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…
Now we know why Mitt Romney released a last minute campaign ad in South Florida trying to link Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro to Barack Obama. It was a desperation.Romney knew he had to to stave off the biggest surprise of the presidential election in Florida: Nearly half of Miami-Dade’s…
Carlos Miller: Not guilty! As one of Miami’s most fervent free speech activists, Miller was facing a criminal misdemeanor of resisting arrest stemming from a tussle with one particular member of Miami-Dade Police Department’s finest on January 31.While filming county and City of Miami cops clearing out Occupy Miami protesters…
Jermaine, America’s umpteenth most popular Jackson, is considering a homophonic surname switch. Michael’s barely relevant celebrity brother has filed a name-change petition in Los Angeles, according to TMZ. And yeah … Jermaine Jackson wants to legally become “Jermaine Jacksun” for “artistic reasons.” The artist formally known as Jermaine Jackson released…
Voter Suppression: Is Mayor Carlos Gimenez Like Fidel Castro?
Reader Mail: Don’t Mock Jesus on the New Times Cover
“What’s your favorite restaurant?” That question got us all thinking. If we had to choose one top dog at gunpoint, what would it be and why? Recently Short Order bloggers began celebrate their favorite eateries — be they celebrity-chef-driven or a neighborhood hole-in-the wall. Why? Because we’re tired of having…
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…
Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are ready. The two have been giving their visions for what the country will look like if they take 270 or more of the total 538 votes in the Electoral College. If Republicans take back the White House, here’s a list of what might…
In what might be another sign of the coming apocalypse, wait times for early voting stretched into an appalling four, six, even eight hours this past weekend. Blood sugar dropped. Sunburn reigned supreme. Adults and kids alike could be seen doing the potty dance. (Even dudes on a chain gang…
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. This week, Luke assesses the election debacle in Florida.On the last Saturday of early voting, my wife and I stood in…
Biscayne Park seemed like the perfect place for Maria Elena Molina to raise her son. Tucked between North Miami and Miami Shores, the Village of Biscayne Park is a 3,500-person community of rustic single-family homes, an Episcopal church, a recreation center, and a 1934 log cabin that’s home to the…
As the 2012 presidential election in Miami-Dade County spirals into calamity, alcalde fuerte Carlos Gimenez is doing nothing to stop another embarrassing, national indictment of our Banana Republic’s voting system. Despite long lines of voters who waited two-to-six hours to cast their ballots during the eight days of early voting,…
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…
As the fifth day of early voting gets underway, the Florida Division of Elections says Democrats have opened a significant lead over Republicans in total ballots cast, by a 48,600 margin. Overall, Democrats have 118,000 more early votes than the GOP. With the Nov. 6 election five days away, 30…
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has issued an open letter to Disney requesting the company stop allowing the images of its characters to be used on the packaging of holiday treats such as cookies and candy.According to the Center, offending products include Pillsbury Halloween cookies featuring…
Donna Shalala Must Ease Up on UM Football
2012 Presidential Election Isn’t About Race
Korean pop is about the most anti-American facet of pop culture in existence today, depending who you ask. In September, we brought you the story of Cooper Cap, a ginger patriot who demanded that overnight K-Pop sensation Psy get his “shit culture out of ours” in a YouTube video. “We…
Yesterday, while Julio Rodriguez waited in line to cast his ballot at the John F. Kennedy library, the Hialeah voter noticed his city’s mayor stumping for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. No big deal right? Wrong.Carlos Hernandez was ignoring a local election law that prohibits people from campaigning within 100…
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. This week, Luke assesses the sorry state of Hurricanes football.It is University of Miami Coach Al Golden’s second year on…
There’s a bit of an uproar over California’s Proposition 37 scheduled for the November 6 ballot. Another twenty states are considering similar measures.It’s a simple proposition requiring that all genetically altered foods be labeled as such. Genetic modification can mean anything from manipulating the genes of a tomato to cloning…
