Yes Yes Yes Pompano Beach can be an eerie and uncomfortable place for the Miami traveler. Piles of boats glisten menacingly in harsh parking lot floodlights and pick-up trucks roll along Sample Road, their exteriors plastered with Hooters bumper stickers and creative arrangements of stars and bars. But the Yeah…
Tateo Nakajima’s comments on this week’s Riptide item about sound quality disparities at the Carnival Center Oct. 5 opening came too late to be included in the paper: The hall has a wide range of uses, and finding a balance between those uses is an ongoing challenge. We still have…
Fahrenheit 451: Cast in the, er, glow of the recent public-school book-banning controversy (Vamos a Cuba) and fresh off its selection by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts as this year’s “Big Read,” Fahrenheit 451 lights up GableStage at the Biltmore in its Southeast premiere. Adapted for the stage…
Courtney Cunningham The former Mrs. Juan Courtney Cunningham has parted ways with her Republican lobbyist husband. To the alimony tune of $11,500 per month. Kitty Cunningham, 44, began divorce proceedings against her 44-year-old husband,of the Coral Gables-based Barreto, Cunningham and May public affairs firm, in April 2005 saying their marriage…
The main event at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts’ grand opening Thursday night? Cops. Off-duty Miami city cops picketing the high society affair (cocktail dresses and Prada suits paid $500 for a seat at the celebrity-studded event), to be more exact. They were working the media-heavy event for…
We at Miami New Times missed the Foley boat. Like an itinerant hurricane, the electronic misadventures of Mark “Fingers” Foley blew north through Broward and Palm Beach Counties, leaving us out of the path of what ABC news has taken to calling “The Perfect Blogstorm.” But you know what America?…
The apology by Miami Herald Executive Editor Tom Fiedler in this morning’s newspaper was among the strangest things I have ever read in my life. On the front page, with his picture, he apologized for using “an unfortunate term” in a staff meeting. He didn’t say what the comment was…
The Real Men of Comedy Tour show last night at the Jackie Gleason Theater was off the chain. Frankly, I was only interested in seeing how Charlie Murphy would measure up in front of a live audience without Dave Chapelle’s mad-cap delivery to play off. I’m not a realty television…
Luca Brasi’s doppelganger Today’s Grocer is a trade publication devoting itself to what its title suggests, the splitting of Publix stocks and the penetration of Klondike Bars into the holiday confection market. In the shadow of the gigantic Del Monte Fresh building, the seriously niche magazine held a party celebrating…
Dexter Reads “The Star” Serial killers aren’t so bad. Meet Dexter Morgan, a forensics expert for the Miami-Dade Police who spends his evenings trolling Miami, killing off Magic City slime one by one. He’s the creation of Jeff Lindsay, a Miami-born writer whose novels Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted…
We received very exciting news yesterday and we just had to share it with you. Now, we know that you Beach dwellers loathe leaving the island. Heck, you don’t even want to leave your condo, since you paid so much money for it and you now realize that with an…
We received very exciting news yesterday and we just had to share it with you. Now, we know that you Beach dwellers loathe leaving the island. Heck, you don’t even want to leave your condo, since you paid so much money for it and you now realize that with an…
My husband and I had a long-overdue couples’ night with two of our best friends, Jeff and Jessica, one recent Sunday at Origin Asian Bistro, a South Miami restaurant that was Miami New Times’s 2006 choice for Best Restaurant in South Miami-Dade. We love the place: The Malaysian roti is…
My husband and I had a long-overdue couples’ night with two of our best friends, Jeff and Jessica, one recent Sunday at Origin Asian Bistro, a South Miami restaurant that was Miami New Times’s 2006 choice for Best Restaurant in South Miami-Dade. We love the place: The Malaysian roti is…
In Northwest Miami-Dade there’s a long, lonely stretch of Florida’s Turnpike that goes 65 blocks without a single exit. From NW 41st to 106th Street, there are no bathroom breaks, no gas station cappuccinos, and a ten-mile turnaround for the distracted driver who misses an exit at either end. With…
Every once in a while, Riptide hears about an average blue-collar Miami-Dade citizen engaging in some inexplicably absurd, devious behavior. One example is the criminal case against Franklin Knowles and Larry Martinez, two gents who earn their keep by stopping shoplifters and identity thieves from plundering the Home Depot at…
What is it about the words gift bag that turns seemingly polite, professional women into raging, catty bitches? You would think that an event called Girls’ Night In would be reminiscent of prepubescent slumber parties replete with snacks, facials, and sisterly bonding. While last night’s event at the Agua Bathouse…
When dominoes, stogies and copious amounts of Bacardi Gold rum converged last night at the Habana Cuba Cigar Lounge in Miami Lakes, I found the opportunity too hard to resist. So I, along with 39 other players, paid a $25 entry fee to compete in the lounge’s seven-week domino tournament…
Miami, the neon swamp we all call home is, evidently, a fine place to sleep. A recent study conducted by Bert Sperling of fifty American cities places us at #8. Despite all the doomful possibilities (hurricanes, gunfire, giant reptile mauling) Miamians are sleeping a hell of a lot better than…
After years of working at Norman’s Restaurant, Chef Jeffrey Brana and his wife Anna have opened a place of their own, Restaurant Brana, in Coral Gables (see this week’s Cafe review). Riptide spoke with Jeffrey by phone and asked him a few questions about subjects not covered in the review…
After years of working at Norman’s Restaurant, Chef Jeffrey Brana and his wife Anna have opened a place of their own, Restaurant Brana, in Coral Gables (see this week’s Cafe review). Riptide spoke with Jeffrey by phone and asked him a few questions about subjects not covered in the review…
From the in case you didn’t notice files, readers and drivers, rejoice! This year is the 50th anniversary of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System. A special site called “Florida’s Interstates – A Half Century of Progress” wants to “Welcome [you] to the party! There’s a nationwide celebration going on in…
