Twenty-two-year-old Quentin Wyche has surrendered to police for the on-campus stabbing death of Florida International University football star Kendall Berry. Wyche had spent a few days on the football team as a walk-on before being let go. He also worked in Berry’s dormitory. Reportedly, the two got into an altercation Thursday night…
Last year, Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez won the National League batting title, so this past Saturday, team owner Jeffrey Loria gave him a pendant spelling out his batting average — .342 — in 394 diamonds, with a big teal diamond for the decimal point. Hanley then nearly choked on a…
Stick with us, kids, and you’ll never have to pay for another thing ever again. At least not Monday through Friday. Monday: From noon to 2 p.m., you can waltz in and out of Arteaméricas for free. But if you don’t have the $12 to get in, you’re not likely…
Let’s pretend for a second that a bunch of men straddling horses, whacking balls with long shafts is not already homoerotic. You might need a title like Gay Polo League to convey that your players are, literally, homosexual. And you might want to compete in a place like South Florida…
12.2 percent. That was the unemployment rate in Florida for February, and the highest ever recorded. Miami-Dade’s adjusted unemployment rate sits at 11.8, up from 11.7 last month. The national rate sits at 9.7 percent.All in all the sunshine state has lost 211,500 jobs in the past year.There’s a bit…
Our old friend, Miami native and Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson, was on the Fox News show Fox & Friends today. She’s as crazy as ever, or as Gawker put it: “just a touch too crazy for Fox.”She was plugging her appearance with Sarah Palin (“my hero”) this weekend…
There’s a humpback whale in Biscayne Bay off Bear Cut, possibly in distress. The U.S. Coast Guard believe he could be caught in a rope attached to an anchor. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration biologist is on the way.CBS4 suspects it may be the same whale that was caught…
Sometimes we close our eyes real tight and imagine a city devoid of the constant nuisance known as Britto art. Then we look out at the horizon and see the sea. A shining beautiful blue thing completely devoid of the hyperkinetic bits of wrapping paper patterns and doodles that Britto…
Next Saturday, April 3, is apparently International Pillow Fight Day. To celebrate there’ll be a pillow fight flash mob at 8th and Ocean on South Beach.As South Florida Daily Blog points out, attendants are asked to show up exactly at 3 p.m. and keep their pillows hidden until then. How…
The hotel component of the Four Seasons Millennium Tower has been sold to a New York investment group for just $29.5 million according to Condo Vultures. The hotel had been previously valued at $85.5 million according to tax records. That’s a pretty steep discount.Located inside the 70-story Four Seasons Millennium…
“The gringos can’t help but spend their money. They are the easiest tourists to sell to. They never ask for discounts,” Daniel Garcia, a used book seller who hawks his inventory to tourists on the streets of Old Havana, tells Bloomberg news. He’s not the only person in Cuba hoping…
The flashy cars, the speedboats, the trendy clothes, the bling-bling. Yeah, maybe dudes in Miami are trying to compensate for something.Online love glove store Condomania sells rubbers in 76 sizes that keep you covered no matter if you’re packing a plantain or a beer can. The product has been on…
Dolphins running back Ronnie Brown’s blood alcohol level was almost twice the legal limit when he was arrested for DUI last weekend in suburban Atlanta. Now reports suggest the football player lied to police and narrowly missed a head-on collision with another vehicle. Brown was driving his 2006 black BMW home from Café…
Jermaine O’Neal must be an avid reader of Riptide, because last night it looked like he was motivated by one of our posts when he led the Heat to one of its most lopsided victories of the season. The team ripped the Bulls a new one to the tune of 103-74.O’Neal got…
Gloria Estefan led a march in support of Cuban dissidents yesterday and was joined by Pitbull, Willy Chirino, Natalia Jimenez, and Luis Fonsi. [AP]A Miami woman is charged with trying to drown her two kids and commit suicide in a local park: “A witness told police she saw the woman on…
Florida International University’s campus is still in shock this morning after Kendall Berry, a junior running back on the football team, was stabbed to death in the heart of the Miami campus last night.Just after 9 p.m., Berry got into an argument with someone who pulled out a knife and…
FridayAdmit it. The last art fair you went to was almost four months ago. Get back on the horse. Go see Arteamericas, 40 galleries under one roof. It’ll be like the Mall of Americas, but with paintings in place of halter tops.King Britt, dance music extraordinaire and one time DJ…
A federal judge in Boston has just sentenced Miami hacker Albert Gonzalez to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing millions of credit card numbers, the AP reports. The sentence wasn’t the max Gonzalez faced — the judge could have given him 25 years behind bars –…
Fidel Castro took some time out of his busy schedule of not dying to pen a piece for a state newspaper that said President Obama and the Democrat’s recent passage of health care reform is a “miracle.” Well, the Republican Party of Florida took time out of their busy schedule of…
Charlie Crist has been hemming and hawing about Marco Rubio’s “questionable” spending on the Republican Party of Florida’s American Express cards, saying stupid things about back waxes and “true conservatives.” So naturally, campaign finance reports show that Crist’s campaign also charged money on RPOF cards, according to The Herald/Times…
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A friend of mine who grew up in South Florida recently tweeted that even though she now lives in New York, where the preferred ass shape sort of looks like two soggy, thin English muffins attached to a broom stick, she’s totally OK with her shapely derriere because it’s the ideal look…
