When Hillary Clinton was the front runner in the race towards the White House, University of Miami’s campus was aflutter with rumors that President Donna Shalala might be headed back to Washington. Possibly to extend her lead as longest serving secretary of Health and Human Services. A couple of fantasy…
“I do yoga and Pilates, and the room is full of hotties. So I’m checking out the bodies, and you know I’m satisfied,” rapped Her Madgesty on “American Life.” I can’t speak for downward doggies, but after just one 55 minute Signature Intense Cardio Circuit class at NOMI Pilates I…
A tragic High School shooting in Ft. Lauderdale. [Sun-Sentinel] Carvalho is going to save the schools, not by spending lots of effort and finding new teaching methods or anything. He’s just going to lower expectations. [Herald] Bill Nelson is one of the Democratic Senators pushing leadership to let Joe Lieberman…
It’s halfway through the first period of the Florida Panthers’ game against the Minnesota Wild. Panthers goalie Tomas Vokoun skates behind the net to retrieve the puck. He whacks at it, trying to send it around the boards. But his fat goaltender’s stick misses its mark. No time to swing…
On Election Day, under a somber gray sky in Pembroke Pines, a line of voters snaked from the entrance of the Pembroke Shores Park gymnasium to the parking lot. A six-foot-four, paunchy, hazel-eyed Cuban-American walked the line, shaking hands as a cameraman from América TeVé recorded the scene. Dressed in…
It’s a shimmering silver worm of a skyscraper, featuring 80 stories rotating independently and elevators designed for taking your Ferrari right up to your apartment with you. File Italian architect David Fisher’s über-audacious proposal with the $1 billion Fountainebleau renovation as evidence that Miami developers are hoping to simply will…
Last week, an anti-gay marriage measure passed statewide, garnering a majority of votes in every Florida county but Monroe. The ballot was one of the great paradoxes in American politics: The black community, the most oppressed group in U.S. history, comprised one of the unfriendliest demographics toward gays. S.F. Mahee…
Miami Book Fair International’s street fair is coming this weekend, and to celebrate, Riptide called up Dennis Lehane, author of best sellers turned box office hits Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone. A graduate of Florida International University, Lehane will speak about his newest critically acclaimed novel, The Given Day,…
Celebs like to get away to Miami because the swarm of paparazzi is a little less thick here than it is in LA. That general rule has its exceptions, and Sarah Palin is one of them. Palin arrived in town today, and is expected to address the Republican Governer’s confab…
TBO.com has the details for the Wedding. Of. The. Century. In just 29 days Gov. Charlie Crist will walk down the isle to marry a real life woman, Carole Rome. And just as we thought Crist was too busy picking out floral arrangements to help out Ol’ John McCain’s campaign…
Here’s your dumb media theory of the day. Fark is the center of the “weird news” universe. The editors churn through over 2,500 submissions a day to find the strangest news stories, and then label them with tags like “unlikely,” “fail,” “amusing,” and “Florida.” Yes, Florida is the only state…
What would you do if you only had 10 days left in Miami? If your answer is “film a web series documenting all the best things the city has to offer,” too late someone already beat you. Two self described hipsters, Rio Chavarro and Jason Michael Kesser (from ‘Cornerstone Experiential…
“Sorry to interrupt, fellows, but could you point me towards the nearest Wings beachwear shop?” Riptide was walking by Collins and 14th St. in South Beach yesterday when we encountered a scene that took us right back to our city’s Cocaine Cowboys heyday. Two men, wearing woolly black ski masks…
Manny-appointment Mania just keeps going. On Monday, we discussed Mayor Diaz’s chances at HUD. Yesterday, we weren’t too keen on the idea of Manny as Homeland Security Chief. Today, The Herald steps in and throws out the idea he might be a perfect fit to head a new department Obama…
Yes, there will be a bunch of Republican Governors in town this week, but will they be able to accomplish anything? [Time] Oh sugar, sugar. A new deal with US Sugar was announced yesterday. It would put their lands in public hands and theoretically would be beneficial to the Everglade,…
I have a confession to make. I took this job only because I needed the money. The policies enacted by the Pelosi Congress and secret President Hillary Clinton (You thought it was Bill? Ha!) led to this horrible financial crisis (You know … women and money). I played the part…
This is currently under the highlights section on the front page of the website for the very important, respectable bastion of hard-hitting journalism, The Miami Herald. It’s a “Nudie Pics Alert!” It links to a “celebrity roundup” item about some sort of Cheetah Girls person whose fanny was all over…
Watch out for floating bodies. It wasn’t all that long ago that we were slapping each other on the back and toasting an entire month without a murder in Miami. Well, it looks like its high time to welcome everyone back to the Magic City we all know and love,…
The protests in California over the passage of Prop. 8 have gotten heated, and an ugly problem is the bit of racism that’s emerged after exit polls showed 70% of African-Americans voted in favor of its passage. This Saturday will see a nationwide protest against the passage of Prop. 8…
What is up with you, Washington Post blogs? You keep coming up in my internet reading, so you must be doing something right, but you always manage to rub me the wrong way. First, you had incorrect information about the Spanish version of the Obama infomercial and called Manny Diaz…
Yesterday we dreamed up all the future career steps Miami Mayor Manny Diaz could take next. The most interesting was as Obama’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Today, The Washington Post’s blog is the latest to put Diaz’s name out as a possible contender for that job, but also…
via Auto Cosmos Florida’s cultural transition into fitting its new blue state status is already underway. Case in point: the first NASCAR race in the state since the election, the Ford 400 this Sunday at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, will feature hybrid cars. Seriously, the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid will serve…
