Today is finally the beginning of the NBA’s free-agency period, and with the Heat’s first game a little more than two weeks away, the team will have to work fast and furious to nail the roster down. We’ve already gotten news that Shane Battier and Eddy Curry will be new guys…
What real estate bust? The penthouse atop the Setai has sold for a cool $21.5 million, and the company behind the sale, Zilbert Realty Group, claims it’s the most expensive condo ever sold in Miami-Dade both by total bottom line and price per square foot. The pad boasts a seriously…
Lavont Flanders Jr., a 40-year-old former Miami Beach police officer, and 45-year-old Emerson Callum were convicted yesterday by a jury for drugging women, videotaping sex with them, and then selling those videos as pornography. The two could now face life in prison…
Daily Show reporters aren’t that used to politicians outsmarting them, so kudos to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for staying one step ahead of the political pranksters.After Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi asked Gov. Rick Scott for a cup of his urine yesterday, Bondi must have been tipped off she’d be…
Rick Perry’s ridiculous anti-gay ad has started a political whirlwind that has resulted in the outing of Tony Fabrizio, a top Republican pollster who’s currently working for Perry, and in the past has worked for Gov. Rick Scott and, interestingly, gay rights groups.The revelation, or at least accusations, that Fabrizio…
The fight against the rise of destination casinos in South Florida just got two of its biggest supporters yet. Sitting Attorney General Pam Bondi and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, both elected Republican members of the cabinet, announced their support of the No Casino campaign today.The two join a bipartisan group…
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Shatevia Rice, an 18-year-old mother who went missing on Sunday has been found alive, but says she was kidnapped by a pimp who forced her into prostitution.Rice and her 6-month-old daughter Tamia were returned home safely this morning. Rice says she was kidnapped by a pimp who goes by the…
It’s only natural for a parent to feel protective of their children, but 33-year-old Rayshell Lavone Smith of Orlando took it a bit too far. After her middle school-aged daughter got into a Facebook fight with a fellow classmate, Smith jumped into the online fray and threatened to put a…
So you’re in your friend’s passenger seat cruising down I4 when you spot some cows grazing on farmland. You ask your friend to pull over for a second so you can whip out your iPhone and take a quick snapshot of the majestic bovines. Seems innocent enough? Well, Republican state…
So despite the fact that the Miami Heat are severely hurting in the point guard and center spots, their first signing priority this season was apparently the owner’s son’s college buddy.In the first indication of the team’s signing decisions, Shane Battier has announced he’ll be playing for the Heat this…
You can bet that whoever let The Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi into increasingly unpopular Gov. Rick Scott’s press conference today is going to get a dressing down tonight. The comedian, who we’re assuming is preparing an upcoming piece on Scott for the show, asked the governor to pee in…
Good thing the Marlins are the only team in the MLB with an official barber, because newly signed Jose Reyes will have to sit down in Hugo Tandron’s chair soon. Reyes has sported shoulder length dreadlocks for the better part of his career with the Mets, but the Fish have…
Don’t question University of Florida graduate Jen Wiley’s commitment to the Florida Gators. She’s such a fan of the team that she named her kid Spurrier Urban Wiley after two of the team’s most (or really only) notable football coaches. However, now that Urban Meyer has decided to take the…
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The Confederacy of Dunces that emerged to vie for the GOP presidential primary certainly must have some could-have-been candidates rethinking their decision. After the swift, and often surreal, rises and eventual falls of Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain, the race is pretty much down to Newt Ginrich (at…
Like a whimsical Dr. Frankenstein, Miami artist Enrique Gomez De Molina created stunning sculptures made up of a mix of taxidermied parts from different animals. Problem was he was illegally importing parts from endangered species and was arrested on the charges in late November. This morning De Molina plead guilty…
With the Miami Dolphins having another odd season and former head coach Nick Saban once again headed to a BCS championship game with Alabama, you’d be forgiven for wondering what could have been if Saban didn’t sneak out of town with pants firmly on fire in 2007. Though, maybe we’re…
Thanks to the lockout, there are 16 games fewer than usual, but the NBA has finally released the schedule for its shortened, 66-game season. As everyone already knows, the Heat will open with a Christmas Day rematch against the Dallas Mavericks. The Heat’s home opener will go down two days…
If you were shopping at the Miami Beach Whole Foods on November 1, 2009, you might have been subjected to the powerful stench of a raw sewage leak. Management tried to ignore the problem and covered the smell with air freshener, but as New Times reported later that month, an unnamed…
In 2007, Antoine Walker was a key part of the Miami Heat’s championship roster. Today, he’s perhaps most notable for being the ex-fiance of Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada, last played for a D-League team and has now been sentenced to five years probation for failing to repay hundreds of…
Back in 2007, University of Florida student Andrew Meyer delivered the ultimate stun gun catch phrase when he pleaded with police, “Don’t Tase me, bro.” Four years later, another Florida 20-something, Darrel Horne, asked police to “Taser me, bro” while naked and on the run after stealing a boat. Unlike…
