Hey, there were some elections this week. You probably didn’t vote, but we liveblogged them for you, and here are your winners for Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah. In Miami voters loved name recognition (aka voting for people related to former Mayors), and in Miami Beach the most entertaining local election of…
Considering Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin now gets his own right-wing political column every other week, is it asking too much that he keeps pointed, half-baked political theory out of his television reviews? Because all too often the man’s words come off seeming ridiculous.After deciding to attack the National Park…
Virginia Cavaliers @ Miami Hurricanes, Saturday 12pm on ESPN360.com and 90.5 FM. College football is a ridiculously frustrating thing, and playing in the ACC only magnifies that. Listen, we know the chances of it happening are slight, but if Duke beats NC and somehow knocked off Georgia Tech next weekend they’d…
Sunset Place is a horrible place where teenage stereotypes go to die, but it is also home to the last of the giant, metallic robo-iguanas. The photo comes from MigRodz’s Flickr…
Several media are reporting that eight people have been shot and two killed in an Orlando office building. It happened just before noon at the Gateway Office Center near Lake Ivanhoe. The Orlando Sentinel says that one victim has been killed, and two are in serious condition. Police have taken suspect Jason…
Franz A. Wakefield, a Miami resident, claims that he not only came up with the idea and names of Apple’s entire iPod, iTunes, and iPhone line, but that actress Sarah Jessica Parker totally screwed him over in the deal. Wakefield claims he won a 17th Congressional District Arts Competition in 1989, and…
Here in South Florida, we’ve done a number to Mother Nature that few other regions in this fine country can match. In just over a century, we’ve dammed the Everglades, plopped whole cities down in the middle of supposedly protected wetlands, funneled Niagara-worthy loads of sewage into the ocean and paved…
Robert Murray, a freelance Flash and iPhone developer, is practically a Miami native considering he’s lived here since 1990. But it was a recent trip to New York City that inspired him to set up the city’s first Social Media for Social Change event.Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) started…
Manny Diaz on the “breather” citizens apparently wanted by elected Regalado: “We are now competing with the rest of the world. If we take a breather, the rest of the world will pass us by.” [CBS4]A Miami native who spent 17 years in jail for stealing Rolexes got out of jail…
On the opinion page of the Miami Herald , Patricia Kawaja’s letter begins dramatically. “I am alarmed by Tomas Regalado’s election as mayor of Miami,” she blasts. “Another Cobwebbed politician….”Only that’s not what she actually wrote. When the British-born writer-by-trade sent her letter in earlier this week, it read: “Another…
Is the University of Miami crazy? Well, if they are don’t be surprised if their new psychiatrist pumps them full of lots and lots of GlaxoSmithKline pills. UM has just hired Dr. Charles Nemeroff to head the Miller School of Medicine’s psychiatry department. Nemeroff is an internationally known expert on depression, unfortunately…
Charlie Crist went on CNN yesterday and said that he didn’t endorse the stimulus package. Huh? What? Riptide was there when he appeared with President Obama touting the stimulus in Ft. Myers. Even though the White House is claiming that he did in fact pretty much endorse the bill, Crist says he…
We still don’t know what to make of the Dolphins this year, but it’s nice to know we’re unequivocally better than those New York Jets (is that even saying much?). Flickr user Ed Yourdon has a nice series of photographs from the game…
Riptide was feeling all warm and fuzzy this morning. No, it wasn’t just from all the vodka in our coffee. (What, like you don’t start your day with a little ‘Russian java’?) The latest employment numbers came out this morning, and it looks like our Kanye-on-the-VMAs-esque disaster of an economy…
Carrying just one ounce of pot in Florida could get you 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. That’s by far the harshest penalty on the books in any state in America. Arizona, which has the second toughest sentencing guidelines for being found with an ounce of marijuana will…
Seems that former WSVN and WPLG reporter Olga Bichachi is sick and tired of the fluff her former employers pass off as news, reports SFLTV. She recently joined a group of protestors outside Local 10, and found time to give an interview that was posted on YouTube. “We want the media…
Looks like Marco Rubio might have pulled off a bit of a victory thanks to the results of New York’s 23rd congressional district. Sen. John Cornyn announced yesterday that the National Republican Senatorial Committee won’t be inserting itself into primary’s anymore. Though the NRSC’s endorsement still stands, it seems like Cornyn is…
Amongst other changes, Mayor-elect Regalado plans to start talking about Cuba and Venezuela more. Right after he fixes those potholes and fires Chief Timoney I presume. [Herald]The Coast Guard will unload nearly 5 tons of Cocaine in Miami (or roughly a New Year’s Eve worth for SoBe partying) today. [CBS4]200…
Maybe it’s a bad idea to publicly disagree with your boss. But I gotta say, watching this postseason only confirmed my belief that Alex Rodriguez is a world-class douche. It’s not just the strangely purple lips or the gingerly smug way that he digs in at bat like he’s got…
It’s a measure of the new exile tolerance that a heralded band from Cuba is headed for Miami, and — at least so far — no one is talking about protests, pain or politics. The Septeto Nacional made its last U.S. appearance at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, where…
Hello, Kitty: After 34 years of being my mom, my lovely mother has become a lady-licking, full-blown lesbian. She and my dad divorced nearly ten years ago, but judging from the parade of guys who followed, I thought she was hetero. She and I aren’t close enough to discuss her…
Is Miami guy Robert Kelly a spy or a wacko?
