It’s the only logical conclusion to the Great Russian Kerfluffle of 2010: Video of fake Russians extraordinaire Bradley Springer and Jonathan Taylor bamboozling Linda Robertson of the Miami Herald. (Scored to amazing Russian pop music, natch)…
Faced with our revelations this morning that an FAU student and his friend had hoodwinked the paper into believing they were Russian basketball fans, the Herald has just issued the world’s most wishy-washy correction:”A column that ran on page 1D of Wednesday’s sports section might have included incorrect information from…
Riptide has solved the Soviet mystery of “Pavel and Yuri Kopeche!” Meet Florida Atlantic University freshman Bradley Springer and high schooler Jonathan Taylor, the world’s foremost Russian basketball fan impersonators.The pair painted their faces and put on their best Borat-esque accents for Tuesday’s Heat vs. Moscow game, intending to “just…
Florida’s fringe candidates want to legalize porcupine sex and draft inmates for war
UPDATE: Yes, they were punked.They seemed like the perfect illustration of the NBA’s growing global appeal: Two born-and-bred Russian hoops maniacs outside the American Airlines Arena before yesterday’s Heat vs. Moscow game. They painted their faces, wore ridiculous socks, used Yakov Smirnoff accents and made a hilarious Napoleon-analogy sign about “Leebron.”But…
Yesterday Riptide had some fun with Bobbie Bean, the mallet-waving, melon-farming outsider Senate candidate who snagged a spot on the ballot above Gov. Charlie Crist. Bean hadn’t returned our call, so we didn’t have much to go on for our piece beyond his colorful website.Well, this morning Bean got back…
Just ask Tupac, Lil Wayne, or, hell, even Jim Morrison: sometimes a good stint behind bars is just what the spin doctor ordered for selling a ton of records. You might as well add Buju Banton to that list, because even as the reggae star languishes in a Tampa-area jail awaiting…
Bobbie Bean, the would-be U.S. senator from Florida, glares at the camera and hefts a huge wooden mallet. “You vote for me,” he says, “and I got a way to, uh, loosen up the Congress.” Sound like your kind of politician? You’re in luck, because Bean is not only listed…
We’ll call it the Law of Hypocrisy: Just as every virulently homophobic preacher and expert will someday be caught with their pants down and a hot young rent boy, anyone who makes a living by spewing intolerance will eventually be exposed as a humongous hypocrite. It’s science!So welcome to the…
Attention cortadito sippers, cigar smokers and domino players of Calle Ocho: You may think you’re relaxing the day away in a cool cotton guayabera, but no, muchacho. In the eyes of the Cuban government — as of this week — you’re as formally dressed as the stuffiest Brickell banker in…
Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Courthouse already under repair
Good idea: Bolivian President Evo Morales celebrating a new soccer pitch in La Paz by playing in a friendly match between his ruling party and a team led by the capital’s mayor and his opposition party.Bad idea: Evo Morales ruining the spirit by kneeing an opposing player right in the…
Jilted Cleveland fans have tried pretty much everything to deal with their emotions: burning jerseys in effigy, singing angry ballads in comedy clubs, even penning delusional rants in Comic Sans. But now someone has gone too far.Meet MrsLeBronWade.com, a site built on the premise that D-Wade and LBJ tied the knot earlier…
Florida Tea Partiers are shedding a single tear of freedom — much like a majestic bald eagle weeping for the future of America — because Sarah Palin just nixed her speech scheduled this Wednesday at American Airlines Arena.The problem? “There was a scheduling conflict,” Marcos Sendon, head of South Florida…
When the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Courthouse finally opened in late 2007, the Magic City waxed rhapsodic: “Beautiful” and “elegant,” enthused one judge; “(People) will say, ‘That’s Miami!” exclaimed another. Even this publication swooned, naming the glass behemoth “Best New Building” and praising the “crystal ship .. plowing through waves”…
After watching one too many sad bastards who’d lost their licenses to a DUI come wandering into his scooter shop, Doug Vitello had a brilliant idea: What if he could sell them a low-speed bike that could get them to work or the probation office?Thanks to a Chinese manufacturer and…
Alayan Wool uses photos to heal Guatemala
After running away from an abusive mother in the 1950s, the courts deemed Robert Straley an “incorrigible youth” and sent him to live at the Florida School for Boys in picturesque Marianna, near the Georgia border. Straley couldn’t imagine the horror he’d endure: regular beatings and torture at the hands…
P. Leonardo Mascheroni had a simple dream: earning billions of dollars in government funding to build a gigantic laser beam that would create stable nuclear fusion and limitless, free energy for the world. So simple! But the government wouldn’t listen.So the Los Alamos-based nuclear physicist took his plans to a…
What’s gotten into Miami robbers this week? Just a few days after the made-for-Hollywood heist of a Coral Gables Bank of America — complete with a kidnapped teller with a bomb strapped to his chest — another gang of bandits knocked over a Wendy’s in Homestead last night in the…
Earlier this month, in “South Florida Living, Butcher Style,” New Times brought you the history of genocidal dictators and warlords who have fled to Miami after raping and pillaging their homelands. But there’s a flip side to that story: What happens to their countries, and all the victims left behind,…
A Miami PD SWAT team has surrounded a Bank of America near the University of Miami and shut down nearby Coral Gables streets as negotiators try to talk down an armed robber holding at least one hostage inside.UM sent students an alert about an hour ago warning them to stay…
