On last night’s episode of X Factor, we saw “hipster” Philip Lomax sing “Don’t Stop the Music” to Rihanna. We saw Simon tap his toe, Paula look intensely happy, Nicole emote, and L.A. shake his head back and forth in approval. Future mechanic Tora Woloshin made us feel old, then…
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. …
The restaurant world can almost be boiled down to two basic kinds of restaurants — restaurants that serve simple dishes and restaurants that have menus that read more Cirque du Soleil than food.Consider Miami’s own Barton G. restaurant. Dishes include cheeky monkey mahi, lobster pop tarts and coconut-crusted voodoo shrimp…
Choice Preparatory School was banned from sports competition last year after an investigator for the state athletic athletic association found no evidence of classes taking place there. Its director has been involved in two schools found to have defrauded the Department of Education of funds earmarked for kids with disabilities…
Miami city commissioner Marc Sarnoff has collected nearly half a million dollars in his reelection bid, leading all candidates in the money raising front for the upcoming November election. Of the three incumbents on the ballot, Sarnoff faces the stiffest competition with four opponents who have some name recognition and…
A new group of lawyers is taking the side of Hialeah street vendors. The Institute for Justice is suing the city of Hialeah today on behalf of the mobile sales folk, saying the city’s regulations are too tough. This is a little bizarre, considering you probably see more guys vendiendo…
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Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby and his horsey sidekick Pokey, would have been 90 today. Clokey spent more than 50 years perfecting claymation and stop-action film techniques.Kids just cared about Gumby and Pokey. Clokey died in January, 2010 at the age of 88. He asked that contributions be made…
Anti-obesity lobbyists and children activists have been trying for years to get food companies to stop marketing high sugar, high sodium, and overall unhealthy foods to children.Food companies, such as McDonald’s, General Mills, and others, create advertising campaigns that include cartoon characters with the specific purpose of luring kids towards…
Seems Lil Wayne laid off the sizzurp for a brief second to respond to Luther Campbell’s ultimatum that President Carter needs to start investing more time helping Miami’s less fortunate souls or else. Last night, Young Weezy, via his handle @LilTunechi, tweeted, “This Nigga Luke trippin!!! I ain’t feelin khaled rite…
Someone needs to sit down and finally sketch out the ultimate South Florida punk rock family tree. Because, we’re willing to say at any given moment in the past, say, 10 years of Miami punk and hardcore, each sub-scene (Friday night mohawk, oogle, hardcore boy, hardcore boi, etc.) has had…
The head of Miami-Dade’s semi-public economic development arm is in tune with Miami’s raunchiest columnist. Beacon Council President Frank Nero told the Miami Herald today that he believes plans by companies from Malaysia and Las Vegas to build mega-casino resorts in downtown Miami “would serve as vacuum cleaners that suck…
The Pennsylvania-based company Kalan LP, a distributor of novelty items like inflatable beer pong games and shot glasses that say “You must be Irish because my penis is Dublin,” is now distributing a line of marijuana-shaped candies, and it’s blowing up a storm among the right. Which got me thinking…
A disgraced former Miami-Dade County commissioner and a Hialeah businessman once banned from getting county contracts are making big bucks off the red-light camera blitzkrieg in South Florida. Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions (ATS), which has installed red-light cameras in 22 cities in Miami-Dade and nearly 80 cities across the state,…
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 assesses the Occupy movement sweeping New York, Miami, and other American cities.The tens of thousands of protesters…
In the past few years, we’ve all heard numerous Tiger Woods wiener jokes. In fact, The Somewhere in Augusta sports bar has a special Tiger Woods Homewrecker hot dog (it’s a foot-long, in case you were wondering).But at the Frys.com Open yesterday, a man threw a hot dog at Woods…
What’s a writer to do when an interest piece has already been written and reviewed by a fellow blogger? Try a different angle. Just from the name Gelato Nostro, one can derive that Italian style ice-cream is the main attraction. Oscar, one of the partners of this establishment, recommended that…
Seventy-two cats have been killed and 14 have died after an outbreak of disease at the Miami-Dade Animal Shelter. About 40 more healthy felines have been been moved r due to the disease, which is called panleukopenia. A group called Undercats 4 Life is attempting to find homes for some of…
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…
It’s embarrassing to admit, but Crossfade isn’t any closer to deducing the identity of the “anonymous owner” threatening to release a sex tape featuring ’90s West Coast gangsta rap martyr Tupac Shakur. Our drive to apprehend the culprit is insatiable. And while constantly refreshing the internet’s most tawdry gossip sites,…
You ever watch Beaches with your mom or Titanic with a girlfriend? Those weepy bitches have nothing on X Factor’s contestants and judges. The entire show is just people crying and being inspirational and then crying again. Last night, tryouts ended and boot camp began. Once the finalists are chosen,…
