On the afternoon of November 1, Whole Foods workers in Miami Beach noticed an unsettling odor. There was no mistaking it, says a marketing specialist who asked to remain anonymous: “It was the smell of poop and pee.” The employee, who we’ll call Janet, did some investigating and found a…
Duke Blue Devils @ Miami Hurricanes, Saturday at Noon, on ESPNU and WVUM 90.5Let’s get real fucking excited about the Meineke Car Care Bowl! Because that’s where the season might be headed …against West Virginia or something! This is exactly where a team that starts it season with beating 3…
About 200 students are locked inside a gym at University of Miami as we speak, thanks to an alleged BB gun shooter. School President Donna Shalala sent text messages and e-mails around 3 p.m. today asking folks to “stay away from windows.” Students are becoming restless. From inside the gym,…
When things dry up in the bedroom, our first instinct is often to blame it on our lover. Too boring, too monotonous, too too too used to the same ol’ sex game. While the desert between your legs could be psychological, it turns out that you should visit a doctor…
Inside a mixed martial arts training studio just a block east of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Charles Champion takes a seat on the blue mat where for the past month he has been training for his cage match versus Rene “Level” Martinez tonight. Like Martinez,…
This is pretty much all we know about the lock down of the University of Miami right now: BB GUN WAS USED.According to reports, two girls were shot by a BB gun in the school’s gym parking lot, and authorities are looking for a gold Volvo.We’ll let you know if…
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There are very few things that a Kardashian can’t do. They can turn forgetting to take your bc pills and unprotected sex into an adorable anecdote! They can force you into the background of your own wedding picture! And now they can materialize in Sunrise, Florida to celebrate the opening…
View Larger MapIn a bizarre coincidence, two men died and another clings to life this morning after separate shootings 15 miles apart at virtually the same time. The deadly hour was 6:30 a.m. One shooting left 43-year-old Conrado Antigua Gallardo dead on the street at 1550 SW 131st Ct.. in…
Held November 18 at the Mutiny Hotel in Coconut Grove, Refresh Miami was tame but very tropical. The location just about upstaged last month’s meeting at the Mayfair Hotel, what with the Mutiny being a grand dame of the 1980s, notorious for drug activity and crazy parties when Coconut Grove…
Michelle Spence-Jones will run for the commission seat she just got kicked out of. [Herald]President Obama answered a Cuban dissident blogger’s questions. [NBCMiami]The Miami Herald’s website has a special section devoted to The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Erotic Literature for Teenage Girls. Hey, maybe teen girls will find that section and…
First things first: Ricky Williams is now officially the Ambassador of Fucking Your Shit Up and Knocking Fools’ Dicks Into the Dirt after last night’s brilliant 119-yard, three-touchdown performance. Many had their doubts about the Dolphins’ ability to effectively run the ball without Ronnie Brown. But Ricky silenced all the…
This week’s feature tells the story of a photographer-turned-pimp, a “mansion” full of prostitutes, and a big (albeit accidental) bust by Miami-Dade police officers.While reporting the story, New Times inherited some unusual files. They included pimp Hugo Gonzalez’s “business” documents, which were as tidy as they were pornographic. (Think naked hooker…
I remember the first time I saw a fixed gear bicycle. It was 2003 in Berlin, and the kid had had it for a week and had already been in like six accidents. No brakes? I thought he was nuts.But now the movement’s pretty much universal, and here in Miami…
Pánfilo is back.A Cuban with a major drinking problem, Pánfilo stumbled onto a video interview with a Cuban rapper earlier this year and became an overnight sensation, logging nearly 750,000 hits on YouTube and becoming a hot topic of debate across Miami’s Cuban community.In his latest video appearance — aired…
Daily Kos/Research 2000 just released their latest Florida poll, and there are a lot of interesting little poll number factoids to be pulled. Riptide tends to have some smart readers, so we won’t recap the entire poll, but instead let’s mine some of our favorite nuggets.The Senate Race:Republican Primary:Charlie Crist…
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If there was any lingering confusion about why Tomás Regalado chose his old friend Miguel Exposito as Miami’s new chief of police, the veteran officer quickly cleared it up at his official introduction earlier this afternoon.Flanked by the surviving members of our quickly shrinking city commission, Exposito delivered a speech…
And so we come to this. Sitting at 4-5, the Miami Dolphins face a must-win game tonight as take on the equally desperate (and some would say equally craptastic) 4-5 Carolina Panthers. The winner will experience the sweet taste of being a .500 team for the first time this season…
In the Liberty City Seven trial, 26-year-old Rotschild Augustine yesterday was sentenced to seven years in jail. [CBS4]So, a survey says MIA is one of the top five airports in the world to get stuck in. [CBS4]The 17-year-old accused of stabbing and killing a Coral Gables Senior High classmate wants out of jail…
Here’s video of convicted Cuban beísbol trafficker Juan Ignacio Hernández Nodar landing at Miami International Airport after serving 13 years of a 15-year prison term in Havana. Nodar was caught red handed with immigration papers for Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez and Germán Mesa on August 12, 1996. (Hernandez, brother of…
View Larger MapWelcome to the hot seat, Miguel Exposito.Just a few hours after Tomas Regalado named his choice for new chief of the City of Miami PD, the first murder of the not-yet-official Exposito era crackled across the police radio. The details are still sketchy, but sometime before 8:15 p.m…
