Certain corners of the South Florida economy depend on a steady supply of new fake breasts, but spending on plastic surgery dropped 20 percent last year.America shelled out only $10.5 million on nips and tucks in 2009, down from $13.2 million in 2007. The number of actual surgeries performed dropped 30 percent in…
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Finally, the Miami Hurricanes have actually benefited from some recruiting drama. Five-star recruit Latwan Anderson has decided to switch his commitment to the team. Ranked the 15th best player in his class by Rivals.com, the defensive back originally committed to West Virginia but never inked with the team on National…
Public Policy Polling is back today with its full-fledged Florida Senate general election polling, and it’s more or less bad news for Charlie Crist.Yesterday it was announced PPP’s new numbers show Crist losing the Republican primary by a whopping 32 points. In fact, as the numbers stand now, there’s no conceivable way…
Our favorite reality show that we loved to hate, Miami Social, didn’t do so well in the ratings. So it seemed it wouldn’t get a second season.But industry bible the the Hollywood Reporter says Bravo is adding a fifth franchise to the Real Housewives series. No, not in Miami, but in Beverly Hills. But…
Oh, man, we kind of feel bad for making light of Rafer Alston’s mysterious disappearence from the Heat. According to ESPN, Alston says his decision had little to do with losing his spot in the starting lineup and more to do with the attempted suicide of his twin sister.”I’ve never…
Charlie Crist’s flippant suggestion that Marco Rubio got his back waxed on Republican donors’ money was certainly an ill-advised attempt at humor, but the conservative conspiracy theorists and fervent Rubio supporters at RedState.com wonder if the remark was somehow gay baiting or racist.Writes Erick Erickson:I don’t know if he was trying to…
With the announcement of a second season of Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami came news that Kourtney’s boyfriend and baby daddy, Scott Disick, would open a combination restaurant/lounge/club. Well, the club in question has actually been open for months — it’s Mia at Biscayne.He’s taken on a role in VIP/nightlife…
The Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce is set to open a visitor center in South Beach as it moves its headquarters to the old city hall. The group has leased the space from the city and plans to open the center April 1. The fact that the group…
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Charlie Crist can talk about back waxing all he wants, but the polling situation he finds himself in is a hairy one.According to a new poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-aligned pollster, Crist now trails Marco Rubio in the Senate Republican primary by an astounding 32 points, with 60…
Perhaps the real breakout film of this year’s Oscars was The Cove, the documentary that stars Coconut Grove resident and former Miami Seaquarium trainer Ric O’Barry’s quest to shut down dolphin killing in Japan.Now the film is being turned into an Animal Planet TV series set to air this fall.The…
Hugo Chávez is a dictator! Come and put us behind bars, Sean Penn!You know a favorite pastime of dictators? Imprisoning journalists. So it’s a little strange and totally stupid that self-important actor Sean Penn is defending his friend Chávez, president of Venezuela and a known dictator, by suggesting that any…
José “Pepe” Fanjul might be sly when it comes to sugar, but he apparently isn’t so smart when someone tries to steal his sweets. Fanjul, co-owner of sugar corporation Florida Crystals, and his wife Emilia were visiting Los Angeles to attend the Oscars when they were robbed.While staying at the Beverly…
Charlie Crist went on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show to talk about the allegations brought up in yesterday’s negative front-page New York Times story about his controversial deal that might or might not “save the Everglades.”We didn’t learn much from the interview, other than that Crist dropped religious allusions a…
Something very strange happened at this year’s Oscars: People actually paid attention to the award for Best Documentary Short. That’s thanks to “Lady Kanye” Elinor Burkett, who bizarrely interrupted the speech of director Roger Ross Williams, who was accepting an award for their film Music by Prudence.The two had a…
Amid Miami’s budget woes, the city has let go budget director Michael Boudreaux. [Herald]St. Joseph’s, a Catholic school in Miami Beach, has closed after 50 years, and the parents of the 136 students are not pleased. [NBCMiami]Get ready for China to be the new world superpower, because local tourism officials…
Some of us judge Ultra Music Festival by the, how should we say, “chemical experiences,” yet others of us have the novel idea of actually judging it by the music. This is supposed to be America’s premier electronic and dance music festival, ain’t it? This year’s fest has all your…
Poor Charlie Crist. The man who actively encouraged him to run for Senate in the first place, Sen. John Cornyn, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is now painting Crist’s role in the election as that of a political sacrificial pawn.Cornyn said he only recruited Crist for purely selfish…
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Rumor has it the Jaguars think their attendance problems will be solved if they draft local boy Tim Tebow. Maybe it’s not exactly a bad strategy to get a locally-raised player who was a star at a nearby college.Despite the fact that South Florida is a major talent pipeline, and…
Well, our hopes for a sequel to The Birdcage just got dampened. That’s because a new bill that increases tax incentives to lure television and movie production to Florida would deny those tax breaks to films that feature gay characters. And unlike the ultraconservative Republican politician in The Birdcage, it…
