Ever notice how New Yorkers have such strong opinions about what makes a person a “real” New Yorker? (The answer: You have strong opinions about what makes one a real New Yorker.) The phrase “Real New Yorker” has 802,000 Google results. The phrase “Real Miamian” nets only 347 results.We’re a transient,…
Supremely bizarre baseball slugger– and South Florida resident– Manny Ramirez has had a long road back to the game. He abruptly retired from the Tampa Bay Rays in 2011 after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. He was arrested for allegedly battering his wife in their Weston home. Then he decided…
Al Lorenzo Wins Elections, but Will His History Hurt the State Attorney’s Latest Bid?
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Miami-Dade Police Lured Robbers to the Redland, Then Shot Them
Eduardo Saverin, Miami-Raised Facebook Founder, Slammed Over Renouncing U.S. Citizenship to Avoid Taxes
Who knows what goes through a basketball player’s mind when he spends the vast majority of the time sitting on the bench during such a heated and important playoff series. Perhaps the Miami Heat’s Dexter Pittman thought to himself, “Man, the whole world is watching this series, and ain’t no…
The chief of Miami Beach Police is insisting that his officers do not have a 2,000-arrest quota this Memorial Day weekend. But the department’s union vice president tells Riptide that he witnessed a major announce the quota at an officer roll call — and that his department has such quotas…
Let’s not put the cart before the horse, but there are other Miami matters to think about besides whether or not the Hurricanes leap to the Big 12 or stay relegated to the ACC. And that’s mostly the fate of the Orange Bowl. The game has already lost a lot…
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Are Miami Beach Police planning to arrest 2,000 people during the notorious Memorial Day weekend parties on South Beach? As in they’ve actually set a quota regardless of whether or not 2,000 deserve to be arrested. To put that in prospective, the record number of arrests over Memorial Day weekend…
We demand a recount. The INRIX Traffic Scorecard says that Miami only has the 12th worst traffic congestion in the country. Anyone who has ever been stuck in Miami traffic knows it’s the worst thing ever. No, literally the worst thing ever. The official ranks of worst things ever might as…
Less than six months after a penthouse at the Setai sold for $21.5 and set a new record for the highest price ever paid in Miami-Dade for an apartment, that record has been smashed. A penthouse in South Beach’s exclusive Continuum towers has been sold for $25 million according to…
A kindergarten classroom in St. Petersburg had an interesting yet unplanned show and tell recently after a six-year-old student pulled three ounces of marijuana and a scale from their backpack and proclaimed to the classes’ teacher, “Look what I got.”How’d it get there? Apparently the student’s father put it in…
Every week writers for Miami New Times and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing — a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True…
LeBron James and Dwyane Wade combined for 58 points and the Miami Heat shot a franchise-best 61 percent from the field as they blew out the Indiana Pacers 115-83 last night. The series now heads back to Indiana with Miami up 3-2.But because this is the Miami Heat and because…
For the first time since the ugly Republican primaries ended with a Mitt Romney win, the GOP nominee has opened up a clear lead over President Obama among Florida voters, mostly for one, simple reason: the economy, stupid.More surprising than the six point lead Romney nabbed in a new poll…
A husband and wife are suing their Miami doctor over a botched circumcision that left their infant son with a “unsightly… and permanently scarred” penis. Steven and Keka Lorenzana of Coral Gables filed suit against South Miami ob/gyn Lissette Molina on May 11. The suit claims that Molina botched their…
South Beach Tow must be one of those shows that is so unbelievably stupid that the only reason people watch it is because they mindlessly stare at their own television screen wondering how crap like this is actually broadcast before falling into a deep depression while mulling over the current…
The Sunlight Foundation has noticed an interesting and perhaps even troubling trend about the people who make our laws: the grade level that members of Congress speak at has taken a noticeable dip since 2005. The average member of Congress spoke at an 11.5 grade level in 2005, but now…
Ready for your unsubstantiated sports mega-rumor of the day? The University of Miami has informally contacted the Big 12 conference to gauge the interest in the possibility of ditching the ACC and joining the Texas-centric conference, according to one report at least. Of course, there are already rumors swirling that…
The Miami Heat owe Miami taxpayers millions in cost overruns to capital improvement projects on the American Airlines Arena. So says Miami-Dade Inspector General Chris Mazzella, in an audit report that hasn’t been publicly released yet but which sources close to the review have confirmed to Riptide.Mazzella has been pouring…
