Opinion & Commentary

Reader mail: “MAM board members should be indicted for stupidity”

Last Thanksgiving you might have seen the Tonight Show parody of Martha Stewart donning a face shield then spraying a turkey with what appears to be a canister of pepper spray.Despite the fact that the video appears to be fake — and despite Fox News’ Megyn Kelly’s claims that Occupy…

​A local law firm that raised at least $30,000 in campaign funds for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is seeing its investment pay off. On Monday, the county commission approved Gimenez’s request to split Miami-Dade’s state lobbying contract among four companies, including Orlando-based Akerman Senterfitt & Eidson, which has an extensive…

The other day in a meeting, the Short Order bloggers got into a tizzy about which holiday had the better bites: Christmas, AKA Santa’s birthday — or is it Rudolph’s? — or Hanukkah, the eight days of lights not being turned off or something. This actually got our two members…

​This past December 13 around 10:30 p.m., three Miami Lakes councilmen — Tim Daubert, Nelson Hernandez, and Richard Pulido — huddled inside the Miami Lakes Ale House, a sports bar a couple of blocks from town hall. Moments later, a local activist named David Bennett pulled up a stool. Then,…

As I dust off my trusty Ouija board in preparation for the Miami dining predictions of 2012, it seems only fair to look back on how I fared on my prognostications of one year ago. On quick glance, it might appear I did rather poorly. Upon deeper reflection, it still…

Luther 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, Campbell remembers the man who helped him start the Liberty City Optimist Club for inner-city kids.In 1989, Sam Johnson,…

Have you been dying for some holiday flavor in your water? Well Polar Seltzer has just introduced a line of holiday waters inspired by everything from pumpkin spice to eggnog. And like their non-flavored varieties, these will be sugar-free and have zero calories.But does that mean we wanna chug an…

​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…

Pitchfork just declared “I’m On One”– DJ Khaled’s melancholy baller anthem featuring Drake, Lil Wayne, and Rick Ross — one of the ten best tracks of 2011. That’s fine. But how could they not mention the video? As Miamians, when we watched this vid, we felt as if our very…

Last year, we reported on the epic battle Fahmie was waging against Burns as the two men jockeyed for customers across the street from one another. This year, Burns and Fahmie have set up shop blocks away from each other, but they remain on frosty terms. The latest skirmish began with…

Luther Campbell loves the Miami Marlins, federal investigation be damned

Reader mail: “Republicans love socialism, but only for themselves”

​After having a conversation about Florida Power & Light with Commissioner Deede Weithorn, Banana Republican is convinced it’s time for an Occupy Turkey Point rally. It’s bad enough the Florida Public Service Commission approved a rate increase for FP&L so the utility giant can cover $20 million in nuclear costs…

Is a Matisyahu without a beard like “A King Without a Crown”? Yesterday, in a sudden move that shocked every member of Planet Earth’s Hasidic reggae community to the etsem (or bone for all you non-Hebrew speakers), everyone’s favorite Jewish emcee, Matisyahu (born Matthew Paul Miller), shaved off his famous…

In Saturday’s edition of the Miami Herald, former U.S. Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart penned an opinion letter shilling for his client, Genting, the Malaysian-based gaming conglomerate that wants to transform the last prime piece of downtown Miami’s waterfront land into a gargantuan casino.Diaz-Balart cautions Herald readers “to see through the scare…

​Luther Campbell, the man who 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, Campbell praises the new-look Miami Marlins for making baseball matter again in South Florida. The federal government might look into claims…

​The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Public Affairs is suing Whole Foods in an attempt to “reinstate a former employee with full back wages and benefits after the company allegedly fired the worker for voicing and reporting workplace health concerns regarding a raw sewage spillage at its store in…

Curtis Jackson, best known as 50 Cent (pronounced fitty) unloaded a mixtape about an hour ago via Hulk Share, one of those download sites that looks mad shady. Evidently, The Big 10’s so popular that it’s caused a massive cyber traffic jam and subsequent comment uproar. Crossfade’s working on four…

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…