The two women who got stuck on a thrill ride yesterday at the Miami-Dade County Fair say they’d buckle up and go again, and were pleased with their quick rescue. [CBS4]A local elementary school wants you to have a great spring “breack”! [WSVN]Sports Woah, Roger Federer is out of here,…
Police are after a former beauty queen who’s accused of being the ringleader of a gang of pinups who also work as international drug smugglers. Angie San Clemente Valencia is a bosomy 30-year-old Colombian who’s accused of paying her merry band of strumpets $5,000 for carrying pounds of blow from…
In this week’s New Times, we report on 16 new examples of apparent plagiarism in Gerald Posner’s latest book, Miami Babylon. We emailed all the problems to Posner last week and left multiple phone messages for him, but he never responded.Minutes ago, however, he uploaded a response to today’s stories…
Normally, we don’t want to pretend we’re in the same state as Orlando, but hats off to these University of Central Florida frat boys who allegedly pulled off an epic prank on tea baggers visiting the school to hear Glenn Beck speak.The Beck fans showed up and saw signs pointing…
Anytime people find themselves, or are believed to have found themselves, in awkward positions, cable news is there. MSNBC broadcast live images of two passengers stuck on a thrill ride at the Miami-Dade County Fair.The call came in to authorities that the pair was trapped around 1:54 p.m., two hours…
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Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner’s latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen’s 2003 work Clubland. Posner had already resigned as chief investigative reporter at the Daily Beast after Slate’s Jack Shafer busted him for lifting sentences from the Miami…
Last Thursday night, Florida International University football player Kendall Berry was stabbbed to death with a pair of scissors on campus. It doesn’t seem like it could get much worse than that. But an FIU Police officer tells Riptide that students are lucky that the under-equipped and undermanned department was…
Bud Day is an 85-year-old retired U.S. Air Force Colonel who keeps poking his nose into Florida and national political controversy. You might remember those classy “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” from the 2004 election that questioned John Kerry’s service and patriotism, even though opponent George W. Bush notoriously stayed…
Last year, Andy Murray reigned supreme at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne. This year, he went out in the second round against some guy named Mardy Fish, who’s not even ranked in the top 100 worldwide. Murray had a bye in the first round, meaning he didn’t win…
So it turns out hosting a wet jockeys contest doesn’t make you bad at your job. Ray Fetcho, the South Florida nurse and erstwhile drag queen who was fired from his job earlier this month, has been given his scrubs back.Fetcho, who we blogged about before, used to moonlight as…
Police are asking for help finding the suspect in a rape case in Brickell. He followed his victim home from Blue Martini in Mary Brickell Village into her apartment building, Axis. So far police have some surveillance video. [CBS4]Over 1400 people showed up for the memorial service for slain FIU football player…
Dr. Paul Farmer, the Nobel-nominated founder of Partners in Health and a world expert on making international aid work, had harsh words yesterday for the hundreds of charities trying to help Haiti recover from January’s earthquake.”There’s graffiti all over the walls in Port au Prince right now saying, ‘Down with…
Yanael Rodriguez, a shy 24-year-old with a handsome smile, might have the strangest job in Miami-Dade. It’s called being an “animal disposal technician” and it’s a fancy way of saying that you scrape roadkill for a living. There are two county employees who do this full-time, and they are busy…
This week, a New Times investigation revealed that 54 percent of the Miami Beach Police Department’s 367 non-executive officers pulled in at least six figures last year, a figure that far exceeds other similarly sized departments in the county. The numbers matter in Miami Beach because the city is facing…
Today, under increasing scrutiny stemming from allegations that he covered up sexual abuse, the Pope announced that he is, in fact, Catholic. Wait, wait, wrong story… Today, after coming to terms with the fact that he is a wild animal without access to modern plumbing, a bear confirmed, that yes,…
Dorell Wright apparently needs a couple of lessons in the internet and public relations. Internet rule number one: Do not, under any circumstances, put naked pictures of yourself anywhere on the internet unless you don’t mind them getting out. PR rule number one of getting caught up in unflattering, but…
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Muscly dudes with anger problems and over-the-top personalities duking it out in tight Lycra? Normally in Miami, that results from an argument over premium beach-blanket space on South Beach, but the county sees big money in such activities and is still trying to lure the WWE’s signature Wrestlemania event.Like the…
Chris Brown isn’t even 21 and he’s already seen his career go down the drain. That’s what happens when you let your fists do the thinking and get convicted of assaulting your now ex-girlfriend and one of the biggest recording stars in the world.Page Six reports today that Breezy is…
Last month, we were vexed by an empty police cruiser that sat for a whole month at the entrance to Palm Island. Soon after, we found out it was actually a decoy cop car and that Miami Beach Police used five others around the city to spook speeding drivers. The…
Udonis Haslem will rock your face off. It’s just that simple.Last night, the Heat overcame a 17-point deficit to defeat the visiting Toronto Raptors 97-94. Haslem led the team with 23 points, with the help of some guy named Dwyane Wade. With Wade doing all the heavy lifting for the…
