allegedly beating a Connecticut man to death with an axe and then eating his eyeball and part of his brain in a nearby cemetery.According to warrant application obtained by The Connecticut Post, Smith told his cousin…
We’ve got a new entrant for Florida’s Mom of the Year Award (Note: the award is not given to the best mother in Florida, but rather the most “Floridian” mother): Jennifer Lee Collinsworth of Crestview. She stands accused of trying to run over the father of her children with her…
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In a move that Republican presidential hopefuls will probably milk for all it’s worth as they travel in and out of Miami this week, former Cuban President Fidel Castro today called the field competing for the Republican presidential nomination, “the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.”Though,…
If you’re going to take the risk of setting up an illegal marijuana growhouse, it’s best to take just the littlest bit of caution and make sure that growhouse isn’t directly next door to a school where kids as young as kindergarteners study.Three Miami men weren’t so smart and set…
