Cracking down on pill mills was supposed to be one of the state government’s biggest triumphs of the year. New legislation taking aim at regulating “pain management” clinics that wantonly prescribe addictive pain medications went into effect in October, but the government has blown several deadlines for putting in place…
As if taking a kick to the nuts from the horrific Detroit Lions wasn’t bad enough, a few fans got a little cherry on top of their Sunday turd sandwich courtesy Dominic Raiola, the Lions’ center. As he strutted through the tunnel, he offered the Sun Life crew a witty…
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly seemed to have a lot of strange things on his mind leading up to the Sun Bowl. Things like nude beaches and Mexican drug lords. Ok, well maybe that last thing wasn’t so strange. The Fighting Irish will be renewing their famous rivalry with…
If the Miami-Dade County Commission was a third grade classroom — and in terms of maturity it often resembles one — Dennis Moss would get a gold star sticker on his sweater. Sally Heyman would flunk. This year, Heyman, who oversees the sprawling northeast corner of Miami-Dade, had by far…
With no playoffs and no hope left for this season, the Dolphins entered a pretty meaningless game against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, all things considered. There was very little to be gained from a win other than to say they didn’t lose to the Detroit Lions. But that didn’t…
It was hailed as the most highly anticipated NBA game in the history of everything ever! The NBA game of NBA games! The game that was going to blow your ass off with its sheer apocalyptic awesome! And, in the end, the Miami Heat took down the defending NBA champion…
Jacek Urbanczyk, Poland-based sports journalist, is Riptide’s stringer for the Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl in Detroit, between the University of Toledo and our very own Florida International University. It will be played on Sunday. He’s in Detroit to drum up enthusiasm for the Polish American Football League. His prose is…
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Let’s start this list with a caveat: In the 305, the vast majority of police officers are decent men and women risking their lives to protect America’s craziest county. It’s not a job most of us could do, and we salute them for it. Really.But it’s also true that when…
With its banks and multinational corporations, Miami is often called the capital of Latin America. But it’s also the chaotic waiting room for the loony bin that starts just south of our sunny shores.This year is no exception. From a pair of unbalanced leaders to an island nation stripped of…
Querido Miami, ¡ Ay dios mio! It’s been a hard year darlings, even for a classy chihuahua like myself. This time 12 months ago, I was letting my nails dry by the pool, dripping in diamonds, and getting my ass sniffed by Marley. (WOOF! That dog can make a bitch…
The LeBron-ified Miami Heat are finally playing like juggernauts. And the team is profiting like one, too, from ticket and paraphernalia sales. In fact, the Micky Arison-owned wunderkinds expect to make more money this season than ever before. Do you think that means they might actually pay rent on their…
Jerry Babij, a fit-looking 65-year-old clad head-to-toe in black leather, wants you to know he can still tussle. “I’m a tough guy,” he says, bunching up his weathered fists. “John Gotti blew up my restaurant one time, and I didn’t back down from him.” Babij, once a rough-and-tumble character who…
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, shook the Washington, DC bureaucracy to its core with embarrassing revelations from illicit contacts with Fidel Castro to state department plans to steal credit card numbers from top United Nations officials. Then Assange was shaken to his, well, you know, when sexy Scandianvian scholar Anna…
Editor’s note: Eight months ago, in part as a response to Arizona’s enactment of a law requiring its police to ask anyone they think might be here illegally (read: Mexicans) to produce proof of legal status, Village Voice Media embarked on an extensive national immigration project. It tasked VVM papers…
There’s some hubbub over whether the NBA should schedule so many games on Christmas day. The Miami Heat’s match-up versus the Los Angeles Lakers will undoubtedly be the most talked about sporting even of the holiday, but LeBron James himself says he’d rather be spending Christmas at home (in his…
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Johnny Depp has apparently been in and around Miami that past few days (he spent most of his youth in Miramar, so perhaps he’s home for the holidays). He watched the Dolphins get their asses handed to them by the Bills on Sunday at Sun Life Stadium, but apparently the…
The USC Trojans and the Miami Hurricanes aren’t that different: private schools in big warm weather cities with a healthy amount of national championships and a sometimes troubling amount of controversy. The big difference is that ‘Canes haven’t won a national championship since ’01, whereas Trojans have claimed two since…
We said yesterday that if Dwyane Wade ever left Miami we’d wouldn’t freak out to the same degree that Cleveland did over LeBron. But, yes, we’d probably have some sort of temporary meltdown before maintaining a stiff upper lip pretending that we’ve never even heard of the guy before. After…
First year Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly really does seem to have a lot of odd things on his mind in the run up to the Sun Bowl, which will see his team reignite its historical rivalry with the Miami Hurricanes. First, he was just glad that El Paso, Texas,…
Florida just elected two far-right politicians as its next Governor and Senator, and now Republicans have veto-proof majorities in both houses of the state legislature. So, Barack Obama can kiss his chances of repeating his 2008 Florida win in 2012 goodbye, right? Well, not according to a new survey by…
