Let’s face it. Miami is one of America’s worst places to ride a bicycle.Guys on two wheels get whacked on Brickell, nailed in the Redland, and steamrollered on US 1. Bicycling magazine placed us at the bottom along with Dallas and Memphis not long ago. And Florida is clearly the…
The family of the kidnapping expert who was abducted last month in Mexico makes a plea for his safe return. [NBC6]The De Cespedes brothers were sentenced to nine years each for hospital fraud. [NBC6]A stalker in Brevard County doesn’t quite rich levels of Astronaut Lisa Novak crazy, but comes close by…
In the event you’ve had better things to do than watch MTV deteriorate into a steaming sewer of reality programming, you might have missed South Florida’s double-time queer cast previewed on The Real World: Brooklyn. The show’s 21st season premieres January 7 and will follow its first transgender character —…
Not long ago, Miami Herald readers were greeted with an unexpected insert in their Sunday editions: DVDs of a movie that offended many folks who popped it into their Toshibas. No, not Mr. Woodcock. The film was Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, a controversial documentary decried as anti-Islam…
Janoris Jenkins’s path to college football glory — like a surprising number of players before him — stretches through the reed-clogged swampland that emerges from Lake Okeechobee. It’s a path littered with the corpses of hundreds of rabbits, sacrificed to the gods of speed, agility, and endurance. For decades, young…
On November 29, 2004, Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan and her ex-husband, Mahmoud Seif, checked into the Le Meridien Hotel in Vienna, Austria. The following morning, Gholikhan used Seif’s cell phone to call the man they had flown there to meet. “Alex,” a weapons dealer from Fort Lauderdale, told the couple to…
It’s a Monday morning in late December on a corner of Buena Vista Avenue in Midtown Miami, where four burly workers are laboring to place a Romero Britto sculpture onto a metal stand. They are the only sign of human activity on the street, where four art galleries, including one…
Hustler publisher Larry Flint is known for making all sorts of weird political stands, and Girls Gone Wild auteur Joe Francis just loves publicity so this is most likely a stunt, but apparently the pair is headed to Washington to ask congress for a $5 billion bailout for the skin…
This wicked, evil lady-thing who goes by the Earth name of “Nancy Pelosi,” but is actually known as Empress Bugeyes from the 5th dimension planet Stalintopia, does not understand the earthly pleasure of football. Because she does not posses human emotion she will never experience the thrill of rooting for teams vaguely connected to…
. While practicing abstinence may help you avoid the awkwardness of waking up next to a butter-faced and clingy Ohio State coed during Spring Bring and the embarrassment of experimenting with off lable uses for Dr. Scholl’s wart remover, there’s little if any indication that teaching abstinence only in schools does any good…
Ah, the life of an ex-president. When the wife isn’t unleashing you like an aging attack froodle on this or that Junior Senator in pursuit of her master plan, it’s actually pretty serene. Flying to and fro in private jets; staying in the world’s finest hotels in every locale; getting…
Friendly bets on sporting games by officeholders is a hallowed tradition in which headline-hungry politicians make cheap bids for soft coverage. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently got a nice batch of stone crab claws from Miami Mayor Manny Diaz when the Hurricanes lost the Emerald Bowl to Cal. Which…
Warren Sapp now has two things Chad Ocho Cinco so desperately wants: a Super Bowl ring and the experience of racing Michael Phelps. Back in August, Ocho Cinco challenged Phelps to a showdown in the warm pools of Miami, but the battle never happened. Sapp was luckier. Both were in town for various…
Absent from the list of possible candidates for the Democratic nomination for either governor or senator in 2010 are Latinos. It’s nothing new. The Democrats have never run a Latino for governor or the Senate, and they’ve never elected one to the U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, one would…
An 18 year-old from Coral Springs was busted for wielding brass knuckles and a pocket knife, a petite middle-aged woman shouted “baby killers!,” and a mob of protesters chucked rocks at a cop car. The Israeli-Palestinian protest Sunday on Biscayne Boulevard was a loud, colorful microcosm of hate – with…
You know what always makes me really, really hungry? A close-up of Bill Parcells’ mouth making moaning noises indicating pleasure. Here is your Miami Dolphins Savior-in-Chief whoring for a New Jersey italian restaurant along side Mike Francesca (sans Mad Dog) from 1993 that just made its way to the internet…
CNN talking med head Sanjay Gupta is likely to be named Surgeon General. Apparently, Dr. Phil, Doctor Who, Doogie Houser, MD, the cast of Scrubs, Dr. Hibbert, and House were already busy. [CNN]Cliff Stearns, a Republican congressman from Florida, has kindly asked that the US Congress be put on a hold for just a…
During the last part of 2008, it seemed like Jeb Bush had already won the 2010 Senate race, but this afternoon he announced he won’t be running. “While the opportunity to serve my state and country during these turbulent and dynamic times is compelling, now is not the right time to…
Let’s count the ways that Charles Barkley, as usual, is the wisest guy in the room. No, Riptide isn’t applauding his DUI arrest a couple of days ago in Arizona. That was no good. We’re talking about his outraged and much-argued assertion last month that his alma matter, Auburn, hired…
Florida’s capitol has been completely controlled by Republicans for the past ten years, and with that regime has come tax cut after tax cut after tax cut. Jeb Bush cut taxes by $12.2 billion during his terms, with half of those savings going toward the wealthiest 4.5 percent. Charlie Crist…
We’re not sure whether the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza is pulling this out of his ass or if he’s heard things we haven’t (quite possible), but toward the end of a blog post about Jeb Bush’s forthcoming Senate decision, he includes Manny Diaz as a possible Democratic contender for the…
USA Today reports that the incoming Congress will be the oldest on record for both houses. The average representative is 57, while the average senator is 63. New Times has the same high-tech tool as USA Today — a calculator — and decided to probe further. Since Florida has the oldest average population of…
