Yesterday’s list on pop culture showcased how the mass media and the world see Miami, but today’s list of cultural moments of the decade focuses on the artistic forces that help Miami see the world. Few cities on any map saw such a dramatic growth spurt in culture in this…
A flight from Miami to Jamaica overshot the runway. About a third of the passengers were taken to the hospital. Two had life-threatening injuries. [Herald]The real reason the Diaz-Balarts yanked their endorsement of Crist: He refused to appoint Lincoln’s son’s friend to a judicial opening. [NakedPolitics]StoryCorps is a program that collects…
It’s hard to imagine anything that would be all around better for the Marlins than signing pitcher Aroldis Chapman. They need another possible superstar, and an athlete who defected from Cuba would do wonders for whipping up the local fanbase.The Herald reports that the Fish offered Chapman a 5-year contract…
I honestly have no idea why you’d want to see a video on a CNN website about last week’s South Florida storms, when, you know, you could have just looked out your window. But if you did, you might have your citizen journalism weather report brought to you by Collin…
It’s no secret that Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart are, in congressional Republican terms, more moderate guys. So it didn’t raise many eyebrows when they endorsed Gov. Charlie Crist for Senate back in July over fellow Miami-Dade Cuban Republican Marco Rubio. They did practically the same thing in 2004, endorsing…
According to a recent survey of “Washington Insiders,” South Florida’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the house member with the brightest political future (as in prepare for Speaker Wasserman Schultz someday), but a group of net-roots liberal wackos with internet access have found a hero in another Florida congressman: Alan Grayson. They want…
Miami made leaps and bounds in establishing its own culture this decade. You know, the respectable kind with art and music and literature, and all of that, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the reflections of the Magic City in pop culture this decade. We’re still the pastel paradise…
Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio and Kendrick Meek all showed up for a US Cuba Democracy PAC luncheon, and when it came to Cuba they all had the same thing to say. [CBS4]FIU will play host to a conference dealing with sex differentiation disorders in sports. [Herald]Police are still looking for the…
Last time So You Think You Can Dance held auditions in Miami, they found their winner: 18-year-old Pinecrest resident Jeanine Mason. For the seventh season, the inexplicably popular televised dance-off will again come searching for talent in the 305. So, if um.. you think you can dance, then gather up your dance…
First came that deadly strain of meningitis.Then, who could forget about Swine Flu?And of course the EPIC hotel is currently in the middle of a Legionnaire’s Disease controversy.Now, The Herald reports, there’s yet another threatening disease that’s popped up in South Florida: extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis!Up until now the particular strain of…
The case of Carlos Miller started in 2007 while he was on assignment as a photojournalist for a now-defunct website. He took some photos of police, refused their order that he stop, then found himself in succession with his head against concrete, in the back of a police car, a…
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No college football team hit such heights and then sunk to such lows this decade than the Miami Hurricanes. From the 2001 team that won a national championship — and is considered by most sane sports commenters as the best college team of the past ten years if not of all time…
Poor Charlie Crist. As he tries to make the move from governor to senator, he finds himself in quite the political quagmire. Much of which has been brought on by primary foe Marco Rubio hitting Crist from the right every chance he gets. So in response, Crist, whose reputation has…
The South Florida Blade has closed, but soon the region will have not one, but two gay newspapers.Window Media, which owned a number of GLBT newspapers, including the Blade and it’s pervy little listing mag brother 411, abruptly closed its doors in November. In a nice web-to-print story, local gay…
The Coast Guard called off the search for two boaters who went missing of the coast. [NBCMiami]It got really really cold yesterday, how cold was it? Apparently cold enough to warrant this long article. [Herald]Kool & the Gang performed in Cuba on Saturday. Our apologies to the Cuban people. [CBS4]Thanks to the Legionnaire’s disease…
Twenty-one-year-old Geraldo Pagano of Orlando was driving his scooter over the wet and rainy 79th Street Causeway just before midnight yesterday when he lost control. He fell to the ground but managed to pick himself up. Then a gray four-door Kia hit him, sending Pagano and the scooter flying into…
Miami resident Albert Gonzalez shocked the world when he was indicted for the largest case of identity fraud in history. Using colorful aliases such as “Soupnazi,” he hacked into the databases of several retail chains and stole information from more than 130 million credit and debit cards. Gonzalez made a plea deal…
Thirty-year-old Jaime Edmondson has lived something of an interesting life. Once a member of Boca Raton’s police force, she quit to become a cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins. She parlayed that to a stint as a contestant on the 14th season of The Amazing Race, and now she’s been chosen…
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Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not…
Considering the chief financial officer job is the only statewide position up for re-election in 2010 that the Democrats currently hold, they should be eager to keep it. But with CFO Alex Sink running for governor, no big-name Dem has stepped forward to run. In fact, the only one who has…
