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Calle Ocho 2013: A Guide to the Many Stages

Superstorm Sandy Chefs: Tweets From The Front Line of the Storm

We've all been watching the shocking reports from New York that show the damage that Superstorm Sandy did to the the northeast. Many of us have been up all night, glued to the television and thinking of friends and family riding out the storm.ABC News is reporting that over seven million people have ... More >>

Miami International Airport Has Had More TSA Agents Fired for Theft Than Any Other Airport

The Transportation Security Administration was created in 2001 to keep us safe, but it turns out a handful of their employees are no better than common crooks. Since the TSA's creation nearly 400 employees have been fired after being accused of stealing from passengers, and Miami International Airpo ... More >>

Florida Man Selling His Entire Life on eBay

This is not your beautiful house. This is not your video game store business. These are not your beautiful cars. But they could be.Shane Butcher, a 29-year-old Tampa Bay man, is selling what basically amounts to his entire life and all of his possessions on eBay for the low, low price of just $3.5 m ... More >>

Is Jeb Bush Preparing His 2016 Presidential Campaign?

Jeb Bush, whose main job since leaving Florida's governor's mansion has been not running for president, will continue the busy duties of not running for president this October by keynoting the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner in Sioux City, Iowa.Of course, if the American media knows one ... More >>

Michael Salzhauer, Miami's Wackiest Plastic Surgeon, Risks Everything for Internet Fame

Donald Trump Wants to Build a Mini-Hollywood Film Studio City in Homestead

It's going to be the classiest, finest film studio in all of the world. Or at least that's what Donald Trump's company seems to think.The Trump Organization has unveiled plans to incorporate an 800-acre studio city down near Homestead in the southern reaches of Miami-Dade County dubbed, what else, T ... More >>

James Beard Awards Screw Latino Workers

Last night, as many of our loyal readers watched NBC's The Voice, ABC's Dancing with the Stars, and Travel Channel's No Reservations, a bit of virtual battle was taking place on Twitter. Perhaps a few (likely from the culinary industry) tuned into the live webcast of the James Beard Foundation award ... More >>

Chris Brown Breeding Adorable Puppies! Five Species More Befitting the C. Breezy Brand

Chris Brown may be Rihanna's bitch. But he's unloading three of his own. Evidently, the angry pop singer is a backyard breeder and wants you to buy his bitches. According to ABC News, Brown's selling some pit bull terriers via the Internet -- three males and three females -- at $1,000 each. The ... More >>

Babies Don't Want Vegan Mommies? What a Load of Baloney

This past weekend, the LA Times published an editorial suggesting pregnant women who adhere to a vegan diet and subsequently raise vegan children are irresponsible. The writer, Alexandra Le Tellier, was responding to the release of Vegan Is Love, a new children's book that explains and advocates a v ... More >>

Agustin Roman, America's First Cuban Bishop, Dies at 83

If Miami's Cuban community had a patron saint, it was surely Agustín Román, who fled Castro with a boatload of other priests and then, as America's first Cuban-born bishop, made such a political mark that current Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski compared him to Felix Varela.Román was found dead of ... More >>

Starbucks Puts Dead Beetles in Frappuccinos

​Which would you rather drink: chemical coloring, beet juice, or dead bugs?Apparently, Starbucks thought you'd pick that last option.In an effort to remove artificial ingredients from its menu, Starbucks recently replaced the food dye in its Strawberry Frappuccinos with a "natural" substitute: bee ... More >>

Surveillance Video of George Zimmerman on the Night Trayvon Martin Died Released

​Much has been made of the younger pictures of Trayvon Martin released to the media by his family's lawyers, but until now the only image seen in the media of shooter George Zimmerman has been a years old mugshot. ABC News has now obtained police surveillance video of Zimmerman at a police station ... More >>

Jeb Bush Should Get Into Presidential Race, Top GOP Senator Says

​The Republican primary is officially in chaos now with Rick Santorum surging and topping Mitt Romney in some national polls. The former Pennsylvania senator is even leading in Romney's home state of Michigan, but some in the GOP establishment aren't quite sure Santorum is presidential material. O ... More >>

Super Bowl Food Ads: Cookies For Breakfast, Coke, and The Soup Nazi

Coca-ColaThe Coke bears are back in time for the big game.​Can Super Bowl Sunday be the only day of the year in which we actually look forward to commercials? Each year, advertisers fall all over themselves trying to top each other for ratings, consumer approval and a coveted Clio award.  Adv ... More >>

Lady Gaga's A Very Gaga Thanksgiving: Ten Celebrities That Should Never Do a Holiday Show

Will Lady Gaga wear a turkey dress?​Lady Gaga just announced her new holiday special, A Very Gaga Thanksgiving. The show will air on ABC on Thanksgiving day, November 24, and will feature Tony Bennett and Katie Couric. If that's not bizarre enough, Gaga is set to perform "White Christmas" and chef ... More >>

The Miami Hurricanes Become the Joke on Happy Endings

​For the third time in a little over a week, a Miami sports team has been the butt of a joke on a national sitcom. First there was South Park's minor dig at the Dolphins, then The Office had a little fun at Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat's expense. Continuing the trend last night, ABC's Happy Endin ... More >>

