John F. Kennedy

Biscayne Blvd Photos Show Immigrants and Freedom Fighters

Dick Pic Nation: Weiner, Favre, and the Death of the American Sex Scandal

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer: "What the HELL is a Twitter?"​Welp, it's official -- the Honorable Dong from New York's 9th District is "Weiner" by both name and hobby. Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner admitted yesterday that he did indeed tweet a picture of his stiffy to the entire Internet last w ... More >>

Bay of Pigs 50 Years Later: Miami Mourns, Cuban Gov Celebrates - But for How Long?

via Wikimedia CommonsBay of Pigs Memorial in Little Havana.​They landed silently in the pre-dawn darkness: small groups of armed men seeking to overthrow Fidel Castro and his young government. Then everything went wrong. Two days later, the mission was in flames.This Sunday marks the 50th annivers ... More >>

Route 9 Review: Errors Corrected

​The Route 9 review that appears in this week's issue has created a mini-storm of local concern among foodies. Frodnesor, Eater, and Bill Cooke have all commented on it.Here's the deal. Our food critic Lee Klein's review of the small Coral Gables eatery included several factual errors. I ... More >>

Truth Is in the Detail

​The Route 9 review that appears in this week's issue has created a mini-storm of local concern among foodies. Frodnesor, Eater, and Bill Cooke have all commented on it.Here's the deal. Our food critic Lee Klein's review of the small Coral Gables eatery included several factual errors. I ... More >>

Newly Released Footage of John F. Kennedy Chilling at the Orange Bowl

​President John F. Kennedy's most famous appearance at the Orange Bowl was during a ceremony to welcome back the freed prisoners of Brigade 2506 following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. While obviously JFK's most significant trip to the now-destroyed historic stadium, it wasn't his only. ... More >>

Obama Brand Cigarettes Found in Florida: A Short History of Presidential Smokes

via ABC News​Jack Tapper at ABC News seems amused by a picture of Obama's brand cigarettes that a reader from Florida sent. Apparently, the presidential pleasure sticks are manufactured by a Uruguayan company, Montepaz, and sold in the States. Aside from that, there's little information about the ... More >>

Gerald Posner Hires Rush to Judgment Author Mark Lane in Plagiarism Case

Gerald Posner, Miami Beach author and admitted plagiarist, announced today that he's hired a lawyer to defend him against Miami New Times' stories about his literary thefts. photo by Bill Cooke​His choice of attorney is turning some heads in New York: Mark Lane is famous for authoring -- alm ... More >>

Obama Predicts that Men Will Land on Mars Within the Next Few Decades

​It wasn't quite as ambitious of a declaration of President John F. Kennedy promising to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, but yesterday President Obama predicted that astronauts will land on Mars within his lifetime."We'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the ... More >>

North Bay Village Mayor Oscar Alfonso cheated the IRS, the bank, and his city

​It wasn't quite as ambitious of a declaration of President John F. Kennedy promising to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, but yesterday President Obama predicted that astronauts will land on Mars within his lifetime."We'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the ... More >>

North Bay Village Mayor Oscar Alfonso Won't Fix His House

WPLG-10Mayor Oscar Alfonso doesn't believe in following the rules.For more than a decade, North Bay Village Mayor Oscar Alfonso has evaded repeated ​attempts by city building officials and code inspectors to correct unauthorized construction work at his three bedroom house at 7520 W. Treasure Dr.A ... More >>

Random Kennedy Clan Member Reportedly Eyeing Governor Race

via Best Buddies​A Kennedy cousin is apparently mulling the idea of entering the family business by making a bid for Florida's Governor's mansion and challenging Florida CFO Alex Sink in the Democratic primary, according to Naked Politics. Anthony Shriver -- son of VP candidate Sergeant Shriv ... More >>

Is the CIA Hiding Miami Anti-Castro Cubans' Role In JFK's Assassination?

