Supremely bizarre baseball slugger– and South Florida resident– Manny Ramirez has had a long road back to the game. He abruptly retired from the Tampa Bay Rays in 2011 after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. He was arrested for allegedly battering his wife in their Weston home. Then he decided…
The chief of Miami Beach Police is insisting that his officers do not have a 2,000-arrest quota this Memorial Day weekend. But the department’s union vice president tells Riptide that he witnessed a major announce the quota at an officer roll call — and that his department has such quotas…
Miami husband-and-wife John Ricone and Francys Tolon-Ricone were apparently wielding a hot blotter when they played bingo at the Miccosukee Resort & Gaming Indian casino in 2008. In two trips that year, they won just under $5,500. When the tribe paid them their winnings, they remitted $1,500 for taxes, just…
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…
La Ley Sports Says Little League Coaches Stole Team’s Winnings
In April, we exposed the junk car kingpin who has been sending incessant text message spam to all of South Florida. (Reminder: Gregorio A. Tejera’s number is (305) 303-0119. I’m sure he’s enjoyed hearing from all of you for the last month.) Now an attorney is preparing a class-action lawsuit…
The Miami Heat take on the Indiana Pacers tonight in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals. It promises to be a fine basketball contest. The Heat are without the advantage of Chris Bosh. LeBron James is gonna go cobradick, and Rony Turiaf has promised to do more dancing. Nobody…
Ah, baseball. The nostalgic green of the outfield grass. The evocative crack of bat hitting ball. The zeal of litigation and the slow slog of civil justice. George Will say whaa?! Three prominent local figures in youth baseball are embroiled in an intriguing lawsuit filed earlier this month. Miami attorney…
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 already know what Mitt Romney thinks of gays. They should not be allowed to marry, and their long hair should be forcefully cut by prep school bullies such as himself. What does Ol’ Mittens think of gun rights? According to his website, it’s quite contradictory: As president, Mitt will…
Pity Jorge Exposito. There, but for the grace of God, go you. Exposito shared with us his tale of highway toll woe. He owns a SunPass transponder, which he thought was replenished. But in late April, he got a letter from a collection agency telling him he owed $691.80. Before…
Mohawk Gaz Sells Ads on His Giant Hairdo
So we were just walking through Downtown Miami, scanning the sidewalk for cigarette butts when…. AAH ANIMAL LEG! It was loosely wrapped in paper right outside the front entrance of this construction site on Northwest 3rd Street, just a block from the Miami Police headquarters. The rule of the Internet…
Thirty-three-year-old Pompano Beach resident Gasmy Joseph wears a supertall Mohawk. About a year ago, an epiphany struck when he wanted to spread the word about a buddy’s birthday party: Why not advertise it on the hairdo? In terms of innovation, Thomas Edison’s light bulb now looks like a piece of…
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…
When Dave Duerson committed suicide in a Sunny Isles condo in February 2011, the manner of his death was so shocking and tragic — a bright and beloved former football star shooting himself in the chest to preserve his brain for concussion-related dementia testing — that it seemed to signal…
The Foxorcist: A Miami Native’s Deranged Political Horror Film
Today, I consider myself the luckiest failed commission candidate on the face of the earth. After weathering a last-ditch smear campaign, I spent the rest of yesterday’s Election Day in Surfside– where I was running for commissioner in a very special election– parading around town with my dog, drinking victory…
Today, Surfside chooses its destiny. Mock naval battles, legalized marijuana, and blissful chaos in town hall — or a (let’s face it) pretty darn nice lady named Michelle Kligman. It’s been a bruising special election campaign for the open commission seat in the weird little beachfront town of 5,000 since…
There’s an undeniable element of skin-crawling terror to the downward spiral of modern American politics. And who hasn’t felt like projectile-vomiting all over their dashboard while listening to Rush Limbaugh’s radio rants? So kudos to a proud Miami auteur for dreaming up The Foxorcist — a mashup of a classic…
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…
The political world has come down with a crippling case of Rubio-mania. A junior member of the glee club United States Senate, Marco Rubio is Latino, has Tea Partiers in his pocket, and represents Florida, the most important state in the 2012 presidential election. Name him as Mitt Romney’s veep,…
