Tampa, our slightly “off” cousin to the northwest, has been chosen to host the 2012 Republican National Convention in which the Grand Ol’ Party will nominate Sarah Palin or Marco Rubio or Ron Paul or someone else slightly “off” to take on President Obama in the election. Congratulations Tampa! Get…
In an ideal sports world, referees would not be humans. They’d be highly functioning subhumans devoid of any emotion, desires and just about anything but the sole focus to fairly enforce the rules of the game. Of course, they are humans. Humans who like to get drunk and piss in…
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What’s that old cliché? A sunny place for shady people? Well, we’ve heard it applied to various locales, but we think Florida definitely epitomizes it, and the Daily Beast agrees. The prolific list makers ranked each U.S. state on corruption, and Florida came in sixth.Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi, Delaware and North…
When Charlie Crist announced he’d be leaving the Republican Party of Florida, the RPOF realized it had no more use for its fancy, slightly awkward-looking oil painting of the governor that used to hang in party headquarters. So, like a crazy ex who desperately wants the world to know they…
Hey, have you been losing weight? You’re looking good. Yes, I’m talking to you, entire city of Miami. What have you been doing? Atkins? Weight Watchers? Oh, wait, of course, the South Beach diet. Whatever it is, it’s working.Remember last year when Men’s Fitness named Miami the fattest big city in…
Miami Metrozoo workers were cutting branches to feed to giraffes when they found the body of a woman near the entrance of the zoo April 19. Police have now identified the body as that of 60-year-old Gloria Marinckovic of Kendall. Marinckovic suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and had gone missing from her…
It’s the weird time of year where for college football fans when spring training is over and the NFL draft is in the history books, yet next season and even meaningful pre-season polls are months away. Which means they look for other things to talk and tweet and blog about, and lately…
After Charlie Crist announced he’d seek Florida’s open senate seat as an independent earlier this week his former party immediately begin trashing him. Oddly, the most powerful democrat in the Senate called to offer his congratulations. The Wall Street Journal reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Crist late last…
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Dr. George Rekers has resigned from the board of the NARTH, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, in the wake of the fallout following his trip to Europe with a young male escort.Talking Points Memo reports that Rekers first offered his resignation last Thursday, two days after our…
Siohvaughn Wade has turned herself into Chicago Police, after the judge in the Wade’s divorce trial ordered police to track her down after she failed to show in court yesterday.Siohvaughn voluntarily turned herself in today, and will not be released until a $10,000 bond is met. Her attorney, Marsha Fisher,…
Since joining Twitter earlier this month, Venezuela’s controversial president Hugo Chavez has since become the most popular user of the service in the country. With 282,042 followers now, he’s since assigned a team of 200 government aids to reply to the “@” messages he receives.Yes, 200 people to run a Twitter…
The New York Times offers a weekly news quiz so there readers can give themselves a pat on the back for reading every friggin’ story the Times churns out. The Miami Herald offers no such feature, but we here at Riptide would like to test your Herald reading remembrance.So we…
You can take the girl out of Jersey, but you can’t take the Jersey out of the girl. Jersey Shore castmate Sammi “Sweatheart” Giancola will be facing criminal assault charges and a civil lawsuit after she got into a brawl at a South Beach club this weekend 24-year-old Kristen DeMinco,…
Writing every new update in the bizarre divorce proceeding of Dwyane Wade and his estranged wife Siohvaughn gets a little more sad each time. Honestly, we don’t take much pleasure in watching this divorce-from-hell unfold. Now, according to multiple sources, the judge in the case, Marya Nega, has ordered police to take…
Not to dis Miami’s blogosphere (because we love it so), but it’s rare that we really get excited about a new blog. Enter the Heat Lightning, which we imagine tearing through the metaphorical sky of the SoFla blogosphere like, well, a lightning bolt made out of flames. It marks the return…
Democratic congresspeople Kendrick Meek and Jan Schakowsky both come from the kind of heavily left leaning, big city districts they could hold for life. Of course, Meek is cutting his tenure short to run for Senate, and Schakowsky almost saw her term –and life– ended Mama Cass style. Thankfully Meek literally…
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Each December, Design Miami/ is one of the biggest and most distinct Art Basel satellite fairs on the west side of the bridge, but The Herald reports that the fair is looking to move from its annual and appropriate home in the Design District to a parking lot across from…
Ever wonder what a British luxury car would look like if it moved to Miami, hung out in Wynwood, had a few mind-altering experiences, and decided to really stick it to its stuffy, monotone aristocratic parents with some seriously eye-catching body modifications?Wonder no more. Local artists Friends With You have…
Our dream mashup of Miami-set TV shows would involve Burn Notice’s Michael Western holding back CSI: Miami’s Horatio Caine as Crockett and Tubbs take turns pistol-whipping him while screaming, “Yeah, you think your little puns are funny? How’s this for funny, punk?”Golden Girls star Betty White got the same point…
