We warned you that strippers would be coming from all across the country buring last February’s Super Bowl, and they did. What we didn’t warn you in our “Super Bowl guide to sex, drugs, gambling, and living large in South Florida” was that it is probably not the best idea…
Early yesterday morning an electronic road sign along the Palmetto Expressway was hacked to read “No Latinos. No Tacos.” Most local and national media outlets automatically jumped to the conclusion that it was a racist and offensive message. The Miami Herald called it “an anti-immigrant message.” CBS4 said it was “offensive.”…
Coral Gables has misspelled a sign identifying LeJeune Road. Which wouldn’t be so embarrassing if it wasn’t the second time they’ve done so. (Note: No, I havn’t taking a xtra joyb righting sings.)The sign on the intersection of LeJeune Road and Mendoza Avenue identifies the road as “LeJuene Road.” A…
Police have arrested a mother who is believed to have put her two-year-old daughter on a county bus and then left her. Gayle Kelson walked away while the bus driver yelled at her for forgetting her child, but she continued off the bus. The driver called police, and she was…
Florida panthers, the state animal of Florida and one of the most endangered mammals living in the United States, even by the largest estimates don’t have a population of much more than 100 individuals. This weekend three breading-age big cats were found dead in three separate car accidents, marking a…
There’s been rumors circulating for months that when the WWE brings its long running Raw program to the American Airlines Arena on June 7 they wanted to bring a big name guest hosts in tow. First there were whispers that the night could see the long-anticipated return of Dwyane “The…
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In the wake of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the interior department has been investigating that alarmingly tight ties between the oil industry and the Mineral Management Service, the federal government department that is supposed to watch over drilling. A new government report accuses inspectors af the…
Miami has hosted the Super Bowl ten times, more than any other city, and we do a pretty good job of it if we do say so ourselves. Today at the NFL owner conference the site of the 2014 Super Bowl will be determined, and along with New York and…
Remember those simpler times when the most scandalous thing about Lindsay Lohan was that she was fighting with Hillary Duff over Aaron Carter? Back before the tragic beauty of our times was involved in cocaine accusations, alcohol arrests, volatile relationships with older lady DJs, and, perhaps worst of all, I…
Gov. Charlie Crist is being sued by the Talking Heads’ David Byrne for copyright infringement, and no it’s not for rocking the same style of gentlemanly premature white hair. Crist’s campaign used the Talking Heads song “Road to Nowhere” in an attack ad against Marco Rubio without bothering to get…
Lisa Caridad Garcia turned herself in last night for hitting Doral police officer Carlos Alvarez. The accident happened around Southeast 35th Terrace near 102nd Avenue on Saturday night, when Garcia hit Alvarez’s motorcycle head on, and kept going.Garcia’s motorcycle was demolished, but luckily he survived. He’s forced to get around…
Now that Jeb Bush doesn’t have to share a party with Charlie Crist, he’s letting his true thoughts on the made who proceeded him in the governor’s chair known. Talking to the Weekly Standard, Bush doesn’t spare much.”He doesn’t have a set of guiding principles to share with people. This…
Local fans of Miami Dolphins guard Justin Smiley are about to be (pun warning) frown-y. He’s headed up I95 to the Jacksonville Jaguars. As for what the Dolphins are getting in return, no one seems to know yet. Do the Jags have anything we want anyway. Reportedly its just a…
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Visiting cougars of South Beach, worry not, the Ritz-Carlton has finally found a new tanning butler to apply various oozes and gunks to your backs.Every time the Ritz needs a new “tanning butler” they call up just about every media outlet hoping to ring every last bit of PR out…
It’s a good sign that kids today are a bit more progressive when enough students at Flanagan High in Pembroke Pines voted to place Omar Bonilla, an openly gay student who wanted to attend prom as his drag persona “Allison,” third in the results for prom queen (though, we understand…
For those of you who have been in hiding these past months for fear that you’d contract some sort of horrible disease that would turn your skin an off putting shade of orange, poof your hair, and make your fist uncontrollably pump to the sounds of bad techno music, you…
The United Methodist Church Outreach Ministry in Florida City went up in flames over the weekend, and the building was mostly destroyed. Even the church’s playground, which was built a year ago, was melted to the ground.Parishioners say that they hope to rebuild the building, and are accepting donations, but…
Imagine winning half a million dollars from a lottery scratch off game, and then imagine the lottery telling you, “whoops, sorry this is a misprint, too bad.” That’s what happened to Ann Marie Curcio of Ocala. Her Gold Rush ticket told her she had won $500,000 in 2007. She drove…
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It’s been nearly a year since Tyler Weinman was arrested and charged with a string of cat killings in the Palmetto and Cutler Bay neighborhoods. His trial isn’t even set to begin until October 25, but the Miami-Dade justice system trudges on. Weinman made an appearance in court today, during…
