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Seismic Airgun Testing Will Kill or Injure 138,500 Whales and Dolphins If Allowed

If companies are allowed to use seismic airgun testing to search for and study oil and gas deposits in the Atlantic Ocean, 138,500 whales and dolphins will be harmed or killed -- and that's according to the government's own estimate. In addition, thousands of animals could have their hearing impaire ... More >>

Hollister Nurse-in an "Eyesore": Mothers are Pissed

Love it or hate it: in most states women are allowed to breastfeed in public. Unfortunately, many people are unaware of that fact--restaurant, store, and mall managers included. Being that the majority of the population is not well versed in breastfeeding law, mothers with their boobs out tend to ge ... More >>

Sybarite Pig Opens this Friday: Owner Daniel Naumko Talks Beef, Beer, and Why He Chose That Name

Craft beer and food enthusiast Daniel Naumko will realize a long-held dream this Friday when he opens the doors to his west Boca restaurant Sybarite Pig. The project is a manifestation of his primary passions: Indulgent cuisine and well-made beer. "The only time I'm happy is when I'm in the kitche ... More >>

As A-Rod Battles His Neighbor, Miami Beach's Film Renaissance Hangs in the Balance

Anthony V. Mangione, Former ICE Chief, to Be Sentenced for Child Porn

Anthony V. Mangione, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for South Florida, faces a mandatory five years in prison for child pornography. Prosecutors are shooting for up to seven years. In 2011, Mangione was placed on paid administrative leave after his internet provider, AOL, reporte ... More >>

Federal Tax Loopholes: They're Like a Mafia Protection Scheme Where Big Corporations Profit

South Florida Theater Struggles; Here's Why

Lake Worth's Gulfstream Hotel: Bahraini Petrodollars, the Black Gatsby, and Foreclosure

The fate of the Gulfstream Hotel, the faded crown jewel of Lake Worth's historic downtown, appears at first glance to rest in the hands of the Schlesinger family of Palm Beach and Connecticut. The hoteliers/developers bought the property in 2005 but have fallen on hard times. The hotel is in foreclo ... More >>

Steak 954 Owners Sued in Class-Action Lawsuit

A class-action federal lawsuit filed on Friday alleges that Starr Restaurants Hotel Group stiffed employees on overtime wages. Starr Restaurants, according to its website, is the parent company of Steak 954 in Fort Lauderdale and Makoto in Bal Harbour. The suit was filed by a man named Jean Valsin, ... More >>

John Goodman Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison, But Not Until After Appeals

From Friday evening, in case you missed it: Wellington polo mogul John Goodman was sentenced to 16 years in prison at a hearing that lasted more than two and a half hours and featured the interrogation of a juror, testimony from victim Scott Wilson's mother, and the reading of a quotation from Audre ... More >>

Independence Hall Tea Party PAC Gets Its Website Really, Really Hacked (UPDATED)

UPDATE, 1:30 p.m.: Got in touch with the president of the PAC. He said he was upset. Added comment to the end of the story.A small New Jersey-based political action committee had its website torn to little, vulgar shreds last night by lunatics who appear to have come from the popular internet messag ... More >>

Allen West Joins Advisory Board of Far-Right, Anti-Islam Law Center

Congressman Allen West, everyone's favorite defender of the Constitution, has joined the citizens advisory board of the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative legal organization that has spent more than a decade trying its best to roll back a rather important section of the Bill of Rights.The Michig ... More >>

Florida Is Number Three in the Nation! (In Registered Sex Offenders)

​For what it's worth, there are only two states in the nation with more registered sex offenders than Florida.Florida's 57,896 sex criminals puts the Sunshine State behind only California (106,216) and Texas (68,529), and even though Florida's population is about 400,000 less than New York's, the ... More >>

Brew Your Own Beer: Learn From the Guys at the Funky Buddha Brewery in Boca Raton

Nicole Danna​Want to learn how to brew your own beer? How about from the guys at The Funky Buddha?From its humble beginnings as a hookah lounge featuring an awesome craft beer selection, for many this place has now become a sort of beer mecca -- and one of South Florida's only small-scale bre ... More >>

New York Hedge Funds Strike Back In Rothstein Suit

We've heard all about how the Centurion and Platinum hedge funds in New York sank hundreds of millions of dollars into Scott Rothstein's Ponzi scheme.  Fort Lauderdale attorney Bill Scherer is suing them, claiming they were privy to the fraud and now must cough up ... More >>

Skimming U.S.A.

