Stephen M. Ross, Owner and Managing General Partner of the Miami Dolphins, announced today that 19-time Grammy Award-winning producer Emilio Estefan and international superstar Gloria Estefan are joining the organization as minority owners of the franchise.

The Estefans are the first Cuban-Americans to hold an ownership stake in a NFL franchise and one of the few Hispanics league-wide to hold this unique distinction.

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La nieta de Ernesto “Che” Guevara es el rostro de una nueva campaña de una organización defensora de los animales, que pide a la gente unirse a una revolución, no comunista, como la de su abuelo, sino hacia el vegetarianismo.

Lydia Guevara, de 24 años, aparece semidesnuda en la campaña, vestida sólo con pantalones de camuflaje y una boina roja, como la que caracterizó al ideólogo y comandante de la Revolución Cubana, nacido en Argentina. Lleva también ceñidas cartucheras que en vez de balas portan pequeñas zanahorias.

El anuncio pide a los lectores, “únete a la revolución vegetariana”, dijo Michael McGraw, portavoz de la organización Personas por un Trato Etico a los Animales (PETA, por sus siglas en inglés), quien añadió que la campaña comenzará a difundirse en revistas y carteles en Argentina, en octubre y se verá después en varios países y tambien la calle ocho en Miami.

MADD is profoundly disappointed in the 30 day jail sentence for Donte Stallworth who killed a pedestrian while driving drunk. We have heard there may be a contribution to MADD in the settlement and if that is true, we will not accept any monies. This case is a clear test of the NFL’s continued tolerance of drunk driving among its players. We are closely watching what the NFL does.

Tyler Hayes Weinman was arrested in connection with 19 gruesome cat-killings. The former Miami Palmetto Senior High School student lived in Palmetto Bay and Cutler Bay, the communities where the killings took place. Police, working with tips gathered from the community and reading his Facebook and MySpace pages, kept Weinman under surveillance for weeks. He was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, with bail set at $154,500. He was charged with 19 counts of felony animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary. Each of the felony counts carries a minimum mandatory fine of $5,000, six months in prison and psychological counseling. Weinman’s attorney, David Macey, said his client is innocent.

In Miami, it actually pays to be homeless.  A new survey says Miamians are giving over $40 million to panhandlers on the streets each year, most of it in the form of spare change.  The survey, done by Zogby International for Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, also found that the change givers were overwhelmingly skeptic that their pennies were of any help to the displaced.  Of the people surveyed, 73 percent said their street contribution was mostly or completely ineffective. We did our own survey:

We could explain why this video is so funny, but it’s better to just let local poet and Hialeah native Yaddyra Peralta guide you through the entire thing: “Okay, when it starts, the guy’s wearing a fat gold chain and hanging out with chongas — the gangsta-looking girls with tight clothes and loads of gold. Singer shakes hands with guy wearing a straw hat. These guys walk through traffic around 49th/103rd Street, selling water, flowers, churros, etc., and any reference to the canal is supposed to be funny because (a) they are ubiquitous in Hialeah and (b) you’re not supposed to go near them because they are dirty, gross, and full of crocodiles (according to your mother, of course). When you catch guys swimming or fishing in them, it’s supposed to be the most disgusting, ghetto thing in the world… ‘The canals are not the beaches of Holguín, but I’ll go for a swim.’ Holguín is one of Cuba’s most beautiful beaches and historically where Christopher Columbus first set foot. The singer inserts the English word swim, pronounced sween, which rhymes with Holguín. Of course, you know about the famed Hialeah Cuban Spanglish… More references to water, mud, and factories. There’s a myth that it rains more in Hialeah than in any other part of Miami, probably because any amount of rainfall causes severe flooding… double-entendre food items… Chicharrones are more meaty and fatty than your standard pork rind and really good but eat too much and they’ll kill you… Chancleta is flip-flop. A chancletera is a woman who always wears flip-flops no matter what the occasion… ‘I give them the finger and say f*%$ you!’ You’ll see this happen anywhere: the mall, outside at school between parents, in traffic, the bus stop, dentist’s office… The one thing I haven’t referenced, because it might be obvious, is that the whole backdrop with the tires and the cars has to do with the popular Hialeah pastime of pimping out your car. There are loads of mechanics and body shops in Hialeah. Oh, and I never want to hear this song again. You owe me a beer.”