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Bloggers Angry About Crispin's Latest Burger King Stunt

It seems like local advertising wunderfirm Crispin Porter Bogusky's latest shtick is to create campaigns that rile people up to the point they can't help but emotionally type overwrought, 1,000-word blog entries about them. How else to explain the captivating and confusing Microsoft ads staring Bi ... More >>

NY Times Takes Web Tip From Herald

Screenshots of NYTimes.com and Herald.comTwinzies! In their never ending quest to figure out the Internet, newspapers (us included!) are trying lots of new things. Well "new" to them anyway. The New York Times has a prototype for an "Article Skimmer" up. Headlines and ledes are placed in a grid, and ... More >>

NY Times: Midtown in a Slump

screencap from Google MapsWe've found the predicament of Midtown Miami to be quite interesting for a while now: noting its trouble both here on Riptide and in print. Now the Grey lady is weighing in on the development's slump in a piece that just went online: "The bankruptcies of Circuit City and Li ... More >>

Florida Judges Turn Into Debt Collectors

As Tim Elfrink reports in today's paper, the Miami-Dade Public Defender's office is so overworked and under funded that they've stopped accepting new 3rd degree felony cases, a move that may or may not be legal. In the meantime, the PDs office is leaning on top-dollar corporate law firms to take on ... More >>

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Herald Circulation Tumbles

via I think we should coin a term here on Riptide for when we blog about the miseries facing The Miami Herald. "Herald in a Barrel"? You know, how like in the great depression days people got so poor they had to wear barrels to hide their nudity? Ok, no. Heraldpocalypse? Anni-Herald-ation? Yeah, the ... More >>

Memo to Hog Hunters: Don't Hunt While Sick (Not That You Would)

Words such as "Public Health Emergency" and "Global Pandemic" can awaken the dormant hypochondriac in the best of us. So when newspapers started using scary words to describe the swine flu yesterday, it occurred to Riptide that Florida has the second biggest wild hog population in the country. And t ... More >>

Pollsters Are Down with Gay Marriage, Florida Is Down with Old People

Florida is behind the times when it comes to gay rights, (Remember Amendment 2? And that whole adoption thing?) But at least the rest of the country is catching on. Back in 2004, New York Times/CBS conducted a poll in which they asked people, "Do you support gay marriage?" Only 22 percent of respon ... More >>

Kobe Club Not Cooked After All

We just received word from Terry Zarikian, Director of Product Development for China Grill Management, that Kobe Club Miami's closing is only temporary -- the steak house will reopen at the beginning of August. Why the confusion? "The New York Times misreported the closing of Kobe Club Miami by omit ... More >>

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Local 70 samples have been taken from patients in Florida suspected of having swine flu. Only three were sent along to Atlanta because they weren't found to be something else, and the results from those three could come back today. [CBS4] WSVN is suiting Nielsen, the ratings people, for being a mon ... More >>

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LocalTwo schools in Doral were closed due to Swine Flu. [Herald]So far 5 vets from 3 affected VA hospitals have tested positive for HIV. [NYTimes] Britto is due in court for his DUI charges today. [CBS4]SportsOh,  Heat. You were eliminated. It's okay, we never expected that much out of you ... More >>

Poodles, Tigers, and Celebrities, Oh My

LocalTwo schools in Doral were closed due to Swine Flu. [Herald]So far 5 vets from 3 affected VA hospitals have tested positive for HIV. [NYTimes] Britto is due in court for his DUI charges today. [CBS4]SportsOh,  Heat. You were eliminated. It's okay, we never expected that much out of you ... More >>

The Lead Launches This Thursday

New York Times media critic David Carr had a column yesterday about the somber mood of a bon voyage party for longtime New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan and the much more frivolous atmosphere of a shindig held by a handful of new-media wunderkinds, complete with rooftop hot tubs and blaring ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: "Junkyard Dog" by ¡Mayday!, Playing Transit Tonight

From the moment local hip hop crew ¡Mayday! got their first DSL hookup, the self-described "sound bombers" have proven themselves to cunning manipulators of modern internet technology. Like a half-feral band of dystopian techno-guerillas, they've managed to sidestep the bombed-out remains of the po ... More >>

Goodbye Solo Screens This Weekend

Forget Brüno. Forget Moon. Forget Public Enemies. Forget Harry Potter, Ice Age, Away We Go, Transformers, The Hangover, etc.The movie you need to see this weekend is Rahim Bahrani's Goodbye Solo.Don't believe me? Go to Metacritic and keep scrolling until you find a rating under 100. (It will t ... More >>

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A man stole handbags from Macy's in Aventura Mall and then, during the getaway, hit and killed a woman. [Herald]Police are still searching for a woman involved in the handbag heist. Meanwhile, witnesses say the crash could have been prevented if police weren't so aggressive in their pursuit. [NBCMia ... More >>

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Miami Beach sea turtles are under constant threat because their nests share the beach with us humans. The worse kind of humans -- drunk ones. "Mr. Buchanan voluntarily protects the nests from what he says is the constant threat of drunken nighttime visitors who pour out of nearby nightclubs to go fo ... More >>

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The Miami Dolphins lost to the Atlanta Falcons 19-7, and it wasn't even that kind of loss where you could be like, "Well, at least their so-and-so looks good this year." It was just brutal. [Herald]Ferry service from Miami to Havana? It might just happen. [NYTimes]Oh, no! Someone pulled a smash ... More >>