Five Reasons Chris Brown Is Public Enemy Number One

Even F.A.M.E. makes him angry.​Hey, America, not sure if you got the memo or not. But Chris Brown is public enemy number one. Before 2009, Crossfade admired the young performer's vocal chops and sharp, Timberlake'd Jacko dance swagger. But ever since he beat the shit out of his then-girlfriend, ... More >>

Lynn Dannheisser, Surfside Town Attorney, Compares Bloggers Critical of Her to the KKK

​Surfside town attorney Lynn Dannheisser has been on a bit of a Charlie Sheen-esque multi-media rampage recently. In March, we wrote that Dannheisser, who makes more than $177,000 a year, successfully recommended her boyfriend, Gerald Houlihan, for additional legal representation for the town. Blo ... More >>

NBC 6 To Launch 24/7 Local News Channel

​Former local news powerhouse WTVJ is now trudging along near the bottom of the ratings, but that's not stopping them from expanding their news coverage to a 24/7 sub-channel. Broadcasting & Cable reports that the NBC-owned-and-operated station will debut sometime shortly after the new year.

Teenage Dexter Fan Admits to Killing Little Brother in Indiana

​Dexter Morgan, the fictional anti-hero of local author Jeff Lindsay's book series and Showtime's hit drama, trades in on Miami's violent image as a crime scene analyst by day and a serial killer of other serial killers by night. Though, the violence, as Miami's tourism boards might want to let yo ... More >>

Lost & Food: What To Eat For The Series Finale

Lost's Rose and Bernard contemplate the Dharma food supplies. ​For Lost fans around the world, this Sunday night means the end of the show that helped redefine TV. Hopefully, answers to many of the show's unresolved mysteries will be delivered by ABC when the show concludes with its two and a half ... More >>

Cloud Music Storage Software Promises Access to Your Entire Music Library From Any Computer or Cell Phone

​In a perfect world, you'd be able to access your entire music library from any computer, iPhone, iPad or any other cellphone, sans USB. You wouldn't have to transfer files or carry around a portable hard drive. Finally, that world is here, but it's not perfect... yet. Let me introduce you to clo ... More >>

Miami Medical Gets Canceled

​You can add Miami Medical to the heap of South Florida-set shows that pretty much sucked and were quickly canceled. Others include Cane, Good Morning Miami, South Beach, Grapevine, Invasion, Karen Sisco, Odd Man Out, Wiseguy, and probably a few dozen other shows no one remembers.CBS has put an en ... More >>

Hialeah Students Might Face Charges After Robo-Tripping at School

The 11 students who got high off of Coricidin while at Hialeah Middle School might have already faced the consequences of vomiting, collapsing, and in one case having a seizure in school, but they could face charges. The students, all between ages 13 and 14, will be suspended, ac ... More >>

The Funny Fergie

News Roundup: VP Biden in Miami

The mother of two brothers living South Florida was pulled alive from rubble in Haiti. [NBCMiami]Joe Biden was in Little Haiti over the weekend. [Herald]And he's back in Miami to speak at a prayer breakfast at Florida Memorial Univerisity for Martin Luther King Day. [CBS4]Pundits have pretty much wr ... More >>

News Roundup: Goodell Thinks LandShark Stadium Is a Has-Been

Univision is opening its own production studio in Miami. [LATimes]According to a recent poll, Miami is the second most desirable travel destination after Las Vegas. [CBS4]Ad sales at McClatchy, the Miami Herald's parent company, are down 20 percent this quarter, but that's apparently good because it ... More >>

This Is your Real Estate Brain. This Is Your Real Estate Brain After the Recession

via TLCHere's the basic rundown on financially ruined Miami mega-realtor Carlos Justos, from an ABC News Profile.This is Justo before the recession: $7 million waterfront home. Star of the Bravo series Million Dollar Agents. Clientele including big shots such as the Estefans. $20 million net worth. ... More >>

Hey, Miami, You're Stupid

Public figures offer comic relief.

Oh, How Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Is Dumb, Let Us Count The Ways

If Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ever got an important 3am phone call of national importance, apparently she would hang up, and then put out a press release about it. Riptide has already written up Ileana's now infamous Obama hang up, but let's use the magic of bullet points to painstakingly detail just how ... More >>

George Michael

Terror Alert, Miami Style

Clandestine meetings and a hungry press

No News Is Bad News

You knew local TV newscasts were lame, you just didn't know how lame

Miami's Most Incredible, Fantastic, Amazing Year in Music!

Will someone please turn off the hype

BEST FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME

Celeste Fraser Delgado

Eve of Construction

Man and machine do their musical thing

BEST LOCAL GIRL GONE BAD

Trista Rehn

That '60s Show

Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

After M*A*S*H

Larry Gelbart is one of TV's last great writers. So why can't he stay tuned?

Funny Mommy Dearest

Dear Sheldon loves his mom, hates his mom, you'll laugh about it

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

The Drudge Retort

Democrats hate him. Journalists scorn him. Most Americans ignore him. Which is fine with Matt Drudge. He's taking it to the bank.

Back to the Future

Robert Wise finishes Star Trek: The Motion Picture--22 years later

Mother-Tested, Kid-Approved Psychedelia

The little cult phenomenon that could: Phish

Kulchur

How low could you go in 1999?

Kulchur

Alternate realities

The Versace Experience

Swelter 33

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