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Brad Meltzer's "The Fifth Assassin"

Miami-Dade August 14 Election: A Haters Guide

Miami's Extreme Body Modifiers Brave Social Stigma and Legal Action to Pursue Their Passion

View a slide show of Miami's extreme body modifiers.

Miami-Dade, Animal Activists Clash Over Whether New Shelter Should Be No-Kill

Anti-Toll-Road Activists in Uproar Over Florida Fee Hikes

Mitt Romney's Years at Bain Represent Everything You Hate About Capitalism

June 17 is National Flip Flop Day: Wear Flip Flops, Get a Free Smoothie

Flip and flop on over to Tropical Smoothie Cafe for your free smoothie.​We're not sure if this holiday was originally meant to celebrate cheap rubber footwear or politicians who waver on the issues, but National Flip Flop Day is Friday June 17, and you get to celebrate with a free smoothie! ... More >>

Ivana Tripabitch

Luke's Miami pop quiz

Oil Spill Seafood: Miami Chefs Sound Off

via NOAA.gov Commercial and Recreational Fishing Closure in the Oil-Affected Portions of the Gulf of Mexico as of May 25th, 2010. Click for full size map.​The BP Oil Spill is now responsible for the closure of slightly more than 22 percent of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico's "exclusive econo ... More >>

Magic City Casino gets a big tax cut

Weekend Blog Watch: Zen, Ice Cream, Bullets, Burgers, Dirt, and Power

Food philosophy, simplicity, culinary Zen. [Chadzilla]Eating ice cream in Tel Aviv. [AllPurposeDark]Kitchen Inquisition with Giancarla Bodoni of Escopazza. Cooking osso buco for Gorbachev. [NBCmiami]Six-year-old boy, Italian tourist, catches stray bullet while eating with family at Mai Tardi in Desi ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch: Ratatouille, the Perfect Chip, Art Food, CSA, Veggie 4 Life, and C-Store Pizza

Homemade ratatouille with fresh, local produce. And yes, Ratatouille is an excellent movie. [FoodForThoughtMiami]Has there finally been invented a chip that withstands the ardors of jarred-salsa dipping? According to one man, yes. [Chowfather]A hilarious review of Dolores, But You Can Call Me Lolita ... More >>

Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Que Bola Asere

Jacob KatelFried alligator​ Wasup. Que bola. Que tal. Que onda. Wat they do. Sak pase. Sak ap fet. Comment allez vous. Konichiwa. Another week, another weekend. When will all the weeks end and leave us just the weekends? Thanks to the great American time conspiracy, probably never. Here's what you ... More >>

South Florida's Possible Paperless Future

Despite how it might come off around here once in a while, Riptide deeply respects the duty of daily newspapers. Which is why the recent report of credit raters Fitch Ratings is worrying. Fitch predicts that many newspaper chains will default, dissolve, or be liquidated and that "several cities cou ... More >>

I Voted. I Think.

Highway Holes From Hell

Is Pink the New Black?

Debate over the rights of gays to marry resonates with the rhetoric of the civil rights movement

A Historic Dip

Witnesses to the segregated history of Virginia Beach tell a sorry but inspiring tale

The Imperfect Murder

Stanley Cohen's wife went to prison for arranging to have him killed. Years later a Miami journalist reveals a secret. Now the entire case may be unraveling.

How to Succeed in Education Without Really Studying

Superintendent Roger Cuevas and a few dozen of his top administrators received graduate degrees from diploma mills. No wonder Dade's schools are in such great shape.

One Sick Trickle

Wagner Creek: It's the most contaminated waterway in Florida. And it's ours!

Dope Detective

If it gets you high, chances are that James Hall knows more about it than anyone anywhere

Striking a Blow for the Better

A Creole-language radio show breaks the silence surrounding domestic violence in Haitian homes

Bounty Manager

New Year's Revolution

If you had your way, what single adjustment would you make to enhance the experience of living in South Florida?

First Contact

The Touch Research Institute promotes the laying on of healing hands

Letters

Letters

Hour Town

Six months after its debut, the county's scheme to keep teens out of nighttime trouble gets mixed reviews

Crime & Nourishment

In Miami breaking bread has become an intricate part of breaking the law

Best of Miami 1996

Finest Foods

Sacked

One of Dade's most controversial advocates for the homeless finds herself jobless

Man Bites Dog Owner

Rabies didn't kill his faithful pooch, but Dade's rabies-vaccine enforcement chief was an early the death of pet owner Randy Natalino

First Class All the Way

You're a very important person. Someone with influence. A big-shot bureaucrat. A friggin' Dade County Commissioner! And when you travel, you expect those airlines to understand that you want to go first class all the way.

Black in the Red

Everyone expected Charles Howze's Z Mart to be a model for minority-run businesses in Dade. In a sad way it was: It went bankrupt.

Smile When You Spray That!

If that's really Hialeah city employees draining storm water into the county sewer system, they're in deep doo-doo

They Saw Red

The Dade Grand Jury scrutinizes the county's environmental attitude, and the verdict isn't very verdant

Beacon of Hope

Students who can't overcome the alienation of inner-city public schools are finding their thrill on Beacon Hill

Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle is Channel 35's hostess with the mostest

Last Writes

Some suicide notes are short, some tell a more detailed story. They all have unhappy endings.

Love Is in the Airbag

A South Florida dating service puts a new twist on auto-eroticism

Keep Off The Park, Part 2

Hurricane Andrew dealt a blow to Dan Paul's "Save Our Parks" amendment, but don't count out the tree huggers yet

I Have Defaulted...And I Can't Get Up

For those baffled by those roadside "I HAVE DEFAULTED" traffic signs, Robert Elsey has a simple message: It works!

Foxes

The Ride Stuff

Amid charges of corruption and inefficiency, Metro-Dade's handicapped-transportation service invites a bidding war

Phoney Baloney

60 Minutes closes the book on the legacy of jailhouse phone-scam artist Danny Faries. You don't say!

All Guts, No Glory

The Quiet Riot

Two Black, Two Strong