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Miami Book Fair: Poet Marie Ponsot

2009-11-08 09:00:00

Leading up to Miami Book Fair International, Riptide 2.0 will be publishing profiles of visiting authors. Check back often as two to three will going up per day until Sunday, November 15.Marie Pon...

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The Fast Lane: Championship Racecar Driver Will Do Three Years in Ecstasy Case

2009-11-07 09:33:39

When it comes to the drug habits of the rich and famous, there's a thin line between hilarious and disturbing. Championship race car driver Mariusz Malyszczycki's relationship with ecstasy is som...

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Miami Dolphins Preview: One Insufferable Fanbase Down, One To Go

2009-11-07 08:00:00

When last we saw our Miami Dolphins, they were busy beating the bejesus out of the shitdipping trash-talking New York Jets, and silencing their shitdipping trash-talking fans in the process. It w...

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Miami Sports Agent Returns after Cuban Prison Term

2009-11-06 18:13:18

When Miami sports agent Juan Ignacio Hernandez Nodar, 51, flew into Miami Friday after spending 13 years in a Cuban jail, he felt a bit like Rip Van Winkle. The small children he had left behind w...

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The Week That Was: A Beacon of Participatory Democracy

2009-11-06 17:40:54

Hey, there were some elections this week. You probably didn't vote, but we liveblogged them for you, and here are your winners for Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah. In Miami voters loved name ...

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Glenn Garvin's "Obama is a TV Space Lizard" Theory Debunked by Actress Who Plays TV Space Lizard

2009-11-06 16:09:44

Considering Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin now gets his own right-wing political column every other week, is it asking too much that he keeps pointed, half-baked political theory out of his telev...

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Hurricanes Host Cavaliers for Homecoming

2009-11-06 15:43:51

Virginia Cavaliers @ Miami Hurricanes, Saturday 12pm on ESPN360.com and 90.5 FM. College football is a ridiculously frustrating thing, and playing in the ACC only magnifies that. Listen, we ...

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305 Photo of the Day: Robo Lizard

2009-11-06 15:05:47

Sunset Place is a horrible place where teenage stereotypes go to die, but it is also home to the last of the giant, metallic robo-iguanas. The photo comes from MigRodz's Flickr. ...

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Copycat Killer in Orlando? [Updated]

2009-11-06 13:11:01

Several media are reporting that eight people have been shot and two killed in an Orlando office building. It happened just before noon at the Gateway Office Center near Lake Ivanhoe. The Orland...

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Miami Man Claims to Have Invented the iPod, but Sarah Jessica Parker Screwed Him Over

2009-11-06 13:01:17

Franz A. Wakefield, a Miami resident, claims that he not only came up with the idea and names of Apple's entire iPod, iTunes, and iPhone line, but that actress Sarah Jessica Parker totally screwe...

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Kourtney and Khloe Shockingly Not Based on Reality

2009-11-06 12:32:50

Here we were thinking Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami was an authentic documentary looking at the real lives of two young girls trying to make it in the Magic City, but *gasp* new revelations seem t...

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Congrats, South Florida! You've Driven Two New Species Toward The Endangered List

2009-11-06 12:01:13

Here in South Florida, we've done a number to Mother Nature that few other regions in this fine country can match. In just over a century, we've dammed the Everglades, plopped whole cities...

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Silicon Beach: Local Geek Helps the Homeless

2009-11-06 11:00:00

Robert Murray, a freelance Flash and iPhone developer, is practically a Miami native considering he's lived here since 1990. But it was a recent trip to New York City that inspired him to set up...

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News Roundup

2009-11-06 10:37:45

Manny Diaz on the "breather" citizens apparently wanted by elected Regalado: "We are now competing with the rest of the world. If we take a breather, the rest of the world will pass us by." [...

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Natacha Seijas and Audrey Edmonson: Luxury Travel on Taxpayer Dime in Tough Times

2009-11-06 09:32:37

Every so often, Banana Republican daydreams of traveling the world with Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas, serenading her with the sweet sounds of the toot flute in Peru. I also fanta...

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