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Prickly late-fall air rustles through a block of blue-collar homes in Union City, New Jersey, and butterflies swarm 13-year-old Richard Negrín’s stomach. It’s late November 1979, and soon his dad, Eulalio José, will watch him play football for the first time. He tugs on the corner of his black and…

Michael the Black Man, as he calls himself, steps from a brand-new pearl-white Mercedes, ponytail neatly crimped and big black pupils lazily regarding the world after a Sunday spent yachting. Maybe money does buy respectability. Because he now appears far saner than he did two days ago, spewing Old Testament…

Talk about conflict of interest. Early next month, Miami Herald county hall reporter Matthew Pinzur leaves the newspaper for a $115,000-per-year job as special assistant to Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess. The move has caused outrage in the Herald newsroom, prompted head-scratching in the halls of power, and raised questions…

Debates canceled! Campaigns suspended! What the hell is going on? Oh Nothing, just John McCain pulling a cheap campaign stunt. Which either makes McCain look like a maverick or a sad old man grasping at straws. Here’s a time line of what went down, as best as anyone knows. 8:30…

Joe Garcia, remember when McCain released an ad calling Barack Obama a celebrity and compared him to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and then everyone in the world decided it was the dumbest campaign ad ever? It was so dumb that even Hilton herself totally zinged the McCain camp with…

via CBS 4 CBS 4’s website has the honor of hosting one of the stupidest things Riptide has seen on the Internet in a long time. And that’s saying something. Like, it’s not even amusingly stupid, it’s just a flat out assault on intelligence. It’s a slide show of gratuitous…

via ABC News ABC News has this quiz up for people who want to decide which Presidential Candidate they’re going to vote for in the same manner they find out which Sex and the City character they are (I’m a Miranda!). Basically you choose between two statements presented without a…

Remember that Anti-Radical Islam DVD, Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, you got in your Herald two weekends ago? Remember how we said it was controversial, and possibly a teensy bit Anti-Islam, as opposed to plain old anti-Radical Islam? Remember how after we suggested The Herald should have included…

Mario Diaz-Balart’s latest campaign ad is apparently untrue. Misleading advertising? In my election? [Local 10] The Marlins are officially eliminated from play off contention. [Herald] Miami Beach City Commissioner Jerry Libbin wants to ban smoking from the beach, and ruin its reputation as the worlds most beautiful communal ash tray…

Jipsy Ocean Drive unveiled its new Midtown photo studios Tuesday night during its Fall Fashion Week. Click here to view the full slideshow. We aren’t exactly ones partake in fashion events, but Riptide is anywhere free drinks are being served. So when Ocean Drive held its Tuesday night Fall Fashion…

via The Dirty In Utopia, students would attend college to broaden their intellectual horizons and become more complete people. In reality, they go to ingest copious amounts of illegal substances and experiment with their sexuality. No website illustrates that better than TheDirty.com. It’s one of those web rags that popped…

via Epic Self Miami may have been named by Forbes as America’s cleanest city for 2008, but that doesn’t mean we’re doing as well in urban sustainability …yet. Sustain Lane released its survey of America’s most sustainable cities which gauges “which cities’ public transit, renewable energy, local food, and development…

via Channel 10 After decades of city sewage pouring into its channels and heavy industry springing on up on its shores, the Miami River hasn’t always had the classiest reputation in town. The perception may be changing, but headlines like this won’t help. It’s not exactly the Cuyahaga River catching…

When the excruciatingly bad Miami-based T.V. show “Hogan Knows Best,” began back in 2005, folks foresaw two travesties in the making. First, the show’s narrative through-line was about as compelling as the back of a cereal box. And second, the characters made us South Floridians look super blond and vapid…

via Engadget Today, T-Mobile announced it would be offering the first phone that runs Google’s mobile software. Dubbed the T-Mobile G1, it marks the search giant’s first foray into connecting its name with a cell phone, and some hope it could prove strong competition for Apple’s iPhone. We’ll let the…

via “Possible depression no threat to Florida” The optimist in Riptide was really hoping that this News-Press article was about the economy, but, no, it’s only about that storm system out in the Atlantic. The one that may or may not end up being Tropical Storm Kyle. Which raises the…

Ah, Kimbo Slice. Besides having one of the most unique hairstyles in all of the land- it’s something like a penitentary version of Larry’s from the Three Stooges, with an Amish beard thrown in- Slice’s story is as Miami as it gets: full of depravity, weirdness, and endless controversy. And…

McCain more than doubled Obama’s fundraising haul in Florida last month. A significant portion came in during the days after he announced Palin as his running mate. Nationally, Obama outraised McCain by a wide margin. [McClatchy] Speaking of Palin. No one is quite sure just how large the crowd was…

via After last week’s bizarre Q&A with John McCain, Spanish language Radio Caracol 1260 am is all the sudden the hot place for Presidential candidates to get their interview on. McCain, as you might recall, refused to confirm that his theoretical administration would meet with Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis…

The headline pretty much sums this one up, so let’s just cut to the chase, shall we? The cop, fortunately, is OK. The crazy homeless guy with the rock, fortunately, is subdued and off the street. On to the gory details. Around 10 this morning, according to a release sent…