Do you remember a particular post we made on Friday, Jan. 30 2009 at 11:02AM? Of course you do, because ever since then you’ve been waiting eagerly for Bob Smith to enter the Senate race. Bob Smith, of course, has already been a Senator. In New Hampshire, a State about…
Many promising young high school football athletes in Miami-Dade dream of some day dawning the orange and green of the University of Miami. Evidently very few dare dream of putting on the orange and blue of Gainesville, as the Gators haven’t been able to get a Miami-Dade player to sign…
It must be a sad day for all those anti-socialist hardliners in Miami, but 20% of Americans told Rasmussen Reports that they think socialism is better than capitalism. While only 53% can definitely say that capitalism is better than socialism. In adults under 30 the margin is even smaller. Thirty…
Last week US Soccer began the early stages of its quest to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. Eight other countries and two coalitions of countries have registered their intentions to bid, but in a country as large as America there’s a bunch of cities hoping to host…
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com correctly predicted the outcome of the presidential election, and because of that, he can find the answer to everything with a few clicks of his calculator. Except for the Oscars; he sure got those wrong. Sorry, Mickey. Now Silver is trying to predict the years when…
Hawk Terror ’09 continues to plague the University of Miami campus, and now the student newspaper and this humble blog are not the only media covering it. ABCNews.com picked up and repacked a report from Local 10 here in Miami and decided to run with it. Apparently it is a…
It’s been about two years since our economy tanked, a year since anybody noticed it, and reporters and pundits have now officially began looking at the other side of Lake Recession. Alarm has been replaced by resignation and a bit of wizened optimism. You’ve probably read or heard a piece…
LocalA worker at MIA sold fake plane tickets and ripped off travelers. Oh, wait, they weren’t all fake: “Investigators say Amores did buy one ticket, but it was a one-way fare and stranded a woman in Colombia.” [USAToday]Good news for the airport in another department, though: It has a fancy…
It’s a bright September afternoon inside the towering Miami Center on Biscayne Boulevard. From his 21st-floor office, Charles Hazlett has a clear view of Biscayne Bay’s sailboat-speckled water, the massive cruise ships docked at the port, and Bayfront Park’s emerald lawn. The six-foot-four Miami native — a ringer for Steven…
Inside a stuffy, overcrowded Miami-Dade misdemeanor court, a 13-year-old boy watches in awe as his lawyer artfully demands that the judge toss evidence the prosecution has against the teenager. Most days, Ben Reiss of the prestigious Greenberg Traurig firm defends commercial companies in cases with such high stakes they almost…
The Marlins settled for 600 fans per home game last year. The Panthers are literally giving away tickets. Minor-league soccer squad Miami FC is hemorrhaging cash. So you might think it’d be foolhardy to bet big bucks on Miamians attending the championship of a sport most Americans have never heard…
Joe Martinez seems a forthright and resolute guy. He was the first Hispanic elected by his peers to be county commission chairman. He publicly supported the highly unpopular John McCain for president. And he pushed to strip Jose Canseco’s name from a stretch of SW 16th Street after the slugger…
Boy, were we pleased when Hanley Ramirez made an empty demand for a trade earlier this spring after the team forced him to mow his cornrows. Our joy had nothing to do with wanting to see Han-Ram go; we were just happy to hear, for once, some water-cooler buzz about…
Brave Floridians of every stripe of ignorance went to the polls last November and banned any practical, legal recognition of gay relationship forever… or at least until society evolves beyond its prejudices, which history shows it tends to do. The gays can marry in Iowa and Vermont now, so it’s…
We take it all back — all the vitriol regarding the lack of a public process for the new stadium, all the accusations of backroom deals, dirty money, and no-bid contracts. Build the Marlins whatever they want. This team is amazing. 3-0? How about 162-0? How about just by watching…
Hotel aficionados already know the name Vikram Chatwal, but for the rest of us, well, you might know him as the guy in the turban who stood behind Hansel during the runway-showdown scene in Zoolander. Yes, he has a side job as an actor, but his main gig involves opening…
The right wing was eager to paint Obama as some sort of arugula-eating hippie elitist with immaculate, highfalutin taste that would turn off the common man. Silently, Riptide wished this was true. Turns out that if Obama’s TV habits are any indication, he has the taste of your regular bro…
You don’t have to tell Miamians that Hispanics make up an important, ever-growing population. The Magic City decades ago became a firmly Hispanic town, but new statistics show America itself is increasingly being infused with a Latin beat at an increasingly faster pace. A little more than a million people became American…
Remember all of those laughs everyone had over Vince Shlomi, the ShamWow guy, being arrested for beating up Sasha Harris, an alleged prostitute, on South Beach in February? Well, the Smoking Gun today released 14 graphic photos, apparently obtained from the Miami Beach Police Department, documenting the aftermath of the confrontation…
As Tim Elfrink reports in this week’s paper, the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office is so overworked and underfunded it has stopped accepting new third-degree felony cases, a move that may or may not be legal. In the meantime, the office is leaning on top-dollar corporate law firms to take on…
“Get your hot new DVDs of a franchise that used to be amazing and now is just kind of ‘meh’! Right here! Only $20!” “Oh, you’ve got Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?” “No, it’s the highlight DVD of the Miami Hurricanes’ 2008 football season.”Even AllCanes, the…
Good news everyone! Particularly-voiced character actor and all around bad-ass Charles Bronson has decided to reemerge from the grave and run for governor of our fair state should Charlie Crist decide to run for senate! Hold on, I’m getting some clarification from the dedicated 40 person Riptide newsroom. Ok. Apparently,…
