Because the race for Florida’s Republican Senate nomination is wide open, there’s room for just about anyone to get in the race. Heck, according to the latest Q poll, some guy named Mike McCallister is leading the pack. Anything is possible. So meet the latest entrant into the fray: Marielena…
Congressman and possible senator Allen West lives in his own serene and strange reality where, no doubt, his recent response to a local Islamic group makes perfect sense. In early August, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent a 679-word letter to West urging him to cut ties with “anti-Islamic…
Though he announced his retirement last week, former Miami Dolphin Channing Crowder says he is open to returning to the game next season after the birth of his first child. Don’t expect the Fins to come calling. Bridges have been burned. He ripped both quarterback Chad Henne and general manager Jeff…
A 15-year-old boy from Coral Gables was shot and killed this morning in Boynton Beach after he stole a BMW with two friends and drove to Palm Beach County looking for homes to burglarize. The victim was accidentally shot by a friend who was playing with a gun in the…
After news broke yesterday that the NCAA would question the University of Miami about gifting allegations made by convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shaprio, initial reports indicated the school didn’t think the NCAA would be able to find enough evidence to prove anything. Well, now coach Al Golden, who was hired long…
Though guys like George LeMieux and Adam Hasner have for months been running for the GOP nomination to take on Senator Bill Nelson, no one has made much headway with voters. That leaves the field wide open for a potential late entrant. Rep. Adam West, Florida’s most Tea-soaked new congressman, might be…
Since the beginning of time — or at least the Reagan era — the courtyard of downtown Miami’s Stephen P. Clark Government Center has been a hot spot for Schlitz-addled homeless dudes, toothless bag ladies who will gum your shoulder if you get too close, and Bible-waving Old Testament screamers…
Zachery Tims’ body was found at the luxury hotel in Times Square.
Five teacup puppies, valued at a total of $4,100 and countless immeasurable units of adorableness, were snatched from the Puppy Dream pet store on Bird Road this weekend. The store’s cameras caught an unidentified woman committing the unspeakable crime of grand theft cute…
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After disappointing attempts at mixed martial arts and professional wrestling, Miami’s back-yard brawling sensation Kimbo Slice might have finally found his professional punch-throwing niche: boxing. Sure, the competition was considerably low-level, but over the weekend Slice made his boxing debut and knocked his opponent out in 17 seconds flat. Watch…
The machines are taking over the cafeteria. Starting this fall, some Miami-Dade students will be getting their school lunch from a vending machine and not Berta, the hairnet-clad lunch lady. Rest assured though, Junior won’t be eating just corn chips and soda pop. The high tech machines serve healthy options…
Fidel Castro turned 85 this past Saturday, and the celebrations were mostly typical. Supporters held a giant concert featuring dozens of musical acts, but Castro himself spent the day in seclusion, which prompted rumors he might have been too feeble for a public appearance. Miami exiles, meanwhile, marked his birthday…
What police termed a “melee” erupted at South Beach’s Nikki Beach club early this morning, right in front of two off-duty Miami Beach cops. It left one man seriously injured with multiple stab wounds and the alleged attacker in police custody.”We haven’t determined a motive yet,” says Det. Juan Sanchez,…
Last year, New Times chronicled the rise and fall of flashy Miami Beach Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro. The man who had donated more than $150,000 to the University of Miami football program now sits in jail on a 20-year sentence. He has been threatening since April 2010 to pen a…
Back in January, Florida was ahead of the curve on an important national issue. Yes, you read that right. That’s when a bill designed to protect youth athletes from concussion passed the Florida House. The new law would require kids who had suffered a suspect head injury to be taken…
It’s over! After exactly two years, one month, and one week, the Miami Heat’s stubborn refusal to talk to Riptide about anything for any period of time has finally come to an end. Well, sort of.The cruel and arbitrary lockout really began 15 years ago when we wrote this article…
The Florida Marlins would have you believe they abruptly demoted fan favorite Logan Morrison after last night’s loss to the Giants because his batting average dipped below .250 — an excuse so blatantly untrue that Jeffrey Loria must have been cackling in his Hamptons mansion as he helped ghost-write the…
The good news is football season started again last night. The bad news is the Miami Dolphins still pretty much blow.The Dolphins visited the Atlanta Falcons for the first game of the 2011 pre-season and, while the Fins ultimately delivered the 28-23 victory, it was mostly thanks to the second…
Lest you think Miami Dolphins fans were being overdramatic in their disappointment that the team couldn’t get a starting quarterback better than Chad Henne, we now have cold, hard rankings to back our whining. USA Today ranked all 32 teams’ starting quarterbacks, and Henne came in 31st out of 32…
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Florida’s economy still sits in the dumpster. A recent study shows that Sunshine State ranks fourth in the nation for percentage of children whose parents can’t afford to feed them. Yet the Florida Senate has announced plans to form a committee to tackle the fallout from the tabloid-friendly Casey Anthony trail…
