The story of Ted Williams, the homeless man with the golden voice, is probably a one in a billion type thing, but Miami’s number one shock jock Enrique Santos is hoping that lightning strikes twice as he searches for the city’s own honey-throated homeless person. We’d make some remark about…
Senator Bill Nelson, currently the only democratic official in Florida to have been elected state-wide, is up for re-election in 2012, and he’s already beginning to draw Republican opponents. Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos will soon announce his candidacy and is already talking openly about the run with the media…
Before Brett Favre broke it, Dolphins legend Dan Marino held the NFL record for most career touchdown passes at 420, but did a little 420 help him get there? That’s what former NFL offensive lineman Kyle Turley claimed yesterday on the Dan LeBatard Show. Turley doesn’t know for sure but…
The Miami Heat suited up against Denver last night without LeBron James and his karma-fucked ankle. This was also the last game before the Heat return to the east coast where when it’s 7:30, it’s not actually 10:30. Mix in a dash of Mario Chalmers bricks and a Mike Miller…
When Riptide broke the news last week that a violent reality show clip filmed inside the Miami Police Department was making the rounds on YouTube, we knew the shots of cops chomping cigars and calling themselves “hunters” wouldn’t help Miguel Exposito in his bid to keep his job as chief.Apparently,…
Been feeling a bit odd lately? Did your last date with a Oujia Board end with your roommate babbling in ancient Assyrian and levitating off the ground? Had any head-spinning vomiting moments this month?Don’t worry: Rev. Bob Larson is here to help. America’s top exorcist-for-hire is in Miami today, and…
Sometimes Riptide feels as if it’s talking to itself. Like Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys, we yell at people about all the crazy crap going on around us but to little avail.So imagine our surprise when we flipped open this morning’s New York Times to find the Gray Lady opining…
In order to save a man who found himself trapped underneath a Metrorail train, rescue workers had to amputate one of his legs. Police believe the incident may have been the result of a botched suicide attempt. The station at Douglas Road, where the incident occurred, is closed in both…
It’s not a particularly great time to be unemployed in America right now, a fact far too many of us know first hand, and if you’re looking for a job in South Florida things aren’t looking too good. Forbes.com has ranked Miami as the third worst job market in the…
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Haters like to dismiss the Dolphins ’72 perfect season, the only one in the modern NFL.”Oh, that team in their prime probably couldn’t even have beaten the ’07 Dolphins. It was a different time.”Well, to celebrate its 125th birthday, The Sporting News has decided to rank the greatest NFL teams…
Al Golden has said he was going to hire his offensive coordinator from the NFL to guide the Hurricane’s traditional pro-style offense, and according to reports he’s selected Seattle Seahawks quarterbacks coach Jedd Fisch for the job. The hiring hasn’t been made official, but the team’s official Tumblr has already…
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez and County Commissioner Natacha Seijas better beware the Ides of March. Voters will take to the polls on March 15 to decide whether they want to recall the beleaguered politicians, the County Commission decided today. The decision to hold both elections on the same ballot…
After a string of initial set backs, new Miami Hurricanes head coach Al Golden and his team have turned around recruiting. Now the team has snagged Blake Ayles, who was rated the second-best tight end recruit in the nation in 2008 by Rivals.com, away from the University of Southern California…
South Beach nightlife king, developer and philanthropist Michael Capponi was arrested on charges of driving under the influence last October after driving himself home from a fancy shindig at W South Beach hot spot Wall. Capponi maintained that he blew under the legal limit both times he was asked to…
Mitchell Burroughs, a Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation manager, might have been spending $12,000 in county money on his own recreation. The manager of the Westwind Lakes Park at 6805 SW 152 Ave. has been arrested and reportedly admitted to embezzling cash and checks…
In 1989, the Miami Heat snapped it’s 17-game losing streak by defeating the L.A. Clippers, and earning the franchise its first ever win. Last night, the Clippers snapped the Heat’s 13-consecutive road wins streak, beating the Heat 111 – 105 at the Staples Center. Synergy? Coincidence? Or….. KARMA??? We’re pretty…
Rev. Gaston Smith, the hugely-popular but a lil’ bit felonious pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Liberty City, is a man of the cloth. Very fine cloth, often tailored into three pieces with a classy handkerchief jutting from a breast pocket and accompanied by some gators on his feet…
On a sweltering June afternoon, the sun beats down on a dingy faux-Frank Lloyd Wright house in upscale Pinecrest. A jungle of untrimmed trees and plants chokes the yard. Inside, half-packed boxes clog the rooms and hallways. Ancient Etruscan statues and Greek artifacts that once lined the walls are gone…
Reality Bites Mark down January 1, 2011 as the moment when the incendiary fight over leadership at the Miami Police Department hit the ski ramp at full speed, jumped the Fonz and his shark, and landed squarely in a strange land populated by Kardashians, Octomoms, and Sarah Palin. It all…
It was a clear, cool evening in the hills above Port-au-Prince when Gregoire-Ronald Chery got the last phone call of his life. Ronald, as his family called him, was on vacation in Haiti, sitting at the dinner table with his mother and cousins. They kept the side door open while…
Carlos Alvarez already has a cantankerous billionaire — and 95,000 equally irate voters — trying to get him canned. Now the Miami-Dade County mayor can’t even find peace through Farmville: His Facebook page is under attack by animal rights activists. Even before 2004, when the Humane Society decreed the county…
