Drinking and dashing, for the fun of it What’s better than running, then drinking? Drinking, running, drinking, running, and then drinking some more, of course! And that’s exactly what was on the menu last Monday, when I joined the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Hash House Harriers for their weekly “Wild Card Hash,”…
Apparently some news is too good to break just once. New Times couldn’t help noticing Associated Press article about the five sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway that appeared in Saturday’s Herald and Sunday’s New York Times. Because we wrote it a month ago…
Separated at birth? You decide Phil Hopkins, 21, has been delivering food from The Daily (2001 Biscayne Blvd, Miami) to the New Times building almost every day for the past year. At the restaurant, Chef Mario holds up the new issue of the Biscayne Times, points at the photo of…
Vincent Guadazno Despite her breast efforts… With a book title like Stacked: A 32DDD Reports From the Front, author Susan Seligson was already expecting at least a little attention. As a woman with a rack of her own, she’s been on the receiving end of the male gaze for most…
The bike blog recently wrote about bike shootings and felons on bicycles, and this week brings more news from the world of organized crime on two wheels: Sasha Wright, founder and leader of the local bicycle gang “Bycle Jackson,” is relocating, and likely taking the gang’s logistical core with her…
David at upnup.blogspot.com Friday night, Club Mansion; something’s different. Sure there are a million and one people drinking like fish and grinding to beats that don’t exist. But what is that long stretch of stage reaching into the crowd? Suddenly, the stripper-wannabes inhabiting the stage were yanked away, and a…
On April Fool’s Day, Beach Towing Service punked Karl Willman. The unemployed college student pulled into the parking lot of the CVS Pharmacy at 1421 Alton Road around 7:45 p.m. He parked his 2005 gray Honda Element, got out and walked next door to Lime Fresh Mexican Grill to grab…
Students from Johnson & Wales University’s College of Culinary Arts will commemorate the 95th anniversary of the last meal on the Titanic with a special dinner that will recreate the ten-course menu served in the first class saloon on the night of the tragic sinking. The dinner, scheduled for 7…
Students from Johnson & Wales University’s College of Culinary Arts will commemorate the 95th anniversary of the last meal on the Titanic with a special dinner that will recreate the ten-course menu served in the first class saloon on the night of the tragic sinking. The dinner, scheduled for 7…
Nobody gives Calvin T. Godfrey a parking in a restricted zone ticket on Jesus’s Birthday. Nodody. I pledged to fight this affront to goodwill. It only took three months to get my day in court, but at 1:08 p.m. yesterday afternoon, I came armed only with a bible. Officer Samaria…
Nelly: Grillin’ and chillin’ In Christmas of 2005, Nelly’s song “Grillz” made South Beach the nominal center of the shit-on-your-teeth universe. But, bad news, Miami. We dropped the fuckin’ ball. Again. According to a reputable source we rank #7 in the nation for quality grillz…
Stop Miami is coming to a stop When Stop Miami came on the nightlife scene almost three years ago, more than a few hipsters heralded it as a savior. An outpost of understated cool in the burgeoning Wynwood District, Stop was where you went for a glass of good, affordable…
Venezuelan opposition journalist Patricia Poleo has lived in Miami since she was accused of being the “intellectual author” of the murder of a prominent pro-Chavez prosecutor, Danilo Anderson. (New Times published a feature story about the case in February.) Venezuela’s Ministry of Justice implicated Poleo — whose politics tend toward…
Must be 21 years or older It’s either the best thing since boxer-briefs or the lamest attempt ever at cultural crossover. Miller recently rolled out a new beer in Miami and four other heavily Latin test markets (the others are Texas, New Mexico, and San Diego). It’s called Miller Chill,…
Slate’s ad critic Seth Stevenson weighs in on Coconut Grove-based Crispin Porter + Bogusky: “The Hottest Ad Agency in the Country: And Why I Sort of Hate It.” He warns that “Crispin risks pigeonholing itself as an agency that understands only one kind of person.” CPB is known for its…
A group of eight cyclists biking around the state stopped in Miami Tuesday to talk about drunk driving and safe driving. The group, called 180 S.A.F.E. Ride, is comprised of five first responders. Stay Alive from Education, based in Orlando, brings its “Street Smart” program into high schools and colleges,…
La Cage aux Folles: This weirdly resonant story began life as a French play, got reworked as a now-classic French-Italian film, was turned into a Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musical that proceeded to win just about every Tony ever invented, and then received a Hollywood face-lift to emerge as The Birdcage,…
While You Were Out Filed Under: News While you were out partying, doing hallucinogenic drugs, and having hedonistic (and maybe unprotected) sex during the recent Winter Music Conference, the University of Miami’s medical school provided New Times with some astonishing, sobering facts: The AIDS rate among young people in Miami-Dade…
Have you checked a recent invoice on your subscription to the Miami Herald and the Sun-Sentinel? If not, you should. South Florida’s two major dailies are among nine Florida newspapers collecting and pocketing sales tax monies on the cost of delivering fish-wrap to your doorstep — even though they are…
Fighting Ned got his own shirt recently, but we at Riptide thought we should remind you why A’mod Ned is our favorite FIU footballer. First, the jokers over at The Big Picture started Photoshopping the scrappin’ Ned into all sorts of hot spots: in the ring with Mike Tyson, ascending…
Paul Moore is tired of funerals. The 53-year-old social studies teacher at Miami Carol City Senior High School is tired of seeing his students die (three were shot to death this past school year). So Moore drafted an unusual petition calling on Governor Charlie Crist to share his part of…
Greener? Not so much After briefly closing its velvet-rope adorned doors to remodel, the Design District’s Grass Restaurant and Lounge is giving things another shot. To publicize the refurbished space and unveil chef Michael Jacobs’ new menu, promoters invited a bevy of media types and would-be hipsters to a complimentary…
