How do you smooth over a cop-on-trooper feud that’s escalated from high speed chases to retaliatory arrests to dumping five tons of human feces onto an official police vehicle?If you’re the Miami Police Department and the Florida Highway Patrol, you settle the simmering beef the old fashioned way: a good…
While Basel collectors plunk down millions on Miami Beach, this week’s biggest art buy went down last night on the other side of Biscayne Bay. Developer Jorge Perez’s $35 million bid to put his name atop the Miami Art Museum’s new bay front home was finalized by trustees.The gift seems…
Not a good legal week for Miami Dolphins wide receivers of both past and present. Former Dolphins player David Boston, who played with the team in 2004 and ’05, was arrested last night for allegedly punching a woman so hard twice in the head he left a gash that required ten stitches to…
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Florida A&M University has announced they’ve dismissed four students in the wake of the death of marching band member Robert Champion. The news comes on the same day that the Associated Press obtained a call made to 911 shortly before Champion’s death in which the caller says the band member…
Even the dramas of Tallahassee seem enviable to the bizarre family court case ex-Gov. Charlie Crist now finds himself in the center of. Crist married the then-Carole Rome during his term as Governor, and the two made plans to integrate Carol’s two daughters into their lives. Now however, the girl’s father, Todd Rome,…
John Timoney, the former Miami Police Chief most notable for his violent handling of the FTAA Protests in 2003, is now packing his bags and heading to the Middle East. Bahrain’s Interior Ministry has hired Timoney to handle training of police.The kingdom has decided it needs to reform its police…
Oneal Ron Morris, the transgendered woman accused of performing back alley surgeries and injecting substances like Fix-a-Flat tire sealant and cement into a woman’s butt, gave her first, and she says last, interview to Entertainment Tonight last night, and wants you to know “I really am innocent or whatever.”…
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall has found himself on the wrong side of the law yet again. This time, it’s for allegedly not paying a hefty cab fair. Marshall was not arrested in the incident, but was handcuffed and put in the back of a Broward County Sheriff’s deputy…
Rep. Connie Mack IV has only been in the race for the GOP senate nomination for two days and he already has a monster lead. He’s ahead of the rest of the field by double digits in one-on-one match ups, and seems to have a wide base of support among…
A few weeks ago, we told you that Miami Marlins mascot Billy the Marlin would return with a new color scheme, and lamented, “Hopefully we don’t have to worry about an 8-foot tall orange sports fish walking around the stadium.”Well, the new Billy is finally here, and its not quite…
In the December issue of GQ magazine, our hometown boy Pitbull is the only Miamian to make the list of the “25 Least Influential People Alive.” Tim Pawlenty claimed the top spot and others on the list with less clout than the Cuban-American rapper include actress Gwenyth Patrow, deposed Egyptian dictator…
Woah, Nelly. Horse slaughter is once again legal thanks to Congress.Florida currently has some of the toughest laws against horse slaughter in the nation, but activists disagree over whether the practice could soon be booming in the Sunshine State.”If someone were to open a licensed slaughter house in Florida and…
Stripteases, sexual favors, booze, porn mags, and fat stacks of cash would be run-of-the-mill in many Miami strip clubs. But at downtown’s maximum security Federal Detention Center? Multiple attorneys interviewed by Riptide say the FDC visitor rooms have been taken over by South American pole dancers posing as paralegals for…
‘Twas one Friday night in January last year when the owner of Miami’s longest-running holiday festival failed miserably in his attempt to mack on a woman at a limo company. Brian Shechtman, who along with his brother has operated Santa’s Enchanted Forest since 1984, had dialed Aventura Limousine to order…
September’s fatal shooting at Nocturnal got us wondering: What really goes on behind the velvet ropes in Miami’s most chichi clubs? Our sickly journalist physique hardly qualified us to infiltrate the tanned and Ed Hardy-clad world, so instead we requested 12 months of police reports from one SoBe hot spot:…
Sure, during Art Basel Miami Beach our fair city is the art capital of the world for one week, but the rest of the year we can’t even make it onto The Atlantic’s list of “The Most Artistic Cities.” We’re apparently less artistic then cultural hot spots like Danbury, Connecticut,…
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Congratulations! You survived Emily, Irene, Rina, and all those other storms that threatened to come near us, yet never did. Yes, we’ve endured another hurricane season, and we won’t even have to think about any possible category fives until next June. …
Will Art Basel Miami Beach get a Wall Street-style occupation this week? The art fair warned gallerists of the possibility, and rumors are swirling. Now OccupyArtBasel.com is live, but right now it’s just a Tumblr blog filled with a mini-manifesto and a Occupy movement related pictures and links. There’s also…
How far has Herman Cain fallen? Even controversial South Florida congressman Allen West is kicking him when he’s down. About murmurs that Cain is “reassessing” his campaign and thinking about pulling out despite having been the front-runner not so long ago, West went on a Washington, D.C. radio station this…
North Miami Beach has fired two police department employees after they allegedly were caught in the office trying to cast a Santeria curse on the city manager shortly before mass layoffs were planned. Veteran officer Elizabeth Torres and office manager Yvonne Rodriguez were canned last week over the ceremony, says…
