We now return to our regular non-holiday programming. To ensure that no deserving booking photo gets ignored, we are going back three weeks just this time and bringing you a veritable short bus chock full of glorious dysfunction…
Duran Barfield, 24, has been accused of inflicting at least 28 fractures in the bones of his 4-month-old son. Though Barfield’s family, including his fiancée and the child’s mother, say he’s a great father, and Barfield claims that the injuries are actually a result of the child falling off a…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen made history yesterday by making the first (semi-) authorized Tweet from the House Chamber of the U.S. Congress. The Republican congresswoman, whose Twitter is usually full of rooting for local football teams, live Tweeted a picture of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi handing over the gavel to new…
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Police are investigating a bizarre hit-and-run accident that occurred last night on 27th Avenue in northwest Miami-Dade that left a man dead. What makes the incident so strange is that the driver may not have even noticed he or she hit a man and that the victim may have purposefully…
It’s been months now since we successfully survived the invasion of the guidos of the Jersey Shore, and sadly (for Riptide pageviews, anyway) they quickly returned to their home planet of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, to record season three. It premiers tonight and begs the question: Are the guidos more…
Miami-resident Gregory Carr and his ex-wife Laurie ran what investigators believe to be one to be one of the biggest high-class prostitution rings in the country. Doing business under the name “Miami Companions,” the Carrs reportedly sent prostitutes and porn stars across the country and charged as much as $500…
How eager are the Dolphins and their owner Stephen Ross to get a new coach? Apparently, enough to shower Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh in ridiculous amounts of money. According to ESPN, Ross has flown all the way across the country to woo Harbaugh and plans to offer him a contract…
Anyone who watches Univision’s decades-long institution, Sabado Gigante, knows that host Don Francisco is kind of a baller. The 70-year-old variety show wizard is an unholy mutant blend of Bob Barker, Simon Cowell and Anderson Cooper, all in a body that stole George Hamilton’s skin and wardrobe.But a paternity suit?…
In November, Riptide introduced the world to the man known by cops as “Half a Head” because he was missing the entire front of his cranium. Yeah, that was a crazy mugshot, perhaps never to be topped. But wait. Let’s all take a long look at this dude’s face…
Para una versión de este articulo en Inglés, haga clic aquí. A pocas calles de la entrada de la fábrica de joyas en La Paz, Bolivia, Julia y María observan cautelosamente para ver si los guardias nocturnos las están observando. Las dos jóvenes Aymaras tiritan en la fría noche y…
On a dreary afternoon this past September 29, dozens of Hialeah firefighters, police officers, and city employees marched near the entrance to city hall at 501 Palm Ave. Some held signs that read, “Julio Robaina, Hialeah is the city of poverty and it’s your fault,” and “Julio Robaina: What did…
Any two-bit news rag can tell you what happened yesterday. But it takes a truly great publication — one advertising Asian table massages in its back pages — to predict the future. We donned our swami’s cap and stared long and hard at our 2011 calendar until we started hallucinating…
There’s a four-foot-tall map hanging inside Miami Beach City Hall, a high-resolution satellite image of an oceanfront slice of town. The grainy brown dunes are speckled with red and green dots that mark points carefully calibrated by a Global Positioning System. It could be the cartographic reckoning of a crime…
For a Spanish version of this story, click here. A few blocks from the jewelry factory’s entrance in La Paz, Bolivia, Julia and Maria look over their shoulders to see if the night guards are watching. The two young Aymara Indian women shiver in the cold night air and lower…
Marijuana production is at an all-time high in Florida, and so are grow-house busts. Law enforcement weed eradication programs have seen a 50 percent spike in these grow labs in less than four years. It’s easy pickings for Johnny Law when you think about it: Growers are stoners. They concoct…
Rare is the day when a Miami politician’s child gets a big job through ways other than blatant and shady nepotism.Manny Diaz Jr., son of the former mayor of Miami, is apparently the leading candidate to become the Texas Longhorn’s defensive coordinator. According to some sports blogs, he’s already been…
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Lionfish are the great scourge of the sea. Native to the Pacific, the beautiful but poisonous fish have begun popping up in the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean along Florida and the islands, where they wreck havoc on the native ecosystem by eating everything in sight and have few natural…
This morning was the first morning in four years when Floridians woke up to someone other than Charlie Crist as our governor. Florida’s favorite flip-flopper passed up what would likely be an easy re-election for his doomed independent senate bid, and now he’s out of a job, out of a…
It’s well known that the majority of the mainstream media (re: all of them, pretty much) hate LeBron James and the Miami Heat. But mostly, they hate LeBron James. So much so that they’ve gone to great lengths to tell us all what a quitter, fraud, narcissist, asshole he is…
Tell any guy on Miami Beach of a mystical place filled wall-to-wall with bikini-clad models and he will instantly have some sort of Pavlovian response, whip out three Benjamins, and demand bottle service. Well, such a place now exists, but sorry fellas, Modellounge Miami is strictly female models only…
