In their never ending quest to figure out the Internet, newspapers (us included!) are trying lots of new things. Well “new” to them anyway. The New York Times has a prototype for an “Article Skimmer” up. Headlines and ledes are placed in a grid, and using java technology readers skim…
In 2008 Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks was traded from the Suns to the Heat for Shaquielle O’Neal, barely a year latter the Heat are trading him out again for another O’Neal, according to AP. Jermaine O’Neal that is, along with his Toronto Raptors teammate Jamario Moon. Marion, a four…
Miami’s colony of sex offenders is a lot like a big, stubborn pimple on the nose of the city: Nobody likes it and yet it just keeps growing. So it’s no surprise that after nearly two years of policymakers ignoring the problem, it’s gotten uglier. In response, Miami city commissioners…
Perhaps the most shocking thing to come out of the whole sad Rihanna and Chris Brown abuse story is the public’s reaction, along with how many people are quick to quip that Rihanna surely must have done something to deserve it. The latest rumor is that Rihanna got herpes from…
Every month it seems Forbes puts out some dumb list of city rankings. Riptide always notes how dumb the list is, but posts about it anyway. Forbes appreciates any extra page views it gets, because that’s half the reason they do it, but at the end of the day, these…
City and county commissions are castng their final vote on the Marlins ballpark today. [CBS4]Charlie Crist is pleased as punch about the new version of the Stimulus Bill. [JustNews]Apparently, before a certain celebrity incident, people didn’t know that domestic abuse in younger relationships is a serious problem. Well, here’s another…
Valentine’s Day is Hallmark’s way of putting you in a headlock and forcing you to tell your significant other that you love him or her. Whether you actually L-word them or not, close to a billion valentines are sent each year so, you better fall the fuck in line, be…
This President Obama fellow has sure had a hard time filling his cabinet. After Gov. Richardson withdrew from consideration to be Commerce Secretary, Obama called on Republican Senator Judd Gregg to fill the slot. Turns out the Republican doesn’t see eye to eye ideologically with noted Socialist Barack Obama, and…
Forbes only exists anymore to create inane city rankings that have no practical use. Their latest in “America’s 10 Most Miserable” cities, which ranks cities based on “commute times, corruption, pro sports teams, Superfund sites, taxes (both income and sales), unemployment, violent crime and weather.” Miami is number nine: “Miami…
Never for the life of me have I ever understood why South Florida has its own Ice Hockey team. Of course, being a native Floridian I have never made much sense out of hockey in general. It is just not natural.I guess we have enough snow birds and ex-Northerners to…
You have Selena Roberts to thank for the A-Rod steroid scandal. The sports journalist broke the news for Sport Illustrated, but not after scouring all over Miami to get a quote from A-Rod himself. Five days before the story was published on SI.com, Roberts flew to Miami and engaged in…
After the exciting efforts of Howard Dean and Barack Obama, clueless politico types everywhere have come to the conclusion that anyone, literally anyone, can be elected to office using the mystical powers of the Internet. Sayfie Review has a column up about the 2010 Senate race saying exactly that. Republicans…
Unlike last year, when the Hurricanes got to play the Ponytown High School Flag Football Fightin’ Sad Clowns, or whatever that no-name team was, to kick of their season, next season they’ll start things off with their oldest rivals, FSU, in Tallahassee. As previously reported, we’ll also be playing three…
With all the hullaballo and hubbub over the giant tax-pit … um … new Marlins Stadium proposal, it’s easy to forget that the Fish are still a baseball team and the new season is almost upon us. It’s a shame, really. For true baseball fans, Spring Training is the best…
Wayne Scott, a pale man from South Yorkshire England, attempted his best American accent and called up a terminally ill teenage boy pretending to be rasslin’ superstar, UM alum and mediocre action/adventure actor Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. He claimed, as Johnson, he was put in touch with the boy through…
Floridians can only juggle the names of 4 or 5 state politicians in their heads at a time, and right now the only Democrat in the mix, Bill Nelson, is already in the Senate. So it’s not surprising that a new Strategic Vision poll shows Charlie Crist winning pretty much…
The University of Miami is not immune to the recession. President Shalala outlines a contingency plan for the next to years aimed at lowering spending. The school has had a hiring freeze in place since December, but Shalala promises no large layoffs. [Hurricane]The School Board approved a plan to cut…
What if the guy investigating bad cops broke the rules? Miami-Dade Police Maj. Donald Rifkin recently lost his job overseeing internal affairs probes into county cops accused of misconduct. Seems he was hitting on a fellow cop, Carmen Pichardo, using sensitive information about her ex as bait. According to the…
William “Bill” Perry III is the consummate insider. Once head of the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority and a county mayoral candidate, he has been at the center of a passel of questionable deals. In 2002, he received a last-minute $98,000 loan from the Miami-Dade Empowerment Trust to stop foreclosure…
A few hours before the corporate Christmas party in December 2005, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office came to collect Cliff Berry II. They hauled him off on six felony counts, including fraud, racketeering, and grand theft. Another blow to the Yuletide cheer: The company itself, Cliff Berry Inc., would also…
Drive through Hialeah and you’ll see a billboard advertising reggaeton pioneer Daddy Yankee’s cologne, which launched a couple of months ago. It got us thinking: Miami might be ground zero for the celebrity fragrance industry. After all, nothing says image-conscious excess — our national specialty — like paying $49 for…
During the party-filled week before graduation, Jeffrey Johnson Jr. kept a cap and gown neatly folded in the trunk of his burnt-orange Chevy Monte Carlo. The 17-year-old scholar, set to receive summa cum laude honors in the Carol City Senior High School class of 2006, had worked hard for both…
