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A perfect fit...Allen West joins Fox News

2013-05-19T17:52:00.002-04:00

Click to enlarge. News item: Allen West joins Fox News as contributor. Is anyone really surprised? (1) “YOU ARE NOT A LADY”: In July 2011, West responded to a perceived slight from Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (R-FL) with a fiery letter in which he threatened her and scolded, “You have proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from me!” West

May 16, 2013, 3:08 pm

2013-05-16T16:43:00.003-04:00

Last news meeting in the Miami Herald newsroom at One Herald Plaza. Photograph by Al Diaz.(Click here to enlarge.) _____

The way we were...Jay Maeder's People Column in the Miami Herald

2013-05-16T09:52:00.002-04:00

_____ Today is the Miami Herald's last day at One Herald Plaza.(Will someone please remember to turn out the lights?) The paper has gone through a lot of changes over the years, and editorially it bears little resemblance to the Herald many of us remember from 20 or 30 years ago. Want proof? Check this morning's Herald and see if you can find anything like these wickedly funny

The Random Pixels Losers Corner welcomes....

2013-05-15T15:45:00.002-04:00

Click here to enlarge. UPDATE: Jeff Tavss sends me this email: One more thing that the higher ups just reminded me of… you got the title wrong. I’m Executive Producer, Digital & Social Media, not Director of Social Media. Just an FYI to make the article better. Jeff Tavss, Executive Producer, Digital & Social Media | jtavss@wplg.com ....Jeff Tavss, Local 10's Director of Social Media

Your lunch hour time waster

2013-05-15T11:00:00.000-04:00

Golden retriever comes back from the vet, high as a kite and with absolutely no interest in retrieving anything.

Facebook Photo of the Day

2013-05-14T16:34:00.003-04:00

The Miami Herald continues the move to its new building in Doral, and staff writer Hannah Sampson captured the perfect image today. "We're Gonna Need a Bigger Truck."by Hannah Sampson(Click image to enlarge)

North Miami mayoral candidate Anna Pierre claims she's been endorsed by Jesus Christ! [UPDATED x1]

2013-05-13T13:30:00.003-04:00

UPDATED at 6:30pm: The Miami Herald reports that "Pierre said Jesus came to her in a dream." “I had a revelation when I was going to give up on this race. I had a dream, I know what I saw,” she said. “A figure I can’t explain told me, ‘Don’t be afraid, I am your friend. I am walking with you side by side. You are not alone.’ I felt it was from heaven. It was an endorsement by Jesus.” North

The way we were...Miami's Own Whirligig

2013-05-13T05:30:00.000-04:00

Miami's Own Whirligig was a popular column that ran for decades on page one of the Miami Daily News. Each day, the column contained four or five gossipy items; all of them short and to the point. Here's a selection of five items that ran 65 years ago over the course of several weeks in May,1948. May 5, 1948. May 11, 1948. May 14, 1948. May 17, 1948. May 20, 1948.

Your Happy Mother's Day time waster

2013-05-12T10:52:00.001-04:00

Via latimes.com: So you think you and your significant other are pretty good at karaoke? Well, you've got nothing on Will and Monifa Sims, who delivered an impromptu gas station concert that was so impressive Jay Leno invited them on "The Tonight Show" on Wednesday. It all started out as one of the show's recurring gags, "Pumpcast News," in which actor Tim Stack, pretending to be a cable news

The Canadians are coming!!

2013-05-09T21:36:00.000-04:00

It's time again for that most special of times in Miami Beach...Urban Beach Weekend. According to the Miami Herald, "This year’s festivities are scheduled from May 24-27." The Herald's David Ovalle and Evan Benn reported in today's paper: Now in its 13th year, Urban Beach Week has long drawn complaints from residents angry about the debauchery and rise in crime, while spurring visitors and

Filomena Tobias, the Heat fan who gave Joakim Noah the middle finger, is Michael Jordan's Jupiter neighbor!

2013-05-09T14:47:00.002-04:00

Photograph by Steve Mitchell/USA Today Tim Elfrink at Miami New Times posted this early this morning. We've since learned who the woman is who owns the most famous middle finger in the world: Middle-finger lady: Riptide salutes you, for you are truly the soul of Miami embodied. Your patterned silk shirt: Glorious. Your tan: Immaculate. Your leather purse, gold jewelry and white pants:

The Random Pixels Losers Corner welcomes...

