Four years ago a husband and wife named Jonada and Angela Campos sold jewelry in stall N-30 at the Opa-locka/Hialeah Flea Market. On the morning of May 27, 2003, their son Marlon began removing merchandise from a safe in the rear and setting it out for display. A trio of…
Easy there Miami, you can appreciate this: Slate is celebrating “the art of buttock innovation—past, present, and future” as part of its new “Sex” edition. The reason? “The October 2007 issue of King magazine, with buttock queen Kim Kardashian on the cover. Will she prove the fashion fulcrum for a…
The new CBS series that debuted last night stinks – even if it came with reduced commercials. Problem is, the damn thing has no sense of humor. And it doesn’t let any of the drama really develop. It just kinda rushes along. The good news: some of the Cuban accents…
This week’s Pic of the Week is of Miamian Gary Rhaney and his bicycle, which he put together himself using a kiddy wheel in front and a regular sized, but tireless, rim in the back. He calls the contraption “my security system – you got a tire, they’ll steal your…
A couple hundred people gathered in Doral at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday to buy the Halo 3 video game (the same one that Wired magazine recently called “a cultural touchstone.”) For your viewing pleasure, here’s a GamingBits video shot at the Circuit City early this morning that captures the madness:…
What can I say? It’s a slow, sweaty Tuesday afternoon in Miami. This made me laugh: -Tamara Lush…
When a group of citizens mounted an effort to recall Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas, unions representing county employees, including the South Florida AFL-CIO, rallied around her. Not only did the union provide man power at the polls, they pumped tens of thousands of dollars into the political action committee…
Fidel’s back, looking all healthy and shit in a new photo with the Angolan prez. But he hasn’t changed out of his track suit. Message to Fidel: the olive green military uniform was a much better look for you. Admittedly, it made you look like a dictator, and now that…
Sunday’s Marlins-Mets game was pretty exciting. The home team’s Dan Uggla – you know, Ugly Uggla – made an astounding catch at second base, then hit a homer to put the Marlins back in it. David Wright, the Mets MVP, got the winning hit as the Mets won 7 to…
This battle axe was purchased at the Opa-locka/Hialeah flea market’s plucky Pakistani knife booth for five dollars. “This is a weird store,” said the pleasant girl behind the counter. “You’d be surprised at how often we sell this stuff to weird people like you.” The owner of the booth was…
The swank new Regent South Beach hotel, which debuted all of a year ago, is now operating under new management, a group called Vincci Hoteles. Does this mean that the property’s signature restaurant, Table 8, will be deep-sixed? We’ll have to wait and see…….New owners of B.E.D. Miami, which opened…
Rudy Crew is in elite company these days. Miami-Dade Public Schools’ superintendent is being represented by the Creative Artists Agency, one of Hollywood’s talent firms, to find him speaking engagements. Crew is listed on the agency’s online speaker roster. CAA represents some of the world’s most famous celebrities, including hip-hop…
It looks like some Homestead City Council members also saw that homeless guy we mentioned walking across the Causeway Monday morning. According to the Herald , they are joining the uproar of other saggy-pants protestors across the country and considering a similar butt crack ban in Homestead. Council member Lynda…
Rudolph “Rudy” Crew is a busy man these days. While doing the $325,000-a-year job of running Miami-Dade County Public Schools, he has been on tour promoting his new tome, Only Connect: The Way to Save Our Schools. Since its August 7 release, he has been interviewed on National Public Radio,…
Yo Quiero In! Filed under: Politics In his upstart race against two-term District 1 incumbent Angel Gonzalez, Mike Suarez is definitely the underdog. He’s got less money, fewer connections, and — judging from a stroll through the heart of Allapattah — a far smaller quantity of signage than his opponent…
January 2, 2003: Under a bright blue sky, John Timoney stood in front of city hall and formally accepted the job as Miami’s police chief. He was taking over a deeply troubled department — that very week, 11 officers would stand trial for fabricating evidence and planting guns. But the…
BBC news reports today that the two Cuban soldiers who attempted to hijack an airliner in May were sentenced by a military tribunal to life in prison. Sergeants Leandro Cerezo Sirut, 20, and Yoan Torres Martinez, 21, received life in jail in the attempted hijacking that left two people dead…
Did you know that today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Discuss. -Tamara Lush…
The American Civil Liberties Union hosted a heated debate last night at the Temple Israel of Greater Miami. The topic: the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment — in layman’s terms, a proposed amendment to Florida’s Constitution that would make gay marriage or civil unions illegal in Florida. Its proponents want to…
Though his views on gays feel stuck in the slurs of the early Nineties (See this July Riptide blog post), Miami Beach mayoral candidate Bill Smatt showed some out-of-the-box thinking with his pitch for improving Miami Beach. The 76-year-old, who sports long white hair and a beard a la Father…
Riptide recently came across this gem: a letter written by Fran Rollason, sent by her to various listservs and neighborhood businesses. Rollason is president of the MiMo Biscayne Association and the wife of longtime city bureaucrat and one-time District 2 contender Frank Rollason. We reprint it here. Rollason describes it…
It didn’t take long for University of Florida students to rally around their police-defying bro Andrew Meyer, the 21-year-old who was tasered by university cops because he refused to stop asking John Kerry questions during the senator’s appearance at the school on Monday. In this assortment of YouTube videos, these…
