Exactly one month ago, Riptide asked the kind of burning, investigative question that has won us so, so many Pulitzers: Are the bathrooms at the Opa-Locka Hialeah Flea Market the skankiest in all of Miami-Dade? Our burning need to know was fed by a reader’s photos that looked so nasty…
Have you spent the last week wondering why that plate of cookies went untouched and your stocking was bereft of swag? No, it’s not because Santa found out about your massive Medicare fraud; Ol’ Saint Nick’s just got his own problems with Johnny Law. For Mugshot Friday’s very special holiday…
After a week of kind eulogies for Carlos Andres Perez — including our own arguing the world would be a better place if he could have just held off the coup-crazy Hugo Chavez — the post-death story of the ex-Venezuelan president is suddenly getting very messy.A Miami judge has ordered…
Police have arrested a Miami Gardens man with a long record of felony charges in the brutal late-night shooting earlier this month that killed 24-year-old corrections officer Ciara Lee and her two-year-old son as they slept in their bedroom in Liberty City.Henry A. Ferguson, a 22-year-old who was free on…
From Livan Hernandez to Vladimir Nunez, the underground pipeline of Cuban baseball studs fleeing their homeland for MLB fortunes has always run through the Magic City. As a star in Cuba’s national league, a player earns a few thousand bucks. In the States, the Red Sox just dropped $8.2 million…
Ragheb and Nabil Sulaiman, the Perrine convenience store clerks accused to beating a customer to death last month in an argument over pocket change, will have to wait another couple weeks for their first day in court. Their arraignment, which was scheduled this morning, has been bumped back until January…
Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We’re releasing the names one by one ahead of next week’s issue, which comes with a full-page…
Garrett Wittels, the Florida International University baseball star who made national headlines last year with a DiMaggio-esque hitting streak, is about to be all over the interwebs for much less savory reasons. Wittels and two friends have been charged in the rape of two 17-year-old girls in the Bahamas…
As if taking a kick to the nuts from the horrific Detroit Lions wasn’t bad enough, a few fans got a little cherry on top of their Sunday turd sandwich courtesy Dominic Raiola, the Lions’ center. As he strutted through the tunnel, he offered the Sun Life crew a witty…
Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We’re releasing the names one by one ahead of next week’s issue, which comes with a full-page…
Let’s start this list with a caveat: In the 305, the vast majority of police officers are decent men and women risking their lives to protect America’s craziest county. It’s not a job most of us could do, and we salute them for it. Really.But it’s also true that when…
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, shook the Washington, DC bureaucracy to its core with embarrassing revelations from illicit contacts with Fidel Castro to state department plans to steal credit card numbers from top United Nations officials. Then Assange was shaken to his, well, you know, when sexy Scandianvian scholar Anna…
Jerry Babij, a fit-looking 65-year-old clad head-to-toe in black leather, wants you to know he can still tussle. “I’m a tough guy,” he says, bunching up his weathered fists. “John Gotti blew up my restaurant one time, and I didn’t back down from him.” Babij, once a rough-and-tumble character who…
Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We’re releasing the names one by one ahead of next week’s issue, which comes with a full-page…
Last we heard from Carlos Bertonatti — the handsome, would-be pop singer accused of killing a biker on the Rickenbacker Causeway while drunkenly speeding home from Club Space — his bond had been revoked after prosecutors said he was a flight risk who had lied about owning multiple passports.Well, Bertonatti…
Miami voters are one big step closer to a vote on whether to strip County Mayor Carlos Alvarez of his office, as Clerk Harvin Ruvin officially certified billionaire car dealer Norman Braman’s recall effort this afternoon.Braman managed to collect more than 95,000 valid signatures in favor of the recall, Ruvin…
Inaugural parades are a time-honored American tradition, a treasured moment when fat corporate cats and scummy developers can make millions of dollars rain on a newly elected governor, all so he can throw a masturbatory party celebrating what a swell guy he is. So why is South Florida getting shut…
This weekend marked the homecoming of Frank Martin, a Miami native who’s turned the Kansas State Wildcats into a Top 10 basketball team. If you read the Herald’s glowing piece on Martin though, you may have stumbled over a couple quick sentences: Martin “was fired” as coach of Miami High,…
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has shaken the Washington D.C. bureaucracy to its core with embarrassing revelations — from illicit contacts with Fidel Castro to State Department plans to steal credit card numbers from top United Nations officials. Then Assange was shaken to his well, you know what, when sexy…
Jerrry Babij, a fit-looking 65-year-old clad head-to-toe in black leather, wants you to know he can still tussle. “I’m a tough guy,” he says, bunching up his weathered fists. “John Gotti blew up my restaurant one time, and I didn’t back down from him.”Babij, once a rough-and-tumble character who dominated…
City of Miami police have shot a suspect armed with a shotgun in Liberty City, leaving the man seriously wounded — and giving Chief Miguel Exposito a new round of questions to answer about violence in the neighborhood.Update: The suspect, who died overnight, has been identified as 22-year-old Brandon Foster…
The resurgent Fidel Castro — riding a new high as the world’s foremost peddler of Bilderberg conspiracies — has lately been helping his island nation lurch toward the Information Age. Last year, we wrote about Cuba’s answer to Craigslist, Revolico.cu, where jerry-rigged ’50s Buicks are hot sellers.Now, Castro’s regime has…
