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 official: Karlie Tomica will be charged with DUI manslaughter for the hit-and-run death of Shore Club executive chef Stefano Riccioletti. The self-described South Beach “Party Princess” will be in court today where she’ll officially be hit with the charges…
Looking for a good deal on a use car? Turns out you’re in the right place. According to a new study from CarGurus, the Miami area is the cheapest metro area in America to buy a used car. Though, the savings aren’t exactly huge…
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Talk about trying to turn lemons into lemonade. Or at least into handsome water bottles to keep your lemonade cold.Yes, after Tuesdays’ embarrassing “Watergate” flap, Marco Rubio is now literally selling water bottles with his name on them…
Nothing quite says Miami suburbs like bad highway traffic and the word “bro.” Some anonymous Lothario took advantage of both to send the most Miami Valentine’s message ever to a lucky lady named Cathy. All of Miami is totally jealous of you today, Cathy. Maybe it’s not so great to…
During President Obama’s State of the Union address he honored Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old North Miami Beach resident who waited hours in line to vote, as a symbol of voter’s rights issues. Of course, leave it to Fox News to mock her.Fox and Friends’ Brian Kilmeade hosts a radio show…
Another reason why being chosen to give the State of the Union rebuttal is a thankless task: You’re guaranteed to get made fun of on The Daily Show.Or as Jon Stewart put it last night, “The State of the Union rebuttal is most often handed to a rising party star,…
Today is Valentine’s Day, or, as it might as well be known, “Singles are expected to feel shitty about themselves day.” The image of single people sitting at home crying while downing a double bottle of pinot grigio is almost as much a Valentine’s Day cliché as boxes of chocolate,…
Marco Rubio Loves Tupac and Terrible EDM
In the immortal words of high priestess Beyoncé, “All the single ladies! All the single ladies! Put your hand up!”Oh, wait, what’s that? Hold on let me count. Apparently, there’s not that many of you in Miami. According to an analysis of by Trulia.com, Miami is one of the top…
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The almost seven-foot artwork hanging on the walls at the W South Beach wasn’t quite of Che Guevara, but it looked enough like the infamous infamous Marxist rebel to piss off local Cubans.”Dude, it’s Che Guevara,” an anonymous Cuban who does business with the hotel told the Miami Herald. “This…
Last night, Florida Senator Marco Rubio was tasked with the high profile but ultimately thankless job of delivering the opposing party’s response to the State of the Union. These things are almost always awkward (remember Bobby Jindal’s Kenneth the Page delivery a few years back?), and never match the intensity…
One of Norman Braman’s main beefs with the Marlins shady stadium deal was that the public never got to directly vote on the matter. Though, the fact that Dolphins are supporting a public vote on their quest to get tax money to fund a portion of their planned upgrades to…
Finally! Frivolous legislation out of Tallahassee we can finally get behind!State Sen. Darren Soto, an Orlando-area Democrat, has filed legislation that would keep Florida on daylight-saving time (DST) all year long…
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Karlie Tomica, the self described Miami Beach “party princess” who hit and killed a man with her car and then drove off, had three time the legal limit of alcohol in her blood, according to just released toxicology reports…
Marco Rubio may be delivering the Republican response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight, but he won’t be the only local face you’ll see on TV. Desiline Victor, age 102, has been chosen to sit with First Lady Michelle Obama during the proceedings…
In an article teasing “the Miami hotel that could pick the next president,” BuzzFeed has done its best to paint Miami’s Republican power base as a nighttime soap opera featuring the brewing battle between two favorite sons, all centered on the glamorous Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. They’ve even illustrated…
Miami-Dade police were charged with extraditing Alberto Morales to Las Vegas, but the convict managed to escape by stabbing a detective with his eyeglasses in a Walmart parking lot in Grapevine, Texas.The detective, Jaime Pardinas, is still in serious but stable condition. Morales, however, remains at large…
Listen, Reggie Bush. It’s not you. It’s the Miami Dolphins.To put things in seasonal perspective: you’re basically like someone whose gone a few good dates with someone, and right now you’re waiting for the other person to call and make big plans for Valentine’s Day. The Dolphins are that other…
