South Florida Blogs

On Friday, May 27, 2011 the Embrace Girls Foundation, Inc., hosted its farewell Tea recognizing Lissette Garcia, Miss Florida USA 2010, a long time program mentor.  The event, one of the organization’s signature Socials was held at Midtown Miami's hottest venue, Villa221, located at 221 [...]

     University of Miami usual midweek pitcher Steven Ewing was named the starter Wednesday by coach Jim Morris for the Hurricanes’ opening game against Jacksonville in the Gainesville Regional that begins at noon Friday.

     "Nothing different than what we've done in the past,'' Morris told me a couple hours ago. [...]

It’s one of the tragic axioms of life that everything we enjoy is bad for us. Ancient peoples, for whom the line between the spiritual and the secular was so fuzzy as to be virtually nonexistent, tried to explain it through narrative and mythology (Sodom, Gomorrah, [...]

Shaquille O'Neal hangs 'em up after one disappointing season in Boston

Have to admit I’m a little sad to see Shaquille O’Neal make it official and admit he is indeed retiring after 19 seasons in the NBA.

It was sort of obvious, wasn’t it, when the Big [...]

Plantation's Mosaic Theatre will present five shows during its 2011-2012 season, and now we know what three of them will be.

Artistic director Richard Jay Simon has chosen two plays based on real-life legends and a third by hot playwright Adam Rapp.  Eric Simonson's Lombardi, about legendary [...]

MIAMI bringing the HEAT West kendall Atmosphere from Andres, Velez on Vimeo.

BY BUDDY NEVINS

Western Pembroke Pines residents recently beat back a waste transfer station. Now can they stop a 1,500-inmate prison?

Because Gov. Rick Scott is in favor of privatizing state prisons, the time might be right for Corrections Corporation of America to start building on the more than 50 acres it owns [...]