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Yngwie Malmsteen at Grand Central May 25

Guitar Master Yngwie Malmsteen on Miami Heat: "LeBron James Is a F#$%in' Virtuoso"

Yngwie Malmsteen is a six-foot, three-inch guitar monster from Sweden. He left the dark and bitter cold of Stockholm at age 19 and moved to L.A. for a record deal, got famous, and drunkenly crashed a Jaguar E-Type V12 convertible into a tree, breaking the steering wheel with his head. But Malmsteen ... More >>

South Florida Is Ground Zero for Medicare Fraud

No Guts, No Glory: New Book Says Key to Health Is Your Intestines

Searching for the source of your fatigue, chronic illness, indigestion, obesity, or even attention deficit disorder? Go with your gut, proposes Dr. Steven Lamm, MD, the "house doctor" on ABC's The View and author of the new book No Guts, No Glory.No Guts is a relatively short guide that packs a ton ... More >>

Justin Bieber at American Airlines Arena January 26 and 27

Justin Bieber Blames Paparazzo's Death on Lack of "Meaningful Legislation"

Society's inexplicable obsession with Justin Bieber cost a man his life in Los Angeles. And the Biebz says a lack of "meaningful legislation" is to blame. According to CNN, a paparazzo, whose name has not been released, was struck by oncoming traffic as he attempted to walk across Interstate 405 ... More >>

Hookers, Arroz Negro, and Chiringuitos: Welcome to Marbella, Spain

"150 euro for each," demanded a tall Romanian prostitute. She stood on the side of a bustling alleyway in Marbella, Spain's Puerto Banús. Her hair was greasy, streaked with blonde highlights with creeping thick dark brown roots. Her accent was thick and her clothing was tight -- jeans studded with ... More >>

10 Awesome Cars That Used To Belong to Drug Dealers You Can Buy at Auction Today

U.S. Marshals are holding an auction out in Opa-locka today of cars seized from various convicted drug dealers through out South Florida. About 50 vehicles are up for grabs, including antiques, muscles cars, and Italian sports cars. Riptide has browsed through the inventory and picked our 10 favorit ... More >>

Barack Obama Makes Mitt Romney His B*tch In Second Presidential Debate

For more than a year, Mitt Romney has jetted across the country, calling Barack Obama an utter failure. The president has done his fair share of name-calling too, but it wasn't until two weeks ago that he had a chance to stand up to his challenger in person. Instead of taking it to 'em, however, Oba ... More >>

Yom Kippur: Smoked Fish at Blue Marlin and Other Places to Break Fast

Yom Kippur is in many ways similar to ripping off a band-aid. Unlike some of our Christian brethren who apologize for their wrongdoings throughout the year and flagellate themselves accordingly, we the Jewish people condense all of that into one depressing day of fasting, prayer and spending time wi ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations: Final Season Starts September 3

Anthony Bourdain is moving on to greener pastures, and our hearts (and stomachs) will follow the writer, chef, and snarkmeister to CNN when he starts his gig at the cable news giant.For now, however, we have an entire new season of No Reservations to look forward to.Since it's Bourdain's last hurrah ... More >>

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

Master Sommelier George Miliotes on The Capital Grille's Generous Pour

There are fewer concepts more pleasing to the palate of a wine lover than the notion of a generous pour. Hence The Capital Grille's annual celebration by the same name, geared to its vino enthusiast patrons. This summer wine event offers visitors a chance to sample an extensive variety of selection ... More >>

Father's Day Brunches for Dad: Bourbon, Pigs, and Burgers

So Mother's Day has come and gone and you probably treated Mom to a champagne brunch and maybe a spa package.Dad, however, usually gets the short end of the stick on Father's Day. Let's face it, you probably give him some godawful tie and then high-tail it to the mall with your friends.Not so fast t ... More >>

Custom Cocktailing in the W Hotel's Living Room

​The Living Room at SoBe's W Hotel claims to offer any patron the cocktail of their dreams courtesy of a team of mixologists who are dedicated to making your evening of alcohol consumption a personalized experience. Named as one of Food & Wine Magazine's "50 Best Bars in America," the beverage ... More >>

Five Alternate Uses For Jersey Shore's The Situation's New Tanning Spray

​Miami Beach is home to plenty of A-listers: Lil Wayne, Missy Elliot, Lenny Kravitz, Kelly Rowland and oh, so many more. But unluckily -- at least for residents of the 33139 area code -- the beach just got another celebrity neighbor. Ready the South Beach welcome wagon. It's time to say hello to M ... More >>

Art Basel Events You're Not Invited To, Sorry

Art Basel not only offers an overload of visual stimulation, it also presents a time to dredge up any tragic feelings of rejection you experienced in your youth. Sure, there are like 300 openings and parties each and every night of next week, but there are only like three you want to go to. Those ar ... More >>

Brandon Albanito Made A Million Selling Fake IDs To College Kids, Until the Feds Caught Up

via Lee County Sheriff's Office​Who knew churning out McLovin licenses for desperate college kids was a goldmine? For Brandon Albanito, a 25-year-old in Cape Coral, the fake ID biz was a million-dollar enterprise, with a 2010 Lexus, a Bentley and a 2003 Ferrari, a nearly $400,000 house and mountai ... More >>

