We know half of the scribes in Miami have their pens waiting in anticipation for the day Fidel dies, but journalist Ann Louise Bardach, author of Cuba Confidential, has gone ahead and written a whole book on the subject. The Daily Beast has the exclusive first excerpts from Without Fidel:…
Today’s photo comes from AlexdeCarvalho’s Flickr…
Apparently, Mayor Carlos Alvarez didn’t think the budget meeting would pack enough drama into his day, so he decided to schedule an early-afternoon news conference yesterday to call out the Miami Herald. You can watch the nearly hour-long proceedings on CBS4’s website.”I think we should start taking really more advice…
Last week, New Times published an article titled “Legends of the Fall,” which told the story of people who have leapt to their deaths from Miami-Dade high-rises. We found some disturbing stuff. Since the condo boom of 2007, at least 16 people have thrown themselves from the gleaming, private condo towers. And…
This is a bit of a leftover from yesterday, but a reporter from the Tribune Co.-owned WSFL was trying to get an interview with the father of a Coral Gables High student in the wake of Tuesday’s stabbing. His daughter is allegedly the girl who the two boys were fighting…
We’re no fan of conspiracy theories here at Riptide. We’re more than happy to leave that to Glenn Beck and his legion of foaming-at-the-mouth birther teabaggers. (By the way, don’t miss out on Glenn’s Howard Beale meltdown this week. Pure comedy! In a scary way.)But Tim Hardaway’s timing this week…
We don’t mean to take away from Hannah Giles’s journalistic triumph of exposing a few jack-ass ACORN office workers who seemed shockingly all too ready to dole out tax advice to a pretend pimp and his hooker (in one case looking to bring in underage girls from El Salvador to work as…
Marlins closer Leo Nunez will never be mistaken for Trevor Hoffman. But since taking over the closer position from god-awful Matt Lindstrom in July, he has done a pretty adequate job, saving 22 games. More important, the man knows how to piss off his opponent. This past Wednesday, the Marlins were in…
This month’s Social Media Club South Florida, which usually takes place on second Tuesdays, was postponed to Wednesday. There was no particular agenda, but even without the usual, informative lectures and panel discussions, informal tech talk abounded. Two-for-one cocktails at Off the Hookah in Fort Lauderdale made for a cozy…
The County Commission finally agreed to out a budget at 5 AM. In the end elderly folks still get their meals, and many community service organizations will be spared from total funding cuts. The number of proposed layoffs of county workers has also decreased, but county workers will still have…
I’d like to start off this post commemorating the Hurricanes 33-17 trampling of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets by quoting from this random NCAA message board:”Miami starts off 0-4, and is very lucky to come up with 6 wins and a bowl bid.””I would even go as far as saying…
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets @ Miami Hurricanes, Tonight at 7:30 p.m. on ESPNSomething kind of weird is happening: Oddsmakers have picked the No. 20 Miami Hurricanes as the favorites going into tonight’s game against No. 14 Georgia Tech. Even ESPN is predicting a Hurricanes win. Obviously, it’s a good kind of…
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Earlier this year, the American Civil Liberties Union took up the cause of the released sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, but today the group’s lawsuit against the county was dismissed.The ACLU argued that the county’s ordinance that bars sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of schools…
Bill Clinton sitting down for a one-on-one with Jon Stewart should be enough reason to watch The Daily Show tonight, but the University of Miami’s official Facebook page promises the ex-prez will make an announcement concerning the school.”After tonight’s football game, watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central…
President Obama last night addressed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala, where he touted the number of Hispanics he has appointed to high-level positions and his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, and stressed that the problems Hispanics face are the problems America as a whole faces. An excerpt from his speech (full remarks available here): Now,…
Hannah Giles — the 20-year-old FIU journalism student, minister’s daughter, and fake hooker who, along with an accomplice, exposed some ACORN offices’ habits of offering business advice to pimps and hoes — is garnering praise from Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and even Jon Stewart. Giles and a male accomplice, posing…
Ever been in an intimate relationship at work that ended badly? We bet all you wanted to do afterward, in order to escape seeing your thwarted love partner by the copy machine every day at 10 a.m., was find another place to work.They say that a business partnership is a…
The group that gathered last night for the City of Miami mayoral debate between commissioners Tomas Regalado and Joe Sanchez made Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and Serena Williams look like upstanding examples of manners. Maybe they didn’t get the message they’re supposed to act civilly for the next week or…
Manny Diaz sent letters to a hundred Miami Police officers informing them they’d be let go unless the police union agrees to pay cuts. [Herald]Doctors at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine were able to use a portion of a woman’s tooth to restore her eyesight. [ABCNews]Yet another…
Suha Monem makes a mean falafel sandwich. As the head chef at Oriental Bakery & Grocery — and the owners’ daughter — she has spent most of her life surrounded by pita, lamb, and tahini. After one Yelper tried her grub at the Coral Way shop a couple of years ago,…
Where in the World Is Katharine Cue?: A Hialeah councilwoman leads a peripatetic life.
