Shortly before 9 a.m. this past February 15, Maciel Gonzalez waited for Juana Olga Durand on the steps of the Miami-Dade family court building at 175 NW First Ave. Gonzalez held a yellow manila envelope containing $3,122 in cash to pay off a string of parking tickets, his lawyer, as…
This guest column was written by Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle in response to Luther Campbell’s criticisms.As Miami-Dade state attorney, I have always believed that my work in the fourth largest prosecutor’s office in America has the potential to affect the lives of every one of the county’s 2.5…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 takes on the Miami-Dade state attorney.Katherine Fernandez Rundle is no Janet Reno. Miami-Dade’s top prosecutor, who is a…
It’s fitting that the same day big trade rumors involving Heath Bell and Hanley Ramirez surface, episode two of The Franchise is pretty much framed around a trade deadline discussion roundtable with Jeffery Loria, Larry Beinfest and their DERP lackeys (or maybe the Marlins PLANTED those rumors as a sort…
Kathy Rundle Is No Janet Reno
Read “Luther Campbell Is Wrong; Kathy Rundle Is Doing Just Fine.”
Luther Campbell Is Wrong; Kathy Rundle Is Doing Just Fine
Blame Republicans for Unfair Work Practices
It must be a slow news week because instead of the upcoming Presidential election, Middle East strife, and needles in your airplane sandwich, ABC (and most every other news source) chose to focus on a truly bizarre story and an invention that could possibly save mankind.The mashed potato vending machine.To…
Yo, Paste Magazine just released a very interesting infographic, taking a look at how many times each major American city has been repped in the rap game. Unsurprisingly, New York and Los Angeles take the top spots. But our own hip-hop haven comes in at a paltry sixth, behind Atlanta,…
What happens when Lil Wayne takes a trip to the suburbs with a dreaded head full of lysergic acid diethylamide? Homie hangs out with a headbanging pink pachyderm. Parties with dismembered mannequins. Hotboxes a McMansion. Skanks in the street. And pretends his skateboard is a one-man helicopter. He stands on…
See also “Internet Trolls Try to Exile Pitbull to a Walmart on ‘the Frozen Alaskan Island of Kodiak.'” Thirteen days ago, the trolls at SomethingAwful.com attempted to hijack an online Walmart and Energy Sheets® promo campaign “offer[ing] customers the chance to win a visit by Mr. Worldwide.” Their evil plan:…
Sometimes the booking photos we feature on Mugshots Friday just deserve closer examination. A man arrested with his face painted like an American flag on the Fourth of July was clearly one of those times. We’ve learned from a Miami Beach police report that the American hero you see here is…
When it turns Friday the 13th, things get weird around Chik-fil-A; that is when you dress up as a cow, you get a free combo meal. Not weird enough? Today also happens to be Cow Appreciation Day, which is why the chicken fast food restaurant is having this offer. This…
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…
An American Airlines plane that took off from Fort Lauderdale is headed for Miami International Airport with cabin pressure problems, NBC reports. The flight took off at 9:15 a.m., but still hadn’t arrived at 10:20. There are 147 people aboard.Five people were hospitalized yesterday after severe turbulence shook a plane…
The first episode of The Franchise: Miami Marlins featured a shitload of F-bombs and was narrated by Don Draper, officially making The Franchise the greatest thing on TV ever.The first episode covered Ozzie Guillen’s Fidel Castro comments, the team’s blowing shit up in May, their shit-the-bed June, Giancarlo Stanton’s epic awesomeness,…
Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina Unfairly Trashed by the Media
Reader Mail: Obamacare Isn’t All Good or All Bad
Carly Rae Jepsen’s ode to romance-novel covers features the singer fantasizing about her buff, tattooed gardener. The song was Katy Perry-cute and pretty forgettable once you were out of the car.We guess, however, the tune got trapped inside the small one-track mind of a certain sweets-loving monster that we all…
This afternoon, Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones and Miami New Times columnist Luther Campbell are meeting with Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa to ask him what he is doing to address a violent gang war that has enveloped Liberty City over the past three months. “We’re going to ask him what…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 goes to bat for a certain former Hialeah mayor.The Miami-Dade mayoral primary is only two months away, and…
The leafy hamlet of South Miami has turned into a cesspool of political backbiting and allegations of unethical behavior by some of its officials. In recent weeks, even a kids’ soccer program has come under fire amid accusations of conflicts of interest against South Miami United — the group that…
