For many people living in South Florida, malls are often the best entertainment option: They’re free to enter, are usually air-conditioned, contain bathrooms, sell pizza and are full of teenagers. Delish! Mall of the Americas, however, goes the extra...

Brazilian artist Romero Britto was trendy in the late 80’s but never quite went away, and now he’s unleashed yet more colorful sculpture on an unsuspecting Miami. His latest sculptures were recently unveiled at Miami’s “Grapeland” water-park, which actually...

Christine Morteh from Miami, Florida has been arrested along with four other people for running an alleged “brothel on wheels” out of a black limousine on South Beach. Isn’t that just called “prom?” The jig was up, as the...

Last week when Barack Obama was campaigning in Florida, Elian Gonzalez’s family protested during an address Obama made to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami. Their beef? Two people on Obama’s team: Foreign policy adviser Greg Craig, who...

Vogue editor Anna Wintour was reportedly “miserable” at Karl Lagerfeld’s Cruise Collection Show in Miami because Miami is a festering pit of eternally burning hellfire. [Page Six] Speaking of Miami, Celine Dion’s home there uses about a bajillion gallons...

Karl Lagerfeld presented his cruise collection for Chanel in Miami and, apparently, some were surprised that there was nary a pink linen blazer with rolled-up sleeves in the bunch: Indeed, Lagerfeld’s cruise woman was sophisticated with a rock chick...

There is a reason we’re not friends with film majors. Eventually, they will want to sit you down and force you to watch a woman onscreen hold an inside-out umbrella in Bushwick while screaming “SPATULA! SPATULA!” and then ask...

Ashley Alexandra Dupré is in the news again, this time suing “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis for a cut of video sales he’ll receive by using old footage of her as a drunken 17-year-old. What happens in Miami,...

Had your fill of Eva Longoria news? Too bad! We’re hungover as hell and taking it out on you. For her 33rd birthday celebration in Miami, Land of Tacky Cakes, Eva commissioned a cake with her face plastered all...

Miami, mystical land of swamps, hurricanes and rich South American guys in silk shirts, experienced a major blackout yesterday. The power outage was caused by a fire and not, as Miamians almost always suspect, because religious extremists are so...

Self-appointed “It Boy,” Fabian Basabe (Never heard of him? Clap.) is starring in a new reality TV series called “Mean Boys.” The show will follow his super interesting, meaningful existence, along with those of his two friends: Some Guy...

Yesterday Fidel Castro up and quit us like some kind of dead beat daddy with a new hooker in town and the ensuing aftermath spurred the startling realization that no one in America or Cuba really gives a shit...

As noted earlier, no one’s really sure what it means that Fidel Castro officially resigned from the office of president of Cuba this morning. It’s a little underwhelming because he’s been out of commission for the most part since...

So we were self-administering our daily coffee enema, perusing John Mayer fan fiction on Live Journal, like we always do, when we came across one that was Latino themed! We practically shat ourselves in excitement, all of this morning’s...

Miami Cubans ignore Rudy Giuliani over a rousing game of dominos. [New American Media] Ten undocumented Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants are caught during a traffic stop. In Peru, which is a nice change. [WANDtv] Hillary Clinton is your amiga....

Seven members of the Spanish Ballet of Cuba have defected, with four of the troupe members having already made their way into the United States via Mexico. Aw, but everything was all literate and shit over in Cuba: They...

Certainly not attempting in any way to cater to South Florida’s huge, predominantly Republican, overwhelmingly religious Hispanic voting community, Rudy Giuliani gave a faith-based speech in a Miami-area Church: “We are all children of God, and it is God’s...

After his recent little DUI arrest, Cuban rapper Pitbull decided a nice, thorough image clean-up was in order. Since adopting babies is so last year, he went ahead and set up his very own foundation. Imaginate will expose children...

At a recent concert in Miami, Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz sent some fans into a tizzy when he donned a “Chavez Sucks” t-shirt: While Sanz was performing “La Habana,” a female fan threw a Venezuelan flag at the singer,...

A union group called The Communication Workers of America Local 3178 distributed fliers to Hispanic residents of Miami Beach, claiming city commission candidate Luis Salom had business ties to Fidel Castro’s regime. Salom worked for Cargill Inc., an international...

Please accept into your heart right now, next to the baby Jesus, our new Associate Editor Alex Alvarez. Alex hails from Miami where her Cuban parents weaned her on cafecito and platanos just like Jimmy Smits on “Cane.” In...

