Miramar

Competitive Jump Rope: Born in the Inner City and Bred in the Suburbs

Broward County Has Three of Florida's Eight Lowest-Scoring Middle Schools

​The Sun Sentinel had a cheerful story today about the state's new education rankings -- "Broward Schools land at top of state rankings," read the online headline of the story, which notes that the county has three high schools in the top 20.But what that story omits is that the county is also hom ... More >>

Toys For Tots Food Truck Fundraiser in Miramar

Donate a toy, get a discount off dinner at the Toys For Tots food truck roundup​Christmas is already upon us. To us at Clean Plate Charlie, that means drinking lots of eggnog, wearing ugly reindeer sweaters, and making frequent stress-filled trips to the mall to buy presents.It's also the time of ... More >>

Food & Drink Events this Week in Broward and Palm Beach

SFMission.com via Flickr Creative CommonsIt's time for Day of the Dead in South Florida. ​As you shake off your post-Halloween sugar and alcohol crash -- and hang out the "sexy tax code specialist" costume to dry from the weekend's deluge -- rest assured that there are still plenty of fun food and ... More >>

"Big Ass Nigga on a Scooter Drinkin' Capri Sun"

Corrinely via FlickrBig Ass Niggas aren't the only ones who dig it!​And now, Clean Plate Charlie interrupts our regularly scheduled, totally serious food coverage to bring you a Big Ass Nigga on a Scooter Drinkin' Capri Sun.We stumbled across the following video and recognized the landscape as dis ... More >>

Disgraced, Porny Miramar Ex-Cop Sues City, Calls Rape Arrest Unjust

​An ex-cop turned porn producer says that Miramar and its cops went out of their way to wrongly arrest him on rape charges, so that man, Lavont Flanders Jr., wants the city to pay him for his troubles, according to a recent court filing. Flanders, a former Miami Beach police officer and bus driver ... More >>

Food Trucks Hit Broward County This Weekend

B.C. Tacos is heading out to Broward County this weekend.​If you love the south Florida food truck scene but hate the drive down to Miami (with gas prices hitting close to four bucks a gallon, who can blame you?), this weekend may be the answer to all the nights you left a tiny li ... More >>

Sylvia Poitier Cruises To Victory, Other Election Results

Random election results: UPDATED: The votes are in and all of the races below are official. ​​The first is that Sylvia Poitier is sailing to reelection in Deerfield Beach, despite all the scandal and her painfully obvious corruption. With only one precinct uncounted, just 714 people vo ... More >>

Spate of SoFla Bank Robberies is Dramatic, but Not Unusual

​This past week saw a series of headline-friendly bank robberies in South Florida. Two of them involved bomb threats scribbled on notes, in which the offenders were arrested within minutes of the attempted robberies. The most recent, at the BankAtlantic branch on Fairway Drive in Deerfield, was mo ... More >>

Morning Juice: Rain Washes Out Holiday Weekend; D-Wade Fadeaway Jumper?

​Welcome back from the Fourth of July weekend. Here's what's in the local news:Clouds and persistent record-setting rain dampened Independence Day plans. Flooded streets in Hollywood and Miramar, which accumulated more than five inches of rain Monday. [Sun-Sentinel]A Florida Atlantic University re ... More >>

Discount Airline Selling Standing Room Only Tickets -- and It's Not Spirit?

Flickr: TGKWThe view from the cabin of a Ryanair flight.​Someone in the Miramar headquarters of Spirit has probably been told to pack their things and get the hell out, because he or she did not think of what Ryanair has thunk: We can sell tickets to people willing to stand through a flight -- and ... More >>

Morning Juice: Probation for Stacy Ritter's Pop; Prosecutors Wary of Traveling Salesman

​The local news for Friday morning:Five years of probation is the sentence for Ed Portner, former Tamarac commissioner, for pulling a gun on his daughter, Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter, at her Parkland home last October. That whole episode seems to me like it was some bizarre dream that ... More >>

