Being a hotel worker is hard — low pay, long hours, ungrateful clientele. But for hundreds of workers at the Fontainebleau and theEden Roc in Miami Beach, life just got that much harder: Because of a change in city parking policy, employees are no longer able to use a nearby…
Yes, Fins fans. That really happened. Sunday was not a weird acid flashback to your Dan Marino druggie glory days. The Dolphins scored 33 points, the Patriots scored only 20, and Tom Brady even got a little weepy on the bench at the end. See also: Photos from the Patriots…
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David Beckham continues having possible soccer stadium sites waved in front of him only to see them snatched away. The latest idea: building a stadium on the old site of the Miami Herald building, though that plan certainly seems like a stretch. See also: Could David Beckham Be Taking His…
A customer at a U-Gas station in North Miami made a grisly discovery this morning at about 5:45 a.m. The customer found a cardboard box inside a dumpster outside of the station and opened it up to find the body of a dead newborn baby inside. They immediately called 911…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. This week, that includes meth-heads armed with a toilet, a babysitter who stabbed a DILF, and a gross story about butts in a Taco Bell that probably doesn’t end how you…
Shaq is doing it again! The seven-foot-one former Heat center strolled into a Doral City Council meeting yesterday to glad-hand and take photos with the staffers and then revealed his real reason for coming: He’s applying to be a reserve officer with the town’s police force, which is run by…
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating the City of North Miami and has requested reams of documents related to the town’s payroll and social security payments. In a letter addressed to the city manager, later published on Scribd by Commissioner Scott Galvin, the agency informs the city — which has…
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Miami Police Officer Christopher Vital had a wild night last night. It started with speeding more than 100 mph on the street of Miami Beach, peaked with him kicking out the window of a Miami Beach Police cruiser, and ended with him in jail. For good measure, drugs and a…
The unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, has highlighted the tension that can build when a town with a majority black population is patrolled by a police force that is largely white. The situation in Miami is slightly more complicated. Several police forces here have higher percentages of black officers than their…
Riptide is usually the first to defend the honor of Miami when the New York Times parachutes in to mock our culture or our “sophistication.” But the reality is we have a hell of a lot of serious problems here. Yet the hottest issue at yesterday’s Miami-Dade County Commission meeting…
In July the news broke that the University of Miami had sold an 88-acre plot of land, near Zoo Miami, to a West Palm Beach developer who planned to build a Walmart. Environmentalists were devastated: The land is comprised of rare pine rockland forest, a savanna-like habitat found only in…
This week’s feature is a modern-day art heist mystery worthy of the silver screen. It’s got a power-hungry president, a missing national treasure, an ensemble of shady middlemen out to make a fortune, and a beautiful FBI agent intent on cracking the case. But — spoiler alert — one thing…
In November 2002, Genaro Ambrosino was packing paintings to ship overseas when the door to his North Miami gallery swung open. In strode a handsome Frenchman with shoulder-length hair and well-tailored clothes. He quietly asked Ambrosino for help. “Genaro, I know that you’re from Venezuela, so I wanted to ask…
South Florida football fans have plenty to gab about these days. The Miami Dolphins — who haven’t won a playoff game in more than a decade — are preparing for this Sunday’s opener at home against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. And this past Monday night, the University…
Isabella’s Turn is the rarest of things: a porno with a truly unexpected ending. It begins normally enough. A busty brunette named Isabella walks into an all-white office room. A sleazy dude with hand tattoos says, “So what brings you here today? You want to be in a pornography movie?”…
It’s getting ugly between Florida’s solar industry and the state’s public utilities. All summer, both camps have been sniping at each other after Florida’s power companies blocked solar industry advocates from sitting in on a policy skull session at the Florida Public Service Commission. Now, the war of words is…
Thirty-year-old Lytisa Small says that last November she was talking to her ex-boyfriend, Irrington Roberts-Isaacs, outside his home on NW 140th Street in Opa-locka when another woman approached. The woman, a friend of both Roberts-Isaacs and his current girlfriend, was incensed that Small was speaking to Roberts-Isaacs and smacked her…
Mike Pouncey was specifically named as an accomplice to Richie Incognito’s bullying blitzkrieg. He wears hats affirming his belief that accused murderer Aaron Hernandez should be freed. He’s currently being sued following a physical altercation at a nightclub. Now he’s also a member of the Miami Dolphins team leadership council…
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The Miami Beach location of one of Miami’s most infamous strip clubs has been forced to shut its doors.
