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Ronald Reagan

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    The Foxorcist: Miami Filmmaker Mashes Horror and 2012 Politics

    There's an undeniable element of skin-crawling terror to the downward spiral of modern American politics. And who hasn't felt like projectile-vomiting all over their dashboard while listening to Rush Limbaugh's radio rants? So kudos to a proud Miami auteur for dreaming up The Foxorcist -- a mashup ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Presidents Day: First Drunks, Jellie Bellies, and Sushi-Inspired Diarrhea

    ​It's the third Monday of the month and you know what that means: "S#!@... another Monday". Oh yeah, and it's Presidents Day. And believe it or not, Presidents can be funny.Now, let's be honest. We love it when someone we know makes a fool of himself - even better when it involves food. Presidents ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Yardbird & Pubbelly Sushi Drop In, A Food-Lovin' Christie Drops Out

    ​That Was The Week That Was aired in America on NBC from 1964 to 1965. The recurring cast -- David Frost, Henry Morgan, Alan Alda and Buck Henry -- would present the prior weeks news in satirical manner. You might think of it as a precursor to Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. That's a lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    McKeon's Musings: The Marlins Skipper Shares His Thoughts on the Debt Ceiling

    ​Riptide is pleased to announce the hiring of Jack McKeon, the 80-year-old interim manager of the Florida Marlins, as an interim semi-regular columnist. His first topic: the debt ceiling. I was on the bullpen phone with Corny the other day when he said the damndest thing. Apparently, there's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Spiked Watermelon Mint Pops to Champagne Sorbet: Sunday is National Ice Cream Day

    ​From Reaganomics, to the end of the Cold War, to Bedtime for Bonzo, President Ronald Reagan was either loved for his charming smile and love of chimpanzees, or hated for his ultra-conservative economic policies.As far as we're concerned, his most important contribution to the good ol' US of A ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2011

    Saguesera Smackdown

    ​From Reaganomics, to the end of the Cold War, to Bedtime for Bonzo, President Ronald Reagan was either loved for his charming smile and love of chimpanzees, or hated for his ultra-conservative economic policies.As far as we're concerned, his most important contribution to the good ol' US of A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Five Presidential Candidates and the Pop Songs They Stole for the Campaign Trail

    Whitesnake aficionado Mitt Romney.​Mitt Romney's bid for the U.S. presidency was off to a rousing start last week with '80s hair-metal frontman David Coverdale going in on the Republican presidential hopeful. Turns out Romney used Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again" at his campaign kickoff rally withou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Six Formerly Ridiculous Celebrities Who Went On to Public Office

    ​We know the inner struggle you're having. Whenever you picture yourself voting Luther Campbell for Miami-Dade Mayor, there's a little persistent soundtrack playing in your head that causes hesitation: Oh, me so horny... So we put together this list to convince you that some totally ridiculous ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2011

    The Woodstock of Livestock

    ​We know the inner struggle you're having. Whenever you picture yourself voting Luther Campbell for Miami-Dade Mayor, there's a little persistent soundtrack playing in your head that causes hesitation: Oh, me so horny... So we put together this list to convince you that some totally ridiculous ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Miami Herald Endorses Luther Campbell? Hell Nah! He's Our Candidate!

    ​Bad enough The Miami Herald poaches New Times stories without giving us credit, but now they want to co-opt our mayoral candidate. Yesterday, the city's only major daily newspaper published a column by local African American blogger Joy-Ann Reid essentially endorsing Luther Campbell for county ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Ronald Reagan's Ghost Son Endorses McCollum, While Sarah Palin Makes a Florida Endorsement of Her Own

    ​Short of hiring a medium to contact the ghost of Ronald Reagan for an endorsement, the best thing Republicans can get in the ways of a Reagan endorsement is getting the Gipper's adopted son to back a candidate while raising his father's specter another way. Lucky Bill McCollum.&nbs ... More >>

  • News

    August 5, 2010

    Five candidates you want to vote against

    ​Short of hiring a medium to contact the ghost of Ronald Reagan for an endorsement, the best thing Republicans can get in the ways of a Reagan endorsement is getting the Gipper's adopted son to back a candidate while raising his father's specter another way. Lucky Bill McCollum.&nbs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Hall of Shame: Five Candidates You Want to Vote Against

    ​With the primary election less than a month away, Riptide is doing its civic duty by letting readers know about the five worst candidates running in local, state, and federal races. A vote for these jokers is just another leap toward Idiocracy, the made-up future world conjured by Beavis & Bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    WikiLeaks Just a Drop in the Bucket: Top 5 Best Leaks in Recent History

    SilliCilli's on FlikrHistoric leaking.​There's been a lot of leaking lately. First, it was Mel Gibson's heavy-breathing tirade, and now something that is just a tad more relevant -- WikiLeaks' releasing thousands of pages of allegedly classified documents pertaining to the War in Af ... More >>

  • News

    July 15, 2010

    Ronald Reagan immigration amnesty 25 years later

    Today, amnesty is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Miami-Dade Republicans Name Drop Ronald Reagan

