Today our departing president held his last press conference, and it was classic Dubya: hokey jokes, strange grins, and a prickly defensiveness. The highlight: Bush admitted, for the first time, to making several mistakes during his presidency. Apparently he was the last to find out. “Clearly, putting a ‘mission accomplished’…
Fidel Castro was last seen in public in July 2006 and has become a nefarious recluse ever since. He is like the Howard Hughes of notorious dictators. Now his BFF Hugo Chavez says we’ll likely never see Castro or his beard in public again. “That Fidel in his uniform who walked the streets and…
There are some things you never thought would happen. Like the University of Miami basketball team being more respected than the football team. After last year’s stunning season, the Canes are again bringing it, and Saturday they pulled off a major upset against #17 BC, putting UM on a five-game winning…
Miami’s reputation as a quickie wedding hot spot is nowhere near that of Las Vegas, and don’t expect it to take off, because the weird, sad marriage of Amy Winehouse to her hubby Blake is officially ending. The two married at a courthouse while vacationing here in May 2007, and…
We think the downturn in the economy is finally having a widespread effect on Miami. We’re beginning to notice some low attendance at events we think should have performed better. It also seems every conversation we have with people is whether they are still employed. Let’s hope we get out…
Saturday night, wandering the urban wasteland known as Wywnood, I stopped by the Bombay Saphire lounge behind the David Castillo Gallery. As I drank some gin, club soda and lemonade concoction, MAP Magazine publisher Michael Sheehan greeted me and nonchalantly told me “I’m closing MAP.” Mouth agape, I asked him…
One quick look at these two, and I’m sure you could decide which public restroom they’d feel more comfortable using. Well, a group of moral crusaders in Gainesville thinks the muscle-bound man on the left ought to be using the lady’s loo while the fabulous woman on the right should…
I can’t find it on YouTube, so call up your friend who’s an expert on Austin Powers movies (yes, we all have one such amigo), and ask him to recite the Ivana Humpalot bit. You know, the one with the busty Russian supermodel (played by Kristen Johnston) whose favorite hobby…
In perhaps the most important news ever, Riptide and all its sister blogs got some work done. Everyone knows you’ve gotta go under the knife once in a while in this town to keep up.Obama promises to close Gitmo, sometime. No sure when, but he’ll get around to it. [CBS4]Charlie…
Sometimes it seems like Miami really is tainting the rest of the state. Take this disturbing news from Palm Bay, a city up along Florida’s northern Atlantic coast. Police are investigating claims that a 12-year-old girl visited Miami during her holiday break and traded sex for four bags of pot…
Things were really weird yesterday (Did you miss me? No? Oh,thanks.), and I ended up briefly at the Opa-locka Executive Airport before heading up to West Palm Beach, only to turn around and drive back to Miami. Anyway, the runway was busy with lots of bigwigs flying in for the…
Lennar, the homebuilding operation and one of the largest corporations based in Miami, has seen its stock price take a huge hit after the company was accused of fraud by some sort of shady businessman turned Jesus-lover turned self-appointed fraud watchdog on the Internet. Yes, folks, we’ve reached the age when web…
Not a day goes by when I drive through Miami that I don’t think to myself: You know what this place really needs? Some friggin’ dirt-bike trails! Hell yeah! Apparently, Manny Diaz thinks so too. He was up in D.C. yesterday along with a host of other mayors asking for handouts…
The Washington Post is the only media outlet claiming Manny Diaz is “in the mix,” as some tend to say, to run for Senate, and earlier this week, the paper sat down with Diaz for a video. That subject wasn’t addressed; the interview was mainly about “leadership.” It doesn’t show anything…
There’s really no better honor in life than landing the cover of New Times, as local skateboard legend Robby Weir did two and a half years ago, but we suppose in his line of work, being inducted into the Florida Skateboarding Hall of Fame comes in a pretty close second. Weir…
Before we indulge, yet again, in Burger King’s cheap and greasy menu of shameless blog-attention-whoring marketing tactics, let’s get out our feelings about their cheap and greasy menu of food: their fries taste like salted cardboard, their salad selection is terribly disappointing, and the Quad Stacker is by far the grossest…
Former UM Hurricanes starting quarterback Robert Marve apparently thinks he is the next Tim Tebow, despite the fact he has never really shown that kind of talent on the field. Nonetheless, he would really like to at least have the option of transferring to the newly crowned champs in Gainsville. Sadly, like so…
We’ve made no secret of our support for Mickey Rourke’s Oscar ambitions, but there are other very important award ceremonies coming up soon in different fields, and as always, we’d like to support the home team. The 2009 Bloggies began taking nominations this week. No, we’re not begging for your support…
Chuckie Taylor Jr., the Orlando-raised son of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, already faces a world of pain in Miami’s federal courthouse this morning.In October, Chuckie became the first American convicted of orchestrating torture abroad, for the brutal crimes he carried out as the head of his father’s “Demon Forces” security…
The federal government decided that the county can be treated like a big boy again, and gave back control of the housing agency. HUD had seized control in 2007. [Herald]Sorry, no split title. The Florida Gators finish #1 on the AP poll after last night’s BCS win. By the way,…
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So despite what other whiny sports journalists have to say, someone will be going home a winner tonight at Dolphin Stadium. Our sister blog, The Juice, will be live blogging the whole thing directly from the press box at the stadium. So if you are looking for some refreshing online…