Brew Masters Puts Craft Beer in the Spotlight

Sam Calagione hosts Discovery Channel's new show about craft beer, Brew Masters.​All I have to say is, boy, am I thirsty.Update: Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought the Blue Moon commercials were ridiculous.Brew Masters, a new television show starring Dogfish Head Beer owner Sam Calagione ... More >>

Local Wiccans Disavow Christine O'Donnell at Pagan Pride Day

flickr.com​There was no Satanic altar. There was no blood. There was no animal sacrifice. And as far as I could tell from talking to people at the Pagan Pride Day Celebration Picnic, held this weekend at the at Unitarian Universalist Church in Fort Lauderdale, there was nobody who believed anythin ... More >>

Summer Movie Preview

Details on Florida Men Running Alleged Theft Ring in Pennsylvania

Bensalem, PA policeEarl Johnson, 31, was the oldest of the seven Broward men arrested recently in Pennsylvania.​Police say the alleged thieves watched their victims, stalking them for hours sometimes. They waited for people to leave their cars to do things like go to the gym, or pump gas, or pick ... More >>

Florida Doesn't Have a Top 50 Craft Brewer

Source: Brewers Association​At least not according to the Brewers Association, the organization that advocates for the craft brewing industry. Out of the top 50 craft brewers in the country, Florida isn't represented by one. In fact, Florida is among the states with the fewest number of breweries ... More >>

Rothstein's $5 Million Mistake

Flickr: rubber rat productions​It's a good thing Scott Rothstein isn't a more diabolical criminal mastermind. On Tuesday, I pulled county documents that show how he transferred several Fort Lauderdale properties -- whose total value came to about $13 million -- into the hands of individual private ... More >>

[UPDATED] Rothstein Deed Transfers a Cause for Alarm?

Rothstein​Starting this past July, attorney Scott Rothstein began a series of deed transfers that, given the allegations about his financial misdeeds, figure to interest his many investors. Broward County records show that on July 22, Rothstein transferred a $1.9 million property on Castilla Isle ... More >>

Palm Beach Billionaire Koch Likes Tax Subsidies, Too

Flickr user: andjohan​One of Palm Beach billionaire Bill Koch's main objections to a proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound -- which he has spent millions of dollars fighting -- is that it will require tax breaks to succeed. As the Juice reported earlier today, Koch has claimed that the an ... More >>

Halcyon Air Has Star Clients Like Shaquille O'Neal. But Why Can't It Stay Out of Trouble?

Suspect Arrested in Wilton Manors Murder

Broward Sheriff's OfficeGabriel NockAccording to Broward Sheriff's Office homicide detective Luis Rivera, authorities have arrested a suspect in the murder of Wilton Manors resident Larry Ellison.  27-year-old Gabriel Nock, of Delaware, was a drifter who escaped from a work release program in D ... More >>

V-Day Planner: In Search of the Big O

Belinda Eaton, Girl with Oysters, from Belindaeaton.comPly her with aphrodisiacs all night, and you've got it made, right? This week in New Times, Robb Walsh dispenses pearls of wisdom on the world's favorite bivalve here. And below, a plan to spend your V-Day shelling out:Sage Bistro and Oyster B ... More >>

First Bites: Victoria Fedden

Food & Wine's Guide for Florida Locavores

Q&A With Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed

Son Is Shining

Ky-Mani Marley steps out of his family's shadow

God Hates You

The Westboro Baptists have a message for South Florida

Blood Work

If you´re a medically uninsured North Broward resident, stay healthy -- or else

The Art of Piracy

On the high seas, it may be best to resist the urge to buy a masterpiece.

Psych Job

Local Gypsy fortuneteller pulls one over on publishing giant Judith Regan.

HarperCollins To Investigate New 'Miami Psychic' Book

Play With Fire, Boys

Boy Sets Fire

Rappin' for J.C.

Welcome to J-Rock

Do the Hustle

How a slick-talking drifter took America's Venice for a ride

Perry's Oddfest

Lollapalooza's architect redesigns a rock festival for the 21st Century

Speak and Suffer

Tim Hunter blows the whistle on U.S. hypocrisy toward Saudi Arabia

Out of Place

A bad location mars the potential of Peyton's Place

A Space Oddity

Kyle Barnette's show in Hollywood doesn't compare to the silver screen

Belly Up to the Cybar

A frustrated filmmaker wants to help Web surfers cruise local clubs

Crustacean Disputation

A shrimpy Ecuadorian company wants DuPont to stop spoiling its H20

Whirlwind Courtship, Jewish Style

"SpeedDating" brings singles together for a round of seven-minute tryouts

Fire Glows Red

Boy Sets Fire, with Ann Beretta and Portraits of Autumn

Bandwidth

Boy Sets Fire w/the Agency & Poison the Well, Silver Nightingale, Strych-Nine

Foodstuff

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