A Judge ruled the use of red light cameras illegal in Aventura. [CBS4]Police are searching for a driver who hit two bicyclists early yesterday morning. He didn’t stop, and then abandoned the car believed to be stolen. [WSVN]The School Board fears the district’s budget could be $250 to $350 million…
The saga of Renyel Pinto, fugitive Marlins reliever, continues. In November, Riptide reported that the rotund Venezuelan pitcher had skipped court dates in both Miami-Dade and Broward counties and was being chased by an arrest warrant and a $6,000 summary judgment as a result.Worse yet, in our mind, Pinto’s Facebook…
Until last October, the city used to pay a guy $14,000 a year to round up the thousands of stray chickens that roam our pockmarked streets. In a story in this week’s New Times, Lesther Jorge, the last Chicken Buster, toured some old battle sites, like Overtown, the Gaza of…
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The Winter Olympics may be getting dismal local ratings, but if the pleas of poll dancers across the world to have their “sport” recognized by the Olympics are heeded, we’ve got a feeling ratings would shoot through the roof. “After a great deal of feedback from the pole dance community,…
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Eventually, we’re all going to end up unwittingly shooting one of our friends. It happens. It happened to Dick Cheney and his hunting buddy. It happened to Charlie Sheen when he inadvertently capped then-fiancée Kelly Preston. It happened to Plaxico Burress and his thigh. Now the Marlins’ Jose Ceda has admitted…
We can only imagine the wacky stuff people try to get through customs at Miami International Airport, but a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus certainly stands out. The fancy ancient Egyptian coffin belonged to a fellow named Imesy sometime around 1,000 B.C. but was stolen from Egypt in 1884. After being put on display in Madrid…
So you’re speeding down the MacArthur Causeway in your beat-up Toyota when you spot a Miami Beach Police cruiser. Only it’s the same cop car you’ve seen there for the past month. It hasn’t moved an inch. It’s been glistening in the morning, slumbering at night — but there’s no…
Voters don’t go to the polls until August, but Marco Rubio, once the underdog in the Republican Senate Primary, appears to have Gov. Charlie Crist down for the count.According to a new Rasmussen poll of likely Republican voters, Rubio now leads Crist 54 percent to 36 percent. By a rate…
Personally, we barely understand what is going on during these Winter Olympics. Apparently we aren’t the only ones in Miami who feel that way.Out of the 55 television markets monitored by Nielsen, the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale market has come in 54th in terms of viewership, according to Glenn Garvin. The only…
The fourth annual BarCamp Miami took place yesterday in the Design District’s 4141 Building. The ad-hoc gathering of about 200 geeks and social media enthusiasts started at 9 a.m. and ended around 6 p.m. with 32 presentations. BarCamp presentations were rich in content but informal. At this unconference, there was…
Mayor Tomas Regalado will name Carlos Migoya, a former Wachovia Bank president and Autonation executive, as interim city manager later this afternoon, Riptide’s sources say. Migoya will take over from Pete Hernandez, who handed in his resignation on Friday amidst a widening federal probe into the city’s disastrous finances. …
Sources tell CBS4 that businessman Carlos Migoya will be named Miami’s new city manager. [CBS4]11 wild horses in Hialeah were captured this weekend. [CBS4]Kim Rothstein was still collecting rent on houses that had been forfeited to the government. [NBCMiami]SportsDolphins cornerback Will Allen got arrested early Saturday morning for …ugh… driving his Ferrari drunk on…
If you’re like Riptide and you live in Miami, chances are you don’t think about Homestead, our fine neighbors to the south, all that often.But these last couple weeks, the good politicians of that southern burg have done everything they can to put their hamlet back on our radar by…
Politics can get dirty, even on the Student Government level. Take for example a recent flier that started showing up on the University of Florida campus that read “Student Alliance party is the Nazi Party,” which featured a swastika. The fliers are attributed to a fake group called “UF for…
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Miami City Manager Pete Hernandez has handed in his resignation, two of Riptide’s sources at City Hall have confirmed. Herandez’s ouster is a major victory for Mayor Tomas Regalado, clearing the way for Regalado to bring in an ally to fill the slot. Sources say that Regalado confronted Hernandez yesterday about…
If there was any doubt that Florida’s Republican primary has become one of the marquee elections of 2010, it ought to be eliminated as Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio are now likely to face off in not one, but two nationally televised debates.The Buzz reports that not only has Crist…
We haven’t had much love for Mitt Romney since he visited here in a guayabera, bungled a bunch of local politicians’ names, and accidentally quoted Fidel Castro, but we sure as hell don’t have love for LMFAO. The “I’m in Miami, Bitch!” hit-makers are just the absolute worst, and if we…
The iDate 2010 conference descended on Miami Beach last month with trade professionals talking shop about the business of running dating sites. One of the topics that intrigued Silicon Beach was protection against scammers. How do you know if the person behind that profile is for real?Last year, a local…
Does Marco Rubio love torture? The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank sure seems to think so.During Rubio’s CPAC speech yesterday, the crowd of conservative activists couldn’t get enough of shouting, “Marco! Marco! Marco!” “That Marco cheer always worries me because I’m always afraid that someone is going to starting screaming ‘Polo’ and would ruin…
