BarackObama.com has the official “remarks as prepared for delivery” up from yesterday’s town hall meeting in Fort Myers. Suspiciously missing? “Every body needs to grab a hose and that is what Charlie Crist is doing here today.” It just ends with “…grab a hose!”Meaning, someone edited it out, or more likely President…
The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has hit the newsstands, I repeat, the The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has hit the newsstands. Inside you’ll find a former Broward area high school valedictorian, and University of Miami law student Vanessa Rousso. She dropped out of UM, and became a bona-fide poker star, and now she…
Mickey Rourke has reportedly finally met his elective-surgery match, and it’s (swoon) Love. No, it’s not Joan Rivers, Amanda Lepore, or Jocelyn Wildenstein. Literally, it’s Love, Courtney Love. That’s Mickey on the right, and Courtney on the left, if you couldn’t tell. Let’s hope the two will go public soon…
When so many Americans have trouble seeing a doctor for the common cold, getting proper mental health care seems like a luxury. Unsurprisingly, many people who most need mental health help wind up in the corrections system. The Miami-Dade delegation in the state legislature recently invited Gov. Charlie Crist and…
Just by taking office, Barack Obama has already stimulated one segment of the economy: firearms. Much ink has been spilled about gun enthusiasts stocking up in anticipation of Democrats passing stricter gun control laws. So much so that Florida gun dealers are now expecting a shortage of bullets. The Orlando Sentinel story on…
If there are two prominent figures in South Florida’s small blogosphere, they are definitely former Stuck on the Palmetto, current South Florida Daily Blog blogger Rick, and Val Prieto and company at Babalu. And they couldn’t be more polar opposites: Rick is decisively liberal, while Babalu’s anti-Castro rhetoric keeps them on…
Mayor Alvarez’s state of the county address read like a high-priced wish list. [SFBJ]Charlie Crist + Barack Obama = BFF 4eva. [CBS4]John P. “Jack” Seiler is the new mayor of Fort Lauderdale. [CBS4]What is it with the children of former police chiefs? Rolando Bolaños Jr., son of former Hialeah Police…
Love is in the air, and all things pink, red, and heart-shaped are inescapable this week. That’s right – Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. This coming Saturday, to be exact. And just as the flower shops and bakeries are all taking last-minute orders and restaurants are filling their reservations,…
A few months ago, the New Times brought you the story of De Hull, a world-renowned palm expert with an incredible garden teeming with rare plants on the fringes of South Dade. Hull’s way of life was as endangered as his plants, thanks to a string of hurricanes, break-ins and…
The stimulus package Barack Obama is pushing will be a defining part of his presidency, and these events that he’s held the past couple of days should be treated as sort of historic. Yet, at the end of the day all we care about is that Obama said some funny…
Back when an unconfirmed rumor hit Deadspin that Dwyane Wade’s soon-to-be ex-wife Siohvaughn went haywire with a baseball bat on his MVP trophy, we predicted that this was just the begining of a series of nasty rumors. Unfortunately for Dwyane, we were right. Wade’s former business partner Baron Richard Von…
Just Yesterday, we were talking about a Joe Scarborough Senate run in 2010. And why not? If Charlie Crist doesn’t run, former Rep. Joe “I Have a TeeVee Show” Scarborough sounds just as good or better than Connie “Hey, Remember my Dad?” Mack IV, Vern “Not Katherine Harris” Buchanan, and…
Well damn it. There I was sitting in the press pool with all these very important political journalists, I held back on one or two jokes during today’s live blog. Afterall, other journalists were greeting me with “How, was the flight in?” I couldn’t respond with, “actually I just drove…
Pollsters can pour over all the phone surveys they want, but the real gauge of President Obama’s population may be the ratio of protesters his public appearances attract to the number of people hawking Obama merchandise. Oddly, if you used the math today at the Harborside Event Center you’d fall…
In one of the more outrageous celebrity-death rumors we’ve heard (FYI: Eminem, Blossom, and Doogie Howser are indeed alive) various blogs have been reporting that Miami pseudo-star DJ Khaled led cops on a three-hour Bentley chase through Los Angeles streets before killing himself. A white-Bentley-driving assault suspect did indeed lead…
In “The Curse”, our feature article which hits streets tomorrow, New Times tells the tragic story of Carol City High’s Class of 2006, which has lost six of its members to arbitrary street deaths, including five to gunfire. These were “good” kids- none of them involved in gangs or the…
Riptide is live today from Ft. Myers, Florida for Barack Obama’s first visit to Florida as President of the United States of America. He’ll be continuing the themes from his stop in Elkhart, Indiana and his first press conference last night, talking up the need for a stimulus package. The…
Riptide just settled in at the Harborside Event Center in Fort Myers. President Obama is scheduled to kick off the next stop on his Stimulus Tour in about 30 minutes, and we’ll begin the live blog then.So, why of all places is Obama in Fort Myers? The official line is…
Besides going to the DMV, doing taxes is the part of being a grownup that Riptide hates most. So we usually wouldn’t be thinking about it this early, but it seems some good folks in Coconut Grove have an extra-special reason to hate April 15 this year. They’re paying more…
Michael Burnstine may be comically underfunded and critically late to the game, but he’s not lacking in passion. He hates the $515 million Marlins Stadium deal. And he’s not alone.”It’s horrendous. It’s one of the worst deals I’ve seen in my life,” Burnstine tells Riptide. The insurance salesman and Miami…
Whoever runs PR for the University of Miami Athletics Department should either be fired, or is having a hard time convincing higher-ups that they’re being total idiots. Even after Alex Rodriguez has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs, the University of Miami sees no reason, no reason whatsoever, to rethink…
Joe Cool 2: The Teenage Trial begins today. [AP]Ft. Lauderdale holds its local elections today. Mayor Jim Naugle is not running for re-election. 18 years of public service and he’ll always be the dude who complained about gay toilet sex. What a legacy. [NBC6]Randy Shannon picked NC assistant John Lovett…
