Love is in the air, and all things pink, red, and heart-shaped are inescapable this week. That’s right – Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. This coming Saturday, to be exact. And just as the flower shops and bakeries are all taking last-minute orders and restaurants are filling their reservations,…
A few months ago, the New Times brought you the story of De Hull, a world-renowned palm expert with an incredible garden teeming with rare plants on the fringes of South Dade. Hull’s way of life was as endangered as his plants, thanks to a string of hurricanes, break-ins and…
The stimulus package Barack Obama is pushing will be a defining part of his presidency, and these events that he’s held the past couple of days should be treated as sort of historic. Yet, at the end of the day all we care about is that Obama said some funny…
Back when an unconfirmed rumor hit Deadspin that Dwyane Wade’s soon-to-be ex-wife Siohvaughn went haywire with a baseball bat on his MVP trophy, we predicted that this was just the begining of a series of nasty rumors. Unfortunately for Dwyane, we were right. Wade’s former business partner Baron Richard Von…
Just Yesterday, we were talking about a Joe Scarborough Senate run in 2010. And why not? If Charlie Crist doesn’t run, former Rep. Joe “I Have a TeeVee Show” Scarborough sounds just as good or better than Connie “Hey, Remember my Dad?” Mack IV, Vern “Not Katherine Harris” Buchanan, and…
Well damn it. There I was sitting in the press pool with all these very important political journalists, I held back on one or two jokes during today’s live blog. Afterall, other journalists were greeting me with “How, was the flight in?” I couldn’t respond with, “actually I just drove…
Pollsters can pour over all the phone surveys they want, but the real gauge of President Obama’s population may be the ratio of protesters his public appearances attract to the number of people hawking Obama merchandise. Oddly, if you used the math today at the Harborside Event Center you’d fall…
In one of the more outrageous celebrity-death rumors we’ve heard (FYI: Eminem, Blossom, and Doogie Howser are indeed alive) various blogs have been reporting that Miami pseudo-star DJ Khaled led cops on a three-hour Bentley chase through Los Angeles streets before killing himself. A white-Bentley-driving assault suspect did indeed lead…
In “The Curse”, our feature article which hits streets tomorrow, New Times tells the tragic story of Carol City High’s Class of 2006, which has lost six of its members to arbitrary street deaths, including five to gunfire. These were “good” kids- none of them involved in gangs or the…
Riptide is live today from Ft. Myers, Florida for Barack Obama’s first visit to Florida as President of the United States of America. He’ll be continuing the themes from his stop in Elkhart, Indiana and his first press conference last night, talking up the need for a stimulus package. The…
Riptide just settled in at the Harborside Event Center in Fort Myers. President Obama is scheduled to kick off the next stop on his Stimulus Tour in about 30 minutes, and we’ll begin the live blog then.So, why of all places is Obama in Fort Myers? The official line is…
Besides going to the DMV, doing taxes is the part of being a grownup that Riptide hates most. So we usually wouldn’t be thinking about it this early, but it seems some good folks in Coconut Grove have an extra-special reason to hate April 15 this year. They’re paying more…
Michael Burnstine may be comically underfunded and critically late to the game, but he’s not lacking in passion. He hates the $515 million Marlins Stadium deal. And he’s not alone.”It’s horrendous. It’s one of the worst deals I’ve seen in my life,” Burnstine tells Riptide. The insurance salesman and Miami…
Whoever runs PR for the University of Miami Athletics Department should either be fired, or is having a hard time convincing higher-ups that they’re being total idiots. Even after Alex Rodriguez has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs, the University of Miami sees no reason, no reason whatsoever, to rethink…
Joe Cool 2: The Teenage Trial begins today. [AP]Ft. Lauderdale holds its local elections today. Mayor Jim Naugle is not running for re-election. 18 years of public service and he’ll always be the dude who complained about gay toilet sex. What a legacy. [NBC6]Randy Shannon picked NC assistant John Lovett…
Nearly two and half years ago, New Times covered the story of a botched abortion which resulted in a live birth. Belkis Gonzalez, the owner of the Hialeah clinic, cut the umbilical cord after staff started screaming that the child was alive, she then sealed the child in a bio-hazard…
Gov. Charlie Crist has secretly been in the tank for Obama since the very beginning. First he did nothing to stop Florida’s primary from being ignored by the Democrats, and even as the Obama campaign has admitted, if it counted we might be dealing with President Hillary now. Then, when…
Back in 2006 when the Republican party came to the hard, cold realization that they would have to run political train wreck Katherine Harris as their Senate Nominee they begged and pleaded with former Congressman and MSNBC talking head Joe Scarborough to run. “Please, Joe, Please, Don’t let us pretend…
Did anyone really care about Lt. Gov Jeff Kottkamp before, say, a few weeks ago? You know, when those rumors surfaced that Charlie Crist might resign to run for Senate, leaving Kottkamp as our 45th governor. All of a sudden, media attention bumped up ever so slightly. The Sun-Sentinel did…
You never would have guessed it, considering we’re more or less ground zero for the foreclosure crisis, but the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area is actually the 12th best place to start a small business, according to Biz Journals. The rankings cited South Florida’s strong population and job growth. Between 2003 and…
We definitely had a good weekend filled with penthouse parties and plenty of booze. Sadly, most talk was about whether we still had jobs. That made us wonder if this would be the newest pick-up line:”Hey, babe, do you still have a job? You do? Want to come back to…
For the past few years, the University of Miami athletic department has had a reputation of coming down hard on anyone who dares bring bad PR to their program*. Hell hath no fury like a UM Athletic Director scorned. Unless of course, you happen to have donated nearly $4 million…
