Two armed unidentified males held up the 18th Ave Market at 6600 NW 18 Ave. last Thursday but were temporarily distracted by one of the victim’s dogs.Azmi Mustafa and Evelyn D’Souza were working at the store while the suspects walked in wearing face masks, brandishing pistols, and demanding money. One suspect…
Sounds like Miami-Dade Police killed two birds with one stone yesterday morning. While searching for a robbery suspect, they came across a grow house.Cops were responding to a home break-in around the University Park area. Two armed suspects entered the home and pistol-whipped a male victim. Police officers quickly caught…
Calle Ocho roosters have seen a lot in their day. Nothing really impresses or excites them anymore. They just kind of stand there, bored and jaded. Photo via Austrini’s Flickr…
Over the summer, while the entire country was caught up in health-care-reform fever, discussing death panels and public options, Sen. Bill Nelson was busy talking about the great python menace and Chinese drywall. Which would maybe make sense if he chaired the Senate Special Committee on Snakes and Drywall, but he…
You might recall “Hybrid Hell,” our April cover story about how the Toyota Prius’s accelerator sometimes has a mind of its own. Well, now Toyota might recall the Prius.That eco-friendly pedal may be saving our skies, but it doesn’t seem to have the same regard for human life. The National Highway…
The only thing surprising about Isiah Thomas coming in 20th on GQ’s list of the 20 most despicable coaches of all time is that the magazine somehow found 19 coaches more despicable than he is.GQ rounds up all of his greatest hits:Knicks fans learned of his complex views on race…
Adam Tavss, the Miami Beach Police officer involved in two shady shootings in a few days, failed a drug test, coming up positive for marijuana. [CBS4]A gigantic collection of Batman memorabilia belonging to Ben Novack, murdered former prince of the Fontainbleau, has gone missing. [NBCMiami]Leonard Pitts Jr. thinks ACORN is…
If all of this talk about Charlie Crist facing an electoral backlash from the right wing of his party in his quest for a Senate seat amounts to anything, Sen. Bill Nelson should perhaps worry about a backlash from Florida’s progressive and liberally inclined voters.Nelson has basically called supporters of the…
So Chad Pennington is out for the season, but the Dolphin Nation shouldn’t be too concerned. Chad Henne was supposed to assume starting QB duties sooner or later — it just turned out to be sooner.He was always the quarterback of tomorrow, and hey, if he didn’t work out, there…
Even though the average price for a hotel room dropped 21 percent for the period between January and June compared to the same time last year, Miami still has, on average, some of the most expensive room rates in the nation. But the data reflects only bookings made on Hotels.com, so we…
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Artlurker caused quite the brouhaha yesterday by publishing a fake interview about an artist who was constructing a “rape tunnel,” in which he promised to rape anyone who made it through. Gawker, who often takes pleasure in punching holes in staged PR events and other media’s inaccuracies, walked through the metaphorical…
El Niño, the noted periodic Pacific Ocean warming thing, has a positive effect for us living on the East Coast: It depresses strong hurricane activity.According to a new study in the journal Nature, global warming could mess all of that up by strengthening El Niño’s obscure twin — also called El Niño…
Just about every interesting statistic in the news these days somehow relates to the economy — or at least the talking heads try to relate it to the economy. Fewer Cubans migrating to America? It’s because of the recession. Lower divorce rate? The recession. People trying their hand at prostitution?…
Bill Clinton will be at the Biltmore today to address the America’s Conference. [CBS4]Is Charlie Crist dissing Jeb Bush? He seems to have done so in a recent speech — enough for the Times to run with it on a slow news day. [SPTimes]Heat management has banned players from using Twitter at…
It should give you a sense of my early-morning brain-dead-ness that while reading through the “art” section of my Google Reader, I browsed through a post from locally focused art blog ArtLurker about a “rape tunnel,” only to be disappointed to find it was not actually about Miami or a…
Dolphins QB Chad Pennington is done for 2009, according to ESPN. Sources tell the network he’s been “initially diagnosed with a torn capsule in his throwing shoulder and the Dolphins expect him to miss the rest of the season.”Pennington was injured early in the second half of yesterday’s loss to…
Now that Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin is allowed to air his libertarian views once in a while in a separate column, you’d think he’d stop hiding them in his boob tube reviews. Boy, would you be wrong, you satanist tree hugger.Garvin sinks into Ken Burns’s The National Parks: America’s Best…
The large orange shipping containers that find themselves filled with artwork just feet from the beach every year have become a trademark of Art Basel Miami Beach, but they won’t return this year.As part of a reorganization of the fair, the emerging galleries and artists relegated to Collins Park this…
Every once in a while, Gov. Charlie Crist remembers he is indeed a member of the Republican Party and not the sole member of the Crist Populist Party of Florida. As a Republican, he must occasionally take a swipe at the Democratic leadership. He decided to do so while pulling…
As part of his punishment, a 22-year-old Cutler Bay man who somehow stole a 120-ton train has been ordered to stay away from railroads. [SunSent]The City of Miami and the police union have reached a tentative deal that should keep cops on the street while effectively dealing with the city’s…
