Remember Jason Wetherington? New Times Broward-Palm Beach columnist Bob Norman penned a story about the lad, who apparently went around blabbing he had a hotel-room tryst with Gov. Charlie Crist in 2006. Wetherington also worked for Katherine Harris’s hilariously failed 2006 Senate campaign. Anyway, per Norman, he’s been charged with stealing three…
George L. Metcalfe is an Orlando-area lawyer who likes to spend his time writing about gays having sex with children. His first piece of pedophile fiction was somehow published in the Florida Bar News, but sadly George had to edit his creative masterpiece down to 350 words. Not content with just…
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Washington Post blogger and former Mouthpiece Theater cohost Chris Cillizza adds another name to the list of possible politicos Charlie Crist could appoint to Mel Martinez’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat: former state Rep. Allan Bense.Add that to a list that already includes Jim Smith, Gov. Bob Martinez, George Lemieux, Dan Webster,…
Dr. Alex Farshchian, the Miami Beach doctor who treated Michael Jackson, seemed to be very pro-active with his patient, to say the least. Yesterday, Britain’s Sunday Mirror claimed Farshchian prescribed a drug to Jackson that is used as a form of chemical castration. The Mirror said the doc’s spokesman confirmed that, “Yes, that’s…
Recently fired Local 10 anchor Charles Perez took his side of the story to the Daily Beast today, in a wide-ranging column explaining why he’ll continue his suit against WPLG, claiming they fired him because he was gay, attacking the state of the news business, positioning himself as a gay…
Hank — a 2,000-pound, 20-foot-long, 47-year-old crocodile — was found dead in his Jungle Island home. [NBCMiami]Teens who take the GED will no longer receive the standard diploma. [TBO]State officials have some questions about the proposed airport slot machines. [Sentinel] “A Central Florida woman claims she was duped into changing a man’s…
The Florida Political blogosphere has exploded with Mel Martinez Madness, and the main symptom is wildly wondering who will replace him. We already put in our two cents, but here’s the latest updates. Charlie Crist further confirms he won’t appoint himself, but will have someone picked out by the time the…
Also-ran news mag US News & World Report is such a money and publicity maker that it’s no surprise other publications would try to move in on its game. So along comes Forbes — which has a habit of making nonsensical lists (honestly, do you hear about Forbes more often for breaking news or…
You’re really going to need to click on today’s photo, taken October 1, 1925, for the larger size. It’s a view of the Miami business district looking east. I wish I had a recent image to compare it to, but it goes without saying the new photo would show quite a different…
NBC Universal is dropping the creative services staff at all of it’s owned and operated stations reports Gawker. That includes WTVJ. The Creative Services staff is responsible for on-air promos, and other in-house marketing services. The cuts will begin September 16th, with another station facing lay-offs every two weeks. Now all promo duties for…
As long as I live, I don’t think Florida will see a more chaotic election cycle than 2010. Now, Mel Martinez has thrown in another twist by resigning early, leaving the decision to pick his appointment to Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running to replace Martinez himself. Let’s take a…
Manny Diaz wasn’t arrested for throwing a box of tea at his wife. He never showed up mad as hell, in his pajamas, at a constituent’s house at 5 a.m. He never lead the city’s budget into complete shambles. So, really, by those standards, he should leave office this fall as the best mayor…
Woah, boy. Grumpy Sen. Mel Martinez has apparently had enough of this “serving the people” stuff. Several sources report he will resign, possibly as early as today. His term would expire in early 2011, and he had previously promised to serve the rest of it. But the race to replace…
Contrary to the way it seems, Riptide does not watch every reality TV show. Our TVs are seldom set to anything involving dance, but perhaps we should have caught some So You Think You Can Dance this season, because 18-year-old Miami student Jeanine Mason won. Yes, she did flamenco, the lambada,…
The Miami 21 zoning plan surprisingly was defeated last night, probably because Joe Sanchez wants to send a message he is not Manny Diaz’s mini-me. [Herald]The suspect in the Sean Taylor murder case had previously pleaded guilty, but he’s expected to try to withdraw that plea. [AP]Pictures have surfaced of children playing…
Steve Rothaus is reporting WPLG has fired Charles Perez. Earlier this year, the former weeknight anchor was demoted to the weekends, and in the past few weeks, he’s pretty much disappeared from Local 10 completely. Perez filed a complaint with Miami-Dade’s Equality Opportunity Board claiming his demotion was spurred by his sexuality and a nasty legal…
Convicted manslaughter-er Donte Stallworth has served his time — well 24 days of a 30 day sentence — and came to a financial agreement with the family of a man he struck and killed while driving his Bentley drunk on the MacArthur causeway. Now, he’d like NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to consider unbanning him…
Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate today. No big surprise there. Every member of the Democratic caucus, save for Ted Kennedy who remains ill and could not attend, voted for Sotomayor. That would include, of course, Bill Nelson. While only nine republicans offered their “yays,” including Mel Martinez. She’ll…
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He’s T-Pain. You know him. And he wants to be the next president of Florida State Univeristy. Seriously, the headline “Campaign under way for T-Pain to be Florida State University’s next president,” with the subhead, “T. K. Wetherell: ‘I don’t even know what a T-Pain is,'” actually appeared today in the Tallahassee Democrat, not The…
Kendrick Meek’s hiring of Steve Hildebrand to run his Senate campaign was supposed to be a message that his candidacy was to be taken seriously. Hildebrand was deputy national campaign director for a little campaign you might have heard of — Barack Obama’s run for president. Hildebrand spent the closing days in…
