Besides going to the DMV, doing taxes is the part of being a grownup that Riptide hates most. So we usually wouldn't be thinking about it this early, but it seems some good folks in Coconut Grove have an extra-special reason to hate April 15 this year. They're paying more taxes on their homes than ever, thanks to too-high housing assessments -- a result of mortgage fraud in past years.
Yesterday, Tom Dixon -- who served on the Miami-Dade Mortgage Fraud Task Force -- told us one more way old f
Ridiculous civil limitation in the vague name of security never makes us smile, but one state has now literally outlawed smiling in the name of safety. Virginia has forbidden anyone from cracking a smile in driver's license photos because it interferes with facial recognition technology.The Palm Beach Post, who we guess was a little bored yesterday, decided to ask the Florida DMV if smiling was still permitted, and it is.A DMV spokesman told the paper: "We know people smile in their pictures be
So apparently Victoria Jackson's heartfelt column about breaking into tears over Year One's sheep-fucking jokes was the first in what we can only hope is a long line of columns for (former Drudge collaborator) Andrew Breitbart's conservative site Big Hollywood.Unfortunately, the SNL alum and Miami native's screeds seem to have gotten only more ridiculous. It doesn't help that we can't seem to read anything she writes without her high-pitched trademark screech echoing in our head.In the late
Lee Klein​Went to renew my drivers license at the Coral Gables DMV the other day. The office is located right by Village of Merrick Park, and so is a branch of La Estancia Argentina. The lunch menu looked tempting, with some decent deals on hand -- grilled skirt or flank steak sandwich for $8 certainly sounds fair enough. But the empanadas caught my eye, especially the one filled with steak. As you can see in the photo, the exterior was beautifully bronzed (other empanadas appeared noticeably
