Nightlife task force meetings in Miami Beach might be the only place you’ll find dudes with forearm tattoos and sideways baseball hats sitting at a conference table with a city commissioner and diplomatically discussing city policy. On Friday, the owners and managers of some of the Beach’s most popular entertainment…
In a second entry of the handwritten autobiography he recently wrote in jail, Overtown hustler Big Red talks about an unusual robbery for which he received six years in state prison. He leaves out names and some important details, but offers a peek at a different side of Miami street…
With last week’s agreed cease-fire in Gaza, there’s temporary peace in the Middle East. But in Miami, another battle is boiling. This past week, the Florida branch of ANSWER (Act Now to End War and Stop Racism) launched a campaign to get Miami Police to drop the felony battery charges…
Usually, if a guy calls himself a pimp, he’s using a frat boy Urban Dictionary term for how he’s, like, totally good with the ladies. But when Big Red drops those four letters, he’s talking about the ten-plus years he has spent soliciting females’ bodies for money on the street…
As the world collectively crosses its fingers that a second cease fire talk will work in Gaza — and raging South Florida protests fade into tepid peace rallies — a temporary truce in the middle east doesn’t seem so far away. But in Miami another battle is boiling. This past…
If you think budget cuts at your office suck, try being a Miami-Dade public defender. Thanks to shrinking state court funds — down $44 million in the past two years — these burnt-out servants of the poor, tired, huddled masses are crunching about 500 cases each at any given moment,…
President Bush will finally leave the White House next week, which means the United States now stands a chance at reversing our reputation as douchebags of the universe. Before departing office, however, Dubya decided he would give the good people of South Florida a little farewell gift: another bad decision…
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Last night, Real World: Brooklyn made queer TV history, thanks to the first ever transgender cast member, a South Florida male-to-female named Katelyn Cusanelli. The introspective, self-proclaimed computer geek, who went to McPhatter Technical School in Davie and Palm Beach Community College talked to Riptide yesterday about hormone therapy, “escaping”…
In the event you’ve had better things to do than watch MTV deteriorate into a steaming sewer of reality programming, you might have missed South Florida’s double-time queer cast previewed on The Real World: Brooklyn. The show’s 21st season premieres January 7 and will follow its first transgender character —…
An 18 year-old from Coral Springs was busted for wielding brass knuckles and a pocket knife, a petite middle-aged woman shouted “baby killers!,” and a mob of protesters chucked rocks at a cop car. The Israeli-Palestinian protest Sunday on Biscayne Boulevard was a loud, colorful microcosm of hate – with…
If you think budget cuts at your job suck (New Times is a considering a writing-by-candlelight, tent-office setup) try being a Miami-Dade public defender. Thanks to shrinking state court funds – down in 44 million in the past two years – these burnt-out servants of the poor, tired, huddled masses…
In the event that you’ve had better things to do than watch MTV deteriorate into a steaming sewer of reality programming, you may have missed South Florida’s double-time queer cast previewed on Real World Brooklyn. The show’s 21st season premiers January 7 and will follow its first-ever transgender character -…
Without a word, blue-eyed, leather-skinned Mark Clemons steers a camouflage electric golf cart down a lonesome, bumpy dirt road about 25 miles south of Lake Okeechobee. The only sound for miles is wind whistling through saw grass and spiky palmettos. A weak winter sun has barely been up 15 minutes…
Grove Square Condominium, a pristine peach-colored tower just a few blocks from CocoWalk, is the kind of place an empty-nester might settle into a quiet life of coddling small dogs and dining at so-so chain restaurants. But lately things haven’t been so quiet. Two Thursdays ago, resident Teresa Valdes awoke…
When Glenn Terry started King Mango Strut to protest getting snubbed from the Orange Bowl parade in 1981, it was an easy place to poke fun at politics and society. The old hippie and his band of misfits slapped two cardboard boxes at the ends of a four-block stretch with…
Grove Square Condominium, a pristine peach-colored tower just few blocks from Coco Walk, is the kind of place an empty-nester might settle into a quiet life of coddling small dogs and dining at so-so chain restaurants. But lately, things haven’t been so quiet. Last Thursday, resident Teresa Valdes awoke suddenly…
Grove Square Condominium, a pristine peach-colored tower just few blocks from Coco Walk, is the kind of place an empty-nester might settle into a quiet life of coddling small dogs and dining at so-so chain restaurants. But lately, things haven’t been so quiet. Two Thursdays ago, resident Teresa Valdes awoke…
Riptide got a package in the mail a few days ago. At first, we thought it might be a Christmas present, or a juicy story tip, but then we recognized the handwriting. It was from an inmate we’ve gotten to know pretty well over the last couple months. A few…
Animal rights activist Jim Dunn is willing to bet that, if Old Saint Nick could materialize in Miami-Dade, the man in red would paint a huge protest sign and then boycott Santa’s Enchanted Forrest. How come? Well, the “country’s biggest Christmas theme park” may offer the kiddies lights and trees…
Victor-Hugo Vaca has a creative way of getting his point across. To protest the nastiness of bureaucracy, the wayward, fiercely opinionated, Naval officer-turned-artist has tried everything from running for US President to hanging four-foot penis paintings across from the VIP section at Art Basil. Wherever he goes, controversy seems to…
Walking into the Scope tent yesterday was like getting smacked in the face with an art stick. You know, in a good way. Inside, it was a visual sensory overload, with way too much for any normal, methamphetamine-free viewer to see in one trip. Riptide felt like a contestant on…
