For years, the trashy elements of South Beach have coincided in a relatively peaceful, if not complementary, harmony with its more highbrow and sophisticated forces. Leave it to the power of Jersey Shore to upend all of that.While MTV has yet to confirm reports that the trash-tastic show will film…
After admitting to plagiarizing multiple passages from Miami Herald stories and other sources, Gerald Posner has resigned as chief investigative reporter for the Daily Beast.Posner, a Miami Beach author best known for investigative books such as Miami Babylon, posted an explanation of his resignation on a new blog, claiming he’d often create 15,000-word master files for…
Miami-Dade public schools are on the verge of another budget crisis, one that could ultimately affect arts education. [CBS4]A fatal accident shut down much of northbound I-95 this morning. [WSVN]A Miami-Dade Police fund set up to fight environmental crimes has been used to buy SUVs, satellite TV subscriptions, and boats…
Last season for Miami Hurricanes fans was a respectful rebound, and should provide encouragement that our days of being left off most pre-season polls are over.The season doesn’t officially kick off for another seven months, but that hasn’t stopped ESPN’s Mark Schlabach from making his pre-season rankings. He’s got the…
Style Wars events have proved to be pretty popular in Miami, so we suppose it was only a matter of time where a paint-and-canvas equivalent makes its way down south. Art Battles, which have been going on for nine years in fancy New York City, are dripping down towards the…
In what was meant to be a feel good story, a local fifth-grade girl, Caroline Masia, won an NFL-sponsored Super Bowl essay contest after writing about hearing for the first time after receiving a Cochlear implant. Though the win has caused some controversy in the deaf community and brought about…
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Kevin Klym, the boyfriend of aspiring-model Paula Sladewski who turned up dead inside a burning trashcan on New Years Eve weekend, went on The Today Show last week and placed blame on Club Space. That was the last place Paula was seen alive. Klym also claimed that the suspect sketch…
Maybe it was coincidental, but Barack Obama pulled ahead in Florida in the 2008 election shortly after John McCain introduced Sarah Palin as his running mate. Does the Sunshine Sstate not like America’s most prominent hockey mom?Nate Silver, the respected poll guru of FiveThirtyEight.com, says conditions aren’t in Sarah Palin’s favor in…
Do you remember where you were when everything changed forever exactly one year ago? When the most important political event in Florida history went down? When Charlie Crist man-hugged Barack Obama? Riptide was there in the audience that unholy day, and we’ll never forget. Neither will Marco Rubio. In fact, Rubio is practically…
It’s all but officially confirmed that season two of the immensely popular reality-TV train wreck Jersey Shore will be shot in South Beach, and we have no doubt that 90 percent of the time, Snooki, the Situation, JWow, and the five others no one cares about will be indulging in…
FIU professor Phillip Stoddard is the new mayor of South Miami; with 58 percent of the vote, he beat the incumbent. [CBS4]State welfare officials have decided to offer health insurance and other subsidies to the adopted teenage son of a gay man in Key West, despite Florida’s gay adoption ban…
Most Senate primary debates are lucky to get aired on local channels, but the race for the GOP nomination for Florida’s Senate seat is so hot it might end up broadcast nationally on Fox News.According to the Chicago Tribune’s Swamp Politics, Marco Rubio has already agreed to the arrangement. Gov…
Remember Nelly? Guy hasn’t had a single in the Top 20 since 2005. Apparently the only hits he gets now are accidental ones from security at the Fontainebleau.According to Page Six, Nelly was scheduled to perform at a pre-Super Bowl party Friday night at LIV when his bodyguards got into…
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Reality-TV princess Snooki was in Miami over the weekend and declared on her Twitter page: “I’m comin asap I’m movin to Miami!”Looks like she’ll get her wish, because MovieLine.com reports that season two of the breakout MTV hit Jersey Shore will be shot in South Beach.The website claims the show will begin…
Socialist crank Hugo Chávez doesn’t much care for communication he can’t control, so it was only a matter of time before he put the kibosh on Twitter in Venezuela.Last week, the tag #FreeVenezuela became a trending topic thanks to citizens protesting Chávez’s crackdown on press freedom and calling for the president’s…
Melanie Leon and Vanessa Alenier, the South Florida lesbian couple who last month won a court case to adopt a child despite Florida’s gay adoption ban, apparently weren’t sufficiently ugly for the Florida Family Policy Council’s propaganda purposes. So in an email blast to its members decrying the decision, the group…
Miami-based investigative reporter Gerald Posner has been caught lifting lines from Miami Herald stories for his own stories at the Daily Beast. As a result, Posner has been temporarily suspended.Posner, the author of Miami Babylon and many other well-received nonfiction books, took a gig at Tina Brown’s Internet-based Daily Beast…
Jesse Jackson was in town for the Super Bowl and decided to engage in his number one hobby: protesting. He marched against high rates of foreclosure and unemployment. [NBCMiami]A truck pulling a livestock trailer jackknifed in Weston. The driver and about 100 of the animals were killed, but many of the cows,…
Like most Miamians, we were pulling for the Saints last night. Yeah there’s a huge part of us that wished it was the Dolphins, but we couldn’t have been happier for New Orleans. Of course, as you’re probably aware, Saints QB and MVP Drew Brees was courted by the Dolphins when…
The Super Bowl getting high ratings isn’t news as much as it is practically a law of physics, but when it breaks a 27-year-old record that’s certainly something.Last night’s broadcast from Miami Gardens drew an astounding 106.5 million viewers, making it the most watched television program in the history of…
