It’s a story as old as time. Boy cop meets girl cop. Boy cop and girl cop date for a while. Girl cop dumps boy cop. Boy cop stages a fake crime in hopes that girl cop will show up at the scene so he can propose to her and…
Conventional wisdom says that the 2010 midterm elections are supposed to be tough for Democrats. There’s already some conservative pundits who think that Republicans taking over the house is a done deal. Of course, national conventional political wisdom doesn’t always translate to Miami-Dade, and a new poll shows that Democrat…
The Twitter user who rattled Miami Hurricanes Quarterback Jacory Harris by directing racially tinged insults towards him through the web service has been found, and he is not backing down. Since taking heat for the remarks he’s gotten into fights with other Twitter users and freely used racial slurs and…
Yesterday, Eric Fischer’s amazing Flickr set of maps illustrating the racial segregation and integration of various American city’s went viral. Using data from the 2000 census, Fischer’s maps illustrates racial segregation by using dots. Each dot represents 25 people of a certain race, with red representing Whites, yellow representing Hispanics…
University of Florida professor of food and resource economics Timothy Taylor has been fired after suggesting that Latin American women tend to dress more provocatively at the office than American woman during a lecture on sexual harassment. What exactly that has to do with food and resource economics we’re not…
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Miami seems like the perfect location for a spin-off of the Reality TV behemoth Real Housewives franchise that Bravo has unleashed on the world. Though, when The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills premiers next month there will be six distinct Housewives series, so we have to wonder if Bravo even…
Somewhere in the northern Florida town of Madison lies a magical place where cats roam free in an expansive kitty village. The cats, all 660 of them, can visit kitty Wal-Mart or attend cat church. There are scratching posts and climbing places a plenty. It’s a paradise for pussies, and…
Sarah Palin, the world’s foremost political performance artist, has announced a Miami Date for her 2010 Tea Baggin’ ‘Round the Map American Tour! Yes, the pit bull in lipstick will be unleashed October 6 at the American Airlines Arena at the behest of a local Tea Party group. That’s just…
One of the allures of Twitter is that you’re only an @ symbol away from sending a message to some of your favorite celebrities, politicians, and sports stars. Usually those messages are positive, but sometimes the turn ugly. Chances are the star might not ever see it, but Miami Hurricanes…
A freak accident at Sun Life Stadium Sunday has put the Chicago Cubs’ rookie outfielder Tyler Colvin in the hospital with a season-ending injury. Colvin was on third base during the second inning when teammate Wellington Castro’s maple bat broke and sent a large shard into Colvin’s chest. Yeah, and…
Everyone has a Twitter these days, so it’s hard to keep up. Luckily for you Riptide has decided to start chronicling the best Miami-related Tweets each week. Of course, we’re not even up on all of Twitter. So if you think there’s a local VIP whose account we need to…
Note to all club promoters out there: You can’t just browse through Google Image Search and put pictures of any sexy lady you find on your flyer. See, sometimes that sexy lady will find that flyer and sue your ass for using her image to promote your party.That’s what happened…
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For this year’s training camp the Miami Heat have gone way up North in Florida to the real South, and will be holding court at the Hurlburt Field and Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach in the Panhandle. Yes Pat Riley and crew are keeping the on-court development…
The unemployment rate in Miami-Dade county rose to a staggering 14.4 percent in the month of August, the Agency for Workforce Innovation reported today. That’s a full one percent jump since last month and a 2.8 percent jump since August 2009. Basically, 188,000 are hopelessly unemployed Lloyds and there’s not…
Breaking news! For the first time since coming in second on American Idol, singer Adam Lambert was spotted in an outfit that didn’t look like it fell off the tractor trailer that carries Lady Gaga’s wardrobe around. Oh, and also he stands accused of violently assaulting a paparazzo on Miami…
Following his stops at Gloria Estefan’s house and a fundraiser at the swanky Fontainebleau President Obama is coming back to Miami for the the third time this year for yet another cash grab. Miami Heat legend Alonzo Mourning will host the even at this house on October 11…
When the Miami Heat’s Udonis Haslem was charged by the Florida Highway Patrol with a third degree felony of possessing more than 20 grams of marijuana things seemed shady. We went as far as to call it a “miscarriage of justice.” Now, the State Attorney’s Office has dropped all charges…
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Our beleaguered Florida Marlins have tried all sorts of game day gimmicks to drum up local support. They were the first MLB team to have cheerleaders, and have tried everything from pint-sized mini-mascots to a dance squads made up entirely of obese men. What they have not tried is shooting…
Yesterday, news broke of a bizarre lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade court that alleged amongst other wrongdoings Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal hatched a plan to plant child porn on a former employee’s computer and use his law enforcement connections to have the man arrested. Today Shaq’s representatives have released a statement about…
