A man stole handbags from Macy’s in Aventura Mall and then, during the getaway, hit and killed a woman. [Herald]Police are still searching for a woman involved in the handbag heist. Meanwhile, witnesses say the crash could have been prevented if police weren’t so aggressive in their pursuit. [NBCMiami]The school…
Perhaps if today was a different day this post would include such phrases as “gentle teasing,” “a pinky finger and some spit,” “ky jelly,” and “latex glove and a vat of crisco,” but we simply aren’t in the mood. However, in case you weren’t aware Ray Samson, the former Speaker of…
The Miami Herald makes staff cuts about as regularly as the rest of us get haircuts. Today the paper sent out a memo informing the staff that 16 of them would be sent home today with a pink slip, and 18 other unfilled positions would be eliminated. Of course, the memo…
Look at this big, bright, blue collection of states we call America. Gallup released their latest report of political party affiliation and it is not looking good for the Republicans. In fact, according to Gallup there’s only 4 real red states left, with one leaning. Democrats meanwhile have huge voter…
Sunny Isles Beach. Don’t get up there much. Thankfully, Flickr user Jikatu does, and took this picture of Jade Beach and Jade Ocean, the Carlos Ott designed towers By the way, if you have a Flickr be sure to join our Miami New Times group. …
The dark cloud of global financial collapse hung over last year’s Art Basel Miami Beach. Complimentary caviar was a rare commodity. Gift bags filled with limited edition designer doo-hickees were in short supply. Party hosts had to opt for the economy sized gold-plated fondue fountain. And, oh, yeah, not as much art sold. But it’s…
George and Martha of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Burt Pugach and Linda Riss of Crazy Love. Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan of Us Weekly. Pop culture is full of quite literally insane couples who manage to stay together no matter how much we’re secretly rooting for their relationship’s demise…
Google Image search “Bruce Weber,” and it might be easy to dismiss the photographer as a bit obsessed with nudity in black-and-white. After all, Weber is responsible for just about every softcore porn-style image associated with Abercrombie & Fitch, not to mention a few Calvin Klein underwear campaigns. But the part-time Miami…
The reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for recent horse slaughterings has been raised to $5,000 [NBCMiami]The Heat is fine with the current rooster. Nope, not at all bitter it lost out on Odom. [Herald]Former UM player and current New York Jets defensive end Kareem Brown watched a friend…
Remember Edward Hugh Okun? He’s the 58-year-old Miami businessman who tricked hundreds of people out of $126 million through two fraudulent Richmond, Virginia companies that promised to defer capital gains taxes. As scams go, everything was rosy until he married Simone Bolani, a 20-something Miami Beach salon owner. When the two divorced, Okun…
I never had an internship. No one would have me. (OK, I got offered one at the Miami Herald once, but I was still in my “I don’t think I really want to go into journalism — it’s a dying field” mode. Which turned out to be ironic on so many…
We simply do not get this Obama as the Joker poster that’s making the rounds. What does the joker have to do with Socialism? The Joker = anarchy, right? Which is pretty much the antithesis of socialism. It would pass for something resembling humor if it said “Why So Socialist?”…
Thanks to a law championed by a former Miami-Dade Police officer, two Florida men face up to five years in prison for photos allegedly showing gang signs posted to their MySpace accounts. The whole thing is ridiculous. Taxpayer money could be used to house two guys for five years in crowded prisons because of MySpace? A…
Today’s photos, Polaroids of the Biltmore Hotel, come from SFBNess’s Flickr. …
The Miami Heat’s full 2009-10 schedule was released upon the world today. Dwyane Wade and company will kick off the season with a home game October 28 against the New York Knicks (who are somehow still considered a professional basketball organization). Things get interesting, not to mention challenging, when we meet our ol’…
Attorney General Bill McCollum thinks this idea of sex offenders living under a bridge is just a horrible thing that he’d like to change. [Herald]Doctors who’ve defected from Cuba seem to be filling the primary-care void in Miami. [WSJ]If you are a true Florida patriot, you will eat an iguana…
After keeping relatively tight lipped about the matter, The Miami Herald has unveiled the results of its internal investigation into claims by a Navy Commander Jeff Gordon that he was “sexually harassed” by the paper’s GitMo correspondent Carol Rosenberg. In short, Rosenberg will continue her duties. Gordon complained that Rosenberg made a number of disparaging and…
If there’s one point Riptide has been consistently making about Marco Rubio is that his values and policies are more in line with the right-wing, super-conservative blogosphere then they are with Florida voters. He pretty much hammered that point home this weekend by speaking at the RedState Gathering. RedState.com being…
Some of the county-level Repulican party organizations have been mumbling not-so-nice things about Gov. Charlie Crist, but yesterday the Volusia County GOP passed a motion censuring him. Among Crist’s crimes: Appointing Democrats to political positions, appointing so-called liberal judge James Perry to the state Supreme Court, supporting the stimulus bill, nationalization of property…
Duel (2009) – watch more funny videos Dealing with traffic accidents in Miami is a tricky thing. Why can’t we act like civilized 17th-centuary gentlemen? Oh right, because they settled everything with duels. The latest video by local improv group A Pair of Nuts and production crew Peripheral Films was the…
Model Latina Miami premiered last night on SiTV, a station we’ve never heard of and pretty sure we don’t get, but we browsed through the first episode online. The funny thing is that runways of the world could certainly use a healthy dose of Latina spice. Only a few leggy Brazilian glamazons, such…
