Alex Izaguirre The only way Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross can salvage this season is if he convinces John Gruden to leave the Monday Night Football television booth. The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head man is the only candidate out there who can come in and quickly fix the shit storm…
A Florida commission appointed by Republicans will likely vote today to move up the state’s Republican primary election to January 31.Though party muckety-mucks are still working on a compromise that could delay the election until February 21, the decision will probably create chaos.Given last week’s victory of Godfather’s Pizza founder…
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…
Luther “Luke” Campbell, 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. In this special edition, Luke remembers the man who had him arrested for singing obscene lyrics.Nick Navarro was the Made-For-TV-Sheriff…
Kids aren’t racist, schools are
Reader mail: Seminoles and Miccosukees will oppose Genting casino
[jump] The project drew from an eclectic array of South Florida rock acts, with proper nods to punk, indie rock and various psychedelic iterations. The classical-style rendition of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” by The Baby B-Strings and KDK-12’s abstract “Endless, Nameless” are the most exciting contributions to the collection because…
North Bay Village Mayor Corina Esquijarosa now has more time to fight the recall effort against her. She’s been laid off from her job as a project representative for the city of Miami Public Facilities Department. Esquijarosa’s position, which paid her an annual $97,000 salary and benefits package, was eliminated…
Two Miami lesbians are getting the shaft from a town clerk in New York.Of course, Deirdre DiBiaggio and Katie Carmichael can’t get married in Miami Beach, where they live in a $400,000 home near Alton Road and 42nd Street. DiBiaggio is an attorney. Carmichael is a filmmaker.Rose Marie Belforti, from the…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we take a peek at the brewing battle over the The Genting Group’s grandiose plan to redevelop the Miami Herald’s storied waterfront home into a gigantic casino resort, Leading the criticism is former Miami Mayor Joe Carollo, who warns the Malaysian gambling conglomerate is trying to…
Luther “Luke” Campbell, 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 addresses the absence of bigotry in children.When I drop my 2-year-old son off at day care, I…
Slashpine Travelogue Wolves in the Throne Room The Chop Shop, St. Petersburg, Florida Friday, September 23, 2011 It’s hard to reckon the episode we experienced in Florida’s backwater over the weekend. It was was meant to be a quick detour on our way to the Death to the Sun festival…
9:59 a.m. We’re wrapped in a towel, hair dripping, hands dry. Instead of performing the usual Monday morning ritual of frantically dressing and shoveling cereal down our throat, we’re crouched in front of our laptop, preparing to blow our wad. Sting’s steely blue eyes are staring back at us. We’re…
Welcome to Short Order Show & Tell, where one of us brings a local delicacy to our weekly staff meeting, and we all weigh in on its deliciousness.Today we test out the notion of ice cream for breakfast with The Frieze’s “Grapenuts ‘N’ Raisins,” one of the more intriguing flavors…
By a three to two vote, an Ecuadorian court last week upheld a $42 million verdict against journalist Emilio Palacio and three others. All work for El Universo, that nation’s largest newspaper. And all were sentenced to jail for a column Palacio wrote that severely criticized the president…
A possible conflict has forced Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to sit out the awarding of a $50 million contract to a local construction company that employs his son Julio and uses his other son Carlos Jr. as its lobbyist. Munilla Construction Management submitted the lowest bid out of seven firms…
Miami-Dade commissioners, in one of those crazy late night donnybrooks, passed a $6 billion budget Friday morning, but kept their cozy office deals and proposed to cut back on cops and other public employee salaries.That is what I call hypocrisy.According to this morning’s Herald story, the commissioners held onto a…
Team Breezy isn’t just a gang of crazy wife-beaters and delusional, masochistic teenaged girls. All types — tweens, thugs, and grandmas alike — revel in Chris Brown’s immense talents, even after he slugged Rihanna, trashed Good Morning America’s studio, and spewed homophobic slurs at the paparazzi. Of course, no one…
The public corruption unit at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office is getting quite a makeover. Longtime unit chief Joe Centorino will soon depart to take on a new gig as executive director of the Miami-Dade ethics commission. And assistant state attorney Richard Scruggs is now working the gang detail, Banana…
Genting casino will kill Miami and Miami Beach
Reader mail: “Eminem is the greatest rapper alive”
One Million Moms has an issue with Schweddy Balls.Moms, an online branch of right-wing, conservative, pro-life American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Mississippi, has taken umbrage with Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls Ice Cream. On their website they claim: “Ben & Jerry’s announced their newest ice cream flavor which sounds…
