A shooting injured two people in Opa-locka yesterday. Police have a person of interest in custody. [CBS4]A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed after a disagreement over a dice game in Miami Gardens Saturday. [CBS4]Even the crappy economy can’t stop South Beach’s hotel industry from expanding. [Herald]The man who killed…
Welp, we might as well update you on the ACC tournament, and sadly the Miami Hurricane’s surprising run has come to an end. They lost to top seeded Duke 77-74, despite a lead at half time and catching up from some large deficits.Alas, you really can’t expect, as much as…
The Miami Hurricanes basketball team came into the ACC tournament seeded last with a dismal 4-12 in conference record, but have been the surprise of the tournament so-far.After beating 5th seeded Wake Forest in the opening round, the Miami Hurricanes have shocked 4th seeded Virginia Tech in a nail biting…
Despite some concerns that new management might put a damper on the unadulterated chicness of the Gansevoort South Hotel on South Beach, The Wall Street Journal reports that the hotel is still tragically hip.Though the hotel portion of the complex was reportedly very successful, slow sales on the condominium side forced Credit…
Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti charity has raised millions of dollars since the earthquake in the singer’s home country, but numerous allegations have arisen about how the money has been spent and how the charity has been run.Now the Smoking Gun reports Yele paid $105,000 to Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus in 2008. The kicker: multiple anonymous sources…
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One person is murdered every two hours in Venezuela, according to new statistics released by the independent Venezuelan Observatory of Violence.The murder rate in the South American country has more than quadrupled since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1999. There were 54 homicides per 100,000 people last year, a…
Uh, why do we never get invited to these things?Fashion photographer and blogger JD Ferguson grabbed some shots from the opening party for MAC cosmetic’s new South Beach location last night. Held atop the new Herzog & de Meuron designed 1111 building/parking garage at the north end of Lincoln Road,…
Shaquille O’Neal’s trade to the Heat may have been good for the team, but apparently bad for his marriage.His very-soon-to-be-ex-wife Shaunie has blamed the entire city of Miami for their pending divorce, or more specifically all the hoochies in the arena who show up in bras and panties.”Miami is a…
Juan Fonseca may be the worst mailman in the world. He’s charged with snorting cocaine while on the job, driving his truck with his feet, stealing money out of Christmas cards, swiping Netflix rentals, and, oh yeah, delivering drugs along his route.The Kissimmee, Florida, postal worker first raised suspicion by…
The University of Miami is investigating four separate incidents in the past two weeks of school property being defaced by swastikas.President Donna Shalala sent an email to students and staff today notifying them of incidents taking place March 2, 10, and 11 in the Hecht Residential College, one of the…
A 10-year-old boy was found murdered in his Aventura Lakes home. Hours later, his 72-year-old father was found dead, most likely from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in his Jeep Cherokee. [NBCMiami] A South Florida man traveled to Washington, D.C., to speak out about Florida’s gay adoption ban. [WSVN]A Miami-Dade prisoner who…
Apparently there’s very few details yet, but President Barack Obama is planning to visit Miami on April 15 to help the White House’s political wing Organizing for America. Sounds like a fundraiser.Naked Politics points to this email from the Democratic Party:We have exciting news and wanted you to be the…
Join us as we continue gross body hair waxing week on Riptide: in our latest installment it seems that Khloe Kardashian let her sister, Kourtney, wax her nether regions because she didn’t trust her bikini area to any Miami waxstress.”We’re at a lingerie store, I was buying him a little…
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That condo you bought in downtown as an investment property in 2005? You might not be able to make a reasonable profit on it until sometime after 2030.Moody’s Economy.com says housing prices in Miami-Dade and most other southern Florida counties won’t recover until 2030. The predictions are based on Fiserv’s Leading Case-Shiller…
Cuba may have a bustling black market of underground entrepreneurs, but legal private enterprise has been outlawed since all businesses were nationalized in 1968. Now, according to Reuters, the communist island is about to embark on an experiment with something resembling capitalism.The government has begun leasing some small-scale retail services back to…
Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much news in the mysterious murder of 26-year-old aspiring model Paula Sladewski. Club Space hopes to change all of that by offering a $15,000 reward for information related to the case.Space is the last place Sladewski was seen alive New Year’s Eve weekend before being found…
People do a lot of crazy things for their religions, but we suggest drawing a line at drinking large quantities of mucus from illegally smuggled snails.Charles L. Stewart of Hialeah is under investigation for making his followers do exactly that. He’s a practitioner of an African faith known as El…
We live in the weird news capital of the country, what sometimes goes on at city hall could be qualified as insane, and we’re certainly home to more than a few out-of-this-world characters, but Miami isn’t anywhere close to the craziest city in America. In fact, according to nonscientific ratings by the Daily…
The Democratic National Committee couldn’t keep its paws off Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist’s war of the wax, and produced this “rapid response” web ad to basically paint the Republican primary race as a giant mess of unadulterated silliness…
Forecaster predicts an “above normal” Hurricane season in 2010, with about two or three hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. [Herald]Florida is number three in total foreclosure filings. [Herald]And here’s another cherry stat: Unemployment in Florida is at an all-time high of 11.9 percent. [CBS4]A Gulfstream Park employee had a rock thrown…
