The World Cup is only three days away, yet the buzz in America hasn’t been about our boys beating Nigeria in our final warmup match over the weekend. Instead, everyone keeps talking about how American soccer fans are full of shit. The New York Times says we’re a bunch of…
Chances are good that Alvaro Lopez Tardon will be found guilty of money laundering today or tomorrow. If he is, there probably won’t be anyone in the federal court room to shed a tear: Tardon’s associates have all turned on him, including his wife. Here at Riptide, however, we will…
Nothing is scarier than a city commission that’s all smiles. Politicians are preternaturally disposed to disagreement, so voters should be skeptical whenever commissioners suddenly go full kumbaya. On the scale of suspicious love-fests, this past April 10 was a doozy. City of Miami commissioners lined up to laud a so-called…
The men work quickly in the cool emerald light. The thin one wields a hammer and chisel, deftly removing one prized piece after another. He passes them to his stockier accomplice, who stuffs them into a bag slung over his shoulder. Between the two of them, they look like Santa…
Nothing is scarier than a city commission that’s all smiles. Politicians are preternaturally disposed to disagreement, so voters should be skeptical whenever commissioners suddenly go full kumbaya. On the scale of suspicious love-fests, this past April 10 was a doozy. City of Miami commissioners lined up to laud a so-called…
The men work quickly in the cool emerald light. The thin one wields a hammer and chisel, deftly removing one prized piece after another. He passes them to his stockier accomplice, who stuffs them into a bag slung over his shoulder. Between the two of them, they look like Santa…
Yesterday we reported that building David Beckham’s downtown soccer stadium would have a hidden cost: the marine life living in the FEC boat slip. Although on its surface foul, the boat slip is actually home to some incredible animals, according to Coral Morphologic cofounder Colin Foord. “We’ve got lobsters, green…
To all those who insist Miamians are fair-weather sports fans, we present Andy Salgado. Like many Miami Marlins fans, Salgado was expecting pitching phenom José Fernández to push the team into the playoffs this year. The reigning Rookie of the Year had started his second season as strongly as his…
Less than a week after David Beckham unveiled his ambitious plan for a Major League Soccer stadium atop the FEC boat slip downtown, the location was back in the headlines yesterday. One politician was angry with other politicians for slipping the slip stuff past him, or something. There is real…
To all those who insist Miamians are fair-weather sports fans, we present Andy Salgado. Like many Miami Marlins fans, Salgado was expecting pitching phenom José Fernández to push the team into the playoffs this year. The reigning Rookie of the Year had started his second season as strongly as his…
Yesterday, David Beckham’s team of investors and real estate advisers unveiled an ambitious plan to build a soccer stadium atop what is now a boat slip on Biscayne Bay. “We want to bring the world’s greatest game to the world’s greatest city,” said Beckham’s Bolivian billionaire business partner, Marcelo Claure…
Last Friday, Chris Underhill’s bike was stolen. He had taken a cousin from out of town to Mary Brickell Village, only to find his chain cut and his Giant Escape true to its name: gone. Underhill underwent the usual stages of stolen bike syndrome: disbelief, anger, and despair. He filled…
Mary Baker knows Pinetree Park like the back of her hand. Every morning, she walks her dogs beneath its eponymous pines. And every evening, she returns. As the setting sun glints off Indian Creek to the east, butterflies flit around the community garden. On an island infamous for sin, the…
Mary Baker knows Pinetree Park like the back of her hand. Every morning, she walks her dogs beneath its eponymous pines. And every evening, she returns. As the setting sun glints off Indian Creek to the east, butterflies flit around the community garden. On an island infamous for sin, the…
Two weeks ago, we wrote about how DecoBike was not turning out to be the win-win we were once promised. Despite extraordinary success for the bike share, a revised deal between DecoBike and Miami Beach meant that the city was only getting half the revenue originally agreed upon. Our article…
Whether David Beckham doubles down on his plan to build a Major League Soccer stadium at PortMiami or shifts his attention to the boat slip near Museum Park, one thing is increasingly clear: Voters will get their chance to support or scupper the idea. That means you’re the ref. Will…
“People should either be caressed or crushed,” Niccolò Machiavelli once wrote. “If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do.” Seth Cohen clearly did not get the civics lesson. In summer 2012, the then-43-year-old New Yorker went…
Remember when in the summer of 2012, just months before the presidential election, Gov. Rick Scott launched a purge of potentially ineligible voters? Thousands of Floridians — including World War II veterans — mistakenly received the threatening letters. The state spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the effort but…
“People should either be caressed or crushed,” Niccolò Machiavelli once wrote. “If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do.” Seth Cohen clearly did not get the civics lesson. In summer 2012, the then 43-year-old New Yorker…
If you’re an Amazon junkie living in Florida, your addiction just got pricier. Today Amazon began charging Sunshine State residents sales tax for the first time since the internet retail giant initially took over the series of tubes. In other words, the price of that 55-gallon drum of sex lube…
Let’s play trivia. Today’s topic: laughably inept local governments. Can you name the Miami-Dade village that mysteriously suspended its top three cops March 27? No, not Sweetwater. That was then-mayor Manny Maroño, who was busted for taking bribes. No, not Homestead. There, it was Mayor Steve Bateman arrested for unlawful…
Lacy Waters lay on a hospital gurney, her head a hornet’s nest of pain and confusion. Between the brain parasites and the drugs designed to kill them, she could hardly think — let alone answer questions. Yet that was exactly what the strangers at her bedside now demanded. As the…
