This 20,000-square-foot, Tony Montana-esque mansion at 70 Palm Island is Miami embodied. It’s been bought for a lavish price during boom times, foreclosed on during lean times, seen monstrous amounts of cocaine snorted within its walls, swapped between new money, and now, with the real estate market just getting its…
Could 2010 get any worse for taxi drivers in Miami? This summer, one cabbie was nearly killed in a deadly shooting while at least seven others were robbed at gunpoint. And in a move to protect taxi drivers, the County Board of Commissioners could soon force them to buy expensive…
Kat Stacks is a free market capitalist. She doesn’t just give away sex — and considering she claims to be sleeping with men named Gudda Gudda, who can blame her? And she certainly doesn’t just give away her deep thoughts either. When we tried to interview hip-hop’s proudest harlot in…
Cruise ship tourists: they may be kind of annoying, but they’re pretty damn good for our local economy. For the third year in a row the Port of Miami has set a world record for the number of cruise passengers traveling through a port. Despite the economy, that means the…
Miami New Times columnist Luther Campbell has launched a twitter war against WQAM sports talk personality Sid Rosenberg, whose controversial on-the-air antics put him on an even playing field against the nastiest rapper to ever get his own column. The two men could square off later today. Campbell has been…
Tourism officials in both New York City and Miami announced today a joint promotion to encourage travel between the two cities. In conjunction with American Airlines, flights during certain dates this winter will cost only $79 each way. That’s a decent, if not exactly unbelievable deal, but we can’t help…
Driving around Downtown from now on, you may notice that seemingly every homeless person is now wearing a LeBron James-themed jersey, T-shirt, sweatshirt, wristbands, sneakers, or embroidered blanket. Yeah, that was us…
What do a Christian preschool, a pizzeria, a sod company, and the Tourist Office of Spain have in common?They’ve all been caught shortchanging their staff, according to documents obtained by the New Times. But thanks to the Miami-Dade’s new Wage Theft Program, those and 12 other companies have voluntarily paid…
Somewhere on the list of facts everyone should know comes “birds lay eggs.” That’s probably just after “the sky is blue” and “the earth is round” on the obvious scale. Somehow though, Miami-Dade Public Schools have failed immensely in imparting that knowledge onto one of its graduates. Of course, that…
Downtown Miami residents who love organic garbanzo beans and various imitations of snack foods made out of soy can breath a sigh of relief. The plan to bring a Whole Foods to the area is finally back on. Pop your bottles of Kombucha in celebration, yuppies…
Downtown Miami will see the construction of one of the first new major retail projects in years. Stiles Corp. announced plans to build a 57,200-square-foot, three-story shopping complex to be anchored by a Publix right on Biscayne Boulevard. That might be an encouraging sign for downtown development, but CBS4 is…
Miami’s streets are paved with assault weapons– but cash-strapped grifters keep stealing them to sell as scrap. In the East Redlands, a foreclosed development has had all of its manhole covers stolen, presumably by scrap peddlers who can get six cents a pound for them — or about $6 per…
We can not tell you how many times we’ve been in those sticky situations where we need some extra gold bars, but unfortunately wherever it is you go to get gold bars (the gold bar store?) is closed. We’re sure, like most regular citizens, you have the same exact problem…
We’re serious about getting as many LeBron jerseys– and any other items– from Cleveland in order to clothe the Miami homeless as we can. I mean, just look at that logo. And now we’re offering awesome seats to the December 15 American Airlines Arena showdown between the Cleveland Cavaliers and…
The Starlite Hotel — better known as that place next to Wet Willie’s where you keep waking-up naked on Sunday mornings — is under investigation for allegedly underpaying its staff.Ex-employees claim the Starlite Café, a restaurant attached to the hotel on Ocean Drive, stiffed them out of tens of thousands…
This week’s athlete heavy Twitter roundup includes Kory Sheet’s take on the sexual proclivities of Blackberry users, a Marlins player’s chill new faux-hawk, LeBron’s love of college football. Also, the only Republican left who supports gay rights wins an award from a gay Republican group, and some lady who occasionally…
Chris Bosh is officially a resident of Miami-Dade County. The Miami Heat star has bought a brand new seven-bedroom mansion along Miami Beach’s North Bay Road, according to The Herald. The modern looking pad designed by Touzet Studio, currently decked out in all-white, features a gourmet kitchen, gym, elevator, courtyard…
They say if you want something done right, you just gotta do it yourself. An inspired drive to deliver Cleveland’s unwanted Lebron James jerseys to our local homeless has been stalled by the Miami Coalition for the Homeless due to “politics”. Even Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado is said to have…
You might not have noticed, but the Magic City has a wee bit of a poverty crisis going on these days. Half the county is behind on its mortgage and Miami’s homeless can’t even get their hands on unwanted LeBron jerseys.So imagine our surprise when we caught wind of last…
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…
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…
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…
