Stephanie Kopelousos, Florida Department of Transportation Secretary, seems to like her breakfast food. So much so that in order to get her attention you have to put something like “Pancakes” or “Waffles” in email headlines. Or so says her staff.The Palm Beach Post infers that those wholesome hearty breakfast staples…
Any Canes fan will tell you the media, especially ESPN, hates Miami, but ESPN aired its two-hour apology in the form of Rakontur’s fantastic documentary, The U, this past weekend. One segment, of course, focused on that perceived media bias, and right on cue, the media is stirring up some controversy…
The Epic Hotel, in its quest to be fancy, has killed a man and hospitalized two others. It installed a powerful water filtration system that actually filtered out chlorine and caused the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires’ disease to grow. Four hundred guests were evacuated while the hotel figures out how to fix…
Florida is such a swing state that we’re even polarized on whether or not we think spanking children, aka “Corporal Punishment,” is acceptable or not.Seems Talking Points Memo has found a correlation between child spankers and John McCain voters in 2008. Florida is almost directly on the trend line, with…
via RakonturHow is it that a man who’s paid to review television doesn’t seem able to grasp ESPN’s The U in the same way that writers who don’t generally review films do? Oh right, because it’s The Herald’s Glenn Garvin we’re talkin’ about.While other early reviews of Rakontur’s documentary on…
Are we the only ones who think the snow flakes that go up this time of year on the Bank of America Building look like giant glowing infectious sores? Probably. Sorry to ruin a holiday tradition. Today’s photo come MagicCity305’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here, join…
The Design District’s Limited Edition Experiences stores might have strategically opened just in time to capitalize on the art fair crowd, but they’ll remain open through the holiday season in case you want to get any gift shopping done. Pay no mind to the fact that there were enough empty…
It figures: The only time construction doesn’t render portions of Biscayne Boulevard clogged with bumper-to-bumper traffic is when the road is closed completely.As part of the two-year reconstruction plan, the portion of Biscayne currently under construction from NE 29th to NE 33rd streets will be closed between 9 p.m. and…
The grandmother who accidently left a 3-month-old baby in a car to die is being charged with aggravated manslaughter. Temperatures in the car reached 134 degrees. [PBPost]She’s out on a $10,000 bond. [CBS4]Five Miami-Dade high schools make a national list of the 100 best high schools. [Herald]A cruise ship crew…
We know Art Basel wrapped up five days ago, which translates to approximately two decades in “blog time,” but that’s one of the problems with covering an event like Art Basel for a blog isn’t it? The pressures of a non-stop deadline doesn’t give you the luxury of digesting what…
For at least the second time this year in Miami, a baby has died after the caregiver left the child in a locked car. Police found a baby in a locked car at 6832 NW Fifth Ave. shortly after noon today. The infant was dead. Police believe the grandmother dropped the child’s…
Well, of course this happens in Miami. Today’s photo comes from DKero’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here, join our Flickr group…
We know Alan Grayson only has a tenious connection to our local readership, but important news on our favorite hot liberal mess has just come to our intention: He has told former Vice President Dick Cheney to, and we quote, “STFU.”Dick Cheney occasionally pops out of his underground torture dungeon…
For those of you who think, Women are stupid and I don’t respect them — that’s right, I just have sex with them, you’ll be pleased to know there are no solo female comics lined up for this year’s South Beach Comedy Festival. Oh, and Jon Lajoie, the guy who…
The most effective and frequent bit in Marco Rubio’s Senate campaign ads: that picture of Republican rival Charlie Crist embracing Barack Obama at a rally for the president’s stimulus plan. Of course, every Republican governor ended up accepting money from the stimulus plan, including more colorful and conservative characters such as…
At first glance, it seems a little strange that despite the fact Florida is a classic swing state that actually has more registered Democrats than Republicans, the GOP controls both houses of the state legislative by large majorities and sends more Republicans to the House in DC.That’s because after the…
The number of homes in foreclosure in Miami-Dade fell by 5.62 percent last month, but that’s still higher than the same month last year. [Herald]A 4-year-old boy in pajamas was found this morning wandering the streets in NW Dade, but his parents haven’t been found. [NBCMiami]Remember how this summer we had all of those…
Palm Beach County circuit judge Krista Marx sat down with The Palm Beach Post and warned that crime, in the words of the paper, “is inexorably moving northward from Miami-Dade like red tide.”Yes, because apparently crime is a mysterious and uncontrollable force of nature that is impossible to talk about in…
I don’t know if you can consider a hotel a “guilty pleasure,” but the Gansevoort South certainly comes close. Home to reality TV mess Miami Social and having a strong spot on the list of Miami party spots, the Gansy can also be added to the list of South Beach…
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When The Miami Herald was the only American paper to run a world-wide op-ed about Climate Change by London newspaper The Guardian we thought either they must be the only daily in this country with balls on that particular issue, or because they’ve fired so much of their staff they…
The horrible eight months in which we’ve had to refer to our football stadium as “Land Shark” in honor of a horrible Chevy Chase sketch Jimmy Buffet’s beer is just about over.As soon as the Dolphins play their January 3 game against the Steelers. the stadium will revert back to…
