Marco Rubio, in his campaign to topple Charlie Crist in the Republican senate primary, has again nabbed an endorsement from a sitting senator, and again it’s a guy who may hold sway in the conservative movement but isn’t likely to be very influential in Florida: Oklahoma’s Senator Jim Inhofe.Inhofe is…
Here at Riptide, we haven’t exactly moderated our feelings for the Dolphins’ resident maestro of the skillet-hands and master of the 1.5-yards-after-catch Ted Ginn Jr.Indeed, we once threatened to “build a time machine” to travel back to the ’07 draft just to “punch Cam Cameron in the dick” for drafting…
Funkshion Fashion Week Miami Beach kicked off last week with A*MUSE by Richie Rich, and alongside him, his muse Pamela Anderson. How designers like Lacroix are filling for bankcruptcy protection while Richie Rich continues to get funding for his lines — first Heatherette, and now A*MUSE — will forever be…
WTVJ has found a replacement for Julia Yarbough. Meet Kevin Corke, former national correspondent for NBC as well as a SportsCenter anchor. [SFLTV]Should we save Miami Marine Stadium, or should we let it be a cute place for raccoons to hang out? [AP]President Obama will be in town Monday attending…
Between the state of the condo market, parking on South Beach, and the final price tag for the new Marlins stadium, Miamians have suffered through plenty of real-life horrors. So for Halloween parties this year, Riptide is going to put away the Freddy mask and show up in homemade costumes…
A graffiti artist leaving his mark in Krome Penit, via Namestartswithj89’s Flickr…
The story of Jasper Howard wasn’t supposed to end in murder. A gifted football player from Miami Edison Senior High, a troubled inner-city school, was recruited by University of Connecticut. He had dreams of supporting his mother, and also had a son on the way. But on Saturday, after helping his team…
On Sunday, October 18, 2009, the Buffalo Bills defeated the New York Jets 16-13 when Rian Lindell kicked a 47-yard field goal with 2:44 remaining in overtime. However, whoever had the ball last would have been victorious.The game, played at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey, was marred by…
For the first time this season, the Miami Hurricanes are ranked in the top ten of all of the major polls: eighth in the AP, ninth in the coaches’, and tenth in the Harris Interactive and BCS standings. But, with the exception of LSU, we’re the only team in the…
Like Christina Milian, the gods of weather are going to dip it low, and after a week of record highs, we might see record lows. These weather gods are obviously bipolar. [CBS4]Wow, Bill Nelson’s senate committee is done with health care, and what does he instantly start up on again?…
Why do some women have their panties all in a twist about Pepsi’s branded iPhone application, Before You Score, which was launched recently as part of a promotional campaign for AMP Energy drink? On the surface, the application seems to objectify women as naive creatures who will easily fall into…
Back in March, New Times proclaimed the death of the SunPost, Miami Beach’s scrappy and once impressive weekly rag.If we didn’t turn out to be precisely right — a few stray copies of all-but-content-free issues are still appearing from time to time around Lincoln Road — we were pretty damn…
Land Shark stadium will sit empty this weekend, as your newly energized Dolphins take a bye week, and your Hurricanes head on a bus from the Magic City to the Magic Kingdom.Miami Hurricanes @ UCF Golden Nights, Saturday 7:30 pm on CBS CSN and streaming in HD onlineThe UCF Golden…
So how many jobs for his citizens did Charlie Crist get for hugging Preisdent Obama? Well, so far, just 1635. Which doesn’t go far in erasing the 11% unemployment in the state, but only represents a tiny poriton of stimulus funds. From The New York Times: The new jobs reported Thursday come…
Rep. Corrine “Go Gata!” Brown will not run for the democratic nomination for Senate, after months of teasing that she would. Brown had ruffled her former colleague and close friend Carrie Meek’s feathers by entertaining the idea of running against her son Rep. Kendrick Meek.Instead, she announced today she’ll run…
Yoga people doing yoga things, submitted to the New Times Flickr pool by OhCarolinea…
As we know from the “Wikipedia” entry on Wikipedia, Wikipedia can be edited by anyone. And apparently a few select Jets fans have put down their stone tools and cave paint brushes and figured out a little basic HTML. How do I know? Just check out the Wikipedia entry on…
The steady stream of right wingers trying to rain of Charlie Crist’s parade continues, with some conservative have wet dreams of Crist switching races and retreating back to re-election to his Governor’s seat.The chatter started with The Herald’s political blog reporting that one, unnamed Crist supporter “speculated” that Crist might…
Here at Riptide, we’ve had a lot of fun lately with recently declassified CIA documents.Last week, the spooks gave us files from the 60s that proved Luis Posada Carriles — Miami’s most famous terrorist still walking the streets today — used to snitch for the agency back in the day…
When it comes to gay rights in Florida, the Miami Beach is an island of awesomeness. It’s almost like discovering a San Francisco in a sea of Alabama. In 1992, city commissioners were among the first to advocate protecting LGBT folks from workplace discrimination. This past Wednesday, the commission unanimously…
If there’s anything I’ve learned from listening to right-wing radio, it’s that (1) it’s OK to be unfair to people as long as it makes economic sense, and (2) it’s OK to dredge up old quotes in order to defame someone and keep them out of positions of power. So, I’m…
H1N1 vaccines will be administered in South Florida beginning Monday, with a news conference scheduled today to fill in details. [CBS4]You know it’s a slow news morning when NBCMiami’s main story is about a manatee that traveled all the way to Manhattan. [NBCMiami]Let’s see what the Herald’s working with: Oh,…
