Following multiple stories from Riptide about the Miami Heat refusing to share profits from the American Airlines Arena with county taxpayers who subsidize the place, Miami-Dade Inspector General Christopher Mazzella has apparently decided that someone should try to verify how much the team is actually making. We’ve now confirmed that…
Your regular Mugshots Friday programming is cancelled because we simply cannot continue when one of the mugshots is of a guy covered in mysterious powder. It wouldn’t be fair to the other mugshots. Travis Williams (click photo to enlarge) was arrested on Wednesday for disorderly conduct/breach of the peace, which…
Silently judging other people is one of my top ten favorite activities of all time, but I was still a bit nervous when I found out I’d been called for the very first time to the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building to serve my civic duty of jury service.Well, yesterday…
I remember going out on a date from hell about nine years ago. The guy, who’s name I couldn’t remember if a gun was pressed to my head, took me out to a very nice dinner at One If By Land, Two If By Sea in New York…and proceeded to…
Miami-Dade County’s new mayor has become quite the rain maker. According to his most recently filed campaign finance report, Carlos Gimenez raised $419,985 between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 of last year for his reelection run. His political action committee, Common Sense Now, raked in another $89,750. County Commission Chairman…
Mitt Romney is racist
Kitchen Confidential Earn your keep: Your story about working undercover as a waiter and food truck worker around Miami (“You Got Served,” Laine Doss, January 5) demonstrates why service here is so bad. If the majority of the servers are like the people in this article, it’s easy to see…
Luther 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 rates the racist credentials of the Republican Party presidential nominees. What happened to the party of Abraham Lincoln?…
It’s been entirely too long, 14 years since a Monica and Brandy collaboration. However, the wait may soon be over. “The Boy Is Mine” divas spent this past weekend inside a Miami studio laying down vocals for “Turn the Lights On,” a track off Monica’s forthcoming record, New Life. Monica…
Did you hear about O’Grime’s New Year’s Resolution? Yes, dude, that O’Grime. The big-in-Lithuania, “Kush Smoke and Pussy” guys. Word on the street (and by street, we mean Facebook Chat) is that in 2012 O’Grime is not actually going to give a single fuck. Not one. You didn’t see it…
With a slew of national musical acts filling seats, and LeBron James and Chris Bosh propelling the Miami Heat to the NBA Finals, the American Airlines Arena brought in a record-breaking $60 million in revenue in 2011. Yet for the 13th straight year, the Heat won’t be sharing any of…
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…
“The grocery store has become a Tower of Babel,” said Louis Sullivan back in 1990. “Consumers need to be linguists, scientists, and mind readers to understand the many labels they see.”Sullivan at the time was Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and he instructed the FDA to…
Yesterday, Miami’s largest business organization put its support behind destination casino resorts, which should please its new landlord. The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution to back the proposed state casino bill that might allow Malaysian-based Genting to turn the site of the Miami Herald and the Omni…
Even the simple act of hiring a company to lay down asphalt can turn political.Today, Miami-Dade County commissioners are supposed to vote on giving a $1 million contract to General Asphalt Inc., to resurface roads. The company won the deal after its competitor, H & J Paving, was disqualified by…
Reader mail: Upscale-burger-joint trend needs to go
Black quarterbacks have no role models in the NFL
We’ve never really bought into Xavier Suarez’s hokey, at times egomaniacal, approach to governing. And it’s difficult to get past the fact he is forever linked to the 1997 Miami mayoral voter fraud scandal that had dead people casting ballots. That said, the X-Man has devised a bold plan to…
The lowest point of Cee Lo Green’s year? If you ask most people, it was July 17, 2011, when the ex-Goodie Mob member, “Crazy” crooner, and co-“coach” on NBC’s The Voice got miffed about a concert review by City Pages’ Andrea Swenson and promptly unleashed a can of homophobic whoop-ass…
Luther 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 addresses why African-American NFL quarterbacks don’t have any heroes to look up to. In baseball, African-American players can…
Banana Republican is not buying into the notion that a big Mayan-predicted asteroid will pulverize sunny South Florida in 2012, but we’re willing to make some other pretty bold predictions:Real estate developer Jorge M. Perez will realize he’s a lot less rich than he thought, so he’ll rescind his $35…
In the past year, parimutuel and casino companies have contributed over a million dollars to state legislators and Republican political action committees as the gambling industry gears up for a combative legislative session in 2012. The stakes are high. State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff and Rep. Erik Fresen have drafted two…
