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…
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Animal activists are claiming a victory today after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration hit Miami Seaquarium with a pretty hefty fine for letting trainers work with Lolita the orca without proper safety precautions. In 2010, SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau died while she was swimming in a pool with an…
When Chris Bosh said he and his family are totally happy living in Miami, apparently he really meant it. Bosh’s back-up pad, a home he bought in LA’s Pacific Palisades back in 2012 for $9.45 million, is back on the market for a hefty $14.5 million. Bosh, who has one…
Yes, traffic is bad. Tourists can be awful. The humidity can be oppressive. Yet we’ve come to accept all of those things about living in Miami. That’s part of what we signed up for. Sometimes it’s the smaller annoyances that really make us want to catch the next flight to…
You should never drink and drive, but tomorrow if you find yourself saying things like, “No, I had only two — I think I’m OK to drive,” it might be an especially good time just to take a cab or catch a ride with a friend instead. A large-scale DUI…
Marco Rubio, a man who used to attend South Beach foam parties, is shifting toward full-out cultural conservative warrior mode as he prepares for his political future. In a speech today before the Catholic University of America’s Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies, he stressed a need for “tolerance”…
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Dwyane Wade and former Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall run a summer sports academy for kids up in Illinois, but this summer it apparently turned into an episode of “Kids Say the Darndest Thing.” Apparently one young camper couldn’t help but ask Wade a common question of any Heat hater: “Why…
After some early hope this season, the Marlins will play their 100th game tonight and are marred in mediocrity. It’s actually an improvement over the past two seasons, but the team is still 6.5 games behind in the wildcard race. Rather than trying to beef up by making trades, the…
It’s not exactly a secret that Miami’s latest unhinged condo boom is being fueled by foreign money, but the exact number of new residential units being bought in downtown by those from abroad is eye-popping. According to a not-yet-released report from consulting firm Integra Realty Resources for the Miami Downtown…
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The Miami Hurricanes are gearing up for their 11th season in the ACC and have yet to even win the conference’s Coastal Division. That counts as a fall from grace for a team who used to be in the national title conversation every year. But damn it, at this point…
Daily Show alum John Oliver’s new HBO show Last Week Tonight is only on its 11th episode, but obviously a comedy program poking fun at politics and the news can only go so long until it features a few Rick Scott jokes. On Sunday’s episode, Oliver dug into America’s prison…
No wedding bells will ring for gay couples in the Florida Keys tomorrow. Monroe County judge Luis Garcia ruled last week that Florida’s gay marriage ban was unconstitutional, and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi immediately filed to appeal the decision. Today Garcia refused to lift Bondi’s stay, and the ban…
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Katharine, a 14-foot great white shark that has spent the past several months off the coast of Florida, was back in South Florida last week. Katharine was tagged last August by marine biologists off Cape Cod, and they’ve been tracking her ever since. Earlier this year she headed down south…
Miami is a late-night city. Bars are open until 5 a.m. and even later in the Entertainment District. But the public transit system, which gets its deserved criticism in the daytime, shuts down almost completely after midnight. Only the bus is an option. That leaves Miamians traveling to and from…
So an NFL player and an NBA player walk into a bar… and they both end up getting arrested for fighting each other. St. Louis Rams linebacker Jo-Lonn Dunbar and NBA free agent Donté Greene both got cuffed after getting into an altercation early Sunday morning outside Dream nightclub in…
The nation’s roadway infrastructure is crumbling, but there’s one sunny exception: the state of Florida. The Washington Post reports that Florida’s roads and bridges are in some of the best shape in the nation. That’s in part thanks to favorable weather, but also to a relatively high gasoline tax and…
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Unemployment in Miami-Dade is down 2.9 percent from a year ago, according to the latest number from the Florida Department of Economic Activity, indicating that economic recovery in the county continues. The unemployment rate in the county now sits at 7.3 percent (not seasonally adjusted), and the county added 29,600…
