Here at Riptide, we haven’t exactly moderated our feelings for the Dolphins’ resident maestro of the skillet-hands and master of the 1.5-yards-after-catch Ted Ginn Jr.Indeed, we once threatened to “build a time machine” to travel back to the ’07 draft just to “punch Cam Cameron in the dick” for drafting…
Back in March, New Times proclaimed the death of the SunPost, Miami Beach’s scrappy and once impressive weekly rag.If we didn’t turn out to be precisely right — a few stray copies of all-but-content-free issues are still appearing from time to time around Lincoln Road — we were pretty damn…
Here at Riptide, we’ve had a lot of fun lately with recently declassified CIA documents.Last week, the spooks gave us files from the 60s that proved Luis Posada Carriles — Miami’s most famous terrorist still walking the streets today — used to snitch for the agency back in the day…
Miami Police are on the lookout for a naked burglar.Sometime after midnight early this morning, a white Hispanic man crawled through a window of an apartment on the 1200 block of SW Sixth Street, says Det. William Moreno, a Miami PD spokesman.A woman sleeping inside with her two young children…
Miami commission candidate Frank Carollo had bitter breakup with Roy Black’s ex and lied to cops
Memo to Miami politicos with dirt under your fingernails: It’s time for that midnight flight to Bolivia. Just do it now.The FBI fired the first warning shots earlier this month, busting three Broward politicians for corruption. Now, Gov. Charlie Crist wants a wide-ranging grand jury probe into the rest of…
Just before 2 a.m. inside a tony Key Biscayne waterfront condo, a woman clad only in panties chased a dark-haired 22-year-old into the hallway, screaming and smacking his face. The year was 1993. The half-naked lady was Dorothy Naomi Black, just divorced from South Florida’s most powerful criminal defense attorney,…
Miami Police are looking for a rapist after a brazen sexual assault on a girl on her way to school this morning. Just after 8 a.m., a 14-year-old girl was walking through Little Haiti along NW First Avenue. As she waited for traffic to slow at NW 57th Street, a…
Without any fear of being sued or hit with a massive boycott, we’re going to say it right up front, in plain English: Jorge Mas Canosa sponsored terrorism. Boom. Feels good, right?For years, the press quaked in fear of criticizing the most powerful exile in America, the founder of the…
Last week, Riptide was all about Eduardo Arocena, the Miami dockworker convicted in 1985 of setting off 32 bombs in Little Havana and Manhattan. A certain mayoral candidate (ahem, Tomas Regalado, ahem) seems to have flirted with supporting Arocena back in the day, not that he’ll admit it.We noted how strange…
Around 3:40 this morning, a 20-something black man in a white SUV rolled up to the Taco Bell at NE 79th Street and Sixth Avenue with a serious jones for some cheese and refried beans.Big problem: The Taco Bell had already shut down for the night. When the man rolled up…
Somewhere in a New York penthouse right now, Jeffrey Loria is angrily straightening a Picasso on his wall, swigging a vintage Chianti, and cursing loudly.His Marlins have missed the playoffs yet again. And Loria has decided it must be his manager’s fault. Loria’s front office leaked his fury all over…
Whenever the national media parachutes into Miami to write about our Chernobyl disaster of a condo market, they usually turn to one man, our own cheerful soothsayer of real estate doom.It’s Peter Zalewski, founder of the delightfully named Condo Vultures. The former Daily Business Review reporter is quick with a…
You might have caught me early this morning on the Enrique Santos Show on 98.3 La Kalle. The “King of All Spanglish Media” graciously invited me on air to berate me over my story about Tomas Regalado raising boatloads of cash for a convicted terrorist.You see, Santos — along with…
Family of slain tourist Husien Shehada wants Miami Beach cop Adam Tavss to pay
Miami mayoral candidate Tomas Regalado once raised cash for a terrorist
Cuba’s Craigslist: The island’s black market moves online with Revolico.com
In this week’s feature story, you can read all about Revolico. The website — a Craigslist for Cuba — is changing the way Cubans do business in the Caribbean communist stronghold by bringing the nation’s rampant black market online for the world to see.Cuba’s socialist constitution forbids pretty much all…
Sorry Hurricanes fans. We’re really not trying to kidney-punch you this afternoon. (Virginia Tech already took care of that this weekend.)It’s just that we can’t resist feeding you Larry Coker updates. No 1., it gives us all the license we need to link to the greatest college football brawl of…
Tenacity. Vision. Honesty.Tomas Regalado seems pretty upfront about his core values. Those three words are printed in bold atop of hundreds of blue-and-red billboards and bus ads all over town proclaiming his run for mayor. So why won’t he admit that he once helped raise thousands of dollars for a…
See that charming woman pictured below? She may have just orchestrated the cruelest crime yet tied to the Great Recession of 2009.Miami police say that Illeana Pillarte, a 35-year-old, scammed more than 70 unemployed people into believing she represented Jackson Memorial Hospital and had jobs available. Last week, Pillarte, who…
Last year, the God of Tabloids grew bored with the octo-mom, Jon and Kate, and yes, even Paris, so He snapped his ink-stained fingers and created Hochstein v. Hansen. And it was good: A Miami plastic surgeon nicknamed the “Boob God.” A furious Norweigian Playboy model. Nearly nude photos. A $500,000…
