Miami Hurricanes @ Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, 7:30 tonight on ESPN The Kiddy Canes right now are fly like paper and high like planes, and the rest of the ACC Coastal division is at their total mercy. If they win the next two games, they’re guaranteed a spot in the…
His number was 33, get it. In 2000, former Heat superstar Alonzo Mourning started 33 Thanksgivings, delivering turkey dinners to underprivileged families throughout Miami. Since then, the annual charity event has expanded to 533 families, and Mourning still personally delivers 33 of them. Each meal includes turkey, green-bean casserole, mashed…
From the amount of buzz Manny Diaz has generated in the past year, you’d think he was the greatest mayor ever. Sure, he’s amazing in comparison to some of the other wackos who have held his job, but damn, this city still has a lot of problems. US News &…
Fresh off the re-opening of the Fontainbleau, Miami Beach is bracing for another hotel ribbon-cutting. The Mondrian quietly opened its doors to guests two days ago, but the official grand opening will take place during Art Basel. The brains behind the design (and naked candy-throwing enthusiast), Marcel Wanders, is interviewed…
Thierry Henry It has never made much sense that Miami doesn’t have a team in Major League Soccer, what with its large Central and South American population and all, so it’s little surprise that the Magic City is a leading candidate for an expansion franchise beginning in 2010. We’ll know…
We’d all like to pretend that if we found a wallet, we’d do the right thing and find its original owner. But with the economy the way it is, how many of us wouldn’t be tempted to take the cash? Burger King’s latest ad stunt capitalizes on the thrill of…
Babalu Blog and its ilk haven’t picked up on this, but we can already imagine their response: “That dirty socialist mainstream media is trying to pull one over on the Cubans by implying that this new attorney general isn’t a godless prick who jumped for joy at the though of…
Chuck Todd of MSNBC just broke news that Mayor Manny Diaz is being vetted for the cabinet positions as head of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Transportation. The role at HUD is the most likely appointment. Riptide first speculatedlast week on Diaz’s chances for the HUD position,…
The Florida Legislature is getting worried about the budget. There could be a deficit of as much as $2 billion this fiscal year. [Local10] A Broward High School swim coach is arrested on child pornography charges. Who knew a guy who spends his free time around a bunch of teenagers…
If you’ve been keeping up with blogdom for the past couple of days, you’ve probably come across the site How Obama Got Elected. The premise is basically “people who voted for Obama are stupid and misinformed, and it’s the media’s fault.” The guy behind it commissioned a Zogby poll to…
From the desk of Joe Arriola ——- Barack Obama The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President-Elect: I know you’re busy preparing to take over the wor … um, White House. But I just wanna offer a little advice. And hey, my Cuban Republican family forked…
The night gets weird long before a houseplant begins humming John Tesh tunes. It starts sometime after 7 p.m. with curious onlookers filing into a glass-walled room surrounded by the moonlit Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Leaning over a long folding table, they finger dusty rocks painted with mystical symbols and…
When times get tough, the wealthy serve pigs-in-a-blanket at cocktail parties. Actually, those little bite-size wieners were the only hint of scaling back at a recent hoity-toity elbow-rubbing event at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. You know the manse. Oh wait. Most of you commoners have probably never set…
Her knee-length dreadlocks wrapped in a green cloth, Cassy hoists her two-year-old daughter up on a hip and shuffles in her socks into her big, clean bedroom. “This house is a castle,” says the slender, soft-skinned former university teaching assistant, shaking her head in disbelief. “I’ve never had a walk-in…
Hauling a fishing rod and bait, Orlando Maytin and his 12-year-old son trudged through a vacant parking lot just past Mile Marker 31 on Alligator Alley. It was 7:45 a.m. March 21, 1999, when they came to a quaint public fishing nook on the edge of a vast, swampy stretch…
Like doctors, prostitutes, and IRS agents, lawyers seem like a recession-proof crowd. Crime, after all, never sleeps. In fact, during most economic freefalls, lawlessness jumps quicker than a cleaned-out hedge fund manager perched on a 24th-story window ledge. So what to make of the latest laundry list of disciplinary actions…
University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center doctors announced today that 14-year-old D’Zhana Simmons survived nearly four months without a heart. The girl had a condition that caused her own heart to deteriorate. In July she underwent a heart transplant, but her body quickly rejected the organ. So doctors kept her…
All three of Miami’s Republican representatives staved off Democratic challengers in the election, but the brand of Republicanism they represent is losing influence in their own party. While last week’s Republican Governors Association conference didn’t come to a clear conclusion on which ideological shifts the GOP should make, the Republicans…
The redneck dream of two pickups in every garage just go a little easier to achieve. University Dodge in Davie is offering a “Buy One, Get One Free” deal on Dodge Rams. Yes, two big, gas-guzzling pieces of steel American ingenuity for the price of one. I plan on taking…
Living in the city can get to you. There are too many people and not enough trees. So this past weekend, in the dark, windy pre-dawn morning, I drove to an eerily quiet, woodsy patch of the everglades to meet two wild boar hunters. These guys – both named Mark…
We always assumed that when pro athletes are waiting around for a team to sign them, they pass the time by practicing “making it rain” techniques on their cats, or perhaps finally getting around to painting a watercolor portrait of themselves, shirtless, lying on the hood of a red Hummer…
Every time we come across a Miami Subs location we can’t help but think “Oh, wow that place is still in business?” Everything from the painfully 80’s logo to the decor makes it seem decidedly retro, and not in a good way. Miami has expanded on its super pastel deco…
