Fidel Castro

Blue Scorpion Venom: Cuba's Miracle Drug

See also: Slide Show: Blue Scorpion Venom: Cuba's Miracle Drug.

Top Turkeys of 2012: The South Florida Personalities We Love to Hate

The Captivating "Art of Video Games" Comes to Boca Museum

Florida's Anti-Cuban Trade Law Is an Insult to Capitalism

Odebrecht, the giant Brazilian company that has a $225 million contract to help build the new runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, is suing the state over a histrionic law that Rick Scott signed last month in Miami, banning state and local governments from doing major business ... More >>

Ninety-Seven F-Bombs From Ozzie Guillen Won't Erase That Awful Stadium Deal

Showtime released a 30-minute preview on Saturday to its show The Franchise: A Season With the Miami Marlins, which will chronicle the travails of baseball's version of a court jester. There's a scene near the start of the show where loudmouth manager Ozzie Guillen is addressing his new players for ... More >>

Cupcake Battle Contestant: Elite Cake Creations

​In Cuba in 1921, Beatriz Otero's ancestors founded a bakery called La Gran Via. It eventually grew to have 55 employees, five storefronts, and a dozen delivery trucks. But when Fidel Castro came to power, the family fled to Puerto Rico. The bakery was seized by the government and continues to o ... More >>

Jennifer Carroll Mad at Media for Not Praising Jesus, Also Advocates Ignoring Scientists

Jennifer Carroll says media outlets like The Da Vinci Code, just like socialist dictators.​This past weekend was a few days full of the politically strange around Florida, which included jeers from the audience at a gay soldier during the GOP presidential debate, Ann Coulter calling Debbie Was ... More >>

On Jeff Greene's Yacht, There Are Five Simple Rules

The yacht where Florida's Senate candidate offered celebrities a chance at redemption.​Senate candidate Jeff Greene has taken a beating in the national press this week for all the mayhem that has occurred aboard his 145-foot yacht, the Summerwind. Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson told Spor ... More >>

The Rise and Fall of South Florida's Daily Newspapers

Psystar, a Rebel South Florida Company, Takes On Apple

South Florida Cigarette Smuggling Funds Terrorism

Lone Havana-based U.S. Newspaper Reporter Is Coming Home

In yet another symbol of the fall of American newspapers, the man billed as the "only U.S. reporter based in Havana" is leaving Cuba.    Sun-Sentinel Executive Editor Earl Maucker told staff during a meeting on Friday that the newspaper is shutting down its bureau in Havana ... More >>

Guantánamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

You’ll Never Forget His Face

But which Che you remember is a different story

Mayor? May Not? An Interview With Jack Seiler

Considering Fort Lauderdale mayoral candidate Jack Seiler was a state legislator until this year (when he termed out), he seems like the most likely among the four contenders to know how a big Democratic city like this one can wring a few extra bucks out of those tight-fisted Republicans who run Ta ... More >>

No Country for Old Communists

Mikhail Gorbachev, at Seminole Hard Rock, tears down that hall

More From Enrique and Joe

Revenge of the Nerd

Perez Hilton, a pure product of South Florida, makes bitchery pay

The Boatlift Floats

Pitbull bounces back

Washed Up

101 Haitian refugees sailed north full of hope. They got screwed.

Marti Ten Fallout

From Gitmo With Love

The elephant in Guantanamo's living room gets 4,200 calories a day and a Koran.

Save Us, Nessie!

Saves the Day knows what makes a hero.

Mr. Big Shot

The charismatic lawyer and power broker took one last lap in a New River mansion during his run from the law

Stagebeat

Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

Contra Campaign

An Iran-Contra conspirator joins the Swift Boat crowd. It was bound to happen.

Bitter Sugar

Forget the awful past, Palm Beach's sugar barons say. It's time to make nicey-nicey and go into real estate.

Shadow Box

Daniel Santos, of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, via Pembroke Pines, is on his way to the top. Maybe.

Of Artists and CEOs

Boca "realism" exhibition shows the weight of corporations in the art world

Our Lady of Hollywood

Rosa Lopez welcomes the Virgin Mary to her home every month. Hallelujah!

Romancing the Drone

In Mexico's Lucía, Lucía , Cecilia Roth goes adventuring for her soul

Gunning for Profit

Opportunists make a fortune supplying guerrillas and terrorists from South Florida gun shops

Letters for October 31, 2002

When doves (and hawks) cry

El Béisbolista

No one has lived through more of South Florida's baseball past than Vicente Lopez

Christmas in Prison

In which a onetime Cuban rafter and fix-it man takes on the dramatic role of mad bomber

Peebles Power

When it comes to making deals, developer R. Donahue Peebles has no qualms about filing lawsuits -- or playing the race card

Undercurrents

A Fort Lauderdale eatery evicted, an arm severed, and a Sun-Sentinel writer reconsidered

Mosh Pit in Bogotá

Rock al Parque offers a more metallic Plan Colombia

Love Behind Bars

When Albert Tacher met Dina Mora, he knew it was love. The problem? She was a prisoner, and he was a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy.

Letters to the Editor

Letters for May 18, 2000

Best Cigars

Cigar Factory

Fifteen Minutes of Infamy

The fisherman who rescued Elián, Donato Dalrymple, comes from a family with a violent history. And that's not the half of it.

The Fast Life and Near Death of Nica

Revered by followers, feared by rivals, and targeted by police, the gang leader known as Nica is alive today because of a brush with death

The Joy of Sect

For members of Soka Gakkai, the path to enlightenment (and maybe a new car) is through chanting

Oldfella

Battling cancer and investigating a botched federal investigation, mobster Vinnie Ciraolo is fighting to clear his name

Forget Shorty, Get Marvin!

How novelist Elmore Leonard's friendship with Palm Beach County criminal judge Marvin Mounts led to a popular book and a new TV show