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• Surprisingly Sane: Miami Only Number 48 on Craziest Cities List

  ​We live in the weird news capital of the country, what sometimes goes on at city hall could be qualified as insane, and we're certainly home to more than a few out-of-this-world ch...

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• Fashion Miami Kicks Off With Gen Art Fresh Faces

  ​Click here to view photos from this event.Usually, Riptide cares as much about fashion as we do about feel-good stories, but we were sort of curious about the retooled Funkshion Fashion Week Mi...

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• DNC Jumps on Back Wax Gate with Web Ad

  The Democratic National Committee couldn't keep its paws off Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist's war of the wax, and produced this "rapid response" web ad to basically paint the Republican primary ra...

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• News Roundup: Unemployment Ties All Time High

  Forecaster predicts an "above normal" Hurricane season in 2010, with about two or three hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. [Herald]Florida is number three in total foreclosure filings. [Herald...

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• Sladewski Murder: Club Space Offers $15,000 Reward for Information

  Unfortunately, there hasn't been much news in the mysterious murder of 26-year-old aspiring model Paula Sladewski. Club Space hopes to change all of that by offering a $15,000 reward for informati...

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• The Circus is in Town: Suge Knight Brings Lawsuit Against Kanye West, Shore Club, to Miami Court

  ​In January 2009, bankrupt hip-hop chieftain Marion "Suge" Knight filed a lawsuit against Kanye West, claiming the rapper should be financially responsible for an unsolved 2005 shooting at ...

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• Over 2,000 Free Opera Tickets Up For Grabs

  ​These days, we'd be lucky if we could afford to see a soap opera on network TV, let alone an opera at the Arsht Center. But thanks to a grant from the Knight Foundation, even the unemployed now...

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• Americans Are Spending Less on Plastic Surgery

  ​Certain corners of the South Florida economy depend on a steady supply of new fake breasts, but spending on plastic surgery dropped 20 percent last year.America shelled out only $1...

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• Grovites are Mad The Herald Ignored Local Guy Ric O'Barry's Best Documentary Oscar

  ​The email arrived at the Miami Herald yesterday with some choice words about the paper's Oscar coverage. It came from Bob Ingram, a folk singer who has lived in Coconut Grove since the '60s. Her...

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• 305 Photo of the Day: Ah, The Rare Red Spotted Plastic Hippopotamus

  ​Today's photo, of an art installation at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, comes from DKeros' Flickr. If you'd like to see your photo here, join our Flickr group. ...

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