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Last Call Pub Crawl’s Halloween Event in the Grove (Photos)

You would have thought his past Saturday was October 31 with all the costumed revelers in Coconut Grove as part of the Last Call Pub Crawl's Halloween Crawl.The concept was simple: "Crawlers" hit a series of bars, usually four or five, all within walking distance of each other. One weekend...
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Eight Reasons ESPN Should Fire Skip Bayless

See that guy over there at the right? This is Skip. Skip is a troubled little man. He likes to yell a lot and he talks a great deal of nonsense, mostly while trying to resist the apparent temptation to take a sizable bite out of Stephen A. Smith's neck...
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Mugshots Friday: The Lost Romney Son and Jesus Condom

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...
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King Britt: “I Just Do What I Love, I Don’t Care About Trends”

By now, there's not much King Britt hasn't done musically in a career spanning almost three decades. As one of Philadelphia's electronic dance music pioneers, Britt enjoyed massive commercial success in the '90s, through his Sylk 130 project and as half of E-Culture with fellow luminary Josh Wink, with whom...
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Puerto Rican Referendum: 61 Percent of Voters Choose U.S. Statehood UPDATED

While Floridians were busy re-electing Barack Obama, voters in Puerto Rico yesterday participated in a referendum posing a fundamental question to their political status with the United States: statehood or no statehood?The first question on the two-part referendum asked voters if they wanted to change their relationship with the United...
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The Ten Weirdest Moments in Food: 2012

Looking back at 2012, we noticed a big trend -- weirdness. A lot of weird stuff happened in the food industry.From a fast-food joint with a political stance to a sweet grandma becoming an overnight sensation for a restaurant review, the food industry took a ride to crazytown this year.A...
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The No-Name Fish

It seems like only yesterday that the Miami Marlins were the toast of baseball. They had a new stadium, new uniforms, and an entire TV show revolving around them. Cue the salsa band! Then they had to actually play games, and the result has been a season of utter embarrassment...
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Poll: Obama Leads Among Florida Hispanics 61-31

Obama may not have done his reelection campaign any favors by pulling a Dan Carpenter-vs-the-Jets level chokejob in Wednesday's debate. But it's increasingly clear that, at least in Florida, the president has gotten a huge boost from his executive order in July halting deportations for some children of illegal immigrants.A...
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Students Rally Around Fired University of Miami Cafeteria Worker

University of Miami students are rallying around a school cafeteria worker who was dismissed from her job on October 10, the day after she let a man leave the cafeteria without paying. The worker, Betty Asbury, claims the man only used the restroom and did not eat or drink anything.Students...
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People Just Love Asking Google “Why Is Florida So Weird?”

The blog No Upside recently decided to put together an interactive map of the United States using Google's auto-complete search results. For all 50 states in the Union, No Upside asked Google, "Why is [State] so ... ?" to harvest the top four options suggested options. You shouldn't be surprised...