We love bashing our own city. We’ll instantaneously bite the head off any non-Miamians who dares talk down about our town, but sometimes it seems we take a bit too much pleasure in reserving that shit talking for ourselves. There’s plenty of reason to, but sometimes we need to be…
The controversial full-body scanners have already caused numerous problems at South Florida airports. Now one passenger, Meg McLain, a young, female contributor to Libertarian-leaning radio show Free Talk Left, is talking about the aggressive scene the followed when she refused to go through the intrusive scanning at Ft. Lauderdale International Airport. …
Riptide doesn’t usually care much about what goes on in Broward and Palm Beach. Hell, we’ve got a sister blog up there to deal with this stuff, however I guess we’ve decided to make an exception for Tea Party fav Representative-elect Allen West. He’s just named right-wing Broward radio host…
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See this cover of the latest Sports Illustrated Kids? It features an illustration LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade dressed up as musketeers complete with puffy shirts and be-feathered hats. It’s for the kids, so we won’t rage too hard on it, but I think we can safely call…
When it was announced that Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian had successfully taken our fair city of Miami, and that Kourtney and Kim would set there sites on taking New York in the next step of Kardashian world domination, we wondered who would miss this silly little show? Sorority sisters was…
There’s only a few weeks left in 2010, which means it’s almost time for Time magazine to unveil their famed “Person of the Year.” Now, just because Time named “you” person of the year in the 2006 it doesn’t mean “you” get a say in the actual choice. That’s for…
Few things in South Beach can be called exclusively straight, but there’s always room for an unabashedly queer take on things. Enter Lords South Beach. It promises to be the only exclusively gay hotel in South Beach and is set for a soft opening on November 21. There’s a few…
In absolutely bone chilling news that will shake the greater Miami area to its very core: Our fair city has fallen from its perennial position as the number one city with the most attractive people on Travel + Leisure’s annual “America’s Favorite Cities List.” God dammit people, what is going…
Elsa Dempsey has seen a penis and she will never be the same. One day while taking a walk down a remote area of Venice, Florida’s Caspersen beach she encountered a man swimming in the water completely nude. She was so startled by the site of a stranger’s junk she’s…
OK, “hate” probably doesn’t encapsulate the recent rash of ink being turned out about the third wheel of the Miami Heat troika. “Disappointed,” maybe. “Underwhelmed,” possibly. “Concerned,” perhaps. Whatever the word, poor Chris Bosh isn’t exactly settling in as expected in his new hot home, and sports commenters are chiding the…
Miami Heat President Pat Riley isn’t ready to take a page out of Hurricanes Coach Randy Shannon’s play book and ban his players from using Twitter, but something about the micro-blogging service just doesn’t sit well with him. Apparently he thinks Twitter could play a part in opposing teams’ fans…
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Tim Tebow’s best days in football are probably behind him, so of course it makes sense he’s already writing his memoir. Harper Collins announced that Tebow’s book Through My Eyes will be released in April of 2011. The book will of course detail his time with the Florida Gators, but…
For reasons that probably make more sense than they should LeBron James’ favorite football team is the Dallas Cowboys. He’s a diehard, apparently. Thing is the Cowboys suck something fierce this season, to the point that they just fired their coach. In fact, James can’t even watch them anymore. He…
If you’re going to use part of your place of residence as a make-shift marijuana grow house, South Beach probably isn’t the best neighborhood to do it. For one thing, rent is expensive. Sure maybe your “side business” helps off set that, but you’re also dealing with thin walls, small…
Several store fronts remain empty, their bars close earlier than anywhere else in the city, and their restaurant scene is being eclipsed by emerging neighborhoods, but there’s still at least one very good reason to visit Coconut Grove: It’s the safest neighborhood in Miami according to WalletPop and NeighborhoodScout…
Back in 1969, The Doors came to the Dinner Key theater in Miami and gave one of the more infamous concerts in Rock’n’Roll history. Lead singer Jim Morrison ended up getting arrested for allegedly whipping out his peen, shouting obscenities, performing a simulated beej on a bandmate, and being drunk as…
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Is Alex Sink chewing on a bushel of sour grapes following her loss to Rick Scott or is she accurately hitting on some of the political and messaging failures of the Obama White House and the Democratic party in general? In an article on Politico this weekend, Sink lays some…
For a state that has had three teams combine to win a full third of the national championships awarded in the past 30 years, the college football teams of Florida are having a weird, wild and ultimately all-around disappointing year. Well, every team but the UCF Knights that is. According to the…
It’s Friday afternoon on a particularly slow news day, a time when Village Voice Media news bloggers tend to go a bit off the reservation. Our counterparts at LA Weekly just dashed off a post about how the City of Angels is “The Douche Capital of the World,” while calling…
