With basketball demigod Dwyane Wade’s Miami Heat contract expiring after this season, speculation has reached a fever pitch: Will he stay? Will fellow superstar LeBron James, currently a Cleveland Cavalier, join him on the Heat to form a championship juggernaut? Or will Wade instead return to his hometown of Chicago,…
This time of year, everything should be decided using tournament brackets. Riptide picks our breakfast by scrawling our kitchen’s options on a whiteboard. Yogurt and oatmeal always get knocked out in the first round, and Honey Bunches of Oats is highly seeded. Today a champion will emerge after a long year…
A pile of foreclosure papers threatens to topple a downtown Miami courthouse
Earlier this month, we pointed out we hadn’t heard a peep from crime-ridden Florida Memorial University since it announced a national search for a new president last December. A few days after that blog post was published, the university sent us a press release claiming it was speeding up the…
In January, former rapper and King of Diamonds stripper-wrangler Disco Rick gave us a crash course in strip club etiquette. One of the most important rules: When you’re making it rain, “we tell you not to throw money all over the customers… and girls who are not working as strippers.”Apparently,…
There was a time — say, last summer — when no clerk wanted to enter a certain room on the 15th floor of 140 W. Flagler St., a drab Miami-Dade County municipal building downtown. Inside lurked a multiton beast made of dead trees: the collection of pending foreclosure case files…
It’s once again that time of the week– when a bearded, wild-eyed Riptide climbs down from that mountaintop hoisting stone tablets bearing the names of the last seven day’s most elite numbskulls. Without further ado, your morons of the week: 5. The city of Haikou It’s being called the “Miami…
Awhile back, Riptide wondered who might be the next celebrity to get busted driving drunk in a Bentley on Miami Beach.Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. At 3:37 this morning, Heat forward Dorell Wright was busted “driving erratically” in his 2005 Bentley, according to TMZ. He didn’t have insurance…
Last October, Riptide reported that the famous Don Bailey Carpets I-95 billboard, which features the business owner and namesake in a nude recline, had been augmented by a graffiti artist with a penchant for large schnozzes, and we recounted the Burt Reynolds-centerfold-inspired backstory behind the bizarre landmark.Our favorite local radio…
In January 2009, bankrupt hip-hop chieftain Marion “Suge” Knight filed a lawsuit against Kanye West, claiming the rapper should be financially responsible for an unsolved 2005 shooting at a South Beach Shore Club party West hosted that left Knight capped in the leg. Among Suge’s alleged damages: medical bills, expenses…
Miami has dozens of Fidel Castros
Miami boaters: Please help Frenchman Jeremy Marie continue his hitchhiking world tour!
A waiter and student in his native France, Jeremy Marie decided there was only one way he would ever tour the world: by hitchhiking.Two and a half years and 39 countries later, the 25-year-old has blazed a trail through Africa and all of North America. He’s now in Miami, puzzling…
Sorry Joan Rivers, but we like our award recipients unwashed, uncouth, and unwilling. Let’s go to the red carpet of regional idiocy! 3. The Proposed Don’t-Feed-The-Homeless Rule We don’t usually give these awards to policies, but this clinched it: Though the change could draw objections, David Karsh, spokesman for Development…
We always just thought it was a fact of life in South Florida: You’re driving along I-95 when, all of a sudden, a motorcyclist, or a group of them, screams past you at an obscene speed. You turn to your wife and say, “Look, honey — douchebags!” and then continue…
On December 8 of last year, New Times published “Crime 101”, a feature exposing the stunning amount of violent crime that had over-run the campus of Miami Gardens’ historical Florida Memorial University. Less than two weeks later, the university announced that it was launching a “national search” for a permanent…
No prison time! See below for update.This is the day of reckoning for Liberty City’s most well-known pastor. Rev. Gaston Everett Smith, head of the Friendship Baptist Missionary Church, will be sentenced for blowing county grant funds on personal expenses. He could face five years in prison, but will likely…
First, a few facts about Fidel Castro: His favorite movie scene is that part in Batman where the Joker’s hand suddenly reaches out of the boiling vat of acid. His all-time fave baseball team was the never-say-die 1986 Mets. And his favorite biblical figure is Methuselah, who lived to 969…
This week, New Times published “I, Max,” a feature story revealing what became of former Medellin Cartel master-smuggler Max Mermelstein after he decided to cooperate with feds and entered the Witness Protection Program. We’ve obtained documents, many of them never before published, related to the underground informant.In February, 1987, Max…
Rapper Lyrikill.com’s publicity blitz has made him an enemy among South Florida TV reporters
Cocaine king Max Mermelstein came out of hiding for a screenwriter
This week, New Times presents “I, Max,” a feature story revealing what became of Medellín Cartel master smuggler Max Mermelstein after he cooperated with feds and entered the Witness Protection Program. We’ve obtained documents, some of them never before published, related to the underground informant.On August 17, 1989, underground smuggler-turned-informant…
