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Unholy War: FBI tries to deport North Miami Beach imam Foad Farahi for refusing to be an informant

There’s nothing quite like a little lighthearted controversy when you’re trying to get PR. So luckily for the author of the upcoming South Beach tell-all Miami Babylon, Gerald Posner, some behind-the-scenes bitch fights made it to the New York Post this morning. Icon Brickell developer Jorge Perez agreed to hold a shindig…

Without any fear of being sued or hit with a massive boycott, we’re going to say it right up front, in plain English: Jorge Mas Canosa sponsored terrorism. Boom. Feels good, right?For years, the press quaked in fear of criticizing the most powerful exile in America, the founder of the…

Travel + Leisure unleashed its annual survey of American travelers, and the magazine seems to think people in Miami are both hot as hell and dumb as hell.The Big Orange took first place for most attractive people and second for most stylish city, and let me tell you I can’t…

Father David Dueppen has admitted he is indeed the father, and in this case, not in the priestly sense.According to CBS4’s Jim DeFede, the Catholic priest admits to fathering a child with former stripper Beatrice Hernandez, and now he wants 70 percent custody and demands that the child’s last name…

Last week, Riptide was all about Eduardo Arocena, the Miami dockworker convicted in 1985 of setting off 32 bombs in Little Havana and Manhattan. A certain mayoral candidate (ahem, Tomas Regalado, ahem) seems to have flirted with supporting Arocena back in the day, not that he’ll admit it.​We noted how strange…

Mayoral candidate Tomas Regalado has been accused of not being able to handle his personal finances (he claims to be worth only $5,000 and once had his wages garnished for not paying taxes), but his campaign manager is doing a good job with his war chest. He’s consistently out-raising challenger Joe Sanchez…

Around 3:40 this morning, a 20-something black man in a white SUV rolled up to the Taco Bell at NE 79th Street and Sixth Avenue with a serious jones for some cheese and refried beans.​Big problem: The Taco Bell had already shut down for the night. When the man rolled up…

Mental_Floss has an interesting little list making the rounds (in case you didn’t know, the future of journalism is here, and it is lists, lots and lots of lists): 11 Things Wal-Mart Has Banned.One of the items stemmed from a complaint at a Miami Wal-Mart in 1995. The mega-chain was selling…

Science has apparently moved well beyond the “Just Say No” camp and is finding ways to curb drug abuse by giving addicts other things to inject into their bodies.A promising cocaine vaccine is being studied, having just completed Phase 2 clinical trials. But only about a third of patients developed antibodies…