News Roundup: Commissioner Gonzalez Resigning; Blah, Blah, LeBron James

Miami City Commissioner Angel Gonzalez will resign soon amid an investigation into a job he got his daughter. There's probably a joke in here about his name being Angel while he is clearly not one, but why would we make a joke as horrible as that? That joke would be almost as horrible as the city co ... More >>

Miami Food Culture Featured in New York Times Magazine

Detail of a New York Times Advertisement - 1895An old lady reads the gray lady.​Sunday, New York City, the world; literally hundreds of people will read the newspaper that made newspapers famous.Good thing they have a website.Yesterday's Sunday Times Magazine, in a pre-preemptive strike on Art Bas ... More >>

My Scarf Is Bigger Than Yours

Detail of a New York Times Advertisement - 1895An old lady reads the gray lady.​Sunday, New York City, the world; literally hundreds of people will read the newspaper that made newspapers famous.Good thing they have a website.Yesterday's Sunday Times Magazine, in a pre-preemptive strike on Art Bas ... More >>

Palm Beach County band Surfer Blood plays the Vagabond

Detail of a New York Times Advertisement - 1895An old lady reads the gray lady.​Sunday, New York City, the world; literally hundreds of people will read the newspaper that made newspapers famous.Good thing they have a website.Yesterday's Sunday Times Magazine, in a pre-preemptive strike on Art Bas ... More >>

FFF: Fruitcake

​'Tis the season to mock the poor fruitcake, arguably the most disrespected comestible of all time."There is nothing dangerous about fruitcakes as long as people send them along without eating them." ~Calvin Trillin"Fruitcakes make ideal gifts because the Postal Service has been unable to find a w ... More >>

When It Comes to Netflix, Miami is a County Divided

The New York Times' got a hold of NetFlix rental habits in major cities in America, and it's pretty fascinating. Miami is included, and the maps gives you a chance to see what your neighbors are renting. More interesting, perhaps, are the patterns that emerge. We All Love Grandpa BabiesIn all b ... More >>

News Roundup: Heat Fall to Raptors, Beasley Busts a Knee

Two teens in Hialeah are charged with trying to cover up the accidental shooting death of another teen. [CBS4]Coconut Grove bar owners are gearing up for a battle to bring back the neighborhood's 5 am last call. [CBS4]McClatchy, The Herald's parent company, posted a $25.8 million profit for the four ... More >>

De La Soul Food

Two teens in Hialeah are charged with trying to cover up the accidental shooting death of another teen. [CBS4]Coconut Grove bar owners are gearing up for a battle to bring back the neighborhood's 5 am last call. [CBS4]McClatchy, The Herald's parent company, posted a $25.8 million profit for the four ... More >>

In Shocking News, Nobody Wants to Pay the Herald to Read Free Stories Online

daquella via flicker ccNewspaper stands: the tape players of new media land?​Riptide would like to announce an experiment that will be more fun than imaginable. You, the reader, now have two choices when clicking through this fabulous, blog-alicious news blog. You can either: (1) Read the storie ... More >>

SXSW: Surfer Blood Play VVM Party, Get New York Times Write-Up, Love Thee Oh Sees

Photo by Shannon CottrellGetting sleepy, J.P.?​As promised, Surfer Blood got the Village Voice's SXSW showcase started right on Saturday. VV's Camille Dodero confirms that the guys from West Palm Beach are "the nicest kids ever," and posted some nifty snaps from the other acts, including the Pains ... More >>

Top Ten Cuban Bloggers You Haven't Heard Of

Yoani Sánchez is on the cover of Italian Wired this month. In the three years she's been online, the 32-year-old blogger has become Cuba's Arianna Huffington.via @riccardowired​She's now a tweeter and a blogger on the Huffington Post, and her blog gets 14 million page views a mont ... More >>

Black Kids Hit the Vagabond July 2

​It feels like only yesterday when Jacksonville locals Black Kids released their first single "I'm not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance with you" in April of '08. Since then, their debut album, Partie Traumatic, has reached worldwide acclaim, landing them the #5 spot of UK Album charts t ... More >>

Vagina Is For Lovers

​It feels like only yesterday when Jacksonville locals Black Kids released their first single "I'm not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance with you" in April of '08. Since then, their debut album, Partie Traumatic, has reached worldwide acclaim, landing them the #5 spot of UK Album charts t ... More >>

Jazzin' Up the Joint

​It feels like only yesterday when Jacksonville locals Black Kids released their first single "I'm not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance with you" in April of '08. Since then, their debut album, Partie Traumatic, has reached worldwide acclaim, landing them the #5 spot of UK Album charts t ... More >>

Supermoon Rising: This Week's Five Signs of the Apocalypse

​In ancient Greek, apocalypse translates as "a revelation." So what could possibly be more apocalyptic than the giant freaking orange moon due to pop up tomorrow night? After all, it's the biggest and closest it's been in nearly two decades. FYI: the "extreme supermoon" is also predicted to (1) ma ... More >>

Families of Seven Men Killed in Police Shootings Speak At Commission Meeting Today

​Willa Mae Reed cries when she remembers the last time she saw her grandson, Tarnorris Tyrell Gaye. "He said he was getting a haircut, and he kissed me goodbye," Reed tells Riptide. "I still got a lot of questions about what happened next."Gaye was shot and killed by Miami police in December -- on ... More >>