Five More Demoralizing, Humiliating Ways for Spirit Airlines to Save Money

Flickr: FabricadeMagie​Alleged "low-cost" carrier Spirit Air will charge you 45 bucks if you want your luggage to make the round trip, and it's phasing out its recliner seats for newer, allegedly "pre-reclined" seats, which are 30 percent lighter, meaning Spirit can save some pennies on fuel.Here ... More >>

Spirit Airlines Baggage Fee Provides Excuse for Nude Air Travel

Flickr: Shirley Two FeathersIs this a glimpse into the future of Spirit Airlines?​We already know that Miramar-based Spirit Airlines caters to cheapskates. And we also know that its advertisements and promotions cater to customers who enjoy sexual innuendo. So maybe it's inevitable that the compan ... More >>

As Fitzroy Salesman Trial Ends, Many Want to Know Who's Next

Flickr: Shirley Two FeathersIs this a glimpse into the future of Spirit Airlines?​We already know that Miramar-based Spirit Airlines caters to cheapskates. And we also know that its advertisements and promotions cater to customers who enjoy sexual innuendo. So maybe it's inevitable that the compan ... More >>

Surreal Arts

Flickr: Shirley Two FeathersIs this a glimpse into the future of Spirit Airlines?​We already know that Miramar-based Spirit Airlines caters to cheapskates. And we also know that its advertisements and promotions cater to customers who enjoy sexual innuendo. So maybe it's inevitable that the compan ... More >>

Miami Beach's Troubled Police Force Pays Officers in the Six Figures

Flickr: Shirley Two FeathersIs this a glimpse into the future of Spirit Airlines?​We already know that Miramar-based Spirit Airlines caters to cheapskates. And we also know that its advertisements and promotions cater to customers who enjoy sexual innuendo. So maybe it's inevitable that the compan ... More >>

Morning Juice: Positive Prognosis for Deerfield Girl; Corruption Trial Begins for Salesman

​Let's see what's happening this week in South Florida:Doctors are sounding an optimistic tone about the condition of Josie Lou Riley, the 15-year-old girl who was beaten nearly to death last week by a classmate at Deerfield Beach Middle School. [Miami Herald]Fitzroy Salesman goes to trial for wha ... More >>

Payton's Place Is Commonplace for South Florida City Managers

Photo: City of MiramarRobert Payton​A city commissioner has a buddy who wants a meeting about getting a city contract: Is there a city manager who hasn't been there, as Miramar's Robert Payton was?There's no evidence that Payton knew the agent posing as a contractor had bribed Salesman. But the mo ... More >>

Morning Juice: Enough With the Broward Corruption -- Give It Arrest!

​The dawn brings a fresh batch of crazy to Broward and Palm Beach:At the risk of sounding like a broken record, more political figures have been arrested, including Ed Portner, running for mayor of Coral Springs Tamarac, for pulling a gun on his daughter Stacy Ritter, the mayor of Broward County. ... More >>

Morning Juice: Dolphins Make the Bills Pay; Local Family Makes the Doctors Pay

​It's Monday. Here's the news from the weekend in Broward and Palm Beach. Big win for the Dolphins, who desperately needed a boost of confidence after an 0-3 start and Pennington's season-ending injury. Vontae Davis returned an interception for a touchdown, setting the tone for the defense's best ... More >>

Morning Juice: Two Men From Broward With Radically Different Stories, Both Feeling Lucky

​Today everybody will be talking about 9/11 -- because we haven't talked about it enough these past eight years. Screw that. Let's talk about the local news.Congratulations to Sen. George LeMieux, a lesson to all you Broward schoolchildren that sometimes you only need one vote to win a major polit ... More >>

Morning Juice: Senator Sidesteps Corruption Probe; Triple Murder in Lake Worth

​On what's unofficially the last week of summer, here's what's in the news:Florida's U.S. senator designate, George LeMieux, did not fall for an effort by Alan Mendelsohn, the Hollywood ophthalmologist and Charlie Crist fundraiser, to lure the administration into admitting complicity in the Mutual ... More >>

Letters From the Issue of August 27, 2009

​On what's unofficially the last week of summer, here's what's in the news:Florida's U.S. senator designate, George LeMieux, did not fall for an effort by Alan Mendelsohn, the Hollywood ophthalmologist and Charlie Crist fundraiser, to lure the administration into admitting complicity in the Mutual ... More >>

