Buju Banton, it seems, has a gaping, cavernous mineshaft of a hole to dig out of in federal court in Tampa: the feds have hours of taped conversations with the reggae star talking about cocaine, quoting detailed worldwide prices for cocaine, and even visiting a warehouse and sampling a few…
Gibson Belizaire: Victim or criminal?
Tea Partiers in Doral: Who are these people?
This morning, an appeals court in Miami declared Florida’s three-decade old ban on gays adopting children unconstitutional in a unanimous decision. The law — which we at Riptide like to call the Rentboy Memorial Statute — is headed to the state’s Supreme Court for an appeal. In fact, the judges…
It’s already been a busy week for the drug that made Miami — or at least for the feds’ perpetual war on the white stuff. First, the DEA arrested 10 people, mostly from Miami and Hialeah, and charged them with organizing a ring shuttling coke from Juarez to South Florida.Then…
Standing before a row of undocumented Miami-Dade College students downtown this morning, Senate hopeful Kendrick Meek urged Congress to pass a long-debated bill that would give college graduates and military members a quick path to full citizenship. Democrats plan to attach the DREAM Act to a defense bill this week,…
Inside the haute Doral Golf Resort & Spa, Ron Martin’s huge vinyl sign leaps out from the clutter in the Taking America Back conference exhibitors’ hall.Past slick booths selling Ron Paul-approved gold bars and offering “patriot coaching” — a two-day boot camp teaching the fine art of “turning the tables…
Do you love arguing about the liberal socialist agenda to destroy America but wish you could quote the Constitution in a more nautical setting? Do you love cruising the Caribbean, but think constantly about how much more you would love it if you could share those golden sunsets with Tea…
If your daily commute takes you through Doral — and may god have mercy upon your soul for that — you may notice some unusual sights around the exclusive Doral Golf and Spa Resort this morning: grown men dressed in colonial-era britches; hastily drawn signs equating Obama to socialism; Michele…
Miami cop at People’s Bar-B-Que scares patrons
Latin American dictators love South Florida
Robert Barker, a 41-year-old from Leesburg, was apparently none to pleased when his teenage stepson had to bow out of a youth football game over the weekend due to the blistering heat. His solution? Set up cones in the front yard and make the kid run some sprints — while…
Shamed by Hugo Chavez’s 800,000 faithful followers and then really red-faced when North Korea’s regime beat them to the punch, Israel decided last month that it was finally time to give this whole Twitter business a try.The only problem? The @israel handle was already taken — by a Miami-based porn…
Miguel Rodriguez and his wife, Barbara, were waiting for some barbecue after work on a Friday afternoon late last year when all hell broke loose inside People’s Bar-B-Que in Overtown.A screaming man dressed head to toe in black charged the busy take-out counter, wielding a handgun sideways, gangsta-style. Rodriguez, a…
Anyone who’s spent an afternoon on Key Biscayne or climbed the island’s lighthouse has seen them: the cluster of mysterious wooden houses, hugging the horizon, absurd and alluring in the middle of the sea. The ramshackle frames are all that remains of Stiltsville, a colony of homes built in Biscayne…
Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for The Atlantic Magazine, has been busy this week dominating the the Miami Herald’s front page with strategically released scoops from his extraordinary interview with Fidel Castro — the first given to an American since el commandante’s grave illness four years ago. So far he’s dropped…
Biscayne Park finance director Michael Arciola under fire for old sexual complaints
What the hell has gotten into Fidel? First, the long-time antagonist of Israeli foreign policy took a big whack at Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, demanding that he “stop slandering the Jews.”Now, in a new interview just published online, Fidel seems to flat out admit that the fruits of his revolution…
Back in March, we were the first to detail local author Frank Owen’s charges that Gerald Posner had plagiarized dozens of passages in his latest book, Miami Babylon, from Owen’s 2003 book Clubland. The case opened the floodgates on what looks like Posner’s career-long habit of filching words and led…
NASCAR fans are not, as a whole, noted for their elevated views on race relations, but the richest owner on the circuit is putting even his most sunburned, Busch-swigging fan to shame.Bruton Smith, a billionaire with a strong and unfortunate resemblance to Don Rickles, is demanding that NASCAR end its…
Twenty years ago, Michael Arciola was at the center of a firestorm in Lauderhill. The city’s mayor accused the then-41-year-old finance director of sexually harassing a clerk, a problem for which he’d apparently been reprimanded twice before.That fight is ancient history, but today it’s kicking up a fresh storm in…
Bad news for the Miami Herald: its top political reporter, Beth Reinhard, is heading to D.C. to write for the National Journal magazine. Reinhard, a South Florida native who has been with the Herald since 1998, will be the Journal’s new chief political correspondent.The only good news for the Herald?…
