Commuting on Florida’s highways often feels like bumper cars with Ferrari engines. So what would happen if those heavy-footed douches no longer faced the specter of speeding tickets?Thanks to a couple of enterprising young entrepreneurs, we might just find out. Indian River County’s Ian Sidles, age 25, and Dustin Boring,…
Steve Job’s first posthumous release — the iPhone 4S — is getting a lot of buzz for its new “personal assistant”, Siri, who’s supposed to be really good at setting up meetings and booking hotel rooms for high-powered types. Or finding the nearest hookers for alt-weekly staffers, apparently. Yesterday, we…
BP was recently ripped off to the tune of six figures by an enterprising hustler named Eliu Gonzalez. The 37-year-old Florida City resident was indicted in April for forging documents to claim $110,116 in lost fishing income due to the Deepwater Horizon spill. He was a fugitive until August. This week, sea gangstas…
McKay scholarship reform New Times
New Times exposé forces McKay scholarship reform
Five annoying things Miamians do
Yesterday, we wandered around the Government Center in Downtown Miami– site of the Occupy Miami tent-camp– and found ourselves, well, a bit underwhelmed by the protest scene. By now, Occupy Wall Street and Occuoy Miami protesters must know that their critics in the right-leaning– or even mainstream– media are gonna…
What a difference three months makes. In July, after New Times published a feature exposing a disastrous lack of oversight in a $150-million-a-year taxpayer-funded voucher program for disabled kids, Florida Department of Education honcho Michael Kooi said this newspaper “should be ashamed” of its reporting. Now, after getting grilled by…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. …
Choice Preparatory School was banned from sports competition last year after an investigator for the state athletic athletic association found no evidence of classes taking place there. Its director has been involved in two schools found to have defrauded the Department of Education of funds earmarked for kids with disabilities…
95 Express: Pay more, get injured, wait in traffic
Socked with a $53,000 fine for fielding a boy’s basketball team that repeatedly trampled the rules last season, Dr. Michael M. Krop’s new principal is battling the penalty. In an appeal filed in September with the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA), Dawn Baglos doesn’t deny that her school cheated…
Our sister paper in New York City just published a list of ten things that city’s citizens need to stop doing. But let’s face it: Even when you consider the number of Williamsburg hipsters, Miamians are still way more annoying than New Yorkers.Miamians are space invaders. Which is to say,…
Jose Cassola claims that the Miami Herald , where he worked as a Neighbors reporter until Wednesday, is trying to throw him under the bus by publicizing his recent DUI arrest. He also claims that he’s innocent– although he admits to driving after five to seven cocktails– and the victim…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Puppet the Psycho Dwarf is the ultimate bad boy in the world of little people. Half Pint Brawlers, his troupe of “midget wrestlers” was recently featured on their own reality show on Spike. They have been battling the stodgy goodniks of Little People of America (LPA) for years. I went on…
There was a strange news story published on Miami Herald’s website Wednesday. The article, titled “Herald writer charged with DUI, leaves paper,” reported that little-known Neighbors reporter Jose Cassola was pulled over for running a stop sign with his headlights off at 4 am on Monday. He admitted to the…
In June, New Times published a feature exposing rampant fraud and a near-complete absence of oversight in the $150-million-a-year taxpayer-funded McKay scholarship program for disabled children to attend private schools. One of our readers, it turns out, was Miami-Dade schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho. And now South Florida’s top education honcho…
Apparently it’s not only your Kendall abuelita who likes a good Spanish-language soap featuring beautiful rich people, faked deaths, and middle-aged hunks with great hair. We recently received a wonderfully obscure press release from Medley-based Venevision bragging that its novela Eva Luna is battling for the top spot in its…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Cops raid Jimbo’s over fishy business
Jimbo’s — the venerable Virginia Key hobo den, petting zoo, and bocce pit — was recently named one of Esquire’s best bars in America. It looks like a Mad Max gang hangout. In a figurative sense, the smoked fish sold there is like an enema. Some people swear by it…
Shaquille O’Neal’s recent legal troubles are a complicated saga. There are multiple mistresses and several lawsuits, an alleged police conspiracy, extortion claims, and Shaq’s own typo-laden Twitter-style emails narrating it all.We think we did a noble job of parsing through the Lord of the Rings-caliber, twisty plot to bring you…
