It seemed for a while that the worst for the Miami Herald may be over, but the paper just announced that they’re cutting 49 jobs across the Miami Herald Media Company. Nine of those positions will come from the Herald’s newsroom, with another six coming from El Nuevo Herald’s newsroom…
Despite the fact Royce Reed is a former Miami Heat dancer and current star of Miami based train wreck Basketball Wives, she’s perhaps best known for being basketball star Dwight Howard’s baby mama. The two haven’t been on good turns since the birth of their child, with numerous legal squabbles…
See Crossfade’s review and photos from Ms. Lauryn Hill’s UM Homecoming concert. After some rumbling that Lauryn Hill could be making a rare live appearance at the Arsht Center turned out to be false, it turns out she’s making a Miami appearance after all. The reclusive legend is set to…
Americans seem to be getting high as hell, with more Americans saying they’ve used drugs in the past year than any other year since the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration began taking a survey in 2002. About nine percent said they’ve used drugs in the past year. Marijuana…
Nevin Shapiro, the colorful Miami Beach businessman who claims to have written a tell all book about the Miami Hurricanes from his jail cell, admitted the he was guilty of charges that he ran an $880 million Ponzi scheme. Shapiro used the money to fuel a lavish lifestyle, make donation…
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Riptide’s favorite hometown SNL star turned wacko tea party songstress, Victoria Jackson, is back writing columns for Andrew Brietbart’s Big Hollywood. She’s decided Sarah Palin is “the perfect feminist.” Unfortunately she doesn’t seem to have much of a grasp on what feminism actually is, and take swipes at single mothers…
A Florida Road Ranger, one of those helpful services that give free assistance to highway motorists with car troubles, stopped to offer help last night to a driver who had pulled over near the median of the Palmetto Expressway. He found the driver asleep at the wheel, and oh yeah,…
Former Miami Heat star Shaquille O’Neal has been hit with an explosive lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade court alleging that the hard court legend planted child pornography in an attempt to frame a former employee, and hacked into various personal accounts of the employee and a former mistress. We’ve been following…
For the second time this year, a story premiering on this humble little blog, Riptide, has served as fodder for jokes on The Colbert Report. First, Stephen Colbert took on homophobic, rent-boy-lovin’ George Rekers, and last night, the host roasted New Times columnist and 2 Live Crew founder Luther Campbell’s…
No longer will we get to read the inner thoughts of Damien Berry or follow the sartorial misadventures of Jacory Harris. Miami Hurricanes football coach Randy Shannon has heard of this thing called “Twitter,” and he simply does not care for it. Apparently he thinks it’s distracting the team 140…
Twenty-five years ago, a tall woman in an awkward brown ensemble walked through the door of her Miami abode, cracked a joke in her no-nonsense baritone voice about the state of Miami-Dade public schools, and then, for the next seven seasons, with the help of her unapologetically over-the-hill housemates, made…
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Last Friday, we had few details about the bizarre murder that left an 84-year-old woman dead at the hands of an 87-year-old who had also shot himself. Now, Juan Adolfo Gonzalez has been identified as the gunman. He told police he had been plotting the murder of Celina Hernandez, his ex-girlfriend,…
Miami’s large, GOP-leaning Cuban-American population is an important vote for Republicans running for statewide election, so it doesn’t bode well for gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott that he has picked up few endorsements from the area. Despite the fact that Miami-Dade politics are nonpartisan, newly elected school board member Raquel Regalado,…
It’s pretty clear that everyone else in the nation hates LeBron James and the Miami Heat, but now we have cold, hard numbers to back it up. The Q Score company gauges the favor-ability rankings of various athletes, and after reaching a peak high of popularity last year, James is…
A little more than a year ago, former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer made headlines by condemning President Barack Obama’s address to the nation’s schoolchildren on their first day of school as a “use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.” Greer, at the…
Dexter Morgan, the fictional anti-hero of local author Jeff Lindsay’s book series and Showtime’s hit drama, trades in on Miami’s violent image as a crime scene analyst by day and a serial killer of other serial killers by night. Though, the violence, as Miami’s tourism boards might want to let…
Fidel Castro now claims that his statement claiming that the Cuban model of communism no longer works was misinterpreted and taken out of context by an American journalist, but actions speak louder and words as the island nation has announced a major layoff of state workers. At least 500,000 workers…
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The Miami Heat’s dance squad is the best in the NBA, and for many dancers getting to take to the hardwood at American Airline Arena is a dream come true. Sadly, Nancy G. Lopez-Ruiz will never get to make that debut. The 22-year-old had recently signed to the squad, but…
Let’s be honest. Even more than choosing a name, after the birth of a baby boy deciding whether to get the kid circumcised is usually the biggest decision parents have to make. Hey, that baby can go by a nickname or change it legally when he grows up, but once…
