Riptide has apparently been living in some naive dream world where we think that maybe, just maybe the rest of the world is warming up to the Heat. It’s been three years now since “The Decision.” The team proved itself by winning the championship last year. They went on a…
Florida, of course, is not so much a culturally unified state as it is a patchwork of distinct regions with their own mannerisms and idiosyncrasies. A series of maps taken from an North Carolina State University survey have been making the Internet rounds this week. They map out what parts…
Five-star offensive lineman KC McDermott has only been committed to the University of Miami since April, but already he has made an epic mark in the school’s legacy of “swag.” McDermott was also heavily recruited by Ohio State and their megalomanic coach Urban Meyer. Saying “no” to Meyer appears to…
Tony Parker flailed, fell, right hand yellow, left leg red, got back up and hit a shot with 5.2 seconds left to seal a Game One, 92-88 San Antonio Spurs win. Parker was a menace all game long for Miami, finishing with 21 points and 6 assists. Tim Duncan merp…
LeBron James may have left salary money on the table when he decided to sign with the Miami Heat, but his back account ain’t aching too much. According to the latest Forbes calculations of the world’s most well-paid athletes, James came in fourth…
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The Internet is abuzz that the woods of Miami are infested by creepy clowns after a Redditor posted an image of an eerie decapitated joker supposedly just chilling out near a bike path in Oleta River State Park sometime last year…
Malaysian gambling conglomerate Genting has taken its plans to build a casino in Miami from its initial fast and furious blitzkrieg to a long and slow waiting game. In the latest sign that the company is no longer in a hurry to plop a mega-casino downtown, Genting has allowed a…
If you don’t even know where your significant other lives, are you really ready to walk down the aisle with that person? Thomas Edwards, 22, might be thinking about that point behind bars after he was arrested for supposedly attempting to propose in the nude but ended up at the…
Great news, Miami. Next week, our latest Best of Miami issue hits the stands, and it is a galactic-sized monster, packed with more than 330 picks for the Magic City’s greatest restaurants, bars, clubs, people and places. The issue hits stands next Thursday and the web next Tuesday, but in…
The Heat may be the best basketball team in the nation, but when it comes to this city’s public parks, Miami performs more like the miserable Marlins. According to Parkscore rankings released yesterday, Miami is one of the worst major cities in the country when it comes to providing green…
Miami has a long, proud history of granting civic immortality to our scummiest citizens, from naming a street after a Hialeah sugar company run by a former coke smuggler to UM’s increasingly embarrassing Alex Rodriguez Park to the long-lost Jose Canseco Street in Westchester. The latest flap over naming rights…
We have reached the season three finale of Miami Heat Against the World, the greatest show in television history. Just when you think the show has peaked and might get canceled, it gets renewed for another four episodes. In its third consecutive finals appearance, the Heat now takes on the…
News of the bizarre crisis began in the spring. TV reports flashed footage of manatees — the docile emblems of Florida’s waterways — dead and marooned on the shore of the Indian River Lagoon in Brevard County. Some reports blamed fertilizer runoff, which can cause algal blooms and choke a…
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Employees of the city of Miami Beach in same-sex domestic partnerships will no longer have to pay more taxes for their partner’s health insurance than their married counterparts. The City Commission today passed a landmark tax equality policy that will reimburse those employees for the difference in taxes…
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Tim Tracy, an American filmmaker who spent the last six weeks in a Venezuelan prison cell, has been released and is on his way back to the United States. Tracy was arrested by Venezuelan intelligence police on April 24 while working on a documentary. Officials accused him of being an…
Florida has been without a lieutenant governor now for 86 days, the longest stretch the position has been vacant since it was reinstated in 1969. Gov. Rick Scott, however, is in no particular rush to fill the seat. When Jennifer Carroll resigned form the job on March 11 amidst a…
