Miss USA was hosted in Miami Beach for over decade between 1960 and 1971, but America’s second most important beauty pageant won’t be coming back to this year even after a strong push from the city’s tourism and cultural development. Looks like we’ll have to make do with all the…
Local journalist Carlos Miller has a blog called Photography is Not a Crime. Apparently Miami-Dade police officers are not avid readers.County cops arrested Miller on Tuesday night as he was filming the Fuzz forcibly evacuating Occupy Miami protesters from Government Center downtown. But he says the police are the ones…
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Unemployment may be staggeringly high in Florida, but according to a new analysis by On Numbers, the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area added the 11th most private sector jobs of any metro area in 2011. That only added up to 21,600 new jobs, though. And, in terms of percentage growth, the area…
Eager fashionistas lined up at the Midtown Target Saturday morning for the launch of the chain’s latest bargain priced collection from designer Jason Wu. Unfortunately, they were all beat to the punch as a single couple bought out the store’s entire stock of the collection with apparent plans to resell…
Don’t say Miami city commissioner can’t get something done if they put their minds to it. Miami City Commissioner Frank Carollo has emerged victorious after a months-long fight to get diaper changing station installed in the men’s bathrooms at city buildings…
Imagine you’re the teller working the front window at a quiet bank in the Keys, when 43-year-old Eli Escalera walks up and hands you a note: “Give me what are 20s and 50s.””Is this a robbery?” you wonder, staring at the bizarrely worded demand. “And why the hell is this…
A recent GQ profile of once-high-flying NFL star Terrell Owens — who’s now close to broke despite earning more than $80 million — has shined a national spotlight this month on his South Florida agent, Drew Rosenhaus, and financial advisor, Jeff Rubin. T.O. has lambasted Rosenhaus’s management and sued over…
Maureen Raymond, 49, may admit she was driving under the influence of “big boobies,” but that’s about it. After being approached by police for driving over the speed limit and swerving over the double yellow line, Raymond refused to perform a field sobriety test because she claimed her big breasts…
Riptide has a now established tradition of mathematically (in the loosest sense of the word) deciding which team Miamians should root for the in the Super Bowl. This year the answer seems obvious: F*ck the Pats! But should we really f*ck the Pats? Lets run both the New England Patriots…
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It sure sounds like Peyton Manning is going to end up in Miami eventually one way or another. The only question is whether it will be in a Dolphins jersey or a pair of board shorts lounging at his condo at the Continuum in the South of Fifth area of…
Remember in December when Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi was roaming around Tallahassee asking officials, including Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi to pee in a cup? Well, the package finally made it onto the air last night…
The Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood has set off a firestorm of debate across the country. Some Komen chapters have rebelled and several top Komen executives have already resigned in protest. So it’s no surprise that in Miami — where we don’t even have…
If you were a betting man, hopefully you were betting that a bill to bring three full-service, Las Vegas-style casinos to South Florida wouldn’t pass this year. You’d be cashing in right now.The bill has died in the Florida House, after Rep. Erik Fresen, the Republican from Miami who is…
Oh, you thought Miami was done with the Kardashian plague ever since Kourtney and Khloe finished “taking” us? Not by a long shot. The klan’s DASH boutique remains on Washington Avenue on South Beach, and apparently is doing so well the girls are looking to relocate it to a space…
We’re number one, and there’s nothing to get excited about. Using criteria that included violent crime, political corruption, foreclosures, and unemployment, Forbes.com has ranked Miami as America’s single most miserable city. We’re up from second place last year…
Khalilah Camacho-Ali remembers the first time she walked into 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach was during the summer of 1967. Back then she was known as Belinda, the 17-year-old second bride of the man who would go on to become the greatest boxer of all time: Muhammad Ali. At…
Since Riptide broke the news in October that an Ohio-based developer wants to build a massive new Walmart in booming Midtown Miami, the firm has kept quiet about the plans. That doesn’t mean they’ve backed down after residents angrily flooded our story and others with anti-Sam Walton comments. This week,…
Forget the new logo, uniforms, coach, roster or shady funding for the new stadium — by fair the most despair-inducing feature of the Miami Marlin’s recent makeover is what we originally termed the “insanely ugly animatronic home-run sculpture.” The thing looks like a Mardi Gras float impregnated a Guy Harvey…
Citizens decry the involvement of shadowy special interests and lobbying groups in our politics, so it’s quite surprising that Rep. Rachel Burgin, a Republican from Tampa, tried to pass the actual mission statement of such a group into law.It’s not exactly a secret that lawmakers often don’t actually write the…
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