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Of 50 "Worst Charities," 11 Are in Florida

Florida may be one of the most generous states when it comes to giving, but the Sunshine State also happens to have the worst charities in the nation. According to a yearlong investigation by the Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting, Florida has 11 of the 50 worst charities i ... More >>

Thomas Kramer's South Beach Story Ends With $200 Million Court Judgment

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 >>

Was Banksy in Florida? Artwork in Tequesta Makes Us Wonder

Was Banksy in Florida? Mysterious Mural Appears in a Tequesta Strip Mall

Could the mythical, England-based street artist known as Banksy have painted his latest bit of street art in... Tequesta?The small city (population 5,629) is a retirement haven in northern Palm Beach County. Last week, a New Times reader noticed this mural artwork on the wall of a vacant space insid ... More >>

Allen West Forms New PAC -- the "Allen West Guardian Fund." Who's Donating?

Disgraced ex-military man and confessed torturer Allen West's sell-by date is long past. His 15 minutes should have been up when he conceded defeat in his race for reelection in Florida's 18th Congressional district last fall, after playing the victim card through a petulant few weeks of post-E ... More >>

Twinkies to Be Resurrected?

Prepare your Costco-sized box of Kleenex for that friend who gleefully shelled out fistfuls of cash to obtain some of the last packages of Twinkies on earth. First because a U.S. bankruptcy court in White Plains, N.Y. on Monday gave Hostess Brands Inc. permission to auction of its Twinkie and Wonde ... More >>

Miami Heat Worth $625 Million, According to Forbes

With three of the league's biggest egotistical asshats superstars filling out their roster, not to mention a fresh championship, you would think the Heat would at least land in the top five when it comes to the highest valued NBA franchises. Almost, but not quite, so says Forbes. According to the bi ... More >>

Smashburger Opening New Years Eve in Boynton Beach

We would say that 2012 was year of the burger, but, then again, so was 2011. And for that matter 2010. Apparently, Americans are obsessed with red meat. After the economy took a landslide the love of all things meaty slid down to steak's less expensive counterpart: the burger. We have already e ... More >>

CAIR Seeks Apology After Muslim Man is Barred From Subway Restaurant

CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has issued an action alert, asking "people of conscience" to demand an apology from Subway's President and CEO Fred DeLuca after a muslim couple were denied service at a Shreveport, Louisiana Subway.According to CAIR, A 63-year old New Orleans residen ... More >>

Kratom Comes to Florida: Is the Next Big Drug Craze Dangerous?

Digital Domain: The Fall of a Movie Empire

Bobbi Sue BBQ in West Palm Beach: First Look

A few months ago, Forbes magazine wrote an article highlighting the eight hottest food trends on the rise in cities across the U.S. Among them, grass-fed meats, farmers markets, and Greek fare -- all the same trends we've been seeing pop up across Broward and Palm Beach County recently.While these t ... More >>

Buying the Vote: Don't Fool Yourself: South Florida's Richest Are Calling the Shots in This Election

Miami Marlins Keep Lying About Stadium

Dinner in the Sky Comes to Delray Beach: Eat While Levitating 180 Feet in the Air

You know that feeling when you're out to dinner having a good time with your friends, but even though you're laughing and enjoying your food, deep down you know the meal is lacking something?And we all know what that something is: height.  If only this table were levitating 180 feet i ... More >>

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 >>

Marlins Are on Pace to Draw the Fewest Fans Since the 1990s; Also They're Trading Everyone!

On the heels of the Miami Marlins' trading away Hanley Ramirez to the Dodgers and Anibal Sanchez to the Tigers and working on a possible deal to send Josh Johnson to the Rangers comes a Forbes report that the Fish are on pace to set the record for drawing the fewest fans to a first-year ballpark sin ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Almost Dead Last on Forbes' List of Best Places for Businesses and Careers

The big business brains over at Forbes compiled a list of 200 American cities that the magazine says are the best for "business and careers."Don't get your hopes up, folks. Fort Loddy Doddy did terrible, coming in 192 out of 200. We barely beat out notorious hellhole Flint, Michigan.

Forbes' Gardasil Story Sheds Light on Why Florida's Well-Meaning HPV Legislation Failed

Florida lawmakers tackled lots of pressing issues this past legislative sessions. They debated whether the barking tree frog should be the Sunshine State's official amphibian. They clashed over making it a crime to pick up pecans that have fallen from privately owned trees. The e ... More >>

West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale Make Cut of Most Overpriced City

​If you need affirmation that West Palm Beach is too rich rich for your blood, Forbes has you covered. Using a semiscientific method that accounted for things like housing affordability, the cost-of-living index, and median salaries for college grads, the magazine produced a list of ... More >>

Michelle Bernstein to Leave the Omphoy

​The end of January marks the closing of chef Michelle Bernstein's tenure at her namesake restaurant, Michelle Bernstein's at the Omphoy Ocean Resort in Palm Beach. Bernstein and husband partner David Martinez will continue to own and operate Sra. Martinez, Michy's, and Crumb on Parchment in Miami ... More >>

Our Intrepid Reporter Goes Undercover and Takes Your Order

Five Best Post-Holiday Hangover Cures

​Traditions surrounding the December holidays put incredible emphasis on drinking -- and we're not talking about Publix eggnog.Christmas Day is when Mom breaks out champagne over breakfast and mimosas are poured for the entire family. Drinking isn't just acceptable; it's encouraged.That's why Dece ... More >>

WTF Fact of the Day: Smashburger Ranked America's Most Promising Company

​Esquire's Eat Like a Man blog gives us the heads up that according to Forbes, Smashburger is America's most promising company. As you may recall if you haven't been yet, Coral Springs just scored its own branch in early November.

