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…
Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen want to make sure everyone in Miami is counted. The two are demanding that the U.S. Census Bureau recount the number of City of Miami residents it tallied in 2010. The feds say only 399,457 residents live in the city, which…
A little after 5 p.m. yesterday, the parents of 10-year-old Tyriq Ammons sent him to his room for misbehaving. Forty-five minutes later, his mother went to check on him. She opened the door to find her son hanging from a noose fashioned out of a videogame controller. Tampa Police are investigating…
Republicans are eager to claim incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson’s political scalp in the 2012 election, but no clear Republican candidate has emerged yet. State Rep. Adam Hasner, who represents parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties, has begun an exploratory committee but is little known around the state.The young and…
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In the words of Liberty City poet Trina: “Who got more ass than the average bitch? You know it’s the baddest bitch. Number ten in the face, slim in the waist, fat in the ass, do you want a taste?”Yes, Trina, apparently Miami does want a healthy serving of plump…
The University of Miami is constructing a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art Life Science and Technology Park in the heart of the historically impoverished Overtown neighborhood near downtown Miami. But the project has been wrought with controversy. Neighborhood activists claim the project, built with public funding because it would create jobs, has not…
The Cuban Communist Party’s sixth congress concludes today in Havana and if there is one clear point of consensus following the four-day event, it’s that no one — probably not Raúl, and certainly not Fidel — has any idea what just happened.Take The Bearded One, for example. Just yesterday it…
Rolling Stone details the quick rise and tragic personal fall of the teenage Internet queen.
Eugene Roman may never see the errors of his own ways. Or much of anything in fact. He gouged out his own eyes with his finger back in 2005 while serving time for beating his wife. Shortly after the incident he was released, and his wife accepted him back into…
Thank God for Valium. Your crazy aunt’s favorite pharmaceutical has helped to rescue a dog found in South Miami-Dade that had its head trapped in an abandoned boat cooler for more than a week. Of course, Miami-Dade firefighters deserve the real credit here…
Surfside town attorney Lynn Dannheisser has been on a bit of a multi-media rampage recently. In March, we wrote that Dannheisser, who makes more than $177,000 a year, successfully recommended her boyfriend, Gerald Houlihan, for additional legal representation for the town. Blogs Save Surfside and Who Controls Surfside Florida? had…
It’s one thing to get obliterated by the Miami Heat’s Big Three and their skull crushing offense. But when they rock an opponent’s face off with some suffocating defense, well then you really got something.The Heat used their smothering D, combined with their usual badass O and took down the…
Seventh Day Adventist? More like Seventh Day A-hole.According to investigators, Marguerite Martial Jean ran a $3.4 million Ponzi scheme targeting nearly 300 of her fellow Haitian-Americans. As if that wasn’t cynical enough, her former pastor says Jean scammed at least 25 fellow members of the Eden Seventh Day Adventist Church…
What’s the Cuban equivalent of Boca? And is there a Spanish-language version of “Thank You for Being a Friend” out there? If so, cue it up because Fidel is apparently headed for the land of Metamucil, 2 p.m. bingo games and that slow, lazy march toward death.Castro has announced in…
Last Friday, a Miami-Dade police officer was lucky to be alive after Durall Jessie Miller fired at him, leaving him with a wounded foot and a bullet-hole in his hat. Late last night, when police tracked the fugitive down to a Miami Gardens house, Miller wasn’t so lucky.Police shot and…
We’re chugging Mad Dog at the New Times offices this afternoon in honor of an alum. Jake Bernstein, a former New Times staff writer whose work appeared in our pages from 1997 through 2002, has won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Now writing for non-profit investigative news agency ProPublica,…
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Something about being a mother makes a woman want to make sure than her male offspring have the neatest, tidiest hair possible. Usually when a son forgoes regular barbering it usually results in sighs of, “Fine, just walk around town with your hair all a mess and let everyone think…
To celebrate Tax Day, the folks at Right to the City and MoveOn.org decided it was high time to combine the best traditions of 1985-era Chicago Bears dancing and progressive lefty political agitation. The result? Behold the “Tax the Rich Shuffle.” William “The Fridge” Perry was sadly not involved, but…
Given the high profile cases of Bernie Madoff, Scott Rothstein and Allen Stanford, the image of a Ponzi schemer is usually that of some rich white guy with a cigar hanging out of his mouth praying on already well-off investors, but not all schemers fit that bill. Marguerite Martial Jean,…
