Living in Miami actually makes it much easier to quickly judge whether reports of Fidel Castro’s demise are true. Just open your window: Are horns honking? Are fireworks exploding? Is anyone running down your street yelling El hijo de puta está muerto?!If not, then Fidel is probably not dead. Such…
Manuel Mares was one of the more popular faculty members at the Hialeah-based Florida National College. During graduation speeches, students made sure to thank the 56-year-old academic adviser and former business professor for his mentoring. He worked in the criminal justice department and in September appeared on a Miami-Dade police…
If we showed up late or not at all for one of every three workdays, we’d be writing for the Winn-Dixie coupon book by next week. But Bruno Barreiro — one of the 13 Miami-Dade commissioners charged with keeping this rickety skiff of a county afloat — has somehow held…
As always, we’ll start Riptide’s annual tradition of counting down our list of the year’s worst cops with a caveat: being a cop in the 305 is one of the toughest law enforcement gigs in the country and despite the weekly headlines here, most Dade cops do good work. As…
Jason Taylor played in the final game of his career yesterday. And what better way for him to go out than to bang the New York Jets’ season right in its ear hole, and send them back home with nothing.The Jets, needing a win (and a little help) to get…
2011 is over in 31 hours. It would be really nice, actually, if those last 31 hours weren’t your last on earth. (Remember, the world doesn’t end for another 12 months.) Of course, this is Miami, and New Year’s Eve can be quite dangerous. Frankly, Riptide really wants to make…
You know what’s great about ambulances? You don’t have to drive them yourself. If you’re seriously injured enough, you call 911. They send one your way. The paramedics strap you in and take you to the hospital. This shouldn’t be new info for anyone, but apparently Hubert Lee Credit didn’t get…
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The story of the 2012 presidential primary seems to be one of surging candidates quickly falling down to earth, with one, Mitt Romney, remaining consistently stable. It’s beginning to look like Newt Gingrich might join Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain as a discarded frontrunner. After taking an astronomic…
The domestic flight baggage carousel at Miami International Airport always makes us nervous. We’ve arrived in one piece. We’re ready to finally get to our destination. The only thing left to do is collect our luggage. Why isn’t it on the carousel? Oh my God, someone could have just randomly…
We just usually read Parade magazine for Howard Huge cartoons and “Ask Marilyn,” but the magazine actually keeps a somewhat frequently updated list of the world’s worst dictators. For the first time this year, Raúl Castro and Hugo Chávez made the top ten list…
Miami may be some sort of strange Banana Republican in and of itself, but, man, the rest of Florida makes us look positively sane in comparison. When Vice magazine called it “a violent, dong-shaped netherworld” earlier this year they weren’t over-exaggerating. In fact, in 2011 Riptide inauguration what’s become probably…
Donna Shalala may have just averted her worst nightmare. Ever since Napoleonic Ponzi booster Nevin Shapiro spilled his guts to Yahoo Sports this summer with allegations that he’d rained gifts on student-athletes — from cars to hookers to piles of cash — the worst-case scenario for the Canes would be…
A Miami Beach cop shot and killed a man early this morning while trying to break up a fight near 12th Street and Washington Avenue in South Beach. The officer fired two shots into the suspect’s stomach, says Deborah Doty, a MBPD spokeswoman, and the man died a short time…
Back in 2009, 62-year-old Ohio resident Nick Christie traveled down to Florida to unwind and spend time with his brother. Christie has been showing signs of depression and erratic behavior, but perhaps the warm Florida sun would help him. Christie however never returned to Ohio. He died after being strapped…
Michael Jordan’s Charlotte Bobcats may have lost to the Miami Heat last night, but MJ has officially won something else that’s hot and from Miami: the hand of Yvette Prieto. According to Charlotte news station WCNC, Jordan asked Prieto to marry him on Christmas Eve. Obviously, she said yes…
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Miami’s great economic savior: wealthy Brazilians. The South Americans are visiting the area in droves and buying up everything in sight, including empty condos, fancy clothes, and fast cars. Though, one has to wonder why they prefer coming from their sun drenched, subtropical, Latin-flair cities to ours. The New York…
The Chevrolet Corvette is a proud icon of the American motor industry. It is not built to be a crash barrier for drunk drivers, yet that’s exactly what happened at Tropical Chevy in Miami Shores earlier this month. In the early hours of December 14th a drunk driver lost control…
If there’s any justice in the world, hopefully Patrick White got thrown in a cell with a crook with a runny nose.White, 31, was arrested and charged with battery at the Jacksonville International Airport after attacking and accosting a woman who had dared to cough while aboard his flight…
Lunch might be the favorite school subject of many children across the state, and a new bill filed by a Boca Raton Democrat would allow corporations to capitalize on that by letting them buy the naming rights to public school cafeterias…
Jon Pernell Roberts, the megasmuggler featured in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys, has died at the age of 63. Film company Rakontur’s Billy Corben tweeted yesterday: “Just got word that Jon Roberts from Cocaine Cowboys passed away. Thankful he gave us the opportunity to tell his story.” And the singer Akon,…
