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ZOMG, ya'll! Winter Music Conference is finally here. Hopefully, you've already picked up our kick-ass guide and checked out our listing online to plan your entire week. Still, there a few things you should keep in mind if you are going to come out of this weekend alive. So here are a few pointers t ... More >>

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A man stole handbags from Macy's in Aventura Mall and then, during the getaway, hit and killed a woman. [Herald]Police are still searching for a woman involved in the handbag heist. Meanwhile, witnesses say the crash could have been prevented if police weren't so aggressive in their pursuit. [NBCMia ... More >>

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Efraim Diveroli, the 23-year-old Miami Beach arms dealer who illegally supplied Chinese-made ammunition to Afghanistan, has pleaded guilty. He face five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. [Reuters] Mitch McConnell and John McCain are confirmed to be at that health-care forum today in Hi ... More >>

Brothers is a PTSD melodrama

Efraim Diveroli, the 23-year-old Miami Beach arms dealer who illegally supplied Chinese-made ammunition to Afghanistan, has pleaded guilty. He face five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. [Reuters] Mitch McConnell and John McCain are confirmed to be at that health-care forum today in Hi ... More >>

Terrorist Attacks Can Be Predicted with Mathematical Model, Claims UM Researchers

One of the horrors of fighting a war against a loosely-organized group of insurgents, like the United States is currently doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the ever present threat of seemingly random attacks. But what if there was a mathematical pattern that could be used to predict those attacks? W ... More >>

Coral Gables Police bought a $16,420 robot and other high-tech gadgets

One of the horrors of fighting a war against a loosely-organized group of insurgents, like the United States is currently doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the ever present threat of seemingly random attacks. But what if there was a mathematical pattern that could be used to predict those attacks? W ... More >>

More Gerald Posner Plagiarism in Miami Babylon, From New Times, PBS, and Many Others

Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland. photo by Bill Cooke New Times and a doctoral student have found more than a dozen new instances of plagi ... More >>

Adventure in Afghanistan

Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland. photo by Bill Cooke New Times and a doctoral student have found more than a dozen new instances of plagi ... More >>

Miami Free Times: Christopher Hitchens, Andres Escobar, Helio Castroneves, and Sebastin Junger

A still from Sebastian Junger's doc Restrepo about the frontlines in Afghanistan. ​What's free in the 305 this week? With the exception of one World-Cup-themed film, it's the week of testosterone-fueled book readings. There's a cranky British intellectual, a suave racecar driver, an embedded journ ... More >>

Sundance Winner Restrepo Shows Meaning of a Miami Kid's Death in Afghanistan

​Juan "Doc" Restrepo, a 20-year-old Army medic from Pembroke Pines, appears only twice in the new documentary bearing his name. On a train in Italy, he mugs for the camera. South Beach shades cover his eyes, and a huge grin spreads across his face."Tune in next time, where we're still going to be ... More >>

South Florida's Juan "Doc" Restrepo did not die in vain

​Juan "Doc" Restrepo, a 20-year-old Army medic from Pembroke Pines, appears only twice in the new documentary bearing his name. On a train in Italy, he mugs for the camera. South Beach shades cover his eyes, and a huge grin spreads across his face."Tune in next time, where we're still going to be ... More >>

Louis Maxwell's forgotten murder, Part 1

​Juan "Doc" Restrepo, a 20-year-old Army medic from Pembroke Pines, appears only twice in the new documentary bearing his name. On a train in Italy, he mugs for the camera. South Beach shades cover his eyes, and a huge grin spreads across his face."Tune in next time, where we're still going to be ... More >>

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington go to war for Restrepo

​Juan "Doc" Restrepo, a 20-year-old Army medic from Pembroke Pines, appears only twice in the new documentary bearing his name. On a train in Italy, he mugs for the camera. South Beach shades cover his eyes, and a huge grin spreads across his face."Tune in next time, where we're still going to be ... More >>

Restrepo: A South Florida soldier and his comrades, vérité-style

​Juan "Doc" Restrepo, a 20-year-old Army medic from Pembroke Pines, appears only twice in the new documentary bearing his name. On a train in Italy, he mugs for the camera. South Beach shades cover his eyes, and a huge grin spreads across his face."Tune in next time, where we're still going to be ... More >>

Biggest Government Leak in History Attributed to the Internet, WikiLeaks

​If you're a fan of getting your conspiracy theories and government leaks first, you've probably heard of WikiLeaks. The international organization publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents while keeping their sources' anonymity. They've been around for a while already, but ... More >>

WikiLeaks Just a Drop in the Bucket: Top 5 Best Leaks in Recent History

SilliCilli's on FlikrHistoric leaking.​There's been a lot of leaking lately. First, it was Mel Gibson's heavy-breathing tirade, and now something that is just a tad more relevant -- WikiLeaks' releasing thousands of pages of allegedly classified documents pertaining to the War in Af ... More >>

Miami Army Psychiatrist Delvena Thomas Headed to Afghanistan

The dangers of war, deployed or not: Soldiers hold vigil at Fort Hood, Texas​Fourteen-hour work days in ungodly heat in a city full of Al-Qaeda operatives and insurgents intent on killing you. Daily visits from soldiers whose minds have been shredded, if not by shrapnel than by the stress of fight ... More >>

The Tillman Story sets the record straight

An Arizona Cardinals player's death in Afghanistan was spun into a recruiting tool.

