There are quite a few South Florida connections to the ongoing “mini-Madoff” scandal surrounding Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, who faces civil charges from the SEC that he orchestrated a “massive, ongoing fraud” to the tune of $8 billion through his Stanford International Bank. Stanford operated a large office in…
I think MSNBC takes a sick delight in putting the most ridiculous Republicans on their programs just to let them sprout all sorts of nonsense. So naturally, Tom DeLay, the disgraced former Republican house majority leader, stopped by Hardball with Chris Matthew last night to face off against former Democratic…
LocalGetting laid off individually is so trite. The new trend is to be part of a mass layoff. Unfortunately, all of your friends are doing it. [Herald]We’re number one! This time in highest health-care costs in the nation. [Herald]Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff will bring up a resolution at today’s council…
It appears the divorce of Dwyane Wade and his wonderfully named wife Siohvaughn is going to be one of the ugliest high-profile sports star divorces in recent memory. Siohvaughn’s lawyers fired the first shot by claiming Wade gave her an unnamed STD. Then came some rumors that Siohvaughn went ballistic…
The soldiers move through the wheat field, scanning the windswept plain for signs of trouble. There are six of them, dressed in fatigues and body armor, wearing the sunglasses and bushy beards popular among the Special Forces. The only thing they can hear is the rustling of wheat stalks. They…
The Alex Rodriguez steroid saga is a homegrown fiasco. It first got legs last April, when Miami-raised Cuban exile and artificial baseball humanoid José Canseco published Vindicated, a finger-pointing tome that claimed Westminster Christian alum and University of Miami friend-with-benefits Rodriguez had grown huge through juice. According to the book,…
Though he now lives in a red-brick minimansion on a silent, frostbitten cul-de-sac in the Virginia suburbs near Washington, D.C., Alberto Mora is at heart a Miami Cuban. Among the clues are a voracious appetite for debate and the Bustelo espresso he brews for visitors to his sparsely decorated home…
This past Sunday, when Mickey Rourke was heinously denied of an Academy Award, one local relative wasn’t watching in outrage. That’s because stepbrother Michael Scott Addis, who was raised with Rourke, doesn’t have a television set; he lives on the street behind a dilapidated upholstery shop in North Miami Beach…
Rapper Rick Ross was not on the set of the Star Island music video shoot in May 2008 when Mark McCarthy led his 400-pound white tiger, Sabi, out of her crate. The producers had offered McCarthy $5,000 to use the big cat as a prop at a mansion. They’d make…
Why is it that rappers get into the craziest shenanigans on South Beach? Monday we recounted the magical story of N.O.R.E. and the angry Fatburger encounter. Today let us tell you the tale of Diddy, Xzibit, Superhead and the SoBe Gay Bar. It should be noted, that this is all according to…
Rick Sanchez, who apprently did not get the memo from Babalu that all Miami-raised Cuban Americans should be blindly devoted to the Republican party, just wanted to have a nice workout on his treadmill last night and watch the Obama speech. But then this Bobby Jindal guy came on, and…
It is all Charlie Crist all the time here on Riptide today, because, sigh, nothing else is going on. Local 10’s top politico Michael Putney took to The Herald today and proclaimed Charlie Crist reminds him of Chance the Gardener from the 1976 film Being There. Chance is a simple…
Completely embarrassed by the state of the national party it seems that the Republican Governors Association are engineering a takeover of the Bland Ol’ Party. They have a nice new website asking for your money called The GOP Comeback with lots of pretty glamour shots of your favorite Republican Guv All-Stars. There’s Palin in all…
It’s been said so many times the economic problem is as much psychological as monetary that it must be true. Conveniently, we’ve just elected a president in part on the basis of how much he’s inspired us and given us hope. Last night, in his biggest speech since the inauguration,…
Florida’s deal with U.S. Sugar to save the Everglades might be dead. [CBS4]Dolphins in the Keys are dying all too frequently this year. [CBS4]Here are responses to Obama’s speech last night that are supposed to represent South Florida as a whole. [CBS4]See, America? This is what happens: If our baseball…
I was 5 when my parents dragged me to the theater to see Hellraiser. I still can’t figure out if they couldn’t find a babysitter or thought I would actually enjoy seeing one of the scariest movies ever made, but I can remember raising my own brand of hell nearly…
Maj. Tom Fleener was enjoying a quiet life as an assistant public defender in Wyoming when he was thrust into the greatest legal conundrum of our times.Fleener, an Army Reservist, became more and more outraged as he read about the military commissions set up in Guantanamo Bay for the “enemy…
Oh, we know, we know, it’s so early in the campaign, but with State Senator and US Senate Candidate Dan Gelber’s announcement today that he’ll Twitter his way through the 60 day legislative session up in Tallahassee, we decided to role out a feature we’ve been toying with for a…
Possible Republican Senate Candidate Rep. Vern Buchanan took his speaking spot at the Lincoln Day Dinner in Manatee County this weekend to rile up the base, declaring, “We need to make English the official language of America.” It’s apparently nothing new for him, but we’re thinking his Senate campaign might…
Tomorrow on newsstands, we tell the story of Omar Khadr, who is the youngest detainee at Guantanamo, the only Westerner, and a symbol of sorts. To some, he is exhibit A for all that is wrong with America’s War on Terror. For others, he’s an example of why the camp…
Charlie Crist made some GOP eyes roll on Meet The Press this weekend when he declined to identify a national leader of the Republican Party. Instead he said that the people should lead the party, and that Obama is our only national leader. He’s right. We wish some other Republicans…
N.O.R.E.’s arrest at a Fatburger on South Beach last weekend has brought him more attention than any of his songs in the past few years, and the rapper is taking full advantage of it. First, he’s got a few things to clear up. N.O.R.E. is not the most eloquent man, but…
