Parks and Historic Sites

South Florida Food & Drink Events This Weekend: Fort Lauderdale Bus Loop, Derby Watching, and More

Spring -- or, for us, the beginning of wet season -- if officially here. And just like the weather, the South Florida food and drink scene is heating up this weekend. Whether you're into laid-back gardening, big-bet horseracing, or getting your drink on, there is something to keep you occupied on th ... More >>

Oakland Park City Commission Approves Urban Farm in Jaco Pastorius Park

South Florida is about to see its newest urban farm.On Wednesday, Oakland Park City Commissioners unanimously voted to to accept a contract for the Urban Farmer's farm park, in the northern part of Jaco Pastorius Park. See Also:- Andrews Farm: New Urban Farm to Provide Cheap Organic Produce in ... More >>

Sunny Garden Isles Community Farm Launches This Weekend in Dania Beach: Free Lunch and Tours Saturday

Most people probably don't think of Florida as a place with deserts, but if you look closely, they're there. They run up and down what city planner types call "the transportation corridor." They are the areas immediately surrounding I-95. They are food deserts. Researchers call them "red zones." T ... More >>

Dan Rather Jumps Into The Everglades' Burmese Python Problem (VIDEO)

See also "Feds Likely To Face Legal Battle Over Python Ban" and "JAVMA Probes Whether Burmese Pythons Are Mere Hype or Destructive Force"Want to see a guy get bit by a relatively huge and very pissed off Burmese python? Then keep reading because esteemed broadcast journalist Dan Rather has you ... More >>

This Art Is Dirty

JAVMA Probes Whether Burmese Pythons Are Mere Hype or Slithering Destructive Force

​Despite the string of national headlines, television specials, a federal ban, and grotesque photographs, it's becoming increasingly unclear whether Burmese pythons are permanently wrecking the Everglades or if they're just an overhyped nuisance. Earlier this year, scientists r ... More >>

Expanding Snake Ban Could Cause Economic Woe, Feed Python Hype, Reptile Group Says

​Earlier this year, our cowboy-hat-wearing secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, hosted a news conference in the Everglades to announce a federal ban on importing four species of snakes, including the much-loathed Burmese python. Now, a new proposal from Reps. Tom Rooney and Ted Deutch ... More >>

Allen West Sends Letter to Michele Bachmann, Says Everglades Drilling "Absolutely Off Limits"

Harriet Tubman​GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann is about to receive a letter from one of those "radical environmentalists" she so loathes -- Rep. Allen West.In a letter dated yesterday, West writes that he was "troubled" by the interview in which Bachmann said she'd be open to dril ... More >>

Plein Air Painters

Daybreak

Oasis of the Seas at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.​

Despite Recession, Everglades Club Still Importing Waiters From Abroad

Flicker user: VeronicaCastillo.comThe Everglades Club is an institution on Worth Avenue.​The Great Recession and soaring unemployment rates haven't stopped Florida businesses from hiring cheap, temporary labor from abroad, federal visa records show.In Tampa, one company imported 40 electricians. I ... More >>

Everglades Club Membership Haunts Limbaugh in Rams Deal

flickr user: Bashorerepublican​The uproar over Rush Limbaugh's bungled bid to buy the St. Louis Rams wouldn't be complete without a mention of his membership in Palm Beach's oldest and most exclusive country club, the Everglades Club.Palm Beach's infamous bloviater was kicked out of a group trying ... More >>

In Carolina, Former Miramar Football Coach Finds More Money, Fewer Wins

Two years ago, the athletic director of Everglades High in Miramar was desperate to hang on to the school's promising young coach, Mike Palmieri. A 2007 article in the Sun-Sentinel (sorry, I can't find a link to a web version) details how Everglades lost Palmieri -- who it paid about $3,000 -- becau ... More >>

Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Details on the Everglades Club's Policy Toward Jews

