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May 22, 2012
Miccosukee Casino Ripping Off Winners? Gamblers Sue The Tribe For Bingo Taxes
Miami husband-and-wife John Ricone and Francys Tolon-Ricone were apparently wielding a hot blotter when they played bingo at the Miccosukee Resort & Gaming Indian casino in 2008. In two trips that year, they won just under $5,500. When the tribe paid them their winnings, they remitted $1,500 for ... More >>
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May 11, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Night Cruising
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May 8, 2012
Florida Boy Arrested for Pulling a Machete on Kids for Bullying Mexicans
A 13-year-old Fort Myers boy was arrested last Friday for allegedly brandishing a machete while chasing a group of elementary school children at a bus stop. The stunt was apparently in retaliation for the younger boys' bullying the knife wielder's 10-year-old friend and for "messing with Mexicans."
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April 27, 2012
Sarasota's Tackiest Landmark Slammed Into By 62-Year-Old Driver
Miami has a ton of public art eyesores, notably a
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April 27, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: High on Marine Stadium
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April 26, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Happy Hour
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April 20, 2012
K-E Diet Craze: Miami Doctor Puts Brides-To-Be On Feeding Tubes to Lose Weight
Miami just might be the most image-conscious, beauty-obsessed place on Earth. So it's no surprise that our sexy, superficial city is the American epicenter of a new controversial diet craze.It's called ketogenic enteral nutrition, or the K-E diet for short. Translation: a doctor threads a feeding tu ... More >>
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April 20, 2012
Poll: Which Dirty Nickname Should We Give the Marlins' Home Run Sculpture?
You all are dirty! On Wednesday we asked Riptide readers to come up with the most vulgar possible name for the Miami Marlins' technicolor home run statue. We waded through the comments both here and on our Facebook page. After scrubbing ourselves clean in the shower with a wire brush to remove some ... More >>
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April 18, 2012
Rick Scott's Welfare Drug Testing Law Even Bigger Failure Than Previously Thought
Gov. Rick Scott championed a controversial law that required all recipients of state welfare to submit to drug tests, claiming it saves the state money. We've known for a while now that in fact the program actually cost the state money, but supporters pointed to potential "hidden savings" of potenti ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
Dead Body Found In Bathroom at Miami Dade College's Kendall Campus
A Miami Dade College employee made a grisly discovery this morning, stumbling upon a dead body in a bathroom at the university's Kendall campus.The employee found the unidentified man's corpse between 6 and 7 a.m. A message was quickly sent out to university faculty, staff, and students, but police ... More >>
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April 11, 2012
Human Skull and Bones Discovered at Apparent Sacrifice Site in Hialeah Gardens (PHOTOS)
Richard "Kudo" Couto, the animal activist who has targeted illegal slaughterhouses in Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens, was prowling that area recently when he stumbled upon a scene worthy of Law & Order. He found what looked to be leftovers from an epic sacrifice. A container was filled with the r ... More >>
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April 11, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Fire Breather
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April 3, 2012
It Will Soon Be Legal to Dye Baby Chicks Any Color You Want in Florida
What the hell happens up in Tallahassee sometimes? Seriously?See, the apparently powerful dog grooming lobby convinced our elected officials to take time out of their busy legislative session to lift an old ban on dying live animals. They were actually successful, but the ban now means that the cont ... More >>
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April 2, 2012
"Junk Cars" Text Spam Plagues Miami Cell Phones, But One Brave Local Fights Back
If you have a Miami-area phone number, there's a good chance that in the past few months, you've received texts seeking "junk cars." The message is all uppercase in both English and Spanish and promises $400 to $450 for your clunker. "It irritates the hell out of me," says a loyal reader we'll ca ... More >>
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April 2, 2012
"Butt Cancer" Billboard Going Up Outside Marlins Stadium
Move over, PETA -- there's a new publicity-hungry organization in town that isn't afraid to shock. To protest hot dogs, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group of vegan doctors, is unveiling a billboard linking hot dogs to "butt cancer" right outside the new Marlins Stadium.
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March 29, 2012
Logan Morrison's New Times Cover Shoot: The Video
Miami Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison, subject of this week's feature story, "Tweeter in Chief", is one of the most outspoken and freewheeling dudes in Major League Baseball. He tweets crazy shit, he speaks his mind when questioned by reporters, and goes all out when photographed for the cover of ... More >>
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March 28, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Al Fresco
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March 22, 2012
Florida Senate: Ping Pong Balls Lack Gravitational Integrity
A Senate Committee in Tallahassee played redistricting bingo late yesterday. The idea: Shout so loud the Florida Supreme Court might actually accept its new plan. B-I-N-G-O. They used one of those wire rollers with a handle and a bunch of ping pong balls.Senators who drew white balls got four-yea ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
Hurricane Ladies Dropped in NCAA, Men in NIT
Last night, it wasn't so great to be a Miami Hurricane. Both the University of Miami men's and women's basketball teams saw their seasons come to an end by being upset in their respective tournaments by much lower seeded teams.
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March 20, 2012
George Rekers' Escort Denied Escort Award for Breaking Escort Code
Remember George Rekers, the anti-gay activist and Baptist minister whom& Miami New Times caught procuring the services of a male escort from RentBoy.com in 2010? Well, what do you know, RentBoy.com's annual award show, appropriately called "The Hookies," is coming up, and the organization tho ... More >>
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March 16, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: El Matador de Pollo
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March 15, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: You Go Gator
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March 13, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Straight No Chaser
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March 9, 2012
ESPN on Peyton Manning: "The Dolphins' Chances are Dwindling"
Could Miami be too big of a market for Peyton Manning? ESPN's NFL Insider Adam Schefter, citing several "sources," says that the media frenzy that greeted Manning as he arrived in South Florida may have scared him off. Schefter suggests that like Jim Harbaugh and Jeff Fisher before him, Manning m ... More >>
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March 9, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Red Walk
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March 9, 2012
Rick Ross Now Smoking Jeremy Lin Marijuana
We all know that Miami's reigning rap king Rick Ross prefers the finer things in life, and likes to flaunt that fact on his Twitter account. Today Ross Tweeted a picture of his latest favorite product: marijuana named after New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin.
