Nearly two and half years ago, New Times covered the story of a botched abortion which resulted in a live birth. Belkis Gonzalez, the owner of the Hialeah clinic, cut the umbilical cord after staff started screaming that the child was alive, she then sealed the child in a bio-hazard…
Gov. Charlie Crist has secretly been in the tank for Obama since the very beginning. First he did nothing to stop Florida’s primary from being ignored by the Democrats, and even as the Obama campaign has admitted, if it counted we might be dealing with President Hillary now. Then, when…
Back in 2006 when the Republican party came to the hard, cold realization that they would have to run political train wreck Katherine Harris as their Senate Nominee they begged and pleaded with former Congressman and MSNBC talking head Joe Scarborough to run. “Please, Joe, Please, Don’t let us pretend…
Did anyone really care about Lt. Gov Jeff Kottkamp before, say, a few weeks ago? You know, when those rumors surfaced that Charlie Crist might resign to run for Senate, leaving Kottkamp as our 45th governor. All of a sudden, media attention bumped up ever so slightly. The Sun-Sentinel did…
You never would have guessed it, considering we’re more or less ground zero for the foreclosure crisis, but the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area is actually the 12th best place to start a small business, according to Biz Journals. The rankings cited South Florida’s strong population and job growth. Between 2003 and…
We definitely had a good weekend filled with penthouse parties and plenty of booze. Sadly, most talk was about whether we still had jobs. That made us wonder if this would be the newest pick-up line:”Hey, babe, do you still have a job? You do? Want to come back to…
For the past few years, the University of Miami athletic department has had a reputation of coming down hard on anyone who dares bring bad PR to their program*. Hell hath no fury like a UM Athletic Director scorned. Unless of course, you happen to have donated nearly $4 million…
Adult Swim Presents Tim and Eric LiveRevolution, Ft. LauderdaleSunday, February 8, 2009Better Than: Grammys, ShmammysThe Review: It takes an, um, special sensibility to really get into the Cartoon Network’s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, which airs on the network’s Adult Swim block of late-night programming. Pretty much the…
It’s difficult to make the leap directly from the state Senate to a state-wide elected office. But it’s not impossible. Lawton Chiles got elected to the US Senate in 1970 by taking a 91 day, 1,003 mile walking trip across Florida. Bob Graham was elected to Governor in 1978 after…
Esteban ”Steve” Bovo and Marco Rubio are doing things that might raise a few ethical eyebrows? Who could have imagined? [Herald]”I’m on a boat. I’m on a boat. Everybody look at me cause I’m sailing on a boat. I’m on a boat. I’m on a boat. Take a good hard…
News buffs might remember a split-second appearance by Tessa Boudreaux — unemployed marketing extraordinaire — on Channel 10 this past Thursday. It came during the obligatory Economy Sucks story and the recap goes like this: Despite her constant efforts, the articulate, 40 year-old recent University of Miami grad student hasn’t…
Here is your weekly wrap up of things that bravely dared to appear on Riptide this week. There was a Super Bowl this past weekend. Your Miami Dolphins team was not present, but perhaps they could have been if Wayne Huzienga hired Steelers coach Mike Tomlin instead of that Cam…
Eco-minded bloggers do no take too kindly to these patio heaters that keep South Beach tourists eating outside in their tank tops comfortably because they will single handily deplete our natural gas reservoirs and cause global warming (as opposed to just the intended warming of patios). Now, a space heater…
Today, Miami Herald reporter Daniel Chang wrote about the South Miami-Dade Cultural Center boondoggle that I swear I read somewhere else nine days ago. Oh yeah! Right here. And it’s not the first time the Herald has been one step behind New Times this week either…
Anna Nicole Smith was truly a national hero. While congress fails to recognize the day of her death, two years ago on Sunday at the Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, as a Federal day of mourning, Riptide will carry on its own candle light vigil in its hearts. Because…
Bill Parcells flies around the NFL like some sort of caped superhero saving distressed teams from the villainous forces of “sucking.” After a successful year as the Dolphins VP of FB, in which he turned that team from the laughingstock of the league to something resembling an actual football team,…
We’re barely a month into 2009 and here’s a completely incomplete list of high-profile companies that have or will be slashing local jobs: Macy’s, Circuit City, the Miami Herald, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami City Ballet, and American Airlines. The South Florida Business Journal reports Miami Jai-Alai might soon join…
No matter what side of the abortion debate they’re on, most folks agree unscrupulous abortion clinics are a problem. In 2006, New Times chronicled a ring of connected abortion clinics with a history of botched terminations and unprofessional behavior. At one clinic, a woman originally hired to do janitorial work…
The school board is allowed to ban a book depicting happy, shiny Cuban mini-Communists. [AP]Floridians are very easy to take advantage of with Ponzi schemes. Thanks, Madoff. [NBC6]Lt. Governor Kottkamp has Chinese drywall in his home and was forced to temporarily move out. Don’t worry — his mustache is fine…
Hello, Kitty I am a 51-year-old housewife; my husband is the same age and I love him to death. But we rarely have sex. We just recently adopted a Japanese Akita from friends who were moving out of state, and he’s really a handful. He’s completely hyperactive and shows his…
So you’re a 16-year-old girl, and you desperately want to break off the illicit internet romance you’ve sparked with a 44-year-old vampire. What do you do? The only logical thing you can do: tell him that you’re secretly a member of an elite vampire-hunting unit and that staying together would…
While this entire stimulus bill saga is gripping DC, Senator Bill Nelson found time to tackle another problem. He filed legislation on Tuesday seeking to ban the import and interstate trade of reptiles. Nelsons interest in the matter stems from the problem of alien pythons in the Everglades, who we…
