Kevin Klym, the boyfriend of aspiring-model Paula Sladewski who turned up dead inside a burning trashcan on New Years Eve weekend, went on The Today Show last week and placed blame on Club Space. That was the last place Paula was seen alive. Klym also claimed that the suspect sketch…
Maybe it was coincidental, but Barack Obama pulled ahead in Florida in the 2008 election shortly after John McCain introduced Sarah Palin as his running mate. Does the Sunshine Sstate not like America’s most prominent hockey mom?Nate Silver, the respected poll guru of FiveThirtyEight.com, says conditions aren’t in Sarah Palin’s favor in…
Do you remember where you were when everything changed forever exactly one year ago? When the most important political event in Florida history went down? When Charlie Crist man-hugged Barack Obama? Riptide was there in the audience that unholy day, and we’ll never forget. Neither will Marco Rubio. In fact, Rubio is practically…
FIU professor Phillip Stoddard is the new mayor of South Miami; with 58 percent of the vote, he beat the incumbent. [CBS4]State welfare officials have decided to offer health insurance and other subsidies to the adopted teenage son of a gay man in Key West, despite Florida’s gay adoption ban…
The Super Bowl has come and gone, but one local tradition is still going strong. The 69th annual Miami International Boat Show and Strictly Sail Miami will have boating, fishing, and water sports enthusiasts in a frenzy this weekend. The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), which organizes the show, expects about…
Most Senate primary debates are lucky to get aired on local channels, but the race for the GOP nomination for Florida’s Senate seat is so hot it might end up broadcast nationally on Fox News.According to the Chicago Tribune’s Swamp Politics, Marco Rubio has already agreed to the arrangement. Gov…
Remember Nelly? Guy hasn’t had a single in the Top 20 since 2005. Apparently the only hits he gets now are accidental ones from security at the Fontainebleau.According to Page Six, Nelly was scheduled to perform at a pre-Super Bowl party Friday night at LIV when his bodyguards got into…
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Socialist crank Hugo Chávez doesn’t much care for communication he can’t control, so it was only a matter of time before he put the kibosh on Twitter in Venezuela.Last week, the tag #FreeVenezuela became a trending topic thanks to citizens protesting Chávez’s crackdown on press freedom and calling for the president’s…
Melanie Leon and Vanessa Alenier, the South Florida lesbian couple who last month won a court case to adopt a child despite Florida’s gay adoption ban, apparently weren’t sufficiently ugly for the Florida Family Policy Council’s propaganda purposes. So in an email blast to its members decrying the decision, the group…
Blood tests have been completed on Carlos Bertonatti, the aspiring musician accused of drunkenly killing a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway last month and then speeding away. The verdict: Bertonatti was drunk. The 28-year-old’s BAC came back at .122, Riptide’s sources say. In Florida, anyone who blows over a .08 is liable…
Miami-based investigative reporter Gerald Posner has been caught lifting lines from Miami Herald stories for his own stories at the Daily Beast. As a result, Posner has been temporarily suspended.Posner, the author of Miami Babylon and many other well-received nonfiction books, took a gig at Tina Brown’s Internet-based Daily Beast…
Jesse Jackson was in town for the Super Bowl and decided to engage in his number one hobby: protesting. He marched against high rates of foreclosure and unemployment. [NBCMiami]A truck pulling a livestock trailer jackknifed in Weston. The driver and about 100 of the animals were killed, but many of the cows,…
On Monday afternoon, as part of his I Need to Stay in the NFL Because I Owe $20 Million Tour, quarterback/dogfighter Michael Vick showed up at the Overtown Youth Center to thoroughly confuse a gymnasium full of little kids. Who is this dead-eyed man, and are we supposed to emulate…
Like most Miamians, we were pulling for the Saints last night. Yeah there’s a huge part of us that wished it was the Dolphins, but we couldn’t have been happier for New Orleans. Of course, as you’re probably aware, Saints QB and MVP Drew Brees was courted by the Dolphins when…
The Super Bowl getting high ratings isn’t news as much as it is practically a law of physics, but when it breaks a 27-year-old record that’s certainly something.Last night’s broadcast from Miami Gardens drew an astounding 106.5 million viewers, making it the most watched television program in the history of…
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We weren’t expecting Tim and Pam Tebow’s Super Bowl ad for Focus on the Family to feature the two marching in front of the Supreme Court with a stroller full of bloodied baby dolls and duct tape over their mouths, but — wow — the thing came off more like…
Somewhere — possibly in the busy terminals of Miami International Airport, the back seat of a cab, or anywhere else in the county — sits a lonely stuffed pink monkey named Oscar.Oscar, who also goes by the name “Osk,” belongs to burgeoning rap superstar Nicki Minaj (who we recently called the…
Carlos Bertonatti, the musician charged with drunkenly killing a cyclist and then speeding away on the Rickenbacker Causeway last month, was handcuffed and escorted back to jail this morning. After Bertonatti pleaded not guilty to the charges of vehicular homicide, DUI manslaughter, leaving the scene of a fatal accident, and…
Ah, the Super Bowl — that one time of the year when even football widows pay homage to pigskin. Silicon Beach caught the Saints-beat-the-crap-out-of-the-Colts game at Brickell Irish Pub, where a dozen screens afforded great views of men’s scrotums covered in tight pants. The Celtic chips were also delicious.But it…
A Super Bowl in our city gives celebrities a nice excuse to jet down and spend a weekend of partying in warm and sunny South Florida. All the top one-word celeb couples came down: Brangelina, TomKat, and KarBushian. Plus some new ones might have been created. Who’s ready for CamRod?…
