Ever had a sinking feeling that something isn’t quite right while surveying the beers at your grocery store? Sure, the selection is fine — maybe not as many local craft beers as you’d like to see, but hey, this is Miami after all. But wait. Why are all the beers…
Rejoice, everyone who frantically slams the gas whenever a yellow light pops up (AKA every single driver in Miami-Dade): A bill that would forbid cities from using red-light cameras narrowly passed its first test in Tallahassee yesterday. While Riptide supports any plan to ax the cameras, it’s worth noting that…
Talk about trying to turn lemons into lemonade. Or at least into handsome water bottles to keep your lemonade cold.Yes, after Tuesdays’ embarrassing “Watergate” flap, Marco Rubio is now literally selling water bottles with his name on them…
During President Obama’s State of the Union address he honored Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old North Miami Beach resident who waited hours in line to vote, as a symbol of voter’s rights issues. Of course, leave it to Fox News to mock her.Fox and Friends’ Brian Kilmeade hosts a radio show…
Another reason why being chosen to give the State of the Union rebuttal is a thankless task: You’re guaranteed to get made fun of on The Daily Show.Or as Jon Stewart put it last night, “The State of the Union rebuttal is most often handed to a rising party star,…
Last night, Florida Senator Marco Rubio was tasked with the high profile but ultimately thankless job of delivering the opposing party’s response to the State of the Union. These things are almost always awkward (remember Bobby Jindal’s Kenneth the Page delivery a few years back?), and never match the intensity…
One of Norman Braman’s main beefs with the Marlins shady stadium deal was that the public never got to directly vote on the matter. Though, the fact that Dolphins are supporting a public vote on their quest to get tax money to fund a portion of their planned upgrades to…
Marco Rubio — the Tea Party’s wunderkind, GOP’s great not-too-white hope, and water’s most awkward chugger — had his moment in the national spotlight last night, delivering a rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union speech in both English and Spanish. The reviews are in, ranging from the Daily…
Finally! Frivolous legislation out of Tallahassee we can finally get behind!State Sen. Darren Soto, an Orlando-area Democrat, has filed legislation that would keep Florida on daylight-saving time (DST) all year long…
Marco Rubio may be delivering the Republican response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight, but he won’t be the only local face you’ll see on TV. Desiline Victor, age 102, has been chosen to sit with First Lady Michelle Obama during the proceedings…
In an article teasing “the Miami hotel that could pick the next president,” BuzzFeed has done its best to paint Miami’s Republican power base as a nighttime soap opera featuring the brewing battle between two favorite sons, all centered on the glamorous Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. They’ve even illustrated…
Marco Rubio continues to be everywhere this week, including peering out at you from the news stand on the cover of Time magazine. The last remaining major news weekly splashed “The Republican Savior” in big, bold yellow letters across the Florida Senator, but Rubio has taking issue with the characterization. …
Any doubts that the Republican party is pinning all hopes of recouping Hispanic voters on Miami’s own Sen. Marco Rubio should be dispelled by the news out this morning: Rubio isn’t just going to deliver his party’s rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union speech next Tuesday, he’ll be…
Everyone thinks Jeb Bush should have presidential ambitions, but apparently last summer he was more interested in another one of his brother’s old jobs: Major League Baseball team owner. According to the Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson, Bush put together a group of investors and tried to buy the Marlins from…
Yesterday, Sen. Marco Rubio released his Spotify playlist on the world. It got us thinking about the musical tastes of other Florida politicians. We don’t really expect Gov. Rick Scott to be dropping his mixtape anytime soon, so through the wonderful powers of satire, Riptide has imagined what that mixtape might include. …
In further a effort to prove he’s totally hip and with it, Sen. Marco Rubio sat down with Buzzfeed, a .GIF site with some political reporters, to discuss a wide ranging series of topics over beer with editor Ben Smith. Rubio discussed a number of issues, including his belief that gay…
The Miami Dolphins won their first legislative battle in a war to secure taxpayer money to cover half of the planned $400 million upgrades to Sun Life Stadium this morning as the bill passed its first Senate committee unanimously. …
Marco Rubio may be on his way to being one of the most powerful men in Washington, DC, but that doesn’t mean he’s lost his common touch. Florida’s junior senator unleashed his latest Spotify playlist on the world, and his music taste is pretty much that of an average Y100…
On the same day Rick Scott’s secretary of state issued a plan to avoid a repeat of November’s catastrophic voting delays, a Miami commissioner put out his own, more radical idea: Printing Dade County’s ballots in a single language, instead of the lengthy documents in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.Don’t…
Our own Senator Spacesnakes is apparently one of the biggest bad asses in all of Washington D.C. He’s been named by U.S. News and World Reports as one of the top ten “toughest” politicians in America. …
Say bye, bye to Marco Rubio. He’ll no longer be your neighbor. The superstar junior Senator has decided to sell his Miami home, and will move his wife and kids to Washington, D.C. according to The Daily Caller…
So, remember that flap over Gov. Rick Scott adopting a shelter dog, naming it Reagan, using it for campaign publicity, and then dumping it on another family as soon as he was inaugurated? Yes, we know it’s hard to keep Rick Scott scandals straight.Well, its appears to have cost Brian…
