Beware: cargo shorts are such an absolute scourge on men’s fashion that not even Michael Jordan can get away with wearing cargo shorts anymore. And he’s Michael Jordan!MJ just got kicked out of Miami Beach’s fancy-pants (and we mean that quite literally) La Gorce Country Club for breaking their dress…
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When it comes to basic rights, the city of Miami is the second best city in Florida for LGBT residents to live, according to the Municipal Equality Index produced by the Human Rights Campaign. Miami scored a 72 out of a possible 100. That’s only behind Orlando (77), and well…
Excuse our beauty, rest of America, but for the first time since 2009, Miami has been named the city with the most attractive residents by Travel + Leisure’s America’s Favorite Cities survey. Which, whatever, no one had to tell us. We already know we’re beautiful. Duh. We all wake up…
WLTV’s chief meteorologist Eduardo Rodriquez was just trying to deliver the weather forecast on Miami’s Univision station when he was unexpectedly joined by a stray cat who wandered in from the parking lot. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone, as well all know stray cats do whatever…
Swept up in Tea Party hysteria, Pinellas County –Florida’s sixth largest county and home to St. Petersburg — decided to stop the widespread practice of fluoridating its water supply in a surprising 4-3 county commission vote last year. Though, citizens soon got sick of sipping that right wing tea instead of…
Michael Dunn, the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis at a Jacksonville gas station over loud music, now tells police that he acted in self defense and shot the teen because he felt threatened. Some legal experts theorize that Dunn and his attorney will likely try and present…
Every year, the City of Miami hoists a giant neon orange up the side of the Hotel InterContinental in downtown and drops it at the stroke of midnight. The thing is creatively called “The Big Orange.” This year, however, it will officially be known as “La Gran Naranja” to celebrate…
A City Commissioner calling the chief of police to get out of a traffic ticket is that kind of trite, light public corruption people joke about, but you never actually hear anyone getting punished for it. Well today, the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics & Public Trust found probably cause that City…
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Facing a growing backlash after telling passengers who were set to sail on a themed cruise featuring cast members from RuPaul’s Drag Race that they themselves could not wear drag, Carnival Cruise Lines has now relented and dropped the drag ban…
Jeb Bush spent most of the past four years denying that he would run for president …in 2012. He literally never missed an opportunity to tell anyone who would listen in no uncertain terms that he would not be running, but when asked about 2016 he seems to have a…
Riptide just got the latest issue of Leap magazine, and we eagerly thumbed through it. It’s only the hottest junk mail promotional material sent out by Miami Dade College, who would dear miss an issue?We came across an interesting page in which the school highlights all the notables who have…
Remember two years ago when a grand piano ended up sitting in the middle of Biscayne Bay? Yeah, well now the waters of Miami contain a new mystery object. A bathtub has mysteriously found itself perched on one of the jetties along Government Cut off of South Beach…
The Miami Heat’s lease on the American Airlines Arena doesn’t expire for another 18 years, but the team has informed Miami-Dade County that they’d already like to tack an additional 10 years onto the agreement. Of course, under that current agreement the team hasn’t paid a single dime to the…
On December 2, the Carnival Glory will depart from the Port of Miami carrying about two dozen drag queens from Logo’s RuPaul’s Drag Race (including local favorite Latrice Royale), but Carnival Cruises has managed to spark a bit of controversy a week before the ship even sails by banning drag…
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The State of Florida is giving you a chance to vote on something, and you won’t even have to wait four hours in line to do it! That’s right, the state’s default license plate is getting a new look, and the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles wants…
Remember that fun time earlier this month when you waited for like four hours in line to vote? Well, that was partially thanks to new Republican-backed voter laws signed by Gov. Rick Scott. Of course, GOP officials say the new laws were to save money and cut back on voter…
The Dolphins may have pulled out a win last night, but defensive back Jonathon Amaya’s celebratory night in South Beach got out of hand. He was arrested early this morning for allegedly choking a taxi driver…
Michael Dunn, 45, sits behind bars this morning accused of fatally shooting 17-year-old Jordan Davis in a gas station parking lot.What lead to the fatal shooting? Apparently the two had gotten into an argument over loud music coming from the car Davis and his friends were riding in. [Update: Michael Dunn,…
Edwarda O’Bara slipped into a coma as a teenage high school student back in 1970 and never woke up again. She spent the past 42 years being cared for by her mother and sister until she passed on Wednesday at the age of 59…
