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Compton Royalty: Documentary Examines Venus and Serena's Rise From Their Upbringing in Southeast L.A.

Koch Brothers Interested in Buying Sun Sentinel; Five Other Billionaires Who Could Scoop Up the Paper

Over the weekend, liberal media types coast to coast suffered jags of anxiety after the New York Times reported that Charles and David Koch -- AKA the billionaire Jagger and Richards of the Tea Party agenda -- are eyeing a new shiny toy: the troubled Tribune Co., the parent behind eight of the count ... More >>

Taco Bell Trying to Create Healthy Image: Are You Buying It?

We know, you and your food-snob friends turn up your noses at fast-food chains. McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell -- "Ugh, gross." "I don't eat that fake junk," you say in public, while secretly passing through a drive-thru while wasted on your way home from the bar. Well, closet junkfoo ... More >>

LeBron James Is Glad It Was Jason Terry He Obliterated With That Dunk

Unless you've been trapped under something (or someone) heavy the past 24 hours, you've seen the video of LeBron James utterly destroying Celtics bigmouth Jason Terry with something that can only be described as The Dunk of Annihilation. Because the internet is an awesome place, video of the dunk i ... More >>

Everyone's a Food Critic: Kids, Cartoons, and Pugs

Every now and then us food writers are reminded that although our jobs are cool, we're not "all that and a bag of foie gras-flavored chips". So, when we heard that a Pug was the latest hot new food critic, we had to investigate him. True, he does an admirable job, but do you really trust a creature ... More >>

Other Ozzes, Great and Terrible (But Mostly Terrible)

Newscaster Brian Andrews, Bogota's El Gringo, Nearly Kidnapped In Colombia

On a recent overcast day in downtown Fort Lauderdale, a cluster of reporters watched a tanned blond man sashay into the federal courthouse dressed like the Joker: orange pants, purple socks, red pocket square, and a Technicolored iPhone in his hand. Murmurs immediately. "Who's that?" one reporter ... More >>

Mercy for Animals Unveils Brutal New Anti-Dairy Video

Need some extra motivation to stick to that vegan diet you resolved to follow in the new year? Mercy For Animals, a nonprofit animal welfare organization known for its hard-to-watch undercover video exposés of factory farm conditions, can help you with that. The group on Friday released a bummer of ... More >>

PETA Ad That Compares Animal Slaughter to the Holocaust Is Banned in Germany

It is no secret. We have major issues with our food system: pesticides we eat, pollution from fertilizers, genetically-modified food, trans-fats, you name it. One such issue, animal cruelty, is often taken up by animal rights groups through ad campaigns -- many of them shocking and grotesque. A seri ... More >>

Chik-fil-A President's Antigay Comments Spark Social-Media Frenzy

Sunday is a very emotional day for me. I feel guilty if I've skipped church, angry that I can't buy beer before noon, and envious when I have to wait in an endless line for brunch, watching everyone else enjoying their eggs Benedict. Inevitably, I cruise around looking for something else to eat and ... More >>

California Pizza Kitchen Will Unveil Revamp In Florida

Chief executive of California Pizza Kitchen G. J. Hart told attendees at a California restaurant conference that the chain will open only one new U.S. restaurant-- a prototype-- this year. And the location happens to be in Florida, reports Nation's Restaurant News. No word yet as to which city.The p ... More >>

Edwin Walker Jumps Through Broward Boulevard Burger King Drive-Through Window; Employees Take Him Out (VIDEO)

​​Tanya Calvin was just trying to do her job yesterday, serving breakfast out of the Burger King takeout window at 666 W. Broward Blvd. A guy pulled up, she took his money, and then 31-year-old Edwin Walker came jumping in through the window like a cat burglar with a balance problem."I cashed hi ... More >>

Free Fries This Friday at Burger King: Should You Care?

The fantasy​December 16 marks free fries Friday at Burger King locations across the country, the nationwide launch of "fluffier" fries with "more potato flavor" part of a rollout that started December 5. The new fries

Burger King Cashier Calls the Cops After Customers Order a "Blunt and Some Herbs"

sj4l.tumblr.com​Gee, what could go wrong when you and your buddy just smoked some weed in your car, and with the remaining ounce still in the car, you order a "blunt and some herbs" at the Burger King drive-through?Apparently it's enough for the cops to get involved.According to the Volusia Co ... More >>

Derek Shaeffer Identified by Police as the Guy Who Tried to Rob a Burger King With a Sock

​Well, the guy police believe tried to rob a Stock Island Burger King in early November by stuffing his hand in a sock and telling people it was a gun has been arrested.The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says 38-year-old Derek Shaeffer is its guy, and he was transferred back to Monroe County last ... More >>

Cops: Someone Tried to Rob a Burger King With a Sock

playsational.comThis is a sock with buttons and string. Or, as the guy who tried to rob Burger King last night would call it, "a gun."​As we've documented here before, crimes in the Florida Keys are often strange, usually involving drugs, missing clothes, or some strange combination of both.Ye ... More >>