2013-05-08T16:51:00.002-04:00

Louis Dominic Paolino III.(BSO booking photo, May 8, 2013.) ....Louis Dominic Paolino. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of crimes are committed in South Florida every day. Most are committed by people who, while not particularly smart, at least take some precautions to conceal their identity. But it takes a special kind of idiot to commit three felonies in front of a professional TV cameraman

The way we were....The day Joel Hirschhorn made Judge Nesbitt watch a dirty movie....the whole damn thing!

2013-05-07T22:03:00.000-04:00

From the Miami News, Sept. 20, 1973.(Click here to enlarge) September, 1973 in Miami: Apparently Miami police have eliminated all crime in the city and now keep busy by raiding seedy, X-rated movie houses and seizing copies of dirty movies. In early September, plainclothes detectives raid the King Art Cinema on the corner of NE 79th Street and 2nd Ave. and seize a copy of "Devil in Miss

The way we were...Don Wright's Watergate cartoons

2013-05-07T11:11:00.003-04:00

Forty years ago today the Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Watergate scandal. No one at Miami's two newspapers won a Pulitzer that year, but Miami News cartoonist Don Wright was producing some of the best work of his career, much of it inspired by Watergate. (When Wright retired from cartooning a few years ago, he had two Pulitzers under his belt. Here's a

Your lunch hour time waster

2013-05-07T11:00:00.000-04:00

Dog doesn't understand why stranger sitting on a park bench won't play "fetch" with him.

Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is a moron

2013-05-06T12:04:00.000-04:00

My first car was a '59 Chevy that I bought for $600. It was a piece of crap. But it was my fault for not checking it out completely. Now, after all those years, I'm not feeling so bad. Seems it can happen to the best of us. Even to billionaires who should know better. __________ “I don’t think Steve or any of us knew the condition of the facility was as desperate as it was when

Hey, Steve Ross...now might be a good time to finally put your money where your mouth is!

2013-05-05T11:52:00.001-04:00

Click here to enlarge. Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is a billionaire times four. And because he's wealthy, he's used to getting his way. But, that didn't happen on Friday. So, Ross did what most people with money who are used to getting their way do when they don't get their way. He threw a hissy fit. Then he started threatening people. But, in all the recent discussion of Ross's

The Random Pixels Friday Night Funnies

2013-05-03T20:00:00.000-04:00

Classic Dan Akroyd bit from Saturday Night Live, March 12, 1977: "Ask President Carter."

Your TGIF lunch hour time waster

2013-05-03T11:00:00.000-04:00

Rottweiler makes a new friend at the deer park.

Andrew Mirmelli, scumbag owner of scummy Miami Beach parking lot, has a scummy past

2013-05-02T15:05:00.000-04:00

Andrew Mirmelli.via Local 10. Andrew Mirmelli, owner of the Lenox Avenue parking lot that figures in one of the sleaziest parking lot/towing scams that Miami Beach has ever seen, has a criminal history that includes arrests for felony drug possession, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and passing worthless checks. In April 1996, Mirmelli was arrested and charged with six

Meet some of the thugs and goons who control South Beach's towing Mafia

2013-05-01T14:49:00.002-04:00

From left to right, Keith Menin, Harold Rosen, Neisen Kasdin and Russell Galbut.(Click here to enlarge.) Just when you thought the tactics employed by Miami Beach's two city-sanctioned auto theft companies towing companies couldn't get any scummier, comes this short tale from Frank Alvarado at Miami New Times: There's a new twist to the ol' South Beach towing racket. At 17th Street and

Circulation figures released for Florida newspapers

2013-04-30T19:35:00.002-04:00

From the Tampa Bay Times: DAILY (CHANGE*) SUNDAY (CHANGE) Tampa Bay Times 340,260 (+14%) 402,422 (-7%) Tampa Tribune 191,477 (+33%) 281,086 (+7%)** Orlando Sentinel 161,070 (-7%) 268,257 (-7%) S. Fla. Sun-Sentinel 163,728 (-1%) 228,906 (-7%) Miami Herald 147,130 (-9%) 190,751 (-10%) Meanwhile, the

George Jones | 1931-2013

2013-04-27T11:25:00.000-04:00

“If we could all sound like we wanted to, we’d sound like George Jones.” -Waylon Jennings [via]

Happy Friday, everyone!

2013-04-26T07:08:00.001-04:00

Get out and do something this weekend!

Miami Herald's move to new building is delayed by one week

2013-04-25T16:20:00.002-04:00

Here's an email the Miami Herald's Senior VP of Circulation & Operations, Craig Woischwill, sent to Herald staffers on Tuesday. Everyone, We have decided to delay the start of our office staff move to Doral by one week. This affects all three phases of the move. Timing for receiving the necessary permitting and inspections to move into the Office Building has become too tight to