After the news that Jimmy Buffet had partnered with the Miami Dolphins to rename Dolphin Stadium as “LandShark” Stadium, a number of other notable musician with cult-like followings looked up and said, “Wait, you can do that? Like, if you have enough money you can just pay to have a…
A vicious killer loose in Palmetto Bay and Cutler Bay is believed to be responsible for the death and mutilation of over nineteen cats, most of them family pets. The killer mutilates and skins the animals, and leaves them for their owners to find. The Human Society has issues a $2500 reward…
Mary is a 38-year-old stay at home mom. She loves animals. And, in the eyes of Miami-Dade Animal Services, she’s a criminal.That’s because Miami-Dade is Death Row for pit bulls, thanks to a 20-year-old county-wide law banning the whole breed. Animal Services kills hundreds of pit bulls every year in…
Does anyone have $5,200 they’d like to lend Riptide? We would really like to buy our favorite Ad agencies’ interns for the summer. Yes, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, they of the Sponge Bob ass shakin’, Whopper scarificin’, Bill Gates dada-in’ campaigns, are auctioning off their interns’ services this summer on eBay, and…
Yesterday we posted a blog about University of Miami administrators not allowing Back/Slash magazine on campus. Now, staffers from another paper say there’s more to the story. Chelsea Matiash, editor in chief of the school paper The Hurricane, contends distributors of the college lifestyle magazine didn’t play by the rules…
What would Goldie Hawn have to say about this? Back when the Fontainebleau opened in November the celebrity gossips were still wondering whether Madonna was taking private batting lessons with Alex Rodriguez. Though, A-Rod showed up to the Resort’s opening sans Madge. Meanwhile, America’s RomCom queen Kate Hudson was also…
Prized Basketball recruit John Wall reportedly informed University of Miami basketball coach Frank Haith that he won’t be coming to Coral Gables. Instead he’ll be packing his bags for Lexington, Kentucky to play for John Calipari and his Wildcats.So, there goes UM’s hopes next season. Hey, there’s always Brandon Knight season after.And,…
SoBe resident and Peruvian native Pablo Mejia has a plan for this weekend: Stay home and lock the doors. “It’s a black day holiday, as far as I’m concerned,” he says. “They steal, they destroy tables. It’s dangerous.” Mejia told this to Riptide while hanging out in Flamingo Park recently…
LocalBill Clinton has been named a special envoy to Haiti by the UN. [NYTimes]No teachers will be laid off in order to balance the school board’s budget. [Herald]Expect the rain to keep coming. [CBS4]A 19 year veteran of the fire dept was charged with money laundering along with his wife…
Do you sometimes have to hide your tresses under hats and scarves? Feel like bad hair day is a description of your very existence? Luxe hair-care line Kerastase is offering a solution and it’s titled one of our fave phrases: Our Treat. Whether your hair is color-treated or sun-damaged, dry or weak, there’s…
According to the Millman Index, the average total medical costs for a family of four rose 7.4% in the past year to $16,771. Miami has the heaviest costs in the entire country, with an average of $20,280. That costs includes employer contributions, deductibles, and co-pays. Americans pay about 15.2% of…
When Niche media merged with local luxury porn mag Ocean Drive a few years ago, it also got a few stepchildren like Florida Inside/Out, Ocean Drive en Espanol, and Trump Magazine. Inside/Out was folded into Ocean Drive during a company wide shake up last fall. Multiple sources report that Ocean…
As expected, Attorney General Bill McCollu m officially entered the governor’s race this morning. This is, as the Democrats were so quick to point out, McCollum’s 14th race for public office in his lifetime, including two failed senate bids. So he’s no stranger to the Florida electorate. Though, his role as…
Good news for Charlie Crist, bumbling GOP chairman Michael Steele isn’t lining up behind his bid for U.S. Senate just yet. Despite the rare early pre-primary endorsement Crist picked up from the NRSC, while on Meet the Press yesterday with Democrat chairman Tim Kaine he stated that the full force…
We’ve just realized hurricane season is around the corner. We just hope this is another quiet year, because we aren’t sure with the state of the economy how quickly the city can bounce back.While we stock up on batteries and canned food, here is what you missed over the weekend:Coldplay…
Everyone loves wondering what Mayor Manny Diaz is going to do next after his reign is up later this year. Apparently, the latest murmur is that he should run for CFO. Which, like him or not makes sense. One of his crowning achievements was turning the City of Miami from a bankrupt, junk…
LocalBill McCullom is set to announce his candidacy for Governor today. [CBS4]61 y/o lady in the Keys takes police on a chase, before they bring out the spikes. Turns out she ha a purse full of cocaine. [CBS4]A movement to make Hialeah more eco-friendly seems to actually be working out…
“You realize how hot it is in Miami, right?” I told the tall, blond european manager at Crazy Pianos in the Grove . “It is not proper.” he replied. . “But this is the Grove!” I said, baffled by his stern manner. ” How long have you lived here?” …
Things are bleak in the world of publishing. Quick-fix readers gobble up blogs instead of books, journalists curse the internet and collect unemployment checks, and even Rolling Stone has been looking awfully anorexic lately. Evolution is a cruel and messy bastard. That’s why you kinda have to hand it to…
Ecuador has its first reported case of confirmed swine flu, and the victim is an 11 year-old boy who had arrived only days earlier from Miami. Meanwhile, Miami-Dade now has 12 confirmed cases. Being such an international hub certainly puts Miami-Dade at risk for swine flu, but it also places us…
So after the NRSC endorsed Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio in the Republican Senate primary, a lot of people implied it was a snub to Hispanics. We thought this was silly. Crist has won three statewide campaigns in a row, is an extremely popular governor, and has a national profile…
So the game of political musical chairs continues. The Orlando Sentinel says current senate President Jeff Atwater is going to throw his hat into the CFO ring on Tuesday. Atwater, a Republican from North Palm Beach, served in the state house from 2001-2003 and has been in the senate since then…
