On Sunday, a gambler at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa was playing a $4 slot machine when its bells started ringing and an enormous figure began flashing on its jackpot screen: $166,666,666.65. Bill Seebeck thought he was set for life. Alas, ’twas not to be. After investigating the…
Early turnout for local elections has been very light. [Herald]The fight to save Miami Marine Stadium after 17 years of neglect is still on. [CBS4]Police are investigating the death of a 3-year-old boy who was found at the bottom of a swimming pool in Southwest Dade. [Herald]PoliticsState Sen. Paula Dockery…
Our photographers caught a lot of crazy costumes this weekend, but the Real Housewives of Hialeah, from photog Bill Cooke’s Lincoln Road gallery, are among our favorites.Check out all of our Miami Halloween party pictures here…
Fact: It is not truly the Holidays in Miami until you hear the Santa’s Enchanted Forest (at Tropical Park! on Palmetto! and Bird Road!) jingle. We may not have snow, and roasting chest nuts, and all the other trappings of a northern Christmas, but damn it we have this jingle…
About a month ago, Twitter launched a new feature called Lists to a limited number of testers and is about to make it available to all users, according to Twitter’s blog. Twitter Lists lets you organize those you follow into categories. The title of the list and whom you put…
So you had your heart set on that 1959 Buick advertised on Revolico and forgot to write the contact number down? You might have blown your chance.Reuters is reporting that the popular Cuban version of Craigslist — which boasts 1.5 million page views a month — is being blocked. It’s…
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. We haven’t been quite this flattered in a very long time.Three weeks ago, Riptide published a story about the very drastic fall of former pro basketball player Rumeal Robinson. We used court documents filed in Miami-Dade court and a revealing interview…
Could you imagine if Wake Forest kicker Jimmy Newman actually made that 60-yard field goal at the end of the game? Yeah, it was nearly possible, but it could have happened. Or imagine if the Demon Deacons had gotten a little farther down field in their last drive and set Newman…
A county program that helped low-income people pay their utility bills will be shut down because the county was overwhelmed by the amount of applications that came in. [CBS4]Whiney Fidel Castro says America is infecting Cuba with swine flu, but not intentionally. [CBS4]For the 21st time this year, a slaughtered…
Let’s just get this out of the way: Riptide is the last place you’ll read any criticism of Alan Grayson, the U.S. representative from Orlando, for his raging political Tourette’s syndrome.We wish more politicians would jump on the Grayson crazy train. What’s better than hearing your local rep of accusing…
Riptide has a question for all of those crazy Coconut Grovites. In the past year, what spectacular little spit of land has been used as the dumping ground for a large dead goat, the home of a five-foot-long saltwater crocodile, and a bum fort turned junkyard. The answer: the mangroves…
Coming into yesterday’s rematch in the Meadowlands, Jets players called the Miami Dolphins a gimmicky team, called their Wildcat formation “nonsense,” and called Chad Henne a clown. They said they couldn’t wait to play Miami again, claimed they were the better team and threatened to take out Henne. DE Shaun…
It’s the weekend, so the best you’re getting from the ole Riptide sports desk is a repost of a repost.Check out this video of former Miami Heat coach Stan Van Gundy, AKA the Master of Panic, showing complete disdain for his overhyped, NBA-style introduction at the Orlando Magic’s home opener. I…
Despite winning the last two meetings against the New York Jets, the Dolphins enter Sunday’s rematch as 3-point underdogs. This is mainly because the Jets are coming off a big win against the Raiders (which is basically the equivalence of beating a team made up entirely of organ grinders and…
Last week’s Clemson game got Canes fans’ hearts pumping in fear harder than anything they’re likely to experience on Halloween. After last week’s trick, please, Great Pumpkin, deliver us a treat.Tomorrow, the Canes will travel to Wake Forest to take on the Demon Deacons, the second most ghoulishly named team…
A rare sight at the intersection of Biscayne Boulevard and NE 35th Street today: no traffic.That’s because southbound Biscayne is blocked off between NE 33rd and 36th streets following a water main break caused during reconstruction along the road…
For the first time in its 15-year history, the National Circle of Journalists from Cuba did not give out an award recognizing a heroic colleague on the mainland when they commemorated Cuban Journalist Day on October 25.It wasn’t that reporters on the island were no longer risking arrest by stealthily…
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That Joe Lieberman, what’s his deal lately? The former Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate lost the Democratic primary for his Connecticut Senate seat in 2006, only to win the general election. Since then he’s been a bit of a loose flyer, and ended up campaigning for Republican John McCain in the…
As Congressman Steve King reminded us yesterday, Jennifer Lopez is a horrible, horrible human being who has amongst other crimes against humanity, promoted “the sexual abuse of women, …the n-word, verbal pornography, [and] recreational drug use.” King was absolutely irate that that dude she’s married to was allowed to own…
This month’s Refresh Miami was held at the elegant Mayfair Hotel ballroom in Coconut Grove. It seemed like an unlikely place for geeks, what with the fancy decor and mood lighting. Had we all been wearing tuxes and gowns, it could’ve easily been mistaken for a geek prom.Seriously. On the…
Jeb Bush has emerged as one of the more sane and reasoned voices on the right, usually by keeping his foot a good distance from his mouth. His modus operandi since leaving office has been to keep a relatively low profile and remain a strong voice for conservatism while not…