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March 7, 2012
Heroin Lollipops Seized From Sweaty Guatemalan at Airport
When Rafael Quinones Jimenez arrived in Orlando on a flight from his native Guatemala on Friday, U.S. Customs inspectors noted that he was "very nervous and was sweating profusely." For good reason. When they searched his luggage they found seven pounds of heroin disguised as candy lollipops.So h ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Gator Wrestling
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March 2, 2012
North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's House Is In Foreclosure
North Miami's embattled mayor, Andre Pierre, has already survived enough scandals to knock five or six normal politicos off their perch -- from the wacky (driving a luxury car gifted from a mysterious "friend") to the sinister (accusations of wiretapping his enemies offices, corruption probes by ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Behind the Dunes
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March 1, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: An A-what? An Anhinga
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February 27, 2012
MegaCutz Gunfight in Allapattah Leaves Motorcycle-Riding Shooter Dead UPDATE
via MegaCutz.comMiami is often compared with the Wild West, thanks to our frontier spirit, our home at the very edge of the country and, of course, the fact that the our town is full of crazy people with guns. The 305's latest Butch Cassidy-esque gunfight went down last night at the MegaCutz barb ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
Obama Throws Up "The U" at the University of Miami: A Video Recap
via TwitterPresident Barack Obama was in Coral Gables yesterday to shoot the shit with students at the University of Miami. With his presidential charm and that DC swagger, No. 44 addressed our country's energy crisis, took subtle jabs at the GOP presidential hopefuls and yes, threw up the U ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Surveillance Nation: Five Companies in Florida That May Help the Government Spy On You
Earlier this month, New Times reported on how South Florida cops routinely track people through their cell phone signals without getting a warrant first. Like cops around the country, they can do so thanks to a Melbourne, Florida-based company called Harris Corp. that makes cell phone spying devi ... More >>
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February 20, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Wings and Waves
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February 17, 2012
Dumb Kid Steals Tomato Plant Because He Thought It Was Marijuana
Sometimes we really worry about the state of Florida's youth. Kids today are so dumb they can't even get high correctly.A 15-year-old boy in Daytona Beach, Florida, recently got in trouble for stealing a tomato plant, which he only swiped because he thought it was a marijuana plant.
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February 16, 2012
Miami Heat's All-Time Record at .500 for First Time in Team History
Remember when the Miami Heat sucked? Good golly, did they suck. This was a team so horrible they didn't get a single win until the 18th game of their inaugural 1988-89 season. In fact, the team's all-time record had never been above .500. Yep, when taking into consideration every single regular-s ... More >>
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February 14, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Mazed
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February 13, 2012
Florida Woman Pretends to Help Cyclist Almost Hit By Car, Then Punches and Robs Her
When you're a bicyclist, especially in Florida, don't trust anyone else on the road with your safety. A female bicyclist in Gainesville found that out the hard way. After the cyclist was sideswiped by a car, another woman offered to help her. Instead, she punched her in the face and snatched her ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Looks Like Someone Had a Fun Weekend
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February 9, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Enchanted
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February 7, 2012
Student Stabbed and Seriously Injured at Barbara Goleman Senior High School
Details are few and far between at the moment, but a student at Barbara Goleman Senior High School in Miami Lakes has been stabbed and seriously injured. WSVN reports that the student was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital. County police and fire rescue are on the scene investigating. Updated ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Brilliant Biltmore
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February 6, 2012
Bull's Balls at Yambo, Home of Top-Notch Neighborhood Nicaraguan Fare
Open 24/7, Little Managua's Yambo serves large portions of authentic Nicaraguan fare at exceptionally modest prices. Aside from the finger lickin' quality and enormous size of the platters, the ambiance and the décor makes this labyrinth a destination-place -- it feels extremely homey while transpo ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
The Dutch: Preview of a Great Restaurant Review to Come
A heady fizz practically kisses diners as they enter the Dutch. This self-described American restaurant, bar, and oyster room bubbles over with a fabulous clientele, and the boisterous decibel level is jazzed with the razzmatazz buzz that "it" places possess. The staff hustles and bustles to the ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Sparked
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January 31, 2012
Strippers Skrawberry and Tip Drill Analyze the Florida Republican Primary
Early morning yesterday, Miami super-strippers Skrawberry (left) and Tip Drill vaulted to the top of the political punditry heap when they crashed a South Beach filming of Morning Joe. With the Florida primary vote going down today, we caught up with these acrobatic pole-dancing Howard Zinns for ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Florida's Eight Weirdest Bills: Pecan Crime, Lifeguard Beatdowns and Trees Painted Purple
Every year, Florida lawmakers propose more than a thousand bills. Some of them are admirable and important changes designed to make our streets safer, our schools better, and our citizenry healthier. Then there are the other 92 percent. Here are the eight most awesomely befuddling and obscure bil ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
305 Photo of the Day: Chain Linked
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January 26, 2012
The Miami Herald Announces Its New Home: Former U.S. Southcom HQ in Doral
The Miami Herald has officially found its new home. The newspaper is moving to the former headquarters of the United States Southern Command in Doral. Publisher David Landsberg sent out a memo to staff this morning announcing the move. The Herald has sold its current headquarters, right off Bisca ... More >>
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