Man it is cold out. (“How cold is it?”) It’s so cold that Gov. Crist has declared a state of emergency, so this isn’t a joke. [CBS4]Scott Rothstein may be planning to enter a plea bargain, and pleading guilty. [JustNews]Five workers with Miami-Dade waste management were arrested after taking bribes…
It’s pretty rare that a major traffic accident in the road-rage-prone streets of Miami ends with both drivers heading to the spa together, but most accidents don’t involve singer/actor/model Tyrese Gibson. TMZ has photos of the car wreck, which took place on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown. It involved Tyrese’s Dodge…
Artist Ginés Serrán’s Union of the World: Monument to World Peace is the largest bronze sculpture based on classical mythology. It’s 26 feet tall and 17,600 pounds, and later this month it will come to SkyPalace at Mary Brickell Village in downtown Miami to make its permanent home. The work depicts Hercules…
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Land Shark Stadium will host the 76th annual Orange Bowl tonight, with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets taking on the Iowa Hawk Eyes. Locally, the most exciting facet could be that this game might mark the last time Land Shark will be officially known by that terrible moniker (it’ll revert…
On the off chance you haven’t heard yet, 2009 was not a very good year for the economy. Which means it wasn’t a very good year for real estate, especially not luxury Miami real estate. In their wrapup of year-end stats, the South Beach Real Estate blog notes prices per square…
Jim Greer, the embattled chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, is expected to resign, according to the St. Pete Times. He was up for re-election to the post Saturday, but it now seems state Sen. Jim Thrasher will take the helm of the party. Update: It’s official. Read his letter of…
A 24-year-old burned his mother to death in Northwest Dade. He took off in a stolen public works truck, a police chase ensued, and he was shot and later died. [JustNews]Michelle Spence-Jones is still preparing for re-election and plans to sue Charlie Crist while she’s at it. [WSVN]Cops in the…
Breaking: Fidel Castro is not dead. But he recently sat on a chair with wheels. What does this mean? We have no idea. Though experts tell us that Castro will likely die. Sometime. Eventually. Because he is mortal and pretty damn old. The photos show Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega meeting…
This weekend, we noticed these comically well-endowed mannequins in front of a few stores on Lincoln Road. And then, what do you know, they popped up in our Flick pool courtesy of Archturo’s Flickr. What does it mean when even plastic woman on South Beach sports obviously plastic breast enhancements?…
At this point, it’s probably optimistic to say there are more than 100 Florida panthers left in the wild. Especially considering as many as 17 of them were killed by drivers last year, according to the Defenders of Wildlife. That eclipses 2007’s record of 15. The 16th dead panther was found…
Whether you like it or not, South Florida is home base for two of America’s most influential conservatives. You’ve got the reclusive Matt Drudge, who takes time out of listening to Junior Vasquez records somewhere in Miami Beach to update the DrudgeReport, and you’ve got Rush Limbaugh, who takes time…
Normally, the sale of a parking lot shouldn’t be newsworthy, but when it combines the real estate boom in downtown Miami and the decline of the printed press, it’s worth taking note. The Miami Herald this morning reported the complicated sale of its parking lot to developers could drag on for another year…
Well, there’s one Miami football team that’s still in the playoff hunt: the Lingerie Football League’s Miami Caliente. With a 2-1 record and an upcoming game against the Tampa Bay Breeze, the Caliente could find themselves in Lingerie Bowl VII. Unlike last year’s debacle in Tampa Bay, South Florida has…
You’re right — it is really cold out. In fact, it’s the coldest cold snap in about a decade. [Herald]Paul Michael Merhige, the man alleged to have killed four family members during a Thanksgiving massacre, was found in a motel room in the Keys thanks to a tip from an…
Riptide put up somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 posts this year, so before we get started on writing 3,000 more it’s time to sit back and look at some our successes: Our top ten posts by pageviews.Yeah, it’s a collection of slightly seedy stuff, with abortion doughnuts, rape tunnels,…
Fort Myers rapper Plies got criticized for tossing $50,000 into a crowd at a concert held by Atlanta radio station Hot 107.9 this summer.At the station’s recent holiday concert, he returned, but this time instead of setting off a mellee after making it rain he brought one lucky fan onstage…
Not that anyone really pays attention, but Miami FC has been playing in the United Soccer League since the team’s founding in 2006. USL was the second tier in America’s soccer pyramid, but since, unlike other countries, there’s no promotion or relegation, they’re basically the minor league to America’s most…
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The models that populate South Beach, or used to anyway, are usually alien looking wisps of girls. But other parts of the 305 celebrate ladies with a bit of curves, so leave it to a Miami-born model to be leading the way for plus size girls in the world of…
You know what’s fun about Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer at this point? No one likes him. We could call him “a fat, pompous windbag whose skills at leading his party is only rivaled in the terribleness department by his skills at singing Elvis songs,” and the only…
CocoWalk, the crown jewel of downtown Coconut Grove, has been hit with a $98 million foreclosure lawsuit filed by Bank of America, putting the future of the shopping, dining, and entertainment center into question. CocoWalk was bought by PMAT Real Estate Investments, a New Orleans-based firm, in 2006. But according…
