Forget LeBron. We’re going to go ahead and call James and Ruth Kauff the true heroes of the Miami Heat’s NBA Finals run. The Deerfield husband and wife were arrested at the Finals Game 4 against the since-vanquished Oklahoma Thunder after American Airlines Arena security busted them trying to use…
According to recent reports, Venezuela has been supplying Iran with F-16s in an ominous arms trade that should make the rest of the world very queasy. And a federal indictment filed yesterday makes us wonder if any of those F-16 parts came from our back yard…
Golden Beach has a problem. Its town manager allegedly drives like a gin-addled Gary Busey, and he’s in bed financially with the one person — the mayor — who could fire him. Alexander Diaz, manager of the tiny, wealthy, and epically fucked-up town where Eric Clapton and Ricky Martin have…
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…
Ronald Poppo, the homeless victim of the face-eating attack, faces a long and expensive road towards recovery. But the international interest in the gruesome event has an upside: To date, around 2,000 Samaritans have donated approximately $75,000 to go to his medical care. We got that figure from Larry Clark,…
Anti-Toll-Road Activists in Uproar Over Florida Fee Hikes
Around these parts, everybody’s pretty well acquainted with the tactics of undercover animal activist Richard “Kudo” Couto. The winner of this week’s Best of Miami award for “Best Citizen”, Couto goes to unlicensed slaughterhouses, secretly films brutal animal killings, and– here in Miami-Dade County, at least — gets press attention…
Robert Platshorn served thirty years in prison for smuggling pot into Florida. That’s more than any other person has served for a marijuana offense in the United States. He’ll turn 70 years old in November. But it now appears clear that he will never be free from the federal government…
That sound dinging across the state this Sunday isn’t just the litany of SunPass sensors going off on the Turnpike. It’s the fists of outraged drivers pinging off the ceiling. Tolls on all state roads will rise by 25 percent this weekend — from $1 to $1.25 — sparking road-fee…
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…
On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine published a Q&A and photo spread with Dwyane Wade entitled, “Dwyane Wade Loves His Jordans and His Body Lotion”. That title tells you everything you need to know about this story, in which Wade speaks on his love for baby wipes, “the powders…
We’ve found our new favorite legal complaint of the year. As he promised, Hallandale attorney Scott Owens has filed a federal class action lawsuit against the “junk cars”-seeking text message spammers we first exposed. The damages, by Owens’s math? One billion dollars…
Hidden Cameras in Little Havana Banquet Hall’s Bathroom Ruin a Quince
The two-and-a-half acre plot of grass and nothingness in the center of Midtown Miami has had a tumultuous history. Now only known as the “Green Space”, it was supposed to become a series of fancy gardens. That was scrapped in early 2011 after the high-falutin’ landscaper never got past the…
You know the deal in Miami: When your daughter turns 15, you throw her a giant shindig. It’s the Latina’s mitzvah. No expense is spared. Everything is perfect — until you find the hidden cameras in the girls’ bathroom. That’s what Elizabeth De Angeles Gazo says happened to her April…
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…
Marc Sarnoff’s Taxpayer-Funded Movie Studio Has Flopped
Since 31-year-old Rudy Eugene was shot and killed by a Miami Police officer while devouring a homeless man’s face, his family has stayed mum. But this evening, Eugene’s former stepfather, who raised Eugene through much of his childhood, spoke for the first time to Riptide– and said that the police…
People who knew face-eating Rudy Eugene before he became the “Miami Zombie” have been telling news outlets– including this one– that he was a good kid who must have been made insane by a drug binge. But Eugene previously had at least one extremely violent episode, when he was 22…
North Miami Beach mom Vivianne Perpignan remembers Rudy Eugene as just another good kid from the football team, who’d stop by her house while hanging out with her son Teddy. The Perpignans live on a residential street a five minute drive from North Miami Beach High, and the neighborhood feels…
Don’t worry, Marc Sarnoff. We’re just not all cut out for show business. The City of Miami’s most frenetically incompetent commissioner — he of the pop-up pedophile-thwarting parks, a personal arsenal of firearms, and lies about his family lineage — noticed that South Florida is finally becoming a top-flight film…
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…
