It’s not exactly news that fans of different sports teams hate each other’s guts, but usually those teams play in the same league. The continuing war of words between Miami DolFans and Alabama’s Crimson Tide nation is a bit absurd considering one team is professional and the other is college…
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Democratic senate rivals Rep. Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene met up for their first debate today hosted by the Palm Beach Post. Meek is the affable, but not exactly superstar, Democratic establishment pick, while Greene is a shady billionaire who plans on winning the election on the strength of his…
We might not have been very good about sustaining an MLS team, but it’s pretty evident from World Cup ratings that Miami loves fútbol. According to data from Nielsen ratings, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale TV market has by far the most interest in watching the World Cup on television — even in…
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Calle Ocho mainstay Sentir Cubano has long sold Fidel Castro toilet paper, but Fidel now has a new friend to hang out with while rotting away in a septic tank: Hugo Chávez. Yes, the store now sells toilet paper that features that oh-so-charming mug of Hugo. Dubbed “The XXI Century…
When Charlie Crist announced his candidacy for Senate, everyone kind of threw up their hands and thought, Well, guess ol’ Charlie is gonna be our next senator. But then he hugged Obama, and Marco Rubio and his brave battalion of Tea Partiers stormed his ships and threw all of his…
Are you ready to have a little piece of your soul destroyed? We warned you that a Golden Girls parody porn was in the works. Well, it’s here, and it looks kind of horrendous. As part of New Sensations’ triple-X parody lines, G=The Golden Girls: A XXX Milf Parody promises to,…
Heathrow Lounge in Miami Beach is supposed to have a classy, vaguely British atmosphere, but it’s located on Washington Avenue, so of course it still has the occasional Miami-style violence.The club was hosting some sort of Father’s Day bash (because nothing says “excellent dad” like hitting up the club. “Sorry,…
Somewhat encouraging news on the employment front: Florida’s unemployment numbers fell for the second month in a row. That’s only the second two months run of dents in the massive unemployment rate since February 2006. For May, Florida’s unemployment rate was 11.7 percent, that’s three tenths of a percent less than April. Things…
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The University of Miami is about to take its proud athletic tradition into a whole new arena: 3D simulation robot soccer. Yes, a simulated soccer team known as the “RoboCanes” will be heading to the RoboCup, aka the Robot Soccer World Cup, being held in Singapore from June 19th to the…
The Marlins seem intent on bringing currently the most dreaded part of the world’s favorite slow-paced, low-scoring sport to America’s favorite slow-paced, low-scoring sport: the blasted vuvuzela. Yes, the first 15,000 people (assuming more than that actually show up) to head to Saturday night’s game at Sun Life stadium against the…
A massive sting on Wednesday uncovered 49 hydroponic labs in Miami-Dade and put 42 people behind bars. The pot is believed to have a street value of $9.2 million. Police also found 11 grams of cocaine, 40 grams of processed marijuana, 126 Oxycontin pills, an Audi, and $9,562 in cash.The…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is picking a fight with America in the most mature way: tweets complete with derogatory slang and obscenities. Such a refined statesman, that Chávez.”The gringo government accuses us of anything and everything, but today marks five years since the extradition request of the grand terrorist Posada Carriles,…
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Basketball Wives, VH1’s Miami-set train wreck involving NBA-connected ladies, might be coming back for a second season, but one of the cast members won’t. Gloria Govan, the painfully boring and unentertainingly drama-free wife of the Orlando Magic’s Matt Barnes, will not return for her closeup, according to the Orlando Sentinel.The…
Suddenly surging Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott has so, so much money we really can’t expect him to know what he has done with it all. Though, surprisingly for a guy who has built a sizable portion of his platform on adopting Arizona’s controversial immigration laws, which some people see…
Anyone who’s ever done time in a South Beach club line already knows this: Club bouncers judge you.Lauren Rivera, an Ivy League-educated sociology researcher at the Kellogg Institute, ended up infiltrating an unnamed trendy club in Manhattan (probably the kind this guy frequents) by working as a coat-check girl. After…
Gail Posner was a member of one of Miami Beach’s richest and most notorious families, but she died quietly in March without so much as an obit in the Herald and with most of her family refusing to comment. Now a legal battle is brewing surrounding her will that has…
Police have put a stop to a massive luxury car theft ring. The elaborate scam targeted rental cars, and in an investigation yesterday police recovered more than $250,000 in stolen vehicles from an undisclosed warehouse somewhere in North Dade.”These are high-end vehicles, so they’re worth a lot of money. This…
Forbes.com has a fascinating interactive map up that uses IRS data from 2008 to show the migration of Americans on a county-to-county basis. Above is that data for Miami-Dade. Red lines represent migration patterns where more Miamians moved to a county than people from that county moved to Miami. Black…
