At three this afternoon at a Downtown courthouse, attorneys representing Dr. Michael Krop High will argue that the disqualification of one of the school’s basketball players over an immigration issue is illegal. Whether Florida’s number-one ranked high school team qualifies for the playoffs hangs in the balance. But Riptide has…
Dr. Michael Krop High School’s basketball season has been dashed due to a player’s eligibility issues, and the school’s last-ditch appeal will be hear in court at 2 p.m. today. If this were a Disney movie, this is when the students would burst into impassioned speeches to melt an old…
For 24 years, Marion Schano and her husband Edward have owned an aviation business called Amtec Aviation Aerospace in Brownsville, a ‘hood west of Liberty City with a population of 14,000 and shrinking. It’s one of Miami’s poorest neighborhoods, and arguably its most blighted. It’s traversed by roving bands of…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken in Miami-Dade County in the week previous. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain-out look more badass than we ever will . This is the italicized intro to that…
It’s pretty fun watching South Florida’s daily newspapers try to describe the “crotch-related gesture” that got Miami Heat guard Eddie House fined this week. Or, more specifically, not try– because the Herald can’t get away with saying “testicles” unless it’s a cancer-related story, and even El Nuevo Herald apparently can’t…
Richard “Kudo” Couto is the Bruce Wayne of animal rights. He’s independently wealthy, has plenty of cool toys, is completely fearless and dedicated, and is about 98 percent bat-shit insane. For at least a year, Couto, real-estate developer by day, donned a disguise, two guns, and a bulletproof vest for…
Oba Ernesto Pichardo, the high priest and president of the Santeria church that won a landmark Supreme Court case, doesn’t take kindly to a renegade animal-rights activist’s claims that his faith practices “torture.” In fact, he told Riptide yesterday afternoon, he wants to see Richard “Kudo” Couto arrested for breaking…
In late January, we published a story on the failed gardens project in the heart of mega-development Midtown Miami. The development’s representatives were not pleased. Here’s a letter we received from Deborah Samuel, Midtown’s director of operations:…
News that former basketball star Tim Hardaway is mired in tax trouble, causing the Miami Heat to apparently bail him out by purchasing his mansion, came as a bit of a surprise. After all, he made an estimated $47 million during his playing career, and still works a suit-and-tie job…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken in Miami-Dade County in the week previous. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain-out look more badass than we ever will . This is the italicized intro to that…
Warning: The following page contains some graphic and disturbing images.Richard “Kudo” Couto is the renegade animal activist who virtually single-handedly forced the closure of an entire thriving district of unlicensed slaughterhouses, pissing off loads of live-off-the-land Cubans in the process. Now he’s turning his attention to publicizing the animal “torture”…
Last year, New Times published a feature detailing the strange last days of Max Mermelstein, the master cocaine smuggler who turned snitch in the mid-80s and died under government protection in 2008. Among the readers: Rochelle Desiree Mermelstein Gomez, Max’s 36-year-old daughter who he had abandoned in Puerto Rico in…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken in Miami-Dade County in the week previous. We then comment on bizarre sartorial choices and weird neck tattoos from the cloistered safety of our home office. This is the italicized intro to that series…
The famed molesters under Julia Tuttle Causeway were never the only homeless colony in town. And now that those persecuted pervs have been dispatched to God-knows-where, we can give some overdue media attention to other, less Hannah Montana-lovin’, local bands of merry hobos. One such band: Camp Merrill, named after…
About ten years ago, gardener to the stars Harry Sickle Nelson — yes, his middle name is an agricultural tool — decided to do a little work on his own home in upscale Morningside. The olive-skinned 53-year-old brought in minions with hoes, bobcats, sledgehammers, chainsaws, and shovels. By 2003, the…
When people think Miami, the first thing that pops into their mind’s eyes is boobs. Big, beach ball boobs. But we’re so much more than that. We are also crazy-huge booties and rock hard six-pack abs. We are tans the color of Key Biscayne sunsets and weird Barbie hair that…
The famed molesters under Julia Tuttle Causeway were never the only homeless colony in town. And now that those persecuted pervs have been dispatched to God-knows-where, we can give some overdue media attention to other, less Hannah Montana-lovin’, local bands of merry hobos…
Miami is a city of bubbles. We are currently in the midst of the Great Mugshot Bubble. One day, we’ll sit down at our computer at 8 am on a Friday morning and find… nothing. Dimly-lit photos of regular-looking perps in prison scrubs. But while it lasts, let’s do some…
Rev. Gaston Smith, the hugely-popular but a lil’ bit felonious pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Liberty City, is a man of the cloth. Very fine cloth, often tailored into three pieces with a classy handkerchief jutting from a breast pocket and accompanied by some gators on his feet…
Carlos Alvarez already has a cantankerous billionaire — and 95,000 equally irate voters — trying to get him canned. Now the Miami-Dade County mayor can’t even find peace through Farmville: His Facebook page is under attack by animal rights activists. Even before 2004, when the Humane Society decreed the county…
If you’ve been to Midtown Miami in the last eighteen months and wondered why the large center park is doing its best impression of Sarajevo, here’s your answer: Good ol’ fashioned mismanagement, coupled with a testy garden designer notorious for doing things his own way– even if it results in…
Rumeal Robinson, the onetime University of Michigan hero who spent six seasons in the NBA, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in federal prison Friday for masterminding a bank fraud. Even in the days leading up to his sentencing, the consummate huckster was trying to raise cash from old friends who…
