305 Photo of the Day: Cloudead
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Showing 23189 - 23210 of 31922Bow Wow’s Blog Launches With Many Deep Thoughts About Cars and Strippers
Not long ago, Riptide implied — via a Moron of the Week post — that Miami rapper Bow Wow isn’t very smart. Sure, maybe he did announce his own drunk driving — in a “Lambo” — via Twitter. And, yeah, maybe Miami Beach cops did slap him with a DUI two seconds…
Rubio and Crist Trade Barbs While Speaking at Same Event
Republican Senate opponents Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio spoke one after another this morning at the Associated Press legislative planning session, and while they avoided a face-to-face meeting, they took swipes at one another. It must have been uncomfortable for the two, considering yesterday’s polling showed Rubio in the lead…
Battle of the Blowhards: Keith Olbermann vs. Glenn Garvin
On his MSNBC show, Keith Olbermann has this terribly annoying habit of self-righteously addressing, in overly dramatic terms, any criticism directed against him. The Miami Herald’s Glenn Garvin has this terribly annoying habit of filling and shaping his TV reviews with his right-wing political stance. It was only a matter…
Gubernatorial Race: McCollum Leads Sink by Ten Points
Hot on the heels of his announcement he’d file a lawsuit if any health-care legislation passes in Washington that would force people to buy insurance, Attorney General Bill McCollum finds himself with a ten-point lead in the gubernatorial race.According to a new poll from Quinnipiac, Republican Bill McCollum is up 41 percent to…
Judge Approves Third Gay Adoption in South Florida Since 2008
Another blow to Florida’s gay adoption ban was served as the third adoption since 2008 by a gay parent was approved by a Miami-Dade judge. The ruling follows a decision by Monroe Circuit Judge David J. Audlin in August 2008 to allow a gay lawyer to adopt a boy he…
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News Roundup: City Commission Gets It Dunn
After an epically long meeting, city commissioners chose Rev. Richard Dunn to replace Michelle Spence-Jones after he pledged not to run for the seat in November. [Herald]Crime rates in unincorporated Dade County are down. [Herald]Sad Ponzi clown Scott Rothstein will plead guilty today. [NBCMiami]Lawyers for Buju Banton claim police entrapped the singer…
Silicon Beach: Crisis Camp Miami Geeks Brainstorm for Haiti Earthquake Relief
Crisis Camp Haiti in Miami, which Silicon Beach previewed in a post here, took place last Saturday at the Miami Herald building. Nearly 100 techies, journalists, and other volunteers showed up, split into groups, and brainstormed ways technology can help Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.Among the ideas set in…
ACORN Worker Sues Hannah Giles, As Her “Pimp” Is Arrested by FBI
FIU student Hannah Giles, who won the praise of conservatives and disdain of liberals when she posed as a hooker trying to solicit business advice from ACORN workers, now finds herself targeted by a lawsuit. Katherine Conway-Russell, a worker in ACORN’s Philadelphia office, claims that Giles and her partner James…
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Lawmakers Propose Full Casinos on Florida Beaches
A full service casino resort may someday soon find itself on Miami Beach. Ironic considering the lawmaker baking the new gambling rules, Fort Lauderdale Republican State Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, campaigned on an anti-gambling platform.Bogdanoff, backed by Las Vegas mogul Sheldon Adelson, wants to allow five to seven casino resorts to…
Legoland Florida Makes it Rain Bricks
Historic Florida theme park Cypress Gardens, which pre-dated Disney World by 35 years, is officially no more. Merlin Entertainment dumped a bulldozer load of lego blocks on it and officially declared it the future home of Legoland Florida.The park will be the world’s largest Legoland, and aimed at families with…
Trina Wants You To Know She Might Adopt a Haitian Child
Let’s get it straight. We love, love, love Trina like any good Miamian should, but we raised an eyebrow when she released a statement recently declaring that she may or may not be adopting a Haitian child.Note Da Baddest Bitch doesn’t state she will be adopting but merely says, “I…
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Tim Tebow Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad Stirs Up Controversy
Predictably, Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad for the politically divisive, anti-gay, and pro-choice group Focus on the Family is causing controversy.Focus has released few details about the ad, but it will likely feature UF’s Heisman winner and his mother, Pam Tebow. Pam notably carried Tim to term despite doctors’ health…
305 Photo of the Day: Serious Sailboats
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Charlie Crist Is Dick Armey’s #1 “Enemy of Liberty”
Tough day for Charlie Crist, ain’t it? First he lost his lead in the Republican Senate primary, and now it’s come to light that he is the Tea Party movement’s number one “Enemy of Liberty.” Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks PAC, which is tighter with the Tea Party movement (coincidentally, an army of…) than peanut butter…
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Carlos Bertonatti Isn’t the Only Member of His Family With Past Legal Troubles
It’s been more than one week since Carlos Bertonatti slammed into cyclist Christophe Le Canne on the Rickenbacker Causeway and then sped away as the 44-year-old died on the roadside, but the crime is still reverberating in the Magic City. Bertonatti, as we first reported here in Riptide, had a…
In a Democratic Wet Dream, We’d Belong to the State of the Everglades
It’s not exactly uncommon to hear someone floating around the political fantasy of South Florida becoming its own state. Not to say it’d ever actually happen, but c’mon, we all know the rest of Florida is holding us back. Well, a new political map that redraws the United States with the…
New Poll: Marco Rubio Now Leads Charlie Crist
Tea Bag-approved Marco Rubio leads Gov. Charlie Crist in the Republican Senate primary for the first time, according to a recently released Quinnipiac poll. Forty-seven percent of registered Republicans now prefer Rubio, compared to only 44 percent who are still in the Crist camp. That’s a sea change since October, when…
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Massage Parlor Accuses Police of Stealing Money During Armed Sting
Lord knows one of the worst crimes haunting our community is the evil of unlicensed massage. We just don’t understand how parents can sleep at night knowing their children are growing up in a world where women, without proper documentation and trying to make ends meet, are lubing up the backs of…
News Roundup: LeBron Bests D. Wade
A suspicious bag led to the temporary shut-down of a concourse at Miami International Airport. [LATimes]More than 100 manatees have turned up dead this year, with many deaths attributed to the cold snap earlier this month. [CBS4]A grandmother in North Miami is being charged with manslaughter after her 5-year-old granddaughter…
Disco Rick Would Like to Clarify His Previous Statements Re: Sex in the Champagne Room
Last week, retired rapper and King of Diamonds strip club manager Ricky “Disco Rick” Taylor made it rain knowledge on the blogosphere’s gyrating ass in anticipation of the Super Bowl, which he predicted will be “the biggest weekend in strip club history in South Florida.” One of the Hypnotiq-soaked crumpled bills…
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Ten Years and No Trial: Jail Has Become Permanent Housing in Miami-Dade
In this county, the criminal court system functions like an old bicycle: It works — just much too slowly. This week, New Times will feature a story about the inmates who have stayed longest in Miami-Dade county jail, a place that’s supposed to be temporary. What we found: Eight men…