Are you sick of hearing about Justin Bieber yet? Unless you’re a heartbroken fan or really into schadenfreude, your answer’s probably yes. Dude’s arrest in Miami has taken over the news cycle of the last day or so. It didn’t have to be this way. Riptide has already explained all…
The Sundance Institute announced its winners in short filmmaking at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and Miami filmmaker Bernardo Britto came away with a prize. Britto’s short film Yearbook won the Short Film Jury Award: Animation at the awards ceremony. See also: Borscht Filmmaker Bernardo Britto Accepted to Sundance 2014…
Seems like everybody in the world of entertainment has something nasty to say about gay people lately. In December, Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson gave GQ a piece of his mind about how much better vaginas are than buttholes. Sherri Shepherd made comments about homosexuality over the weekend stating that…
Hey, girl. How you doin’? We know, we know — it’s been a long week. You deserve a treat, don’t you? The men of Chippendales sure do think so. The strippers have brought their body oil and tear-away pants to Mansion for a limited engagement, spending every Thursday, Friday, and…
The 2014 Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, and if you’re a born-and-raised Miamian, you’re justifiably pissed. No love for local actor Oscar Isaac of Inside Llewyn Davis? Go home, Academy, you’re drunk. It’s enough to make you want to quit this awards season altogether. But if you’re a real movie…
What could be better than an Entourage-inspired HBO series created by Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson both filmed and set in Miami? Here’s what: A series that is all of those things, and also titled Ballers. (We’d have preferred Ballerz, but whatever.) The series is apparently on track…
Ahh, Miami. The skies are blue, the sun is shining, and the temperature’s sitting at a comfortable — wait, 47 degrees? Seriously? Guess it’s that time of year — one of the two, or at most three, weeks each year when Miamians get a tiny taste of the winter that…
After years of uncertainty, blame-throwing, and political maneuvering, one of the most dramatic real estate stories in recent Miami history has entered its conclusion. The Coconut Grove Playhouse narrowly escaped being sold by the state of Florida to the highest bidder this week when Miami-Dade officials, with just hours to…
Oscar Isaac, the Miami-raised star of Inside Llewyn Davis, has already had a dizzyingly successful year. His awkward, often off-putting performance in the Coen brothers’ film has earned him a Golden Globe nomination and rave reviews from pretty much every film critic in the country. But that wasn’t enough to…
If you have friends who live up north or have caught a national weather report in the last couple weeks, you know that most parts of the U.S. are in the middle of a pretty severe winter. Sure, temperatures in Miami have seen a few dips lately. But a low…
“This is Orlando. You go big, or you go back to Kissimmee.” Uh oh, Adriana de Moura. Watch your back, Elsa Patton. There’s a new posse of rich women behaving badly in Florida. And these ones have the advantage of actually being trained for television. The Hotwives of Orlando, a…
Will Tom Hiddleston bring his sweet dance moves to Miami this year? It’s a little more likely now that the Miami International Film Festival has announced a sneak peek of its 2014 lineup of films. Hiddleston is one of a handful of stars due to hit screens around town when…
Whether you know it or not, you’ve probably seen the inside of the largest home on South Beach. It was the filming site of One Direction’s “Best Song Ever” music video. It was the photo shoot location for a Kardashian Christmas card. And it’s hosted dozens of private events –…
Perhaps more than in any other city in the country, Miami residents hate wearing clothes. You’ve got shirtless bros and girls in bathing suits shopping the aisles at Publix. You’ve got everybody dressed down to the bare minimum at the club. I once saw a woman wearing a sheer beach…
It’s been ten years since the first No Pants Subway Ride took place in New York City. Sponsored by Improv Everywhere, the event has become an annual occurrence (and, many residents say, annoyance), both in the Big Apple and cities across the country. Miami, a city without a subway, has…
Last summer, Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara, and Robert Downey, Jr. started popping up in some strange Miami locales: Little Havana’s Hoy Como Ayer, for example, and the lobby and valet areas of the Fontainebleau. Video cameras — and droves of surprised local fans — followed them everywhere. It was all…
Forget about Shark Week. Your mission for this weekend: Live every day like you’re Beyonce. Is there any better role model for Miami partying than Queen Bey? Not lately. Recent weeks have seen The Artist Formerly Known as Sasha Fierce checking out art in Wynwood, partying with Diddy, and crashing…
Can you believe Art Basel 2013 was just one month ago? By the time it was over, the whole city seemed to utter a sigh of relief: No more fairs. No more parties. No more art. But now, in the new year, your passion for great art is back. Good…
Get ready, bitches. Spring in South Beach just got a lot more sassy. And a lot more drunk. The South Beach Comedy Festival announced its 2014 dates today, as well as its first headlining act — none other than the brash, deadpan, unapologetically booze-hungry Chelsea Handler…
Poor Michael Bay. All he wanted to do was shill for some fancy new TV at a tech conference in Las Vegas, adding even more money to his heaps of cash from the Transformers films and Victoria’s Secret ads. But when the Miami-obsessed director took the stage at the International…
Hide yo’ housewives, hide yo’ kids. Miami is set to become a center of smutty, mediocre soft porn when the Fifty Shades of Grey movie begins filming right in the middle of downtown. According to the West Australian, the Fifty Shades production crew has made a last-minute change to its…
The year 2014 began with so much promise. It’s a clean slate, you told yourself. I can do anything. I can be anybody I want to be. And I’m going to make myself a better person. Millions of people think the same thing at the beginning of each year. But…
