Norman Braman likes to think of himself as a man of the people. The billionaire famously sued the county and the Marlins in 2008 on behalf of taxpayers pissed off over the disastrous stadium deal. When Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez raised property taxes two years later, Braman recalled Alvarez’s ass…
Norman Braman likes to think of himself as a man of the people. The billionaire famously sued the county and the Marlins in 2008 on behalf of taxpayers pissed off over the disastrous stadium deal. When Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez raised property taxes two years later, it didn’t put a…
On Tuesday, New Times reported the backstory behind the recent police and code enforcement crackdown in Wynwood, which has led bar owners to suspect that Operation Dry Hour is more about downtown clubs stifling competition than about safety. When we looked into the allegations, we found that downtown clubs do, in…
Police Mistake RoboCop Videogame for Gambling Machine
Ultra Partiers Say Club Space Made Them Buy Back-Alley Pants
Wynwood Bar Owners Say There’s a Conspiracy to Kill the Neighborhood
For Miami power couple Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz, wealth has begotten cultural influence. The Cuban immigrants have built a business empire and used the profits to assemble one of the best private art collections in the country.Last week, however, the De la Cruzes’ wealth became a liability when…
The “blowjob shots” were just beginning. It was after 3 a.m., and Shots Miami was living up to its name. Hundreds of customers sucked down slugs of brightly colored booze — some from between each other’s legs. All night long, partiers had flocked to the neon-painted bar on NW 23rd…
Music is a powerful thing. It can help us fall in love, inspire us to athletic feats, and prompt white men to move their creaky Caucasian hips. But for one group of tourists, their dedication to seeing a DJ downtown during Ultra weekend led to a nightmarish ordeal outside Club…
A week after Rick Scott signed into law legislation outlawing video gambling machines, Miami Police raided gas stations, cafes, and bars around the city, arresting six men and confiscating ten maquinitas. Unsurprisingly, the operation occurred just as politicians attended the public crushing of 48 such machines.The publicity stunt wasn’t without…
A Tennessee woman is suing Miami-based cruise line Royal Caribbean claiming the company was fatally slow in responding to a tragedy at sea.Vera Marion says that when her daughter A’riel fell overboard during a cruise on The Allure of the Seas on September 16, Royal Caribbean waited two hours before…
Ultra Music Festival: Two Dozen Attendees Taken to the Hospital
Yesterday the Florida Senate unanimously approved a bill to ban texting while driving. The vote makes it pretty damn likely that the Sunshine State will join 39 others in curbing your right to type witty quips while steering with your crotch.For you teenagers out there who need a translation: GOTDPWYD…
Every time the neon-clad masses descend upon Miami for the Ultra Music Festival, rumors of injuries, overdoses, and even deaths swirl around the city.Ever wonder how much of it is true? We did, so we decided to find out. After three weeks of repeatedly requesting public records, here’s what we…
City of Miami Beach Employee Shunned for Helping FBI
Yesterday, Riptide reported on Rick Falls, a Miami Beach code enforcement officer who claims he was retaliated against for wearing a wire for the F.B.I. One thing that remains unclear, however, is how Falls’s supervisors became aware of his involvement in the first place.The FBI was brought in to help…
Twelve months ago, Miami Beach seemed on the verge of a very necessary cleanup. On April 11, 2012, FBI agents arrested six city employees — four code compliance officers and two firefighters — and an FBI liaison stayed in city hall to look into more corruption. Beach officials urged employees…
Bomba Estéreo With Zuzuka Poderosa & Kush Arora Heineken TransAtlantic Festival 2013 North Beach Bandshell Saturday, April 6, 2013 Better Than: An aguardiente-drenched wedding in Bogotá. Man or woman, if Bomba Estéreo’s Liliana “Li” Saumet doesn’t make some part of your anatomy hum with strange, sensual electricity, then you need…
Fallon Fox, a transgender mixed martial artist, has been cleared to fight in Coral Gables next month. The 36-year-old Fox was born male, married his high school girlfriend after getting her pregnant, and served in the Navy. Fox underwent sexual reassignment surgery in 2006 before launching her recent MMA career.That career,…
New Jersey Man Ultra Music Festival Drug Overdose
New Jersey Man Is Ultra Music Festival’s First Drug Death
Miami Beach SWAT officers are about to raid an apartment in South Beach after its occupant brandished a gun at a neighbor and then refused to come out.Police spokesman Bobby Hernandez says the standoff began at 6:30 this morning, when a neighbor was awoken by loud music and went to…
After crisscrossing the world for the past six weeks — not to mention fighting Castro’s government censors for more than six years — Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez finally delivered the speech she said she had been waiting for all her life.Speaking in front of hundreds of exilios and almost as…
