Miami is bizarre enough of a place already that sometimes we forget it’s one of three corners of the Bermuda Triangle, the purportedly supernatural stretch of the Atlantic Ocean where, according to myth, ships go missing under mysterious circumstances. Well, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency has released a statement…
It appears Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has now accepted that he’ll be sitting out an entire season after New Times uncovered his links to Coral Gables PED-pushing clinic Biogenesis.. A-Rod and his legal team have voluntarily dropped a lawsuit against Major League Baseball, the Players Association, and Commissioner Bud Selig…
Despite the fact that Orlando’s soccer team is still more than a year away from playing in the MLS and the fact that Miami’s MLS team doesn’t even exist yet (to the point that it doesn’t even have a name), the two future franchises are already bickering. Orlando City SC…
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As native Floridians, we’ve always viewed the Winter Olympics as some sort of weird arctic elf games we’ll never truly be able to comprehend. As it turns out, there are not that many Floridians who go on to compete in these frigid competitions compared to northern states. Though, this year…
Catcher in the Rye, The Adventures of Huck Finn, The Carter IV. Guess which literary endeavor that includes some questionable language got a Florida teacher suspended after he taught it in class? Yeah, it was the Lil Wayne album. A Boynton Beach charter school placed a teacher on a three-day…
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-Dade Judge William Thomas almost made history as the first openly gay, black, male federal judge when President Obama nominated him for a position on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District. His appointment, however, was derailed by Sen. Marco Rubio. Officially Rubio, who had recommend Thomas in the…
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Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen showed up on the House floor yesterday in a white suit with a red shirt and a gold necklace. Apparently someone informed her that her sartorial sense seemed pretty close to Scarface’s Tony Montana, so she decided to have some fun with it on Twitter. “Two Cuban-Americans…
More people from Miami-Dade County to Broward than from any county to any other county in Florida. In fact, that county-to-county migration is the sixth highest in the entire country. According to Census Bureau data from 2011, about 25,000 packed up their U=Haul and moved from the 305 to BroCo…
Two cars in every garage, boiling Gatorade in every pot, frozen alligators in every freezer, and a bunch of meth within reach of your twin babies. Isn’t that the Florida dream? Wait, no, excuse us — nightmare. Three people were arrested in Polk County after deputies found a bunch of…
Ever wonder what paths are the most popular for jogging in Miami? At Flowing Data, statistician-pulled data from run tracking app RunKeeper was used to map out the most highly jogged roads in the City of Miami (and a handful of other cities, too). Here are the results…
Despite last-minute interest in Alabama and continued overtures from Florida State, five-star defensive end Chad Thomas of Booker T. Washington Senior High approached the podium at the school’s national signing day event, popped “U,” and put on a Miami Hurricanes jacket. It was the highlight of a day that saw…
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So how would you feel about losing LeBron James if it meant getting rising star Blake Griffin in return? ESPN wants you to think about it. Because they’re going to run the LeBron free agency story into the ground almost as severely as everything Tim Tebow, ESPN’s website is running…
Miami-Dade Police were busy last night. Officers conducted three raids of three separate grow houses in the Redland last night and hauled off about $1 million worth of marijuana in the process…
David Beckham finally formally announced what we all knew: he’s bringing an MLS team to the city, with the condition that he find a location to build a stadium. Besides noting that the team would start play in either 2016 or 2017, we didn’t get any more details…
It’s official. Walmart now owns a big chunk of midtown Miami, and its plans to build a supercenter in the bustling neighborhood trudge on. According to exMiami, Walmart closed the deal in January for $8.2 million, though there are some conditions attached. See also: Walmart Is Coming to Midtown, Like…
You ever get into weird internet k-holes? One second we’re browsing a Deadspin story about this former NFL quarterback who is now 320 pounds and still playing quarterback in an indoor league, when next we’re on Wikipedia reading about various internet indoor football leagues. Which is when we learned that…
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Almost 12 years ago, Major League Soccer announced it was shuttering the financially faltering Miami Fusion. Fast-forward to today, and sometime in the next 24 hours the league is expected to announce it’s officially re-entering the market with a David Beckham-owned team. Back on that fateful January 2002 day, Commissioner…
