See the full archive of Pepe Billete’s columns here.Last weekend me and the guys at DeadFix.com were cojiendo tremenda perra nota at PeachFuzz, and we started talking about all the mistakes people make when they go out partying in Miami. The conversation was so interesting, that I decided to make…
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…
Read Miami New Times’ story on ex-Hialeah Gardens police detective Lawrence Perez who helped his drug dealer friends steal pounds of marijuana.Raul Iglesias, a sergeant with an undercover Miami Police Department narcotics unit, is joining ignominious company. He is now the fifth local cop to be criminally charged for being…
Life on the field has not gone well for Miami’s football and baseball franchises. The Marlins sucked ass during the first half of the season playing inside the team’s sparkling new ball park, which was financed with half-a-billion dollars in taxpayer funds. Meanwhile, the Dolphins organization has been busy during…
The Miami Dolphins foray into reality TV is almost upon us as HBO’s Hard Knocks premieres on August 7, and the premium channel released the first footage in the form of a trailer today. It looks … just about like the opening montage of every single television series set in…
Shortly before 9 a.m. this past February 15, Maciel Gonzalez waited for Juana Olga Durand on the steps of the Miami-Dade family court building at 175 NW First Ave. Gonzalez held a yellow manila envelope containing $3,122 in cash to pay off a string of parking tickets, his lawyer, as…
This guest column was written by Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle in response to Luther Campbell’s criticisms.As Miami-Dade state attorney, I have always believed that my work in the fourth largest prosecutor’s office in America has the potential to affect the lives of every one of the county’s 2.5…
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 takes on the Miami-Dade state attorney.Katherine Fernandez Rundle is no Janet Reno. Miami-Dade’s top prosecutor, who is a…
It’s fitting that the same day big trade rumors involving Heath Bell and Hanley Ramirez surface, episode two of The Franchise is pretty much framed around a trade deadline discussion roundtable with Jeffery Loria, Larry Beinfest and their DERP lackeys (or maybe the Marlins PLANTED those rumors as a sort…
Kathy Rundle Is No Janet Reno
Read “Luther Campbell Is Wrong; Kathy Rundle Is Doing Just Fine.”
Luther Campbell Is Wrong; Kathy Rundle Is Doing Just Fine
Blame Republicans for Unfair Work Practices
As Short Order reported recently, California’s ban on foie gras finally went into effect earlier this month.Unfortunately, due to the lax wording of the ban, restaurants have found it possible to circumvent the law and serve the item to customers. The California law specifies that restaurants cannot sell food derived…
It must be a slow news week because instead of the upcoming Presidential election, Middle East strife, and needles in your airplane sandwich, ABC (and most every other news source) chose to focus on a truly bizarre story and an invention that could possibly save mankind.The mashed potato vending machine.To…
Yo, Paste Magazine just released a very interesting infographic, taking a look at how many times each major American city has been repped in the rap game. Unsurprisingly, New York and Los Angeles take the top spots. But our own hip-hop haven comes in at a paltry sixth, behind Atlanta,…
What happens when Lil Wayne takes a trip to the suburbs with a dreaded head full of lysergic acid diethylamide? Homie hangs out with a headbanging pink pachyderm. Parties with dismembered mannequins. Hotboxes a McMansion. Skanks in the street. And pretends his skateboard is a one-man helicopter. He stands on…
See also “Internet Trolls Try to Exile Pitbull to a Walmart on ‘the Frozen Alaskan Island of Kodiak.'” Thirteen days ago, the trolls at SomethingAwful.com attempted to hijack an online Walmart and Energy Sheets® promo campaign “offer[ing] customers the chance to win a visit by Mr. Worldwide.” Their evil plan:…
Sometimes the booking photos we feature on Mugshots Friday just deserve closer examination. A man arrested with his face painted like an American flag on the Fourth of July was clearly one of those times. We’ve learned from a Miami Beach police report that the American hero you see here is…
When it turns Friday the 13th, things get weird around Chik-fil-A; that is when you dress up as a cow, you get a free combo meal. Not weird enough? Today also happens to be Cow Appreciation Day, which is why the chicken fast food restaurant is having this offer. This…
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…
See Pepe Billete: “I’m Not a Latino, I’m Not a Hispanic, I’m a Cuban American!”Last week I managed to upset a pretty big segment of Miami’s non-Cuban Spanish speaking population when I asserted that referring to all Spanish-speaking people as “Hispanic” or “Latino” is xenophobic and just plain wrong. You…
An American Airlines plane that took off from Fort Lauderdale is headed for Miami International Airport with cabin pressure problems, NBC reports. The flight took off at 9:15 a.m., but still hadn’t arrived at 10:20. There are 147 people aboard.Five people were hospitalized yesterday after severe turbulence shook a plane…
