Howard Stern sidekick and self-described “topnotch, prime-time, center-stage celebrity” Elegant Elliot Offen runs 14 miles a day in ladies’ lingerie. In New York, he swears, people on the street cheer and salivate over his bodacious curves. “You won’t see a sexy, sexy statuesque physique like mine on any real woman,”…
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It’s Conference Championship weekend, meaning the teams that get to pack their bags for Miami are decided on Sunday. For a depressing 16th year in a row our Miami Dolphins aren’t in the running, and as Gus mentioned yesterday we could really care less about who wins. But we will have to…
Eighteen-year-old Chonshi Thompson died Thursday morning in the South Beach parking garage near 1601 Washington Ave. Two other victims were involved: 18-year-old Sandro Louis was shot in the groin, and 21-year-old Cesar Gonzalez took a bullet to his left hand. Both had fled the scene by the time police arrived…
At 11.8 percent in December, the Florida unemployment rate is the highest it’s ever been since 1975. That’s up 0.3 percent from November and a whopping 4.2 percent from the same month last year. Miami-Dade’s unemployment rate is still below the state’s, but the numbers shot up in December, climbing to 11.3 percent…
Silicon Beach reported on Crisis Camp in this week’s Wednesday installment. Just two days later, geeks from D.C. launched a mobile phone application called Tradui that facilitates Kreyol to English and English to Kreyol translations. The application is free and available for iPhone and Android.In Tradui, you can translate words…
County commissioners OKed a new, less harsh law concerning places where sex offenders may live. It’s expected to supersede many of the stronger municipal laws and, more important, finally get those sex offenders out from under the bridge. [Herald]Former Miami Police Chief John Timoney has a new job in the private sector. He’s now senior vice…
Bart Sherwood passes the grisly photos around the Miami-Dade County Commission chambers.In the first image, his face is scraped and swollen, his arms are wrapped in plaster, and IVs run into his body. In the other, one ass cheek is completely covered in gauze, and his back is a mess…
Despite the fact that NBC’s on-going late night wars are the blog topic du jour we’ve mostly shied away from the topic because the local angle — that NBC Universal CEO & President Jeff Zucker, who many see as personally responsible for the entire debacle was born and raised in…
Police have released the identity of the couple involved in yesterday’s apparent murder-suicide in Miami Beach.Thirty-five-year-old Sheila Mora was found stabbed to death in the couple’s apartment, Unit 3707 in the beachfront Akoya building on 6365 Collins Avenue. Police discovered her body after they were called earlier yesterday morning about a…
The Florida House is looking to finally secure the adoption rights for a discriminated-against group of people. No, not Homosexuals, they’re still 100 percent forbidden to adopt children in the Sunshine State. The bill currently cruising through committee is a silly little thing making sure that gun owners can adopt…
Nearly three weeks after the body of aspiring model Paula Sladewski was found burning in a trash bin on a street in North Miami, Police have few new leads in the case.Riptide briefly joined North Miami Police spokesman Lt. Neal Cuevas and Paula’s brother on Headline News’ Issues with Jane…
Once Miami-Dade police finally arrested Carlos Bertonatti on Sunday morning — after he’d slammed into a biker, sped away and led police on a several mile chase with a bike lodged under his front fender — the singer-songwriter refused to acknowledge that he’d just killed a man. So says an arrest…
There’s more than enough weird things that happen here in Miami-Dade, but sometimes it seems we’re downright sane compared to the rest of Florida. WTF Florida is our new weekly survey of all the weirdness our Peninsula has to offer. American Idol Comes to Mickey Mouse LandAmerican Idol skipped over…
Remember Tyler Weinman the accused cat killer? He’s still under house arrest, but he wants the judge to make an exception so he can start classes at Miami-Dade college. [CBS4]Federal wildlife officials want to ban the import of Burmese python and other large exotic snakes that have a habbit of…
Three days after drunkenly killing a biker on the Rickenbacker Causeway and speeding away to his high-end Key Biscayne condo, would-be pop star Carlos Bertonatti is a free man this morning.Bertonatti posted a $100,000 bond late in the afternoon yesterday, Det. Rebecca Perez, a Miami-Dade Police Department spokeswoman, tells Riptide.At…
Kerlyne Paraison helplessly saw the drama unfolding on television the way one watches a loved one flat-line through a hospital window. The 26-year-old Haitian had lived in Port-au-Prince until just two years ago. When she saw the first pictures flash across the TV screen of the Haitian earthquake, she thought…
Recipe for paralyzed iguanas from Miami’s most resourceful homeless man
Miami Beach spending $5 million for spotty Wi-Fi
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West Miami Mayor Cesar Carasa calls his Dominican babes
Miami-Dade commissioners mail holiday greetings on your dime
