The hottest trend in Hollywood is dating lesbian DJs. Lindsay Lohan had Samantha Ronson. Australian pop singer Sia has coupled up with JD Samson of Le Tigre. So it was only a matter of time before Fort Lauderdale-based DJ Tracy Young got a semifamous girlfriend of her own.According to US Weekly,…
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We’re going to be shamelessly celebrity-gossipy here for a second if that’s all right with you. We’ll get back to dissecting whatever it is Marco Rubio has gone and done or whatnot in a second. But first, can we talk about Jude Law’s very important love-child summit?So the once-verging-on-A-list actor…
We’ve known this since January, but E! has made it official: The two slightly less famous Kardashian sisters will return for a second season of Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami.Of course, because the personal lives of the Kardashians seem to be all-consuming whether you read the tabloids or not, you probably…
Despite its name, The Daily Beast is not a per diem review of large, threatening wild life. Well, usually anyway.Even after parting ways with Gerald Posner, Tina Brown’s internet concern hasn’t kept its eyes off South Florida. This week they sent former Newsweek senior reporter Catharine Skipp into the everglades with Capt…
Our longstanding love-hate relationship with former WSVN turned CNN anchor Rick Sanchez continues, and as it does more often than not, it’s veering more toward hate at the moment.This weekend he got a chance to break out of his Twitter-addicted regular show on CNN, to host some of the network’s…
Two important things happened on the NBC television network this weekend. The Winter Olympics finally ended and Jennifer Lopez, who has been busy raising her twins, buying an apartment in Miami, and letting her husband buy a stake in the Dolphins, finally got back to the important work of being…
Metro West Detention center held an America Idol-style talent show for inmates: “Second place went to Cortez Atkins, 32, for his rap about treating women well. Atkins is awaiting trial on drug, alcohol and domestic-violence charges.” [NBCMiami]A gunmen opened fire on a Liberty City BBQ this weekend, and injured two…
For years Miami-born novelist Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta mystery novels have been burning up the best sellers lists, but the effort to get them to the box office has been a long one. After attempts to get Jodie Foster and Demi Moore to star in adaptations in the ’90s, the…
After first being reported by former New Times scribe Isaiah Thomas in 2007, the group of sex offenders who were forced to take up residence under the Julia Tuttle Causeway caused controversy and left a black eye on the city of Miami.Now, the Miami Herald reports that the makeshift camp…
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Just days after a veteran trainer was killed after being attacked by an orca at SeaWorld Orlando, president and general manager Jim Atchison says that the park’s marquee Shamu show will resume tomorrow. Atchison made his statement speaking in front of a tank filled with whales.Trainers at the three locations…
Phrases like “bleeding heart liberal” and “conservative ideologue” get thrown around in political discussions like slurs, but the National Journal’s annual congressional vote rankings actually show you how liberal and conservative each congressman and senator is.The 2009 rankings are in, and there are a few surprising results from Florida.First off, “hot…
With Gov. Charlie Crist trailing Marco Rubio by 18 points in the latest poll of likely Republican primary voters, the biggest question in Florida politics is whether or not he’ll ditch the GOP in his bid for the Senate.Well, two anonymous sources close to Crist tell the Sun-Sentinel’s Jack Furnari…
We don’t know about you, but whenever Riptide dreams of robbing a bakery, it’s usually for the baked goods.”Okay, put all the muffins and raisin bread in the bag and nobody gets hurt. This bad boy’s breaking his no-carb diet tonight.”Not that we’d ever actually rob a bakery. Unfortunately Vicky Bakery…
An 81 year-old Miami Lakes woman who used a wheelchair couldn’t get out of her house when it caught fire and was burned alive early this morning. [WSVN]Thinking now is a great time to bring up Killer Whales, the Miami Seaquarium says that their orca, Lolita, is doing just dandy…
Cesar Carasa, the ex-Mayor of West Miami, was suspended by Governor Charlie Crist in December after racking up a $70,000 cell phone bill on his city-issued phone.Besides the fact that works out to about $11 per West Miami resident, he racked up a good deal of the minutes chatting with…
A baker’s dozen of your favorite Florida Mayors will literally be thrown out of an airplane for what could be the most extreme political stunt ever.Of course the mayors will have parachutes and will jump with the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team at the Homestead Air Reserve Base. Once they…
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Sen. Frederica Wilson has put on her anti-FCAT hat today and proposed a bill that would make schools with large populations of Haitian students exempt from many FCAT standards this year.Wilson believes the devastation in Haiti could have an adverse effect this year on students’ scores , which are used…
Oh look, former Gov. Jeb Bush has apparently joined Twitter, and even though he hasn’t twatted anything into his tweet machine yet he already has 2,323 people following him!That works out to a little less than 1 percent of the people who have followed Conan O’Brien since he joined the…
So the Herald earlier this week stopped its experiment with asking for online donations. Maybe it was a little too inside baseball for most to care about, but a certain vein of the conservative movement loves it whenever the “mainstream media” admits failure.As part of his ever-growing stable of Internet…
