Sarasota

Foley's Priest Unmasked

Newspaper Editor Slattery Dies At 46

Sunrise's Salerno Shunted By Sarasota

Escopazzo Going Greener

Slow Foods Glades to Coast Dinner at Cafe Boulud

(sturgeon: It's what's for dinner)The Slow Foods Glades to Coast Chapter, which covers roughly the Palm Beach and Broward areas, is hosting a 5-course Growers' Discovery gourmet dinner at Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach this Thursday, December 11, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. The dinner, overseen by chef Zach Bell ... More >>

Travis McGee, Fictional Castaway

The detective's houseboat was once Fort Lauderdale's best-known literary landmark. That was before Huizenga took over Bahia Mar.

Cleared for Takeoff

If Fort Lauderdale wants to keep the Baltimore Orioles in town for spring training, it just needs to come up with $36 million

Sound Check

If Fort Lauderdale wants to keep the Baltimore Orioles in town for spring training, it just needs to come up with $36 million

Sand Blast

If Fort Lauderdale wants to keep the Baltimore Orioles in town for spring training, it just needs to come up with $36 million

Bandwidth

Slymenstra and the family GWAR ain’t exactly everyday people

Letters for June 5, 2003

They're off!

Busted! PBSO Arrests Happy Ending Suspect

Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeThere he is, folks, the guy that PBSO says forced a West Palm Beach masseuse to perform oral sex on him. His name is Gerald Hansen -- spelled just like the surname of the host of the Dateline show To Catch a Predator. Coincidence? U.S. Marshals nabbed G ... More >>

Metal on Metal

Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeThere he is, folks, the guy that PBSO says forced a West Palm Beach masseuse to perform oral sex on him. His name is Gerald Hansen -- spelled just like the surname of the host of the Dateline show To Catch a Predator. Coincidence? U.S. Marshals nabbed G ... More >>

Your Film Is Fired!

The Palm Beach Film Festival opens, Trump style.

Dead in the Water

To Be a Reef

Asphalt Artsy

On Las Olas, paintings and sculptures compete for space with the café crowd

Crazy from the Heat

Florida artists sweat it out

Willingham Steps Up

Hammerheads catcher could... go... all... the... way!

Show and Tell

One-night stand at The Hotel Biba offers artistic orgy in11 rooms

Poison Pill

Florida's first law to protect farm workers from pesticides died a quiet death, but now it's back

Technical Difficulties: Elderly Senate Candidate Adjusts Antennae on His YouTube

Here's a quandary: What do you do if you announce your candidacy for higher office, but nobody reports it? (Or at least nobody besides Juice?) If you're Bob Smith, former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire now semi-retired in Sarasota, you sorta pretend you never made the first announcement, then... ma ... More >>

Floridian High Culture

Here's a quandary: What do you do if you announce your candidacy for higher office, but nobody reports it? (Or at least nobody besides Juice?) If you're Bob Smith, former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire now semi-retired in Sarasota, you sorta pretend you never made the first announcement, then... ma ... More >>

30 Days and 30 Nights With Timb

After years of grinding in the underground, Timb veers even further from the mainstream

A Love Story With Bologna Sandwiches

Photo by Flickr user dtredinnick13​There's an episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse in which Pee-wee is talking about how much he loves fruit salad, and Miss Yvonne says that if he loves it so much, maybe he should marry it. So he does. Now, I like a guy with the courage of his convictions, but for me, w ... More >>

A Serious Fan Recalls Meeting Gregg Allman

Photo by Flickr user dtredinnick13​There's an episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse in which Pee-wee is talking about how much he loves fruit salad, and Miss Yvonne says that if he loves it so much, maybe he should marry it. So he does. Now, I like a guy with the courage of his convictions, but for me, w ... More >>

Morning Juice: Let's Try a News Round-Up Sans Rothstein

​Well, it's worth a try anyway. Here's what's going on in Broward and Palm Beach counties:The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit against the state for its failure to provide Floridian family with a quality education -- a point for which the Palm Beach County School District drop-out rat ... More >>