Angelina Jolie and Hillary Clinton Condemn Koran-Burning Church, But Mayor Bloomberg Supports Congregation's Rights

Pastor Terry Jones​Pastor Terry Jones and his small Gainesville church known as the Dove World Outreach Center will continue with their plans to burn copies of the Koran, the holy book of Islam, on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks despite a growing backlash and warnings ... More >>

Meet The Senate Candidates Who Want to Legalize Porcupine Sex and Send Inmates to Iraq

​Bobbie Bean, the would-be U.S. senator from Florida, glares at the camera and hefts a huge wooden mallet. "You vote for me," he says, "and I got a way to, uh, loosen up the Congress." Sound like your kind of politician? You're in luck, because Bean is not only listed on the absentee ballots that ... More >>

Florida's fringe candidates want to legalize porcupine sex and draft inmates for war

​Bobbie Bean, the would-be U.S. senator from Florida, glares at the camera and hefts a huge wooden mallet. "You vote for me," he says, "and I got a way to, uh, loosen up the Congress." Sound like your kind of politician? You're in luck, because Bean is not only listed on the absentee ballots that ... More >>

Miami-Dade police buy drones

​Bobbie Bean, the would-be U.S. senator from Florida, glares at the camera and hefts a huge wooden mallet. "You vote for me," he says, "and I got a way to, uh, loosen up the Congress." Sound like your kind of politician? You're in luck, because Bean is not only listed on the absentee ballots that ... More >>

Bombs Bursting in Air

​Bobbie Bean, the would-be U.S. senator from Florida, glares at the camera and hefts a huge wooden mallet. "You vote for me," he says, "and I got a way to, uh, loosen up the Congress." Sound like your kind of politician? You're in luck, because Bean is not only listed on the absentee ballots that ... More >>

Terry Jones' Koran Burning Inspires Afghan Riot That Kills 12 U.N. Workers

​When lunatic Gainesville pastor Terry Jones announced his plan to burn Korans at his tiny church, no less an authority than Gen. David Petreaus warned that there would be consequences in places like Afghanistan where fellow religious lunatics look for any such provocation for bloodshed. Jones wen ... More >>

Tim Hetherington, Director of Restrepo Doc About a South Florida Soldier's Death, Killed in Libya

​Tim Hetherington earned an Oscar nomination last year for Restrepo, his harrowing, front-line documentary about an Army platoon mired in a deadly Afghanistan valley. The picture is named for medic Juan "Doc" Restrepo, a Pembroke Pines native whose death during a firefight inspires the rest of the ... More >>

Soldier On

​Tim Hetherington earned an Oscar nomination last year for Restrepo, his harrowing, front-line documentary about an Army platoon mired in a deadly Afghanistan valley. The picture is named for medic Juan "Doc" Restrepo, a Pembroke Pines native whose death during a firefight inspires the rest of the ... More >>

Grayer Lady

​Tim Hetherington earned an Oscar nomination last year for Restrepo, his harrowing, front-line documentary about an Army platoon mired in a deadly Afghanistan valley. The picture is named for medic Juan "Doc" Restrepo, a Pembroke Pines native whose death during a firefight inspires the rest of the ... More >>

Do Implant Bombs Mean Miami Is Now More Dangerous Than Mazar-i-Sharif?

Suspicious.​Miami has long been the unofficial fake boob capital of the country, probably the world (nice try, Caracas).Now, however, the Transportation Security Administration says that terrorists may be plotting suicide bombings using surgical implants.Suddenly our artificially enhanced paradise ... More >>

Wounded Warriors in Action Foundation uses hunting trips to heal vets

Suspicious.​Miami has long been the unofficial fake boob capital of the country, probably the world (nice try, Caracas).Now, however, the Transportation Security Administration says that terrorists may be plotting suicide bombings using surgical implants.Suddenly our artificially enhanced paradise ... More >>

After Joe Paterno: Enough Already With Child Sexual Abuse Hysteria (Updated)

​With news this morning that Penn State coach Joe Paterno has died of lung cancer, I am reposting this column from last November. The scandal  it is niw clear, killed the master at age 85. Enough already. This lunacy is past crazy.Joe Paterno, an icon of sport, was fired as coach of the ... More >>

Miami imams accused of funding terrorists: Hate and redemption

​With news this morning that Penn State coach Joe Paterno has died of lung cancer, I am reposting this column from last November. The scandal  it is niw clear, killed the master at age 85. Enough already. This lunacy is past crazy.Joe Paterno, an icon of sport, was fired as coach of the ... More >>