Adult Swim Presents Tim and Eric LiveRevolution, Ft. LauderdaleSunday, February 8, 2009Better Than: Grammys, ShmammysThe Review: It takes an, um, special sensibility to really get into the Cartoon Network’s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, which airs on the network’s Adult Swim block of late-night programming. Pretty much the…
It’s difficult to make the leap directly from the state Senate to a state-wide elected office. But it’s not impossible. Lawton Chiles got elected to the US Senate in 1970 by taking a 91 day, 1,003 mile walking trip across Florida. Bob Graham was elected to Governor in 1978 after…
Esteban ”Steve” Bovo and Marco Rubio are doing things that might raise a few ethical eyebrows? Who could have imagined? [Herald]”I’m on a boat. I’m on a boat. Everybody look at me cause I’m sailing on a boat. I’m on a boat. I’m on a boat. Take a good hard…
News buffs might remember a split-second appearance by Tessa Boudreaux — unemployed marketing extraordinaire — on Channel 10 this past Thursday. It came during the obligatory Economy Sucks story and the recap goes like this: Despite her constant efforts, the articulate, 40 year-old recent University of Miami grad student hasn’t…
Here is your weekly wrap up of things that bravely dared to appear on Riptide this week. There was a Super Bowl this past weekend. Your Miami Dolphins team was not present, but perhaps they could have been if Wayne Huzienga hired Steelers coach Mike Tomlin instead of that Cam…
Eco-minded bloggers do no take too kindly to these patio heaters that keep South Beach tourists eating outside in their tank tops comfortably because they will single handily deplete our natural gas reservoirs and cause global warming (as opposed to just the intended warming of patios). Now, a space heater…
Today, Miami Herald reporter Daniel Chang wrote about the South Miami-Dade Cultural Center boondoggle that I swear I read somewhere else nine days ago. Oh yeah! Right here. And it’s not the first time the Herald has been one step behind New Times this week either…
Anna Nicole Smith was truly a national hero. While congress fails to recognize the day of her death, two years ago on Sunday at the Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, as a Federal day of mourning, Riptide will carry on its own candle light vigil in its hearts. Because…
Bill Parcells flies around the NFL like some sort of caped superhero saving distressed teams from the villainous forces of “sucking.” After a successful year as the Dolphins VP of FB, in which he turned that team from the laughingstock of the league to something resembling an actual football team,…
We’re barely a month into 2009 and here’s a completely incomplete list of high-profile companies that have or will be slashing local jobs: Macy’s, Circuit City, the Miami Herald, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami City Ballet, and American Airlines. The South Florida Business Journal reports Miami Jai-Alai might soon join…
No matter what side of the abortion debate they’re on, most folks agree unscrupulous abortion clinics are a problem. In 2006, New Times chronicled a ring of connected abortion clinics with a history of botched terminations and unprofessional behavior. At one clinic, a woman originally hired to do janitorial work…
The school board is allowed to ban a book depicting happy, shiny Cuban mini-Communists. [AP]Floridians are very easy to take advantage of with Ponzi schemes. Thanks, Madoff. [NBC6]Lt. Governor Kottkamp has Chinese drywall in his home and was forced to temporarily move out. Don’t worry — his mustache is fine…
Hello, Kitty I am a 51-year-old housewife; my husband is the same age and I love him to death. But we rarely have sex. We just recently adopted a Japanese Akita from friends who were moving out of state, and he’s really a handful. He’s completely hyperactive and shows his…
So you’re a 16-year-old girl, and you desperately want to break off the illicit internet romance you’ve sparked with a 44-year-old vampire. What do you do? The only logical thing you can do: tell him that you’re secretly a member of an elite vampire-hunting unit and that staying together would…
While this entire stimulus bill saga is gripping DC, Senator Bill Nelson found time to tackle another problem. He filed legislation on Tuesday seeking to ban the import and interstate trade of reptiles. Nelsons interest in the matter stems from the problem of alien pythons in the Everglades, who we…
Does bad news come in threes? With Macy’s slashing 600 local jobs, the Miami Herald announcing imminent lay offs, it now seems Crispin Porter + Bogusky is joining the lay-off band wagon this week. Ad Age reports that Crispin will be cutting 6% of its work force, that’s about 60…
Well, this is just not good news for anyone. Bob Norman at the Pulp got a hold of a Miami Herald memo announcing that there’s more cuts coming to the paper, very soon. Publisher David Landsberg blames a decrease in ad revenue due to the hard luck of many local…
When the Herald reported yesterday that Donna Shalala might be returning to D.C. to take the reigns once again at the Department of Health and Human Services after Tom Daschle scampered off with his Sally Jesse Raphael glasses and tax mess, we kind of thought it smelled funny. First, nobody…
Larry Coker got fired from his gig as University of Miami’s football coach after a six-loss season, and left the school with a respectable winning percentage of .800 and a national championship. Shortly thereafter, he lost out on a coaching job at Rice and has held some analyst gig at…
Every time you think that as a nation we’ve made huge strides past racism, some bullshit like this brings you back to the realization that too many people are bigoted pricks. Carol Carter, a Republican state committeewoman from Hillsborough County, recently sent out this email to a group of eight…
The 2010 election in Florida is shaping up to be insane — actually it’s already insane — and only two people of any consequence have announced their candidacy for either governor or senator. Former Speaker of the House Marco Rubio has this nice campaign website all set up and ready…
Mayor Manny Diaz is in D.C. exercising his duties as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and hoped to get some face time with another president. You know, that President Obama one. Flanked by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and others, Diaz is running around our nation’s capital in…
