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• Miami vs. USF: Who Will Emerge as the Second Best Team in Florida?

  ​On this Thanksgiving weekend USF fans better be thankful for all the opportunities Miami, inadvertently or not, have given the insurgent Bulls in their short history. Our exit from the Big East g...

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• Silicon Beach: Geek Gift Ideas for the Holidays

  ​Today is Black Friday, the nation's biggest retail shark feeding. If you don't feel like getting mauled by other shoppers in the malls today, you've still got time to find a special holiday gift...

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• Scared Stiff: In Miami-Dade, Back-Alley Beauticians Will Straighten Your Hair With Formaldehyde

  Andressa is a perky traveling beautician who specializes in Brazilian hair straightening. Sure, she uses formaldehyde -- found in embalming fluid -- to make curls straight as straw. And, ...

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• Silicon Beach: Social Media For Social Change Helps Local Charity

  ​Riptide already introduced readers to Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) when we interviewed Robert Murray (@robertmurray) earlier this month. At long last, the Camillus House fundraiser to...

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• Workshop Workshop Makes Zines Inside Design Miami

  ​Beginning December 1, Jim Drain of Bas Fisher Invitational, British artist Graham Hudson, and I are co-curating a project inside Design Miami (where my wife works) called The Brief Happy Life of...

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• Manhunt On For Miami Suspect in Thanksgiving Day Massacre

  Police across South Florida are on the hunt for a Miami man this morning suspected of gunning down four relatives at a Thanksgiving party in Jupiter last night. ​Paul Michael Merhige, a 35-year-o...

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• Director David Lynch Exposes His Dark Soul at O.H.W.O.W.

  ​Most people know quixotic movie director David Lynch for his Academy Award-nominated films like Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man. But Lynch is also an accomplished visual artist who brings the s...

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• Don't Talk About it: Whole Foods Workers Get Threats From Lawyers Over Sewer Leak

  ​ The Whole Foods cooperate website lists this as its company motto: "Open books, open doors, and open people." That's not the case Miami Beach. A few days ago, Riptide posted a story about a...

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• Another Reason to Give Thanks: You're Not Stuck At MIA Right Now

  We're not sure how many surveys you need to tell you what you already know -- namely that Miami International Airport is to flying what George W. Bush is to presidencies. http://www.flickr...

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• Magic City Kitty: Does Fantasizing About Girls Make Me a Lesbian?

  ​ Hello, Kitty: I've always been a pretty frequent masturbator, and ever since I first used a massager as a vibrator, I've been doing it even more. Though the sensation alone can get me off, I c...

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