Most people’s idea of a white Christmas does not involve candy Easter eggs. Then again, Esteban Galtes wasn’t planning to celebrate with wholesome, Vermont-style snow.The 23-year-old Miami resident was caught trying to smuggle approximately $100,000 worth of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport. He had tried to disguise most of…
Charlie Garcia, 30 an 11-year employee at Paul W. Bell Middle School, located in west Miami-Dade, was all set to play Santa Claus for the school’s holiday festivities. Then Broward Sheriff’s Officers knocked on his door. They arrested him for the very un-Santa like crime of possessing child pornography…
It’s not official yet, but another Florida football team may soon be on the hunt for a new head coach. Following the Fin’s friggin’ seventh home loss of the season, speculation is brimming that Tony Sparano may soon be sleeping with the fishes, professionally anyway. Which means rampant replacement speculation…
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Men looking to keep warm over the holidays with some quality tail they picked up on South Beach know their car game better be on point. Ho, ho, hoes only ride in those luxury import sleds. Women, well their trunk can be junky as long as they have junk in…
Garrett Wittels, the Florida International University baseball star who made national headlines last year with a DiMaggio-esque hitting streak, is about to be all over the interwebs for much less savory reasons. Wittels and two friends have been charged in the rape of two 17-year-old girls in the Bahamas…
Well, the holidays survived yet another “war on Christmas” and no lives seemed to be lost or adversely effected by people saying “happy holidays” or other secular greetings instead of “Merry Christmas,” but up in Tallahassee the fight may carry on. In a last minute volley, state Senator Gary Siplin,…
Cracking down on pill mills was supposed to be one of the state government’s biggest triumphs of the year. New legislation taking aim at regulating “pain management” clinics that wantonly prescribe addictive pain medications went into effect in October, but the government has blown several deadlines for putting in place…
As if taking a kick to the nuts from the horrific Detroit Lions wasn’t bad enough, a few fans got a little cherry on top of their Sunday turd sandwich courtesy Dominic Raiola, the Lions’ center. As he strutted through the tunnel, he offered the Sun Life crew a witty…
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly seemed to have a lot of strange things on his mind leading up to the Sun Bowl. Things like nude beaches and Mexican drug lords. Ok, well maybe that last thing wasn’t so strange. The Fighting Irish will be renewing their famous rivalry with…
If the Miami-Dade County Commission was a third grade classroom — and in terms of maturity it often resembles one — Dennis Moss would get a gold star sticker on his sweater. Sally Heyman would flunk. This year, Heyman, who oversees the sprawling northeast corner of Miami-Dade, had by far…
With no playoffs and no hope left for this season, the Dolphins entered a pretty meaningless game against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, all things considered. There was very little to be gained from a win other than to say they didn’t lose to the Detroit Lions. But that didn’t…
It was hailed as the most highly anticipated NBA game in the history of everything ever! The NBA game of NBA games! The game that was going to blow your ass off with its sheer apocalyptic awesome! And, in the end, the Miami Heat took down the defending NBA champion…
Jacek Urbanczyk, Poland-based sports journalist, is Riptide’s stringer for the Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl in Detroit, between the University of Toledo and our very own Florida International University. It will be played on Sunday. He’s in Detroit to drum up enthusiasm for the Polish American Football League. His prose is…
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Let’s start this list with a caveat: In the 305, the vast majority of police officers are decent men and women risking their lives to protect America’s craziest county. It’s not a job most of us could do, and we salute them for it. Really.But it’s also true that when…
With its banks and multinational corporations, Miami is often called the capital of Latin America. But it’s also the chaotic waiting room for the loony bin that starts just south of our sunny shores.This year is no exception. From a pair of unbalanced leaders to an island nation stripped of…
Querido Miami, ¡ Ay dios mio! It’s been a hard year darlings, even for a classy chihuahua like myself. This time 12 months ago, I was letting my nails dry by the pool, dripping in diamonds, and getting my ass sniffed by Marley. (WOOF! That dog can make a bitch…
The LeBron-ified Miami Heat are finally playing like juggernauts. And the team is profiting like one, too, from ticket and paraphernalia sales. In fact, the Micky Arison-owned wunderkinds expect to make more money this season than ever before. Do you think that means they might actually pay rent on their…
Jerry Babij, a fit-looking 65-year-old clad head-to-toe in black leather, wants you to know he can still tussle. “I’m a tough guy,” he says, bunching up his weathered fists. “John Gotti blew up my restaurant one time, and I didn’t back down from him.” Babij, once a rough-and-tumble character who…
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, shook the Washington, DC bureaucracy to its core with embarrassing revelations from illicit contacts with Fidel Castro to state department plans to steal credit card numbers from top United Nations officials. Then Assange was shaken to his, well, you know, when sexy Scandianvian scholar Anna…
Editor’s note: Eight months ago, in part as a response to Arizona’s enactment of a law requiring its police to ask anyone they think might be here illegally (read: Mexicans) to produce proof of legal status, Village Voice Media embarked on an extensive national immigration project. It tasked VVM papers…