BurgerFi: A Beachside Shake Shack for the Modern Age

Chef Allen Susser Talks Burger Battle and the Future, Part One

Chef Allen Susser is a confident burger battle contestant.​Chef Allen Susser has been a fixture on the South Florida dining scene for over a quarter of a century. Part of the original "Mango Gang," the group of chefs in the '90s who put Florida cuisine on the map, Susser has published three ... More >>

Carnival's Bruise Cruise Lets Loose 400 Garage Rock Fans Onto a Cruise Ship

Michelle Obama Saves the World From Ronald McDonald, Burger King, KFC and Sarah Palin

Flickr/Donkey Hokey​Taiwanese animators NMA have released a video that shows First Lady Michelle Obama as a superhero (in green tights, cape and stylish, yet sensible ballet flats) fighting off Colonel Sanders, Ronald McDonald and The Burger King with bananas as they roam the streets of the ... More >>

Chris Miracolo Interview part 2: Q&A with Himmarshee Bar and Grille's Main Man

Flickr: Jill Clardy​Today we present Part Two of our interview with chef Chris Miracolo of Himmarshee Bar and Grille, who's been doing super-popular beer and wine pairings for the past few months. (Shameless plug: New Times is hosting a Tweet-Up at the venue this Friday -- Free drinks for all from ... More >>

Tal Ronnen Interview: Q&A with The Conscious Cook (Part 1)

​Tal Ronnen made history when his book The Conscious Cook -- the first full-color vegan cookbook to be published in North America -- hit the New York Times bestseller list last fall. Since hitting the big-time (thanks also to Oprah, who had Ronnen develop a 21-day vegan cleanse for her), Ronnen ha ... More >>

The Humane Society's Battle With Farmers Began Right Here in Florida

Immokalee Workers Plan Major Push on Publix This Weekend

Pressure mounts on Publix.​Thirty-year-old Romeo Ramirez has worked on Florida farms for his "whole life," he says. And despite the conditions he's seen -- stagnant wages, no benefits, and even migrant farm workers forced to work against their will -- he still seems to see the state he lives in as ... More >>

CIF Launches Mobile "Modern Day Slavery Museum"

Slavery museum has a captive audience​Ever wondered what it feels like to lift a 32-pound bucket of tomatoes? When the Coalition of Imokalee Workers' Modern Day Slavery Museum, which kicked off its statewide tour last week, hits town you'll have a chance. That 32-pound  bucket is part of the ... More >>

Are Animal Rights Activists -- and Local Multimillionaire -- Behind the McDonald's-Causes-Cancer lawsuit?

flickr user: nukeit1​Today, newswires were abuzz with the information that a Washington-based nonprofit group called the Cancer Project, on behalf of two plantiffs in Connecticut, filed a class-action lawsuit against Burger King, McDonald's, and Friendly's.  The lawsuit alleges that chicken s ... More >>

Green is Color of the Summer for Local Criminals

Boca bank robber goes for the green​Green may be the new buzzword in political and development circles. But green is also the new black for South Florida criminals when it comes to sartorial choices this summer. Fashion-forward scammers are tossing those dowdy stocking masks and dark T-shirts in f ... More >>

Robbers, Beware: South Florida Convenience Store Workers Pack Heat

Color Bind: The Search for a Blond Goatee and a Man Wearing Clothes

BSO sketch The metropolitan daily papers in South Florida continue to awkwardly avoid mentioning race when describing criminal suspects on the loose, seemingly without consideration for whether doing so might actually aid in apprehending some of them. I wrote about a few examples ... More >>

A Women's Lib Discussion With Porn Star Sasha Grey

Magnolia Pictures Sasha Grey plays an escort in the new Steven Soderbergh movie. About the time the economy began to completely unravel last fall, I wrote a story about the life of a few local prostitutes. The story was prophetically titled "The Real Girlfriend Experience." I say prophetic ... More >>

How to Look Like a Complete Idiot at Friday's Yelle Concert

Cops and Gypsies

Friendly law enforcement officers become the weapons of rival destruction in the gypsy tribal wars

Fun With Fluids

The Revolution will be televised — and plenty addictive too

Letters for April 26-May 2, 2007

Happy Deathday, Kid

Nothing will ruin a little girl's birthday party faster than the presence of a dead man.

Selected Events for the Week of October 27, 2005

Censor This!

Sex Talk

The Etiquette of Whoring

Cooking Up Laughs

... and shoving them down your trap, Dane-tily

Easter Rock

Blackout.com

When this kid gets going, you get got

A Steamy Steal of a Deal

Summer means cheap in SoFla

Roger, Wilco

Son who? These days, there's something about Tweedy

Duh Press

Fear and self-loathing at the Minority Report junket

Maniac Rocking

Where there's a Willis, there's a cult icon who can whup rock's geniuses

1999's Top Ten

New Times' critics actually have some faves

The Burgermeisters

Letters

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

Getting off the Couch