Richie Incognito’s strange public saga continues as he tries to make amends and appears to want to pretend that nothing ever happened. Last week he said he’d like to come back and play for the Dolphins despite there being little chance that’s actually going to happen. Early this morning he…
When Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign finance co-chairman Mike Fernandez resigned abruptly last week, he said he wanted to spend more time with his family. Insiders speculate he might have been frustrated with the direction of the troubled campaign. Yet, now it’s come to light that Fernandez was also upset about…
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Did former Miami Hurricane and current Tennessee Titan Adewale Ojomo not read that report that came out earlier this month about Miami’s sex industry? Doesn’t he know that the best prostitutes nowadays are found online and not the street? Apparently not, because he was booked into jail early this morning…
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…
On-demand car service Uber fought and lost a battle in Miami-Dade to ease restrictions that forbid it from operating in the county, so now the company has taken its fight directly to Tallahassee. Uber has enlisted a pair of Republican legislators to file bills that would override the local regulations…
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After checking into an Arizona mental health facility last month, Richie Incognito is finally out and talking to the media again. Last night he told WSVN that he not only wants to return to the football field next season, but he wants to do so in Dolphins teal and coral…
On Jan. 16, 2014, Heritage K-8 Charter School and three other nearby schools in Escondido, California were shut down for an entire day after very specific violent threats made online were reported to authorities. Police originally thought it was a local girl who made the threats, but after a long…
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Even the fiercest defender’s of Miami-Dade’s pride must admit we have our fair share of douchebags. Counterintuitively, a new “analysis” by real estate site Estately claims that of America’s 100 biggest cities, not only does the City of Miami proper rank low on the douche spectrum, but Hialeah also is…
Because apparently Miami is always in desperate need of another gigantic skyscraper meant to house the 1 percent, developers Related and Crescent Heights have teamed up to bring a code-breaking new vision to a piece of primo South Beach real estate at 500 Alton Rd. Today they unveiled plans for…
In Florida, you can get married if you’re a 13-year-old who accidentally knocks up his girlfriend, but not if you’re in a committed adult relationship with someone of the same sex. Rep. Cynthia Stafford, a Miami Democrat, wants to change that. No, not the part about allowing gays to marry,…
Poll numbers about how many Floridians support legalizing medical marijuana seem to be all over the place — well, except below the 60 percent necessary it would need to pass. A new University of North Florida poll shows that 74 percent of Floridians intend to vote to legalize medicinal pot…
What started in Guatemala and took a financial detour to Miami has now ended in New York. Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo pleaded guilty in a New York courtroom today to a charge of money laundering designed to hide bribes he had taken from Taiwan…
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They don’t agree about much up in Tallahassee, but apparently every state senator is against “revenge porn.” A bill that would make it illegal to post explicit photos of another person online without his or her permission passed the state senate unanimously today. See also: Miami Revenge Porn Victim Holly…
The right wing’s most influential techno hermit, Matt Drudge, lives in a mansion out in the Redland and was driving around Southwest Dade yesterday when he saw two things that freaked him out: the word “Obamacare” and the Spanish language. He tweeted a picture of a van touting an Obamacare…
Despite the fact that there’s no doubt Máximo Caminero walked into Pérez Art Museum Miami and smashed a vase by artist Ai Weiwei (it’s on video, after all), Caminero has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. See also: Miami Artist Destroyed $1M Ai Weiwei Vase Because PAMM “Only…
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The Ponzi scheme epidemic of 2008 kicked off with part-time Palm Beach resident Bernie Madoff, and then hit Florida much harder than most states. That’s the consensus of a new Forbes analysis, which found that Florida was second in total number of dollars lost to Ponzis, trailing only New York,…
Charlie Crist may be running on a “man of the people” platform, but that hasn’t stopped him from moving to Florida’s most expensive and exclusive zip code. Crist and his wife Carol Rome are apparently spending so much time in South Florida that they’re now renting a condo on ritzy…
