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• Glenn Beck is in town, so instead of shaking your fist at your '90s box, shake it at the man -- live and in person. We hear he has some wonderful things to say.
• For another form of battle, check out Unconquered 1: November Reign for a luscious MMA fight that'll leave someone begging for a death panel to take him out of his misery.
• Imagine Shakespeare remixed by Lil' Jon...and then brought down 1 couple of notches and you'll get Shake it Up. How art thou, boo?
• Part 2 of Shecky's Girl's Night Out is on and that means discounts, deals, and bitches who will elbow you for 25 percent off.

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Duke Blue Devils @ Miami Hurricanes, Saturday at Noon, on ESPNU and WVUM 90.5

Let's get real fucking excited about the Meineke Car Care Bowl! Because that's where the season might be headed ...against West Virginia or something! This is exactly where a team that starts it season with beating 3 ranked teams in four tries belongs! Meineke Car Care! So please excuse us for phoning in blog posts for the rest of the season. It is depressing.

Anyway, Saturday your Hurricanes play the Duke Blue Devil Disco Club at home to finish out both their home schedule and their conference schedule.

You know which team's fans would actually be absolutely thrilled to get in the Meineke Car Care bowl? Duke. Incidentally, they'll be playing to keep bowl eligibility hopes alive. Miami will be playing to keep their hopes that they are actually on the verge of becoming an elite football program again alive.

Coral Gables Police Department

The BB gun shooter rode in this silver Volvo, cops say.

About 200 students are locked inside a gym at University of Miami as we speak, thanks to an alleged BB gun shooter. School President Donna Shalala sent text messages and e-mails around 3 p.m. today asking folks to "stay away from windows."

Students are becoming restless. From inside the gym, Senior Joey DiFrancesco says: "To be honest, I'm getting a little pissed off; it's just a B-B gun. I've got somewhere to be and were stuck in here."

It's the second time the campus has been on lock down in the past ten days. Two University of Miami students returning from a Miami Heat game were robbed at gunpoint around 10:30 p.m. on November 10. On campus, windows are shut, doors are locked and nobody is outside.

Update: The suspect is in custody and campus is now open.

​When things dry up in the bedroom, our first instinct is often to blame it on our lover. Too boring, too monotonous, too too too used to the same ol' sex game. While the desert between your legs could be psychological, it turns out that you should visit a doctor before dumping your guy because health problems can be the cause and catalyst for many sexual issues. Tonight at University of Miami/ Jackson Memorial Hospital, several experts will be on hand for "Sex and a Healthier You," a discussion on sexual health and finding out why 70% of women have issues but only 17% actually visit their doctor to do something about it.

On the panel are Dr. Paul Norris, Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gyneceology at Jackson; Dr. Susan Kellogg-Spadt, Director of Sexual Medicine and Co-Founder of The Pelvic and Sexual Health Institute; and Dr. Pepper Schwartz, noted relationship expert, author, and Professor of Sociology at the Univesity of Washington. 

C. Stiles

Rene "Level" Martinez gears up for his second pro fight against Charles Champion

​Inside a mixed martial arts training studio just a block east of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Charles Champion takes a seat on the blue mat where for the past month he has been training for his cage match versus Rene "Level" Martinez tonight.

Like Martinez, Champion is looking to prove that a reformed ex-gang banger can make it as a professional mixed martial arts fighter. "People can change," he affirms. "They can come out the backyard fights and make something of themselves."

A fair-skinned 28-year-old man with blue eyes and a short buzz-cut hairstyle, Champion grew up down south, between Homestead and Florida City. As a teenager and young adult he proclaimed himself a Latin Disciple, a Miami gang that counted members from the south end of the county to South Beach. That's all in the past, Champion attests. ""It's been seven years since I've been involved in any gang activity," he says.

​This is pretty much all we know about the lock down of the University of Miami right now: BB GUN WAS USED.

According to reports, two girls were shot by a BB gun in the school's gym parking lot, and authorities are looking for a gold Volvo.

We'll let you know if we hear anything else. Like if someone put their eye out, any small birds were killed or any skin was bruised.

​Today's photo of a fountain on Granada Circle in Coral Gables comes from DKero's Flickr. If you'd like to see your photo here, join our Flickr group.

Photo via kimkardashian.celebbuzz.com

​There are very few things that a Kardashian can't do. They can turn forgetting to take your bc pills and unprotected sex into an adorable anecdote! They can force you into the background of your own wedding picture! And now they can materialize in Sunrise, Florida to celebrate the opening of a store where nothing costs more than $100. Well, the Kim Kardashian can. She'll be at Sawgrass Mills from 6 to 9 p.m. to fete the opening of A'GACI, a store where trendy and cheap are the couture du jour and "sale" means that items drop below ten bucks.

Check out Kim's five favorite looks or just ogle Reggie Bush's two favorite cheeks, but you have to email RSVP@skirpr.com to get on the list.

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In a bizarre coincidence, two men died and another clings to life this morning after separate shootings 15 miles apart at virtually the same time.

The deadly hour was 6:30 a.m.

One shooting left 43-year-old Conrado Antigua Gallardo dead on the street at 1550 SW 131st Ct.. in Tamiami. Another hail of bullets, at the same moment, felled two unidentified men in a white SUV downtown, near NE First Avenue and Tenth Street.

Gallardo and another Hispanic man were heard arguing loudly in front of a squat home on SW 131st Court. Neighbors heard shots at 6:30 a.m., says Rebecca Perez, a Miami-Dade Police spokeswoman.

Police are looking for a 5'5", 180-pound Hispanic man in blue pants, a long-sleeve blue shirt, and a blue baseball hat, who was seen running south after the shooting.

Meanwhile, a white SUV slowed at a stoplight at NE First Avenue downtown. A car pulled up alongside and someone fired several shots into the SUV, says Officer Jeffrey Giordano, a Miami PD spokesman.

One victim died on the scene, and another is in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Know anything about either shooting? Call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

Rafael Montilla

Geeks in a tropical setting.

​Held November 18 at the Mutiny Hotel in Coconut Grove, Refresh Miami was tame but very tropical.  The location just about upstaged last month's meeting at the Mayfair Hotel, what with the Mutiny being a grand dame of the 1980s, notorious for drug activity and crazy parties when Coconut Grove was still something of a wild animal.

The infamous property got a makeover in recent years and has come a long way. It was the perfect setting for this month's meeting, which even featured a lovely, smiling hostess giving out nametags in the lobby. Five-dollar drink specials, as well as passed hors d'oeuvres poolside among a lush canopy of trees, made yours truly wonder if Crockett and Tubbs weren't going to stagger in wearing pastel linen suits.

Instead, two local geek stars did all the shop talk. Matt Heitzenroder (@roder), a Grove resident and cofounder of Appush.com, began the meetup with a presentation about Agile, a development methodology for products. Put in simple terms, Agile is a computer-based process that software developers or any business that's developing a product can use to organize their stuff and get shit done in a streamlined, highly efficient way. Heitzenroder also talked about his Miami startup Appush, which is focused for now on making it easier for iPhone app developers to integrate push notifications into their own applications. Unlike text messages, which sit in a message bin, push notifications burst through applications. This isn't easy to code, according to Heitzenroder.