A four-foot long spinner shark jumped over a surfer off of Panama City Beach and it was caught on video. We don’t really know what else to say about that except maybe a lame joke about “jumping the shark.” Why are you even still reading this? Why aren’t you watching…
Up in New York State they’ve finally passed a bill legalizing same sex marriage. Meanwhile, down in Miami-Dade we’ve got a mayoral candidate who can’t even decided if he’s for or against domestic partnership laws and seems to have wildly flip-flopped between stances. Julio Robaina says he believes in the…
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Back in 1963 Aerojet competed to build the first rockets that would propel a man to the moon, and they planned to build them in a plant out in rural Southwest Miami-Dade near the Everglades. Aerojet eventually failed to win the NASA contract, and the plant was abandoned, but still…
Ever wonder how much you’re making in comparison to the rest of the workforce in Miami-Dade. Well, if you’re pulling in less than $57,034-a-year you’re below average, according to statistics compiled by The Business Journals. That makes Miami-Dade the fourth best compensated county on average in Florida, and the 116th…
The Ohio State Buckeyes are still reeling from a memorabilia-for-tattoos scandal that caused coach Jim Tressel to resign and star quarterback Terrelle Pryor to leave for the pros. Though, there’s plenty of people out there who don’t think the idea of players selling or trading memorabilia is all that scandalous,…
Bradenton, Florida resident Natasha Larson really doesn’t like her new husband’s ex-wife, Tracy Wilder. So she decided to post ads on Craigslist while posing as the ex looking for men who would be interested in coming by and roughing Wilder up. Larson has now been arrested and faces criminal charges…
Singer Paulina Rubio has continued her string of alleged odd behavior. The Mexican singer was involved in a car accident this weekend in Little Havana, which lead to an arrest after a hysterical confrontation with police. However, she was let go in order to go home and breastfeed her young…
UPDATE, 4:36 p.m.: NBC Miami is reporting that the argument between the neighbors was over a $5 loan, and that 100 people were displaced by the fire. In a massive step backwards for Grand Avenue neighbor relations, a Coconut Grove man is accusing his neighbor of breaking his bedroom window…
So apparently Mike Huckabee reads Riptide, and apparently he thinks we’re just idiots. The former Arkansas Governor-turned-Fox News host had Rick Scott on his program this weekend, and the two discussed Scott’s dismal poll numbers. Huckabee decided to blame the press, and as evidence flashed a Riptide blog post headline…
We at Riptide fancy ourselves as open-minded and nonjudgmental. But when a charity called Child Foundation, Inc. is registered to the same office as a website called TeenBangBus.com, well, it grabs our attention. The links between three local nonprofits — Child Foundation, American Love & Appreciation Fund, and the Click…
In 2007, amid the champagne-drenched corporate orgy known as the Super Bowl, a busload of reporters found itself on a very different kind of junket. Rather than locker-rooms full of millionaire fat guys, the journalists tiptoed through cardboard shacks populated by penniless homeless men. Instead of boozy SoBe parties, they…
Where in the hell is Hugo Chavez?The normally voluble Venezuelan president has been missing for nearly a month. The official explanation is that he’s recovering from surgery to remove a pelvic abscess in Cuba, but rumors abound.Is he pissing into the Mississippi to make it flood? Is he hand-delivering Domino’s…
There’s not many scenarios under which President Obama can win reelection in 2012 without winning Florida (especially considering we’ll have two more electoral votes this time around). New numbers from Public Policy Polling show that while Obama is leading all Republican candidates right now in Florida, he only surpasses the…
It’s worth noting that a man who doesn’t believe a woman has the right to chose what she does with her own body is being supported by a man who brought us such songs as “Dick Almighty” and “The Fuck Shop.” It’s also worth noting that neither Luther Campbell or…
The baby gorilla born last Sunday at Zoo Miami has died. The gorilla, which was featured on Wednesday as our 305 Photo of the Day, died some time last night, the Miami Herald reports. What a way to start the weekend. An unconditional bummer.The mother “seemed to be taking good…
Free gay porn! Free gay porn! Complimentary homosexual pornography! Recordings of men having explicit sexual relations with each other you can watch without providing payment in return!Hopefully that should provide Riptide tons and tons of easy page views considering we are a blog that caters to Florida readers, and apparently…
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The party that supposedly favors deregulation and keeping the government out of people’s lives passed a state law this year that barred doctors from asking patients about gun ownership. Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill into law, but now a group of thousands of doctors and gun control groups…
Cecilia Stafford stood in a Miami-Dade courtroom this afternoon and stared at Merrit Sims, the man who twenty years ago shot and killed her husband, Miami Springs officer Charles Stafford. “On behalf of my family, my children and myself, may you rot in hell,” Stafford said.Sims listened stoically and then…
Charlie Crist is still married to an actual lady, and even though he failed to make Carole Rome a D.C. power wife she just sold her apartment on fancy Fisher Island so she can live with Crist in St. Petersburg full time. Rome sold the apartment for $3 million according…
You thought you were having a bad morning? At least you didn’t spend it dangling helplessly from the side of the 63 floor 900 Biscayne Bay building in downtown Miami. Luckily, the maintenance worker was rescued without injury, though another worker who witnessed the incident was treated for shock…
