Greg Craig As the Herald reported this morning, several members of Obama’s new leadership team in Washington have strong enough ties to the Elian Gonzalez saga to send local Republicans into a tizzy. The AP reports this afternoon that Obama is expected to make Eric Holder the first black attorney…
Psystar’s “Attack of the Clones” seems to have hit a major roadblock. The Miami-based computer makers caused a stir when they started selling their own desktops packaged with Apple’s OSX operating system. Apple only allows the system to be installed on its on hardware, and quickly filed suit. Psystar returned…
The fog machine cranked up ’round midnight, and as the chill was brrrewng outside, it was warm and toasty inside of SushiSamba Dromo for the second anniversary of Cosplay. Dozens of folks came to gawk, but those who came to celebrate pulled out their best disguises and did this Harajuku-style…
The School Board cut $89 million in the budget along with 440 jobs. Teachers are mad they won’t get raises, and for some reason that involves a protest turkey. [Herald] A 21 year old woman was named to the Hialeah city council. [Herald] Vizcaya is the latest local land mark…
Oh the proud history of Facebook-spread protest boycotts. Never forget the great Facebook strike of October, or those twenty times everyone was going to not purchase gas for a day. The latest to pop up in our news feed was “A Day With Out A Gay.” “LGBT workers, business owners,…
Riptide has been driving around in a weird little Japanese car that gets 32 mpg highway, listening to NPR talk about the problems of America’s automobile industry — which is basically that more and more people are driving around in weird little Japanese cars that have better design and more…
Is it even news anymore that Joey Porter runs his mouth? It’s like, “I saw some birds fly, the grass is green, oxygen passes through our lungs, Joey Porter is trash-talking his opponents.” It’s only news if those things stop happening, or in Porter’s case, the object of his derision…
Helen Williams first came to our attention when she unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Carlos Alvarez for Mayor of Miami-Dade. Before that, the former teacher spent a lot of time speaking before the school board as a concerned citizen type. Well, today Alvarez was sworn in for his second term, and…
Either the Biscayne Times’ website had an easily exploitable security flaw, or they sure pissed off “The C-T-T,” whatever that is. The home page of the monthly’s website got hacked. You can still access certain pages, so the archives are intact, but you should steer clear of the home page…
Lieberman gets to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee and instead loses his position on a subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Maybe Bill Nelson changed a few votes with his phone campaign. Lieberman seemed to think so and publicly thanked him. Now let’s hope Nelson…
You can tell information is factually accurate when the author prefaces his little article with a boast about how one time he called a Democratic congresswoman a “poverty pimp” to her face. Oh snap. He then blathers on, “If her constituents somehow became affluent — in spite of her best…
Photo via Coconut Grove Grapevine Yesterday somebody plunked what looks like a ten-by-eight-foot wooden box down in the middle of CocoWalk, with a sign on it that says, “Open December 9.” Like a bunch of kids at Christmas, Grovites were placing bets on the contents of the mystery package last…
via Ybor City Stogie Yeah it’s all insider baseball type stuff that most voters don’t care about, but I am pretty sure Floridians didn’t elect Bill Nelson on a platform of Save our Liebermans. After the weird psychodrama that has been Joe Lieberman’s political life of the past few years…
Republicans across the nation may, for some reason, prefer Sarah Palin over Charlie Crist in an imaginary primary, but Crist can take solace in knowing he’s the most popular man in Florida. According to the latest numbers 68% of voters approve of Crist’s handling of his job. 50% said they’d…
The School Board may eliminate up to 440 jobs. [CBS4] Drug use and binge drinking is down among Florida teens overall, but prescription drug abuse is up. [CBS4] Sen. Nelson has some tough love for the Auto Industry. He says a loan may be necessary, but only if they pay…
Focus on the Family spent millions battling gay marriage this election cycle, and is believed to be the single biggest donor to Amendment 2 sponsors Florida4Marraige (Homophobe in Chief John Stemberger was awarded the “Family Champion Award” by the group, and has close ties to leader James Dobson). They also…
Chaos, here with his owner, attacked a 16 year old girl. Chaos, an appropriately named captive cougar, mauled a 16 year old girl after pinning her to the ground over the weekend. Thankfully, She’s expected to make a full recovery. About a year ago New Times profiled Chaos’s owner, Alan…
Fidel and Vladimir Gundjaev The haggard remains of Fidel Castro made headlines earlier this month for meeting with a Russian Orthodox priest in Havana. The story was newsworthy mostly because the meeting produced the first photo of the ailing Cuban dictator since early this summer. But a larger question remained:…
The B-plot on last night’s Family Guy dealt with one of Miami’s most important industries — the very fertile comedy grounds of douchy nightclubs. Some nightclub owner and promoter types are easy to laugh at without anyone having to point it out, but Family Guy takes a whack at it…
image via Join the Impact While we were out spending the weekend looking at women in $5 million bras and engaging in other usually unspeakable acts, better people were protesting for equal marriage rights outside Miami City Hall. We’re not in a position to talk down to anyone, and we…
All of Riptide’s usual channels of gathering topics for posts are clogged — absolutely clogged — by celebrity gossip coming out of the big Fontainbleau shindig and Vicky’s Secret show this past weekend. So lest we be tempted to devote whole posts to each of these subjects, let’s just get…
What’s up with the sudden chill? It ruined our plans to hangout poolside on Sunday with plenty of stiff drinks to go around. Well, the drinking still happened, but we were bundled up indoors. The biggest news this weekend, of course, was the reopening of the Fontainebleau Hotel. Plenty of…
