Last month, we did a little retrospective of our ten best covers of 2011, which included everything from our sex issue to urging for you to vote for Uncle Luke in the Miami mayoral election. Now we have the stamp of approval from the Society of Publication Designers who agrees…
Rep. Connie Mack’s late entrance into the GOP primary for the right to take on incumbent senator Bill Nelson later this year has resulted in a quick jump to the front of the pack over other candidates like George LeMieux and Adam Hasner. The fact that Mack shares his name…
Vernell Reynolds is a whole different type of corrupt cop. She stands accused of not just embezzling $200,000, but from swiping that money from a charity set up by police officers which she oversaw. The U.S. Department of Justice announced her arrest and indictment today, and claims some of the…
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Don’t expect Mark Buehrle’s four year, $58 million contract with the Miami Marlins to translate into a boon for Miami’s real estate market. That’s because Buehrle’s family is literally banned from living within Miami-Dade County. Well, one member in particular: “Slater” Buehrle, the family’s 18-month-old American Staffordshire terrier. Despite the…
You thought your 2011 finances were bad? Despite his NBA team having its best year ever, Micky Arison’s net worth dropped somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.3 billion last year, according to Forbes. Arison’s main source of income comes from his CEO role and hefty financial stake in Carnival Cruise…
David O. Russell, the Oscar-nominated director behind films such as The Fighter and I ♥ Huckabees and who is said to be connected to a possible Cocaine Cowboys movie, is being investigated by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office after allegedly groping the breasts of his transgendered 19-year-old niece while the two were…
Turns out Xavier Suarez and Joe Carollo can actually agree on something: they like Newt Gingrich. They’ve both been announced as members of Gingrich’s Florida Steering Committee. Then again, it only makes sense that two guys who saw their political careers take embarrassing stumbles in the ’90s would line up…
Dwyane Wade, out with a sore left foot. LeBron James, out with a sprained left ankle. The Miami Heat, having to go into Atlanta undermanned, against a Hawks team that had just beaten them at home with James and Wade.Problem? Shit and no.Enter Chris Bosh. Bosh proceeded to trample any…
Dr. Paul Perito has responded to our story which detailed another lawsuit stemming from allegedly destroying a patient’s penis, the second time he’s been hit with such a suit. We also chronicled past criminal charges against the urologist in which he was accused of selling counterfeit pills out of a…
Andrew Marshall fought government — city, state, and federal — tooth and nail for years. On Wednesday, the government finally won.Marshall was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for making and possessing unregistered firearms. Originally from a wealthy New York family, he moved to Miami and dropped off the…
Beware whom you cut off on the Florida Turnpike. That slow-moving a-hole in front of you could turn out to be an ax murderer.No, really.Abdel Roca Teijelo was pulled over last Friday during a routine traffic stop. Turns out, the 37-year-old barista was wanted in his native Spain for allegedly…
When reports surfaced Saturday that Florida Panthers enforcer Krys Barch was ejected from the game for using a racial slur against Montreal Canadiens player P.K. Subban, a Canadian-native with Jamaican parents, everyone just sort of assumed Barch had dropped a N-bomb or something equally vile. Barch quickly defended himself though,…
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Congratulations Miami-Dade County! We’re home to not one, but two of the ten worst-run cities in the entire United States of America. The City of Miami came first on 24/7 Wall Street’s list. That would be bad enough, but citizens of Miami proper may be even more devastated ;to find…
When trying to get revenge on someone, it’s best that your plan doesn’t end up getting you arrested for child pornography charges.Take Rashad Hannibal Jackson for example. He wanted to get back at an ex for “disrespecting” him, so he decided to upload a tape he had secretly made while…
It seemed like a story fit for Disney. An intrepid and beautiful young artist approaches a local gallery with an outrageous idea: spend five days butt naked in a pen with two piglets to raise awareness about animal rights and save the creatures from a nasty death in an illegal…
When police found 36-year-old Clifford Ellison dead inside an overturned car in Lakeland, Florida, they at first assumed he had died in the accident. Turns out that wasn’t the case. He actually died because the man in his passenger seat set off a mini-explosions while trying to mix meth in…
Scott Rothstein, the ego-drive man-child of a mega-lawyer who is now serving 50 years in prison for running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme in Fort Lauderdale, has now admitted to shelling out in the neighborhood of $50,000 to $60,000 a month on prostitutes alone.Oh, sure, some of the hookers were…
Every year when the temperatures dip below 50 degrees Miamians freak out. Every year we collectively empty out the space heater isles of our local stores. Every year someone inadvertently ends up burning the house down with that space heater. 2012 is no different.A 96-year-old woman is now without her…
The Miami Marlins inked a deal last night for once-explosive, possibly still insane Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano. With Ozzie Guillen already signed on to manage the club, the two most unhinged personalities in baseball will call Little Havana home next season.Scientists contacted by Riptide are still unsure what might result…
Coral Gables urologist Paul Perito sued after amputating a patient’s penis
