Edgar Allan Poe

Mugshots Friday: A Visit From Captain Morgan And A Coke-Dealing Granny

Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that ... More >>

Frog in Your Salad? Five Gross Things Discovered in Florida Foods

If the South is the Bible Belt, Florida is the Bizarre Belt. With entire blogs and news sites devoted to the oddities that often occur in our little piece of paradise -- few would argue that we reign supreme as far as freakishness. And this weirdness, of course, also applies to food. Read also: - D ... More >>

Ten Best Music-Related Things To Do in Miami This Weekend Under $10

With the holidays and Art Basel right around the goddamn corner, it's starting to heat up in the ol' South Florida nightlife department. Take this weekend, for instance. There's too much to do! It would be totally impossible to have all the fun that's being offered this weekend. So we here at Cros ... More >>

25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

Halloween is that time of the year when it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... See als ... More >>

How The Man With A "Fuck You" Neck Tattoo Stole Mugshots Friday

​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to th ... More >>

Waltz by Death

Idol Chatter

Say you wanted to kill someone you admire -- not that we're advocatin'.

Little Bastards

Death Becomes Her

Naked Stage makes morbid abstraction a little lively.

Miami’s Year in Art

Judging from 2007, Miami is growing up as an art destination.

Letters from the Issue of May 3, 2007

"I thought there was no place I couldn’t handle … but I sure as hell won’t set foot in ‘Baghdad West,’ that’s fo sho!"

The Long and Short of It

Freaky Film Fest

Crazy Delicious

The festival disappoints slightly, MIAMIntelligence tanks, Aquabooty continues to rock

Scrabbled

He's a genius, fluent in three languages, and he hustles pool. So why do they call him "cripple"?

BEST LOCAL WRITER

Thomas Harris

Sour Lemony

Jim Carrey's in fine form, but the rest of Snicket is less fortunate

Miami's B-Movie Mogul

K. Gordon Murray may have invented the weekend kiddie matinee, but don't forget his scowling bikers, howling werewolves, lumbering mummies, brain-sucking monsters, and scheming decapitated heads

Gothic Haze

Night crawling in the underland

BEST FRINGE THEATER

Mad Cat Theatre Company

Miami Light Project

Back in Black

Words to the wise from Last Poet Umar Bin Hassan

Mad Cat's Halloween Treat

This startling reinvention of a Poe story may spark a seasonal rite

Fresh Seasonings

Up ahead, some lights at the end of the tunnel

Czech It Out

A miniretrospective highlights the innovative works that have flowed from one of the world's great filmmaking nations

Fan of La Mancha

Don Quixote Restaurant

The Ghostwritten Henry James

Rotations

Calendar for the week

Mock Goth

Rotations

That's the Ticket

See How We Are

When the Miami Coalition for the Homeless wanted a photo study of the area's street people population, it commissioned the homeless themselves

Nixon without Tears

Dead, yes. Buried, yes. Gone to Heaven?

Is Anybody Out There?

Swelter

What a Drag!