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Donna Kim waits behind the metal detector at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale at 9 a.m. on Thursday, October 16. A stout woman with long, shiny, black hair who stands...
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There are few embellishments on the cover of Here I Am: Isley Meets Bacharach. There are neither gold lamé suits nor tuxedos, no silk sheets, and no flashy stage shots....
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Even in South Florida, it's possible to have a snowball effect in late fall. Just after Thanksgiving, bunches of family members -- a veritable My Big Fat Greek Wedding's worth...
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In his career as a Hollywood action figure, Tom Cruise has been dressed in some pretty hip outfits -- a macho fighter pilot's sleek leather jacket, a NASCAR driver's...
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When President Dwight D. Eisenhower or wife Mamie plucked an orange from a bowl at the White House or at their Key West retreat, chances are the fruit was grown and harvested...
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This being the end of the year, and since none of the people I wanted to write about this week felt it necessary to return any of my calls, from the leftover heap comes this...
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Talk about stepping into deep doggy doo.
Authorities are still trying to piece together exactly what happened at an alleged local drug hangout in November 2002. What began as...
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Wayne Marshall is known in Jamaica as a singjay. The term comes from his ability to croon and DJ on a single track. Dressed in jeans, a T-shirt with Miami mob boss Tony...
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Peruvians grow something like 35 kinds of maize, from which they've developed more than 50 products. Likewise, Colombia boasts many types of potatoes; Brazil and Argentina...
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Remember the Farrelly brothers? Makers of Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary? Known for crossing the line of good taste and making fun of the differently abled,...
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THU 12/11
A night of punk rock, hip-hop, electronic, and jazz in a South African bar? Culture overdose alert, kiddies! Crush Thursday takes place -- natch -- every Thursday...
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Change is a funny thing. Some of it is dramatic, embodied in single moments -- a wedding, a birth, a terrorist attack. But a whole lot of change happens incrementally, so...
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The good doctor phoned me a couple of weeks ago after reading a column I wrote about the corrupt depths of a North Broward Hospital District building deal. He says he didn't...
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By now, Jeff Mangum must be sick and tired of avoiding people. Since dumping his 1998 meisterwork (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea) on the ears of a grateful populace, the...
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Mulligan's Pub in east Boca is a flurry of sweaty frat boys punching each other in the arm, vanilla-scented chain-smoking girls drinking pitchers of beer, and creepy older...
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Bitching about the system is as much a part of being in the military as bad food and dumb non-coms. But the longstanding complaints by National Guard soldiers in Iraq that...
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Almost everyone knows someone like Triumph -- no, not a canine puppet chomping on a cigar and leering like a lecherous Bela Karolyi but a friend with a sense of humor so...
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THU 12/11
Despite the lack of snow and healthy, functional families, even South Floridians can't escape associating Christmas with some Rockwellian image of small-town...
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All those damn kids are the problem!: As a recently retired police captain with 30 years of service, I have seen my share of death and destruction, particularly as it relates...
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El Salvador-born and Hawaii-raised, Keoki Franconi -- better known as "Superstar DJ Keoki" (or maybe better recognized as the That '70s Show character Fez played in the recent...
