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Miami's Real Estate "Recovery" Might Be All Wall Street Smoke and Mirrors

Miami was pretty much ground zero for the housing bubble bust, but things have begun to look up, at least according to some numbers. Home prices in the area are up 11 percent since last year, but the Washington Post warns that any semblance of a recovery might be the result of Wall Street strat ... More >>

102-Year-Old Miami Woman Who Waited Hours to Vote Will Sit With Michelle Obama During SOTU

Marco Rubio may be delivering the Republican response to Barack Obama's State of the Union speech tonight, but he won't be the only local face you'll see on TV. Desiline Victor, age 102, has been chosen to sit with First Lady Michelle Obama during the proceedings. 

In this Election, Rick Scott and Carlos Gimenez Are Acting Like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke assesses the election debacle in Florida.On the last Saturday of early voting, my wife and I stood in a line that went around the ... More >>

Chris Brown Lying About Community Service for Rihanna Assault? Breezy's Probation Review

Shortly after beating a woman (you know, Rihanna) and pleading guilty to felony assault charges in 2009, the Superior Court of California slapped Chris Brown on the wrist with a remarkably lenient punishment. In short, the ill-tempered pop star received five years probation and was ordered to serv ... More >>

Ten Reasons Romney Is Too Wimpy an Eater To Be President

Of course I'm not saying what a candidate eats should be the sole factor considered by voters when determining the next president of the United States. That would be crazy. Other things are important too -- like what he drinks, and economic policy and stuff.But character surely plays a role in our e ... More >>

Chris Brown vs. Drake Club Reopens, Now Serving Drinks in Frat-Friendly Plastic Cups

About a month ago, New York City's W.i.P. Lounge at Greenhouse nighclub was one of SoHo's hottest spots. But then Drake and Chris Brown allegedly fought at the afterhours joint on June 14, prompting an unwanted police investigation by the State Liquor Authority that resulted in 14 code violations an ... More >>

Miami Herald Misidentifies Carl Bernstein as Carol Bernstein

The name Carl Bernstein is drilled into the heads of journalism students in J-schools across the country. He's the Pulitzer Prize winner who uncovered the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward at The Washington Post. He is a journalism deity. He is also a man. Named Carl. Somehow, however, on Sunday T ... More >>

People Who Think Trayvon Martin Was Unjustly Killed: 91% of Blacks, 59% of Hispanics, 35% of Whites

Damn white people, really?Two new polls conducted by Reuters and The Washington Post show stark divides by race and ethnicity when it comes to perceptions about the death of Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin. A majority of minorities feels that Martin's homicide was unjustifiable, while only about a ... More >>

Fidel Castro Is the Only Thing Less Popular Than the U.S. Congress

​The popularity of the U.S. Congress is at an all-time low. A recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows that just 9 percent of Americans approve of the federal legislative body. How bad is that? Well, just about the only thing Americans hate more than Congress is Fidel Castro.

Marco Rubio Caught Lying About His Family Story by Birthers, National Media

​American politics is a fickle bitch. One day you're Marco Rubio, Tea Party pretty boy and front-runner for the Republican vice presidential nomination. The next day, you're just an asshole who distorted his family history to play on the sympathy of constituents, including fellow Cuban-Americ ... More >>

Pulitzer-Winning Newspaper Publicly Congratulates Sex Tape Star on Engagement

​Today, The Miami Herald, a newspaper that has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes in its history for covering things such as voter fraud, the Haiti earthquake and U.S. Iran-Contra affair, took to its Twitter to publicly congratulate Kim Kardashian, a basic cable reality television star who rocketed to fame af ... More >>

Did Channing Crowder Just Call Anne Frank a Ho?

University of Florida"I don't know who the fuck Anne Frank is."Well, no, he didn't... we think. But the Miami Dolphins linebacker did somehow confuse the diary-writing Holocaust victim with deaf and blind author Helen Keller, which is a front-runner for this month's Most Ignorant Comment By an Athle ... More >>

New Times Nabs First Place Award at Association of Food Journalists Conference

Photo by C. Stiles​Over the weekend, the Association of Food Journalists held its annual conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the wiiners of the annual awards competition were announced. Miami New Times was a finalist in three categories. And the winners are:Our feature, "Pork Pirates," a loo ... More >>

Pink's "Dear Mr. President" Gets Al Gore Hot and Bothered in a New Sex Scandal

Photo by AFP/GETTY​This could possibly be the weirdest sex scandal ever released. As you may have heard, according to the Washington Post, a police report has just been found which lists Al Gore (yes, that Al Gore) as the suspect in a complaint reporting unwanted sexual contact.Apparently, the for ... More >>

