Port Everglades

Pounds of Cocaine Stuffed Into Coconuts Seized at Port Everglades

Apparently trying to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. by stuffing bags of it up one's rectum is something the feds are on to. So the next logical step was to try to stuff coke into hollowed-out coconuts and smuggle them in that way, because coconuts is not a person's rectum. Unfortunately for three me ... More >>

Great White Shark Caught Off Fort Lauderdale Shore

Scientists and oceanographers say great white sharks are a rarity in Florida. In related news: A fourth great white shark has been spotted in Florida waters since January. In this case, it was right in our backyard. See also: -Great White Sharks Spotted in Florida Waters -Fishermen Catch Great Whi ... More >>

Fleet Week Has Not Been Canceled, but It Won't Be the Same This Year

It looks like Fleet Week went kaput thanks to the government sequestration, meaning that Navy battleships and crazy aerobatic airplanes won't be coming to Port Everglades this year. However, local organizers are still planning to use local military personnel to have Fleet Week, so all is not lost. ... More >>

Passengers Aboard Royal Caribbean Report Having Diarrhea; Ship Cuts Cruise Short

The Vision of the Seas had to turn back from its 11-day cruise after passengers basically started puking all over the place. The Royal Caribbean ship docked at Port Everglades on Friday morning after a number of passengers as well as crew members showed symptoms of what the company is calling a spr ... More >>

Super Bowl Cocktails: Make These Baltimore and San Francisco-Inspired Drinks

The "Big Game" is tomorrow and you've got plenty of watching options. You can have a house party, head over to one of the many bars and restaurants holding watch parties. If you've got vacation days coming to you, you can hop a flight to New Orleans -- or you could sail away on a Carnival ship for a ... More >>

Jam Cruise 11 Pre-Party at Revolution Live on January 6

Make and Give This Easy Peppermint Bark For Christmas

Christmas is upon you and you still have to give something to the neighbors, the babysitter, the dog walker, the mail person, the hairdresser, the karate instructor, the crossing guard, your office Secret Santa, and your kid's best friend's mother (sigh). You could go to the mall and get them some t ... More >>

Girl Talk Chats About Collective Soul Cat and Toilet Paper Cannons on the S.S. Coachella

ShipRocked Sets Sail from Port Everglades on November 27

RHONJ Teresa Giudice's Fabulicious Cruise Sails From Fort Lauderdale

If you're a fan of Bravo's Real Housewives of New Jersey, break out the sequined bikini, the hairspray, and the pasta sauce because you won't want to miss Teresa Giudice's Fabulicious cruise on Holland America's Zuiderdam.The eight day cruise sets sail from Port Everglades on December 28, visiting T ... More >>

Ship, Ship Hooray!

New Fast-Ferry Service to Bahamas Will Cost About $100 for a Day Trip; Starts December 9

Baleària​A Barcelona-based company that offers fast-ferry service to the Balearic Islands has set up shop in Port Everglades and will soon offer fast-ferry service to the Bahamas in two and a half hours, as we reported Monday.The ferry Pinar del Rio will travel at 32 knots and carry up to 463 peo ... More >>

World's Largest Sailing Ship Docks in Port Everglades; Also, Forget About Seeing It

These masts don't mix well with, say, a flight to Albuquerque.​The Maltese Falcon, the world's largest sailing yacht and also a giant floating metaphor for the financial collapse, has pulled into Port Everglades, tucked away unceremoniously in a spot far from the riffraff and almost unseen unless ... More >>

Passenger on Allure of the Seas Gay Cruise Charged With Selling Drugs

A previous Atlantis cruise​It's been a rough few days for Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas. Last weekend, a crew member on the Port Everglades-based megaship was murdered on a beach in Cozumel by a Mexican bartender; now a passenger has been charged with dealing drugs on board.Steven Krumholz, ... More >>

W Hotel Fort Lauderdale Trendier Than Every Other American Hotel, Says TripAdvisor

The Epitome of Trendiness. Did you know its towers were built to resemble a sailboat?​The W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale is the trendiest hotel in the country, according to TripAdvisor -- an upscale win for the changing face of Fort Liquordale (Fort Martinidale?). So why, with the bounties of trendy i ... More >>

Good Ol' Greasy Spoons: Five Reliable Diners in (and Around) Fort Lauderdale

​5. Joe's Cafe, 1913 Cordova Road, Fort Lauderdale; 954-760-5637. This is the second coming of the late, lamented Joe Bel-Aire's, a late-night haunt that used to be the first neon sign you'd see when you left Port Everglades. Almost a decade ago, the legendary structure was leveled to make wa ... More >>

A Night With Sea Turtle Hatchling Rescue in Fort Lauderdale

​Here is a heartbreaking video from YouTube, posted by an activist group known as Sea Turtle Oversight Protection. It's called "Ten Minutes in the Night of a Rescue Volunteer." The date of the clip is the evening of July 10, and a map shows the location where it was shot: on the sand behind the Sh ... More >>

Has Oil Entered Gulf Stream, Reached Fort Lauderdale?

