As America hurtles toward a second scoop of recession and you struggle to make ends meet, you should know this: Some of this nation’s wealthiest citizens are squabbling over a minute stretch of asphalt. On a recent weekday, Riptide traversed where few plebeians without landscaping licenses have gone before: Indian…
About 3 o’clock this morning, after a beef at Nocturnal in downtown Miami, seven people were shot. So far, only one person has died, but it is the most gruesome attack at a Miami nightclub in years.According to police, the man killed was 26-year-old Brandon Marquis McGhee of North Miami. Court…
Joe McGinniss’ The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin doesn’t hit shelves until Tuesday, but review copies have gone out to various publications and more information about her alleged hook up with former Miami Heat star Glen Rice way back in the ’80s are creeping out. Mother Jones’ review…
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A three-judge panel from Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal has upheld the right of Florida’s fathers to slap their teenage daughters on the ass without fear of facing domestic violence charges. The ruling overturned an earlier judgement from a Tallahassee judge, who granted a domestic violence injunction against a…
Unless you’re an Owl or an Ibis, you’re probably pretty happy with your Division I FBS Florida football team right now. UF, FSU, USF, FIU and UCF all enter week three with a 2-0 record, and all but one has big game this weekend.Sure, you might be revved up as…
According to Men’s Health, the Miamians are dumber than the average person who actually reads Men’s Health. The magazine took time out of doing crunches and crunched some numbers on the education levels of citizens in the 100 biggest cities in America. Miami came in dead last…
Though the unemployment rate at both the national and state levels remains stagnant or sagging, the job market in Miami-Dade continues to make gains. From August 2010 to last month, 13,900 jobs were added in Miami-Dade. However, our seasonally adjusted unemployment rate still sits at 12.2, down slightly from from 13.0 in…
If ex-police chief Miguel Exposito didn’t look all that torn up on Monday when the Miami City Commission sacked him, there’s a good reason: Not only can he ignore all of Mayor Tomás Regalado’s nonsense from now on, but also he’s walking away with some serious money.Exposito will leave the…
Debuting today: a new website where you can find the best Miami has to offer, New Times style.Voice Places is just getting started. But it offers a multitude of choices for a good time — from almost 6,000 restaurants to 100 bars and hundreds of retail stores. There are links to…
Well, you can’t Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has never done anything nice for fans: he’s taken the costly and unusual step of ordering the team to buy out the remaining stock of unsold tickets to ensure that Sundays game against the Houston Texans isn’t blacked out on local television…
Fan favorite and self-described “twittaholic” Logan Morrison has filed an official grievance with the Florida Marlins over his demotion to AAA last month, reports ESPN.The Fish, meanwhile, have lost four in a row due to a comedy of errors. They are 31 games back in the division with only 12…
Giant African land snails have invaded Miami-Dade county, according to the state Department of Agriculture. The snails are one of the largest species in the world and have nasty habits like eating almost any type of plant in their path, causing destruction to homes, and making humans sick. To make…
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The Tea Party has a new superstar: the Miami Herald’s Dolphins reporter Armando Salguero!Yesterday Salguero made a stir by sending out a newsroom-wide email slamming the paper for choosing to run a blog post about allegations that Sarah Palin hooked up with former Miami Heat star Glen Rice while he was a…
Yesterday, Wells Fargo laid off 258 employees at a call center in Doral. But fear not, former Wells Fargo workers! Today, Wells Fargo released a report saying South Florida will help lead the state in job growth over the next year. Just apparently not the call-center jobs at Wells Fargo…
Terry Lynn Kimbell, 50, of Pinellas County, was in a classic conundrum Tuesday evening: He was drunk and wanted Taco Bell. But by that time of night, Taco Bell was serving its hot, meaty fast food only through the drive-thru, so he decided to walk through it. When employees refused to serve…
Steve Berke, a candidate for Miami Beach mayor, had a serious message at the city commission meeting last night: He wants current Mayor Matti Herrera Bower to resign.Then Berke brought out some serious music to emphasize his point: a sexy sax man named Sergio with a live rendition of George…
As Biannela Susana’s 2-year-old son was lying on the floor unconscious after being badly beaten by his 12-year-old half-brother, Susana was more interested in news about David and Victoria Beckham’s sons than in the serious situation involving her sons. Investigators say Susana waited four hours to look up information about…
The way we snort now: with less frequency and with less potent cocaine. The Miami Herald crunched the numbers (which aren’t exactly anything new) and found cocaine use has declined in South Florida. That doesn’t mean the War on Drugs has actually worked. Of course not. We’re just doing cheaper…
Get ready for the idea of giant sail-looking buildings staring at you from Biscayne Bay, and perhaps more important, prepare for the idea of a casino in downtown Miami. Genting has revealed its plans for the giant resort complex it wants to plop onto the current site of the Miami…
For nine years, LEO Affairs has been a rowdy online meeting spot for anyone in search of the inside scoop on local police, a place where off-duty cops banter about crappy shift supervisors, overzealous internal affairs snoops, and incompetent chiefs (ahem, Exposito!).That banter has gotten a bit too loose for…
