Predictably, Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad for the politically divisive, anti-gay, and pro-choice group Focus on the Family is causing controversy.Focus has released few details about the ad, but it will likely feature UF’s Heisman winner and his mother, Pam Tebow. Pam notably carried Tim to term despite doctors’ health…
Today’s photo of Dinner Key Marina comes from Michael’s Images’ Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here, join our Flickr group…
Tough day for Charlie Crist, ain’t it? First he lost his lead in the Republican Senate primary, and now it’s come to light that he is the Tea Party movement’s number one “Enemy of Liberty.” Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks PAC, which is tighter with the Tea Party movement (coincidentally, an army of…) than peanut butter…
It’s been more than one week since Carlos Bertonatti slammed into cyclist Christophe Le Canne on the Rickenbacker Causeway and then sped away as the 44-year-old died on the roadside, but the crime is still reverberating in the Magic City. Bertonatti, as we first reported here in Riptide, had a…
It’s not exactly uncommon to hear someone floating around the political fantasy of South Florida becoming its own state. Not to say it’d ever actually happen, but c’mon, we all know the rest of Florida is holding us back. Well, a new political map that redraws the United States with the…
Tea Bag-approved Marco Rubio leads Gov. Charlie Crist in the Republican Senate primary for the first time, according to a recently released Quinnipiac poll. Forty-seven percent of registered Republicans now prefer Rubio, compared to only 44 percent who are still in the Crist camp. That’s a sea change since October, when…
Lord knows one of the worst crimes haunting our community is the evil of unlicensed massage. We just don’t understand how parents can sleep at night knowing their children are growing up in a world where women, without proper documentation and trying to make ends meet, are lubing up the backs of…
A suspicious bag led to the temporary shut-down of a concourse at Miami International Airport. [LATimes]More than 100 manatees have turned up dead this year, with many deaths attributed to the cold snap earlier this month. [CBS4]A grandmother in North Miami is being charged with manslaughter after her 5-year-old granddaughter…
Last week, retired rapper and King of Diamonds strip club manager Ricky “Disco Rick” Taylor made it rain knowledge on the blogosphere’s gyrating ass in anticipation of the Super Bowl, which he predicted will be “the biggest weekend in strip club history in South Florida.” One of the Hypnotiq-soaked crumpled bills…
In this county, the criminal court system functions like an old bicycle: It works — just much too slowly. This week, New Times will feature a story about the inmates who have stayed longest in Miami-Dade county jail, a place that’s supposed to be temporary. What we found: Eight men…
City commissioners will appoint someone today to fill Michelle Spence-Jones’s empty District 5 seat. But the jockeying to replace the suspended commish was well under way Monday. David Chiverton and Dufirstson Neree, losing candidates in the election, made the rounds at city hall, pitching themselves to commissioners as credible seat-fillers…
Beneath the Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flats in a remote corner of South America’s poorest nation, there’s an untapped fortune below the white crust. Nearly half the world’s lithium — 5.4 million tons of it, according to the U.S. Geological Survey — lies in the briny water…
Last week was buzzing with two great tweetups. On Wednesday, Sushi Samba held its first nationwide one, which Silicon Beach announced earlier in the month. Tweetup guests in Vegas, Chicago, New York City and of course Miami locations connected over the twittersphere simultaneously with the hashtag #sstwtup. The conversations were…
These “Web Ads” that both state parties occasionally put up are almost all uniformly horrible, but this new GOP attack ad on Alex Sink seems to be, well, pretty flimsy and stupid. The attack? The Democratic candidate for Governor has, whadaya know, donated to other Democrats before! Washington Democrats! Zut alors! By pointing…
You can’t even host a Super Bowl in Miami anymore without it having some shallow reality teevee flair. Yes, two of the E! channel’s favorite buxom bimbettes will almost assuredly be in the stands at Sun Life Stadium come February 7.That’s because Saints star Reggie Bush has been notably tapping…
DKeros’ Flickr brings us the backside view of the new, gigantic Herucles statue in Mary Brickell Village. Boy’s got a backside that would be the envy of a Club Rolexxx dancer. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group…
It was looking for a while like no Dolphins players would be playing in their home stadium during this year’s Pro Bowl. Offensive Tackle Jake Long was named to the original line-up but pulled out due to injury Thanks to yesterday’s Colts win, safety Antoine Bethea will forgo the Pro Bowl…
Diddy raised eye brows this weekend for throwing a lavish sweet 16 party for his son, but for the Super Bowl he’ll be throwing a decidedly adults-only bash. “I bought out king of diamonds strip club out for superbowl weekend!!!! For Table reservations and dancer info call 3052581600 adults only!!”…
The Miami City Commission is expected to name a replacement for embattled commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones’s District 5 seat tomorrow, according to the Miami Herald. Spence-Jones was re-elected in November just days before turning herself in on charges of funneling county money to a family-owned business. She was suspended by Governor Crist, ran…
A 14-year-old girl was fatally shot in the stomach while vising a friend’s house. An adult accidently discharged the weapon. [Herald]A drive-by shooting at 2135 NW 52nd St. resulted in the death of a 15-year-old girl who seems to have been a babysitter. Three others were wounded. [Herald]Miami-Dade Police shot…
Cyclists flooded the Rickenbacker Causeway this past Sunday for a memorial ride in honor of Christophe Le Canne, the 44-year-old biker killed in a horrific hit-and-run accident last weekend. As you can see in the video — shot by a Riptide reader — hundreds rode in the memorial, which began outside Mast…
One year ago, I traveled to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to watch firsthand as President Barack Obama pledged to close the extrajudicial prison. I was witness to Guantánamo’s “final days,” I wrote. It seemed like a reasonable thing to say. After all, on his very first day in office, Obama promised…
