Jose Diaz

Miami May Start Using Inmates For Cheap Labor

It's a common scene in prison movies set in the deep South: A line of inmates, chained together and decked out in bright orange jumpsuits, dutifully picking up trash or digging a ditch by the side of a dusty road as a shotgun-toting sheriff watches over them through tinted aviator sunglasses.The cha ... More >>

Chick-fil-A: Florida Students Disagree Over Restaurant's Right To Be On Campus

via Flickr SanFranAnnieShould good food outweigh common decency?​Some people are really serious about food. Chick-fil-A, a Christian restaurant chain, came in as the number one choice in a survey among Florida Gulf Coast University students when asked which restaurants they wanted in their student ... More >>

Cyclists Plan Memorial Ride, Protest at City Commission in Carlos Bertonatti Hit-and-Run

On Riptide's message boards and across the web, Miami's bikers have raged about Sunday's gruesome hit-and-run accident near Key Biscayne that left 44-year-old cyclist Christophe Le Canne dead on the Rickenbacker Causeway. via Miami Dade Police Department​Carlos Bertonatti, a wannabe profess ... More >>

Art Capsules

Art Capsules

Art Capsules

Loose Threads

Handmade crafts find their place in contemporary art

Bobbin and Weavin'

Free Bird?

New evidence may exonerate Luis Diaz, imprisoned for 26 years as the Bird Road Rapist

God's Eye on the Sparrow

Should 2700 little birds be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

Long Journey Home

Three decades after his parents sent him into lonely exile, Tony Gonzalez returned to Cuba to face his demons

The Wake-Up Call

Hamas is as close as Ecuador. And they're arguing about American targets.

Letters from the Issue of December 13, 2001

Top Cop Talks Shop: Yes, we've emerged from the dark ages, but can't we just skip over that part?

Now Entering Miriamville

Miriam Alonso may be under criminal investigation but that hasn't distracted her from creating her own city

Small Town, Big Hell

Election time in Sweetwater is just another pretext for this rancorous city to go nuts

As Sweetwater Turns

There was nepotism on the police force and a councilman got busted for hawking fake IDs. But a slew of investigators haven't even begun to sort out the perpetual brouhaha that masquerades as city government.