Porn parodies of sitcoms — sitcums, we suppose — are the hottest XXX trend since breast implants, but there’re only so many laughers primed for sexy satire. God help us before parodies of Yes, Dear and Mr. Belvedere are unleashed. So, Sensuous Diamond Productions, a newly launched, Miami-based porn label, is…
Guenther Floerchinger, a 78-year-old man, is alleged to have shot his 21-year-old wife before setting his Port St. Lucie home on fire and then killing himself. Floerchinger made two phone calls before his suicide — one asking a neighbor to take his wife’s 4-year-old daughter from the home, and the…
Florida’s two best Division I FBS teams outside the big six conferences (or what’s left of them — sorry, USF) entered FIU Stadium undefeated this past Saturday. Only one left with a perfect record. The Golden Panthers engineered a mild 17-10 upset over UCF and remained hot after last week’s huge road…
For 15 years, Sanford and Dolores Ziff were perhaps Miami’s top philanthropic power couple. Their name is prominently enshrined on the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, but Dolores died at the age of 85 this past January. Now Sanford…
In the architecture world, apparently you aren’t anyone until you’ve designed a parking garage in Miami Beach. Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, and Arquitectonica have all designed structures to house visitors’ vehicles. Now the city has announced it has commissioned another star architect, Zaha Hadid, to design its next…
Joe McGinniss’ The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin doesn’t hit shelves until Tuesday, but review copies have gone out to various publications and more information about her alleged hook up with former Miami Heat star Glen Rice way back in the ’80s are creeping out. Mother Jones’ review…
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A three-judge panel from Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal has upheld the right of Florida’s fathers to slap their teenage daughters on the ass without fear of facing domestic violence charges. The ruling overturned an earlier judgement from a Tallahassee judge, who granted a domestic violence injunction against a…
Unless you’re an Owl or an Ibis, you’re probably pretty happy with your Division I FBS Florida football team right now. UF, FSU, USF, FIU and UCF all enter week three with a 2-0 record, and all but one has big game this weekend.Sure, you might be revved up as…
According to Men’s Health, the Miamians are dumber than the average person who actually reads Men’s Health. The magazine took time out of doing crunches and crunched some numbers on the education levels of citizens in the 100 biggest cities in America. Miami came in dead last…
Though the unemployment rate at both the national and state levels remains stagnant or sagging, the job market in Miami-Dade continues to make gains. From August 2010 to last month, 13,900 jobs were added in Miami-Dade. However, our seasonally adjusted unemployment rate still sits at 12.2, down slightly from from 13.0 in…
Well, you can’t Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has never done anything nice for fans: he’s taken the costly and unusual step of ordering the team to buy out the remaining stock of unsold tickets to ensure that Sundays game against the Houston Texans isn’t blacked out on local television…
Giant African land snails have invaded Miami-Dade county, according to the state Department of Agriculture. The snails are one of the largest species in the world and have nasty habits like eating almost any type of plant in their path, causing destruction to homes, and making humans sick. To make…
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The Tea Party has a new superstar: the Miami Herald’s Dolphins reporter Armando Salguero!Yesterday Salguero made a stir by sending out a newsroom-wide email slamming the paper for choosing to run a blog post about allegations that Sarah Palin hooked up with former Miami Heat star Glen Rice while he was a…
Yesterday, Wells Fargo laid off 258 employees at a call center in Doral. But fear not, former Wells Fargo workers! Today, Wells Fargo released a report saying South Florida will help lead the state in job growth over the next year. Just apparently not the call-center jobs at Wells Fargo…
Terry Lynn Kimbell, 50, of Pinellas County, was in a classic conundrum Tuesday evening: He was drunk and wanted Taco Bell. But by that time of night, Taco Bell was serving its hot, meaty fast food only through the drive-thru, so he decided to walk through it. When employees refused to serve…
As Biannela Susana’s 2-year-old son was lying on the floor unconscious after being badly beaten by his 12-year-old half-brother, Susana was more interested in news about David and Victoria Beckham’s sons than in the serious situation involving her sons. Investigators say Susana waited four hours to look up information about…
The way we snort now: with less frequency and with less potent cocaine. The Miami Herald crunched the numbers (which aren’t exactly anything new) and found cocaine use has declined in South Florida. That doesn’t mean the War on Drugs has actually worked. Of course not. We’re just doing cheaper…
Get ready for the idea of giant sail-looking buildings staring at you from Biscayne Bay, and perhaps more important, prepare for the idea of a casino in downtown Miami. Genting has revealed its plans for the giant resort complex it wants to plop onto the current site of the Miami…
Florida’s Republican legislature and Gov. Rick Scott passed and signed so many controversial bills into law this year that it’s hard to keep track.Earlier this year, Scott signed into law an NRA-backed bill that for some reason prohibits doctors from asking patients about gun ownership. (So much for the Republican…
Just weeks after North Miami Police fatally shot an autistic man playing with a toy gun, officers from another South Florida police force are in hot water for using violence against a mentally disadvantaged man. NBC Miami reports that Saturday night, a Miami-Dade Police officer slammed a man with Down syndrome…
