Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Apples and Oranges Look out: It’s unfortunate there are schools like the ones you describe that use McKay vouchers from the state (“Rotten to the Core,” Gus Garcia-Roberts,” June 23). If there were more accountability, maybe these schools wouldn’t exist. I’m sure all of us taxpayers would rather spend a…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke wages war against the nonblack elites. If you are an African-American civic leader in Miami, you’re better…
The swag-hop absurdists of rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them are once again being called out for what critics decry as misogyny and homophobia in their lyrics. A few months ago, Sara, from Tegan and Sara, wrote a blog attacking Tyler The Creator, as well as his music…
Carlos Gimenez won’t get sworn in as mayor until at least Friday, but he is already getting to work. Blogger Elaine de Valle reports Gimenez will be meeting today with County Manager Alina Hudak to start work on the budget which has to be presented to the county commission in…
The BET Awards were held this past Sunday and some really confusing, awkward shit went down in the middle of granting the Viewer’s Choice Award. Some fans were invited onstage to announce this year’s winner, which at first was Chris Brown. But only a few seconds after Brown received the…
I’m over it.First Pollo Tropical decides to Americanize the menu of its restaurants in the Northeast to attract more Anglo diners, then Dunkin’ Donuts comes out with the “Cuban Flatbread Sandwich,” and now, in what just might be one of the most derogatory forms of flattery I have ever seen,…
Today is your last chance to decide which of the least suckiest candidates for county mayor you want to vote for. Yesterday, we told you how Julio Robaina shoved it to the taxpayers.Well, Carlos Gimenez has done his fair share of giving it to us with no Vaseline as well…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke wages war against Miami’s elitist secret society.If you are an African American civic leader in Miami, you’re…
You know Miami-Dade politics is a joke when the county mayor’s race comes down to which guy sucks less. If you’re into a Cuban version of Arthur Fonzerelli with his own private shadow bank, you’ll vote for Julio Robaina. If you’re interested in the fire chief version of recently ousted…
Yelp started as a great way to spread the word on favorite restaurants and insider tips (ask for the veal, not generally on the menu or the waiter will bring you sparkling water at no extra charge). We laughed at and loved the reviews, but sometimes it seemed like Yelpers…
Being a talentless human turd with absolutely no sense of shame is one of the key prerequisites for any wannabe “reality TV star.” And while The Real Housewives of DC may have been canceled, Michaele Salahi remains talentless, human, and a turd. She also has absolutely no sense of shame,…
The “How badly will Langerado fuck up this time?” saga continued earlier this week when the much-maligned festival sent out a mass email to fans asking for band suggestions. “Help us round out the lineup and show off the sonic sweetness coming out of South Florida,” the email begged. Help…
While in Japan for a benefit concert recently, Lady Gaga told the Associated Press that she’s going to enjoy Tokyo and its food, and that her fans should do the same. “The most important thing, and the best thing, we could do for Japan right now is to boost tourism,…
In his most recent column, Luther Campbell claims that Homestead City Councilman Jimmie Williams III, who supports Carlos Gimenez for mayor, offered him a $40,000 appearance fee to show up at the elected official’s soon-to-be-opened Snapper’s seafood restaurant at 800 Ives Dairy Road. Williams allegedly made the offer following a…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
More than a decade-and-a-half of being on the lam finally caught up to James “Whitey” Bulger. The F.B.I. announced today that they nabbed the 81-year-old Boston mobster in Santa Monica by focusing on locating his longtime girlfriend, who was arrested with Bulger. His brutal ways were depicted on the silver…
Almost a month after the ignominious conclusion of Memorial Day Weekend on Miami Beach, ignorance is still flowing strong on a Facebook group page calling for an end to the controversial week-long unofficial party.No matter how many times the administrators, who include Miami Beach gay activist Herb Sosa, remind folks to…
Julio Robaina promises thousands of jobs for Dade residents, not for just one person
Letters from the issue of June 23, 2011
I don’t think everyone on public assistance is a lazy bum, but I’m happy about the welfare drug-testing bill (the only move Rick Scott has made that I approve of). More importantly, I don’t think food stamps should be used to buy fast food. So far, California, Michigan, and Arizona…
The Miss USA contestants need to either read a textbook or shut the hell up.Aside from the asinine, sexist 1950s mentality that the “competition” is based on, the annual beauty contest is intellectually damaging to the young women who are looking to them as role models. We’re steering them wrong…
