Subject: Lisa Rab

• Rita's Water Ice Arrives in Delray; Philly Fans Rejoice

  Photo by Lisa RabRita's Water Ice is a Philadelphia landmark, selling a product that rivals the cheesesteak in its addictive qualities.The ingredients sound simple enough--ice, fresh fruit, sugar--but this is not your average snow cone. I've seen Philly natives travel miles to get their fix, craving the slushy, refreshing goodness the way normal people crave raw cookie dough.South Florida is already blessed with several Rita's locations, in Boca, Boynton Beach, Lake Worth, and Pembroke Pines. Bu

  May 19, 2009

• Broward County Gives Dragon Boaters the Boot

  Photo by Lisa RabCan you spot the eyesore in this photo?Don't you love it when your local government acts swiftly and efficiently to protect the health of its citizens? Especially when those citizens are being threatened by evil boaters? Behold the tale of Broward County's latest brilliance: Most Saturday mornings, members of the Blazing Paddles draw a small crowd to West Lake Park in Hollywood with their drums and shouts and general cheerfulness at the ungodly hour of 9 a.m. They are dragon boa

  April 30, 2009

• ESPN Gets Inside Wellington Polo Horse Deaths

  "It was like a plane crash, but with horses instead of people." That's the first quote in the fantastic E:60 segment on the polo horse deaths in Wellington last month. It started with two mares sick at the barn. Soon there were dead horses all over the place.  The Palm Beach Post has been nailing this story since the day it happened. Even Lisa Rab, our fearless PB correspondent, got in on the action. Rachel Nichols reports here. There are still questions on exactly who messed up, but the r

  May 7, 2009

• On Drinking, Driving, and the Cabbie That Waits Outside the Palm Beach County Jail

  Photo by Lisa RabOutside the Palm Beach County Jail, transportation options are slim.After spending eight hours in a jail cell recovering from a night of ill-conceived drinking, getting ripped off by the cabbie that drives you home would seem to add insult to injury. But that's what a 30-year-old woman from Boca Raton says she faced during a recent encounter with West Coast Taxi in West Palm Beach.One Sunday morning in late March, the woman, who did not want her name printed, was miserable, dehy

  May 13, 2009

• A Refund for the Rip-Off Cab Ride

  Photo by Lisa RabAfter a customer complained, West Coast Taxi sent a refund.Palm Beach County government may be rife with corruption and short on cash, but it recently managed to help one citizen with a vital task: getting a refund for an ill-fated cab ride.Last month, we introduced you to the sad tale of a 30-year-old Boca woman who paid $50 for a ride from the Palm Beach County Jail in West Palm to a tow lot less than four miles away. After being arrested on a charge of a DUI, her car had been

  June 18, 2009

• Letters from the Issue of July 2, 2009

  July 2, 2009

• Recession's Leftovers: Abandoned Boat in Delray Beach

  Photo by Lisa RabLook what the New Depression dragged in.​Many unusual objects wash in with the tides on Delray Beach: a dirty sneaker, a mangled flip-flop, a bright-blue shampoo bottle. But last night, I noticed one that simply didn't belong: a small sailboat, careening on its side, looking like a forgotten bath toy. It was floating close to shore on the southern part of the public beach, near AIA and Casuarina Road, completely empty.No one knew what to make of it. Passersby stopped to gape a

  August 25, 2009

• Lawyer Pals Cheer LeMieux at Fort Lauderdale City Hall

  Photo by Lisa RabLeMieux hugs a friend while Crist looks on.​Standing next to Gov. Charlie Crist's famously tanned mug, George LeMieux looks positively pasty, like a British-transfer student on the first day of spring break. But no one cared this afternoon at Fort Lauderdale City Hall, where Crist anointed LeMieux the state's new U.S. Senator. For what he lacked in skin pigmentation, LeMieux made up for in boot-thumping conservatism."I'm pro-life, I'm pro-gun, I'm pro family," LeMieux assured

  August 28, 2009

• Morning Juice: Swine Flu Claims Casualty in PBC; Budget Talks Get Rowdy in Pembroke Pines

  ​Here's what's going on this morning in Broward and Palm Beach counties:A 33-year-old woman from Palm Beach County has died from H1N1, despite having none of the conditions that suggest she should have been at greater risk. So doctors are warning the public to get treatment in cases in which his or her flu symptoms return after it first appeared they had run their course. [Palm Beach Post]All kinds of fuzzy math in Pembroke Pines as commissioners approve a budget plan that has $28 million hole

  September 10, 2009

• Letters From the Issue of September 17, 2009

  September 17, 2009

• Downtown Fort Lauderdale's Brown Baggers Need a Place to Squat

  Photo by Lisa Rab​By the time the eviction notice appeared on the front door of Cafe Pisa, it was too late. Downtown office ladies with brown bags, paperback novels, and Tupperware had already descended on the shuttered restaurant's outdoor wrought-iron tables. Ideally situated in the plaza area of the Wachovia Tower building in Fort Lauderdale, the tables provided a quiet, shady lunch spot with a view of a fountain and a respite from the traffic noise on Broward Boulevard.Let's face it: The b

  September 18, 2009

• Boynton's Own Ghost Tower: An Empty Promenade

  Lisa Rab The Promenade is begging for residents.​Boynton Beach is now giving Sunrise a run for its money in the competition for ghostly condo buildings. These 14-story cream-colored towers perched on the edge of the Intracoastal Waterway are part of a project known as Promenade, where just four years ago buyers camped out overnight to snatch units priced from $200,000 to $500,000.Promenade was supposed to help revive downtown Boynton, and the developers negotiated a a deal to receive nearly ha

  October 22, 2009

• Palm Beach State Attorney to Get Neo-Nazi Stabbing Case Next Week

  Flickr: Paul Garland​Manalapan Police Chief Clay Walker says his investigators are wrapping up their case against the two men involved in the knife fight Monday night at the Ritz Carlton, where Nazi historian David Irving was giving a speech. He expects to deliver investigative findings to the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office on Monday."We did not make arrests that night," says Walker, "because there wasn't enough information." Also, both combatants had to be treated for wounds. According to

  October 30, 2009

• Job Anxiety? You Must Work at the Palm Beach Post

  Photo by Lisa RabYes, Post employees are very anxious.​Someone in the Palm Beach Post marketing department has a cruel sense of irony. The paper's latest ad campaign -- now popping up in the paper, online, and on billboards around town -- strikes very close to home for Post staffers."Anxious About Your Job?" reads the headline, beneath a photo of a worried-looking guy.Well, yes. More than 300 Post staffers have lost their jobs in the past year or so,

  November 13, 2009