With 2008 coming to a close, we are taking the time to look back at the crazy blog fodder the Magic City provided us with. Everything from Dolphins Cheerleaders to “hairy” e-mails struck a chord with readers. So let’s look at the top blog posts that were unknowingly picked by…
Sometimes I forget that technically Florida is a southern state, with Confederate heritage and all. It seems like the closer you get to the southern beaches the less and less red the necks are. This is probably because all of Hick-America would much rather spend their money on diamond-encrusted truck…
This full rotation around the sun that we have designated as 2008 was a very busy political year. And while we may be soon saying so long to our dear President George W. Bush, thus ending a golden age of dumb political quotes, there are plenty of other blow hards…
The holiday break brought us so many cheerful tidings: The Dolphins are heading the playoffs, gas prices are at a four year low, we get an iPhone, and the new Animal Collective leaked. So of course there has to be some sort of proverbial coal in the stocking: Jeb Bush…
There were plenty of exciting things that happened during 2008, but the final week of the year was just as busy as any other. Mild, sunny weather meant it was a great weekend to relax poolside and call up your friends up north to remind them that you haven’t even…
So is Bill Parcells a masochist, or what? This is the guy who voluntarily went to work for borderline-psychotic Dallas owner Jerry Jones, who left a cushy retirement to take over the staggeringly awful 1-15 Dolphins. For all Riptide knows, he’s got a side gig involving a rubber ball mouth-gag,…
Herman Rosenblat, the Miami Beach retiree and Holocaust survivor did indeed make up the amazing story that while being held in a concentration camp a young girl would throw apples to him over the fence which helped him survive, only to move to America years later and miraculously be set up on…
Your Miami Dolphins did it! Some how! Some way! They took their division, are heading to the play offs, and made the greatest season to season turn around in NFL history. Not only that but to get their they beat the Patriots, who last year came ridiculously close to joining the ’72…
With holiday parties in full swing, Riptide is pondering gifts to send to some of our favorite Miamians. We begin with Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez. We hear the strapping ex-police director enjoys starting his day at the gym. Well, hard to argue with that, since our top local leader should…
Grove Square Condominium, a pristine peach-colored tower just a few blocks from CocoWalk, is the kind of place an empty-nester might settle into a quiet life of coddling small dogs and dining at so-so chain restaurants. But lately things haven’t been so quiet. Two Thursdays ago, resident Teresa Valdes awoke…
Without a word, blue-eyed, leather-skinned Mark Clemons steers a camouflage electric golf cart down a lonesome, bumpy dirt road about 25 miles south of Lake Okeechobee. The only sound for miles is wind whistling through saw grass and spiky palmettos. A weak winter sun has barely been up 15 minutes…
On a sunny morning this past February 25, Pablo, a neat, stocky 46-year-old, arrived at Miami International Airport from La Paz. He had a valid visa, a contract to work as a welder, and dreams of making enough scratch to grow his small business back home in Bolivia. But almost…
Leroy Griffith makes his opinion abundantly clear as he laughs bitterly into the telephone: He really couldn’t give a shit who picks up an open seat on the Miami Beach City Commission next fall — as long as it’s not the woman who kept the champagne out of his strip…
Miami Dolphins @ New York Jets, Sunday Dec 28th 4:15pm on CBSSomewhere on this very blog earlier in the season I quipped something about how betting against the Dolphins was a more sound investment than anything the stock market has to offer. Well, guess what? I took my advice and now I…
Oh for the love of a secular female iteration of an Earth power God, it is Christmas Eve. Can we please keep the partisan bickering to arguing with your Republican uncle after copious amounts of egg nog? No, sir. The conservative blogosphere is nonstop. While this particular strained metaphor doesn’t match the stupidity of yesterday’s…
Your weekly football fix won’t come until this weekend, but since Riptide will be quite quiet the rest of the week we’ll be doing our trademarked very informative Football previews today!The Emerald Bowl: Miami Hurricanes vs California Golden Bears, Saturday Dec 27th 8pm on ESPNThe last time anyone really got excited about…
If the release of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlo Alvarez’s son from prison was a big deal, you wouldn’t know it from any of the local media outlets (us included). The news broke nearly three months after the fact in, of all places, Joan Fleischman’s Herald gossip column. We relegated it to a link…
Murder trials, drug busts, hurricane warnings and robberies may continue to grab the “If It Bleeds, It Leads”-headlines but 2008 was a year of events that will continue to affect us well past the changing of the calendar year. Riptide counts down the biggest new stories of 2008. 10. Murder Free…
Yesterday, we informed you that the King Mango Strut- Coconut Grove’s irreverent, wacky, and somewhat inexplicable post-Christmas parade — might be no more after this year. The Man’s got them down.If so, it’s going out with a bang — or more of a peck, really. (What is it about certain…
The Washington Post company, which owns channel 10, will not be buying channel 6 as previously planned. It will remain an NBC O&O. [Just News]Florida isn’t as competitive in luring movie shots as other states, anymore. [SunSent]A lady decided to track down some hoodlums that snatched her purse by tailing…
Your Florida Marlins are turning into quite the little Hollywood starlets. They have a supporting part, of sorts, in the upcoming Marley and Me with Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson and now they’re in talks to take part in an episode of NBC’s weird but enjoyable Kath & Kim. This ads…
Herman Rosenblat, a Miami retiree, has for the last decade spread the amazing tale of how he met his wife. He even appeared on Oprah twice, and Ms. Winfrey dubbed it the greatest love story ever told. Rosenblat was a prisoner in the Nazi’s infamous Buchenwald concentration camp. A young…
