Talk about betrayal! Sen. George LeMieux says the he’ll support the Republican nominee over his old friend Charlie Crist: “I will support our Republican nominee and will continue to do everything I can both in Florida and across the country to increase the number of Republicans in the United States Senate.”A…
Florida’s senate race is already the hottest telenovela of the season. Imagine the actually open seat as a saucy and sensual young widower entertaining the advances of three men, but like every good soap opera there’s more melodramatic twists than a mountain road. Now a mysterious billionaire has emerged to try and…
Hugo Chavez just found this cool new thing on the internet called Twitter, and he’s only two years behind the rest of the world. He’s really excited about it though, even though he’s only on his second tweet, and reportedly wants the rest of Latin America’s Socialist Three Stooges, Fidel…
The trial of former Northwestern High principal Dwight Bernard for alleging covering up an on-campus statutory rape committed by a football player continues, and the Hurricanes star quarterback Jacory Harris was brought in to testify. Harris attended Northwestern and played with Antwain Easterling, the player Bernard was covering up for…
Any moment now Florida Governor Charlie Crist is expected to announce that he’s running as an independent for Senate. A crowd full of reporters and supporters have gathered at Straub Park in St. Pete, Fl to hear his announcement. We’re watching CNN where Wolf Blitzer says they’ll be covering it…
The people who were stupid enough to think a movie starring Paris Hilton could be a box office smash are still trying desperately to recover their losses in a Miami court.Hilton did something loosely resembling acting in the 2006 movie National Lampoon’s Pledge This!, a horrible little thing about sorority…
Charlie Crist is set to announce his intention to run as an independent for Florida’s open Senate seat today. Independent politicians are incredibly rare in America’s two-party system. An independent win is even rarer, though not unprecedented. So Crist’s venture isn’t completely uncharted. Here are the top five successful independent…
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Florida’s House of Representatives is pretty much closed for business today. That’s because Republicans decided to bring up a last-minute piece of pro-life legislation in the final days of the regular session. Democrats pulled a rare procedural move and have virtually shut the body down.Republicans added a measure that would…
Dr. Kirk Gastrich, a researcher at Florida International University, was out diving in the Everglades yesterday studying the ecological impact of sharks. What he got instead was a firsthand account of a different type of shark impact.A six-foot-long lemon shark attacked Gastrich and bit into his elbow as he was…
The director and cofounder of Design Miami/, Ambra Medda, has announced she’ll depart the organization in June, with a new director announced shortly thereafter. Medda launched Design Miami/ five years ago at the young age of 23. The fair, that runs during Art Basel week, has become one of the…
Earlier this month, multiple reports popped up that World Wrestling Entertainment was trying to secure Tiger Woods as a special guest host when it stages Raw at the American Airlines Arena June 7. It’s not a completely far-flung idea. Woods is apparently a fan of rasslin’, friends with some WWE superstars, and lives…
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College athletic conferences are always finding new and exciting ways to further screw with the already tortured fabric of college football. The Big Ten has been talking for so long about expanding to 12 in order to get a championship game that we’re surprised it hasn’t happened. Now it seems to have raised…
Rep. Darryl Rouson, a former crackhead and current Democrat from Tampa Bay, has successfully headed his pet bill, which would make it virtually impossible for head shops to sell bongs and other paraphernalia, through the legislature, and it’s headed to Governor Crist’s desk.The bill says head shops would have to…
Two armed robbers entered the home of several migrant workers on SW 141st Avenue at 282nd Street last night. They demanded cash and valuables, but one man decided to fight back. They subdued him and held him at gunpoint, eventually shooting him the mouth.The man’s son went inside, retrieved a…
Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland is sorry for asking Dez Bryant whether his mom was a hooker. So sorry, in fact, he released a statement to the Miami Herald (which didn’t even cover the outburst to begin with).”My job is to find out as much information as possible about a player that I’m…
Charlie Crist is rumored to make a big announcement concerning his campaign for Senate this Thursday, and while no one has 100 percent confirmed it, it’s anticipated that he’ll declare his intentions to run as an independent. That announcement will likely be made in his home town of St. Petersburg.But the…
People en Español has unleashed their annual Los 50 Más Bellos list, and for the most part is it chock full of unrestrained Latin sexiness. On the ladies’ side you got Sofia Vergara, Daisy Fuentes, Paulina Rubio, Telemundo anchor Carmen Dominicci and Thalía. On the guys’ side you’ve got newly…
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Dolphins General Manager Jeff Ireland apparently has the biggest balls ever, or the littlest amount of tact and class possible. Because normal people would not ask prospective players if their moms were whores straight to their face.Ireland and the Fins brought in former Oklahoma State wide receiver Dez Bryant for…
Last night, The Daily Show pointed out that even Tom Tancredo, one of the most zealous anti-immigration politicians and the man who called Miami a “third-world” country, didn’t approve of Arizona’s harsh new immigration laws. Now two of Florida’s own uber-conservatives, who happen to be the front-runners for the top…
