We know that the Hurricanes’ football season was kind of a bust. And we know that despite some stronger than normal preseason hype, Hurricanes basketball already dropped a game to Florida Gulf Coast this month. We know some of you might not be ready to place your trust in the…
The busty clerk at Grateful J’s head shop in Boca Raton holds out a small brown vial. The label reads “Lucky,” and she promises the stuff packs a punch. “You’ll want to throw it to the back of your throat,” she suggests. “I’d say drink the whole thing. Maybe drink…
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Is LeBron James’ image rehabilitation complete? After claiming the MVP award and his first ring last season, the King is back atop the NBA’s list of best-selling jerseys. The list is released twice a year, and James hasn’t been on top since April 2011. In fact, he had dropped to…
Beware: cargo shorts are such an absolute scourge on men’s fashion that not even Michael Jordan can get away with wearing cargo shorts anymore. And he’s Michael Jordan!MJ just got kicked out of Miami Beach’s fancy-pants (and we mean that quite literally) La Gorce Country Club for breaking their dress…
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When it comes to basic rights, the city of Miami is the second best city in Florida for LGBT residents to live, according to the Municipal Equality Index produced by the Human Rights Campaign. Miami scored a 72 out of a possible 100. That’s only behind Orlando (77), and well…
Excuse our beauty, rest of America, but for the first time since 2009, Miami has been named the city with the most attractive residents by Travel + Leisure’s America’s Favorite Cities survey. Which, whatever, no one had to tell us. We already know we’re beautiful. Duh. We all wake up…
WLTV’s chief meteorologist Eduardo Rodriquez was just trying to deliver the weather forecast on Miami’s Univision station when he was unexpectedly joined by a stray cat who wandered in from the parking lot. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone, as well all know stray cats do whatever…
Swept up in Tea Party hysteria, Pinellas County –Florida’s sixth largest county and home to St. Petersburg — decided to stop the widespread practice of fluoridating its water supply in a surprising 4-3 county commission vote last year. Though, citizens soon got sick of sipping that right wing tea instead of…
Michael Dunn, the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis at a Jacksonville gas station over loud music, now tells police that he acted in self defense and shot the teen because he felt threatened. Some legal experts theorize that Dunn and his attorney will likely try and present…
Kevin Clash, the puppeteer behind beloved Sesame Street character Elmo, resigned last week after two men claimed he’d sexually assaulted them when they were underaged. Clash denied that he’d abused the men, but said the “personal matters” were distracting him from his work.Now a Florida man has added to the…
Last month we reported on claims that Brian Gentles had been racially and sexually harassed while training to become a Miami Beach firefighter. Gentles claimed a white recruit had tea-bagged him several times, but that when the African-American complained, he was the one that was fired.Gentles now says he is…
As Riptide reported yesterday, Barbara Jordan believes Miami-Dade public employees’ salaries shouldn’t be available online. She’s even introduced a resolution to strip that info from the web.Maybe it was the county commissioner’s commanding Aug. 14 re-election that emboldened her to make such a move. Or perhaps, as she claims, it’s…
Every year, the City of Miami hoists a giant neon orange up the side of the Hotel InterContinental in downtown and drops it at the stroke of midnight. The thing is creatively called “The Big Orange.” This year, however, it will officially be known as “La Gran Naranja” to celebrate…
A City Commissioner calling the chief of police to get out of a traffic ticket is that kind of trite, light public corruption people joke about, but you never actually hear anyone getting punished for it. Well today, the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics & Public Trust found probably cause that City…
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Facing a growing backlash after telling passengers who were set to sail on a themed cruise featuring cast members from RuPaul’s Drag Race that they themselves could not wear drag, Carnival Cruise Lines has now relented and dropped the drag ban…
Jeb Bush spent most of the past four years denying that he would run for president …in 2012. He literally never missed an opportunity to tell anyone who would listen in no uncertain terms that he would not be running, but when asked about 2016 he seems to have a…
Want to know how much your public servants are making? Hop on the Miami-Dade County website, click “Transparency,” and select “Employee Salaries.” In just a few seconds, you can get salary information on anyone who works for the county. Say, for instance, Barbara Jordan! As county commissioner, the site helpfully…
