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Forbes Media LLC

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    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 >>

  • News

    January 5, 2012

    Our Intrepid Reporter Goes Undercover and Takes Your Order

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film

    November 3, 2011

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Film

    May 6, 2010

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

    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 >>

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    Juarez: The Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    December 10, 2009

    Elf Esteem

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Forbes Mag: South Florida Now a Rotten Place to Retire

    Flickr: Alliance for Retired AmericansDear South Florida elderly: Forbes says you and all your ballot casting friends should head north.​Oh no! We've been dissed by a Forbes list! The magazine popular among rich old people is saying that South Florida is lousy place to be a rich old person. It ran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Luxurious Crapper Ponders World Domination, Starting in Lauderdale

    For the H. Wayne Huizenga class, it makes perfect sense. You've already got a private jet for business, so why not get a "rectum water jet" for your most private business? The "bottom drier" comes standard, as the salesman must have mentioned, along with the heated seats and the symphony of pleasant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2009

    Breaking With Boredom

    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 >>

  • News

    April 9, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    November 13, 2008

    The Florida Panthers and star Jay Bouwmeester toil in obscurity

    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 >>

  • News

    April 17, 2008

    Eureka, Maybe

    Adios, Unleaded

  • Dining

    April 10, 2008

    Marriage is Like Mushrooms

    The Love Boat departs on the hour from Little Palm Island

  • News

    March 6, 2008

    They'll Take Your Houses

    South Florida's real estate forecast calls for pain

  • Music

    February 21, 2008

    Caviar Dreams

    Are the latest boastful rappers billionaires or boobs?

  • Music

    February 21, 2008

    Snares Trap

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

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2008

    The Miami Herald-India Outsourcing Post

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

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2007

    They Like Big Boats, Too

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

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    Towering Rage

    Luxury condo developers up the ante with critics

  • News

    June 22, 2006

    Chump Tower

    South Florida's housing bubble has popped, suckas! But the Donald still wants your millions for his condos.

  • News

    November 17, 2005

    Raze the Roof

    Greed, neglect, and the bulldozer's blade chew away at the work of Fort Lauderdale's master builder

  • News

    September 29, 2005

    Vested Interests

    War has been good for Pompano Beach's Point Blank Body Armor

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    To Re-Catch a Thief

    For the old cat burglars, all that's left is a movie script, a book proposal, and undying hatred for one another

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2003

    The New Wave of CEOs

    Teens are doing it for themselves

  • News

    February 17, 2000

    No More Mr. Mean Guy

    After years of playing political hardball, Ron Gunzburger says he wants to take a softer approach with his nationally known Website

  • Best of BPB

    March 11, 1999

    Best Name For The H. Wayne Huizenga Fountain

    The Throw-the-Billionaire-a-Bone Memorial

  • News

    September 17, 1998

    Other People's Money

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

  • News

    July 2, 1998

    The Miniacis and the Mafiosi

    Investigators are discovering a number of links between beach developers Albert and Dominick Miniaci and Broward underworld figures

  • News

    June 25, 1998

    Birth of a Station

    Celebrated by a nationwide cavalcade of hype, Barry Diller's revolutionary new WAMI-TV hits the air. The verdict? Click.

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