Yesterday, 24/7 Wall Street released its list of the 25 Most Valuable Blogs, and local gaming blog Destructoid came in at number 16 with a value of $2.5 million (full disclosure: Prior to working at New Times, I was a blogger/editor for Miami Nights, which is owned by Destructoid’s parent network, Modern…
Riptide heard a rumor there’s a smidgen of a rivalry between the campy old-school drag queens and the glammed-out young divas on the Miami scene. So we stopped by the Shelley Novak Awards — the gay community’s parody of the Oscars — last night at Score, but found more ass…
Yesterday, in the news roundup, we mentioned the Miami Herald’s new columnist Jackie Bueno Sousa’s first weekly piece and singled out the line: “I believe… history will redeem George W. Bush.” Then we filed a mental note to keep an eye on this Jackie Bueno Sousa, for surely if she believes that, there…
A Miami Beach man is facing “federal pimping” charges for running a prostitution ring that exploited immigrant women. [Herald]Restrictions on travel to Cuba may soon be eased. Cuban-Americans will be able to visit family once a year for any time period and spend up to $170 a day. [NBC6]Rep. Mario…
New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is over and done with – and the models can eat (rice cakes) again. Each winter, the tents at New York’s Bryant Park bubble over with clothes, accessories and fashionistas directing the entire world towards what’s hot and chic for the upcoming fall season.This year…
After OJ Simpson had to switch his residency to a prison pen, Kendall has been missing a sports star resident to call its own. Well, trading OJ Simpson for Michael Jordan would be a major coup. As first reported by The Palm Beach Post, it seems Michael Jordan and his…
Charlie Crist, our new official Republican Boyfriend, was on Meet The Press this weekend carrying on his love affair with the stimulus package. Meanwhile, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, also known as 1/3 of Ronald Reagan’s soul-equivalent (Reagan, as most historians agrees, was indeed soulless) reincarnated in the body of a…
With a field for the 2010 Senate Race filled with a bunch of long shot candidates, everyone has to have a gimmick, because, hey, it worked for Walkin’ Lawton Chiles and Bob “Work Days” Graham. Dan Gelber promises to complete 100 days of public service and buy up a million…
We tend to inject a little humor into news items around here, but really no more humor is needed for this story. Rapper N.O.R.E. (real name: Victor Santiago Jr.) got arrested at a Fatburger early Sunday morning. From the AP:”Police say Santiago, of New York, caused a disruption at the…
With all the time we spend these days at Riptide getting ready for the full onslaught of the Great Depression 2.0 — planning which soup kitchen we’ll be patronizing, picking the perfect tent city for our new home, etc., etc. — we don’t have all that much time for finger-pointing…
Florida businessman-turned-inventor Doug Sturlingh just filed patent papers for a product he believes will “change the world.” It’s called the Genital Shield, and — though the name is a bit of a boner-shrinker — he believes it will eventually rid the planet of STDs. His target consumer: responsible gentlemen with…
Oh, ZBT the UM frat caught up in another drug mess has been temporarily suspend. Police said pot and a pill for ADHD treatment (adderall?) were sold at the house. [JustNews]A Charlie Crist adviser, Alan Mendelsohn, is linked to one of these many, many ponzi schemes. [Pulp]Marc Sarnoff is the…
It was supposed to be Chris Hernandez’s night. When the preseason All-American took the mound Friday before a sold-out crowd in newly renovated Mark Light Stadium, fans were ready for him to nail the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.After all, the sophomore lefty was a perfect 11-0 last season. But Hernandez was…
This morning my RSS reader was dominated by the media ethics debate sparked by the leak a picture depicting pop singer Rihanna’s bruised and battered face. Here’s a snippet I happen to agree with from Salon blogger Tracy Clark-Flory: “Despite the fact that the photo is so widely available, I…
Zeta Beta Tau’s official song is “My Brother, Here is my Hand.” The chapter at the University of Miami might as well amend it with “…it is full of drugs, so many, many drugs.” Today, the Coral Gables Police Department Vice Squad raided the historically Jewish fraternity’s house on UM’s…
Riptide used to be under the impression that in America, anyone could get a job and work his or her way to the top. And even when the pay was low, employment was noble because even the lowliest jobs kept the engine of America rolling, and the satisfaction of a…
In an attempt to fix a broken system, Judge Steve Leifman announced plans this morning for a first-of-its-kind “pilot facility” to house mentally ill individuals with criminal charges in Miami-Dade. Leifman — an articulate, bespectacled advisor to the Supreme Court on mental health issues — explained to TV reporters, policymakers,…
As his young administration stomps frantically on the flaming bag of crap formerly known as the global economy left smoldering on the White House doorstep by a snickering Dubya on his way out, President Obama is about to throw around a cool $787 billion in stimulus funds to try to…
For whatever reason, the press is eager to talk to Alex Rodriguez’s cousin Yuri Sucart. Can’t two primos inject unknown substances into each other without the media getting all up in their grill? Whatever happened to privacy, people? Sucrat has so far eluded reporters and photogs, who have apparently been sitting…
A jury convicted 21-year-old Guillermo Zarabozo for his part in the Joe Cool murders. He’ll likely spend the rest of his life in jail. [AP]A 28-year-old man fell to his death from a traffic sign catwalk onto the Palmetto Expressway, possibly while attempting to spray-paint graffiti. [Herald]Could South Florida finally…
Two years ago, when Darrel Vandeveld flew to Guantánamo Bay to work as a prosecutor, no one else believed more in the detention camps and all they stood for in the War on Terror.”I was totally gung ho,” Vandeveld tells Riptide. “I was convinced that we actually had the ‘worst…
Local TV stations work with the wisdom that in South Florida, weather is bigger than sports. Which may very well be true, but we found a website that’s going to make TV weathercasts obsolete: THE FUCKING WEATHER.What’s the weather here at New Times HQ? “77°?! IT’S FUCKING NICE. Quit your…
