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…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez could soon be at odds with two major casino operators supporting his re-election run in 2012. That’s because a pair of state bills that would pave the way for three destination mega-resorts with full-scale casinos benefits one company while freezing out the other firm.Gimenez publicly supports…
What exactly was grunge? We know the early-’90s trend was some kind of rock ‘n’ roll. But were its adherents just the latest batch of unwashed punks or hippies? They kind of looked like both. And the music kind of sounded like both too.Grunge — both the dirge-y guitar tunes…
It’s the final countdown for North Bay Village Mayor Corina Esquijarosa. The Miami-Dade Elections Office has verified that a political action committee seeking a recall against Esquijarosa has obtained the required number of voter signatures to call an election.Citizens For Full Disclosure needed to get 440 John Hancocks in its…
Joe Rose, Jorge Sedano, Sid Rosenberg are racists
Reader mail: Ave Maria University is like rehab for smug Catholics
McDonald’s announced it was re-releasing it’s mystery-meat sandwich the McRib at all of its stores through November 14. Immediately, people went wild on Twitter to comment on the sandwich that causes such a devoted frenzy whenever the fast-food giant takes the pork-like sammy out for a spin. In fact, #McRib is…
Halloween is next Monday, and with it comes trick-or-treating and candy. Candy, by its very existence, is sweet, delicious, and created solely to make you feel good. So, of course, some genius decided that if you can mold candy into, say, a teddy bear, you can mold it into a…
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 wonders when Jacory Harris will get his due.The sports media in South Florida is really one-sided. None…
With a $417,000 campaign war chest, Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff is the top rainmaker of the five candidates running in next week’s November 1 election.The incumbent from Coconut Grove is also the guy who tells the biggest whoppers. To honor his preeminent status, Banana Republican has compiled Sarnoff’s top five…
Some illiterate little paper I had never heard of — and never hope to hear of again — the South Florida Chronicle — was reveling this morning in the fact that I had to lay off an employee a couple of weeks ago.Sorry, you simpletons. There were no big layoffs. One…
Urban Beach Weekend: Luke wants the party
Reader mail: Don’t blame 95 Express, blame drivers
Christopher Andrew Headley Miami Gardens murder
The executive editor of the Daily Business Review, Eddie Dominguez, is jumping ship.He sent out this email yesterday:”After a decade as executive editor of the Daily Business Review, I’ve decided to leave the DBR and journalism and take a short stroll up Brickell Avenue to City National Bank where I…
What a difference three months makes. In July, after New Times published a feature exposing a disastrous lack of oversight in a $150-million-a-year taxpayer-funded voucher program for disabled kids, Florida Department of Education honcho Michael Kooi said this newspaper “should be ashamed” of its reporting. Now, after getting grilled by…
Last time Raul Martinez ran for elected office, he got handed his only and worst defeat of his political career. He was part of a Democratic tag team that was supposed to topple the Diaz-Balart oligarchy controlling two of Miami’s Hispanic U.S. Congressional seats. The coup failed miserably and we…
This past September 8, 20-year-old Christopher Headley grabbed a cup of fruit punch and walked out the door of his uncle Paul Neil’s Miramar apartment. Fifteen hours later he was dead — shot four times in the head and chest.The really horrible thing about Chris’s death — which I detail…
Sometime toward the end of the second Dubya Bush term, we found ourselves on the back patio of a Downtown Miami nightclub in full-throttle Friday night mode. Inside the club, sweaty bodies writhed and wiggled all over each other like an overturned bucket of earthworms. Rightfully so, as the tunes…
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, Luke announces plans to reclaim Memorial Day Weekend on Miami Beach.Six months ago, a young man died and…
Remember when Madrid-born, Miami-raised pop star Enrique Iglesias broke onto the American music scene in the early 2000s? He had those sensitively angled brows, tastefully pumped-up muscles, and beautiful skin tanned to perfection by the South Florida sun. And that mole … Oh, the mole! He was a handsome young…
A family of real estate developers who avoided paying more than $100,000 in code violations in Homestead thanks to Mayor Steve Bateman sure knows how to spoil the city’s elected officials. Through various corporations they own, Eduardo, Fred, and Larry Abbo also contributed $5,500 to Vice-Mayor Judy Waldman’s reelection campaign…
