Because Floridians honor the age old tradition of democracy so-so much, the current race for the state’s open Senate seat now revolves around pictures of embarrassing man hugs. This truly was our founding fathers’ dream.On your left you’ll find a picture Florida Governor Charlie Crist embracing then newly elected and…
Let’s be honest. The brightest star in the black hole of mediocrity that is the South Florida sports landscape is Dwyane Wade. As we all know, he enters free agency after this season. While we’re about 75 percent sure he’ll stay with the Heat, the media is going to have…
As God as our witness, Florida will not rest until we put a bullet between the eyes of every alien python, anaconda, and monitor lizard in this state. They have taken our pets, they have taken our Everglades, they have taken our alligators, they have even taken our children, and…
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Earlier this month, Danny Williams, the head of government in Canada’s Newfoundland province, traveled to Miami Beach to receive heart surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center.Cue the predictable right-wing response taking digs at Canada’s publicly funded, liberal-loved health-care system: “We keep hearing how terrible and awful the American health-care system…
The Florida for Life Act might as well be titled the Florida for Life Imprisonment of Doctors Providing Abortions Act, because that’s essentially what it would do.The proposed bill, filed by Rep. Charles Van Zant and cosponsored by four other male Republicans, would outlaw most abortions in the state. The…
Not being in the target audience, we know only these things about the Twilight movies: sparkling vampires, forbidden love, vagina allergies, Kristen Stewart’s pouty face, and Taylor Lautner’s abs.None of this makes us want to run out and chomp on a Whopper and onion rings. Especially the abs part. (When will society…
The Dolphins might be cooking up various schemes to get South Florida taxpayers to foot the bill for the proposed makeover of Sunny D Sun O))) Sun Life Stadium so the city can host future Super Bowls, but a new study shows Miami didn’t receive much of an image boost from the…
The string of cat killings that rocked Palmetto and Cutler Bay last summer may have ended when police arrested 18-year-old suspect Tyler Weinman, but investigators haven’t been able to link Weinman’s DNA to the case.Eleven of the 19 cats’ bodies were tested for human DNA and none was found. They…
A Judge ruled the use of red light cameras illegal in Aventura. [CBS4]Police are searching for a driver who hit two bicyclists early yesterday morning. He didn’t stop, and then abandoned the car believed to be stolen. [WSVN]The School Board fears the district’s budget could be $250 to $350 million…
The saga of Renyel Pinto, fugitive Marlins reliever, continues. In November, Riptide reported that the rotund Venezuelan pitcher had skipped court dates in both Miami-Dade and Broward counties and was being chased by an arrest warrant and a $6,000 summary judgment as a result.Worse yet, in our mind, Pinto’s Facebook…
Until last October, the city used to pay a guy $14,000 a year to round up the thousands of stray chickens that roam our pockmarked streets. In a story in this week’s New Times, Lesther Jorge, the last Chicken Buster, toured some old battle sites, like Overtown, the Gaza of…
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The Winter Olympics may be getting dismal local ratings, but if the pleas of poll dancers across the world to have their “sport” recognized by the Olympics are heeded, we’ve got a feeling ratings would shoot through the roof. “After a great deal of feedback from the pole dance community,…
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Eventually, we’re all going to end up unwittingly shooting one of our friends. It happens. It happened to Dick Cheney and his hunting buddy. It happened to Charlie Sheen when he inadvertently capped then-fiancée Kelly Preston. It happened to Plaxico Burress and his thigh. Now the Marlins’ Jose Ceda has admitted…
We can only imagine the wacky stuff people try to get through customs at Miami International Airport, but a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus certainly stands out. The fancy ancient Egyptian coffin belonged to a fellow named Imesy sometime around 1,000 B.C. but was stolen from Egypt in 1884. After being put on display in Madrid…
So you’re speeding down the MacArthur Causeway in your beat-up Toyota when you spot a Miami Beach Police cruiser. Only it’s the same cop car you’ve seen there for the past month. It hasn’t moved an inch. It’s been glistening in the morning, slumbering at night — but there’s no…
Voters don’t go to the polls until August, but Marco Rubio, once the underdog in the Republican Senate Primary, appears to have Gov. Charlie Crist down for the count.According to a new Rasmussen poll of likely Republican voters, Rubio now leads Crist 54 percent to 36 percent. By a rate…
Personally, we barely understand what is going on during these Winter Olympics. Apparently we aren’t the only ones in Miami who feel that way.Out of the 55 television markets monitored by Nielsen, the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale market has come in 54th in terms of viewership, according to Glenn Garvin. The only…
The fourth annual BarCamp Miami took place yesterday in the Design District’s 4141 Building. The ad-hoc gathering of about 200 geeks and social media enthusiasts started at 9 a.m. and ended around 6 p.m. with 32 presentations. BarCamp presentations were rich in content but informal. At this unconference, there was…
Mayor Tomas Regalado will name Carlos Migoya, a former Wachovia Bank president and Autonation executive, as interim city manager later this afternoon, Riptide’s sources say. Migoya will take over from Pete Hernandez, who handed in his resignation on Friday amidst a widening federal probe into the city’s disastrous finances. …
