Seventy-two cats have been killed and 14 have died after an outbreak of disease at the Miami-Dade Animal Shelter. About 40 more healthy felines have been been moved r due to the disease, which is called panleukopenia. A group called Undercats 4 Life is attempting to find homes for some 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…
It’s embarrassing to admit, but Crossfade isn’t any closer to deducing the identity of the “anonymous owner” threatening to release a sex tape featuring ’90s West Coast gangsta rap martyr Tupac Shakur. Our drive to apprehend the culprit is insatiable. And while constantly refreshing the internet’s most tawdry gossip sites,…
You ever watch Beaches with your mom or Titanic with a girlfriend? Those weepy bitches have nothing on X Factor’s contestants and judges. The entire show is just people crying and being inspirational and then crying again. Last night, tryouts ended and boot camp began. Once the finalists are chosen,…
Steve Jobs is not normally associated with food. You don’t know where he goes to dinner, his favorite coffee shop, or find him on top chefs’ lists. Surprisingly, aside from dramatically changing the entertainment and media industry, he’s had the greatest effect on the food industry.
Although we thought our semi-apologist essay on budding R&B legend Chris Brown would allow us some leeway with Team Breezy. We were wrong. Last night, instead of heading inside to watch Brown float across the audience, singing and dancing, we were only allowed outside of the American Airlines Arena to speak with…
Reader mail: Genting casino will help Miami’s economy
Lil Wayne, Puff Daddy, and DJ Khaled get a deadline
A watchdog agency is accusing Charles Hankerson, once considered a no-nonsense principal, of instructing a subordinate to illegally forge the signatures of two teachers at Miami Northwestern Senior High. The forgeries were made on documents that changed the grades of a student-athlete. This allowed the teenager to meet academic eligibility requirements…
Media Take Out is basically the wild, wild West of Internet gossip. “The most visited urban website in the world” trades freely in outrageous claims. OK, its top headlines right now include questioning Tupac’s heterosexuality, praising Kanye’s oral sex technique, and implying that Busta Rhymes has herpes. Miami reality star Evelyn Lozada…
Five Republican candidates — including Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, and Rick Perry — have pulled out of a Univision debate in January. Why? Allegedly it is because of a comment the head of the blockbuster Spanish-language channel made to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s people while attempting to blackmail the senator…
Back in June, we were treated to the inner world of that most annoying breed of restaurant-goer — the Yelper. In Funny or Die’s parody, we’re treated to Tricia and Johanna Yelping about everything from the disappointing sunset to their own apartment (‘weird smell, cat not attentive”)…
You’ve probably seen Burger King’s latest commercial featuring their newest dessert options including one that looks a lot like McDonald’s McFlurry. The commercial, of course, is fairytale in nature featuring a Willy Wonka portrayal of the soft serve and its accompaniments of flowing chocolate, rich brownies and sunny peaches. Enticing? It got us to interested in comparing it to the iconic McFlurry.
It’s great to have Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman as a pal when you don’t want to pay a city bill. Consider the case of Prime Home Builders, a company owned by a family of real estate developers that has donated more than five grand to Bateman’s re-election campaign. On November 16,…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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 doesn’t like how Lil Wayne and DJ Khaled use Miami but don’t give back to the Magic City…
In the hot-as-balls summer of 2009, three dudes from New York City — rappers Himanshu “Heems” Suri and Victor “Kool A.D.” Vazquez, and hype guy Ashok “Dapwell” Kondabolu — banded together under the vaguely ominous moniker Das Racist, made some beats, spit some rhymes, smoked way too much weed, and…
Each week’s edition of Show & Tell gets more adventurous. It’s organ time! Usually ceviche is the first dish that comes to mind when thinking of Peruvian food, at least for nonnatives. That’s what some Short Order writers thought even before the white Styrofoam box was opened; they were in…
Alex Izaguirre The only way Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross can salvage this season is if he convinces John Gruden to leave the Monday Night Football television booth. The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head man is the only candidate out there who can come in and quickly fix the shit storm…
Just when you thought “How To Love” — Lil Wayne’s big nasty ball o’ cheese ballad and lead single from his dismal Tha Carter IV — couldn’t get any worse …. Tween-pop sensation and women’s jeans fanatic Justin Bieber has recorded his own remix of Weezy’s corniest track ever. The…
A Florida commission appointed by Republicans will likely vote today to move up the state’s Republican primary election to January 31.Though party muckety-mucks are still working on a compromise that could delay the election until February 21, the decision will probably create chaos.Given last week’s victory of Godfather’s Pizza founder…
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…
It was a huge challenge to narrow down the hundreds of annoying things about last night’s X Factor to a nice, tight ten. But we did it! The auditions continued in Chicago and Seattle. We sat through two hours of clips of people with a small amount of talent competing…
