From cat killers to back-alley plastic surgeons, the criminals in our fair city make the hustlers of Detroit and Atlanta look, well, not very creative. A couple of months ago, Riptide brought you the story of Roller Thief, the strung-out rollerblading car burglar turned real-life Reno 911 sketch. He broke…
We’re beginning to feel sorry for the public relations department of Miami Gardens’ Florida Memorial University. As this week’s feature story on the violence-plagued school — think shootings, carjackings, home invasions, and a near-riot — went to print, the first reports of a fresh stabbing on campus began to trickle…
The legal saga of five convicted Cuban spies known as the Cuban Five continues today as yet another member has had his sentence reduced.Ramon Labanino, also known as Luis Medina, was originally sentenced to life in a controversial 2001 trial in Miami, but earlier this year, an appeals court threw out…
Art Basel regulars Eva and Adele check out some art, from Chris Gold’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here, join our Flickr pool…
Since 2008, Mickey Rourke has gone from our friendly, neighborhood Hollywood wash-up to GQ’s Man of the Year. Now, according to Page Six the 57-year-old actor is engaged to a 24-year-old Russian hottie.Rourke has been dating model Elena Kuletskaya since earlier this year, and reportedly popped the question to her…
For more than two decades, Miami New Times hasn’t changed much. On January 1, the weekly paper will become something altogether different. A glossy cover, staples, and perfect trimming with give this old dog an impressive new trick.The content, however, isn’t going anywhere. We’ll continue to offer 70,000 copies per…
In advance of the Copenhagen Climate Conference, which kicked off today in Denmark, 56 papers across the globe yesterday published a front-page editorial led by the Guardian calling for international action on the global warming front. The only American paper to sign on: our own Miami Herald.”This initiative offered the Miami Herald’s editorial…
That giant red weather balloon hovering over Collins Avenue this past weekend wasn’t some sort of Art Basel-related installation. It was part of a U.S. Defense Department Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contest. DARPA set 99 ten luftballoons in locations across the country and challenged teams of citizens to use…
Univision is opening its own production studio in Miami. [LATimes]According to a recent poll, Miami is the second most desirable travel destination after Las Vegas. [CBS4]Ad sales at McClatchy, the Miami Herald’s parent company, are down 20 percent this quarter, but that’s apparently good because it’s less than in past…
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Miami-Dade Commissioner Carlos Gimenez’s troubled kid, Julio Francisco Gimenez, was arrested after a bar brawl this past Saturday. Actually, he’s not even a kid — he’s a 31-year-old man.Gimenez was at the Sports Exchange, a bar in Coral Gables, watching college football when he got into a heated argument with…
Gov. Charlie Crist is a Noles fan, but it’s not so surprising that he can relate to Gators quarterback Tim Tebow.UF had high hopes of repeating its national championship and was the favorite throughout the regular season. Tebow, meanwhile, was talked about as a potential Heisman double winner, but this…
Revolico isn’t just the best place on the web to ogle rusted-out Yank tanks for sale in Havana. As we wrote in September, it’s also the most remarkable example yet of how the Internet is changing life in Cuba, whether the Castro brothers like it or not.So we were pissed…
It’s the holidays, so expect more socializing and imbibing to wrap up a busy year in local geekdom. Here are a couple of events going on in the 305:Social Media Club South Florida celebrates the season this Thursday, December 10, at John Martin’s Irish Pub and Restaurant in Coral Gables,…
Police have identified the woman who, while driving her car in Miami Gardens, was shot by a high-caliber rifle, but aren’t much closer to finding out how or why it happened. [CBS4]Saturday afternoon, a 3-year-old girl in homestead found a family member’s gun and accidently fatally shot herself. [CBS4]A woman in Southwest…
Just when you thought they were good and dead, the Miami Dolphins pull off one of the most satisfying, Scarlett-Johansson’s-knockers-in-your-face awesome victories of the 2009 season. It came thanks in large part to Chad Henne, Vontae Davis, and a Dolphins team that simply won’t die.On their first drive of the…
Who says teenage stalkers and demanding bosses send the most irksome text messages? Not Elizabeth Espinal.The New Yorker recently sued Miami-Dade’s mammoth supplier of most things fast and greasy, Burger King, claiming the company acted like an ex-boyfriend who couldn’t take a hint: It repeatedly text-messaged her — with spam…
You might as well call this year’s Champs Sports Bowl “The Shalala Bowl,” because Miami’s current President and University of Wisconsin’s former Chancellor Donna Shalala might be the person most excited by the match-up. Maybe the only person? Yes, that means The Gator Bowl’s nefarious scheme to pick a 6-6 FSU…
Riptide’s dear Miami Hurricanes won’t be playing this week, and instead will watch as a team they beat take on a team they narrowly lost to in OT battle it out for the ACC championship. That should be interesting and all –we’ve got our money on GT, btw–, but it…
Former Florida Sen. Paula Hawkins died yesterday at the age of 82. A Republican, Hawkins was a trailblazer for female politicians in the state of Florida.In 1972, Hawkins was the first woman elected to a statewide office when she took a seat on the Public Service Commission, then an elected…
Forget art videos of synchronized anal sex or the unusual number of Che portraits at Art Basel, the number one most talked-about visual statement in Miami this week is apparently 17-year-old Miley Cyrus’s underboob tattoo.After her concert at the AAA Wednesday, Cyrus relaxed poolside at the Fontainebleau and unveiled a tattoo…
