Riptide hadn’t played videogames in years (except for a small descent into Katamari during college) until we recently got a Wii. Since then, it’s probably been way too much Lego Batman and Lego Star Wars. Obviously, our videogame taste hasn’t matured beyond when we played as a kid. Nonetheless, we’re actually kinda, sorta…
State Rep. Doug Holder filed a bill today, for the third year in a row, to ban texting while driving in Florida. We have a few questions. If we’re updating our Twitter status while driving, does that count? What about checking our email? Playing a game of solitaire? Can we take pictures on our…
Good news for Burn Notice fans and people who are happy for the money and exposure it brings to Miami: USA has officially picked up the series for a fourth season. It’s not much of a surprise. The series continues to pull in huge ratings for a cable series, and once…
Today’s photo, of a palm tree at sunrise on Key Biscayne, comes from the Flickr stream of alexdecarvalho…
This post is mainly to point out that even big-time newspapers (or whatever the New York Post is) make embarrassing headline typos once in a while (I hope the copy editor gets an email from the EIC with the subject “Can We Talk?”). But in a more local angle, it seems Joan…
Last night’s Miami Social was all about children: the kind you want but can’t have, the kind you find are accidentally going to pop out in nine months, the kind you send away to Switzerland, and the kind that are 30-something professionals who live in South Beach. The main drama again…
The Miami Dolphins yesterday officially squashed any lingering rumors they had an interest in signing convicted felon Michael Vick, and boy, Miami Herald sports columnist Greg Cote sure is upset about it. In a column today, he calls the Dolphins “cowards,” whose passing on Vick carried a “tinge of arrogance.” In Cote’s mind,…
An OK was given to move the urban development boundary even farther west, but not to accommodate a giant Lowes. [SFBJ]Moments after a rescued dolphin was returned to the wild, it was attacked and killed by sharks. NBCMiami’s newly designed website is really sad about it. It says so. [NBCMiami]Law enforcement officers…
This is just shameful. Volunteering in America released its annual report about the community service habits of residents of major U.S. cities. Of the 51 cities, Miami came in dead last on the volunteer rate. Only 14.3 percent of Miamians volunteered. New York City and Las Vegas tied for the…
Local drag queen Jessica Wild better get ready to work! Turn to the left. Work! Now turn to the right. Work! Sashay, you stay, because she’s been cast in the next season of Logo’s RuPaul’s Drag Race. She wasn’t cast in the traditional manner; she won an online casting competition to…
Today’s picture comes from TattooLaPalooza, held earlier this month at the Miami Beach Convention Center. As you can clearly see, it’s a bunch of clowns who’ve stapled dollar bills to their flesh. Maybe it’s a clever way of showing how the things we put onto our bodies are often meant…
Riptide is not part of the liberal media elite. Not yet anway, but it sure doesn’t help that we’re not reading the latest Maureen Dowd columns in a timely manner. Dowd’s Sunday column about the Henry Gates hiccup takes inspiration from a familiar source. Apparently, she watched Miami Police Chief John…
Kurt Cobain was a huge fan. Beck named his album Mutations in their honor. David Byrne personally curated a 1999 retrospective album on the band for his Luaka Bop label, but it seemed like nothing could convince legendary Brazilian Tropicalia band Os Mutantes to return to stage. Then in 2007 two-thirds of the band’s original core, brothers Arnaldo Baptista and…
Using “The nation’s only frozen cocktail on a stick” as your tag line is kind of like using “The nation’s only chicken nugget milkshake” or “The nation’s only pizza available through an IV.”As in, there’s a reason it’s the only one in the nation (then again, it makes us wonder: Do other…
Long before Art Basel rolled into town, Art Miami was the main art fair in town, and it has continued to thrive despite, or because of, the competition. The next edition — held during Basel week, December 2-6 — will be the fair’s 20th overall and the first under a…
We dream of the day when Louis Aguirre packs up and heads far, far away from the Miami TV landscape. Luckily, SFLTV informs us we can nudge him in the right direction, and he can be Kelly Ripa’s problem for a day. Live with Regis and Kelly is looking for five male fill-in…
We saw this and immediately thought of you. You’re young by international city standards, and you certainly are fabulous. As for the broke part? Well, let’s just say you should keep this book handy in the next few months. …
A boat carrying about 200 Haitians capsized. Two are dead and about 85 are missing. [AFP]Found in Miami: Another dead horse, believed to have been killed for meat. [NBCMiami]”Can you tweet your way to a job?” Maybe, but it just sounds sad. [Herald]”Miami Hurricanes coach Randy Shannon: Top concern is…
The Princeton Review’s annual rankings of college is out for 2009, and University of Miami took the top stop in the Race/Class Interaction category. Basically 122,000 of the students surveyed agreed that, “different types of students (black/white, rich/poor) interact frequently and easily.” Which sounds pretty right. I guess this mean UM is…
We’re going to pretend this is a cute visual metaphor for diversity in Miami. Anyway, it comes from MigRodz’s flickr stream. By the way Flickr users, please join our shiny, new Miami New Times Flickr pool. Eventually we’ll start picking the best as photo of the day. …
Showtime, Marc Ecko Entertainment, and Icarus Entertainment are bringing a Dexter videogame to the iPhone. Which means hot, 3-D Miami-murder action. From the looks of the Dexter game trailer, GTA: Vice City might be a more accurate graphical representation of the Magic City, but nonetheless, here’s the extended trailer straight out of…
As has been reported just about everywhere, U.S. Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon sent a sexual harassment complaint to Miami Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal about the behavior of the paper’s Guantánamo Bay correspondent, Carol Rosenberg. Among using other choice words, Rosenberg allegedly asked Gordon the following: “Have you ever had…
