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NBC's Mark Potter honored
Congratulations to our friend Mark Potter, who received a regional Silver Circle Award at the 2012 Suncoast Emmy Awards on Saturday night: "During his 37 year journalism career, Mark has reported from...
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Catching Cocaine Cowboys references on new tracks from Young Jeezy and Game
via HipHopWired: Young Jeezy: "Pull up jump out stuntin' like I was Baby, on my Cocaine Cowboys shit like in the 80s" "See No Evil (feat. Kendrick Lamar and Tank)" from Game's new album Jesus Piece:...
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Happy Holidays from the Royal rakonturs
Dave has once again topped himself with this year's rakontur holiday card. Some of his past work: 20062007 2008200920102011 2012
View ArticleErrol Morris examines sports-themed funerals in ESPN short doc
via Adweek: ESPN and Wieden + Kennedy in New York take their excellent "It's not crazy, it's sports" campaign into posthumous territory today with an online documentary titled "Team Spirit," directed...
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Broke kicks off the second season of ESPN's 30 for 30 series on October 2nd
Our documentary Broke will open the second season of ESPN's 30 for 30 series on Tuesday, October 2nd at 8 PM ET: ESPN Films, creators of the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning 30 for 30 film...
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"Here in Miami there are a lot people with money who have had problems with...
Miami New Times's Francisco Alvarado (aka The Banana Republican) reports that Mitt Romney will be hobnobbing with a convicted cocaine smuggler at a campaign stop in Miami today: The Republican...
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El Colombiano reporting that Griselda Blanco has been murdered in Medellin
via El Colombiano (translation via Google Translate): The murder happened at 3:00 pm on Monday, when the 69-year exconvicta was in a neighborhood butcher Bethlehem Park, accompanied by a pregnant...
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1984 DEA memo detailing Griselda Blanco's organization
This January 13, 1984 DEA memo sought approval for an undercover operation targeting the cocaine trafficking organization run by Griselda Blanco and her sons:
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Griselda Blanco shot to death by assassins on motorcycles in Medellin on Monday
Butcher shop in Medellin where Griselda Blanco was killed. Photo by Santiago Olivares El Colombiano broke the news early Monday evening: Griselda Blanco had been shot and killed in broad daylight by...
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Murders in Miami tied to Griselda Blanco
When hitman Jorge "Rivi" Ayala agreed to testify against his boss Griselda Blanco in 1993, he recounted chilling details of several of the murders he claims to have committed on her orders:
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1981 CENTAC 26 memo: "Griselda Blanco is in Miami"
This March 6, 1981 Metro-Dade homicide intelligence memo entitled "Colombian Activities Intelligence Information" detailed the cocaine war involving Griselda Blanco's organization:
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CENTAC 26 memo: Griselda Blanco "is quite able to handle a firearm"
This March 11, 1981 Metro-Dade homicide intelligence memo shows that, nearly two years after the Dadeland Mall shootout and seven years after first appearing in DEA reports, authorities were receiving...
View ArticleWitness to Griselda Blanco's murder: "It was vengeance from the past”
Miami Herald's Frances Robles reports on the scene outside the Medellin butcher shop where Blanco was shot: As [Griselda Blanco] lay dying on the ground, her pregnant daughter-in-law, who had been...
View ArticleSpot for our new ESPN 30 for 30 doc Broke
Premieres Tuesday, October 2nd at 8pm on ESPN
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Broke premieres on ESPN tonight at 8pm ET
ESPN's critically acclaimed 30 for 30 series kicks off its second season with the premiere of our new documentary Broke, tonight at 8pm ET. According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 60 percent...
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Broke is now the highest rated film in ESPN's 30 for 30 series
TV By The Numbers reports that Broke was seen by 2.53 million viewers and was the second-highest watched cable program of the night after Sons of Anarchy. Broke earned a 1.92 HH rating, making it the...
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Art Basel is upon us
As Miami gears up for the tenth edition of Art Basel, the annual invasion of globe-trotting art and party lovers, major publications are frothing over the Magic City: How Culture Created Miami Nice...
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NBC's Mark Potter honored
Congratulations to our friend Mark Potter, who received a regional Silver Circle Award at the 2012 Suncoast Emmy Awards on Saturday night: "During his 37 year journalism career, Mark has reported from...
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