Jerrry 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 dominated…
With Sunday’s 17-14 loss to the lowly Buffalo Bills, it looks like the Miami Dolphins have managed to cobble together yet another season of rampant incompetence.The loss killed whatever feeble hopes Miami had on making the playoffs, putting their record at 7-7 and giving them their sixth home loss of…
There is special providence in a last-second field goal.After losing its first game of the season in a heartbreaker in Georgia, Miami Central came full circle last night, defeating Orlando Dr. Phillips 42-27 for the first state football trophy in school history.It was the Rocket’s 14th straight win. Strangely enough,…
Florida really is Heaven’s waiting room. According to a new study by Portfolio.com, the Sunshine State is by far the most popular destination for retirees, which has major implications as the gigantic baby boomer population continues to enter retirement age. The good news for Miamians who hate old people: Miami…
Last time around, presidential hopefuls of both parties came down to the University of Miami to participate in the nation’s first primary debates broadcast in Spanish. In 2012, the Republicans will return to Florida for a primary debate, but this one is being sponsored by a group called the “Tea…
A family of ververt monkeys that have roamed freely in Broward County since the 1950s has recently relocated to a patch of trees near the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, according to Local 10. Which is adorable and all, but, you guys, they also report that “a raccoon is treated like…
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We know how much you love the Captcha commenting system now in use on Riptide. Who doesn’t enjoy struggling to read nonsensical phrases to prove they aren’t evil robots. We hate to break it to you, but Captcha is going away. Riptide and the other Miami New Times blogs are…
Tonight, the Miami Heat travel to Madison Square Garden to face off against the New York Knicks, who are suddenly relevant again for the first time in years. Of course, New Yorkers are a hell of a lot more excited for the match than Miamians. They’re still fuming over the…
The peek out at you from practically every street corner in the city. They’re sometimes the most talked about thing in town. They’re our covers. In a feature on our art director Pam Shavalier earlier this year, the Society of Publications Designers said that our “creative, highly-original set of covers, [created]…
City of Miami police have shot a suspect armed with a shotgun in Liberty City, leaving the man seriously wounded — and giving Chief Miguel Exposito a new round of questions to answer about violence in the neighborhood.Update: The suspect, who died overnight, has been identified as 22-year-old Brandon Foster…
Floridians sure didn’t let silly things like “ethics” get in their way of voting this year. Just ask Governor-elect Medicare Fraud. Despite evidence that David Rivera claimed employment for years as a state legislator from an organization that said they’d never employed him, he was easily elected to the U.S…
Christmas in Miami just wouldn’t feel right without an ode to the super-rich who set the pace for the rest of us. Like crazed, drunken fireflies they flit amongst us in their bling, buying Brittos and screaming about “shutting clubs down” when snubbed at the velvet rope.So in honor of…
This week, we a) teach you how to glare at the camera properly, b) bring back the leather jacket and ponytail, and c) make you Google Chester A. Arthur and then feel embarassed about it. God Bless this county and it’s Annie Leibovitz-caliber police photographers…
Watching high school sports is a lesson in physics. On fields, courts, and diamonds, the potential energy of shy teenagers explodes into the kinetic prowess of emerging stars.Tomorrow night in Orlando, the Miami Central Rockets will attempt to convert their Liberty City dreams into the school’s first ever state football…
Hugo Chávez won’t be making any Obama-like compromises in 2011. The Venezuelan National Assembly is expected to pass a ley habilitante today that would allow the bombastic president — best known for his Twitter histrionics — to pass laws by decree for 12 months.Although it would be the fourth time…
A federal judge today began hearing arguments in outgoing Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum’s lawsuit against the Federal Government, which alleges that forcing citizens to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. The trial is expected to be an in-depth, mature and scholarly proceeding… oh, wait, never mind. The judge is already…
In one of his last votes of his 18-year congressional career, retiring congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart was just one of 15 Republicans in the House to vote to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. He was joined in voting for the repeal by fellow Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, perhaps…
Members of the Associated Press have voted for the “Sports Story of the Year,” and it seems the winner actually was a bit more of a tabloid story than really a sports story …and that’s only if you consider golf a sport. The continued fallout from Tiger Woods’ massive cheating…
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Cleveland’s hate for LeBron James has reached new levels. The city’s 96.5 Kiss FM has decided to censor the player’s name from Jay-Z’s hit “Empire State of Mind.” One of the station’s DJs decided that the word “LeBron” was just as offensive as any other word banned from radio airplay,…
Yesterday, a WSVN report on a Miramar man who was shot to death in front of his three young children and wife included a quote from a neighbor claiming the man was “best friends” with Miami rapper Rick Ross. Though no one could confirm the relationship this set off a…