Tower Heist: Brett Ratner's latest is fleet and funny

Pre-Paid Auto Club offers speeding insurance

Reader mail: Nevin Shapiro is a "little Napoleon"

Tamara Sky's New, Totally NSFW Playboy Pictorial and Video

via playboy.comDJ and Playmate Tamara Sky with her team of highly trained sidekicks.​It'd be so effing awesome to be Hugh Hefner, right? Well, maybe ... We here at Crossfade can't decide. On the one hand, he's 168 years old. His spousal support bills have gotta be astronomical. And he just got m ... More >>

O, Miami poetry fest wants to deliver verse to Miami's masses

Miami art this week: horses, cats, and poor art

Arte Povera

Miami art this week: disembodied arms and playing-card skulls

Tim Hardaway's Failed Businesses: A Beginner's Guide

​News that former basketball star Tim Hardaway is mired in tax trouble, causing the Miami Heat to apparently bail him out by purchasing his mansion, came as a bit of a surprise. After all, he made an estimated $47 million during his playing career, and still works a suit-and-tie job with the ... More >>

Italy brings turbocharged art to the Frost

Celebrity living has its downside in Sophia Coppola's Somewhere.

Party girl to Oscar winner: Sofia Coppola's journey to Somewhere.

Shatarka Nuby Gets 2 1/2 Years For Stealing ID to Get Boob Job and Lipo

via Broward County Sheriff's Office​Shatarka Nuby already had breast implants, but they weren't big enough. And her arms! They needed liposuction, stat! The only problem: Nuby didn't have $9,000 to pay for all that work.So that's when the 29-year-old lifted a college application out of a mailbox, ... More >>

DJ Irie: Life in the Fast Lane

Jersey Shore Damage Report: Watermelons and Pinholes

​Last night's Jersey Shore was full of cat fights, watermelons in pinholes, and tricky transgendered-identifying people. With the boring saga of Ronnie and Sam finally fading, and the ensuing fallout of "the guidette letter" taking center stage, it might have been the trashiest (read: best) episod ... More >>

Riptide Takes Half a Million Dollars in Cars for a Spin

Add 150,000 miles, a few accidents, and some bird poop and you have my real-life car.I am probably the least qualified exotic car reviewer in the world.

LeBron James Might Be an Ohio Traitor, According to Fellow State Natives the Black Keys

​For those of you that haven't turned on the TV, listened to the radio, read a newspaper, or spoken to anyone else today, Ohio native LeBron James is signing with the Miami Heat. There have been numerous celebrations, outcries, outrages, jersey burnings, and then some since last night's announceme ... More >>

Scott Storch's Strung-Out Moscow Gig and More YouTube Fun

​While writing "Blow Hard," this week's feature about douche-tastic hip-hop megaproducer Scott Storch -- which reveals that (a) his mother claims he financially abandoned her, (b) he apparently ordered a handler driving a German-made coupe to run down a child-support court server, and (c) he ... More >>

Cops See More Disturbances, Fewer Batteries in Park West

Courtesy of City of Miami Police​Park West, the city's after-hours district, is the kind of place where glamour meets gutter. Witness the woman in high heels, stepping out of a Ferrari, clutching a purse worth more than your car. She passes a one-legged man panhandling in a wheelchair. In some 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 >>

News Roundup: Fins' Will Allen Gets Douchiest DUI Ever

Sources tell CBS4 that businessman Carlos Migoya will be named Miami's new city manager. [CBS4]11 wild horses in Hialeah were captured this weekend. [CBS4]Kim Rothstein was still collecting rent on houses that had been forfeited to the government. [NBCMiami]SportsDolphins cornerb ... More >>

Super Bowl guide to sex, drugs, gambling, and living large in South Florida

A Peek Inside Lil Wayne's Miami Mansion

Ever since MTV Cribs moved to CMT, the world has been deprived of seeing the interiors of rapper's Miami pads. Who could forget Missy Elliot's Ferrari bed, or Bow Wow's rented car controversy? Thank goodness for YouTube.While, Lil Wayne did show off his New Orleans crib for the show, we never got a ... More >>

Golf porn on ritzy Fisher Island

Moron of the Week: Self-Destructive Ponzi Baller Sean Healy

Photo via MySpace.com Never mind the fact hat he dresses like a club promoter. If your investment manager has a MySpace page, get a new investment manager.​Forget Flagler, Tuttle, and Brickell. We need to start naming streets and bridges after a historical figure whose legacy is honored eve ... More >>

Budget Ballin'

To hell with the economy! South Florida's lawless exotic rental car industry keeps rolling.

Italian Architect Hawks Pricey Rotating Condos

Does David Fisher know there's a recession here?

Brazil Brings Movies to Miami

The 12th annual Brazilian Film Festival is this weekend.

Kill Gus Boulis's Killer?

Paul Brandreth didn't want to murder anybody. Or did he?

Blessed by Ferrari

Make It Rain

On set with Plies and Akon

Living on Video

Robots rock in Daft Punk’s Electroma