The Simple Life, Served a la Mode, in Sarasota

Lisa Rab​Just up the road from the Mennonite Tourist Church, on a street where women in white bonnets and blue dresses pedal their bikes to the store, is a time capsule of a restaurant.Inside, the abundantly cheerful waitresses wear flowered aprons with frilly white trim. Checkered cloths adorn si ... More >>

Chill Out at Chillounge Night

Photo by Silvia Feuerbach​Take six truckloads of South Beach-style lounge furniture and custom lighting, food and booze booths, live music, a fashion show and samba parade, dump them all on the Great Lawn in downtown Delray, charge everybody $15 to get in ($20 at the door, $75 for VIP tickets) and ... More >>

Gary Kompothecras, Crist Supporter, Tries to Bully Health Officials

Gary Kompothecras, a chiropractor based out of Sarasota, has been pressuring Department of Health official to turn over sealed immunization records. "Dr. Gary," as he's called, wants those  records turned over to father-son duo, Dr. Mark and David Geier, crusaders for the "vaccinations cause au ... More >>

Anti-Vaccination Advocates Propose Florida Autism Study Based on "Junk Science"

Dr. Mark Geier​This week, Miami New Times has a story about Gary Kompothecras, the Sarasota chiropractor and close friend of Gov. Charlie Crist who's been pressuring the Florida Department of Health to hand over sealed immunization records to a father-son team of anti-vaccination advocates.There a ... More >>

Owner of Pembroke Pines Juvie Lockup Has Checkered History

Flickr user: Mark CogginsThe company has a checkered history in Florida.​A recent lawsuit alleging sexual assault and physical abuse of inmates at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines is the latest in a string of abuse accusations lodged against the facility's owner.For ... More >>

George W. Bush's Book Fair Appearance Won't Be His First Florida Book Reading

My Pet Goat is apparently that good.​When George W. Bush reads from his memoir at the Miami Book Fair Int'l on November 14, it will not be his Floridian literary debut. So profound is George W.'s love of literature that he actually took time during his presidency to take part in a reading in Flori ... More >>

More Allegations of Abuse Filed Against Thompson Academy

Flickr user:Mark CogginsFive children are named as plaintiffs in the suit.​More teenagers have come forward with allegations of physical abuse and mistreatment at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines. Last month, a 15-year-old boy alleged in a federal lawsuit that he ha ... More >>

Thompson Academy's Owner Faced Similar Abuse Allegations in Other States

Youth Services InternationalA snapshot from a recent morale-boosting event at Thompson.​Allegations that teenaged inmates were sexually assaulted, malnourished, and physically abused at the Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines echo similar accusations the center's owner ha ... More >>

"Like" Boar's Head on Facebook and Feed a Family

Flickr/James J. YuBig Sandwich​Lunch meat sometimes gets a bad rap -- it's often the brunt of jokes, is served in drunk tanks, and is used in food fights. But lunch meat is so much more -- it can feed hungry families, raise money for people in need, and is just darned tasty.Boar's Head, the Cadill ... More >>

Five-Point Spring Break Survival Guide (Wooo!)

via www.floridausaimages.com​Yes, the Fort Lauderdale gets progressively more upscale every season, and  yes, the classy set tries to downplay the annually resurfacing celebration of Fort Liquordale's past, but it seems that as long as there are fraternities and the Elbo Room, there will be s ... More >>

Bonnie "Prince" Billy's Excellent Florida Adventure

via www.floridausaimages.com​Yes, the Fort Lauderdale gets progressively more upscale every season, and  yes, the classy set tries to downplay the annually resurfacing celebration of Fort Liquordale's past, but it seems that as long as there are fraternities and the Elbo Room, there will be s ... More >>

Broward Public Defender Alleges Abuse at Juvie Lockup in West Palm Beach

The complaints echo similar allegations at Thompson Academy.​News at Florida's juvenile detention centers has not been good lately. At some state-run facilities, teenagers are allegedly being doped up on anti-psychotic drugs to control their behavior. At Thompson Academy, a privately run lockup in ... More >>

