People who say there’s never anything to do in Miami need to get over themselves. Because according to the decidedly un-fun wisdom of statistic, Miami is the fourth funnest city in America!Portfolio.com gathered statistics on 14 types of fun businesses (this is from a business site after all), and then…
Governor Charlie Crist is now publicly acknowledging that he’s considering pulling out of the Republican primary for the senate seat and running as an independent. But in classic Crist style he’s remaining vague on the details, and won’t even promise that if elected he’d caucus with the Republicans.Running for Senate…
Venezuela and Colombia are starting to become the Ned Flandars and Homer Simpson of Latin America: two neighbors with very different world views that are really starting to hate each other.Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez has even implied that if Juan Manuel Santos, the chosen successor of current conservative Colombian president…
Car collisions are a dime a dozen, but boat accidents? Not so much. Especially in the open blue sea. Three boaters were out off the Haulover Beach area when their vessel was hit by another boat. It began taking on water, and eventually completely capsized. Rescue teams begin searching for the boaters shortly…
Back when word came last year that there would be another bill filed in the Florida Senate to ban texting while driving we wondered why MSMing was being singled out when technology allows us about a million and one ways to distract ourselves while we should be keeping our eyes…
The Dolphins’ Ricky Williams has always been one of the NFL’s most complicated players. ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series, which also brought us The U, focuses on Williams’s life and his hiatus from football in 2004 in Run, Ricky, Run. It premieres tomorrow night on the channel, with a special…
Pam Grier, the star of Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown, has a new memoir out. Besides a guest stint on Miami Vice, she doesn’t have much of a local connection, but in Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, she chronicles a previously unheard-of medical condition that we’re guessing might alarm…
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There are a slew of talented NFL players from Miami we usually don’t care too much about on Riptide unless they happen to play for the Canes or the Dolphins. Chad Ochocinco is the big exception. He is, after all, the most interesting football player in the world. He’s practically…
Aspiring model Paula Sladewski went missing after leaving Club Space shortly after 7 a.m. New Year’s Eve weekend. Her body was found later that day on fire in a North Miami trash bin. The murder follows a small but shocking rash of violence and murder in Miami-Dade clubs that operate…
How clear do we have to make this? You do not disrespect the Snooki. She is a princess among guidos. Those other Jersey Shore chicks — Mangie, J-coww, whoever — you can diss them all you want, but you treat Snooki like the royalty she is. Do we have an…
Shots rang out last night near 95th Street and NW 29th Avenue, as two unidentified men shot at four others. Police were called a little after 9:30 p.m. When they arrived, they found the four victims, all males between the ages of 30 and 40. They were taken to Ryder…
Hey, you. Yeah, you over there. You look like a man who enjoys watching a video of people being beaten, maimed, tortured, maybe even killed. Yeah, I can tell that about ya. Listen, I know a guy who might be able to get some of those kinda films, but it might…
Some animals urinate on things to mark their terrority. Despite what a certain human nature photography blog would have you think, the organisms that shop at Wal-Mart are not animals. Though in some cases we’d forgive you for getting confused. Christina Cifaldi, 22, was arrested for suspicion of urinating on clothing at a…
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Each of the three main contenders for Florida’s open Senate seat have their charms. Marco Rubio has his unwavering conservative principals and his strong stump speech. Charlie Crist has shown he isn’t beholden to his party and its fringe elements, but to the people of Florida. Kendrick Meek has a…
PBS’s Patchwork Nation project recently put together a county-by-county map comparing the concentration of residents who have registered as members of a Tea Party-affiliated group. Surprisingly, given Marco Rubio’s success, Florida had only three counties (Gilchrist, Flagler, and Sumter) where more than ten of 10,000 residents identify as members of the movement. Miami-Dade…
Southwest Florida thrives on offering all the good weather and beaches of South Florida except with a whole lot more white people. A British family staying at the Ritz-Cartlon in Naples (the beach resort, not the other Ritz-Carlton in town) and specified they wished not to be served by “people…
Jack Barouh, a 65-year-old Golden Beach man, pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges related to the probe of Swiss bank UBS. His attorney blames it on the Holocaust. Barouh’s parents apparently evaded the Holocaust, and Barouh claims that because of this, he had a compulsion to hide his money in case…
Students who smoke at the University of Miami will soon have to pay a $50-per-semester fee if they get their health insurance through the school’s health plan. Some believe it is the school’s first step to making the Coral Gables campus smoke-free. The school’s medical campus is already a cigarette-free…
Eduardo Verastegui got famous for prancing around half-naked in front of cameras [NSFW], putting in time as a telenovela hearth throb and being a part of a Mexican boy band. Then around 2006 he went full-fledged conservative on everyone. He endorsed John McCain, made a long video critical of Barack…
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