Cocoa Beach

Donavon Frankenreiter's Music Comes Straight From the Sand

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, FWC Are Going After Manatee Riders

Depending on where you come down on the whole animal-rights thing, you probably watched the video of Florida's finest d-bags jumping onto some innocent manatees with something between shock and rage. This week we posted the vid, some dumpster-grade Jackassery courtesy of two Cocoa Beach brainiacs. T ... More >>

Florida Men Cannonball Onto Manatees, Post It On YouTube

A couple of Cocoa Beach yokels made the conscious decision to lure a mother manatee and her calf close to the water's edge, and then cannonballed into them, because DERPY DERPY DERP IT'S HIGH LARIOUS. Then they posted the video of them slamming into the animals on the YouTube. Because this ... More >>

Paul Pope, Embattled National Enquirer Heir, Arrested for Stalking

F. Scott Fitzgerald certainly laid it out best about the rich: they are different from you and me. The Palm Beach society battle between the heirs of the National Enquirerfortune has shifted into high-gear again. As well told you earlier this month, Paul Pope and his mother Lois have been playing ... More >>

Assault Rifles Are Big Business in Florida as Federal Ban Looms

Craigslist Ad Offers 50K for Casey Anthony Info

Even though she's been out of custody and ducking underground for the last year and a half, it's been a busy few weeks for America's most hated parental unit. The latest updates came with a one-two punch: first, word that an appellant court had decided to drop two of the remaining guilty charges on ... More >>

Anticircumcision Activists Say Trimming a Bit Off the Top Is Too Much

In the Heart of Darkness: Veterans Hunt Alligators to Heal the Wounds of War

Chef Jamie DeRosa of Atlantic Ocean Club and Buddha Sky Bar: Interview, Part I

​Jamie DeRosa, a veteran of Wolfgang Puck Dining Group, Chef Allen's, and the Michelin-starred Fat Duck in England, is breaking onto the South Florida scene with a duo of new spots in Delray Beach, the Atlantic Ocean Club and Buddha Sky Bar. With experience in everything from gastropubs to molecul ... More >>

Chillax, Bird-Watchers! Those Dead Shearwaters Are Not BP's Fault.

Flickr: Callocephalon PhotographyThis is what a shearwater looks like when it's alive.​For those fretting about the effect of the Gulf spill on seabirds, fret not for the greater shearwaters. Yes, some 35 of those majestic birds have been found dead along the South Florida coast, from Delray to C ... More >>

Who Benefits from Surfing License Plate?

flickr user: neeta lind​By the end of today, Florida drivers could have a new design option for their license plate: an image of a surfer inspired by the 60s surf flick, The Endless Summer. The state legislature is expected to OK a bill authorizing the new plate. Sounds pretty rad, right? But some ... More >>

DreamWorks, in Your Face

In this latest round of effects versus storytelling, effects win. Big.

Head Spins: Deejay Smeejay

A lounge-loving throwback

Awfully Wedded Wife

Bigamy charges and dozens of busts for sham marriages.It must be South Florida.

It's Not About the Hair

Don't hate Peter Mendia because he's purty. Hate him because you want his job!

Fly Me to the Moon

Dirty South

Veterans Affairs

It takes a lot more than a bumper sticker to support the troops, says a crusty ex-Marine and best-selling author

Ollie Rides Again

The man who changed skateboarding forever skates in Hollywood -- Florida, not California

The Underdog

Jazzman Turk Mauro rode high in New York, Paris, and the south of France -- now he's hanging on for dear life through a South Florida streak of the blues

Bandwidth

Writers Night, Joni Mitchell