Columbus Day Regatta this Weekend

You know it’s coming but I should say something anyway. People seem pretty pumped considering it hasn’t been that great the past couple of years. Hopefully this rain won’t haunt the bay on Saturday.

So are you going or skipping it? How about this Mashta flat alternate party I keep hearing about?

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Sweet Home Hialeah

If only we had this kind of talent making videos for the key…

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Orange Bowl Too

Not to be outdone by the Miami Arena, the Orange Bowl looks like this now:

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It’d be kind of cool if someone set up a huge tailgate for a UM game at the site.

[via Tarajano]

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Watch the Miami Arena come down

In case you missed the news this weekend, the Miami Arena was demolished on Sunday. Built only in 1989, it lasted less than 20 years. Once the home of the Miami Heat, the Florida Panthers, and my personal favorite, the Wringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, now it’s gone.

Even if you did hear about it, you probably didn’t get to watch it. So now I present you with great footage of the roof being imploded.

Hit the jump to watch some other angles.

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Wii Fit Girl’s Boyfriend is a huge tool

You may remember the story about Lauren Bernat, the Miami girl who played Wii Fit and became an internet sensation. Well the other day they were on the Tyra Banks show (or “Tyra” wtf) and he took his pants off and did the Wii Fit hula hoop for a second.

The YouTube description calls it payback but it actually looks like they’re cashing in.

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Miami Beach Trash

We all know a lot of trashy people go to Miami Beach but that’s not what this is about. No, this is about how dirty the actual beach is in Miami Beach. Cory Friedman, a Beach resident, put up some YouTube videos in the past couple of weeks detailing just how disgusting the beach is, and government officials are finally taking notice.

This type of thing can be really bad for Miami, which already has a bit of trashy, dirty, crime-ridden cholo stigma, especially when we rely so heavily on tourism. Also, this should shutup all those people who think the Key beach is dirty because on certain days it has seeweed; I think I’d rather step on seeweed than cigarrette butts.

[via Miami Herald]

Hit the jump to watch a second video on a different day.

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Poll: Miami has most attractive people

Give yourselves a hand, guys. Miami was voted to have the most attractive people in the US in some travel poll that probably doesn’t mean much (but still gets national press attention). Miami topped the list, followed by San Diego and Charleston, with Philadelphia at dead last.

They didn’t just rank us in attractiveness, though. We placed number 1 in clubbing, number 4 in singles scene, and number 5 in overall nightlife. Where did we bomb? In culture, where we placed close to the bottom in every category. Hey, we can’t be hot and intellectual; you have to pick one.

[via Yahoo! News from Travel and Leisure]

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Gulliver Prep’s Unorthodox Sex Ed

(The coach is missing 'cause he's having sex with a student)

For the second time in a month’s time, a coach associated with Gulliver Preparatory School has been accused of having sex with a student. Last month it was former NBA player Vincent Askew who, to Gulliver’s credit, was applying for a job at the time. This time it’s coach Ronald Butler, a football coach, who is accused of having sex with a 17 year old student.

I hate to get all Nancy Grace over here, because I hate that bitch, but what the hell is going on? Normally I’d see this as isolated but I know for a fact that when my friends all went to Gulliver in the 2000s there was a soccer coach there that would also have sex with girls; more than one. He never got caught.

What kind of environment is this school fostering, or are these parents fostering, where their daughters are being so damn callous with their promiscuity? I remember the days when whores would whore it up with their fellow peers, not with the administration. You’d think after repeated incidents and the press exposure they’d maybe sit all the frisky girls down and give them a talk about it. As for the girls, they need to think about their fellow peers; little Gulliver guys will never get laid if this trend continues.

[via Miami Herald]

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Guy arrested for pirate radio

A 23 year old guy in Wilton Manors (Broward) was arrested last night for running a pirate radio station. His whole operation was running out of the 10th story of an apartment building, on 103.9FM, under the name DJ Kosta.

How did he get caught? Not because the FCC found him, but because his radio station was interfering with another station in Palm Beach. The station called the police to complain, and they roped him. It’s strange that the police would do the arresting, considering it’s not their business. One commenter on the Miami Herald site goes on to say that it will probably be tossed out of court for just that reason, but I’m no lawyer. Just goes to show that if you ever plan on doing something like this you should make sure that you don’t broadcast too close to any other stations.

[via Miami Herald]

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Facebook online friends when you’re offline

Admittedly, this has little to do with Rat Radio, the Key, Miami, or anything else, but I figured this is something that most readers of this site would appreciate, considering so many use Facebook (so many, in fact, that they all stopped reading this). I also wanted to tell people because I thought it was interesting.

This little trick will let you log out of the Facebook chat while still being able to see who is online. Sometimes you just want to see if someone you want to talk to is there, but you don’t want to be available to everyone. Or maybe, as I suppose will be more common, you can see who is wasting time on Facebook without them seeing you. That said, now that I’m revealing this I suppose more people will be offline more often.

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