Correction: Jeff Greene Does Not Think All Muslims Believe "Crazy Stuff"

​We already talked about today's profile of Jeff Greene in the Washington Post and highlighted a bit where he seems to say something controversial about the Muslim faith:"I'm not an expert on Muslims," Greene said. But he added that anyone who knows anything about the Koran knows that it contains ... More >>

New Times Finalist for Three Association of Food Journalist Awards

Photo by C. StilesThese pigs unfortunately couldn't Babe their way out of their fate.​The finalists for the Association of Food Journalists Awards were revealed yesterday, and the Miami New Times was nominated for three awards, more than any other alternative weekly in the country.Staff writer Gus ... More >>

No Pulitzers For the Herald, But Ex-Tropic Editor Gene Weingarten Nabs Another

The 2010 Pulitzers were announced earlier this afternoon. Shockingly, New Times was not recognized for excellence in Kim Kardashian poop jokes. Maybe next year, kids. ​The Miami Herald also went without any hardware this year after nabbing a breaking news photography win last year. ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Burger King, Seattle's Best, South Beach Thai, Sea Hunter, and Haiti

Miami's own Burger King will kill its BK Joe brand to start selling Seattle's Best, a Starbucks company, at 7,250 BK's around the U.S. [MarketWatch]Chef Michael Harr, former executive corporate chef for Miami-based Celebrity Cruises, will now work for Gaylord National Convention Center in Washington ... More >>

Herald Explains Why It Deleted Sentence from Worldwide Climate Change Op-Ed

Myriam Marquez​When The Miami Herald was the only American paper to run a world-wide op-ed about Climate Change by London newspaper The Guardian we thought either they must be the only daily in this country with balls on that particular issue, or because they've fired so much of their staff they j ... More >>

Harmony Vegetarian Meats: Fake Fish, Chicken, Beef, Pork, and Shrimp

Jacob KatelChef Bernie Matz, Books & Books owner Mitchell Kaplan, and Julio Maza at the Café at Books & Books' fifth anniversary party.​ Hippies, peaceniks, and pothead philosophy majors, rejoice! It's OK to kill and eat plants. They won't scream, they don't cry, and "they don't have a so ... More >>

Kendrick Meek Opposes Using Federal Funds to Pay for Abortions

Rep. Kendrick Meek has joined a small group of house Democrats asking that any health-care reforms not lead to federal funding of abortion, according to the Washington Post. The possibility of taxpayer money being used to pay for abortions is becoming a hot-button issue in the health-care reform ... 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 >>

Sparked By Sucess in Miami, Feds Widen Health Care Fraud Force

The string of headlines involving several local busts of fraudulent HIV/AIDS treatment facilities milking medicare for money was no coincidence. Two years ago the justice department begin specifically targeting medicare fraud in the city. After success in Miami and then Los Angeles, today Attorney G ... More >>

NPR, WaPo Refuse to Report That Outrage Is About Crist

You've probably already heard about Outrage, the new documentary that aims to out closeted politicians who hypocritically vote for anti-gay legislation. Since you live in Florida, you've probably also heard that the film prominently features our own tanned gubernatorial whiz-kid and maybe gay guy Ch ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalYet another publication takes a crack at understanding the reaction to President Obama's changes in Cuba policy amongst Cuban Americans in Miami. This time it's the Washington Post, and they find, quite poetically, that the hard lines have softened. I think honestly though, the pieces on the ma ... More >>

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 >>

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

But you’ll be wide-awake at Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy.

WaPo Video Serves Up Some Softballs for Diaz

The Washington Post is the only media outlet claiming Manny Diaz is "in the mix," as some tend to say, to run for Senate, and earlier this week, the paper sat down with Diaz for a video. That subject wasn't addressed; the interview was mainly about "leadership."  It doesn't show anything all that ... More >>

News Roundup

The Washington Post company, which owns channel 10, will not be buying channel 6 as previously planned. It will remain an NBC O&O. [Just News]Florida isn't as competitive in luring movie shots as other states, anymore. [SunSent]A lady decided to track down some hoodlums that snatched her purse b ... More >>

Code Pink Inspires Shoe Puns

Here is Calle Ocho's favorite protest group Code Pink throwing shoes at a guy in a Bush mask outside of the White House, because these very mature actions will end the Iraq War tomorrow. The Washington Post has decided to be a very wry version of The Daily Show, and documented the whole thing while ... More >>

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