It warmed our hearts today to read that a recent altercation that occurred between teens of different races in South Florida turns out not to be a racially motivated hate-crime: Prosecutors plan to drop hate-crime charges against five teens...

Miami Beach residents and tourists all shed some clothes off this week for another installment of Spencer Tunick’s “I want to see more ass than anyone else in the world” show. Well actually, they took their clothes off because...

In a statement delivered in court, Julio Vigil, therapist for the Florida Cuban girl in the middle of a custody dispute, submitted a request to begin the girl’s transition from the care of her foster parents to the care...

We remain gripped by the plight of that young Cuban girl who still doesn’t know whether she’s staying with her foster parents in Miami, or working as a pig herder in Cuba for the rest of her life. The...

Miami Circuit Court Judge Jeri B. Cohen has ruled that the daughter of a pig farmer and wack job respectively could possibly be sent back to her daddy’s home country of Cuba IF the separation from her foster parents...

The biological father of the unnamed, 4 year-old Cuban girl whose custody is being sought by a foster couple in Coral Gables testified yesterday with some amusing results. A Cuban pig farmer that came to Miami to appear in...

Elena Pérez, the mother of a 4 year-old Cuban girl at the midst of an international custody battle in Miami, has topped last week’s performance as a poetry-spouting abuser in denial by coming clean and saying she lied in...

Proving once again that Latino culture is best presented as an extravagant trainwreck, J. Lo is bankrolling a reality series about a quintet of Miami teens who operate a business that exclusively plans quinceañeras. “The Amigas Sweet 15 Club”...

The 4 year-old Cuban girl at the center of a Miami custody battle between her Coral Gables foster parents and her biological father from the island was routinely beaten by her suicidal mother, according to court testimony by the...

We’ve had assistant editor Carlos Nobleza Posas continuously pushing refresh on his browser for the past 72 hours and still no news of a dead Cuban dictator. The official word from Havana is that Fidel Castro is very much...

A 4-year old Cuban girl in Miami is at the center of a custody battle between her foster father who lives in Coral Gables and her biological father from Cuba. Like something straight out of a sub-par soap op,...

You can always count on the folks in South Beach to expose a worldwide trend to our virgin eyes. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale chapter of the Hash House Harriers got a write-up this weekend explaining what they do: go on...

The horror! The horror! Credit Page Six with this account of the inexcusable behavior that broke out at something called the Ozone Awards in Miami this week: MALE rappers have become even bigger divas than their notorious female counterparts...

Fresh off a low profile tour through Italy and the rest of Europe, Noelia spoke with the press the minute she stepped off her airplane in Miami. The porn star who occasionally sings has gone supersleuth, claiming she’s figured...

Mexican pop singer Thalía was in New York this week, babbling to the press about the bundle of joy she’s expecting in two months. So how does the famous wife of a high-powered music executive deal with that kind...

• It’s also the ranking he got on Blender’s ‘Powergeek 25’ list for being a ‘tastemaker’ in indie music. We suggest you never taste anything Perez offers. [Perez Hilton] • Venezuela-raised folk singer Devendra Banhart covers Oasis hit “Don’t...

Start your morning with a cracker! Yesterday we stumbled upon this website called White Dade: Life As An American Living Abroad. And By Abroad I Mean Miami. To our shock, it reveals that Florida has in its midst some...

Spanish-language shock jock Javier Ceriani shared some air time with us this morning, interviewing our Publisher Daniel Mauser on his show Zona Cero. The Miami-based talk show host broached a subject we’ve all grown so fond of around here—the...

Latino songwriter Estefano, known for award-winning collaborations with Shakira that no one listens to in the States, had no choice but to beg for mercy when his Brazilian handyman held him at gunpoint in his own home, according to...

Our recent post on Miami Sweet 15 Audrey Reyes introduced us to a band that is a hit with the kids down there: Los Primeros. They even have their own special dance (pictured at right) called the “Eslow Motion.”...

It’s summer and the TV shows suck. Let’s talk about ‘em. Meet Audrey Reyes. The little, Cuban princess whose teeth we would slap out of her head if she were our daughter. (Oh—did we type that out loud?) Audrey’s crying...

Now we know why we haven’t heard anything from Miami since we got this party started. They are too busy dancing with Rahim in IT. Ad Rants today calls Latino culture site Batanga’s opening party for an interactive advertising...

Today’s Fashion & Style Slideshow from The New York Times heralds the comeback of ’80s chic…again. Upon viewing it, the notion of pairing pastels with linens for the umpteenth time in our young lives sent us on a technicolor...