In the midst of the Trayvon Martin controversy, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Beth Bloom has cited Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law to drop charges against Greyston Garcia after he fatally stabbed a car radio thief in Little Havana on January 25th. Though, Garcia apparently initiated the violence, never called police,…
Welcome to the job, Ray Martinez! Less than a year after an on-duty Miami Beach cop drunkenly plowed into beachgoers on his ATV after partying with bachelorettes at the Clevelander — an action that blackened the end of previous chief Carlos Noriega’s career — new jefe Martinez is investigating claims…
Is this a sign of a University of Miami football apocalypse? The Hurricanes are are posting fliers around the school Wellness Center, asking “any student that is at least 6’1 and 230+ pounds” to contact the team about becoming offensive linemen. We gotta say, this does not strike us as…
Sometimes when you get a bunch of unsupervised kids with heightened emotions together, bad things happen.Though the vast majority of demonstrations at Miami-Dade high schools have been peaceful and orderly, a small group of protesters from North Miami Beach High School apparently lost control and decided it was a good…
Much has been made of the fact that Trayvon Martin was wearing a hoodie when he died, with Geraldo Rivera even suggesting that his choice in wardrobe was as much responsible for his death as George Zimmerman. Apparently the choice of attire of hung-over college kids sitting in chilly lecture…
Jeb Bush has spent the better part of the past four years not running for president and telling everyone about it, but what about a run for vice president? A new national poll shows that if leading candidate Mitt Romney picked Jebbers as his VP, it could make for a…
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There are so many beautiful moments in this YouTube video of a girl making out with and humping a tree at Ultra Music Festival. Our favorite comes at the 1:40 mark, when she sassily slaps it and tells it to shut up before hurling her body at the tree. What…
Miami Beach police have done the world a great service by putting Amadou Balde behind bars. His most grievous crime: stealing other people’s drinks off a bar. We think we speak for all decent Miami Beach drinkers when say that when we pay for overpriced swill on the Beach, we…
Back in the ’60s, Coral Gables banned pickup trucks from being parked outside in residential neighborhoods and has stubbornly defended the zoning law ever since. But could a new era of pickup truck freedom dawn in the City Beautiful? Well, maybe, but the city continues to drag its feet, and…
There’s very little levity to be found in the Trayvon Martin case, and so far the satirists have stayed mostly away from the story. Well, last night Stephen Colbert took a swing at it by lampooning Republican candidates’ reactions to President Obama’s statements about the case, Geraldo Rivera’s now-infamous hoodie…
Oral histories are hot right now. Siskel and Ebert got one. Vanity Fair just did one on The Sopranos. Now Esquire has one about Baywatch. It seems the only proper way to pay tribute to a dearly departed program is to document its history with disembodied quotes from its actors…
How is Andre Pierre still running North Miami and not awaiting trial on corruption charges? State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has some splainin’ to do after a Miami Herald report this morning ties Pierre even more closely to the corruption charges filed against his nephew last year.The new tapes from…
Whether they popped too many pills, knocked back too many Buds, or maybe even found a little “Molly” with Madonna, it was inevitable: A small portion of the blissed-out masses that packed Bayfront for Ultra Music Festival ended their weekend in a paddy wagon. Riptide has tracked down the arrest…
Finally, Frank Martin has become the head basketball coach of… South Carolina? According to news reports, Martin is leaving Kansas State after five years to take over the struggling Gamecocks. The move brings Martin closer to his native Miami, where he coached high school ball for 15 years, but it’s…
Ah, remember the days when Kimbo Slice was making people go bazonkers for his vicious beatdown videos on YouTube? Today, after washing out as a professional mixed martial artist, Slice’s fighting career has reached a new low. Despite winning his fourth straight professional boxing match Saturday night, the sports Interwebs…
On the one-month anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death, Sanford police have finally revealed the version of events recounted by George Zimmerman. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Zimmerman claimed that before he fatally shot Martin, the 17-year-old punched him in the nose and slammed his head into the concrete. That’s apparently the…
Rob Kardashian, the only member of America’s favorite family of fame monsters to have a Y chromosome, was briefly detained by Miami Beach police early Sunday morning after a confrontation with a paparazzo…
Say bye-bye to the Double A. Amway Arena, the original home of the Orlando Magic, imploded this weekend. Naturally, everyone loves the site of a 367,000-square-foot building being blown up by 600 pounds of dynamite, so watch the video below…
Reality, or something sort of like it, has finally caught up to Gov. Rick Scott. The Tea Party activists that help elect him? They’re apparently not so enamored of Scott any longer. The leaders of what remains of the movement are not too pleased with Scott’s performance as governor thus…
Update: Wonderfully, Business Insider touted the bogus photo as accurate in a story on how the media is badly reporting the Trayvon Martin saga. Their source for the photo: white power message board Stormfront. Update 2: See the response from the Business Insider author at the end of this post…
Get ready for a Romney-Rubio ticket, Florida. Even as Miami’s favorite Tea Party son tells everyone who will listen that he has zero plans to run as vice president this year, the Tampa Bay Times reports that he’s studiously following the textbook on how to prepare for a vice presidential…
