South Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schutlz may be chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, but when it comes to medical marijuana she sure sounds like a Republican. Wasserman Schultz aired her “concerns” today about the ballot initiative that would legalize medical marijuana in Florida by claiming that it may be…
Across South Florida, afternoon rainstorms are sprouting over the Everglades and moving inland to drench backyards, where swarms of mosquitos will soon hatch in pools of tepid standing water. It’s summertime in Florida, in other words. Except this year, there’s an increasingly good chance those mosquitoes will soon be infected…
It’s the playoffs. Three-peat. LeBronmania. Whatever: For horndog Miamians, the Heat games are also, apparently, the perfect opportunity to ask strangers to watch basketball. Or, you know, “watch basketball.” On Craigslist, more than 30 posts from the past couple of weeks specifically mention Heat games in personal posts soliciting sex…
Both teams tried to “beat the Heat” last night. Only one succeeded. The Heat dropped game one of the NBA Finals 110-95 in a matchup where Miami lost its biggest star, LeBron James, midway through the fourth quarter due to cramps that flared up for one reason: the Spurs’ A/C…
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Even as LeBron James stands just four wins away from his third NBA championship, his popularity among the American sports populace has still not returned to what it was when he was a ringless superstar toiling away in Cleveland. ESPN tracks scientific poll numbers each year for which NBA players…
Chances are good that Alvaro Lopez Tardon will be found guilty of money laundering today or tomorrow. If he is, there probably won’t be anyone in the federal court room to shed a tear: Tardon’s associates have all turned on him, including his wife. Here at Riptide, however, we will…
Sky blue. Sun sets. Miami traffic bad. It hardly seems like news, but somehow it’s comforting to be reminded periodically that traffic in Miami really is among the worst in America and we’re not just imagining it. Turns out those TomTom GPS devices do more than help people get from…
Happy finals, Heat fans! It’s June, so you know what that must mean — your Miami Heat is just a handful of wins away from an NBA title. At this point, Heat fans should treat game one of the NBA Finals like a holiday and get one another presents, maybe…
The England fan had a flag draped across his shoulders, a beer in each hand, and had just finished bellowing a song at a passing group of Ecuador supporters when he glanced around at Sun Life Stadium’s dim concourse and echoed what many Three Lions backers surely felt at halftime…
The men work quickly in the cool emerald light. The thin one wields a hammer and chisel, deftly removing one prized piece after another. He passes them to his stockier accomplice, who stuffs them into a bag slung over his shoulder. Between the two of them, they look like Santa…
Nothing is scarier than a city commission that’s all smiles. Politicians are preternaturally disposed to disagreement, so voters should be skeptical whenever commissioners suddenly go full kumbaya. On the scale of suspicious love-fests, this past April 10 was a doozy. City of Miami commissioners lined up to laud a so-called…
It was 5 a.m. on a Friday when Alexandre Pussieldi, a sturdy, dark-haired, Brazilian swim coach, strode onto the pool deck at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Complex. A group of muscular swimmers was already waiting in the bleachers, decked out in Speedos and goggles. Pussieldi, then 39 years old, ordered the athletes into the pool. Most of them complied. A lean 20-year-old, Roberto Cabrera Paredes, did not.
On May 20, 2013, Edduard Prince began walking from his home on 17th Street in Overtown to his job at a legal processing company at 15th and Biscayne, just as he does every day. He crossed the railroad tracks that bisect his street between NW First and North Miami avenues,…
Biking in South Florida is dangerous. Last week, for instance, hundreds of cyclists from Miami to Delray Beach participated in a memorial event for fallen riders called the Ride of Silence. So after a cyclist took a bad spill on a wet grated bridge recently, local blog Transit Miami posted…
Remember that time Anita Bryant got pied? A young Nancy Grace saw it on television and all these years later is still really, really upset about it. Like, emotionally disturbed by it. Remember that time Anita Bryant led a campaign to repeal a Dade County ordinance that prohibited discrimination against…
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The most important constituents to Florida Republicans are old people and gun nuts, but what happens when these two groups come in conflict? The Colbert Report dug deep last night on residents of Big Pine Key, hardworking people who just want to enjoy a bit of peace and tranquility without…
Three anti-gay groups wanted to get involved in a lawsuit that seeks to overturn Florida’s gay marriage ban but have now been shut out by a Miami-Dade circuit judge who ruled “they will not be directly and immediately affected if others enter into a same-sex marriage.” See also: Pam Bondi…
You have opinions, right? Don’t lie to us because we’ve heard you drunkenly hollering at your friends about how Dan LeBatard’s rants blow Joe Rose out of the water and debating whether Mac’s Club Deuce has a better jukebox than Lost Weekend. Today is your last chance to put all…
If it’s ever completed, SkyRise Miami — the proposed bayfront tourist attraction which some have already derisively tabbed the “Paperclip Tower” — is slated to be 1,000 feet tall, making it the tallest building in Florida. In addition to a bungee jump, it would have a ballroom, three observation decks,…
After months of fruitless lobbying in Miami-Dade County and Tallahassee to change taxi laws in South Florida, app-based ride service Uber has decided to go the route of ride-sharing competitor Lyft and just ignore the regulations. Uber’s own ride-sharing service, UberX, is launching in Miami today, braving mass fines and…
