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The Federal Jail in Miami Is Basically a Topless Bar Without the Bottle Service
Lauri Apple · 11/30/11 08:21AM
Successfully smuggling little bags of pot (and pot seeds) into jail is difficult enough. How do you smuggle in a whole lady? Especially a stripper-lady, who might look conspicuous in her Lucite goldfish shoes, neon spandex underpants, and bare-boobs ensemble?
Crazed Butt Implant Doctor Also Destroyed This Woman's Face
Maureen O'Connor · 11/29/11 12:50PM
Another alleged victim of Oneal Ron Morris—the Floridian fake doctor accused of injecting "cement, 'Fix a Flat,' mineral oil, and superglue" into her patients—has come forward. Rajee Narinesingh tells Miami's CBS affiliate that she heard about Morris by "'word of mouth' in the transsexual community," and underwent the procedures out of desperation:
Hospital Really Sorry About Injecting Man With Execution Drug
Lauri Apple · 11/19/11 03:04PM
In July 2010, 79-year-old Florida man Richard Smith went to the hospital complaining about breathing troubles and stomach pains. After his nurse accidentally injected him with Pancuronium—a drug that's given to death row inmates during the execution process—Smith's health troubles were gone. But so was he, eventually.
Herman Cain Wants to Know How to Speak 'Cuban'
Max Read · 11/16/11 07:58PMAre we sick of Herman Cain saying stupid things? No? Good: here's video of the Republican front-runner asking a bunch of people in Miami "How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?" This is, we guess, Cain's third embarrassing gaffe in as many days, if you don't count his entire campaign as slow-motion, multi-day gaffe. And, no, "he was tired" won't fly as an excuse—he's asking because he's enjoying a cup of Cuban coffee.
Tour Matt Drudge's New Jungle Lair
John Cook · 10/31/11 01:37PMInternet racist Matt Drudge recently paid $1.45 million cash for a five-bedroom "safari-like tropical retreat" near his Miami, Florida, home. Here's a video tour.
Beyonce's Sister Blames Racism for Giant Banana Brawl
Maureen O'Connor · 08/29/11 03:37PM
While Beyonce was announcing her pregnancy last night, little sister and hipster foil Solange Knowles was in a surrealist, possibly racist brawl with the Miami Beach police force. It all started when Solange tried to carry a five-foot inflatable banana into a nightclub.
CNN's Gay Porn Citizen Reporter Fired from Teaching Job
Brian Moylan · 08/23/11 03:47PMA Priest, a Reporter and His Boyfriend Walk Into a Gay Bar...
Brandon K. Thorp · 07/28/11 04:51PM
Reporter Brandon K. Thorp explains how his investigation into the "lavender mob" running the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami —published here earlier today—came to be, and why the existence of a lively and hidden gay subculture within an institution devoted in part to demonizing homosexuals is an untenable and corrosive hypocrisy.
The Catholic Church's Secret Gay Cabal
Brandon K. Thorp · 07/28/11 01:30PM
John C. Favalora is a sallow old man who looks like the corpse of Dom DeLuise. He likes attractive young men to sit on his lap and allegedly treats them to trips in the Florida Keys. He was, until recently, part owner of a company that makes "all natural" boner-inducing beverages. He's also the Archbishop Emeritus of Miami.
Take a Tour of America's First Gay Hotel Chain
Remy Stern · 07/10/11 10:01PM
There are gay bars, gay nightclubs, and even gay cruises, so why not gay hotels? Such was the thinking of Brian Gorman, who recently opened the Miami branch of the first (openly) gay hotel chain. Called Lords, the new outpost is a renovated 1930s deco house done up by the New York-based design studio BHDM in bright yellows and aquamarines, midcentury-modern-inspired furniture, and patches of glitz and glam.
Everything About Michaele Salahi's Musical Debut Is Depressing
Brian Moylan · 06/24/11 04:05PM
It's not that Real Housewife of D.C. and White House party crasher Michaele Salahi's dance single is awful, which it is, it's that it is so sad. Everything about it is so eye-gougingly sad that it's probably the saddest attempt at a second act in the history of television.
Miami Police Have a Loving-to-Shoot-People Problem
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Brian Moylan · 02/03/11 02:11PMHow Did This Piano Wind Up Stuck on a Florida Sandbar?
Matt Cherette · 01/26/11 01:25PMWell, this is weird. Florida authorities are stumped as to how a charred grand piano—weighing 650 pounds—appeared on the high point of a sandbar in Miami's Biscayne Bay. They're not going to remove it, either! Here's a video.
An Exploding Can of Hairspray Causes a Panic at Miami Airport
Brian Moylan · 12/28/10 04:37PM
The bomb squad was called when a bag exploded today at Miami International Airport and pieces of metal flew out. But it wasn't a bomb, just an exploding can of hairspray. Now we have to worry about militant hairdressers?
Sixteen Instances of Art at Art Basel Miami
Max Read · 12/08/10 02:15AM
Hundreds of attractive people dressed in black descended on Miami this past week for Art Basel Miami Beach, the international art exhibition. But don't be sad if you didn't go! We've got you covered here with plenty of sweet photos.
Doctor Sues Restaurant For Letting Him Eat a Whole Artichoke
Remy Stern · 11/17/10 09:49PMRelax, People, You Will Not Get Cholera
Brian Moylan · 11/17/10 03:02PM
A Miami woman returned from Haiti with a case of cholera. The disease has afflicted thousands in Haiti, but there hasn't been here since the '90s. But stay calm. No matter what newspeople say, none of you are at risk.