What do a Christian preschool, a pizzeria, a sod company, and the Tourist Office of Spain have in common?They’ve all been caught shortchanging their staff, according to documents obtained by the New Times. But thanks to the Miami-Dade’s new Wage Theft Program, those and 12 other companies have voluntarily paid…
Somewhere on the list of facts everyone should know comes “birds lay eggs.” That’s probably just after “the sky is blue” and “the earth is round” on the obvious scale. Somehow though, Miami-Dade Public Schools have failed immensely in imparting that knowledge onto one of its graduates. Of course, that…
Downtown Miami residents who love organic garbanzo beans and various imitations of snack foods made out of soy can breath a sigh of relief. The plan to bring a Whole Foods to the area is finally back on. Pop your bottles of Kombucha in celebration, yuppies…
Downtown Miami will see the construction of one of the first new major retail projects in years. Stiles Corp. announced plans to build a 57,200-square-foot, three-story shopping complex to be anchored by a Publix right on Biscayne Boulevard. That might be an encouraging sign for downtown development, but CBS4 is…
Miami’s streets are paved with assault weapons– but cash-strapped grifters keep stealing them to sell as scrap. In the East Redlands, a foreclosed development has had all of its manhole covers stolen, presumably by scrap peddlers who can get six cents a pound for them — or about $6 per…
We can not tell you how many times we’ve been in those sticky situations where we need some extra gold bars, but unfortunately wherever it is you go to get gold bars (the gold bar store?) is closed. We’re sure, like most regular citizens, you have the same exact problem…
We’re serious about getting as many LeBron jerseys– and any other items– from Cleveland in order to clothe the Miami homeless as we can. I mean, just look at that logo. And now we’re offering awesome seats to the December 15 American Airlines Arena showdown between the Cleveland Cavaliers and…
The Starlite Hotel — better known as that place next to Wet Willie’s where you keep waking-up naked on Sunday mornings — is under investigation for allegedly underpaying its staff.Ex-employees claim the Starlite Café, a restaurant attached to the hotel on Ocean Drive, stiffed them out of tens of thousands…
This week’s athlete heavy Twitter roundup includes Kory Sheet’s take on the sexual proclivities of Blackberry users, a Marlins player’s chill new faux-hawk, LeBron’s love of college football. Also, the only Republican left who supports gay rights wins an award from a gay Republican group, and some lady who occasionally…
Chris Bosh is officially a resident of Miami-Dade County. The Miami Heat star has bought a brand new seven-bedroom mansion along Miami Beach’s North Bay Road, according to The Herald. The modern looking pad designed by Touzet Studio, currently decked out in all-white, features a gourmet kitchen, gym, elevator, courtyard…
They say if you want something done right, you just gotta do it yourself. An inspired drive to deliver Cleveland’s unwanted Lebron James jerseys to our local homeless has been stalled by the Miami Coalition for the Homeless due to “politics”. Even Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado is said to have…
You might not have noticed, but the Magic City has a wee bit of a poverty crisis going on these days. Half the county is behind on its mortgage and Miami’s homeless can’t even get their hands on unwanted LeBron jerseys.So imagine our surprise when we caught wind of last…
Yesterday, Eric Fischer’s amazing Flickr set of maps illustrating the racial segregation and integration of various American city’s went viral. Using data from the 2000 census, Fischer’s maps illustrates racial segregation by using dots. Each dot represents 25 people of a certain race, with red representing Whites, yellow representing Hispanics…
That blindfolded chick holding the scales just made it rain justice on Rumeal Robinson. The former University of Michigan basketball hero and NBA journeyman– whose addiction to strip clubs was first exposed by this blog– has been convicted in Iowa federal court of fraud. The Aventura resident was indicted for…
Everyone has a Twitter these days, so it’s hard to keep up. Luckily for you Riptide has decided to start chronicling the best Miami-related Tweets each week. Of course, we’re not even up on all of Twitter. So if you think there’s a local VIP whose account we need to…
The unemployment rate in Miami-Dade county rose to a staggering 14.4 percent in the month of August, the Agency for Workforce Innovation reported today. That’s a full one percent jump since last month and a 2.8 percent jump since August 2009. Basically, 188,000 are hopelessly unemployed Lloyds and there’s not…
It seemed for a while that the worst for the Miami Herald may be over, but the paper just announced that they’re cutting 49 jobs across the Miami Herald Media Company. Nine of those positions will come from the Herald’s newsroom, with another six coming from El Nuevo Herald’s newsroom…
Nevin Shapiro, the colorful Miami Beach businessman who claims to have written a tell all book about the Miami Hurricanes from his jail cell, admitted the he was guilty of charges that he ran an $880 million Ponzi scheme. Shapiro used the money to fuel a lavish lifestyle, make donation…
No longer will we get to read the inner thoughts of Damien Berry or follow the sartorial misadventures of Jacory Harris. Miami Hurricanes football coach Randy Shannon has heard of this thing called “Twitter,” and he simply does not care for it. Apparently he thinks it’s distracting the team 140…
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…
The idea was simple genius. Heartbroken Clevelanders could send their unwanted LeBron James jerseys — those that weren’t in flames — to Miami to be distributed to the local homeless. But this being the summer of LeBron, things had to take a turn for the bizarre. The jersey drive –…
First Cubans broke Miami, then they fixed it up better than it was before, says globalization expert Saskia Sassen. Now, she says, Miami is a model for cities around the globe.”Before the 1990s, Miami was sort of a dreadful little spot, frankly,” Sassen tells Foreign Policy magazine. “There was lots…