Flickr user: VeronicaCastillo.comThe Everglades Club is an institution on Worth Avenue.In this week's cover story, "The Chef and the 'Amigo,'" New Times goes behind the scenes at Palm Beach's oldest country club. When Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan immigrant and dishwasher at the Everglades Club, was ... More >>

UPDATED: Sunrise Mayor Roger Wishner Hides From The Pulp

[Well, it's official: Roger Wishner is a man-whore. As predicted below, Roger Wishner and his do-boy Rosen voted tonight for the zoning change to allow Everglades Corporate Park to build a bigger development on the Everglades west of the Sawgrass. The stinking thing was passed 4-1, with on ... More >>

Captain Planet Is Retired; Now It’s up to You

Did NFL Players Take Boat Too Far Offshore?

NFL.comCorey SmithIn news stories about the four (now three) football players missing at sea, Coast Guard Capt. Tim Close has been quoted as saying that the boat they left shore in -- a 21-foot, single-engine, center-console boat made by Everglades Boats -- is "billed as 'unsinkable.' " True, the we ... More >>

Fool Me Thrice

A South Florida company caught stealing twice surfaces under a new name and gets a lucrative government franchise.

Hollywood Mayor Bober: Fort Lauderdale, Give Us Our Sand!

Beach erosion has been a problem in South Florida at least since the Army Corps of Engineers created the Intracoastal Waterway last century.  Under natural circumstances, winds and waves push sand down the coast, gently and perpetually southward.  But wherever there's a man-made jetty that ... More >>

¿Que Pasa, M.I.A.? Jose Goes Camping

To get an introduction to Jose El Rey (if you actually need one!) and to read previous installments of his weekly Crossfade column, Que Pasa, M.I.A?, click here.Against my better judgment and sense of comfort and convenience, I went camping. Into the woods. Into the night. With fire. And "beware of ... More >>

Some (Polar Opposite) Ideas for New Year's

You could be there for Lindsay's next embarrassment! So you've opened the presents and done all your dreaming about sugar plums, which is probably what the kids are calling some kind of messed up pill these days. Now your brain moves on to the next challenge: how to spend New Year's Eve.  Sou ... More >>

Glades Grab

Developers gobble up a section of the River of Grass to build an outrage of a project

Water: It Makes Stuff Grow

River of Greed

The plan includes playing footsie with a controversial land baron and paving over a piece of the Everglades

Bros and Cons

A too-hip tree trimmer is the major contributor in a bizarre mayor's race

Attack of the Killer Weed

Can a hardy little moth stop the fern that wants to eat the Everglades?

In the Fold

Origami at Morikami -- it's a natural

River of Sludge

Sure, Hollywood's sewage plan is dirty. It pollutes the Everglades too.

Best Place to Sleep Outdoors

Scrub Jay Campsite

Big Fish, Little Fish

Jinglemania All the Way

Get Silly with Uncle Willy

Paradise Crushed

A lush idyllic chunk of the Everglades was transformed by bulldozers and a huge tree-eating juggernaut

Splish Splash

A watery good time

Events for March 6-12, 2003

Best Place to Walk Alone

John U. Lloyd Beach State Park

Best Place to Enjoy the Everglades

I-75 Rest Area

Best Picnic Spot

John U. Lloyd Beach State Park

Best Kids' Thrill(s)

Calypso Bay Waterpark

Women in the Woods

Get thee to the secret wood to venerate the goddess

Best Weekend Getaway

De Land, Florida

Various artists

Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska (Sub Pop Records)

Best Place To Take Out-Of-Towners

Heliflight Helicopter Air Tours

Best New Bike Path For Masochists

Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

Best Hike/Broward County

Florida Scenic Trail, Section Two

Nitpicking Flowers

Just try writing a book about orchid thieves in South Florida and unwittingly including some errors. Then watch the critics bloom.

Best Freshwater Fishing

Everglades Holiday Park

A Bird in the Band

Letters

Trailblazers

Night & Day

May 21 - 27, 1998