Riptide won’t be the only web effort of a local news outlet that likes to keep its tongue as close as possible to its cheek, anymore. After NBC Universal’s sale of WTVJ fell through late last year, they’ve decided to relaunch the station’s website as NBCMiami.com, mirroring the cyber-makeovers other…
LocalGosh darn it, when this town decides it wants to build its airport a people mover, it’s going to happen. It may take 20 years, but it’s going to happen. [Herald]Giant mulch fire up in the NE part of the county. [Herald]You’ve heard this, but the county has backed off…
South Florida’s latest claim to fame hasn’t even gone through puberty yet. But he has “healed” the crippled, studied university-level theology, and preached to a packed Broward church. In case you missed the story, buried in yesterday’s New York Times: Meet 11-year-old ordained minister Terry Durham. The Miami-Dade elementary schooler…
One of the strangest rampages in South Beach history — which is saying something — ended last Wednesday with police shooting and killing the suspect in North Miami-Dade.Miami Beach Police ID’d the suspect as Oswain Brentall Walcott, a 22-year-old wanted in Georgia for breaking into a restaurant. When officers approached him…
As President Obama tries to keep his pledge to close Gitmo by next January, his biggest challenge — as told in-depth in your New Times this very week — is figuring out what to do with guys like Omar Khadr. Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay and the only…
Considering that Florida brought the world that bizarre pornographic absurdity that is the Bang Bus (link to a New Times article, not the site), it really should be no surprise that Sunshine State residents really, really like their online porn. Benjamin Edelman, a professor at Harvard’s business school, did a…
…So We Made A Blog Post About Bloggers Blogging About Blogs Memes, So You Can Be Upset While You’re Upset. To survive in the media today, you really have to find your niche. That is why Riptide is aggressively covering the phenomenon of a rapper creating some sort of controversy…
So maybe this took about as much insight as it would to predict that Rosie O’Donnell wouldn’t win Ms. America, but it still feel good to be right. Friday we had this to say of Ol’ Charles Crist’s chances in the CPAC straw poll: “If Crist comes in anywhere else…
LocalA policeman sped through an intersection and hit a young mother’s car, ramming it into the side of a house. The woman died, and a lady inside the house was taken to the emergency room. The officer was following a car whose driver was wanted for speeding. [Herald]Michelle Spence Jones…
Big time animal lover Anthony Marasia lives in Hawaii, but he’s got beef with Miami. The 35-year old, media savy former zookeeper launched a national campaign Thursday to free Seaquarium’s Lolita the killer whale. The plan: broadcast footage of the captive orca in her kiddie pool of a tank on…
The headline on the latest issue of the Miami SunPost reads, “Farewell.” The article is a warm obituary for recently passed former columnist and chief of staff to the mayor of Miami Beach, A.C. Weinstein, but might it be farewell for the SunPost as well? The usual two-column masthead appeared gutted. Gone were…
The Conservative Political Action Conference is taking place in Washington, DC this week and has already been dubbed the “the comedy festival of the year!” Noted public intellectuals (and more than a few 2012 hopefuls) like Ron Paul, Michelle Bachman, Newt Gingrich, and the Anti-Crist himself, Bobby Jindal will or…
More interesting Senate ’10 internet developments have unfolded since we posted our “Battle of the Net Roots All-Stars” (or whatever we end up calling it). Kendrick Meek has relaunched his outdated, old website as KendrickMeek.com. The whole thing isn’t live yet, but it’s being developed by Blue State Digital, the…
”Toothless, dead crack whore — dead at age 19? Is that the destiny you’re looking for?,” is what Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Spencer Eig barked at a 15 year old defendant on Tuesday. The girl was in juvenile court after running away from a foster home where she claims she was…
State Attorney Generals love to get together and kick some class action ass over sort of inane things. It is the service they have been called too. Yesterday, it was announced that Florida and 25 other states have come to a settlement with Coke, Nestle and Beverage Partnership Worldwide ,…
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has come up with a interesting plan to keep Crocodiles out of the waters behind residential communities. They’ll be taping magnets to their head. By attaching magnets to each side of their heads some research suggests it affects crocodile’s natural sense of navigation…
Riptide is willing to beat that most readers of this electronic alternative weekly newspaper internet sit generally agree that electricity is a good thing, but are generally opposed to urban blight. Well, Florida Power and Lights can’t seem to reconcile these two positions, and have been threatening various communities in…
LocalHere’s a long lines at a job fair story. [Herald]This 18-year-old girl accidentally dragged a cop for eight blocks with her car, and now she’s being charged with attempted murder. (ok, ok, maybe it wasn’t accidental, but it didn’t seeming like a premeditated dragging). [NBC6]Sunday: Storms. Next week: Cold air…
If you’re a woman of color — even in a city as beautifully diverse as Miami — it’s easy to walk into a department store and feel like your options are limited. Even some of the biggest brands have the audacity to offer less than six shades of foundation, or…
On Thursday, Riptide finds Roosevelt Ivory, Sr. stepping out of a white Lincoln Navigator, accompanied by an apparent bodyguard, at his two-house compound on Northwest 69th Terrace in Liberty City. It’s advertised as “Roosevelt’s Rooming House” in the White Pages, but this certainly is no Days Inn. A burly, dreadlocked…
Poor Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal can not catch a break. Everyone from freebase-Twitter addict Rick Sanchez to semi-Conservative Columnist David Brooks is criticizing his speech on Tuesday night, in which he tried to channel Ronald Reagan, but ended up coming off more like Kenneth the Page. Now Miami Mayor Manny…
Shepard Fairey, the graffiti artist behind that highly stylized Obama poster you saw just about everywhere last year is preemptively suing the Associated Press. The image he used as the basis for the poster was an AP stock photo, and the AP wanted recognition and money in return. So Fairey…
