According to a new federal lawsuit, the Filipino worker who changed your sheets at W South Beach Hotel, or served you lunch at posh restaurants and country clubs, may have essentially been an indentured servant. Seventeen Filipino immigrants allege that a ring of Miami-based employment agencies charged them outrageous “security…
In my quest to become the commissioner of Surfside–the beach hamlet just south of the haughty nihilist province known as Bal Harbour– I’ve run into a problem: A lot of the older residents don’t want to open the door for me. Maybe it’s only because I’m a relatively young man…
The Gordon Gekko of roundball is apparently downsizing. Slicked-back Miami Heat president and former coach Pat Riley and his wife Christine just sold their appropriately gaudy Coral Gables property. They bought the 180 Arvida Parkway mansion, which is 13,000 square feet on a two-acre beachfront peninsula, in 1996 for $6.3…
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…
Former superstar basketball center and current TNT mumbling head Shaquille O’Neal has told Jon Stewart, the New York Times, and ESPN that he’s getting his doctorate at Miami’s Barry University, where he defended his dissertation this month. His purported title? “How Leaders Utilize Humor or Aggression in Leadership Styles.” Unfortunately,…
Key West’s Naked Cyclist Shahdaroba Rodd Fights in Court and Wins
Cuban Baseball Agent Carlos Perez Miami Sports Consulting: Risks and Lies
Remember how Jimbo Luznar, the 85-year-old founder of the bizarre Virginia Key hangout Jimbo’s Place, agreed to turn the site over to the City of Miami? Well now — according to a letter signed by him — he wants to keep the site in his family, to become a “green” kayak rental…
“Half the people down here know me as the ‘Hatman,'” Shahdaroba Rodd says. “The other half know me as the ‘Naked Guy.'” Key West resident Rodd likes to bike around town wearing nothing but a G-string and a homemade stovepipe hat. He’s something of a legend at Fantasy Fest, the weirdo…
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…
Gus Garcia-Roberts for Surfside Commission: Mock Naval
Battles and Other Campaign Pledges
Richard “Kudo” Couto, the animal activist who has targeted illegal slaughterhouses in Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens, was prowling that area recently when he stumbled upon a scene worthy of Law & Order. He found what looked to be leftovers from an epic sacrifice. A container was filled with the remains…
Yesterday, Trayvon Martin’s still-not-arrested shooter George Zimmerman launched a website, therealgeorgezimmerman.com, where supporters can donate to his theoretical legal defense fund. The website gained considerable media coverage last night, so a Michigan politician best known for intentionally burning down her father’s house for insurance money thought this would be a great…
WICKED HAWT PECS, MARKY MARK. The famous actor who now insists on being called Mark Wahlberg is in Miami, starring in a Michael Bay adaptation of a circa-2000 New Times investigation, Pain & Gain. He went to the beach yesterday with his wife and kids, and we are proud to…
I done did it now. Two weeks ago, I announced in this space that I was planning to run for the open commission seat in Surfside, the sleepy beach hamlet of corruption and weirdness ruled by my obscenely overpaid nemesis, town attorney Lynn Dannheisser. Qualifying to run — including collecting…
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…
“Junk Cars” Text Spams Miami Phones; One Man Fights Back
Carnival Cruise Lines hasn’t had much good PR recently, what with that protest against its tax shenanigans and labor policies, the horrific and deadly Costa Concordia accident, and its plummeting stock. A lawsuit claiming that employees forced a 17-year-old girl to remove her tampon and then strip-searched her for weed…
If you have a Miami-area phone number, there’s a good chance that in the past few months, you’ve received texts seeking “junk cars.” The message is all uppercase in both English and Spanish and promises $400 to $450 for your clunker. “It irritates the hell out of me,” says a…
When the Miami Marlins signed Jose Reyes, there was a lot of speculation as to how the speedy Dominican superstar shortstop would mesh with the team’s existing speedy Dominican superstar shortstop, Hanley Ramirez. The answer: They’re basically the Siegfried and Roy of America’s pastime…
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…
Miami Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison, subject of this week’s feature story, “Tweeter in Chief”, is one of the most outspoken and freewheeling dudes in Major League Baseball. He tweets crazy shit, he speaks his mind when questioned by reporters, and goes all out when photographed for the cover of your…
