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As Chavez's Condition Worsens, Government Asks Supporters to Be "On War Footing"

Venezuela's government inched closer last night to admitting what its opponents have been saying for months: Hugo Chávez is on death's door. A government spokesman announced that Chávez's condition has become "very delicate" after another round of strong chemotherapy.More worrying, Communications ... More >>

Connie Mack: Pay No Attention to Those Other Biased Polls, My Poll Shows I'm Losing Too

Florida Senate nominee Connie Mack IV isn't fighting Democrat Bill Nelson as much as he's scrapping with polling and perception. For weeks now, polls have shown Nelson with a huge lead over Mack, and the challenger is in danger of having his campaign written off as unwinnable by donors. So Mack has ... More >>

Fifty Shades of Marlins

Osama's Translator, Locked Up in Gitmo, Says LeBron James Is a "Very Bad Man"

Most of the world has moved on from LeBron James' decision to leave Cleveland and play for the Miami Heat, but at least one man is still mad about it. The lawyer for Muhammad Rahim, an Al-Qaeda member who served as a translator for Osama bin Laden and who is currently being held in Guantanamo Bay, h ... More >>

Rapper Black Madam Charged with "Patient" Murder for Deadly Butt Injections

The music business doesn't need another "unique artist" who blends "hip-hop, goth, pop, and funk with a rock star flare [sic] and major sex appeal." So when Padge "Black Madam" Winslowe's niche music career hit a brick wall, the Philly-based songstress started moonlighting as a purveyor of black-m ... More >>

Portugal's Buraka Som Sistema Brings Electro Ghetto Bangers to Grand Central Miami

In Angolan culture, the celebration of life is strongest at death. This ritual is called komba and it takes place seven days after a corpse has been buried. Instead of shedding tears of sorrow, the deceased's friends and family dance wildly into the night, drinking heavily and eating the dead one' ... More >>

Ozzie Guillen Goes on Profanity-Laced Tirade Against Nationals Teen Phenom Bryce Harper

Last night, the struggling Miami Marlins went down 0-4 against the Washington Nationals and 19-year-old phenom Bryce Harper. Harper actually wasn't much of a factor in the game, but Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen snapped at the wunderkind and accused him of using too much pine tar on his bat. What fo ... More >>

George Zimmerman in Custody, To Be Charged with Second-Degree Murder

George Zimmerman will finally be charged in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, according to a report from the Washington Post. The charges will be announced in a news conference later this afternoon. However, it's not clear what charges Zimmerman will face.Update at 6:07 p.m.: While emphasiz ... More >>

Marco Rubio Is Getting Ready To Be Vice President While Denying He Wants to Be VP

​Get ready for a Romney-Rubio ticket, Florida. Even as Miami's favorite Tea Party son tells everyone who will listen that he has zero plans to run as vice president this year, the Tampa Bay Times reports that he's studiously following the textbook on how to prepare for a vice presidential run.He's ... More >>

An Open Letter On the Myth of The "Other" Miami

​Dear Sandra Beasley,We read your story in The Washington Post yesterday, in which you describe your quest to find the "other" Miami during your residency at LegalArt, and it made us smile. Some of us are native Miamians, and were happy you enjoyed our hometown. The rest of us moved here from some ... More >>

Rick Santorum "Visibly Exhausted," Losing Badly, Leaving Florida Saturday

photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons​At last, an explanation for why Rick Santorum has been acting so unhinged in the Sunshine State, from inviting an ex-Yahweh ben Yahweh member to open his campaign rally last weekend to making truly bizarre proclamations about rape: Turns out he's really ... More >>

Gingrich Lawyers Threaten Florida TV Stations Airing "False" Attack Ads; They Aren't False

​A political action committee opposing Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich just bought $3.6 million in Florida TV advertisements, according to the New York Times, and it appears the best response Gingrich can muster is something along the lines of, "Hey guys, knock it off. Th ... More >>

Marco Rubio Targeted by Democratic PAC Over Family Story Flip-Flop VIDEO

​A week ago, the Washington Post slammed Florida's freshman Sen. Marco Rubio for "embellishing" his family story by claiming his parents arrived in Miami after Fidel Castro took over Cuba when, in fact, they arrived three years earlier.Well, it didn't take Democrats very long to recognize the oppo ... More >>

Allen West Hears People Are Going to Get Hurt, Immediately Offers To Drive

Wikimedia CommonsA debt plan, you say? GET THE CAR.​House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) showed an inspirational clip from a movie at a closed-door Republican meeting Tuesday. It wasn't from Rudy, nor was it the snow-jogging montage from Rocky IV. It was from The Town, about Ben Affleck tr ... More >>

Best of Miami 2011: Best Politician

In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 16, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Photo by C. Stiles​Best PoliticianFrederica Wilson

