Everyone thinks Jeb Bush should have presidential ambitions, but apparently last summer he was more interested in another one of his brother’s old jobs: Major League Baseball team owner. According to the Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson, Bush put together a group of investors and tried to buy the Marlins from…
Yesterday, Sen. Marco Rubio released his Spotify playlist on the world. It got us thinking about the musical tastes of other Florida politicians. We don’t really expect Gov. Rick Scott to be dropping his mixtape anytime soon, so through the wonderful powers of satire, Riptide has imagined what that mixtape might include. …
In further a effort to prove he’s totally hip and with it, Sen. Marco Rubio sat down with Buzzfeed, a .GIF site with some political reporters, to discuss a wide ranging series of topics over beer with editor Ben Smith. Rubio discussed a number of issues, including his belief that gay…
On Friday, New Times published a three-month investigation into Miami Beach Fire Rescue (MBFR). It showed that MBFR leaders and other city officials ignored evidence of corruption. Millions of dollars in permit fees mysteriously went missing. And the two employees who did complain were forced out.It now seems as if the…
On Tuesday, a week and a day after Miami New Times published online a report describing hundreds of pages of records from the office of a Coral Gables clinic, Biogenesis, the first professional baseball players have acknowledged involvement with owner Anthony Bosch. In statements issued Tuesday to Yahoo! Sports, two…
Last week, Gov. Rick Scott unveiled a new PR campaign intended to help draw businesses to Florida, and because Scott cannot do one single thing without generating controversy, critics are attacking the logo used in the PR push as sexist. …
To be a successful tampon thief, one must think like a tampon. Unfortunately, Alyson Strosser, 47, didn’t prove to be a good fit for her hiding spot when police tracked her down. Strosser was caught by a CVS manager in Port St. Lucie trying to steal a host of items on December…
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You bought that 55 gallon drum of personal lubricant off of Amazon, didn’t you? Because according to Amazon.com sales data, Miami is the sexiest city in America. Which means we buy more “sexual wellness” products off of Amazon per capita than any other city. That also helps make us the…
The Miami Dolphins won their first legislative battle in a war to secure taxpayer money to cover half of the planned $400 million upgrades to Sun Life Stadium this morning as the bill passed its first Senate committee unanimously. …
Marco Rubio may be on his way to being one of the most powerful men in Washington, DC, but that doesn’t mean he’s lost his common touch. Florida’s junior senator unleashed his latest Spotify playlist on the world, and his music taste is pretty much that of an average Y100…
On the same day Rick Scott’s secretary of state issued a plan to avoid a repeat of November’s catastrophic voting delays, a Miami commissioner put out his own, more radical idea: Printing Dade County’s ballots in a single language, instead of the lengthy documents in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.Don’t…
Here’s something to read on your smartphone while sucking exhaust and staring at the miles of immobile cars ahead of you on the Dolphin this morning: A new report out of Texas A&M University ranks Miami among the 15 worst cities in America for traffic congestion.Miami ranked 11th on this…
Our own Senator Spacesnakes is apparently one of the biggest bad asses in all of Washington D.C. He’s been named by U.S. News and World Reports as one of the top ten “toughest” politicians in America. …
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The Miami Hurricanes basketball team has reached new heights: they’re now the number eight team in the country according to the AP poll. The ‘Canes have only been here once before, and that was way back in 1960 when they were also ranked 8th. It’s the team’s highest ranking since…
Penelope Soto will spend the next thirty days in jail for basically being the most stereotypically catty teenage girl ever. The 18-year-old was in court today for her arraignment on charges of possession of Xanax bars (the drug of choice of catty teen girls, obviously), but certainly wouldn’t have been found…
It is hard enough out there for a single mother giraffe just trying to get by with out some boned up douche giraffe male trying to force himself upon her. Kita the Giraffe, a 29-year-old lady giraffe at Zoo Miami, took a tumble yesterday while running away from a male giraffe…
There are two great myths about Cuba: that Fidel Castro is already dead, and that they actually have democracy. Well, yesterday Castro was spotted out in public for the first time in three years to cast a ballot in yesterday’s general election. Because, you know, every vote is really important…
The row of ranch houses sits along a canal in Miami Gardens, dwarfed by the structure just across the water: Sun Life Stadium, home to scores of Super Bowls. As neighbors gathered last night to watch this year’s big game in New Orleans, tragedy struck the block.A gunman blasted more…
Three months ago, Michael Stec could bench-press 275 pounds. Now the 56-year-old struggles to walk, gripping tightly to the parallel bars at Mercy Hospital, his legs buckling underneath him like broken stilts.Most people never know how they get sick. But Stec says he can pinpoint the exact moment. He even…
In the wake of New Times investigation into Coral Gables clinic Biogenesis, both Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and clinic owner Tony Bosch have denied any link to each other or to performance enhancing drugs.But a source tells ESPN’s T.J. Quinn in a new report that the pair not only knew…
