305 Photo of the Day: Biker Babes
Today’s photo comes from FlaSporty’s Flickr via our Miami New Times pool (which you should all join *hint* *hint*)…
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Charles Perez Compares Gay Former Boss to Nazi-Appeasing Jews
It sure is a bummer Local 10 fired lead news anchor Charles Perez for reasons that might or might not be due to his sexuality, but we’re not sure what to make of Perez’s all-out media assault on his former employer. That’s not to say he should shut up and be…
Fashion Victim Launches Fashion Blog
Perez Hilton, for better or worse the most successful blogger to come out of the Magic City, has launched a nicer, friendlier blog in the form of a fashion website. It’s dubbed CocoPerez, in what I assume is the least creative tribute to Coco Chanel ever. Maybe he was inspired by the ol’ Chanel quote, “Some people…
Glass Candy Bringing Beatific Visions to the Vagabond on September 11th
Glass Candy sound like their on a space shuttle mission somewhere to the deep, dark recesses of the Galaxy Disco co-piloted by Lydia Lunch and Giorgio Moroder. Well, Ida No and Johnny Jewel will be temporarily landing the Shuttle B/E/A/T/B/O/X at the Vagabond on September 11th. Sweat Records, who’s presenting the…
Hillary Clinton Still Bitter About 2000 Election and Jeb Bush
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in a town hall meeting in Nigeria as part of her tour of Africa. Apparently Nigeria can have town hall meetings without a load of loons ripping up Rosa Parks posters and whatnot, but they can’t really have an ethical election. Their controversial 2007 election…
Kourtney Kardashian Conveniently Announces Pregnancy in Time for Show Premiere
You know Kourtney Kardashian? No, not the one with the butt. Nope, not the one who has a personality, either. That’s right, she’s the one with no butt or personality! Well, she’s pregnant! Which ensures all sorts of gossip headlines right before the premiere of Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami on E!…
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News Roundup
Miami Beach gave the green light for a bike-sharing program, but local bike businesses aren’t exactly thrilled. [theLead]Hey, look! Another Ponzi scheme! This one involves a North Miami man who says he was trading his victims’ currency. [SFBJ]Dr. Pedro Jose Greer was awarded his medal of freedom yesterday. [Herald]A husband…
Dead Body Found in Septic Tank
CBS4’s Chopper 4 was snooping around the skies yesterday, doing whatever it is that Chopper 4 normally does, and spotted police removing the body of a dead man from a septic tank behind a North Miami-Dade business. This is maybe the biggest local news story of the day. [CBS4: MDPD Recovers Man’s Body…
Janet Reno Endorses Dan Gelber
In terms of Attorney Generals they don’t get much bigger than Janet Reno. Wait, excuse me. In terms of Attorney General endorsements they don’t get much bigger than Janet Reno’s. The former US Attorney General gave her blessing to Florida Attorney General hopeful Dan Gelber today. “Dan has the gumption and spirit…
305 Photo of the Day: Under the Bridge
is featuring something about being under a bridge that doesn’t involve sex offenders. Today’s photo comes fromEWilman’s flickr…
RPOF Chair: Pelosi Will Force You to Get an Abortion
I think everyone can agree we need to reform health care in this country one way or another (if you don’t, you’re either greedy or not paying attention), and since the Democrats are currently in control, they’re the ones taking a shot at it. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and…
Miami Social: The Importance of Finding Your Inner Whore
Last night, Bravo once again broadcast a world it calls “Miami.” A place where becoming a “fashion designer” is as easy as hiring a kid fresh out of design school to create a line for you. A place where a manipulative, lying, borderline sociopathic lady is worth holding on to…
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New Zealand Bans Cocaine Cowboys 2
Remember the part in Cocaine Cowboys 2 where some guy declares, “Through practice, I became the Michael Jordan of crack cookers,” and then reveals his recipe for making the best crack ever? Well, apparently the New Zealand Office of Film and Literature Classification isn’t too keen on drug-making instruction and has…
News Roundup
The Coral Gables Gazette has gone online-only. [Herald]Police arrested a 16-year-old boy in the June killing of a Metrorail security guard. The kid has been arrested ten times since he turned 11. [Herald]Donte’ Stallworth is now allowed to leave his house to work with a trainer. [Reuters]Advocates are calling for two Haitians caught trying…
Time Adds Some Lady Names to the Senate Mix: Anitere Flores and Jennifer Carroll
All the names being floated around as our next temporary senator have been of the masculine persuasion. Why not some ladies? Time magazine adds to the ever-growing list of Senate maybes with two women. Minority women in fact. First up is Miami’s own Rep. Anitere Flores. She’s the deputy majority leader and is the only Hispanic female in…
305 Photo of the Day: Real Florida Seminoles
Today’s photo comes from the Library of Congress. Taken in 1904 by photographer J. N. Chamberlain, it shows Seminole Indians canoeing along the Miami River. …
Which of These Miami Dolphins Songs Is More Embarrassing?
In hip-hop, Jay-Z is God, and since he declared Auto-Tune dead, we’ve hoped that would put a swift end to the career of professional Auto-Tune abuser T-Pain. (I will never understand how a musical technique pioneered by Cher became “gangsta.”) Dolphins majority owner Stephen Ross didn’t get the message, and drafted…
Actually, It’s a Different Bob Martinez Who Might Be a Frontrunner for the Senate Appointment
So, we kept hearing that Bob Martinez, as in the former one-term governor, was in the mix to be appointed to the Senate. The thing is, well, he’s 74 years old, which isn’t necessarily a barrier to be a senator. But he was not a very popular governor thanks to a botching…
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Cuba Is Running out of Toilet Paper
We could argue all day about communism versus capitalism, but neither is immune to the worldwide economic slump. In fact, it seems communist Cuba is hurting so bad it can’t afford one basic necessity: toilet paper. Reuters reports Cuba might not get enough TP to meet demand until the end of the year.Cuba…
We Won’t Have Mr. Clucky to Cluck Around Anymore
Mr. Clucky, perhaps the most famous rooster since Foghorn Leghorn, is apparently leaving town. Clucky’s owner Mark Buckley told Local 10 he’s packing up the fowl, his girlfriend Wallflower, and all of their shared worldly possessions and heading to rural New Hampshire, where Buckley owns a farm. In May, Buckley was fined for keeping Clucky as…
News Roundup
Kendrick Meek attacked Charlie Crist (his possible foe in the 2010 Senate race) for not handling stimulus funds in a way best for Florida. [PBPost]Some d-bag was arrested for using his camera phone to take up-skirt videos at Aventura Mall. [NBCMiami]”Don Diego” Montoya, a Colombian drug kingpin, is expected to plead guilty…
Suddenly Everyone in Florida Wants a Concealed Weapons Permit
Florida used to get about 14,000 requests for concealed carry permits each year. Now the state gets that number every month. The influx has been so severe that Commissioner of Agriculture Charles Bronson’s staff can barely keep up.According to the Capitol News Service, 150,000 permits might be granted this year alone. In…