Editorial Voice

Reader Mail: Charlie Crist Should Destroy Rick Scott

It appears Miami civic leader Joe Arriola wasn’t too keen on how he’s portrayed in my recent story about his former boss Manny Diaz’s book, Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City At A Time.”Your article is also full of lies,” he wrote me in an recent email. Miami’s…

On Monday, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross shucked his $400 million plan to renovate Sun Life Stadium, the venue the city’s NFL franchise has called home for the past 26 years. During a press conference showing off a bunch of nice rendering of how the stadium will look with 3,600…

It’s enticing to bring out-of-town friends to Brickell and show them Miami’s progress as an action-packed metropolis. They can walk to one of three Publix stores or buy cigarettes, Red Bull, or whatever stimulant tickles their fancy at the shiny new 7-Eleven. Yet when the time comes to grab a…

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 reviews the controversy surrounding Django Unchained. (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD)Screw Spike Lee. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is a brilliant…

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…

Swamp Wars Zero-sum game: You’ve devoted a whole piece to the business conflicts of airboat captains in the Everglades (“Sawgrass Skirmish,” Jon Tayler, January 3), but do you expect everyone to just lie down, disappear, and not compete? Maybe there isn’t enough of the pie to go around after all…

Last Friday, Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami killed a Liberty City institution. Located at NW Seventh Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Greene Dreams Shoe Repair had served the African-American community for 50 years. Tyrone Greene and his family had survived three major riots and decades of bleak…

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 laments the loss of African American-owned businesses on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.Last Friday, Miami-Dade County and the…

“Fuck… my… life.” Those were among the last words of a 22-year-old MC named Freddy E. (born Frederick Eugene Buhl) who published 16 distraught Twitter updates in 107 minutes on Saturday, January 5, before killing himself. Among the speculated motives for Buhl’s suicide: A breakup with Toronto rapper Honey Cocaine…

During the darkest months of winter, half of Canada flees to South Florida. So you’d think police would have some respect for the maple-syrup-guzzling visitors who fuel the local economy through spring break.That’s not what one pair of sisters from Toronto found in Miami Beach last month. The women say…

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…

Rick Ross, John McAfee, and Jeffrey Loria in 2013

Reader Mail: The Mayans Were Wrong, but Miami Is Still Doomed

When your scene decides to find its “next superstar” on a reality television show produced by the same people behind Jersey Shore, then your scene probably needs a life raft, ’cause it’s drowning. Edmcasting.com is a website where all “producer-DJs” are invited to “start honing your skills” and apply for…

David Ryan, a lawyer who was disbarred for stealing from others’ trust accounts and couldn’t even declare bankruptcy right, has been accused with trying to sell guns stolen from the family of Saddam Hussein. Ryan was charged December 19 with three New Jersey men in the crime. Two of the…

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 makes his predictions for the new year. What will happen in 2013 to capture people’s attention? Who…

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…

Building permit? Miami-Dade County doesn’t need any stinkin’ building permit!In fact, officials for the county’s internal services department got away with completing two construction projects in downtown Miami without obtaining permits for either one, according to Miami-Dade Inspector General Chris Mazzella.”The Office of the Inspector General finds this matter troubling,”…

Sandy Hook Forces Politicians to Deal With Assault Rifles That Have Plagued Black Communities for Decades

Reader Mail: John McAfee Isn’t As Crazy As He Seems

Woah, what the fuck year is it? Looks and sounds like 2006. Because Britney Spears is hitting the headlines with Federline baby drama. Oops, girl, you did it again. Turns out, Feddie Le Bland’s brother is claiming a love triangle with the singing baby mama. He even says Brit’s lil’…