That Dolphins halftime speech must have been some kind of fire and brimstone sermon. Something along the lines of Henry V’s Saint Crispen’s Day address. The pre-game speech, meh, not so much. It was probably more along the lines of, “Okay men, we’re gonna go out there and we’re gonna…
Tiger Woods will probably upstage Jesus Christ at every Christmas church sermon this holiday season, if we were to use Google as a gauge of human inquiry. At approximately 7 p.m. EST on Christmas Eve, the world golf champion garnered 50,000,000 return results on Google, whereas the Son of God…
Hello, Kitty: I’ve always enjoyed giving oral, but I rarely do it to the guy I’m dating now. I haven’t lost my zeal for it — it’s just that this guy’s penis is really small, and the experience isn’t as pleasurable for me. He never mentioned wanting more head or…
Clint Eastwood: Ten years of sequels also gave us one hot old man of Hollywood
Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise — Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Spider-Man to name just a few — and overrun with prequels and sequels (Saw I, Saw II, Saw III, Saw…), our film critics pick their favorites of the ’00s. Who’s…
The ten best movies of 2009
South Florida superhero Captain Disillusion talks ghosts, superpowers, and skepticism
Christmas memories of In Cold Blood
Miami-Dade firefighters’ union threatens to kick Chief Herminio Lorenzo out of a building it doesn’t own
Blemished Miami-Dade schools bureaucrat Ronda Vangates runs for school board
In the interest of showcasing other voices here on Riptide, we’re presenting this editorial from 22 year-old Kymberly Morgan, who is totally not actually real.My name is Kymberly Morgan, and I am a proud Tan American. Recently, I heard that instead of taxing plastic surgery to pay for health care…
Let us not forget the real reason for the season: when famous toast decoration Mary gave birth to Jesus, who would later appear in the form of fish sticks. Amen.Today’s photo comes from DKeros’ Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here, join our Flickr group…
Leave it to the Diaz-Balarts to possible have screwed this up. Yesterday’s announcement that they were withdrawing their support from Charlie Crist was supposed to leave egg on the Gov’s face. But they didn’t mention why they were doing it, and it appears the popular emerging theory is pretty damn…
Back in February, I visited the Guantanamo Bay prison camp during President Obama’s inauguration. At the time, it sure seemed like I was witnessing the last days of a ugly chapter in American history. Obama’s first act as president was an order to close the place. The head of the…
A flight from Miami to Jamaica overshot the runway. About a third of the passengers were taken to the hospital. Two had life-threatening injuries. [Herald]The real reason the Diaz-Balarts yanked their endorsement of Crist: He refused to appoint Lincoln’s son’s friend to a judicial opening. [NakedPolitics]StoryCorps is a program that collects…
Miami startup Scrapblog is apparently saying bye-bye to Silicon Beach and moving its physical office to the San Francisco area, according to word on the street. Though the company has not yet made an official announcement, everybody and their grandmother is talking about the impending transition. It’s all over Twitter…
Just after midnight last November, Gordon and Barbara Taylor climbed into a privately-chartered, two-propeller airplane at Key West International Airport. Gordon, age 51, had a bad kidney and was on his way to surgery in Gainesville. So the small plane took off northbound in the darkness. As they approached the…
It’s hard to imagine anything that would be all around better for the Marlins than signing pitcher Aroldis Chapman. They need another possible superstar, and an athlete who defected from Cuba would do wonders for whipping up the local fanbase.The Herald reports that the Fish offered Chapman a 5-year contract…
I honestly have no idea why you’d want to see a video on a CNN website about last week’s South Florida storms, when, you know, you could have just looked out your window. But if you did, you might have your citizen journalism weather report brought to you by Collin…
The end of the year is almost upon us and since a lot of us are on vacation and too lazy to do any actual reporting, we fill up our time doing awesome end-of-year pieces recapping everything that was. Still, it’s nice to take a step back and look at…
It’s no secret that Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart are, in congressional Republican terms, more moderate guys. So it didn’t raise many eyebrows when they endorsed Gov. Charlie Crist for Senate back in July over fellow Miami-Dade Cuban Republican Marco Rubio. They did practically the same thing in 2004, endorsing…
According to a recent survey of “Washington Insiders,” South Florida’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the house member with the brightest political future (as in prepare for Speaker Wasserman Schultz someday), but a group of net-roots liberal wackos with internet access have found a hero in another Florida congressman: Alan Grayson. They want…
