Welcome to Short Order Show & Tell, where one of us brings a local delicacy to our weekly staff meeting, and we all weigh in on its deliciousness.Today we test out the notion of ice cream for breakfast with The Frieze’s “Grapenuts ‘N’ Raisins,” one of the more intriguing flavors…
By a three to two vote, an Ecuadorian court last week upheld a $42 million verdict against journalist Emilio Palacio and three others. All work for El Universo, that nation’s largest newspaper. And all were sentenced to jail for a column Palacio wrote that severely criticized the president…
A possible conflict has forced Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to sit out the awarding of a $50 million contract to a local construction company that employs his son Julio and uses his other son Carlos Jr. as its lobbyist. Munilla Construction Management submitted the lowest bid out of seven firms…
Miami-Dade commissioners, in one of those crazy late night donnybrooks, passed a $6 billion budget Friday morning, but kept their cozy office deals and proposed to cut back on cops and other public employee salaries.That is what I call hypocrisy.According to this morning’s Herald story, the commissioners held onto a…
Team Breezy isn’t just a gang of crazy wife-beaters and delusional, masochistic teenaged girls. All types — tweens, thugs, and grandmas alike — revel in Chris Brown’s immense talents, even after he slugged Rihanna, trashed Good Morning America’s studio, and spewed homophobic slurs at the paparazzi. Of course, no one…
The public corruption unit at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office is getting quite a makeover. Longtime unit chief Joe Centorino will soon depart to take on a new gig as executive director of the Miami-Dade ethics commission. And assistant state attorney Richard Scruggs is now working the gang detail, Banana…
Genting casino will kill Miami and Miami Beach
Reader mail: “Eminem is the greatest rapper alive”
One Million Moms has an issue with Schweddy Balls.Moms, an online branch of right-wing, conservative, pro-life American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Mississippi, has taken umbrage with Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls Ice Cream. On their website they claim: “Ben & Jerry’s announced their newest ice cream flavor which sounds…
In the wake of the recent Nocturnal nightclub shooting that killed one, hospitalized others, and sent hundreds stampeding through Downtown Miami, we found evidence of stabbings and shootings at another area establishment, the Cafe Society (1994 NW Third Ave., Miami), way back in 1948. The front page of the Miami…
In the beginning, Domo Genesis dropped Rolling Papers, an ode to getting high in the guise of mixtape. Pardon the pun, but it was dope. Now, Odd Future’s squinty-eyed stoner is back with a new mixtape, Under the Influence. Yesterday afternoon at 4:20 p.m., Domo released his sophomore effort via…
Luther “Luke” Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Campbell explains why the Genting Group, the Malaysian gambling company that bought the Miami Herald and Omni properties,…
Some things are so good they should not be f*cked with: Starsky and Hutch, rum and Coke, mugshots and Fridays.But rules are made to be broken, especially random-ass Riptide rules. So we present you with a special midweek, Gulf Coast edition of Mugshots Friday Tuesday.Today’s version is devoted entirely to…
A Miami-Dade County Public Schools principal credited with turning around a storied inner-city high school’s academic performance is under investigation for illegally changing student grades. The allegation against Charles Hankerson is the latest black eye for Miami Northwestern High School, which earlier this year was almost shut down by state…
Back in the day (circa 1998), an underground rap slab hit the streets and it was called Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star. The duo behind this record — Black Star, consisting obviously enough of Brooklyn MCs Mos Def and Talib Kweli — took its core concepts (and…
Welcome to Short Order Show & Tell, where one of us brings a local delicacy to our weekly staff meeting, and we all weigh in on its deliciousness.Today’s experiment was German Fruit Bread from Crackerman Crackers in Bay Harbor Islands. The tasting started out well enough, except for one thing…
Golden Beach Police Officer Robert Ruggeiro proves eating too many doughnuts kills brain cells. A few days ago, during a traffic stop of a dude who was using a cellphone camera to video record him and another officer, Ruggeiro claimed it was a felony in Florida to film cops without…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
The Port of Miami Tunnel might be a boondoggle, but its construction continues apace. With a giant drill now in place, the big dig begins next month. The debate is now over where to dump the tons of crud. Environmentalists don’t want it on Virginia Key, where a port contractor…
Jay-Z and Eminem top Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and Drake
Reader mail: “Global warming no longer exists!”
From Brooklyn to the Sunshine State, rapper J’lynn Irving, who simply goes by J’lynn, splits his time between New York City and the South Florida suburbs. Three years ago, J’lynn moved to SoFla with his mom and started working on his rap career. Influenced by fellow New Yorkers like Jay-Z,…
