All of Florida is wondering when Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio will come out and make it official. They are totally in political love, but why won’t Jeb put a ring on it by endorsing Rubio over Gov. Charlie Crist in the Senate primary? Years ago, things weren’t so hush-hush. During…
It’s a big night for Miami on cable reality TV tonight. Sadly, the second season of Miami Social hasn’t been picked up (yet?), but local locations serve as the backdrop for not one, not two, but three episodes of popular shows.As we mentioned, the girls of The City come to…
Google, what have you ever done for us? Besides search, free email, YouTube, Blogger, GTalk, Chrome, Google Docs, etc. That’s nice and all, but they’ve never given us a holiday present, until now. Google will be giving away free WiFi at some of America’s busiest airpots starting now and ending on…
Riptide sure hates when we forget where one of our building are. There’s always a bit of panic, and then we retrace our steps trying to remember where we left it. Was it in Kendall? No, how about Hialeah? Then we call up our friends, “Hey, Do you remember where…
The teen charged with the stabbing at Coral Gables high has confessed, but he didn’t even know his victim’s name, and the fight was provoked by a ‘bad face.’ [CBS4]A bicyclist in South West Dade was killed in a hit and run. [Herald]Tonight, MTV’s ‘The City’ comes to Miami. We’ve…
Using your own two feet as your primary means of conveyance in Florida won’t just get you drenched in sweat most of the year, it’s also more likely to put you in the path of danger.According to Transportation for America’s Pedestrian Danger Index, the top four most dangerous metropolitans in…
Well, the ‘Tea Party’ is an official political party in Florida now. Orlando lawyer Frederic O’Neal registered the new party with the Florida Secretary of State in August, and serves as its chairman. “The current system has become mired in the sludge of special interest money that seeks to control…
The work of Friends With You has already redefined “absurdly cute,” and through collaborations with Kid Robot and Memobots the duo of Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III have gently expanded their burgeoning design empire into retail. Now, they’re set to open their own flagship boutique in the heart of…
What’s there to say about Miami’s win against Virginia? It was nice to see the Canes dominate a conference rival who deserved to be dominated during Homecoming, but otherwise *yawn*. Instead let’s bitch about polls and make wild predictions about bowl games!Those lovely AP voters and the BCS’s diabolical computers…
Hurricane Ida is heading for the Gulf of Mexico. [CBS4]A pilot is dead after crashing his small plane in the Everglades last night. [NBCMiami]PoliticsMarco Rubio’s record in the State House isn’t nearly as conservative as he’d have you believe. It’s almost like it’s difficult to be a true conservative in…
Hey, there were some elections this week. You probably didn’t vote, but we liveblogged them for you, and here are your winners for Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah. In Miami voters loved name recognition (aka voting for people related to former Mayors), and in Miami Beach the most entertaining local election of…
Considering Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin now gets his own right-wing political column every other week, is it asking too much that he keeps pointed, half-baked political theory out of his television reviews? Because all too often the man’s words come off seeming ridiculous.After deciding to attack the National Park…
Virginia Cavaliers @ Miami Hurricanes, Saturday 12pm on ESPN360.com and 90.5 FM. College football is a ridiculously frustrating thing, and playing in the ACC only magnifies that. Listen, we know the chances of it happening are slight, but if Duke beats NC and somehow knocked off Georgia Tech next weekend they’d…
Sunset Place is a horrible place where teenage stereotypes go to die, but it is also home to the last of the giant, metallic robo-iguanas. The photo comes from MigRodz’s Flickr…
Franz A. Wakefield, a Miami resident, claims that he not only came up with the idea and names of Apple’s entire iPod, iTunes, and iPhone line, but that actress Sarah Jessica Parker totally screwed him over in the deal. Wakefield claims he won a 17th Congressional District Arts Competition in 1989, and…
Here we were thinking Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami was an authentic documentary looking at the real lives of two young girls trying to make it in the Magic City, but *gasp* new revelations seem to reveal that it was actually some sort of heavily manipulated pseudo-reality program milked for…
Manny Diaz on the “breather” citizens apparently wanted by elected Regalado: “We are now competing with the rest of the world. If we take a breather, the rest of the world will pass us by.” [CBS4]A Miami native who spent 17 years in jail for stealing Rolexes got out of jail…
Is the University of Miami crazy? Well, if they are don’t be surprised if their new psychiatrist pumps them full of lots and lots of GlaxoSmithKline pills. UM has just hired Dr. Charles Nemeroff to head the Miller School of Medicine’s psychiatry department. Nemeroff is an internationally known expert on depression, unfortunately…
Charlie Crist went on CNN yesterday and said that he didn’t endorse the stimulus package. Huh? What? Riptide was there when he appeared with President Obama touting the stimulus in Ft. Myers. Even though the White House is claiming that he did in fact pretty much endorse the bill, Crist says he…
We still don’t know what to make of the Dolphins this year, but it’s nice to know we’re unequivocally better than those New York Jets (is that even saying much?). Flickr user Ed Yourdon has a nice series of photographs from the game…
Carrying just one ounce of pot in Florida could get you 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. That’s by far the harshest penalty on the books in any state in America. Arizona, which has the second toughest sentencing guidelines for being found with an ounce of marijuana will…
