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Paul Kangas has hosted Nightly Business Report on WPBT since the show debuted as a local on program in 1979. Since then, the program has grown into the nation’s most watched business news broadcast, and is broadcast on PBS stations all around the country. All the while Kangas has been…

The Miami Herald’s executive editor Anders Gyllenhaal has been appointed head of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Here is your obvious joke: How is a man whose reign as head of the paper has been marked with a noticeable decline in quality supposed to head a board that judges the quality of other papers? I mean,…

Amongst a certain crowd in South Beach, which gym you go to is almost as important as which night clubs you frequent. I found this out first hand when I joined a fancy SoBe Gym, luckily it wasn’t Crunch. The “designer gym” chain has twenty-two locations in trendy neighborhoods in…

Slow news day. Let’s see what’s going on in the celebrity Twittersphere!Nicole Richie, her daughter, and Joel Madden, that guy she dates who’s in that band with his twin brother Nelson The Proclaimers Tegan & Sara Good Charlotte are vacationing in Miami, but their trip got of to a bad…

The last time Paris Hilton came to town, she asked a respected house producer to play some pop tunes that would better facilitate her table dancing. He refused. The DJ said her posse pushed him, and Hilton lied about it to the tabloids. Now she’s back in town, but at the…

As we wrote last month, there weren’t any shortages of warning signs that something was fishy at Stanford International. A number of regulators had ample opportunities to expose Stanford’s fraud, from the SEC (which ignored several employee whistleblowers) to the DEA to Congress. Thanks to some new documents made public…

The twisted tale of the Joe Cool boat murders reached what will presumably be its final chapter today, when the second defendant, Guillermo Zarabozo, was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences and 85 years in prison.  According to a New Times story written last year, Zarabozo got caught up with Kirby…

Local The city’s preservation board unanimously decided the Bacardi buildings are worthy of historic status. [Herald] FIU’s journalism school gets accreditation, just in time for the death of journalism as we know it. [Herald] Two local schools that were close due to swine flu have reopened. [CBS4] “The letters G.O.D. reportedly appeared…

We here at Riptide firmly believe we have the finest readers in all of South Florida. They’re a lot like us, actually: loud, remarkably angry, hilarious, and stunningly handsome. Case in point: a ready-to-publish article we received from a reader who had witnessed some bad-timing Earth Day plastic disposal going…

It seems that compromising photos of a well known Priest weren’t a case of mistaken identity. The Associated Press is reporting that Father Alberto Cutié has officially stepped down as head of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Miami Beach. Cutié was caught in pictures by a Spanish language tabloid magazine canoodling with a woman…

Since 2006 Quinnipiac has been keeping tabs on which countries Americans perceive as the most friendly. Their latest findings show that Americans are slowly warming up to Cuba. Participants in the poll are asked to rate how friendly they perceive a country is to America on a scale of 0-100, 100 being the friendliest. Cuba…

So let’s see. Jessica Simpson’s last album was a critical and commercial flop. Her last two movies ended up in straight-to-DVD hell, and unless you’re a vengeful Dallas Cowboys fan she really hasn’t been relevant since at least 2006. So why, oh, why is she on the cover of Vanity…

Father Alberto Cutié has always been something of an oddity: a media-savvy, good-lucking Roman Catholic priest with a side job as a Spanish-language television host, radio jock, and newspaper columnist. His media ubiquity has earned him the nickname “Father Oprah,” but now  his celebrity has backfired and he’s landed in the gossip…

Maybe it’s street karma. After a decade as a pimp and a hit man, Overtown street hustler Big Red could finally be brought down by a small-potatoes probation violation.This past summer, New Times profiled the entrepreneurial ex-convict who faced long odds when it came to his goal: Survive on the streets of…