Are the Shulas broke? Or is football demigod Don’s wife just a cheapskate? First, the wife of Dolphins Hall of Famer Don Shula made a bizarre plea of poverty at a council meeting in ultra-exclusive Indian Creek Village, in protest of a new tax assessment that will cost the Shulas…
In November 2006, a beautiful young Nicaraguan named Doris Jiménez was found raped and murdered inside a tiny clothing store she owned in the idyllic town of San Juan del Sur. Despite powerful evidence that several local men were involved, police focused on a much higher-profile suspect: Jiménez’s ex-boyfriend, an…
Americans love gambling movies almost as much as they love gambling itself. What’s not to like? You get the thrill of a high-stakes cards game from the comfort of a multiplex. Over the last few years, though, something happened. The gambling movie was replaced by ESPN. Suddenly, with the broadcast…
It’s the weird time of year where for college football fans when spring training is over and the NFL draft is in the history books, yet next season and even meaningful pre-season polls are months away. Which means they look for other things to talk and tweet and blog about, and lately…
After Charlie Crist announced he’d seek Florida’s open senate seat as an independent earlier this week his former party immediately begin trashing him. Oddly, the most powerful democrat in the Senate called to offer his congratulations. The Wall Street Journal reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Crist late last…
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Dr. George Rekers has resigned from the board of the NARTH, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, in the wake of the fallout following his trip to Europe with a young male escort.Talking Points Memo reports that Rekers first offered his resignation last Thursday, two days after our…
Siohvaughn Wade has turned herself into Chicago Police, after the judge in the Wade’s divorce trial ordered police to track her down after she failed to show in court yesterday.Siohvaughn voluntarily turned herself in today, and will not be released until a $10,000 bond is met. Her attorney, Marsha Fisher,…
Since joining Twitter earlier this month, Venezuela’s controversial president Hugo Chavez has since become the most popular user of the service in the country. With 282,042 followers now, he’s since assigned a team of 200 government aids to reply to the “@” messages he receives.Yes, 200 people to run a Twitter…
The New York Times offers a weekly news quiz so there readers can give themselves a pat on the back for reading every friggin’ story the Times churns out. The Miami Herald offers no such feature, but we here at Riptide would like to test your Herald reading remembrance.So we…
A former Miami Beach cop has pleaded guilty to charges that he kidnapped and tortured a Russian man in an attempt to extort more than $100,000 from him, bringing to an end one of the strangest crimes connected to the troubled police department.Richard Anastasi, a 47-year-old with almost 14 years…
Members of one of America’s largest “ex-gay” organizations may have secretly intervened in the rentboy scandal, publicly calling for a “thorough investigation,” while working behind the scenes to quash the story.Officials of the National Association for Therapy and Research of Homosexuality (NARTH) allegedly had a hand in crafting a questionnaire…
Writing every new update in the bizarre divorce proceeding of Dwyane Wade and his estranged wife Siohvaughn gets a little more sad each time. Honestly, we don’t take much pleasure in watching this divorce-from-hell unfold. Now, according to multiple sources, the judge in the case, Marya Nega, has ordered police to take…
Not to dis Miami’s blogosphere (because we love it so), but it’s rare that we really get excited about a new blog. Enter the Heat Lightning, which we imagine tearing through the metaphorical sky of the SoFla blogosphere like, well, a lightning bolt made out of flames. It marks the return…
Democratic congresspeople Kendrick Meek and Jan Schakowsky both come from the kind of heavily left leaning, big city districts they could hold for life. Of course, Meek is cutting his tenure short to run for Senate, and Schakowsky almost saw her term –and life– ended Mama Cass style. Thankfully Meek literally…
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When we heard an app was coming out in June for the newly released iPad that was set to “modernize DJing culture” we were more than curious. Claiming it feels like authentic turntables, iPadMixr.com also adds a beautiful interface and professional mixing to its list of declarations. It promises real…
Late last month, 65-year-old Laurinda Mae Hughes was found dead in the crawl space of her Tacoma, Washington home. Her body was wrapped in a sheet with a bullet hole in it. The following day, police issued a warrant for the arrest of her son and his wife, Thomas Al…
Kirstie Alley has a new reality show called Kirstie Alley’s Big Life. Those who have braved A&E Network at 10 p.m. Sundays, might have noticed the show’s bouncy, pop-guitar theme song, “Picture Perfect.”A quick Google search will tell you an L.A. singer named Yogi Lonich performs the ditty. But he…
Pier Raccuglia is no wimp when it comes riding bicycles. On Saturday mornings, he dons a bright white spandex suit and launches into an 80-mile loop stretching from Kendale Lakes to Pinecrest. He looks yanked from a Tour de France calendar on his $10,000 Canondale SystemSix, the tricked-out Porsche of…
35-year-old Sosthene Louis has been arrested and charged in the killing of 26-year-old Lisney Oliveira a day after police identified him as the suspect.Louis is alleged to have asked Oliveira and his friends for a cigarette. No one in the group had one, and continued walking. That’s when Louis attacked Oliveira from…
The gay escort hired by George Alan Rekers as a travel companion told Miami New Times Thursday that he had been paid to give the anti-gay crusader body rubs in the nude before their March 30 trip to Europe. And Facebook exchanges seem to back up that claim. Lucien, not…