Florida Cities Occupy the Forbes List of "America's Millionaire Capitals"

​If you've ever wondered where all the members of that oh-so-loathed "1%" that's not too hot with the Occupy Wall Street movement, look no further than Florida -- mostly South Florida.Forbes decided to use an interesting method to figure out the rankings for its list of "America's Millionaire Capi ... More >>

Stealing From the Rich to... Oh, Whatever. Funny Is the Message in "Tower Heist"

Fort Lauderdale Named the Second-Happiest City for Young Professionals

via Wikimedia CommonsIf you're a young professional, you're allegedly happy here.​If you're a young professional in Fort Lauderdale, you probably don't hate your life -- at least according to research done by a company called Career Bliss.The company took surveys from a few thousand so-called youn ... More >>

Bill Koch Buys Billy the Kid Tintype Photograph for $2.3 Million at Auction

newmexico.orgBill Koch's new prize: The world's only existing photograph of Billy the Kid.​Bill Koch, one of the poorer Koch brothers -- by "poor," we mean he's worth $3.5 billion, compared to Charles and David Koch's $21.5 billion fortune, according to Forbes -- dropped a cool couple of million o ... More >>

Even Though It's Not a City, Forbes Ranks Palm Beach County No. 8 on 'Most Miserable' List

Family Man Studios from Flickr.comCould you be happy here? According to Forbes.com, Palm Beach County is a miserable place.​Are you miserable, Palm Beach County? According to this month's Forbes.com list, you should be. Even though it's not a single city -- more like 223 census-desi ... More >>

LeBron James' "Decision" Should Serve As Cautionary Tale For Albert Pujols Negotiations

​As dozens of media outlets descend upon Jupiter this week, looking for any news from the on-going contract negotiations between the St. Louis Cardinals and their mega-awesome, all-time great, super-incredi-star, first baseman Albert Pujols, fans and concerned parties should look a few miles South ... More >>

Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale Cleared in Sexual Misconduct Case

​A student at the high school run by mega-church Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale endured repeated sexual abuse in 2006 by Rodger Thomas, a part-time church employee. In 2008, a judge sentenced Thomas to ten years in prison for sexual battery, and this week, a Broward County jury determined the v ... More >>

South Florida Homes Safe From "Worst Cities for Real Estate Investing" List

Flickr: lexlevinradApparently in Port St. Lucie the foreclosure bus will come foreclose on your house in a hurry.Want to invest in some real estate? Don't start looking in Florida.Forbes.com writer Francesca Levy published a list recently called "The Worst Cities for Real Estate Investing." Out of t ... More >>

Billionaires Still Bountiful in South Florida

FlickrThe closest you'll ever get to H. Wayne Huizenga's yacht.​The region's economy has been shaken in recent years by the housing slump and by the collapse of Ponzi schemers like Madoff and Rothstein, but South Florida is still home to at least 20 billionaires, according to the most recent Forbe ... More >>

"Iron Man 2" Will Lead to "3" and Probably "4," but That Doesn't Mean It's Good

Juarez: The Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

Numbers Prove It: Florida Properties Flattened by Recession, Slumping Toward Deep South

Flickr: marsmet47OK, maybe not everything... but our housing market sure is.​We held out for as long as we could. Property values in Florida -- especially South Florida -- were always so much higher than those other Southern states. We were so smug, weren't we, in 2006?That's the year when the hou ... More >>

Elf Esteem

Rush Limbaugh Trying to Buy the St. Louis Rams

flickr.com If this man owns the Rams, it's safe to say there will be no black quarterbacks on that team. ​Palm Beach's most famous oxycontin addict is trying to purchase the St. Louis Rams, probably the NFL's worst team at the moment. Rush Limbaugh announced today that he is teaming ... More >>

To Make a Buck in South Florida Real Estate, Get a Tenant

Flickr User: Eric NowelsFor best results, find a tenant who pays.At least a few real estate investors in South Florida have managed to crawl out of the crater that formed from the housing bubble's burst. They've managed to wring profit from an otherwise lost art: renting.An article in next month's F ... More >>

You'll Never Work in This Town Again

Flickr User: mikelynaughSteve ForbesTheory: Someone big and powerful at Forbes magazine -- maybe Steve Forbes himself? -- is feuding with some other big and powerful person who has condos to sell in Palm Beach County. And that is why Forbes magazine is beating the local economy to death with its vic ... More >>

Breaking With Boredom

R. Allen Stanford's story tells how one eccentric billionaire can help bring the global economy to its knees

A Ponzi Scheme in Boca? Stanford Group Co. Won't Talk

Speculation is rampant in the financial press that R. Allen Stanford -- who Forbes magazine estimates to have a fortune of $2.2 billion, making him #205 on their list of wealthiest Americans -- is the next Bernie Madoff. Forbes says Stanford Financial Group has $51 billion in assets under ... More >>

The Florida Panthers and star Jay Bouwmeester toil in obscurity

Snares Trap

Venetian Snares gives New Times his first U.S. interview in two years

They Like Big Boats, Too

Towering Rage

Luxury condo developers up the ante with critics

The New Wave of CEOs

Teens are doing it for themselves

Other People's Money

The new king of South Florida philanthropists, Richard Bronson, built his empire on the shady side of Wall Street