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…
Public Policy Polling is back today with its full-fledged Florida Senate general election polling, and it’s more or less bad news for Charlie Crist.Yesterday it was announced PPP’s new numbers show Crist losing the Republican primary by a whopping 32 points. In fact, as the numbers stand now, there’s no conceivable way…
Miami Beach Commissioner Jerry Libbin has accepted a new job as president of the Beach’s Chamber of Commerce, Riptide has learned. Libbin’s hiring has prompted a review from the Miami Dade County Ethics Commission to alleviate any conflicts connected to Chamber board members testifying to the commission on contract issues…
Oh, man, we kind of feel bad for making light of Rafer Alston’s mysterious disappearence from the Heat. According to ESPN, Alston says his decision had little to do with losing his spot in the starting lineup and more to do with the attempted suicide of his twin sister.”I’ve never…
Charlie Crist’s flippant suggestion that Marco Rubio got his back waxed on Republican donors’ money was certainly an ill-advised attempt at humor, but the conservative conspiracy theorists and fervent Rubio supporters at RedState.com wonder if the remark was somehow gay baiting or racist.Writes Erick Erickson:I don’t know if he was trying to…
Back in July, three-fourths of the security guards on South Beach signed cards asking to unionize — a move that set off months of nasty fights with their employer, Security Alliance. Company leaders bullied employees to find out who had signed up. At meetings, the bosses reminded the guards that…
On Sunday, Cuban television broadcast the first episode of an 8-part miniseries on the various assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. Just another jolly night on Cuban prime-time!Called He Who Must Live, the miniseries covers the “638” attempts on El Supremo’s life, including some that took place even before he came…
With the announcement of a second season of Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami came news that Kourtney’s boyfriend and baby daddy, Scott Disick, would open a combination restaurant/lounge/club. Well, the club in question has actually been open for months — it’s Mia at Biscayne.He’s taken on a role in VIP/nightlife…
The Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce is set to open a visitor center in South Beach as it moves its headquarters to the old city hall. The group has leased the space from the city and plans to open the center April 1. The fact that the group…
March is “Bicycle Month” in Florida. So we hope you shared the road on Saturday afternoon when Miami cyclists took to the streets for the Beer Snob Bicycle Crawl. According to Mike Bike Scene organizers, close to a hundred peeps showed up for the four-bar, crosstown ride that started at…
Today’s photo, from this past weekend’s 20th annual Asian Culture Festival at the Fruit & Spice Park in Homestead, comes from Wellington.Guzman’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here, join our Flickr group…
Charlie Crist can talk about back waxing all he wants, but the polling situation he finds himself in is a hairy one.According to a new poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-aligned pollster, Crist now trails Marco Rubio in the Senate Republican primary by an astounding 32 points, with 60…
In a case custom-built for Internet pun headlines, a woman crashed her car in the Keys last week while shaving her bikini line in traffic. Here at Riptide, our high-paid team of tabloid-producing nickname writers spent literally minutes considering the case of Megan Mariah Barnes before deciding to endorse “Pubic…
Backslash Magazine would not offend your grandmother. There are no nudie photos or, say, instructions on how to assemble a homemade bomb. Nor are there ads for escort services, curse words, or even a recipe for ganja cookies. It’s just a cool college lifestyle magazine created by a bunch of…
Hugo Chávez is a dictator! Come and put us behind bars, Sean Penn!You know a favorite pastime of dictators? Imprisoning journalists. So it’s a little strange and totally stupid that self-important actor Sean Penn is defending his friend Chávez, president of Venezuela and a known dictator, by suggesting that any…
José “Pepe” Fanjul might be sly when it comes to sugar, but he apparently isn’t so smart when someone tries to steal his sweets. Fanjul, co-owner of sugar corporation Florida Crystals, and his wife Emilia were visiting Los Angeles to attend the Oscars when they were robbed.While staying at the Beverly…
Charlie Crist went on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show to talk about the allegations brought up in yesterday’s negative front-page New York Times story about his controversial deal that might or might not “save the Everglades.”We didn’t learn much from the interview, other than that Crist dropped religious allusions a…
Amid Miami’s budget woes, the city has let go budget director Michael Boudreaux. [Herald]St. Joseph’s, a Catholic school in Miami Beach, has closed after 50 years, and the parents of the 136 students are not pleased. [NBCMiami]Get ready for China to be the new world superpower, because local tourism officials…
Poor Charlie Crist. The man who actively encouraged him to run for Senate in the first place, Sen. John Cornyn, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is now painting Crist’s role in the election as that of a political sacrificial pawn.Cornyn said he only recruited Crist for purely selfish…
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Rumor has it the Jaguars think their attendance problems will be solved if they draft local boy Tim Tebow. Maybe it’s not exactly a bad strategy to get a locally-raised player who was a star at a nearby college.Despite the fact that South Florida is a major talent pipeline, and…
A Girls in Tech chapter is starting in South Florida and no, it’s not the title of a cheesy Bang Brothers porn flick. In the male-dominated field of technology, women would much rather have their brains picked than their asses pinched.Girls in Tech, founded in San Francisco in 2007, is…
