Asked to name a senator he’d like to pattern his own career after, Marco Rubio told the National Review that he really admires Jesse Helms. Yes, Helms, the late North Carolina Republican senator with notorious and well-documented racist and homophobic views. He once called the landmark Civil Rights Act of…
You can accuse Joel Paul Williams of setting fire to several abandoned buildings in the Collins Park area of South Beach, but you can’t accuse him of being a liar. When police arrested the 33-year-old homeless man in February, the only explanation offered was: “I’m insane.” Well, now a court…
The Federal Bureau of Economic Analysis has released its county-level estimates of per capita personal income (total personal income divided by population) for 2009, and apparently the people of Miami-Dade brought in $36,357 each on average. That’s a much smaller figure than most of our neighboring counties, though compared to…
A 33-year-old woman was shot in the back last night at her home in Miramar, Florida, and police believe that her 3-year-old son was the gunman. The boy might have been playing with the gun when it accidentally fired and sent a bullet through his mother…
It could be a scene out of some spy or invasion flick — flocks of ominous black military choppers fluttering over Miami’s glittering skyline. But this is no movie. It’s been a reality for Brickell residents these past few nights, and they’ve been capturing the strange occurrences on YouTube videos…
Florida law isn’t murky when it comes to residency requirements for state representatives: “Upon taking office” you must be living and voting in your district. Pretty simple, right?Well, five months after getting sworn to represent a district in West Kendall, Republican Frank Artiles is still living in his $300,000 Palmetto…
Eastern European B-girls in SoBe scam
Uncle Luke says legalize marijuana
ICE won’t let Lyglenson Lemorin return for his son’s funeral
Bobby Kent sues ASCAP over “Charge!” stadium anthem
North Bay Village Mayor Corina Esquijarosa has some homestead issues
Several posts on 15-year-old Seath Jackson’s Facebook wall paint a picture of the heated arguments that might have set the stage for his brutal murder last Sunday near Ocala. Jackson had apparently been dating 15-year-old Amber Wright, but she broke up with him a few weeks before the murder and…
Rescue workers pulled the lifeless body of a 15-year-old boy from a lake in Hialeah today after the young boy attempted to jump into the lake from a bridge. Resuscitation efforts proved ineffective, and the boy was pronounced dead at Palmetto General Hospital…
Miami’s real estate woes are far from over, but the sales numbers from March bring hope that things are getting better. Sales of existing condos jumped 85 percent in the Miami metropolitan area in March 2011 compared to March 2010, and jumped 80 percent compared to February 2011. Though, the…
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Tim Hetherington earned an Oscar nomination last year for Restrepo, his harrowing, front-line documentary about an Army platoon mired in a deadly Afghanistan valley. The picture is named for medic Juan “Doc” Restrepo, a Pembroke Pines native whose death during a firefight inspires the rest of the soldiers to survive…
Remember the time that the New York Yankee’s Alex Rodriguez’s annual salary was greater than the entire roster of the Florida Marlins combined? Well, the Marlins have agreed to increase their payroll in anticipation of moving into their own ballpark, and now A-Rod only makes about 57 percent of what…
Tallahassee is not only the political capital of Florida, but also apparently the pot-smoking capital of America. Surprisingly, Miami, most often associated with drugs, doesn’t even make the Daily Beast’s list of Mary Jane-loving cities. Then again, maybe it’s not much of a surprise that college towns dominate the rankings…
Residents of “Knifecrime Island” might become increasingly wary of traveling to the “Gunshine State.” The brutal murder of two British tourists in Sarasota has shocked the United Kingdom, and now the country’s media is stirring the idea that maybe Florida isn’t such a safe place to visit.For a state that…
LeBron James decided the best place to take his talents was South Beach, but it might not have been the best place to take his mom. A witness told TMZ that Gloria James yelled xenophobic slurs the night she was arrested for slapping Fontainebleau valet Rockefeller Sorel, a Haitian immigrant…
In March, Riptide wrote about Surfside Town Attorney Lynn Dannheisser’s successful recommendation of her boyfriend, Gerald Houlihan, for additional legal work for the town. Dannheisser has since compared New Times — and two Surfside blogs — to the KKK. We recently received a letter from Houlihan, representing his girlfriend Dannheisser, threatening…
Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 rig workers and released 206 million gallons of crude into the ocean. And while the oil spill undoubtedly hurt many Florida businesses, including Gulf resorts and fishing trawlers, we in Miami…
