Yesterday, Eric Fischer’s amazing Flickr set of maps illustrating the racial segregation and integration of various American city’s went viral. Using data from the 2000 census, Fischer’s maps illustrates racial segregation by using dots. Each dot represents 25 people of a certain race, with red representing Whites, yellow representing Hispanics…
University of Florida professor of food and resource economics Timothy Taylor has been fired after suggesting that Latin American women tend to dress more provocatively at the office than American woman during a lecture on sexual harassment. What exactly that has to do with food and resource economics we’re not…
That blindfolded chick holding the scales just made it rain justice on Rumeal Robinson. The former University of Michigan basketball hero and NBA journeyman– whose addiction to strip clubs was first exposed by this blog– has been convicted in Iowa federal court of fraud. The Aventura resident was indicted for…
It’s already been a busy week for the drug that made Miami — or at least for the feds’ perpetual war on the white stuff. First, the DEA arrested 10 people, mostly from Miami and Hialeah, and charged them with organizing a ring shuttling coke from Juarez to South Florida.Then…
Today’s photo comes from Toro66’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group…
Last week, several Miami Herald editors and reporters wrote a letter to the paper’s management asking it to stop focusing on delivering quick news and return to its roots in well-reported investigative journalism. We’re not sure if this is the answer. But we are sure of one thing: the quality…
Somewhere in the northern Florida town of Madison lies a magical place where cats roam free in an expansive kitty village. The cats, all 660 of them, can visit kitty Wal-Mart or attend cat church. There are scratching posts and climbing places a plenty. It’s a paradise for pussies, and…
Standing before a row of undocumented Miami-Dade College students downtown this morning, Senate hopeful Kendrick Meek urged Congress to pass a long-debated bill that would give college graduates and military members a quick path to full citizenship. Democrats plan to attach the DREAM Act to a defense bill this week,…
Sarah Palin, the world’s foremost political performance artist, has announced a Miami Date for her 2010 Tea Baggin’ ‘Round the Map American Tour! Yes, the pit bull in lipstick will be unleashed October 6 at the American Airlines Arena at the behest of a local Tea Party group. That’s just…
Everyone had the Miami Dolphins going into Minnesota and getting their asses handed to them by Brett Favre and the Vikings. But when it came down to it, the Fins executed a simple two-part game plan against the supposed Super Bowl contenders to perfection. For the offense: No screw ups…
Local composer Wendy Mae Chambers is known for her avant-garde musical scores and quirky instruments, not her singing voice. But she must have sung one helluva tune in court earlier this month to avoid going to jail.On September 1, a year and a half after drunkenly plowing her SUV into…
One of the allures of Twitter is that you’re only an @ symbol away from sending a message to some of your favorite celebrities, politicians, and sports stars. Usually those messages are positive, but sometimes the turn ugly. Chances are the star might not ever see it, but Miami Hurricanes…
Inside the haute Doral Golf Resort & Spa, Ron Martin’s huge vinyl sign leaps out from the clutter in the Taking America Back conference exhibitors’ hall.Past slick booths selling Ron Paul-approved gold bars and offering “patriot coaching” — a two-day boot camp teaching the fine art of “turning the tables…
A freak accident at Sun Life Stadium Sunday has put the Chicago Cubs’ rookie outfielder Tyler Colvin in the hospital with a season-ending injury. Colvin was on third base during the second inning when teammate Wellington Castro’s maple bat broke and sent a large shard into Colvin’s chest. Yeah, and…
Everyone has a Twitter these days, so it’s hard to keep up. Luckily for you Riptide has decided to start chronicling the best Miami-related Tweets each week. Of course, we’re not even up on all of Twitter. So if you think there’s a local VIP whose account we need to…
Note to all club promoters out there: You can’t just browse through Google Image Search and put pictures of any sexy lady you find on your flyer. See, sometimes that sexy lady will find that flyer and sue your ass for using her image to promote your party.That’s what happened…
Today’s photo comes from AFoolInMiami’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group…
For this year’s training camp the Miami Heat have gone way up North in Florida to the real South, and will be holding court at the Hurlburt Field and Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach in the Panhandle. Yes Pat Riley and crew are keeping the on-court development…
The unemployment rate in Miami-Dade county rose to a staggering 14.4 percent in the month of August, the Agency for Workforce Innovation reported today. That’s a full one percent jump since last month and a 2.8 percent jump since August 2009. Basically, 188,000 are hopelessly unemployed Lloyds and there’s not…
Breaking news! For the first time since coming in second on American Idol, singer Adam Lambert was spotted in an outfit that didn’t look like it fell off the tractor trailer that carries Lady Gaga’s wardrobe around. Oh, and also he stands accused of violently assaulting a paparazzo on Miami…
Do you love arguing about the liberal socialist agenda to destroy America but wish you could quote the Constitution in a more nautical setting? Do you love cruising the Caribbean, but think constantly about how much more you would love it if you could share those golden sunsets with Tea…
A disturbing scene unfolded while Riptide was waiting on line at Target on Wednesday night. A woman later identified as Ketrina Brown came to the cashier with two boxed dolls: Baby Alive, the creepily animatronic doll that “digests”. They were exactly the same dolls, except one was black and the…
