When we gave Eye on Miami our highly coveted “Best Of” award for blogging, we noted, “Eye on Miami is smart, witty, and informative — almost like daily newspapers used to be.” How wonderful now that one of Eye’s bloggers, Genius of Despair, has started a bid to buy the Miami Herald…
It seems like local advertising wunderfirm Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s latest shtick is to create campaigns that rile people up to the point they can’t help but emotionally type overwrought, 1,000-word blog entries about them. How else to explain the captivating and confusing Microsoft ads staring Bill Gates and Jerry…
From a local standpoint, the recently concluded hurricane season seemed to be a non-event, but less lucky locales such as Cuba and Haiti got hit hard by strong storms. Overall, it was an above average season, and next year is shaping up to follow in its path. A well-respected Colorado…
A new study by the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center shows that more and more adolescents are engaging in anal loving. Sixteen percent taking part in the study had engaged in “heterosexual anal intercourse,” and only 29 percent of those escapades involved condoms. Teens are increasingly taking the back door…
Money is tight everywhere, and really, unless you win the lottery or sue someone, your economic future is looking a bit grim. The schools are no exception. They already benefit from Lotto, so the next logical step to scare up some cash is to sue the pants off of someone,…
This season, the Miami Hurricanes came out way behind their in-state rivals, UF and FSU, by most on-the-field standards, losing to both teams. Now here’s a little salt for those wounds: Both the Noles and the Gators made Higher Ed Watch’s Top 25 for academic achievement, while the Canes went…
Forbes Traveler has a page-view-baiting slide show on wacky requests rich guests make at hotels.The most ridiculous of course comes from one in Miami Beach. A Brit traveled to the Beach to meet his girlfriend, and something just felt so right they decided she should move back to London with…
Apparently those popcorn muscles aren’t enough. In an interview aired a couple of minutes ago on ESPN, Dolphins linebacker, sack-master, and nonstop verbal diarrhea specialist Joey Porter said he feels for Plaxico Burress, the Giants wide receiver who recently shot himself in the leg at a nightclub. Porter also told ESPN…
Miami New Times staff writer Francisco Alvarado has been named journalist of the year in the Florida Awards of Excellence contest, edging out writers from every daily, weekly, and other newspaper across the state. His coverage of schools, immigration, and — um — marijuana cultivation knocked the socks off the judges…
I just wanted to share the fact that this image on the right is actually from the Illinois.Gov, and is the single most helpful thing I’ve ever seen on a government website. [Illinois] Dr. Evan Zimmer, a well known Miami-beach psychiatrist, was arrested on charges of spending $10,000 on prostitutes,…
The straight-people wedding of the century is this weekend, and our beloved Gov. Charlie Crist will marry this fancy New York socialite/whoopee cushion heiress, Carole Rome. Are the woman of Florida not good enough for you, Charlie? They have elected you. Has this woman ever elected you?The Tampa Tribune says “Crist’s…
Remember fifth-grade reporter Damon Weaver, who we dubbed “The Best Political Reporter in South Florida” for interviewing Joe Biden? Check the part of your brain where you file away “adorable,” because you probably do. Well now he is on a quest to interview Barack Obama, and has made this YouTube…
Continuing Riptides coverage of minute recession realities: So this years Langerado lineup was announced earlier today. It is the perfect music festival for sensitive, “eclectic” frat boys. Death Cab! Snoop Dog! Dashboard! Matisyahu! Anyway, because the economy sucks and festival tickets are generally pricey they are instituting a lay away…
While Rush Limbaugh is not busy fueling our wild, imaginary theories that he should buy The Herald (just for laffs) or, slightly more plausible, the Dolphins, he has been dating this 32-year-old lady named Katie Rogers. According to Gawker, Limbaugh has proposed, maybe. So romantic. Rush is 57, and this…
Look what our photographer Logan Fazio turned up at the MSTRKRFT show this Saturday: this white gentleman with facial hair and an American flag bandanna wearing a BRCKBM … okay that doesn’t work … Barack Obama watch. Riptide predicts Obama watches will be the hottest hipster accessory since kaffiyahs. Secular…
Welcome to biggest blatant political scandal in years starring Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich. Basically the dude tried to leverage his power to be able to select the successor to Obama’s Senate seat for money (note to wingnuts: There’s no evidence that the Obama camp is involved in this at…
The wingnuts at the Free Republic were prematurely dancing on the grave of The Miami Herald yesterday. There’s some predictable, irrational bitching about bias in the mainstream media, and then they settle on the idea that, ha ha, Rush Limbaugh should buy The Herald. Which is exactly what you would…
Sorry Rosie, Diddy, and Gloria, but Iggy Pop may just be our favorite celebrity resident of the Magic City. CNN Travel caught up with Mr. Pop to talk about why he moved to the city. Apparently he was looking for a place that was like an “elegant coma.” CNN: Is…
Florida’s education rankings continue to linger in the bottom half of the nation’s states, and who does Charlie Crist appoint to the State Board of Education? Oh, a former professional football player. ex-FSU Standount and Baltimore Ravens linebacker Peter Boulware ran for a Florida House seat as a Republican and…
Maybe we’re just heading for disappointment if we get caught up in the fact that the Dolphins could win their division, but it feels so good. [USA Today]Unscientific Odds of survival for The Miami Herald: “2-1. If you do not consider a two-page weekly digest of Dave Barry and Carl…
This column is usually a part of your “morning after” cure, only summoned to solve the issues that too much liquor and too little inhibitions can cause. But since the rest of the Magic City becomes the best/worst enabler ever around Art Basel, I decided to join in the fray…
Remember when Riptide excitedly blogged about finding $2 gas in the outer portions of Broward? Well we filled up once more on our way back from Thanksgiving, and that kept our car running until earlier today. We hadn’t notice, but hooray for $2 gas creeping towards the coast. We filled…