Rick Scott Throws an Anti-Abortion Party at the Governor's Mansion

Gov. Rick Scott: Party boy.​Add this to the list of awkward party themes: anti-abortion bills.Apparently it wasn't a costume party, but Gov. Rick Scott held a celebration at the governor's mansion this weekend in honor of the four anti-abortion bills he signed into law.Partygoers celebrated the ne ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Activists Travel to Fort Myers for Inaugural Food Not Bombs Event

Stefan KamphSharing food in Centennial Park.​On Saturday afternoon, Haylee Becker, a 19-year-old volunteer with Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs who does most of the talking to the media about the local group, sat in a vegan ice cream shop on the other side of the Everglades and talked about confron ... More >>

State Legislator Proposes Bill to Regulate 411-PAIN and Other Referral Services

www.kriseman.comKriseman wants the doctors and lawyers to reveal their financial relationships.​One of the great mysteries about businesses such as the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service is whether the lawyers and doctors involved in the network have a financial incentive to refer car accident victim ... More >>

How Broward Bulldog's Dan Christensen Broke a 9/11 Conspiracy That's Actually True

Wikimedia Commons​Dan Christensen lost his job in the Miami Herald's Broward bureau in 2009, a casualty of rampant cost-cutting in daily journalism. Rather than throw in the towel, Christensen started his own local news site, Broward Bulldog, and vowed to continue breaking stories. "This website w ... More >>

Florida Company Offering Free AK-47s for People Opening New Accounts With Them

gunslot.com​Do you happen to need an AK-47, as well as a company to process your credit card transactions?If so, that would make today your lucky day, strangely enough.MerchantService.com -- a Sarasota-based company that provides the equipment and processing for credit-card transactions in busines ... More >>

David Rivera, Vern Buchanan Among 2011's "Most Corrupt Members of Congress"

Rep. Vern Buchanan (left) and Rep. David Rivera were named a couple of the most corrupt congressmen.​In the seventh edition of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's listing of the most corrupt members of Congress, two Florida congressmen managed to earn a spot on the list.Those tw ... More >>

Birther Looking for Joe Arpaio Treatment From Florida Sheriff Over Obama's Birth Certificate

cynical-c.comI found it, guys. We can all go home now.​Birther-ism apparently isn't dead, as Jerome Corsi -- head bullshitter of the Obama "fake birth certificate" movement -- has still found enough brain-dead people to believe that the president is a Muslim from Indonesia.In Arizona, Stephen Lemo ... More >>

Le Macaron French Cafe: Still Cute, But Less Annoying Than Cupcakes

Melissa McCart​Macarons are the new cupcakes in case you hadn't yet made the switch. About a year ago, even nerdy NPR declared,  "Move over cupcakes: make way for macarons."   Turns out --so I learned from the comments in this blog post -- Fort Lauderdale just scored its very own ma ... More >>

Buju Banton's Attorney: "We Had Ten Really Good Issues for the Appeal"

​The Department of Justice should have filed a response to Buju Banton's appeal on Friday, but as has been the government's style throughout the more than two-year-long saga, it's dragging its heels. Now federal prosecutors have until February 10 to counter arguments made in the hulking, 17,000-wo ... More >>

The "Mother of All Peppers" Might Be Growing in Your Yard

​Have you seen these peppers in bushes outside? The tiny tepin or chiltepin is the only wild chili native to the U.S. and is believed to be the oldest and hottest species of wild pepper.I first saw it in Tarpon River at a friend's house, a spindly shrub my friend had fenced off for protection. Whe ... More >>

Here Are Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Campaign Finance Documents

"Gimme dat money!"​I admit there's almost no Broward/Palm Beach connection to the super PAC run by Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, but I'm going to be waist-deep in South Florida's disclosure forms for a while, so hopefully this will tide you over.Though the forms cover July through Decem ... More >>

Reggae Great Buju Banton Is Locked Up on Drug Charges. Was He Entrapped?

"Gimme dat money!"​I admit there's almost no Broward/Palm Beach connection to the super PAC run by Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, but I'm going to be waist-deep in South Florida's disclosure forms for a while, so hopefully this will tide you over.Though the forms cover July through Decem ... More >>