Opinion & Commentary

Rutgers Scandal Shows NCAA’s Slave Mentality

Reader Mail: EDM’s Drug Fetish Needs to End

For weeks, the Miami Dolphins have been promising that the team won’t move forward with the $390 million renovation of Sun Life Stadium if the NFL doesn’t award the city a Super Bowl in 2015 or 2016. Well, the Dolphins caught a break.A couple of hours ago, during deliberations by…

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 in on the NCAA’s plantation blueprint.The scandal at Rutgers University, where basketball coach Mike Rice was fired…

There’s a new twist to the ol’ South Beach towing racket. At 17th Street and Lennox Avenue, just north of Lincoln Road, there’s a parking lot that looks identical to scores of other nearby city-run lots. To pay, there’s an electronic meter, just like all the city meters scattered around.But…

When it comes to war-mongering, President Barack Obama has at times put his predecessor, George W. Bush, to shame. Consider the commander-in-chief’s cold-hearted use of unmanned drones to fight America’s war on terror. He’s launched more than five times as many drone strikes than Bush did, according to the Seattle…

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…

Tonight is the premiere of the much anticipated new television series, Hannibal, based on the “Hannibal the Cannibal” character from Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal novels. In homage to the serial killer gourmand and his namesake television show, we bring you some Hannibal-inspired recipes culled…

Listen … When Rick Ross raps, “Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it,” he actually means, “We were just two consenting, not-unconscious adults, enjoying some intimacy-inducing drugs, fine champagne, and mutually enjoyable sexual intercourse.”…

Throughout his embattled political career, David Rivera used his power to undermine Cuba’s communist government at every turn. The Cuban-American Republican was one of the staunchest hard-line crusaders against Fidel Castro’s regime. When he was a state legislator, he successfully championed a law that prohibited private colleges and universities from…

Uncle Luke: Justin Timberlake Sells Records the Right Way

Reader Mail: Biased Articles, Not Jewish Activists, Ruin Mideast Peace

Oh, mon dieu. Petite bites means “little dicks.” Leave it to a set of skilled brand developers to screw up and make our neighbors across the pond in France laugh hysterically at us. Those stupid Americans, they probably thought. Yep. Right they are. Because much to your likely surprise, this…

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 assesses a former boy band member’s success.Justin Timberlake really understands how to sell records. Last week, The 20/20…

Dear punk-ass Miami Beach bike thief:On March 20, you rolled up on my ’80s Italian-made Univega road bike tied to a street post near the Raleigh Hotel on Collins Avenue. It had a dope iridescent purple-and-blue paint scheme, a chrome yoke, and neon-green hand grips. It took me close to…

If you’ve been noticing some weirder-than-usual news coming at you today, better double check the calendar! That’s right, bitches — it’s April Fools’ Day and there were plenty of websites and companies that punked us, but good. We especially liked Twitter wanting to charge for vowels and Google’s new smell-technology…