Florida’s minimum wage is $7.93 an hour, but you’d need to make almost $10 more an hour if you want to rent a one-bedroom apartment in Miami-Dade. A Washington Post analysis shows that based on average rental price for a one-bedroom apartment in Miami-Dade, you’d have to make at least…
To hear the internet tell it, Florida is a bizarre hellscape of human depravity and all sorts of unspeakable evils. Floridians, however, tend to like living in this hellscape, thank you very much. It turns out residents of other states are the ones who want to get the hell out…
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The jewel of under-construction Midbeach development the Faena District has found a buyer. The penthouse suite of the Faena House was put on the market last November for a cool $50 million. It was the highest listing price for a condo in Miami ever, and now it’s under contract. The…
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…
Some visitors might prepare for a trip to Miami by brushing up on their high school Spanish. Which is silly because most of the people they’ll actually run into here speak English. Sure, the English here may be peppered with Spanglish phrases and local sayings, and is often delivered in…
Malcolm Lloyd, the CEO of the company that produced Double Cross Vodka, has been identified as the man who was killed in this morning’s high-speed car crash on the MacArthur Causeway. Andres Esteban Toro, a 53-year-old who has been identified as the victim’s brother-in-law, was behind the wheel of a…
Will Florida’s 2014 governor’s race become the election that was over before it even began? Ever since Governor Rick Scott’s approval ratings plummeted shortly into his tenure, rumors have floated that Charlie Crist would officially become a Democrat and trounce Scott in an election … and that seems to be…
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Good news, ravers. Ultra Music Festival isn’t going anywhere. The Miami City Commission voted 4-1 to keep Ultra in downtown Miami at Bayfront Park. Mayor Tomas Regalado and Commissioner Marc Sarnoff had joined together to introduce a resolution to ban Ultra from downtown after the near-fatal trampling of a security…
After we get to these diplomas, can we go smoke a cigarette? I really need one. But first, Let me take a #selfie. Sorry soon-to-graduate University of South Florida students. There will be no selfies allowed on the graduation stage. The school has added photographing your self to the list…
The Miami lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police has chimed in on Ultra Music Festival’s future in Miami. The police union is all for it — just as long as all private security guards are replaced by City of Miami Police officers and that they’re allowed to pat down…
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David Llama Lopez, 46, has been arrested and is being held without bond as police investigate a scheme in which he allegedly tried to sell North Miami Senior High School students into sex slavery. Yesterday, the State Attorney’s Office Human Trafficking Unit, Miami-Dade Schools Police, and a SWAT team all…
Miami Beach may have found its new police chief. CBS Miami confirms that Aurora, Colorado police chief Dan Oates has been selected by Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales to take over for retiring chief Raymond Martinez. However, the city commission must vote on the matter before Oates officially takes…
Miami may be the site of the first part of Hillary Clinton’s coronation …or as it’s officially known, the 2016 Democratic National Convention. After local leaders officially let the DNC know that they would be interested in hosting the shindig, the DNC selected Miami as one of 15 cities that…
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In last summer’s Michael Bay movie Pain & Gain, bodybuilders portrayed by Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson conspire to kidnap and extort a random rich prick named Victor Kershaw (played by Tony Shalhoub). In real life and the Miami New Times series that inspired the movie, bodybuilders Daniel Lugo and…
It’s Earth Day, which at the very least means you should figure out some time to be outside and be one with nature today. Miami, of course, is the only major city sandwiched between two national parks (Everglades to the west, Biscayne to the east), but there’s plenty of green…
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Apparently, Miami’s reputation as Vice City worried Charlotte Bobcats coach Steve Clifford just a little too much. Rather than having his team spend two free days in this tempting city of sin between playoff games, he flew his young team back to Charlotte…
Rick Scott has apparently never met a person he doesn’t want to test for drugs. Whether welfare recipients or state employees, the governor has created quite the controversy throughout his first term by unleashing strict plans to drug-test Floridians — only to see those plans challenged and derailed in court…