Santana Moss' Miami Gardens Dry Cleaning Business Sued for $300K

​A Miami business wants to take former Hurricanes star and current Washington Redskin player Santana Moss to the legal cleaners. The owners of a Miami Gardens shopping center claim that a dry cleaning business, operated by one of Moss's relatives and partially owned by the football star, owes almo ... More >>

Miami Teacher Jennie Smith Slams Obama for Sharing Stage with Jeb Bush

​During President Obama's quick trip to Miami on Friday he stopped by Miami Central High School to deliver remarks on education reform and notably shared the stage with Florida's former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush. Afterward, he held a 14-member round table on education, though only one teacher was i ... More >>

Frederica Wilson Recalls When the Mafia Threatened Her Son's Life

​Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who owns perhaps the most stunning collection of hats since Isabella Blow, has finally landed on the cover of a magazine. Unfortunately for Anna Wintour, it wasn't on her Vogue magazine, but rather the Washington Post Magazine. Though the photo shoot cert ... More >>

Old News

Jim Morrison Pardon Coming This Morning, But Local Rockers Ask Crist Not To Stop There (Update: It's Official)

No longer a suspected dong-dangler.​At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison's pardon -- which should be made official at 9 a.m. -- closes a sordid footnote in ro ... More >>

NBC 6 To Launch 24/7 Local News Channel

​Former local news powerhouse WTVJ is now trudging along near the bottom of the ratings, but that's not stopping them from expanding their news coverage to a 24/7 sub-channel. Broadcasting & Cable reports that the NBC-owned-and-operated station will debut sometime shortly after the new year.

Babies left in hot cars: Accident or crime?

Some parents are never prosecuted. Antonio Balta got 20 years.

The Anti-McDonald's Ad Local TV Stations Won't Air

​It's not much of a secret that a diet heavy in fast food isn't good for you, but Americans continue to shovel burgers and fries down their maws as much as ever (We can't help it, they're so delicious). However, with obesity an ever growing concern, you'd think it would only be a matter of time un ... More >>

ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

Tony Hayward Kiss-off: Top 10 "You're Fireds" in U.S. History

Peter Souza on Wiki Commons "If you talk bad about me, your'e gone." Not since Beelzebub was dumped from heaven by the big guy himself has somebody been so deserving of losing their job as BP's CEO Tony Hayward. The greasy executive will be officially stepping down Oct. 1 and his departure go ... More >>

Cocaine king Max Mermelstein came out of hiding for a screenwriter

Is the CIA Hiding Miami Anti-Castro Cubans' Role In JFK's Assassination?

Here at Riptide, we've had a lot of fun lately with recently declassified CIA documents.via Wikimedia CommonsWho is on that grassy knoll?​Last week, the spooks gave us files from the 60s that proved Luis Posada Carriles -- Miami's most famous terrorist still walking the streets today -- used to sn ... More >>

Miami Herald Tries -- and Fails -- to Intimidate Random Pixels Blogger

via Random PixelsThe offending image on Random Pixels.​Classic David and Goliath: Small local blogger criticizes big powerful daily newspaper. Daily newspaper doesn't like it and sends a cease-and-desist order even though when the local blogger gave the daily praise they found no problem with it. ... More >>

Why the Carol Rosenberg Situation Shouldn't Be Dismissed So Easily: Don't Ask, Don't Tell and Media Bias

Carol Rosenberg​As has been reported just about everywhere, U.S. Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon sent a sexual harassment complaint to Miami Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal about the behavior of the paper's Guantánamo Bay correspondent, Carol Rosenberg. Among using other choice wo ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of October 23, 2008

"Any story that involves strippers and hip-hop that's not derogatory but informative is cool with me."

The Week in Weird

Sax fiend Kenny G to wed all five members of Agnostic Front!

Dark Defiance

A journalist, a kick-ass story, a suicide

Good Badminton

The shuttlecock travels at twice the speed of a Major League fastball

Awash in a Sea of Money

Billions in cash generated by the cocaine trade fueled Miami's economy

Knock 'Em Out

No More Mayor Loco

Xavier Suarez is still a little crazy after all these years, but in Miami politics that can be an advantage

Two in the Bush

Purloined pigeons and a rooster identity crisis

George of the Bungle

Michael Moore goes Bushwhacking in Fahrenheit 9/11

Letters from the Issue of January 2, 2003

More on Officer Trouble of Golden Beach

Waiting for Otto

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

The Drudge Retort

Democrats hate him. Journalists scorn him. Most Americans ignore him. Which is fine with Matt Drudge. He's taking it to the bank.

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of May 10, 2001

DeFede

Y2K Disaster Strikes Miami

Widespread Hispanic

You Say Hoax, We Say Spirited Public Journalism!

Letters

The Last of the Indian Wars

The fight may be about houses in the Everglades, but the battle is about Miccosukee independence by paula park

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