Here at Riptide, we've had a lot of fun lately with recently declassified CIA documents.via Wikimedia CommonsWho is on that grassy knoll?​Last week, the spooks gave us files from the 60s that proved Luis Posada Carriles -- Miami's most famous terrorist still walking the streets today -- used to sn ... More >>

Click, Knowledge

Here at Riptide, we've had a lot of fun lately with recently declassified CIA documents.via Wikimedia CommonsWho is on that grassy knoll?​Last week, the spooks gave us files from the 60s that proved Luis Posada Carriles -- Miami's most famous terrorist still walking the streets today -- used to sn ... More >>

North Bay Village = Quid Pro Quo

In the Fifties and Sixties, North Bay Village was a place where seedy mobsters and corrupt politicians came home to roost.  At one point in its 63-year history, a law-enforcement report concluded North Bay Village, a man-made three-island city along the John F. Kennedy Causeway, had "Dade's larges ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of January 31, 2008

"Luis Posada Carriles is a dangerous terrorist who belongs behind bars until he croaks!"

Bay of Pigs Vets Fight for Home

Betrayed by the U.S. government and their own country, they want to be remembered.

The Hilliard’s Alive ...

How can someone with such a background be getting taxpayer money?

Ephemeral Flame

A downtown monument goes on hiatus

Current Art Shows

A downtown monument goes on hiatus

Current Art Shows

A downtown monument goes on hiatus

Current Art Shows

A downtown monument goes on hiatus

Current Art Shows

A downtown monument goes on hiatus

Art Capsules

A downtown monument goes on hiatus

Current Art Shows

A downtown monument goes on hiatus

Current Art Shows

A downtown monument goes on hiatus

The Color of War

Images of aggression from the boardroom to the battlefield

Yesterday's News

Images of aggression from the boardroom to the battlefield

Fashion Sense and Nonsense

Gucci will never be the same, and Miami's clothes hounds are growling

The Postal Service

Give Up (Sub Pop)

Kill Shot

Neil Burger fabricates Kennedy's Assassin, and he's mostly on target

The South Falls, Again

Reese Witherspoon goes home to Alabama, and it ain't sweet

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

Best Erratum

"Newspaper rewrites paragraph, reveals possible Castro infiltration of U.S. government radio station"

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of April 19, 2001

Revelation 19.63

For nearly four decades the CIA has kept secret the identity of a Miami agent who may have known too much too early about Lee Harvey Oswald

The Camelot Factor

America's most famous political family could be on the Miami Beach ballot this fall

Riptide

Slippery eels

The View from Buddy's

The corner of North Miami Avenue and Fourteenth Street may not look like much today, but it encompasses the history of Miami. It also has a bright future.

Meet Joe Blackout

If you live on 79th Street, you may as well forget about turning out the lights. They're probably already off.

He Made Dade

Battling cancer, veteran pol Dante Fascell talks of war, Cuba, and a lifetime of putting Miami on the map

Machine Gunners Are People Too

What's a poor automatic-weapons freak to do when his trigger finger gets itchy? Head out to the Dade County range, of course.

Calendar for the week

What's a poor automatic-weapons freak to do when his trigger finger gets itchy? Head out to the Dade County range, of course.

Letters

What's a poor automatic-weapons freak to do when his trigger finger gets itchy? Head out to the Dade County range, of course.

Dynasty

What's a poor automatic-weapons freak to do when his trigger finger gets itchy? Head out to the Dade County range, of course.

Double Jeopardy

What's a poor automatic-weapons freak to do when his trigger finger gets itchy? Head out to the Dade County range, of course.

Pop by the Numbers

Twenty-three adds it up and envisions the evolution

This Means Lore!

The housewife who saved FDR's life, the ghosts that roam Vizcaya, the sea serpent of Biscayne Bay, and other Miami legends, yarns, and flat-out lies

JFK Assassination Theorists

The housewife who saved FDR's life, the ghosts that roam Vizcaya, the sea serpent of Biscayne Bay, and other Miami legends, yarns, and flat-out lies

Gundown Rundown

The housewife who saved FDR's life, the ghosts that roam Vizcaya, the sea serpent of Biscayne Bay, and other Miami legends, yarns, and flat-out lies