A 10-year-old boy was found murdered in his Aventura Lakes home. Hours later, his 72-year-old father was found dead, most likely from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in his Jeep Cherokee. [NBCMiami] A South Florida man traveled to Washington, D.C., to speak out about Florida’s gay adoption ban. [WSVN]A Miami-Dade prisoner who…
Miami offers an array of options this weekend: the last indie flicks of the film festival, miniature pop stars, open-air art walks, and America’s largest street party. Winter Music Conference begins March 23, so shine your dancing shoes and save your pennies.FridayUK rockers the Wave Pictures play the Vagabond. And…
Haircuts and back-waxes have gotten a lot of attention lately on the campaign trail. In March, the Miami Herald mocked Marco Rubio for spending $134 on a haircut at flossy-flossy downtown Miami barbershop Churchill’s. Then Wednesday, Charlie Crist took a misguided jab at Rubio’s hairy back. Who could settle this…
Apparently there’s very few details yet, but President Barack Obama is planning to visit Miami on April 15 to help the White House’s political wing Organizing for America. Sounds like a fundraiser.Naked Politics points to this email from the Democratic Party:We have exciting news and wanted you to be the…
Join us as we continue gross body hair waxing week on Riptide: in our latest installment it seems that Khloe Kardashian let her sister, Kourtney, wax her nether regions because she didn’t trust her bikini area to any Miami waxstress.”We’re at a lingerie store, I was buying him a little…
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That condo you bought in downtown as an investment property in 2005? You might not be able to make a reasonable profit on it until sometime after 2030.Moody’s Economy.com says housing prices in Miami-Dade and most other southern Florida counties won’t recover until 2030. The predictions are based on Fiserv’s Leading Case-Shiller…
Cuba may have a bustling black market of underground entrepreneurs, but legal private enterprise has been outlawed since all businesses were nationalized in 1968. Now, according to Reuters, the communist island is about to embark on an experiment with something resembling capitalism.The government has begun leasing some small-scale retail services back to…
Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much news in the mysterious murder of 26-year-old aspiring model Paula Sladewski. Club Space hopes to change all of that by offering a $15,000 reward for information related to the case.Space is the last place Sladewski was seen alive New Year’s Eve weekend before being found…
People do a lot of crazy things for their religions, but we suggest drawing a line at drinking large quantities of mucus from illegally smuggled snails.Charles L. Stewart of Hialeah is under investigation for making his followers do exactly that. He’s a practitioner of an African faith known as El…
We live in the weird news capital of the country, what sometimes goes on at city hall could be qualified as insane, and we’re certainly home to more than a few out-of-this-world characters, but Miami isn’t anywhere close to the craziest city in America. In fact, according to nonscientific ratings by the Daily…
Click here to view photos from this event.Usually, Riptide cares as much about fashion as we do about feel-good stories, but we were sort of curious about the retooled Funkshion Fashion Week Miami Beach — now called Fashion Miami — which took over the custom-built tent raised for last year’s…
The Democratic National Committee couldn’t keep its paws off Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist’s war of the wax, and produced this “rapid response” web ad to basically paint the Republican primary race as a giant mess of unadulterated silliness…
Forecaster predicts an “above normal” Hurricane season in 2010, with about two or three hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. [Herald]Florida is number three in total foreclosure filings. [Herald]And here’s another cherry stat: Unemployment in Florida is at an all-time high of 11.9 percent. [CBS4]A Gulfstream Park employee had a rock thrown…
The Miami Caliente shows blood, sweat, and lace in the Lingerie Football League
Angry dude Phil Busch called in bomb threats at Miami International Airport
Miami boaters: Please help Frenchman Jeremy Marie continue his hitchhiking world tour!
South Florida’s gay nightclubs cash in on the Avatar craze
Miami has dozens of Fidel Castros
Certain corners of the South Florida economy depend on a steady supply of new fake breasts, but spending on plastic surgery dropped 20 percent last year.America shelled out only $10.5 million on nips and tucks in 2009, down from $13.2 million in 2007. The number of actual surgeries performed dropped 30 percent in…
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Finally, the Miami Hurricanes have actually benefited from some recruiting drama. Five-star recruit Latwan Anderson has decided to switch his commitment to the team. Ranked the 15th best player in his class by Rivals.com, the defensive back originally committed to West Virginia but never inked with the team on National…
