Forbes.com has decided to rank America’s “coolest” cities (and they don’t mean by temperature) using the decidedly square methods of polling. Miami made the top ten, so we’re not exactly complaining, but somehow our Sunshine State sister Orlando came in three places higher, which just has us scratching our head…
In today’s roundup of the woes of South Florida: An airboat accident injures a young girl, another Florida panther dies thanks to careless drivers, the father who beat his son to brain-death in a “boxing lesson” will face murder charges, and our old friend Principal “Eat Shit and Die” has…
Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz was noted for his strong advocacy for bicycling, and Miami Beach has just launched its Decobike bike-sharing program. This all seems progressive and positive, but is it secretly part of a larger plot to erode our personal freedoms, undermine the American Constitution, and promote the…
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Yesterday, the Miami Herald published a story online including a sort of pompous but not really controversial quote from Heat star Dwyane Wade in which he said he accepts that people may hate the team, but other teams will be thanking them when they come to town and sell out the…
Once hailed by executives of the Tribune Co. as a television revolution and a way to turn around the fortunes of the troubled national media company, WSFL’s South Florida Today morning show aired its last episode today. In under 16 months on air the show went through multiple format changes,…
In today’s roundup of horrible things: A toddler is dead after his father tells police that a boxing lesson went bad and neglected to call 911, another toddler is recovering from a gunshot wound, a mother is charged with beating her four kids with extension cords, and another Florida panther…
Near the top of any perv’s dream wish list of celebrity sex tapes is probably one featuring Miami-born, Cuban-American hottie Eva Mendes. Well, she’s well aware of the internet’s demands, and the actress, who stars in the upcoming The Other Guys, has finally giving into the demands. She’s released a…
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Demetrius Jordan, 20, was drinking and smoking pot Saturday night before getting behind the wheel of his Chevy Impala and cruising the streets of St. Petersburg at 80 mph.Kelly McConnell, 19, on summer break from the University of Miami, was riding home from a movie with his father and two…
Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp will betray the man who helped raise the former Ft. Myers-area state rep from political obscurity to, um, political semi-obscurity by announcing he’s endorsing Marco Rubio for Senate. Kottkamp was little known before Charlie Crist chose him as his running mate in 2006. Though now that…
In today’s roundup of horrible news: A woman is arrested after being shot in the face with Botox needles and never paying, a tourist was shot in the face with a gun, and a teenage boy was shot in the head while his 1-year-old niece was shot in the foot…
Of all things Haiti needs as it rebuilds after January’s devastating earthquake are prostitutes. Yet Time reports today that post-quake Haiti has attracted a startling number of sex workers, mostly women from the neighboring Dominican Republic, who were told the number of foreign aid-workers and amount relief money coming to Haiti would equal…
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hit new levels of ego-infused insanity last month when he had the bones of South American hero Simon Bolivar dug up to prove some weird conspiracy theory, and then live tweeted about crying over the remains. Inspired by the insanity, Christopher Hitchens recalls a trip he…
Just three days after WSFL newsreader Lisa Hayward was arrested for crashing her car into a tree and booked for DUI with a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, her husband, WSVN reporter Derek Hayward, was arrested for suspicion of domestic violence after an incident involving Lisa. According…
In today’s roundup of all the horrible things that happened over the weekend: A teenage boy is killed while riding a go-cart on the street, an 18-year-old’s body is dumped on the side of a road in Hialeah, a new law bans adults from playgrounds, and five people are injured…
The ratings for last night’s Miami-set premier of Jersey Shore season two are in, and they’ve broken records. Amongst advertiser’s favorite demographics it was the most watched cable program of 2010, and the biggest MTV premier in ages. We’d pop bottles to celebrate, but sadly the unique goddess known as…
Matthew Bellamy provided some, apparently, much needed catharsis for angry Cleveland sports fans Wednesday. He showed up at a Cleveland Indians game in LeBron James Miami Heat jersey and got booed out of the stadium. Now he’s telling his side of the story, and apparently fans weren’t the only ones…
Dez Bryant was on the receiving end of Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland’s “was your mom a whore?” blunder. Trina, Miami’s greatest lady rapper, has certainly been called things a lot worse than a whore. (She is not. She is a million-dollar girl. For sure.) However, despite recent rumors, the two…
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You know Lisa Hayward? Of course not. She plays the Ann Curry part of newsreader on WSFL-TV’s fledgling, often-re-tooled morning show, which hardly anyone watches. Well, she crashed her car into a tree Wednesday night and was arrested with a blood alcohol level two times the legal limit…
