Humans, it seems, will eat just about anything. We eat cows, pigs, ducks, chickens, and fish all the time and think nothing of it. In other countries people eat insects, lizards, snakes, rodents and even our family pet, the dog.Since Travel Channel launched No Reservations and Bizarre Foods, the practice…
Will we get slammed by the first hurricane of the season that appears to be headed our way? Doesn’t look like it. But then again…Irene will get stronger. Forecasters thought yesterday it would hit Haiti and slow down a bunch. But it now appears that after Puerto Rico, it will…
A highly successful county-run boot camp for juvenile offenders could be shut down because of budget cuts. “Every year, this program is on the chopping block,” says Bertila Soto, the associate administrative judge for Miami-Dade Criminal Court. “This boot camp is vital. It is the only youth rehabilitation program of…
Carlos Gimenez is wasting no time gearing up for his re-election run in 2012. As the mayor makes the rounds promoting his first county budget, his political action committee Common Sense Now is hard at work twisting arms and raising money.But a prominent Republican Brickell Avenue attorney could end up…
Frankie, the 13-year-old son of Real Housewives of Miami star Alexia Echevarria who often appeared on the show alongside his mother, is recovering from a serious car crash this past weekend. Multiple sources say the injuries were quite serious, and the boy underwent pelvic surgery yesterday…
A couple days ago, we wrote a post that referred would-be Senator Marielena Stuart and Ave Maria, a place west of here that just might be the most Christian community in the Western hemisphere. Patricia Sette, editor of of the (secular) news site for the town, The Ave Herald, took…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week 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 series…
Uncle Luke, 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. In this special edition, Luke calls for an end to NCAA rules prohibiting athletes from making money.Since it was founded in…
Last Thursday, we reported on the odd coincidence that a marketing consultant working on Marc Sarnoff’s re-election campaign shared the same business address as the private law practice of the Miami city commissioner.Our post prompted Sarnoff’s wife Theresa to submit an amendment to his most recent quarterly finance report changing…
Yesterday, we finally heard Donna Shalala comment on Hurricane Nevin, the category 5 storm of a man who released the Kraken on her and Canes nation. You’d think a lady who worked in the Clinton Administration would know how to do a little damage control. Instead, the University of Miami…
Uncle Luke loves Lady Gaga
Reader mail: Perhaps this Tea Party has more than the usual share of kooks
Scam artist Nevin Shapiro’s allegations detailed in Yahoo! Sports might end the University of Miami football program. Or maybe not. As New Times showed this past December in a lengthy magazine-style piece, Shapiro is “the epitome of a Magic City con artist: a hard-partying, tasteless, status-obsessed gambler with a lust for…
Nevin Shapiro wishes he could wear my shorts for one day. The New Jersey-born Napoleon dubbed himself “Little Luke” in a so-called investigative report by Yahoo! Sports claiming all sorts of corrupt shit Shapiro committed while he was a booster of the University of Miami athletics program.The claims even include…
To sidestep union demands and deal with its burgeoning financial crisis, the City of Miami declared a situation of financial urgency. It is the second straight year the city has done this. The idea stinks. (The text of Martinez’s declaration follows the jump.) It gives the union 14 days to…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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, Luke expounds on the greatness of Lady Gaga.In this age of digital media, when you can download any…
Last night, noise swami Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra appeared to Crossfade in a strange dream.He didn’t say anything. But even if he did, it would have been drowned out by the sound of his hands (which were, uh, made of broccoli) forcing his four-string telecaster to cry out in tongues.Skull-cap…
Sometimes lawyers are better off giving nosy reporters a “no comment.” Thankfully, Kent Harrison Robbins had plenty to say about the VIP decals distributed by Beach Towing, one of two universally reviled towing companies in Miami Beach.Robbins, who represents the company, says Beach Towing has handed out “thousands” of decals…
Editor’s Note: In this blog post, Miami New Times did not imply or intend to imply that Beach Towing violated the law by distributing VIP parking decals. Beach Towing’s attorney says the decals identify “the owners of vehicles who reside at certain condominiums in contrast to persons who are parked…
We don’t know who Gary Shirley is. We don’t know why a show sensationalizing the exploits of poor, uneducated teenagers clearly unfit to be parents is so popular. We don’t know why anyone connected to this show has $5,000 and then would blow it all at a strip club. We…
Jovens Esperance. The name sounds so innocent, like something Salma Hayek might whisper into your ear on a lazy Sunday morning. Or like the name of a Catalan charity devoted to taking thugs from the streets of Barcelona and turning them into five-star restaurateurs.Chef! This soufle is delicious. My compliments!Don’t…
Jack McKeon, the 80-year-old interim manager of the Florida Marlins, is Riptide’s interim semiregular columnist. This week’s topic: the San Francisco Giants. I was on the bullpen phone with Corny the other day when he reminded me that San Francisco is coming to town. I just about barfed my chaw…
