Cognac-toting models mingled with baseball superstars in the Biltmore Hotel’s gilded ballroom last week, but as Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez made the rounds, Spanish-language TV reporters wanted to talk about anything but the Hennessy-sponsored drink in his hand. Hours earlier, the Yankees legend had been accused of swindling the City…
At 1 a.m. last Thursday, Miami Beach Police discovered a short, bullish man wandering on the Rivo Alto bridge. He was wearing blue jeans and a dark shirt, and his face was covered in hideous purple bruises. This man — who once sued Goldrush strip club over a $19,000 bar…
Huffing home on her green beach cruiser, Lekeithra Smith was already edgy about what might be hunkered down in the dark, waiting. It was near 9:30 p.m. in late April 2011. The 22-year-old was pedaling just a few feet behind her high-school-aged cousin Deadra, coming back from a party at…
Michael Frank, a 56-year-old Miccosukee Tribe member, points to Bone Island, a small tree-covered hammock in the Everglades that got its name during the Seminole Wars of the 1800s. When Frank’s ancestors arrived to check on relatives after the white man swept through, “All they saw were the bones,” he…
Halloween in Florida can feel redundant since living in the Sunshine State is often inherently a horror story. All future slasher and disaster flicks should be filmed here. For one, the people are usually coated in sweat and tears (no makeup artists required), and the fauna includes sharks, alligators, and…
David Beckham himself commented on reports that he’s pursuing an MLS team in Miami, noting that it’s “something I’m very interested in” during a live Facebook event from London today. Which gave a writer at Yahoo!’s Eurosports blog the opportunity to declare Miami the worst sports town in America and…
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If you look hard enough you’ll be able to find just about anything for sale on Miami’s black market, apparently, including monkeys. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced today that they’ve cracked down on an illegal business that was breeding and selling monkeys, and seized 28 primates from…
Since the 1995 inaugural season of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Florida has had three NFL teams. In that time Dan Marino retired and the Dolphins mostly slunk into irrelevant mediocrity. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers captured a Super Bowl ring and had a pretty decent ’00s, but are now back to playing…
Aside from Senator Bill Nelson, former CFO Alex Sink is the only Democrat to get elected statewide in Florida in recent memory, which makes her one of the party’s highest profile pols. She ran a close race with Rick Scott for governor in 2010, opted out of a rematch, and…
Last month, Riptide revealed Michael Góngora’s shady connections to a smear campaign launched against his rivals for mayor of Miami Beach. Now the man targeted by those attacks ads is hitting back, filing complaints and a lawsuit against his detractors. Philip Levine, a self-made millionaire who has spent at least…
Hey Basketball Press, How you doing? Remember us? We’re the ones who told you to stop picking on Miami Fans (as well as some other gripes we might have aired over the years). Listen, we know this kind of seems nitpicky, but we’re heading into year four of this and…
Meet your new Miami Heat, much like your old Miami Heat. On the night the Miami Heat received their championship rings and raised the third championship banner, they also managed to fit in a basketball game, taking the season opener against the Chicago Bulls 107-95. Seven players scored in double…
Through a number of rumors, chatters andunsourced reportsits seemed kind of all-but-official by now, but, hey, now the Associated Press is reporting that David Beckham has officially decided to exercise his option to own an MLS team by plopping it right down here in Miami. Though this one comes with…
Up until this morning Florida’s Bill Nelson was one of just three Democrats left in the Senate who didn’t support the Employee Non-Discrimination Act. After Equality Florida launched a “twitterbomb” on him last week though, Nelson announced he’d sign on as a co-sponsor…
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City of Miami residents won’t be given much of a choice when it comes to exercising their right to democracy during the November 5th mayoral elections. Despite an early fund-raising lead, commissioner Francis Suarez dropped out due to some minor campaign hickups and his wife’s pregnancy, leaving the city without…
If you visited dolphinscheerleaders.com on a smartphone or tablet anytime in about the last 24 hours, you got a bit more than you bargained for. The site was hacked and forwarded mobile device users to a hard-core porn site…
Late last week, one of Miami Beach’s wealthiest and most flamboyant characters was found wandering the streets, his face battered and bruised. Police arrested the five-foot-five Mark Gold — who once sued Goldrush strip club over a $19,000 bar tab and uses chimpanzees as commercial props for his behemoth law…
The Miami Hurricanes have had to come from behind to secure wins against lesser opponents in their last three games. The Florida State Seminoles, meanwhile, made former No. 3 Clemson look like an FCS team in its own stadium. So maybe it’s not much of a surprise that according to…
Halloween in Florida can feel redundant since living in the Sunshine State is often inherently a horror story. All future slasher and disaster flicks should be filmed here. For one, the people are usually coated in sweat and tears (no makeup artists required), and the fauna includes sharks, alligators, and…
Tonight, the Miami Heat, for the second consecutive year, will raise some fancy fabric and accept some gaudy jewelry in celebration of its second consecutive NBA championship. The journey to a three-peat kicks off with the Chicago Bulls, one of only three franchises to have successfully pulled off the feat,…
