The Herald has done a pretty good job of outlining the results of Man Up: The Crisis of HIV/AIDS Among Florida’s Men, by the Florida Department of Health, but the numbers are pretty shocking and worth repeating. And yeah, if you haven’t been tested lately, maybe you make an appointment.1 out…
Dan Marino “was arguably the biggest cocksucker to ever play” quarterback. All of this and more in your Deadspin Dolphins season preview. [Deadspin]Another photographer in Miami almost got arrested for simply taking photos — at least that’s what he says. He was snapping cute pics of his dog inside a…
Cuban dissident journalist Omar Rodriguez Saludes was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 27 years in prison simply for telling the truth. Today a U.S. federal judge ordered the government and communist party of Cuba to pay $27.5 million to Rodriguez Saludes’s mother. “During his imprisonment, he has been beaten, starved,…
Today’s photo of condos on Brickell Avenue comes from Chrisacuna’s Flickr. …
The debate over health care might be heated across the nation, but leave it to Miamians to turn it violent. Luis Perrero, a 65-year-old man demonstrating in favor of health-care reform, was punched in the face and knocked to ground by a man who disagreed with him, according to Naked Politics…
Fidel Castro apparently once took time out of his busy schedule of ruining Cuba to meet with reality contestant turned fame whore Aubrey O’Day. She came away from the encounter with the impression Castro was “brilliant.”O’Day came to “fame” as a cast member on Diddy’s reality show, Making the Band,…
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office decided the cops who pulled their guns on an innocent University of Miami student during his first day of school did nothing criminal. However, the student’s parents want the officers suspended. [Herald]Commissioner Dennis Moss handed out raises to close aides hours after the mayor warned that the…
For many students across the nation, September 8 will be their first day of school, and President Obama has decided to address them. Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer has somehow interrupted this as a “use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.” Rather than take…
Last year, Fisher Island was sitting pretty at the top of Forbes’ most expensive zip codes list. This year, it has tumbled to 33rd place. Not coincidently, the price for the only single-family waterfront home on the island was recently slashed by $3 million. This year, in the exclusive Fisher Island zip code 33109,…
Today’s photo comes from Henrymaxm’s Flickr. …
Perhaps, if things had worked out differently, Willie Williams could be sitting at an NFL training camp right now. Instead, he’s sitting in jail. Again. He’s behind bars in Lawrenceville, Georgia, after being arrested Thursday on charges of burglary and wreckless driving, according to the Miami Herald. Williams apparently had befriended a…
Art Miami will celebrate its 20th anniversary this December, but it will do so without a major sponsor. BlackRock, a tough-sounding investment firm that manages upward of $1 trillion in assets, decided it didn’t want to send anymore money Art Miami’s way, according to Lindsay Pollack. BlackRock is the largest money manager…
Want to send your kids to college? Remodel your home as a shrine to Michael Jackson? Fund the first all-hamster space trip to the moon? Whatever your dream, Ryan Seacrest wants to pay for it. Maybe. If you beg for it. Executive producer Seacrest, whose previous producing credits include Keeping Up…
Efraim Diveroli, the 23-year-old Miami Beach arms dealer who illegally supplied Chinese-made ammunition to Afghanistan, has pleaded guilty. He face five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. [Reuters] Mitch McConnell and John McCain are confirmed to be at that health-care forum today in Hialeah. [Herald] Yesterday a man walked into a…
John McCain and Mitch McConnell, the two most strapping studs of the GOP, reportedly will head to Hialeah tomorrow for a health-care forum, and Obama wants you to protest it gather peacefully and respectably outside. They’ll also attend a National Republican Senatorial Committee fundraiser at the swanky Biltmore in Coral Gables later in…
Up to a dozen NFL teams this year might face game blackouts, including the Dolphins, according to the St. Louis Business Journal. Under NFL rules, any home game that doesn’t sell out within 72 hours of kickoff cannot be broadcast locally. Ten to 12 teams were mentioned as possible blackout…
If you love watching poorly produced late-night infomercials, Farid Khavari might be the gubernatorial candidate for you. Khavari, a Miami resident, announced his candidacy today as a Democrat, and his entire platform seems to be instituting a Bank of the State of Florida, which a stern-sounding announcer clearly lays out…
UMPD holds student at gunpoint in a case of mistaken identity from Miami Hurricane on Vimeo. Jordan Chusid, a transfer student who originally attended UCF, was just about to leave campus after his first day attending University of Miami. Then he got an ol’ Miami-style welcome: a gun to the…
EbenHazar’s Flickr via our New Times pool, was shot from the lifeguard stand on 14th Street in South Beach during a dark and stormy night. …
We’re pretty sure Michael Bay has a devious plan to blow up every square inch of Miami-Dade County… if only through the film magic of CGI. So it’s not much of a surprise that the third film in his Bad Boys franchise is in the works. Starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence…
Papers (2009) – watch more funny videos If your apetite for laughing at Nazis wasn’t fulfilled by Inglourious Basterds, a new short from local production company Peripheral Films, the same crew behind The Dual, might do the trick. In Papers, a crew of German SS officers wind up working the counter of Super…
Over the weekend, pretty much every newspaper editorial board in the state wrote mean things about new Sen. George LeMieux. [Buzz]Oh, and word on the street is LeMieux might be interested in running for U.S. Senate against Bill Nelson in 2012, or for attorney general. [Buzz]Debbie Wasserman Schultz held a telephone…