Search for Airline More Spartan Than Spirit Ends in Ireland

Quick, someone block the New York Times website on the computer of Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza. The head of the Miramar-based discount carrier will be devastated if he learns that there's another airline that is more ruthless about achieving low fares (a Baldanza obsession) and more willing to ... More >>

Transsexual Charged Again With Back-Alley Silicone Injections

via Flagler County Sheriff's OfficeThe male-to-female transsexual sent to jail after a client's botched cosmetic procedure ended in death was arrested again this morning. Flagler County cops and Florida Department of Health raided the quiet, two-story home of Donnie Hendrix at 8 a.m. They collared ... More >>

Off White

via Flagler County Sheriff's OfficeThe male-to-female transsexual sent to jail after a client's botched cosmetic procedure ended in death was arrested again this morning. Flagler County cops and Florida Department of Health raided the quiet, two-story home of Donnie Hendrix at 8 a.m. They collared ... More >>

Tiny Dancers

via Flagler County Sheriff's OfficeThe male-to-female transsexual sent to jail after a client's botched cosmetic procedure ended in death was arrested again this morning. Flagler County cops and Florida Department of Health raided the quiet, two-story home of Donnie Hendrix at 8 a.m. They collared ... More >>

This Ubiquitous Recession: Schools on Brink, No-Kill Shelter Considered Killing Cats

This weekend, I popped into the Arts Academy of Hollywood to pick up a schedule, only to be told by staff that due to declining enrollment, they were closing that very afternoon. The school normally has about 800 students in classes at any given time, but that number had dropped to about 200 since t ... More >>

Catholic School to Go Public

St. Stephen Catholic School in Miramar will close at the end of the school year and the space will be taken over by a public charter school this fall, according to Sister Mary David Magee, the school's principal.   On St. Stephen's Facebook page (Sorry, no link. You'll have to log onto your own ... More >>

Death by Silicone

She served time for illegally performing plastic surgery. Now Donnie Hendrix tells her tale

Hurry to Get in on Tobacco Suit, Flight Attendant Aprons Ruin Beer Surprise, James Taylor to Dress Up

A civil suit that goes to trial in Fort Lauderdale today is expected to be the first of a wave of lawsuits against Big Tobacco in Florida courts. The widow of Stuart Hess, a locksmith from Cooper City, sued Phillip Morris after his death in 1997, claiming the cigarettes he bought were defec ... More >>

Foxaganda

A civil suit that goes to trial in Fort Lauderdale today is expected to be the first of a wave of lawsuits against Big Tobacco in Florida courts. The widow of Stuart Hess, a locksmith from Cooper City, sued Phillip Morris after his death in 1997, claiming the cigarettes he bought were defec ... More >>

Kicks and Sweat

Rahsaan focuses on good rhymes and fresh apparel

Blood Diamonds

Violent South American thieves are stealing millions in precious gems ... and getting away with it

Leader of the New School

Popular lover's-rock crooner Tarrus Riley comes home for Best of the Best

It’s Not Easy, Bein’ Green

But it could be

Falling Behind

Broward foreclosures hit condos hard

Rambo and the Phantom

Investigating a gun-slinging city commissioner and the mayor who hides in the bathroom

Kiddy Parties Led To Mom's Death Spiral?

Investigating a gun-slinging city commissioner and the mayor who hides in the bathroom

Extra: Death Of A No-Good Snitching Rat

Investigating a gun-slinging city commissioner and the mayor who hides in the bathroom

Best Jamaican Restaurant

Jerk Machine

Battle of the Bugs

The blood runs pink as biowarfare is waged against insect pests

Letters for November 20, 2003

Caribbean Sounds Great

A Touch of Charm

This Argentine eatery is anything but mundane

Bloodletting

South Florida Blood Bank scrambles to make ends meet while paying its CEO big bucks

Letters for March 28, 2002

Straighten up, free weekly

Sabor Latino

¡Viva Broward!

Undercurrents

If you think shopping at Publix can be harrowing, try working there

Hungarian Rhapsody

Take a culinary cruise down the Danube at Cafe Paprika's