B. BrownOil off of Port Everglades ​Yesterday, a Fort Lauderdale-based yacht captain was boating about 12.5 miles offshore from Port Everglades when he and his passengers noticed the oil slick pictured above.  According to the captain, the slick was about a half-mile long. It was unlike anyth ... More >>

An Oasis Voyage We Can All Afford

That's the satellite view of the ten-day Caribbean voyage aboard The Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, which had a celebrated debut last year and docks at Port Everglades. I wonder whether passengers feel a twinge of guilt about the poor, earthquake-ravaged Haitians who get a peek ... More >>

Daybreak

Flickr: jus10photosFrom the 17th Street Causway, the view of Port Everglades.​

The Way We Were: View From Inside the Oasis of the Seas

Does anyone still remember 2007, when we were all spending like a bunch of drunken Scott Rothsteins? Turns out the world's biggest ship, Port Everglades-based Oasis of the Seas, is also the world's biggest floating time capsule. Construction started long before the Lehman Brothers meltdown, during a ... More >>

Happy Halloween: Vaguely Spooky Luxury Liner Leaves for Lauderdale

That's homemade footage of the world's largest cruise ship, seen leaving it's birthplace of Turku, Finland, bound for Fort Lauderdale. Set to make its posh premiere December 1 out of Port Everglades, Royal Caribbean's $1.2 billion, 5,400-passenger Oasis of the Seas offers titanic luxury, minus lurk ... More >>

Cliff Hanger: Worker Tells of Subterfuge by Port Everglades Firm

Photo: Miami-Dade State Attorney's OfficeIs Cliff Berry Jr. still involved in a Port Everglades franchise?​After people are convicted of felonies, they have to wear orange jumpsuits. After Cliff Berry, Inc., was convicted of a felony, it also made a wardrobe change -- into shirts bearing the brand ... 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 >>

Morning Juice: Samaritans, Good And Bad, All on Same Sinking Ship

The big story today is that justice appears to have caught up to the driver of the truck that killed wheelchair-bound Kenneth Scotto Sunday night in Dania Beach. The Bad Samaritan's name is Hugo Daniel Detteren and this is the truck model.But fate was unkind to a Good Samaritan, too. Former Fort Lau ... More >>

In the Navy

Best Picnic Spot in Broward

John Lloyd Park

Pipe It to Me

Hold on a Bahamian Minute

Mutiny on the Atlantica

Maurice Denis wouldn't give crewmen their wages, so they took his ship

Take a Walk

Art gets wild in the streets

Letters for August 7, 2003

No Hack Job

The Hammerhead Report

Hutchinson K's them all, lets God sort them out

Best Restaurant to Die in the Past Year

Burt & Jack's

Best Place to Walk Alone

John U. Lloyd Beach State Park

Fly Free

The Sunshine State's busiest animal hospital aims to spread its wings

Best Secret Passageway

Joe Bel-Air's Diner

Letters to the Editor

Letters for April 27, 2000

Through a Promotional Lens

Broward County: Gateway to the World

Undercurrents

Exhibit X

Toxic Justice

Investigators caught Manuel E. Rojas and his company attempting to dump toxins in the Everglades. Sounds like a simple case to prosecute. It wasn't.

Florida Alliance for Patronage

A group dedicated mainly to its own business interests is getting taxpayer bucks from Broward County commissioners

Best Place To Buy Antiques

Dania Antiques District

Best Place To Witness The Failed War On Drugs

Port Everglades

Still Cruisin' For a Bruisin'

Despite drawing attention from numerous law-enforcement agencies, SunCruz is brazenly operating an illegal poker game

Letters

A Bridge Over Troubled PR

The beleaguered DOT needed some good press about its new 17th Street Causeway bridge. How much? About half a million dollars' worth.

Undercurrents

Adding Fuel to the Mire

A million gallons of petroleum has leaked into the environment at Port Everglades. So what's being done about it? Nothing.