Most of us don’t make NBA money and we still manage to show up to work every day. And when we do decide to skip out, we at least have the decency to come up with an elaborate excuse. Not the Heat’s Rafer Alston. He didn’t show up to the…
The makeshift town that a band of sex offenders called home for years under the Tuttle has finally been demolished. [Herald]A mother and daughter plunged seven feet after the floor in the Marco Polo hotel and condos in Sunny Isles beach collapsed. [CBS4]The big gay Winter Party was this weekend…
Apparently, Chad Ochocinco is preparing for his stint on Dancing With the Stars by jogging naked around his home.”I was running naked. It was in the privacy of my own home. Fuckin’ noisy people filmed me,” Ochocinco tells Sports Illustrated. “Yeah, why wouldn’t I? What’s wrong with that? I take…
Rick Sanchez is the king of Twitter, obviously and hosted the site’s annual award show “The Shortys” last night at the The New York Times’ TimesCenter. While he wasn’t meeting Grover, or joking about his recent criticized coverage of the Chile earthquake (From PRNewser: “I think the reason they chose me…
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Miami-Dade outlawed pit bulls in 1989, a year before the Florida Legislature passed a law banning all breed-specific dog laws. Our ordinance was allowed to stand, but 20 years later, the legislature might make it possible for other Florida counties to place restrictions on certain breeds as long as there…
So listen. Read this with the same grain of salt you read a Michael Musto column. Or perhaps a bit more, because we don’t even know if it’s true.Anyway, after yesterday’s news that an anti-gay Republican state senator in California was charged with a DUI after leaving a gay club,…
Miami native and Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson has unsurprisingly gone full tea bagger on us. The recipient of one of our Dirty Dozen “awards” has already endorsed Rush Limbaugh for president and compared President Obama to Hitler. Now she’s joined forces with the Pasadena Tea Party for her latest ukulele…
Despite some early hype as a potential favorite, local girl Michelle Delamor was voted off American Idol last night.What’s the deal? She had pipes, and, well, some people who made it this week did not.There’s only one explanation: She sang Creed.But as we said yesterday, America is too embarrassed to…
As Kendrick Meek leaves to pursue the Senate seat, just about everyone and their ex-spouse has filed to run for his congressional seat in District 17. Candidates Yolly Roberson and Phillip J. Brutus used to be married.Now, North Miami councilman Scott Galvin has thrown his hat into the crowded ring…
Today’s chilly morning tied a record for coldest March 5th ever. The last recorded March 5th that saw Miami this frigid was during the Great Depression. [CBS4]A Miami-Dade motorcycle officer was injured in a major crash with a car in Hialeah, causing traffic delays. The officer is at the hospital…
Don’t be surprised if you see hockey star Wayne Gretzky’s son Trevor in a Hurricanes jersey some day.No, not the NHL team in Carolina, the original Miami Hurricanes. And we don’t mean the school is starting up a hockey team either, we’re talking football.Trevor Gretzky is heading into his senior…
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Even though Raul Castro remains President of Cuba in name, Newsweek reports that for all intents and purposes Fidel is “back in charge” of the communist island, putting an end to many of his brother’s flirtations with reform and modernization. Despite his convalescence far from public view, Fidel is once…
Ah, last night Florida’s hot liberal mess (who is actually, relatively not that liberal at all) Rep. Alan Grayson took on noted Conservative gaffe machine Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota on CNN’s Larry King Live. Unfortunately, for those of us who follow politics like the WWE, it did not break out…
We realize there are probably some people who play their Creed records late at night, when no one else is awake, so as not to let anyone know their deep, dark secret: that they still listen to Creed.But didn’t most of us agree to pretend that Creed, Scott Stapp, and…
The American Family Association is another one of those radically right “Christian” groups, whose website right now includes stories such as “Obama’s New Military: Gays Showering With Straights,” and “The Biblical Case for the Death Penalty.”They want Tilikum, the whale that killed a trainer at SeaWorld, dead. Why? Because the…
Electronic tracking tags say there are three great white sharks off the coast of Florida right now. Don’t worry — so far they’ve made it only as far south as Jacksonville. [JustNews]Mayor Alvarez will not receive any additional power over Jackson Health. [Herald]The week will get colder, with temps dipping into the…
“I didn’t put this together to get a pat on the back, but to show the world it can be done rather quickly, and with limited funds,” said Michael Capponi, a noteworthy South Beach promoter turned property developer told the Associated Press. After volunteering with the University of Miami’s Project…
Remember Khia? She did that “My Neck, My Back,” song, had it remixed into one of the greatest mash-ups of all time, oddly popped up on a VH1 amateur rap competition and then kind of faded into obscurity.Well, in her head the Tampa-bred rapper is still a relevant MC and…
For reasons unbeknown to us, our office copy of The Miami Herald came with two packs of NBA All Stars trading cards today! Apparently it was part of a promotion for Panini, and not an effort to lure potentially lucrative 12 year-old boy subscribers (that’s our demo, OK, they keep…
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