Dolphins fans have a right to be concerned about Brandon Marshall’s play last season and the legal situation stemming form his wife stabbing him in the gut with a kitchen knife, but is the best solution to that really signing a guy who just got out of a jail yesterday…
Less than a week after New Times reported that Miami Springs Mayor Zavier Garcia was in foreclosure and has failed to pay both property and business taxes, prosecutors are eying his campaign finances.Joe Centorino, the Miami-Dade assistant state attorney in charge of public corruption, confirmed that the matter is under…
Hopefully you haven’t found a new barber named Rocky you like recently. Hopefully you don’t have an appointment with him this week, because “Rocky” isn’t going to be able to keep it. Those same hands that have been clipping your hair are accused of pulling the trigger that ultimately ended…
The Department of Justice has indicted four foreign nationals for stealing more than $1.5 million from bank accounts by using “skimming” technology to help themselves to the bank accounts of customers who used ATMs in Miami, Chicago, and New York City. Mihail Dragici and Ionel Dedlescu, both Romanian citizens, were…
On March 20, after a fraudulent first-round of voting and weeks of riots, Haitians overwhelmingly elected a 50-year-old former pop star as president.Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly strolled into office with two-thirds of the votes, promising radical change. Since retiring from the stage in 2007, Martelly has tried to shed his…
944, the magazine for people who find Ocean Drive too challenging of a read, is closing. The chain of glossies with a Miami Beach edition published its last set of issues with the June edition, and then will be no more. The company filed for bankruptcy protection last year, and…
Manuel Alonso-Poch isn’t just one of Miami’s best-connected lawyers and a major donor to bigwigs such as Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado and his daughter, school board member Raquel Regalado — he’s also been trumpeted lately as the business-savvy savior of the long-threatened Miami Marine Stadium.So what the heck is going…
A second graphic video of Miami Beach and Hialeah police officers firing over 100 bullets into Raymond Herrise’s car has been released, and it’s one the officers really didn’t want you to see. When they noticed 35-year-old Narces Benoit had filmed the incident on his phone they threatened him at…
Next time you come across a dead chicken who seems to have meet its ends in a Santeria ritual, please remember that chicken may have died for the sake of Jennifer Lopez’s career.Yes, there’s a crazy rumor being floated that Jennifer has a godmother in Miami who harnesses the dark…
While his constituents watch taxes rise and home values slide, Miami Springs Mayor Zavier Garcia has not paid property taxes and owes back taxes on his business.Since Riptide posted a story last week that reported Garcia was in foreclosure, details of other fiscal indiscretions have emerged.Since the foreclosure filing in…
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Right wing media trickster Andrew Brietbart’s BigJournalism.com is stringing out the release of supposedly scandalous photos today of Congressman Anthony Weiner. Imagine our surprise when we deigned to check in on their big Weiner pic party today to find a post attacking Riptide sandwiched between pictures of Weiner with some…
Ron Artest, the NBA’s favorite halftime-boozing, riot-inducing maniac, has gotten quite interested in this year’s NBA Finals — unencumbered by playoff obligations of his own, he’s been making predictions for a week despite not knowing what day the games are on or what city they’re being played in.Stunning statistical analysis aside,…
The big auction of Bernie Madoff’s old stuff went down this weekend at the Miami Beach Convention Center, and more than $400,000 was collected to pay back his victims. The big news though is that someone paid $200 for a lot of Madoff’s old boxer shorts. Which seems like a…
More than a week after a traumatic Jet Ski accident near the MacArthur Causeway that left Sean Kingston in the trauma center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, TMZ reports that the “Beautiful Girls” singer is expected to make a full recovery and is even able to walk again on his own…
Assuming there even is an NFL season this year (even one that is only eight games long), the Miami Dolphins will find themselves once again in a tough quarterback situation. There’s been murmurs about signing a free agent all off-season, and the latest rumors center around the Tennessee Titan’s Vince…
Nothing screams “I Am A Righteous Ass Kicking Machine” quite like overcoming one of the NBA Finals worst collapses, an officiating crew that absolutely refused to call any fouls for you but insisted on blowing the whistle if you so much as breathed on the giant German, and having one…
There is a new must-have accessory for villains and T-Pain alike. It looks like a Rocketeer-esque jet pack, but instead of flames, it’s propelled by two powerful streams of water. The Jetlev R200, as it’s called, sends the wearer three stories into the air at 22 mph. You can do…
For game 3 of the NBA Finals against the Mavericks, the Miami Heat will be going on the road and into unpleasant territory. Not just unpleasant for opposing professional sports teams — we’re talking bad for everybody.There has been plenty of good-natured trash talk bouncing back and forth — cries…
About 200 residents gathered in front of Miami Beach City Hall Friday night to demand an end to the city’s Urban Beach Weekend, which this year saw 431 arrests and two police shootings that left one man dead and four bystanders shot.Protestors held signs with messages like “It’s not about…
While the shooting involving Raymond Herisse is dominating headlines, police have released details in the second police-involved shooting that happened on Monday morning in Miami Beach during Urban Beach Weekend. Though the suspect in the second shooting appears to be a bit surprising. He’s a 45-year-old fire captain from South…
The dozen or so people who can make a serious claim to being true Florida Marlins fans are stoked that his may be the year for the Florida Marlins! The year the team finally loses a playoff series! The Fish currently have a .574 record. That’s the fourth best in…
