Sure, there’s book smarts and then there’s street smarts, but the streets in South Florida have never been too bright. A road sign painted on Pine Island Road in Lauderhill has been misspelled as “SCOHOL.” It shouldn’t surprise anyone that this is a fairly regular occurrence in South Florida…
Alligator Alley may be one of the country’s most boring drives, unless, of course, you happen to be joy riding in a stolen BMW while drunk. That’s what Miami resident Richard Jouel Abraham allegedly did yesterday, but now he’s sitting in the slammer…
At the heart of the Occupy Wall Street movement is disgust over the well-documented increase of income inequality in America over the past few decades and the slow disappearance of a robust middle class. While New York City is certainly an apt place for the center of those protests, Miami…
Not since “Paula Deen Riding Things” has a scene in Miami taken the Internet by meme storm. After defeating the Dolphins in his first NFL career start last weekend, Tim Tebow got down on one knee, clenched a fist, and proceeded to take a quick prayer break while the rest…
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There’s something rotten in Dolphinville. With the team trudging along winless, fans resorting to a “Suck for Luck” mindset, and a soon-to-be-fired Tony Sparano putting his house on the market, players on the team are understandably frustrated and lashing out like angry kids during a long car ride. Earlier this…
Yesterday it seemed that Rina was poised to reach category three strength winds with an eventual turn near South Florida. Today, Rina has dissipated back to tropical storm status and is now projected come no where near us. Jeez, Rina, what a loser…
Claude Dray, a billionaire French art collector and real estate investor, was found dead in his home in a Paris suburb Tuesday. Investigators believe the murder might have been a professional hit. Dray bought South Beach’s historic National Hotel in 2007 and also was involved in other real estate investments…
So far the Republican primary to decide who gets to take on incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012 has been a big, wet, cold heap of “ain’t nobody care.” Neither George LeMieux nor Adam Hasner have caught on with GOP voters, and pretty much every poll has shown that most…
Florida has apparently stopped gorging itself on pizza man Herman Cain, and ol’ reliably boring Mitt Romney has taken a giant lead in the latest poll conducted by Time and CNN. Romney leads the pack with 30 percent, while Cain is now a distant second with 12 percent. Compare that…
Terry Jones, the press hungry pastor of a tiny Gainesville church that damn near caused an international incident by promising to host “Burn a Koran” day, has decided he’s going to run for president. Because that’s exactly what we need: more wackos people running for president! In his press release…
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A strange string of robberies stared occurring earlier this month in two North Miami-Dade cities. On October 5, a female mail carrier was beaten and robbed in Miami Gardens. A similar incident occurred involving another female mail carrier in North Miami on the 14th, and on the 17th yet another…
Slowly moving but quickly strengthening Hurricane Rina is expected to become a Category 3 storm sometime within the next 24 hours as it trudges toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. However, the five-day projections have the storm taking a hard right turn later this week, and Miami is now within its possible…
An intense scene broke out last night at Northwest 62nd Street and 19th Avenue near Liberty City as a SWAT team was called in to negotiate with ten armed suspects who had barricaded themselves in a house. Two young children were also involved in the incident…
Sometimes we wonder how far this Suck for Luck business will go. Join us in our imagination: It’s January 1, and the Jets are visiting Sun Life for the last game of the year. The Fins are 0-16. There’s less than a minute left on the clock, and the Indianapolis…
Florida Family Association, one of these “morality” groups that’s pretty much a soap box for some guy named David Canton, has decided to call for a boycott of Target because *gasp* they don’t think gay teens should kill themselves. See, Target is one of the main advertisers on TeenNick show…
There’s some sort of collection of men purporting to be a football team who still suit up every Sunday in the Dolphin’s traditional aqua and orange and attempt to play something vaguely resembling pro football. It’s almost cute how they’re still pretending to even compete. In their latest move they’ve…
In Florida we’re used to things like whales, cocaine and various human body parts washing up on our beaches, but sun seekers on Siesta Key were in for something of a surprise this morning when they discovered an eight-foot-tall Lego man had mysteriously wound up sitting in the sand…
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After passing four different bills last year placing restrictions on abortion, is the Republican dominated Florida legislature ready to totally ban abortion in Florida? House Republican Charles Van Zant hopes so. He’s once again introducing his “Florida for Life” bill that would almost completely outlaw abortion in the state and…
Quickly developing Hurricane Rina has now achieved Category 2-strength winds less than a day after becoming a hurricane, and there’s no sign she’s about to slow down. Forecasters now expect the storm to make a hard right turn, with the Florida Keys in its possible path…
