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…
Amid all the brouhaha over Hugo Chavez going all Bobby Fischer on South America’s ass, the world seems to have forgotten about the original undead dictator. And he’s taking the lack of attention personally. A couple of missives (translated) from his official Twitter feed: fidelcastro: @hugochavez nOOb. fidelcastro: @AP Hey,…
We at Riptide fancy ourselves open-minded and nonjudgmental. But when a charity called Child Foundation, Inc. is registered to the same office as a website called TeenBangBus.com, well, it grabs our attention. The links between three local nonprofits — Child Foundation, American Love & Appreciation Fund, and the Click Charity…
On Monday, Riptide exposed that three local charities — including one providing plastic surgery to children in Third-World countries — had some very befuddling connections to the local porn industry. The three non-profits — Child Foundation, American Love & Appreciation Fund, and the Click Charity — have shared addresses with…
We at Riptide fancy ourselves as open-minded and nonjudgmental. But when a charity called Child Foundation, Inc. is registered to the same office as a website called TeenBangBus.com, well, it grabs our attention. The links between three local nonprofits — Child Foundation, American Love & Appreciation Fund, and the Click…
We like the idea that, in his final hours as the Florida Marlins manager, Edwin Rodriguez spent his time comforting relief pitchers who were terrified of ghosts. It’d be fitting for one of the youngest teams in baseball…
Coke-smuggling legend Mickey Munday does spoken word
McKay scholarship program sparks a cottage industry of fraud and chaos
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been sexin’ his team’s championship trophy every night. He said that Dallas fans “punked the shit out of” Miami Heat fans, using a phrase mostly unknown outside of the 12-year-olds-hangin’-at-Orange-Julius crowd. And now, as reported by our sister paper, the Dallas Observer, he’s taken…
If you ask us, a private school that’s been busted defrauding the state of scholarship money for disabled kids probably doesn’t deserve a second chance. It most likely wasn’t the finest institution of learning anyway. The state clearly doesn’t agree. Yesterday, we published a feature story, “Rotten to the Core”,…
If the phrase private school conjures up mental images of idyllic campuses of ivy and brick, you haven’t spent much time slogging through some of the two-bit institutions that are steadily infesting the state. Florida’s McKay Scholarship program, which doled out $149 million in the past 12 months, is at…
If you’re a fan of firsthand accounts, Michael O. Munday is something of a local treasure. Almost every one of his colleagues is dead, in prison, or underground. But 65-year-old Mickey Munday — as the served-his-time cocaine megasmuggler is known — just won’t shut up. Now the gregarious native Miamian…
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…
We told you yesterday about the brouhaha over a flyer for what appeared to be an Exxxotica after-party featuring five not-very-famous NFL players at Club Play. The league is “investigating” a possible copyright infringement in the fact that the flyer used photos of the players in their team jerseys. Last…
We have a fascination with the mundane, workaday reality of the porn industry. It’s strange to think of being in porn as a job like any other, where you sign boring contracts and receive health benefits, and if you excel at your task, other firms might headhunt you, and before…
So Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban refrained from acting like Mark Cuban during these playoffs, which was refreshing because Mark Cuban is insufferable when he acts like Mark Cuban. But then the Mavericks won the Finals and Mark Cuban unleashed his Mark Cuban-ness by cursing on live TV and twisting…
So Chris Bosh going all Sean-Penn-in-Mystic-River moments after tonight’s loss? Yeah, prepare to see that 8,000 times this summer. We’re not going in to work tomorrow…
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…
Water-propelled jet pack hits the South Florida market
There’s something wrong with, well, everything, when the most prominent public college in the state decrees that it will still accept degrees from a high school that was just debunked as a diploma mill. Over eight days ending last week, I enrolled at the InterAmerican Christian Academy, a “high school”…
There is a new must-have accessory for villains and T-Pain alike. It looks like a Rocketeer-esque jet pack, but instead of flames, it’s propelled by two powerful streams of water. The Jetlev R200, as it’s called, sends the wearer three stories into the air at 22 mph. You can do…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week 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 series. Whoa,…
