With news that Bacardi will soon be moving to blander headquarters in blander Coral Gables, preservationists are making a preemptive move to ensure their iconic buildings in midtown Miami are protected with landmark status, even though neither is old enough to typically qualify. The Historic Preservation Board meets today to…
When the Segway personal transporter was introduced in 2001, it was supposed to revolutionize the way we get around. Instead, we’ve just made jokes about it ever since (see George W. Bush’s Segway tumble or Paul Blart: Mall Cop). Today, Segway introduced the prototype for its latest collaboration with GM. We’d make…
Unfortunately, Riptide is not on any free videogame press lists, but The Godfather II game comes out today. The advance reviews are favorable, but no one is claiming this is a better game than the Grand Theft Auto series (then again, what is?). In that game, however, you didn’t get…
You could probably fill the Jackie Gleason Theater with the number of shoppers who have sworn they’ll never return to South Beach. It’s usually prompted by the same thing: Folks drive in, park a car, buy some gelato, maybe see a movie — and return to find their wheels missing…
The lady we have to thank/blame for the rash of Auto-Tune-aided vocals* in pop music made a surprise appearance at LIV last night, according to Page Six. Even after a few facial overhauls and countless drag queens impersonating her at any given moment, Cher remains instantly recognizable and, says the gossip…
Joe Martinez seems a forthright and resolute guy. He was the first Hispanic elected by his peers to be county commission chairman. He publicly supported the highly unpopular John McCain for president. And he pushed to strip Jose Canseco’s name from a stretch of SW 16th Street after the slugger…
The Marlins settled for 600 fans per home game last year. The Panthers are literally giving away tickets. Minor-league soccer squad Miami FC is hemorrhaging cash. So you might think it’d be foolhardy to bet big bucks on Miamians attending the championship of a sport most Americans have never heard…
BY GUS GARCIA-ROBERTS AND TIM ELFRINK Boy, were we pleased when Hanley Ramirez made an empty demand for a trade earlier this spring after the team forced him to mow his cornrows. Our joy had nothing to do with wanting to see Han-Ram go. We would sacrifice our first-born to…
LocalThe AAArena will be the first arena certified as green in the country. [Herald]Miami Beach wants to make its personal brand more authentic and meaningful. [NBCMiami]There will be a cold snap a’comin’. [CBS4]Officials believe they found the bodies of a father and a young daughter who went missing while boating…
The number of horrible mass shootings nationally in the past few weeks has been astoundingly sad. Incidents in Miami alone have taken the lives of a dozen people in the past few weeks. I don’t know if you can explain something like this. Blaming it on the economy, as it…
In a state still reeling from Bernie Madoff and staggering toward 10 percent unemployment, it’s tough to think of many adjectives less likely to endear you to the commoners than So you have to give Allen Stanford some credit for finding a way to make himself even less sympathetic today…
Here is a fun tennis fact that passed us by: Newly minted tennis wunderkind Andy Murray recently bought a Brickell Avenue apartment. If it seems weird that a 22-year-old sports superstar would chose the more low-key (as low-key as anything is in Miami, anyway) locale of Brickell over the flashy lights of…
I’m not immediately sure how this is useful, but there’s a new website for people in Tallahassee to get excited over. It’s called the Florida Gaggle, and its main feature is that it aggregates the Twitter feeds from politicians, politicos, and reporters. How exciting! It also aggregates the same five or…
Seems there are more preemptive obituaries for the Miami Herald than actual obituaries the paper runs nowadays. The boys over on Biscayne Bay have lately made it a point to let everyone know that in fact they aren’t dead. First with letters to readers by both Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal and Publisher David Landsberg. Now there’s…
Sometimes politicians are dicks. Can’t really blame ’em. If anyone reads Riptide enough, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’d probably be a sarcastic dick too if, God forbid, I ever had to sit through painfully boring city government meetings. Doral Mayor Juan Carlos Bermudez unfortunately got caught being…
Just about the only bold names casual American tennis fans can be expected to recognize who performed up to expectations at this year’s Miami Masters were Andy Roddick and Venus Williams. Roddick made it as far as he could until he got dropped by Roger Federer; meanwhile, Venus put up…
Lately, telling sports fans you’re a UM alum never leads to anything good. It’s always, “Man, what happened to your football team?” or “Sucks you’re losing McClinton.” And that’s just the cordial ones. But there’s always baseball. You can always take pride in baseball. Which is why Friday’s big loss…
Local David Woud, the president of the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce, shot his wife before shooting himself. His wife had recently suffered a debilitating stroke. [Herald] Two women and a man were found shot to death in a SW Miami-Dade home. Police suspect domestic violence. [SunSent] The Coast Guard…
Remember when John McCain used to be the “cool Republican”? Which is about as cool as being a “cool dad,” but he was genial enough. Then things happened (you betcha) and he has been bitter about it ever sense. Last month he was at a meeting with Hispanic business leaders…
Unemployment in America has reached 8.5%, the highest it’s been since 1983! Egads! Remember those horrible times of 1983 — I don’t, because I was not born — but it actually seems that 1983 was a banner year for Miami. Maybe history will repeat itself. The Miami Hurricanes won their…
The mens’ side of the Miami Masters has shaped up to be quite surprising. First top seed Rafael Nadel went out in a sloppy loss in the quarter finals, then, today, second seed Rodger Federer lost to Novak Djokovic in the semis.Then, the normally reserved and professional Federer smashed his…
If Charlie Crist does not run for Senate, Marco Rubio is officially the luckiest man on Earth. Rep. Connie Mack IV (né Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV), who pulled in decent numbers during early polling mainly because he shares a name with his father, former Sen. Connie Mack III, has decided…
