305 Photo of the Day: By the Tail
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Absence of Federer and Nadal Hurting Ticket Sales at Sony Open
Miami sure is a starfucker of a town. Some Miamians would show up to a letter opening if an A-lister was on the invite, but a lack of starpower can be deadly for attendance.So maybe it’s not too much of a surprise that as the Miami Masters (now officially known…
Poll: Only a Third of Floridians Think Rick Scott Deserves to Be Reelected
Another day, another poll with bad news for Florida Governor Rick Scott. This time it’s from Quinnipiac.The poll seems to show a case of too little too late for Scott. While Floridians largely agree with Scott’s latest high profile decision to expand Medicare, less than one-third feels he deserves to…
Hurricanes’ Jim Larranaga Named National Coach of the Year
What happens when you take the University of Miami basketball team from ACC filler to conference regular season and conference champs, all while under the looming threat of an NCAA investigation? You get named the NCAA coach of the year.See also:- Miami Hurricanes Basketball Moves to NCAA Championship…
Oddsmakers Give Heat 1-in-6 Odds to Break NBA Winning Streak Record
Last night, the Miami Heat racked up its 23rd straight win and now stands alone as having the second-longest winning streak in NBA history. The team is ten wins away from tying the record with the 1971-72 Lakers, and 11 from owning it outright.Can they do it? An oddsmaker has…
305 Photo of the Day: Capitalist Pig
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New Poll: Charlie Crist Leading Rick Scott by 12 Points in Gov Race
Last month saw surprisingly good polling news for Rick Scott. Though it came from a lesser-known polling firm that “leaked” the results after conducting it for a private client, a Hamilton Consulting poll showed that Scott was tied with Charlie Crist in a hypothetical match-up.Well, Public Polling Policy’s new numbers…
Fisherman Hooks Great White Shark in Gulf of Mexico
It’s relatively rare to spot a great white shark in the relatively warm waters of Florida. It’s even rarer to find an 18-foot specimen lurking in the Gulf of Mexico, but a Canadian tourist got the fishing trip of a lifetime when he hooked such a beast during a chartered…
Boxing Champ Adrien Broner Arrested for Biting Security Guard at Fontainebleau
At just 23 years old, Adrien Broner is undefeated in the ring and the current lightweight champion of the world, but his fighting skills outside the ring proved to be a bit dirty yesterday at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. The boxing champ was arrested after getting into a fight…
Florida’s Unemployment Rate Below National Average for First Time in Five Years
Florida’s economy slowly trudges on to something resembling recovery as numbers released today show that the state’s unemployment rate is now below the national average for the first time in more than five years.Florida’s unemployment rate was 7.8 percent for January. The national average stood at 7.9 percent. A tiny…
305 Photo of the Day: Under the Tree
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Republican Congressman Wants to Take Rick Scott’s Welfare Drug Testing Law National
Despite Florida Governor Rick Scott’s idea to drug test people receiving state assistance turning out to be an embarrassing failure on multiple levels, a Republican congressman from Tennessee has decided to take the idea national.Rep. Stephen Fincher of Frog Jump, Tennessee has introduced a bill that would require all states…
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58 Arrests Made During Ultra’s First Weekend; Drug Arrests “Minimal”
Miami-Dade Police announced today that they arrested 58 people during the first weekend of Ultra Music Festival in downtown Miami this weekend. Yep, just 58 out of the estimated 150,000 plus who attended. The exact breakdown of the arrests wasn’t immediately available, but police say drug arrests were minimal…
Florida Man in Women’s Clothes and Pink Fuzzy Slippers Robs Bank
A man was bending genders and the law this week when he showed up at a PNC Bank in Sebastian, Florida, dressed in women’s clothes accessorized with a purse containing a handgun. While his lace-accented fuchsia sweater and hot-pink fuzzy slippers suggested something casual, the man meant business and demanded cash from…
Justin Lamar Sternad Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Cooperate with David Rivera Investigation
Things are just getting worse for disgraced former Rep. David Rivera. Justin “Lamar” Sternad, a ringer candidate in the Democratic primary against Rivera’s opponent Joe Garcia, pleaded guilty today in federal court. As part of the plea, Sternad has agreed to help investigators build their case against Rivera…
305 Photo of the Day: Foggy Forest
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Why the Corporate Takeover of EDM Was Inevitable: The Straight Bros are On Board
You’re not likely to hear many heavy-handed conversations about business at Ultra Music Festival this weekend, but if you do, it will more than likely be about billionaire Robert F.X. Sillerman’s plans to buy up just about everything related to electronic dance music and consolidate it all under SFX Entertainment…
Zaha Hadid Designs a Skyscraper with an Exoskeleton for Downtown Miami
The next iconic skyscraper that might sprout up in downtown Miami will take its architectural cues from a bug. Plans for the proposed One Thousand Museum building, designed by star architect Zaha Hadid, have emerged and the towering residential building sports an exoskeleton…
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Armed Spring Break Babe, Angry at Cheating Boyfriend, Has Two-Hour Standoff with Police in Daytona Beach
Apparently life really does imitate art. Just weeks before the release of Harmony Korine’s beach-babes-with-handguns movie Spring Breakers hits theaters, a woman in Daytona Beach for spring break had a two-hour armed standoff with police inside her hotel room.The problems started on Wednesday when Heather Beaver, who is 21, started…
Mugshots Friday: The Ultimate Side Eye and a Reverse Mohawk
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…
Former Porn Star “Cameron Caine” Found in Florida Big Lots Parking Lot With a Crack Pipe and an Infant
Cops in Longwood, Florida, received a report this week that a young blond woman was sitting idly in a car parked outside of a Big Lots. The caller said she looked “stoned out of her face.” When police arrived, they found her clutching a crack pipe and had a 2-week-old…
305 Photo of the Day: Espirito
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