Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport

Human Skull Parts Found In Luggage at Fort Lauderdale Airport

TSA baggage screeners have been known to spot and confiscate varying things from travelers' suitcases. Shaving cream, perfume bottles, water bottles, nail clippers, you know, things like that. Well now you can add pieces of human skull to that list According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, TSA ag ... More >>

Clean Plate Charlie Pranked The New York Times!

Every year, when April Fool's Day rolls around, Clean Plate Charlie is faced with the same dilemma: Do we write a prank blog post? The answer, of course, is yes.The best April Fool's posts are the ones that could possibly be true as you read. Then, a few nuggets of information that are so outrag ... More >>

Mad Men-Themed Cocktail Lounge To Open at Fort Lauderdale Airport

It seems as though booze and television mix as well as bourbon and bitters these days. First there was Duff beer, then nearly every Real Housewife came out with her own Pinot Grigio. Just recently, Ommegang Brewery teamed up with HBO to launch a series of brews based on the Game of Thrones series. ... More >>

Loria Responds, Cabbies Suffer, FAU Imprisoned

The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times' crack research department using a highly scientific algorithm (i.e., calculating the mean number of these you can look at before getting misty).

Nemo: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Announces Cancellations

If you haven't heard yet, there's a massive blizzard storm weather event snow thing that's about to engulf the northeastern part of the U.S. The Weather Channel has nicknamed the menacing storm Nemo, for some reason. In any event, thanks to Nemo, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport ha ... More >>

Hundreds of Manatees Find Refuge From the Cold Near FPL Plant

Merry Christmas, South Florida! It's 304 manatees! The recent cold snap forced hundreds of the sea cows to the FPL plant located east of State Road 7 right off Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The herd sought refuge from the suddenly chilly weather in the plant's discharge of war ... More >>

Food Network Kitchen Opens at Fort Lauderdale International Airport

The Presidential election is behind us for now, so we can turn our television sets back to what really matters.24-hour-a-day non-stop food porn, courtesy of Food Network. If you're like me, you live and breathe these guilty pleasures disguised as television. Now you can eat it too, with the Fort Lau ... More >>

The Circus Gets Kreepy

Directors of Fort Lauderdale Airport Security Unlicensed; Company Ignored It, Investigators Say

See also: Broward County Admin Bertha Henry Doesn't Care if Airport Security Managers Are Licensed.Two of the people in charge of security at both the Port Everglades Seaport and the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport weren't even licensed Florida security guards -- and one of them, Dis ... More >>

Broward County Admin Bertha Henry Doesn't Care if Airport Security Managers Are Licensed

See also: Directors of Fort Lauderdale Airport Security Unlicensed; Company Ignored It, Investigators Say.Broward County Administrator Bertha Henry tried to downplay an investigation into the unlicensed managers of the company overseeing security at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport an ... More >>

BREAKING: Portion of Fort Lauderdale International Airport Evacuated for "Unknown Substance"

A section of Fort Lauderdale International Airport Terminal 2 has been evacuated and HAZMAT investigators are on the scene, according to Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Dani Moschella. At least three four victims have reported respiratory issues after being exposed to an "unknown substance ... More >>

Riverwalk Burger Battle Changes: Downtowner Saloon Replaces Chef Allen

With the third-annual Riverwalk Burger Battle at Huizenga Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale tomorrow, some major changes have been announced.The Burger Battle, held from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, has learned that chef Allen Susser has dropped out of the event. The owner of Chef Allen's Burger Bar in Palm ... More >>

Yes, Those Are the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Flying Over Fort Lauderdale

We're not under attack -- those fighter jets you heard making all that racket yesterday in the skies above Fort Lauderdale are F-16s from the Air Force's Thunderbirds demonstration team, and I'm sorry if the noise woke up your infant or whatever, but this is the coolest thing ever, and that kid need ... More >>

Negotiations Are Under Way for Expansion of Fort Lauderdale Airport's Terminal 4

We told you last week that Broward County has broken ground on a $791 million runway expansion at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International that will send planes up a six-story ramp over Federal Highway and the FEC tracks.Broward County Aviation Department​In tandem with that project, Terminal 4 (ho ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Sky-High Runway: Looks Like They're Actually Going to Build This Thing

Welcome back to "Holy Crap, That's Big," our blog series in which we look at humongous things going up in South Florida and the people behind them. Let this blog post serve as official notice that we are going to spend a lot of time puzzling over this huge pile of dirt for planes to drive on that al ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Airport Has the Third-Cheapest Average Airfare in the Country

airplanepicture.org​Hey, Spirit Airlines is good for something (probably) -- making the average airfare from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport the third-lowest in the country, at $266.The ranking was done by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which found that only the a ... More >>

Google Maps Now Covers the Inside of the Fort Lauderdale Airport -- Why?

