According to a new federal lawsuit, the Filipino worker who changed your sheets at W South Beach Hotel, or served you lunch at posh restaurants and country clubs, may have essentially been an indentured servant. Seventeen Filipino immigrants allege that a ring of Miami-based employment agencies charged them outrageous “security…
In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s killing, even Dennis Baxley — the original sponsor of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law and among the most pro-gun legislators in the whole country — has distanced himself from the law by saying it shouldn’t apply to George Zimmerman. Gov. Rick Scott has bowed…
Marco Rubio at the moment is trapped in that strange limbo — let’s call it the Biden Zone — where half of America assumes he’s going to be a vice presidential nominee but nothing is official yet. That means despite daily national press and a starring role this week sharing…
In my quest to become the commissioner of Surfside–the beach hamlet just south of the haughty nihilist province known as Bal Harbour– I’ve run into a problem: A lot of the older residents don’t want to open the door for me. Maybe it’s only because I’m a relatively young man…
Smell those flowers? Spring is in the air in Miami. So, too, is spring cleaning. But some people seem to have a hard time distinguishing the seasonal pick-up from the year-round five finger discount.Two employees at Miami Palmetto Senior High School have been arrested and charged with grand theft after…
Miamians don’t keep the peace. Miami-Dade is the fourth most violent area in the Institute for Economics & Peace’s Peace Index. Meanwhile, Florida is the fourth most violent state, with two other metro areas in the bottom ten for peace…
We all know the University of Miami’s historic streak of having a football player taken in the first round of every single NFL draft between 1995 and 2008 is now a thing of the past, but an even longer streak may come to an end this year.Every single year since…
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In late August, hundreds of thousands of Republican heavyweights will descend on Tampa to officially crown Mitt Romney their presidential nominee and celebrate their policies, which include abstinence-only education, limiting women’s reproductive health choices, and an aversion to birth control and gay rights. Oh, yeah, they might also enjoy some…
Are you ready for your morning dose of statistical overload? Good, because Public Policy Polling just unleashed a wide-ranging poll of Floridians that somehow asks about Fidel Castro, Major League Baseball, and the Trayvon Martin case. Some interesting highlights: Ozzie Guillen is only slightly more popular than Fidel Castro, the…
In 1988, Maria Thornhill invented a nifty gadget called Sheet Suspenders, elastic bands that tuck in bed sheets without having to lift a mattress. By 2008, she’d sold more than $3 million worth of the devices and turned thousands in profits. It was an American success story — at least…
For months, savvy residents at downtown and Brickell high-rises have been on the lookout for the “White Van Gang.” The criminals get their nickname from their favorite method: driving a white van into condo parking garages, loading up as many motorcycles as they can fit into the back, and then…
It was an entrance worthy of Vladimir Putin.Joe Biden roared his air boat to a halt in the Everglades. Miccosukee war paint smeared his face. Swamp spray glistened on his bare chest. The Veep then tossed a giant, dead Burmese python at the feet of a gaggle of reporters and…
Are loads of half-empty hydrocodone bottles clogging up your medicine cabinet? Do you still have that Xanax prescription in your nightstand even though you stopped taking it because you swore it made your crazier? Do you just have so many drugs you don’t even know what to do with them?Well,…
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Apparently, the “Shit ____ Say” video meme is still trudging along. Which means at this point in a meme’s lifespan we wouldn’t be drawing attention to any new entries unless they were pretty good. And this “Stuff Miami Heat Fans Say” video is pretty good…
Miami’s polling numbers are almost as bad as Gov. Rick Scott’s.Public Policy Polling decided to ask Americans whether they view 21 prominent American cities favorably or unfavorably, and Miami didn’t do too well. Only 36 percent of Americans view Miami favorably, compared to 33 percent who view the city unfavorably.Miami…
Carlos Miller isn’t shy about his M.O. — he believes photographers have the right to photograph police on the job, and he’s more than willing to get arrested to prove his point. So it’s not necessarily a surprise that cops are well aware of the 305’s most rabble-rousing photog. Yet…
In a series that is sure to have Howard Schnellenberger enthusiasts and probably a small handful of others excited, the University of Miami has announced it will play FAU in a three-year series between 2013 and 2016. The series will take the Hurricanes to the recently completed FAU Stadium in…
We asked you for your dirtiest and most disgusting nicknames for the Marlins much talked about home run sculpture travesty, and you delivered. We narrowed it down to seven finalists, and Miami’s vilest (AKA Riptide readers) have crowned a winner: The Tremenda Mierda Fountain…
The Gordon Gekko of roundball is apparently downsizing. Slicked-back Miami Heat president and former coach Pat Riley and his wife Christine just sold their appropriately gaudy Coral Gables property. They bought the 180 Arvida Parkway mansion, which is 13,000 square feet on a two-acre beachfront peninsula, in 1996 for $6.3…
In the past year, the Magic City has seen more pop-ups than Katie Perry performing inside a correctional facility. We’ve been inundated with so-called “pop-up” restaurants, bars, and art galleries. Impromptu porno studios have popped-up (and then promptly deflated) on Monument Island, inside a pizzeria, and perhaps even inside on…
