Muscly dudes with anger problems and over-the-top personalities duking it out in tight Lycra? Normally in Miami, that results from an argument over premium beach-blanket space on South Beach, but the county sees big money in such activities and is still trying to lure the WWE’s signature Wrestlemania event.Like the…
Chris Brown isn’t even 21 and he’s already seen his career go down the drain. That’s what happens when you let your fists do the thinking and get convicted of assaulting your now ex-girlfriend and one of the biggest recording stars in the world.Page Six reports today that Breezy is…
Twenty-two-year-old Quentin Wyche has surrendered to police for the on-campus stabbing death of Florida International University football star Kendall Berry. Wyche had spent a few days on the football team as a walk-on before being let go. He also worked in Berry’s dormitory. Reportedly, the two got into an altercation Thursday night…
12.2 percent. That was the unemployment rate in Florida for February, and the highest ever recorded. Miami-Dade’s adjusted unemployment rate sits at 11.8, up from 11.7 last month. The national rate sits at 9.7 percent.All in all the sunshine state has lost 211,500 jobs in the past year.There’s a bit…
Our old friend, Miami native and Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson, was on the Fox News show Fox & Friends today. She’s as crazy as ever, or as Gawker put it: “just a touch too crazy for Fox.”She was plugging her appearance with Sarah Palin (“my hero”) this weekend…
There’s a humpback whale in Biscayne Bay off Bear Cut, possibly in distress. The U.S. Coast Guard believe he could be caught in a rope attached to an anchor. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration biologist is on the way.CBS4 suspects it may be the same whale that was caught…
Sometimes we close our eyes real tight and imagine a city devoid of the constant nuisance known as Britto art. Then we look out at the horizon and see the sea. A shining beautiful blue thing completely devoid of the hyperkinetic bits of wrapping paper patterns and doodles that Britto…
Next Saturday, April 3, is apparently International Pillow Fight Day. To celebrate there’ll be a pillow fight flash mob at 8th and Ocean on South Beach.As South Florida Daily Blog points out, attendants are asked to show up exactly at 3 p.m. and keep their pillows hidden until then. How…
The hotel component of the Four Seasons Millennium Tower has been sold to a New York investment group for just $29.5 million according to Condo Vultures. The hotel had been previously valued at $85.5 million according to tax records. That’s a pretty steep discount.Located inside the 70-story Four Seasons Millennium…
“The gringos can’t help but spend their money. They are the easiest tourists to sell to. They never ask for discounts,” Daniel Garcia, a used book seller who hawks his inventory to tourists on the streets of Old Havana, tells Bloomberg news. He’s not the only person in Cuba hoping…
The flashy cars, the speedboats, the trendy clothes, the bling-bling. Yeah, maybe dudes in Miami are trying to compensate for something.Online love glove store Condomania sells rubbers in 76 sizes that keep you covered no matter if you’re packing a plantain or a beer can. The product has been on…
Dolphins running back Ronnie Brown’s blood alcohol level was almost twice the legal limit when he was arrested for DUI last weekend in suburban Atlanta. Now reports suggest the football player lied to police and narrowly missed a head-on collision with another vehicle. Brown was driving his 2006 black BMW home from Café…
Gloria Estefan led a march in support of Cuban dissidents yesterday and was joined by Pitbull, Willy Chirino, Natalia Jimenez, and Luis Fonsi. [AP]A Miami woman is charged with trying to drown her two kids and commit suicide in a local park: “A witness told police she saw the woman on…
Fidel Castro took some time out of his busy schedule of not dying to pen a piece for a state newspaper that said President Obama and the Democrat’s recent passage of health care reform is a “miracle.” Well, the Republican Party of Florida took time out of their busy schedule of…
Charlie Crist has been hemming and hawing about Marco Rubio’s “questionable” spending on the Republican Party of Florida’s American Express cards, saying stupid things about back waxes and “true conservatives.” So naturally, campaign finance reports show that Crist’s campaign also charged money on RPOF cards, according to The Herald/Times…
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A friend of mine who grew up in South Florida recently tweeted that even though she now lives in New York, where the preferred ass shape sort of looks like two soggy, thin English muffins attached to a broom stick, she’s totally OK with her shapely derriere because it’s the ideal look…
Nite Jewel, Tanlines, Million Young ft. Awesome New Republican, Palm Trees and Night WaveGrand Central, MiamiWednesday, March 24, 2010Better Than: Still sobbing over the fact Studio A is dead and gone …and actually a lot better than most of the shows that club put on in its final months.The Review:…
Yesterday we showed you Charlie Crist’s first television ad for his floundering bid for the US senate. It’s an attack ad against his tea bagging superstar Republican rival Marco Rubio. Well, now Rubio has produced two ads of his own, and his campaign plans to buy up the 15 seconds before…
Apparently, there were so many cats killed during last Spring’s feline murder spree that rocked Cutler Bay and Palmetto Bay that prosecutors forgot to charge the suspect, 19-year-old Tyler Weinman, with all of them. In a status hearing yesterday, prosecutors announced that they had left out two cat killings in their charges. Weinman…
An early morning crash between an SUV and a Nissan Maxima filled with five men has sent all of the Nissan’s passengers to the hospital after the car flipped. The driver and a passenger in the SUV took off on foot and have not been found. [CBS4]A house in Miami was sprayed…
We’re pretty sure the ornately logo-ed purse trend has been done with for a while. Now that we’re all “recessionistas” ladies who can still afford luxury leather goods prefer to buy expensive bags with the designer brand only noticeable to discerning eyes. Touting around a purse that cost $5000 and let’s everyone…
