Hurricane Wilma

State Attorney's Office Drops Investigation of Former Hollywood Manager Cameron Benson

​Chalk one up for former Hollywood City Manager Cameron Benson and zero so far for the anonymous citizen who accused him of corruption in two letters sent to city commissioners this spring.The letters accused Benson of accepting a bribe from WastePro, which went on to win the city's waste-hauling ... More >>

Richard Rubin Sentenced to Ten Months in Federal Prison

Richard Rubin (right) and Diana Wasserman-Rubin.​Richard Rubin -- husband of former Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, who still faces seven felony charges of her own -- was sentenced this morning to ten months in federal prison.Rubin, 66, pleaded guilty in April to federal tax eva ... More >>

Hollywood Faces Budget Crisis Surprise; City Manager Hit with Corruption Investigation

The Miami HeraldCameron Benson​Cameron Benson has worked for the City of Hollywood since 1995 and as city manager since 2002. Historically, he has shunned attention -- newspapers are still referencing interviews he gave in 1995 -- despite periodic allegations of questionable behavior.He's known ar ... More >>

Richard Rubin Pleads Guilty, Faces Likely Prison Term

Richard Rubin, with his attorney David Bogenschutz at his side, was contrite in federal court as he pleaded guilty to a tax evasion charge. An emotional Rubin, who is the husband of criminally charged former Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, admitted to Judge William Zloch that ... More >>

Sublime Savings: Deals at Fort Lauderdale Vegan Restaurant

Michele SandbergEat this and other good stuff at Sublime this month.​Even with all of the recent press clippings toting the rise of the "power vegans" (Bill Clinton and Mike Tyson included), successfully maintaining a business catering specifically to such eaters is somewhat of a magical feat.&nbs ... More >>

Villegas Video, Awarding Incompetence, and Judge Lazarus' Latest Stupid Email

UPDATED: My colleague Lisa Rab obtained this video of Debra Villegas speaking with Plantation police officers about the Melissa Britt Lewis murder. It was taken in December 2009, after the Rothstein Ponzi scheme and the RRA law firm imploded. Make sure and read Rab's post. Villegas d ... More >>

UPDATED: Audit Questions $15 million in FEMA Funds Fort Lauderdale Spent After Hurricanes

Flickr user: Gary...Feds question Hurricane Wilma cleanup costs.​The Broward School Board is not alone in facing scrutiny for the millions of dollars in federal disaster funding it received after Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma. Federal auditors have also questioned $15.1 million in Federal Emergency ... More >>

FEMA Bombshell: School Board Can't Account For $15 million In Post-Wilma Spending

FEMA conducted an audit of Broward School Board spending of federal funds after hurricanes Katrina and Wilma and found the school board may have squandered millions of dollars, according to a report issued by the Department of Homeland Security this week.. "The School Board did not account for FEMA ... More >>

So Are We Wilma-Proofed Or Not?

UsmanUpdate​Not even a month after a team of Sun-Sentinel reporters told South Floridians that the region was better prepared for a hurricane than it was four years ago when Wilma hit, the New York Times is reporting that in Broward County emergency agencies have significantly less money than befo ... More >>

A Tale of Two Pseudo Cities

Spitting Distance: 321 North and City of OzAh, South Florida: Where the women are strong, the men are pretty, and all the foreclosures are "friendly." Developers of mixed-use, work-live-playgrounds might take a moment to contemplate, as they plan their latest forays into the market for pseudo cities ... More >>

Local TV Needs Character. Meet Bogey.

Bogey in actionEvery TV news station in South Florida follows the same script: attractive people reading a teleprompter full of news that's spectacular on video, inconsequential to the viewer and forgotten in a flash. Fine. It's theater. I get that. But theater thrives on character, too. And this is ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Jenni Foxx

The go-to gal for good times.

Bogey's Corner Comes to South Florida

It's been years since the television cameras stopped rolling, but Mike "Bogey" Boguslawski, the television icon who turned consumer reporting into performance art, is still plying his trade -- now in South Florida. A household name in Southern California, Bogey's gruff confrontational style endeared ... More >>

Renovated Mai-Kai Still Offers Drinks 'Only for the Sturdy'

If you're not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here's a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. Hurricane Wilma took a pretty good swipe at Fort Lauderdale's own Polynesian village - the Mai-Kai. So much so that mo ... More >>

We've Reached Our Zenith

Praise the Whisky!

Stained Glass Pub gives you that sanctified feeling, even without the pretty windows

Ahoy, Yacht Lovers

The Boat Hustle Is Alive and Well

Go Sweat! It’s Your Birthday

American Idol Goes Geriatric

Falling Behind

Broward foreclosures hit condos hard

Mold? Rats? Yikes! Tear the Place Down!

The courthouse must be replaced! says an unholy alliance of judges and downtown landlords

Low-Rent Airport

Goodbye, North Perry

Park Rock

By the Way brings the bands to Stranahan.

Tanning for Jesus

Calvary Chapel pays millions for swank digs on the Intracoastal. And it's all for a few pregnant girls?

Miami Herald Rights Sentinel's Wrong

Tied Up at the Office

A bluesy tale about the cowboy who roped us in with a veggie trick.

Judge Michael Gates Is A Boot-Licking Idiot

Viva La Vegas

Or is it Viva La Revolution?

Flame On

Tiki Torch Night

In the Clouds

FAU Tries to Get Real

Heads or Tales

Aimee Mann

Million Quid Baby

There's something eerily familiar about Whose Life Is It Anyway? at Inside Out

Business on the Edge

If you want to get PAID, it helps to have friends on the board

Tailpipe

Crackin' Crack

The Great Outdoors

Joe's Riverside Grille makes plein air dining a pleasure

Tailpipe

Toot Uncommon

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Dream On

Can Dream Dinners liberate Sunrise's working moms?

In the Ruinations

Wilton Manors art and design venues still show signs of beauty in Wilma's wake

Hold the Turkey

What does a Seminole "living village" mean?

Hail, Bretagne

A great meal isn't just a crepe-shoot at La Crêperie

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Field of Dumps

Bugs Are Beautiful

Even Wilma couldn't dim all the bright, kicky art at the Gateway

4 on the Floor

Radio 4

All About the Benjamin

It looks like Ben Graber is selling out the public for a high-rolling developer. He says he's making sausage.

Spice It Up

Just Say No

This Is Your Brain on Video Bedlam

Winging It

Post-hurricane, it takes some ingenuity to keep cooking

Category Too Much

We know how to weather the big storms, right?