Marco Rubio finally stepped off the sidelines of the GOP primary last night, backing Mitt Romney for president in an interview on Fox News. While the endorsement isn’t all that surprising, Rubio’s timing sparks a key question: Is he backing Romney because it’s clear Mitt will hold off the competition,…
The finest minds behind The Real Housewives of Miami couldn’t possibly come up with a more twisted reality script than the Opening Day roster of the 2012 Miami Marlins. The new manager is so unhinged he once stopped a news conference to announce simply: “Fuck everybody.” The center fielder tweeted…
Welcome to the job, Ray Martinez! Less than a year after an on-duty Miami Beach cop drunkenly plowed into beachgoers on his ATV after partying with bachelorettes at the Clevelander — an action that blackened the end of previous chief Carlos Noriega’s career — new jefe Martinez is investigating claims…
How is Andre Pierre still running North Miami and not awaiting trial on corruption charges? State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has some splainin’ to do after a Miami Herald report this morning ties Pierre even more closely to the corruption charges filed against his nephew last year.The new tapes from…
Whether they popped too many pills, knocked back too many Buds, or maybe even found a little “Molly” with Madonna, it was inevitable: A small portion of the blissed-out masses that packed Bayfront for Ultra Music Festival ended their weekend in a paddy wagon. Riptide has tracked down the arrest…
Get ready for a Romney-Rubio ticket, Florida. Even as Miami’s favorite Tea Party son tells everyone who will listen that he has zero plans to run as vice president this year, the Tampa Bay Times reports that he’s studiously following the textbook on how to prepare for a vice presidential…
Remember when the Marlins announced the roster of local artists they’d hired to spruce up their new Little Havana ballpark and everyone was all, “Yay! No Britto! Nice work, team.” That enthusiasm was tempered as we got our first look at the iris-searing home run sculpture in left, a construction…
He blew past Shalom Dreampeace Compost. He wrecked Rockwell C. Bonecutter. He demolished Ebeneezer Noonoo. Now a 19-year-old from Florida with the mind-blowing moniker of Courvoisier Winetavious Richardson is just one round away from winning the coveted title of Name of the Year — the wildly popular annual online bracket…
Miami woman’s Marlins theme song on YouTube draws ire from baseball fans
Tallahassee lawyer Stephen R. Andrews has been a pain in Gov. Rick Scott’s ass since before he took office. Before Scott won the governor’s race, Andrews filed a lawsuit alleging that his ties to Solantic — the medical firm that would reap a profit bonanza from the drug testing Scott…
Someday, Carlos Bertonatti will have to face a jury to explain what happened in the early morning of Jan. 17, 2010 — the day police say he drunkenly killed a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway, then sped away into Key Biscayne with the victim’s bike still wedged underneath his car…
The eternal war between righteous Christians and smarmy nonbelievers has a new ground zero: rural Highway 98 in Polk County, Florida. First, a religious group called Polk Under Prayer blessed the Central Florida asphalt strip with “holy oil” to protect the county from Satan, “evildoers” and “the drug crowd.” This…
The hate hit Sarah Spiegel’s YouTube account early last week, calling her an idiot and a hack and suggesting that she join her favorite team, the Miami Marlins, in just going straight to hell. Spiegel’s crime? Taking almost two weeks out of her singing career to pen a new ode…
Before he moved to Florida, David Young was an American hero: A Green Beret, a Gulf War vet and a Bronze Star recipient. The vet was once among the nation’s youngest state legislators after winning a seat in his native New Hampshire’s state House at the age of 21. Two…
Yesterday, Riptide found what seemed to be a theme song for the newly christened Miami Marlins. Sadly, we’ve since learned the song is unofficial, a passionate fan ode to the reborn franchise — which makes the music much more endearing, and also more confusing. Who the hell takes the time…
We weren’t all that familiar with U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns — a gray-haired motel magnate from Ocala — until Tuesday, when he tried to revive the long-exploded birther movement by questioning President Obama’s birth certificate at a town hall meeting. Well, that must have been one hell of a town…
Ex-students say Jet University flight school was bogus
Tonight, North Miami commissioners will vote on the future of the city’s most important asset — 193-acres of waterfront land that have been in limbo since the real estate bust killed the last development and a more recent idea — to let a business partner of Mayor Andre Pierre build…
At the start of the slick ad, an excited announcer intones, “Are you ready to get serious about becoming a professional airline pilot?” The promises are amazing: In less than nine months at Jet University, the announcer says, even students with zero flight experience will land jobs as pilots. Even…
Shawn Loftis was a popular sub at Miami Beach High and a handful of other Miami-Dade schools until he was abruptly canned in January 2011. His crime? A past life as a gay porn performer under the screen name Collin O’Neal, including his own erotic series — “World of Men”…
Yesterday afternoon, a 13-year-old boy hobbled down a Lakeland road to a neighbor’s house and complained of a barbaric running punishment: for more than a week, he’d been forced to sleep in a bathtub, then spend nine straight hours kneeling every day with only a single daily “shake” made of…
You’re going to have to wait for that romantic cruise to Havana. Under President Obama, travel restrictions to Cuba have eased from the Bush years, with new air charters opening routes from Miami and Tampa and even Texas to the island. That thaw, though, apparently doesn’t include passenger boats.After more…
