Sources tell CBS4 that businessman Carlos Migoya will be named Miami’s new city manager. [CBS4]11 wild horses in Hialeah were captured this weekend. [CBS4]Kim Rothstein was still collecting rent on houses that had been forfeited to the government. [NBCMiami]SportsDolphins cornerback Will Allen got arrested early Saturday morning for …ugh… driving his Ferrari drunk on…
If you’re like Riptide and you live in Miami, chances are you don’t think about Homestead, our fine neighbors to the south, all that often.But these last couple weeks, the good politicians of that southern burg have done everything they can to put their hamlet back on our radar by…
Politics can get dirty, even on the Student Government level. Take for example a recent flier that started showing up on the University of Florida campus that read “Student Alliance party is the Nazi Party,” which featured a swastika. The fliers are attributed to a fake group called “UF for…
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Miami City Manager Pete Hernandez has handed in his resignation, two of Riptide’s sources at City Hall have confirmed. Herandez’s ouster is a major victory for Mayor Tomas Regalado, clearing the way for Regalado to bring in an ally to fill the slot. Sources say that Regalado confronted Hernandez yesterday about…
If there was any doubt that Florida’s Republican primary has become one of the marquee elections of 2010, it ought to be eliminated as Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio are now likely to face off in not one, but two nationally televised debates.The Buzz reports that not only has Crist…
We haven’t had much love for Mitt Romney since he visited here in a guayabera, bungled a bunch of local politicians’ names, and accidentally quoted Fidel Castro, but we sure as hell don’t have love for LMFAO. The “I’m in Miami, Bitch!” hit-makers are just the absolute worst, and if we…
The iDate 2010 conference descended on Miami Beach last month with trade professionals talking shop about the business of running dating sites. One of the topics that intrigued Silicon Beach was protection against scammers. How do you know if the person behind that profile is for real?Last year, a local…
Does Marco Rubio love torture? The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank sure seems to think so.During Rubio’s CPAC speech yesterday, the crowd of conservative activists couldn’t get enough of shouting, “Marco! Marco! Marco!” “That Marco cheer always worries me because I’m always afraid that someone is going to starting screaming ‘Polo’ and would ruin…
Not only did Hurricanes basketball blow a first-half lead and lost to Duke, but also a fan blew his conch and lost it to security.The Canes’ student section doesn’t get a lot of credit during basketball season, but Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski got pissed at a conch horn in…
We dreamed a dream in time gone by. When hope was high and life worth living. But the corrupt politicians come at night with their voices soft as thunder. As they tear your mortgages apart and they turn your job to shame.Yes, we here in Miami are apparently les misérables…
Lil Wayne had his sentencing delayed so he could return to Miami for oral surgery. Well, TMZ said he underwent a marathon session yesterday and got eight — yes, eight! — root canals. You’d think that would be punishment enough for his weapon charges, but he’ll still likely spend eight…
Edgar Giovanni Castillo, how dumb — and disturbed — you are. Let us count the ways. First, police say, you molest children and film it. Then you keep said films and videos on your cell phone’s smart chip, of all places. And then, for a coup de grace, you try…
Last week, county officials removed a mounted “ghost bike” — the cycling equivalent of a tombstone — from Bear Cut Bridge, near Virgina Key. The spray-painted road bike had been dedicated to Christophe Le Canne, the 44-year old who was killed by a wealthy, drunk-driving musician named Carlos Bertonatti one…
It was already clear that we wouldn’t be getting Amar’e, but last minute rumors that The Heat might be landing Carlos Boozer from the Utah Jazz appeared to be unfounded.”That was like, huh, what?” Jazz general manager Kevin O’Connor said this afternoon, according to the Deseret News.So that means no…
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Well, here’s something slightly counter-intuitive. Miami-Dade county is apparently the 11th healthiest out of Florida’s 67 counties. What’s more is that we ranked the healthiest in the state in “Health Behaviors,” a category that takes into account smoking, binge drinking and risky sex.CountyHealthRankings.org found that Miamians’ rates for tobacco smoking,…
With the NBA trade deadline less than an hour away, it seems that Phoenix Sun star Amar’e Stoudemire will not be making a mid-season move to Miami. Our brethren at the Phoenix New Times report that any Stoudemire trade is “unlikely.” The Heat had become the late leading candidate to land the…
It was a watershed moment for Marco Rubio today as he delivered the key note speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference to rampant cheers and a standing ovation. In the 30 minute speech he rallied against moderates in the GOP, warned that Democrats could be leading America to a…
Rakontur films has announced a sequel to their documentary The U, which chronicled the Miami Hurricanes football team of the ’80s. It became the highest rated documentary in ESPN history. They plan to have the sequel ready for release by December, about one year after the original’s premiere. Since The…
7th Graders from St. Thomas Catholic Middle School joined President Obama at the White House as he made a call to astronauts on the International Space Station yesterday. [NBCMiami]The State has decided to challenge a local judge’s decision to allow a lesbian couple to adopt a child. [Herald]Just what South…
The Advocate, America’s oldest and most respected gay publication, doesn’t want to hurt South Beach’s feelings. No, the poor place has been through enough in the past few months. What with ACLU lawsuits, hate crimes, and meddlesome New Times reporters chronicling its decline as a gay Mecca. But this has…