​Why you would need a map from Google of the inside of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is beyond us, but it now exists.The airport is one of a handful of locations now mapped on the indoors for the Google Maps application for Android devices, and we're still trying to figure ou ... More >>

Coral Ridge Ministries, Sodomy, and Death

​Imagine you are Jesus Christ and you're scuba diving. Somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, you come upon a submarine. With your famed omniscience, you divine its nature, its contents, and its capabilities. This is the USS Florida, an Ohio-class vessel, fresh from the Libyan coast. It's almost 600 feet ... More >>

Worst Spring Break Hordes Found Here

Photo by Ian WitlenYeah, it's fun here. Now leave!​Maybe it's me, but spring break seems to be lasting an inordinately long time this year. Just when you think it's safe to walk around the block for a slice of pizza, you run smack into some spray-tanned co-ed in a wife beater, drinking green beer. ... More >>

Birthday Party at the “Czar of All Dive Bars”

Demonize Yourself

R & R With DJ Sensitive Side

R & R With DJ Sensitive Side

If You're Flying Spirit Air Next Month, Better Get to Flight School

Flickr​Spirit Air pilots are threatening to strike, and so far, Spirit Air executives haven't blinked. The South Florida Business Journal is reporting that the airline gave notice that it's ready to lay off nearly 1,600 employees if the pilots head to the picket line June 12.Those workers would co ... More >>

Space Oddity

Broward Hires Consultant to Fix Airport Food

Flickr user: DOliphantThis is caviar compared to airport food.​The lack of decent food at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has been a fact of life in South Florida for years. Some residents avoid the airport altogether, happy to pay more to fly out of Palm Beach International, rathe ... More >>

Super Bowl-a-Rama

Hey, Visitors: Here's Your Broward County Super Bowl Itinerary

​Welcome to South Florida, you delirious pigskin fans, you! Now that you're here, remember not to fixate on Miami pre-gaming: The party has been moving steadily northward for years, and anyway, you'll need to run things on the cheap to afford getting scalped on Super Bowl Sunday. For a complete gu ... More >>

Pasha's Comes to FLL

​Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport isn't Las Olas Boulevard or Delray's Atlantic Avenue just yet, but at least there are a couple rays of culinary hopes shining through the clouds of pre-fab sandwiches, microwaved crud and muffins made from the by-products of coal smelting.  Ear ... More >>

Morning Juice: Lantana Police Make a Deposit to Jail

​What's going on in South Florida? Well, this:As Juice insomniacs already know, our local obsession, the so-called Withdrawal Bandit, has finally been caught! Police believe it's Glenn Hooper, a 53-year-old Hollywood man who went to the well one too many times. Lantana police also busted Hooper's ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Flight Did NOT Crash in Puerto Rico... Or Anywhere for That Matter

BNONews.orgThe explosion in question.​This article on a breaking news website claimed that Spirit Airlines Flight 837 originating in Fort Lauderdale crashed near San Juan, Puerto Rico, and that it was the source of an explosion that firefighters are still putting out.I just got off the phone with ... More >>

Airline Chooses Lauderdale Airport Over Miami Because of Superior "Demographics"

Flickr: F18E777​Now there's a word you want to be careful with when explaining an investment in Broward County over one in Miami-Dade. But that's the word that Virgin America CEO David Cush used to justify his airline's decision to make Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport a destination ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Post-9/11 Food Conundrum

Flickr user: DOliphantThis is caviar compared to airport food.It was 6 p.m. the night before a long weekend, and so far my getaway trip was going smoothly. I'd made it through the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport security screening line with half an hour to spare before boarding time. ... More >>

Bus Fuss

No detail is too small to escape the unblinking eye of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin. Just before the adjournment of today's commission meeting, she spoke of something horrible that she saw recently at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport while waiting for a ride ... More >>

Stacy Ritter Gets Her Mouth On

The Wrongway Expansion At FLL

Judy Stern: All Clear For Profits

Bro 18F

We Are Airborne Family

Escape From Sterility

It ain't Florence or Oaxaca, but at least Broward has a few eye-catching pieces of public art.

On Main Street, Part 1

Griffin Road, one of Broward's oldest byways, has it all

Best Display of Wealth

Design Center of the Americas

Best New Building in Broward

Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport's new parking garage

Tailpipe

Energizer Con Man

Best Correction Best Journalistic Restraint

The Palm Beach Post, October 3, 2003 Sun-Sentinel Travel editor Thomas Swick

Dirty Dozen

Here are the 12 Broward-Palm Beach newsmakers who will make you blush

Plop Art

When politicians and bureaucrats play curator, the art stinks

The Two-Arena Circus

Two greedy billionaires, two publicly funded arenas, two crappy teams, one burning question — why?

Letters for November 15, 2001

Crabbing About Jen

Picnic Paradise -- If You Own a Boat

Boaters Park

Planespotting