We in Miami like a really, really big show. As every professional sports endeavor in the city knows, if your event bores us even slightly, we have a tendency to do something else with our time. So we’re sure some Sony Ericsson Open ticket holders have their fingers crossed for a…
New Times decided to actually show a little restraint on one of our recent covers, and its ended up getting our models in trouble.Two weeks ago, both Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach ran a cover story about players for the Lingerie Football League’s Miami Caliente team. Now…
Charlie Crist keeps free-falling in the Republican Senate primary, but he’s not going down without a fight. He has a sizable war chest, and the campaign’s first attack ad against Marco Rubio is set to air with a “sizable buy” of air time. If you can’t wait to see it…
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Some of us see faith as a very personal matter. Others of us want to shout our faith from the rooftop. Tim Tebow, he of the Bible-passage eye black and religious right commercials, definitely falls into the latter category.Tebow is participating in the NFL scouting combine, and players are given…
Browsing the weekly listing of film permits issued in Miami-Dade sometimes yields interesting results. For instance, Vogue will apparently shoot photos in Haulover Park. Yes, that’s home of the nude beach.It also seems the Miami-set fifth season of Oxygen’s reality train wreck Bad Girls Club has begun filming. The permit is for filming on North…
Brickell, the so-called Manhattan of the South, was supposed to be Miami’s next hot spot. Developers fully bought into the idea, and for a while it seemed a new luxury condo high-rise was breaking ground every other month. Then, whoops, the housing bubble burst, the recession hit, and many of those condo…
Gail Posner, one of the four children of the infamous late businessman Victor Posner, passed away last week at the age of 67. She was reportedly battling cancer. However, for a member of one of Miami Beach’s most wealthy and notorious families, her obituary was never submitted to the Herald.Though bold-faced…
Corey Poitier, the lone Republican in the race to replace Congressman Kendrick Meek in District 17, has a message for President Barack Obama: “Listen up, Buckwheat.” Poitier, a teacher at North Miami Beach Senior High who is also African-American, made the comments at a Broward County Republicans meeting while giving…
An 11-year-old boy at Norland Elementary School has been charged with sexual assault after he had two friends lock a special needs student in a bathroom and forced the girl to perform oral sex on him. [WSVN]The wife of the man who was zapped with a stun gun after going…
Gloria Estefan, perhaps the most famous Cuban exhile, announced today she will lead a march in support of Cuban protesters in Little Havana.The Ladies in White, or Damas de Blanco, are the wives and relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents. They marched on the Capitol last Wednesday to protest the seventh anniversary of…
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Oh, Mary J. Blige, how we believed you when you told us you were “So tired. Tired of all this drama.” But now sources are telling the New York Daily News that you brought your drama A game to this past weekend’s Jazz in the Gardens festival at Sun Life Stadium,…
The Kardashian sisters aren’t exactly known for being paparazzi-shy, but an incident with a photog yesterday on Miami Beach led to the police visiting Kim Kardashian’s hotel room, TMZ reports.Kim and sister Kourtney were getting out of their car when a photographer claims he got a bit too close and…
As the former president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, ex-mayor of Miami Manny Diaz was able to squeeze himself into national issues in a way few of his predecessors did. Now that he’s out of office, he’s taken on the role of vice chairman of the Alliance for Digital…
A bill that defines sexting as its own distinct crime is gliding through the Florida House. While the bill would shield horny teens from harsher child pornography laws, repeat offenders could wind up in jail for up to five years. The bill defines sexting as the use of “a computer or…
Kendrick Meek wants $238 million for earmarks that would go toward things such as teaching children healthful eating habits and dredging the Miami harbor. [Herald]An ex-Marco Rubio aide who made $175,000 a year put hefty expenses on a GOP credit card, including luxury hotels and handmade chairs. [Herald]A former X Games…
There’s a band named Radiohead, a band named Horse the Band, another band named Band of Horses, and now there’s a horse named Radiohead, after the band. Got it?Radiohead, like his musical namesake, is from England. A 3-year-old chestnut colt whose trainer says he’s a “cool, happy, curious horse” who’s…
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Marco Rubio’s stunning gains against Charlie Crist in the Republican Senate primary largely stems from the Tea Party movement, whose main focus over the past year has been to defeat the Democrat’s health-care reform efforts. Well, it passed yesterday, so what’s a politician like Rubio to do? Well, he’s starting…
Two men have been arrested in connection with a large South Florida shoplifting scheme, possibly putting an end to a streak that spanned three counties. Hector Collazo and Carlos Ramirez Martinez were caught after allegedly putting their sticky fingers to action in multiple stores at Aventura Mall this past weekend. Boca Raton…
We’ve had a hard time figuring out where presumptive gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink lies on the Democratic Party’s spectrum.Is she a dyed-in-the-wool, bleeding-heart liberal? Eh, probably not.Is she a staunch Blue Dog? Doesn’t quite seem like it.Is she, like so many Florida politicians, a cautious moderate whose vaguely expressed public…
