Rod Blagojevich criticizing anyone for making a shady appointment to a Senate seat is sort of like Kanye West chastising someone for awards-show misbehavior. But then again, egomaniacs aren’t really that self-aware. Blago went on Fox and Friends this morning to pimp his upcoming book and argued he wasn’t trying to…
On paper, unsettling auteur Todd Solondz’s latest flick, Life During Wartime, is a bizarre proposition. It’s a sequel, of sorts, to his 1999 calling card, Happiness, with characters from his breakout film, Welcome to the Dollhouse, thrown in. Except every role is recast or, in some cases, re-imagined: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s pale and…
The Miami Dolphins lost to the Atlanta Falcons 19-7, and it wasn’t even that kind of loss where you could be like, “Well, at least their so-and-so looks good this year.” It was just brutal. [Herald]Ferry service from Miami to Havana? It might just happen. [NYTimes]Oh, no! Someone pulled a smash-and-grab…
Trying to find parking in this town can be hell, but be thankful you’ve never been shot in the pursuit of a space, like a teenage girl outside White Room. Police are looking for leads.Our heart is still beating from that Miami-FSU game. Jim Greer decided to let his children be indoctrinated by…
Miami Dolphins @ Atlanta Falcons, Sunday at 1 p.m. on CBS4. Not to say the Dolphins don’t have some well-deserved swagger, but let’s be real: Out of all the defending division champs, Fins fans’ optimism might be the most muted. We knew last season’s historic turnaround was thanks in no small part…
U.S. judges have granted millions of dollars to the families of Fidel Castro’s victims, but the problem comes with collecting. Cuba’s frozen assets are dwindling, and the Communist isle isn’t too keen on recognizing American court judgments. So Roberto Martinez, the lawyer for the family of Bobby Fuller — a…
Miami Beach’s own Brett Ratner holds the questionable distinction of being Hollywood’s reigning hack director. Critics abhor the filmmaker for brining an unsatisfactory ending to the X-Men trilogy, stretching racial stereotypes into the three-film Rush Hour series, and helming Red Dragon, the most forgettable film in the Hannibal Lecter series…
Exciting news for numismatists and people in general who didn’t get kind of bored with the “50 States Quarters” after a few months: The United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program has been announced, and our very own Everglades National Park will be honored with a shiny 25-cent piece…
Last November, pro-life groups put a ballot measure before Colorado voters asking them if “personhood” should be extended to the moment of conception. Even in a politically heated and polarized year, voters rejected the amendment by 73 percent. But that hasn’t stopped Personhood USA and the American Life League from…
Fight at Miami City Hall. During a budget meeting, Mayor Manny Diaz said Commissioner Tomas Regalado had taken a cheap shot at him. Regalado said the mayor has been living like “the mayor of Beverly Hills.” Diaz then reminded the commissioner that his office once spent $25,000 for coffee. Anyway,…
Last night the President of the United States spoke before a special joint session of Congress to defend an issue that may very well come to define his first term in office. He also gave a stirring defense of good ol’ fashioned American Liberalsim with no apologies, something we haven’t…
Sweat Records’ blog brings news that a strange seven-foot-tall life form with a giant yellow ballon-shaped head going by the name of Bad Brilliance has been hanging around town, silently studying us. Surely the beautiful visitor has been observing our reckless use of neons and pastels, the strange orange hue that many…
Florida’s 33rd senator, George LeMieux, will be sworn in today at 2:45 amid concerns his Broward law firm helped secure visas for foreigners to work on a hotel and condo project in Bal Harbour, depriving Americans of jobs. As our brothers in blog-arms The Juice point out, a Capital News Service video confirms what’s…
Miami Beach sea turtles are under constant threat because their nests share the beach with us humans. The worse kind of humans — drunk ones. “Mr. Buchanan voluntarily protects the nests from what he says is the constant threat of drunken nighttime visitors who pour out of nearby nightclubs to…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and the county commission have thrown sizable pay raises to staffers as if they were life vests on a sinking ship. They’ve simultaneously tossed overboard funding to cultural efforts and other social programs.That hasn’t proven popular with voters. According to a new poll commissioned by Local 10 and conducted…
Glass Candy sounds like it’s on a space shuttle mission to the deep, dark recesses of the Galaxy Disco, copiloted by Lydia Lunch and Giorgio Moroder. Well, Glass Candy’s synth-disco duo, Ida No and Johnny Jewel, will temporarily land the shuttle B/E/A/T/B/O/X at the Vagabond September 11. Sweat Records, which…
Watching important YouTube videos (like Penis-mouthed shark), updating your twitter, and sexting on your iPhone is about to get twice as fast in Miami. AT&T, the iPhone’s carrier, announced today that Miami and five other cities will be the first in which the company rolls out its latest 3G network update…
Don’t get us wrong — Miami still attracts the olds by the tour bus full, but we’ve come a long way in distancing ourselves from our ’70s reputation as America’s retirement home. Then along comes Money magazine to list us as the 13th best place to retire in the nation. The problem…
Florida ranks 47th out of the 50 states in terms of influence and seniority in the U.S. Congress, according to an analysis by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. A dismal ranking by any means, but even more so considering we’re the fourth most populace state. Our legislators have less swagger on the Hill…
In honor of Whitney Houston taking the number one spot on the Billboard Albums chart, here’s another picture from Miami’s resident pictorial chronicler of all things crack, DCVision2006. Just kidding, as we all know. Crack is cheap. Whitney makes too much for her to ever smoke crack. Let’s get that…
