There’s no denying that three years ago, LeBron James was the biggest villain in sports. Hell, Heat fans themselves were treated as rouges just for daring to root for him. But after two back-to-back championships, LeBron’s public image has recovered. Of course, the sports media always needs a villain, and…
The University of Miami’s main library is currently being evacuated after a bomb threat. Campus security issued an emergency alert at 10:28 a.m. this morning. A university spokesman confirmed the evacuation but did not provide further details on the threat. UPDATE: Cops have finished sweeping the library and given the…
If you’re not familiar with the “Thanks Obama” meme, it pokes fun at some people’s tendency to blame the president for just about anything. Well, a man in Florida who was arrested for pushing his pregnant girlfriend went on a rambling outburst in which he tried to blame Obama…
Oneal Morris, the backstreet unlicensed “doctor” who injected substances like Fix-a-Flat and cement into her patients’ back sides, has plead guilty. In January she’ll surrender and serve 366 days for one count of practicing medicine without a license. Of course, Morris still faces far more serious charges, including one for…
Amid the mixed results from the NFL’s ongoing push to make British people care about American football by playing a few games every year in London, one bizarre fact remains constant: Among Brits who do enjoy the pigskin, the Miami Dolphins are oddly popular. A survey of fans at this…
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Mark Gold is one of the kings of Miami’s lucrative traffic ticket racket. His Ticket Clinic is ubiquitous and the University of Miami law alum has reaped the benefits with a $1.5 million mansion on Rivo Alto Island. But Gold doesn’t exactly seem like a happy camper. Two years ago…
It looks like wax and it’s vaporized on a red-hot disk of titanium. It’s made by forcing butane through pipes packed with marijuana. And for a certain segment of the weed aficionado population, it’s the future of mary jane. Of course, if you don’t know how to make it, it…
There was once a time in Miami, long before this epoch of patas sucias, EDM, and LeBron James, when vagrants and vagabonds pervaded the city, and good, God-fearing folks feared proud sluts roaming the streets. Or at least that’s how it appears according to the 1917 Miami city code, which…
Last week, the Miami-Dade medical examiner released a scathing report condemning the medical treatment of local Spanish-language radio personality Betty Pino, who died in August at age 65 after wounds from a procedure to remove silicone from her buttocks became infected. In that report, Pino’s family said they were considering…
One of the world’s foremost conspiracy theorists doesn’t want people to get the wrong impression when they Google his name. “Mind Control: The Ultimate Terror”? Fine. “New (Reptilian) World Order”? Hey, he wrote that article. But calling him an “American loon”? That’s cause for a libel suit, according to Uri…
Something is rotten in Miami Beach. Construction is soaring in Sunset Harbour. Lincoln Road is log-jammed with tourists. And Art Basel once again approaches like a billion-dollar beast ready to take a platinum piss all over SoBe. But underneath all of this commerce is the cloying odor of corruption and…
James runs his hand along a shelf full of expensive, glistening glass water pipes before grabbing a small, clear one. It has a titanium disk where the bowl is supposed to be. The lanky, droopy-eyed lawn service owner sets it on a table next to a small blowtorch and twists…
Porn star Mary Carey, whose resume also involves a candidacy for Governor of California and a stint on Celebrity Rehab, was reportedly kicked off a plane in Miami today by police after she refused to leave the landed aircraft. According to TMZ, she was drunk at the time…
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In Alfred Hitchock’s classic The Birds, Tippi Hedren’s characters runs around everywhere getting attacked by crazy birds. Apparently if Dwyane Wade starred in a sequel to movie he’d just sit safely inside all day quietly taunting the birds for not being able to get at him through his reinforced windows…
It’s been almost a month since the Health Care Exchange opened, and it’s still extremely difficult to create an account. Although the primary issue on October 1st seemed to be a glitch with some drop-down menus, that technical difficulty has been smoothed over. It’s the very next part — the…
Here in Florida we’re still not quite sure who to arrest for shooting people with actual guns, but don’t you even think about shooting someone with a squirt gun. Your dry ass may be going to jail if you dare make anyone else’s soggy. For example, Giovanna Borge, 19, of…
The last thing anyone wants to do while doing their grocery shopping if suddenly find themselves in the middle of a police shooting, yet that’s exactly what happened last night to shoppers at a Publix in Hialeah. A police officer working security detail at the Publix Sabor at 1290 West…
Halloween is right around the corner, and if you haven’t already, now is the time to pick up a costume. By now, Walmart’s cookie-cutter dress-up shelves look like the Publix bottled water section when a hurricane is churning in the Gulf. Sometimes the best Halloween ideas are right under your…
Here at Riptide, we chew on the fodder of public corruption, despotism, and power-hungry cops gone bad. But today, we’re thrilled to report, this story won’t be another entry into the annals of Miami mayhem. Late last month, 29-year-old Jessica Robles looked at her three children and came to a…
Would you like some controversy with your cognac? Last night’s celebrity-filled soirée at the Biltmore Hotel — hosted by Hennessy in honor of Roberto Clemente — took a strange twist when talk turned from the booze to a simmering baseball controversy in Hialeah. Accused earlier in the day of swindling…
