Well, not exactly. But California-based ANSCA stopped by this month’s South Florida iPhone Meetup to introduce local geeks to Corona, an application that’s in the works to help designers and artists create their own iPhone applications without wrangling Objective-C, the complex coding language used to make iPhones do all those…
Downfall was a pretty good movie about the pathetic, increasingly insane last days of Adolf Hitler, so the film major in me doesn’t really know what to make of the fact it’s best known as an internet meme.The spoofs have been popping up online for years, and The New York…
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the mysterious disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos, a Cuban revolutionary who combined the bohemian aura and looks of Jim Morrison (a full decade earlier) with the flowing, catlike moves of Bruce Lee. (He was said to kill the enemy and catch his rifle before it…
Finding a place to take the peewees for a wholesome Halloween scare can be a daunting chore in this town. But the folks over at Miami’s Metrozoo neatly fit the bill with Dr. Wilde’s Screamatorium, the zoo’s first full-scale family friendly fright emporium, featuring 7,000 square feet of graveyards and…
Charlie Crist is such an upbeat fellow that I’m sure he’ll appreciate the fact that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee just sent out an email touting the Gov’s silver fox-ish good looks citing his “Good Hair and Nice Tan.” He might be a little sad that it comes as part…
Excuse us as we once again divert attention to hot liberal mess Alan Grayson, Orlando-area Democratic congressman. The man who’s mouth cannot stop flapping is in hot water again, after calling Linda Robertson, and advisor to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernake, a “K Street whore” on a radio show a month…
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Something smells rotten in the state of Naomi Campbell’s business affairs. Moodform Mission, a company based in both Miami Beach and London, England has filed suit against Supermodel Campbell claiming she violated a longstanding business agreement. Moodform helped Campbell develop her line of perfumes, which are primarly sold and marketed in Europe,…
When you’re a political underdog with just a few days before an election to drum up enough support and overcome odds to win, you might resort to some outlandish tactics. Some go on Saturday Night Live and make fun of themselves. Others pull out shameless attacks on their opponents. Miami Beach…
City of Miami cops want you to think they’re clean. Clean arrests. Clean records. Clean city. But if you believe the State of Florida, the place where they eat is dirty, dirty, dirty.This past June, state inspectors cited a tiny café in police headquarters on NW Second Avenue with 23…
Just one day after his friends, family members and teammates gathered in Miami for the funeral of murdered University of Connecticut football star Jasper Howard, police have made an arrest reports The Hartford Courant. 21-year-old John Lomax is being held by police on $2 million bail and charged with the murder…
The President of the United States was in town last night, here’s what he did:Was greeted by both protesters and supporters… [SoFlTimes]…Including Kendrick Meek, Dan Gelber, Alex Sink and Manny Diaz. [NakedPolitics]Rallied the democratic base at a fundraiser. [Herald]And raised nearly $1.5 million. [FoxNews]The Delano hotel will not give you…
Just before midnight, the Pollo Tropical is empty, except for a couple of teenagers pointing toward the window and smirking. They’ve spotted a peculiar-looking 38-year-old who’s crouching behind a bush outside in the darkness. He’s clad in a Sesame Street T-shirt and a gold chain necklace, and his once-slicked-back hair…
Since at least July, an abandoned and once pricey yacht has been beached on the trash-strewn and molester-patrolled shores of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. It’s been stripped of precious materials, spray-painted by some municipal entity, and slapped with stickers that say it’s not allowed here. It has also gained a…
Here’s news you won’t be reading in The Miami Herald*: the daily, once the largest in Florida, has now shrunk to third in the state based on circulation, according to numbers released yesterday by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Herald had settled into the number two slot behind The…
Sean Penn is playing “journalist” once again and has landed in Cuba, a country that routinely censors journalists, ranks near the bottom of the Press Freedom Index and has imprisoned more journalists than any other country except for China. So it makes sense the ideological actor is donning his amateur…
For a more thorough and humorous review of every Miami Dolphins player who shat himself during yesterday’s 46-34 loss to the New Orleans Saints, see Chris Joseph’s post from this morning. I care only about my boy, Ted Ginn, Jr., who managed to sneak past Darrelle Revis two weeks ago…
Miami Beach clubs might pay celebs ridiculous appearance fees every once in awhile, but few can get $1 million just for showing up. Count the president of the United States in the club, but of course that money isn’t going into his pocket. Instead, the funds raised from the Democratic…
Today marked the official beginning of election season, with early voting kick-starting around Miami-Dade for the November 3 general elections, and here at Riptide we’re feeling that democratic itch.But, frankly, we’re already looking forward to next August’s statewide races. Why, you ask? Because the Miami Vice lobby just weighed in,…
With a fragile local economy, tumbling real estate prices, a heated debate over a baseball stadium, and bonkers budget issues, the race to replace term-limited Manny Diaz as Miami’s mayor should have been a blockbuster.Instead, with just a little more than a week to go till November 3’s election, 42…
When a team leads 24-10 at the half while having forced three turnovers, combined for five sacks and rushed for 128 yards and four touchdowns, that team will, more often than not, end up the victor. But this is the Miami Dolphins. Normal rules need not apply. This is Suck…