    Paul Crespo ​Last night's monthly meeting of Miami-Dade Republicans was an entertaining respite from the LeBronomania enveloping the county. As promised, congressional candidate Paul Crespo demanded that David Rivera, the Republican frontrunner in the U.S. congressional race to replace Mario Diaz- ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Hitch on Himself

    Paul Crespo ​Last night's monthly meeting of Miami-Dade Republicans was an entertaining respite from the LeBronomania enveloping the county. As promised, congressional candidate Paul Crespo demanded that David Rivera, the Republican frontrunner in the U.S. congressional race to replace Mario Diaz- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Stephen Koschal, the Creepiest Man in the Memorabilia Industry, Is a Proud Miamian

    A Brickell dealer made a career out of selling creepy Gacys like this. In the early '90s, serial killer John Wayne Gacy spent his days on death row creating extraordinarily creepy paintings of clowns. So memorabilia dealer Stephen Koschal wrote the murderer in prison and offered to be his agent. Br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Rubio Says Reagan Was Wrong on Immigration

    ​You know a candidate is really serious about painting himself as a hardcore conservative when he tries to place himself to the right of Right Wing Deity Ronald Reagan. But that's exactly what Marco Rubio did today, by declaring that the Gipper's support of the Immigration Reform and Control ... More >>

  • Music

    September 10, 2009

    Bruce Springsteen at the BankAtlantic Center

    No rock star has played politics smarter than the Boss.

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    Hundreds of People Will Leave Reagan High To Protest Reagan's Favorite Thing: Cutting Education Funding

    via Cliff1066's FlickrRonald Reagan, our Nation's greatest alliteratively named President to serve in the second half of the 20th century, did not like to spend a lot of money on public education. As Governor of California he opposed increases to basic education programs pretty much every chance he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    Every Wingnut Hates Crist

    Charlie Crist, our new official Republican Boyfriend, was on Meet The Press this weekend carrying on his love affair with the stimulus package. Meanwhile, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, also known as 1/3 of Ronald Reagan's soul-equivalent (Reagan, as most historians agrees, was indeed soulless) re ... More >>

  • Music

    October 23, 2008

    Cool Credos

    We offer the presidential contenders our own picks for theme songs.

  • Culture

    June 26, 2008

    Duel on the Hill

    At GableStage, therapist and patient switch roles.

  • Music

    April 13, 2006

    Vines

    Vision Valley (Capitol)

  • Year End

    December 23, 2004

    Closing Credits: "Dutch"

    Vision Valley (Capitol)

  • News

    July 1, 2004
  • Dining

    June 24, 2004

    All Lobster All the Time

    Vision Valley (Capitol)

  • News

    June 24, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of June 24, 2004

    Old pol, bad pickup lines, and authentic hip-hop

  • News

    June 24, 2004

    Gang Related

    Mass transit trouble and coked-up greyhounds

  • Music

    June 17, 2004

    Death Becomes You

    For the hip-hop generation, Reagan's demise marks the end of an era of political naiveté

  • Shops and Wares

    May 16, 2002
  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of February 13, 2002

  • Dining

    January 31, 2002

    6 Degrees and Rising

    A Beach novelty: Solid food at fair prices at a club/lounge

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Waiting for Otto

    Why would a man sullied by Iran-contra and illegal propaganda campaigns be a Bush nominee? Good question.

  • Restaurants

    May 17, 2001

    Best Place To Dine With Dan Marino

    Football Sandwich Shops

  • News

    May 10, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    From the issue of May 10, 2001

  • Film

    May 18, 2000

    Love Sick

    Bossa Nova

  • Best of Miami

    May 11, 2000

    Greg Bush

    Bossa Nova

  • Culture

    September 10, 1998
  • Film

    May 12, 1993

    Just `Cause

    Bossa Nova

  • News

    April 14, 1993

    Junkies

    It alters perceptions and skews the ability to tell right from wrong. Ultimately, it results in a dysfunctional society. But it's not a drug. It's the War on Drugs.

  • News

    August 5, 1992

    Swelter

    It alters perceptions and skews the ability to tell right from wrong. Ultimately, it results in a dysfunctional society. But it's not a drug. It's the War on Drugs.

  • News

    October 9, 1991

    That Was Miami, This Is Managua

    It alters perceptions and skews the ability to tell right from wrong. Ultimately, it results in a dysfunctional society. But it's not a drug. It's the War on Drugs.

  • News

    September 4, 1991

    Whoppers!

    It alters perceptions and skews the ability to tell right from wrong. Ultimately, it results in a dysfunctional society. But it's not a drug. It's the War on Drugs.

  • News

    January 16, 1991

    Take This Commissioner, Please!

    It alters perceptions and skews the ability to tell right from wrong. Ultimately, it results in a dysfunctional society. But it's not a drug. It's the War on Drugs.

  • News

    November 21, 1990

    Cuba Over and Out

    It alters perceptions and skews the ability to tell right from wrong. Ultimately, it results in a dysfunctional society. But it's not a drug. It's the War on Drugs.

  • Film

    July 18, 1990

    Fit to Be Tide

    It alters perceptions and skews the ability to tell right from wrong. Ultimately, it results in a dysfunctional society. But it's not a drug. It's the War on Drugs.

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