• Most Recent
• Highest Rated
• Hot Comments

Riptide 2.0

• Miami's Big Orange New Year's Festival Will Be Called "La Gran Naranja" This Year and White People Are Super Upset About It

  Every year, the City of Miami hoists a giant neon orange up the side of the Hotel InterContinental in downtown and drops it at the stroke of midnight. The thing is creatively called "The Big Oran...

  Continue reading "Miami's "Big Orange" Will Be Called "La Gran'" [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo Called Police Chief to Get out of a Traffic Ticket

  A City Commissioner calling the chief of police to get out of a traffic ticket is that kind of trite, light public corruption people joke about, but you never actually hear anyone getting punishe...

  Continue reading "Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo Called Police Chief to Get out" [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• 305 Photo of the Day: Little Big Boy

  Today's photo comes from HelloImScott's Flickr. If you'd like to see your photo here join our Flickr group.Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes. ...

  Continue reading "305 Photo of the Day: Little Big Boy" > ' [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Carnival Cruises Apologizes and Reverses Drag Ban on Drag Queen Cruise

  Facing a growing backlash after telling passengers who were set to sail on a themed cruise featuring cast members from RuPaul's Drag Race that they themselves could not wear drag, Carnival Cruise...

  Continue reading "Carnival Cruises Apologizes, Reverses Drag Ban on Drag Queen Cruise" > ' [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Jeb Bush Totally, Sorta, Maybe Hints He Might Run for President in 2016 ... Possibly

  Jeb Bush spent most of the past four years denying that he would run for president ...in 2012. He literally never missed an opportunity to tell anyone who would listen in no uncertain terms that ...

  Continue reading "Jeb Bush Totally, Sorta, Maybe Hints He Might" [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Miami-Dade College Really Overestimates the Importance of Rumer Willis

  Riptide just got the latest issue of Leap magazine, and we eagerly thumbed through it. It's only the hottest junk mail promotional material sent out by Miami Dade College, who would dear miss an ...

  Continue reading "Miami Dade College Really Overestimates the Importance of Rumer'" [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• A Mystery Bathtub is Sitting in the Waters Off of South Beach

  Remember two years ago when a grand piano ended up sitting in the middle of Biscayne Bay? Yeah, well now the waters of Miami contain a new mystery object. A bathtub has mysteriously found itself ...

  Continue reading "A Mystery Bathtub Is Sitting On A Jetty" [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Miami Heat Looking to Renew Sweetheart AAA Lease 18 Years Early

  The Miami Heat's lease on the American Airlines Arena doesn't expire for another 18 years, but the team has informed Miami-Dade County that they'd already like to tack an additional 10 years onto...

  Continue reading "Miami Heat Looking to Renew Sweetheart AAA Lease 18 Years Early" [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• DJ Laz Overcame Tragedy and Disability to Conquer Miami's Airwaves. Now He's Going National

  For this week's cover story, I profiled Lazaro Mendez, AKA DJ Laz, the booty bass pioneer and FM radio personality who provided the soundtrack to thousands of teenagers growing up in south Flori...

  Continue reading "DJ Laz Overcame Tragedy and Disability to Conquer Miami's Airwaves. Now" [...]
  Share  |  Rate

• Deion Sanders Recruiting Scandal Is Full Of Hypocrisy

  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 defends a flamboyant for...

  Continue reading "Deion Sanders Recruiting Scandal Is Full Of Hypocrisy" [...]
  Share  |  Rate