Miami Dolphins @ Kansas City Chiefs, 1pm Sunday on CBSRiptide is getting a weird sense of paramnesia about the current situation of your Miami Dolphins football team. Probably because it is eerily similar to the plight of you Miami Hurricanes just weeks ago. Remember? The Canes were in first place…
Sorry, Annette Taddeo, you’re not going to Washington either, apparently. This afternoon Obama tapped venture capitalist Karen Mills as head of the Small Business Administration. There was some buzz earlier in the week that Taddeo, who ran for Congress against Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, might get the nod because she’s also the…
We posted a link in the news roundup to this story about the Miami Beach men who were arrested as part of a Lehman Brothers insider trading scandal, but there’s a part of our brain that shuts down when confronted with too much business-numbers-money nonsense. Now we have sexy new…
Ugh, I just made my “Favorite Songs of the Year” list because I feel the need to make those types of things, and how could I forget the masterpiece “Smell Yo Dick”? It would be the song of the year for this or any year. Sadly, I was reminded of…
Obama’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the primaries was supposed to be the death of Clinton-style triangulation. Triangulation, in theory, is supposed to move beyond traditional left-right politics and act above it, while in reality it’s the practice of selling out your base to appear bipartisan. Well, like so much…
I spent most of my life living in a neighborhood off Immokalee road. That stretch of asphalt starts near the ritzy beaches of the Gulf Coast, passes the entrances of numerous gated gulf course communities, continues on through undeveloped and farm lands, and ends in it’s eponymous city, Immokalee, home…
Two Miami Beach men who used to work at Lehman Brothers are being charged with insider trading. [Herald]Attorney General Bill McCollum would very much like to see the Seminole Tribe stop offering blackjack and other illegal card games at their casinos. [SunSent]60% of Floridians view Jeb Bush favorably, including 46%…
Here is Calle Ocho’s favorite protest group Code Pink throwing shoes at a guy in a Bush mask outside of the White House, because these very mature actions will end the Iraq War tomorrow. The Washington Post has decided to be a very wry version of The Daily Show, and…
Cuba’s imprisonment of political dissidents has long been a point of contention between the island nation and Miami’s exile community. So it comes as a surprise that Raul Castro is willing to let them go.”These prisoners you talk about — they want us to let them go? They should tell us tomorrow. We’ll send…
Charlie Crist and Anderson Cooper have so much in common. They both have signature white, neatly kept hair. They both seem to have experience with unnatural tanning. Crist, though a Repubican, says he tries to keep his governing balanced and beyond party politics. Cooper, as a journalist, keep his own…
Last week Manny Diaz and his U.S. Conference of Mayors decided to officially get in on the sweet, sweet federal government handout action and submitted a request for $73.2 billion for infrastructure programs in various states. CNN decided to take a closer look and found the plan has more pork in…
At first glance, this map looks like it could be the breakdown from the last presidential election, but it is actually something far more sinister. Meet the death map! But it doesn’t take all deaths into account — just ones caused by natural hazards.White represents the average, blue equals relatively safe,…
We’re not holding our breath, but if the Miami Dolphins win their next two games, not only will they get a spot in the playoffs, but also they’ll be headed for the history books. Even right now, the Fins are in sixth place for the greatest season-to-season turnaround in NFL…
If there’s one thing Riptide likes better than a juicy news tip, it’s quotably irate citizenry. So today, Christmas came early: Sabal Chase resident Mike Grant gave us both. Construction foreman Grant has noticed his local firehouse, Miami-Dade Station 9, one of the busiest in the county, has had its…
Just three months ago, Riptide introduced Miami to William Guinaraes and Laetitia Casareto, a young French couple with the ridiculous plan to walk from Miami to Ushuaia, the southernmost point of South America.Despite a complete lack of preparedness for crocodiles, hurricanes and violent Florida criminals, armed only with a digital…
Oh great. The Judicial Nominating Committee may have given Charlie Crist the “diverse,” ultra-right wing nominee he was looking for. [Naked Politics]Some hair salon filed a lawsuit to disband Miami’s downtown development authority. [SFBJ]Some kid up in Hallandale decided to steal a hearse, only to be shot and wounded by…
Remember earlier in the year when, thanks to Florida’s screwy election rules, the Democratic presidential primary didn’t really count? Well now President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, is saying what a lot of people were thinking: If the Florida primary would have been an actual primary, Hillary Clinton would…
Strutting between piles of sopping green towels, a diamond-studded watch glinting on his wrist, Joey Porter holds court with a mosh pit of reporters on his way out of the Dolphins locker room. Fresh off a spine-crushing, game-clinching sack against the 49ers that sealed yet another win for the reborn…
It’s just after 4 p.m. on a cold September Saturday in the highlands of Bolivia. Inside a two-story mud-brick home that smells of damp hay, a young mother lies in bed, wrapped in heavy alpaca blankets, still weak from giving birth a few days earlier. Her eight-year-old daughter Marlene is…
In a board room just above a fleet of Christmas-bowed Rolls Royces, Norman Braman is surrounded by evidence of his great success — framed photos of his meetings with Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford; a collage documenting his time as owner of the Philadelphia Eagles; a governor’s notice declaring January…
On the surface, Norman Edelcup’s desire to relocate a Sunny Isles strip club seems like something any sensible small-town mayor would want. But the owners of Thee Dollhouse at 755 Sunny Isles Blvd. say Edelcup is trying to squeeze them out of business to benefit a developer friend, who just…
America, meet your new Transportation Secretary (reportedly)! It is Republican Congressman Ray LaHood. Miraculously LaHood did not serve in the Clinton Administration or run against Obama in the primaries like every other member of the Cabinet, but he is a white guy and from Illinois (oops, he’s of Lebanese decent…
