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Allen West Hears People Are Going to Get Hurt, Immediately Offers To Drive

Wikimedia CommonsA debt plan, you say? GET THE CAR.​House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) showed an inspirational clip from a movie at a closed-door Republican meeting Tuesday. It wasn't from Rudy, nor was it the snow-jogging montage from Rocky IV. It was from The Town, about Ben Affleck tr ... More >>

Blockbuster Video's dismal decade

Wikimedia CommonsA debt plan, you say? GET THE CAR.​House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) showed an inspirational clip from a movie at a closed-door Republican meeting Tuesday. It wasn't from Rudy, nor was it the snow-jogging montage from Rocky IV. It was from The Town, about Ben Affleck tr ... More >>

Reader Busts Blockbuster for Some anti-Earth Earth Day Activities

WikimediaWe here at Riptide firmly believe we have the finest readers in all of South Florida. They're a lot like us, actually: loud, remarkably angry, hilarious, and stunningly handsome. Case in point: a ready-to-publish article we received from a reader who had witnessed some bad-timing Earth Day ... More >>

B.Y.O. Popcorn

And we’ll handle the butter and Twizzlers.

Cooler than a Blockbuster Night

See the good stuff before Ratner turns it into a monster.

Cruzan Amphitheatre Also Now to Exclusively Use Live Nation Ticketing

Crossfade has been updating you on the ticketing changes at several South Florida Live Nation-controlled venues, so here's some more news. Previously, the company announced that the Fillmore Miami Beach, Mizner Park Amphitheatre, and the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre were to only use the company's own ... More >>

Strippers' XXXmas

They're dreaming of a ... fruitcake.

Magic City Kitty - I Saw Titties!

They're dreaming of a ... fruitcake.

JFK gone from MIA

They're dreaming of a ... fruitcake.

Tommie Sunshine

They're dreaming of a ... fruitcake.

Get Inside!

Your three-month forecast of the summer's top movies

Ghetto Pirates

A movie made for Bootleggers

Sonic Bust

Sega's Hedgehog goes back to the grind ... yawn

Hacked

Harrison Ford runs smack into a Firewall, poor guy

Guerrilla Wearfare

Harrison Ford runs smack into a Firewall, poor guy

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Shooting o' the Green

A busy cast -- all two of them -- somehow steps all over a play about making movies in Ireland

Messing With The Man

Three kids from suburban Miami found a clever way to relieve their boredom: They launched an attack on a police station

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Scene Stealer

Despite uneven film quality, this year's festival was an unqualified success

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Far From Happy

The year's best featured plenty of Sad White Guys

Trina's Screen Test

Miami's hip-hop queen makes a movie with a message

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The Last Iconoclast

Edward Wasserman, departing editor in chief of the Daily Business Review, ruminates on public corruption, ethnic politics, and the Miami Herald

Scabbed Over

The Replacements can't score even with Gene Hackman on the team

Farewell to the Mambo King

How Tito Puente transformed the timbales and his fans

Dish

Sandwich Comes of New Age

The Killer Inside

American Psycho

Con Kid

Jimmy Sabatino, self-described child of the Mafia, displayed a prodigious talent for confidence games even as a teenager. If he hadn't threatened to kill President Clinton, he'd probably be scamming today.

Shtick Shift

Jimmy Sabatino, self-described child of the Mafia, displayed a prodigious talent for confidence games even as a teenager. If he hadn't threatened to kill President Clinton, he'd probably be scamming today.

Ball of Confusion

Jimmy Sabatino, self-described child of the Mafia, displayed a prodigious talent for confidence games even as a teenager. If he hadn't threatened to kill President Clinton, he'd probably be scamming today.

Reel to Real

Jimmy Sabatino, self-described child of the Mafia, displayed a prodigious talent for confidence games even as a teenager. If he hadn't threatened to kill President Clinton, he'd probably be scamming today.

Who Needs Hollywood?

Jimmy Sabatino, self-described child of the Mafia, displayed a prodigious talent for confidence games even as a teenager. If he hadn't threatened to kill President Clinton, he'd probably be scamming today.

Reverb

Jimmy Sabatino, self-described child of the Mafia, displayed a prodigious talent for confidence games even as a teenager. If he hadn't threatened to kill President Clinton, he'd probably be scamming today.

Every Available Square Inch

Developers in Coconut Grove have learned a couple of things about rules: They can be used to personal advantage. And they can be used as weapons.

Fade to Black

As Blockbuster and other big chains devour more and more of the market, mom-and-pop video shop operators fret about being erased

Running on Empty

A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

We are now scrambling to find additional supplies of water. Among their most immediate measures, they recently requested permission from the state to pump more water for treatment at the Hialeah-Preston plants.

A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

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A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

A Wayne-Win Situation

Gaining control of the Miami Arena was the easy part. Now Mr. Blockbuster just has to persuade the Heat to stick around.

Program Notes

Gaining control of the Miami Arena was the easy part. Now Mr. Blockbuster just has to persuade the Heat to stick around.

And Polish That Name Tag!

Gaining control of the Miami Arena was the easy part. Now Mr. Blockbuster just has to persuade the Heat to stick around.

Peripheral Visions

Gaining control of the Miami Arena was the easy part. Now Mr. Blockbuster just has to persuade the Heat to stick around.

God's Country

Live alligators. Dead snakes. Howling owls. About the only thing the Everglades doesn't have is a bright future.

A Fan's Notes

Go Marlins! Go Panthers! Go Heat! Go to hell.

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Go Marlins! Go Panthers! Go Heat! Go to hell.