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Democrats Meet to Organize Military Veterans Caucus

Republicans and Tea Party types say they respect the men and women of the military. If respect means wrapping yourself in the flag and sending young people off to die, so it is. Back home again, it's another story. Conservatives cracking down on social welfare spending hits veterans especially hard, ... More >>

Whole Foods Florida Hosting Best Butcher and Fishmonger Face-Off

We're not sure if you've heard, but butchering is kind of a big deal right now. Across the country butchers are teaching novices how to properly handle a nice piece of meat. We prefer watching the professionals to getting our hands dirty. There's just something about watching a man--or woman--worki ... More >>

Florida Man Threatens TV News Crew with Knife, Caught on Video

According to the news crews over at Channel 10, a reporting team was filming in the street outside of a private residence Tuesday night when a man -- since identified as 33-year-old Louis Dominic Paolino III -- came out of the house wielding a knife. He began slicing electric cords, smashing lightbu ... More >>

Chef Wes Bonner Talks about High School Cooking Classes and This Weekend's Boca Wine & Food Festival

Unlike most chefs, Wes Bonner didn't grow up cooking with his parents, or experimenting in the kitchen at home. Instead, it was school -- not culinary school, but a high school cooking program -- that would help him develop a passion for cooking.Today, 28-year-old Bonner has done a lot over the cour ... More >>

Mitt Romney Hitting Up Florida For More Fundraisers Next Week

Florida is a swing state. Even robots are aware of this. So, Mitt Romney will be hitting up Florida next week for four different major fund-raising events within a 24-hour period on each coast. (He'll be fine. He has his own plane). On the heelsof his Libya comments and recent polls that show him ... More >>

Florida's September 11 Connection: Bob Graham to Talk at Journalism Fundraiser Tonight

You've seen the pattern in Broward: Bad people come here to plot their schemes, nobody cares, and they operate with impunity for years until some journalist finally stumbles upon them. Then everyone is outraged. This isn't true just of Ponzi schemers and fraudsters. Terrorists do it too. Bob No ... More >>

Todd Akin's Dumbass Rape Comments Could Affect Florida Races

In a televised interview on Sunday, U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri said victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant. He then explained this by saying something about how a woman's body magically saves the victim from getting pregnant from their attacker. Or something. Illegitimate ... More >>

Trader Joe's Replies To Palm Beach Garden Rumors

Read also: Is Trader Joe's Coming to Palm Beach Gardens?Last week we shared a rumor that had south Florida salivating over the thought of buying tomato-free corn salsa, frozen kale, and cheap wine from salespeople clad in tiki shirts.We're referring, of course, to yet another rumor that Trader Joe's ... More >>

Is Trader Joe's Coming to Palm Beach Gardens?

Trader Joe's, the supermarket filled with foodstuffs both kitschy and healthful, may be one step closer to having a south Florida outpost, according to the Palm Beach Post. Sources say the market with a cult following is close to inking a deal with Menin Development, owners of PGA Plaza in Palm Beac ... More >>

How Rick Scott Can Get Away With Raking In Millions in Unlimited Contributions

Gov. Rick Scott spent $73 million of his own money in the 2010 governor's race. When asked in April if he'd be cutting more checks for reelection in 2014, he responded, simply, "I won't have to... I don't know what it will cost, but we'll have the money to win."And if the donations to his "Let's Get ... More >>

Republican Presidential Candidates Owe Floridians More Than $230,000

Newt Gingrich's campaign for the Republican presidential campaign is over. Done-zo. Finished. The guy is walking around his home state wearing a Mitt Romney sticker.But the former speaker of the House isn't even close to concluding the dealings surrounding his campaign, as documents filed over the w ... More >>

George LeMieux Is Loving That Connie Mack Messed Up "Campaign" Mailers So Bad

There isn't any evidence to prove that Rep. Connie Mack intentionally used $18,000 in taxpayer money to send political postcards all over the state, but there isn't anything about the situation that makes Mack look good.If you haven't heard about it already, all the recent hullabaloo is ov ... More >>

Here Are Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Campaign Finance Documents

​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 December 2011 only, the ... 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 >>

DIG in Delray Beach: Ambitious Food, Weird Space

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 >>

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 >>

Bonnie "Prince" Billy's Excellent Florida Adventure

Practitioners of Quack Autism Treatment in Trouble With Governor

David Geier, (not an) MD.​Two weeks ago, the Pulp published a small item about Mark and David Geier -- a father-son team of self-proclaimed autism experts who treat the condition with a powerful chemical castration agent called Lupron. They're from Maryland, but their interests run deep in Florida ... More >>

Kids Claim Abuse and Violence at Juvenile Lockup Thompson Academy

UPDATED: Another Teenager Beaten at Thompson Academy

Youth Services InternationalA photo from a morale-boosting event at Thompson.​The Pembroke Pine police have investigated this beating, which we first reported on January 7. Read more after the jump.Regla Cazañas holds up a picture of her 17-year-old son's swollen face. His pale skin is marred by ... More >>

Lavola's EP Release Caps a Year of Hard Work and Harder Rock

Miami Rep. Luis Garcia Tours Thompson Academy, Cites Safety Concerns

Photo by Mark Foley, courtesy Florida House of RepresentativesGarcia was not happy with what he saw at Thompson.​Miami Beach state Rep. Luis Garcia, Jr. last week got a rare glimpse inside the Pembroke Pines juvenile detention center where teenagers allege they were physically and sexually abused. ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro Is the Caligula of South Florida's Ponzi Empire

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 >>

Marco Rubio Has Risen With Lightning Speed, but Conservatives Alone Can't Carry Him to the White House

Expert on Ancient Spiritual Wisdom Finds It Lacking in Apocalyptic Blockbuster

For those of us in the news business, it's a tad frustrating to see people skip past news stands so they can stand in long lines for movies like 2012. Not that you can blame them entirely. The media in the kiosk describes a complicated world. And the movie describes a world that looks like the one b ... More >>

West Palm Condo Building Plagued by Chinese Drywall

So far, the problems with Chinese drywall in South Florida appear to have been confined to single-family homes. Sure, some entire developments, like Heron Bay in Parkland, might turn out to have been built with the defective drywall. But the reports of Chinese drywall in South Florida have so far be ... More >>

Florida's 2010 Races Taking Shape; Meek Looking Strong

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Kendrick Meek, of Miami,continues to tear up the fund-raising circuit -- an article in today's Roll Call says Meek will report $1.5 million in campaign dollars in the year's first quarter, which ended March 31. His primary competition for that nomination, Florida ... More >>

Tally Against the Machine

Escopazzo Going Greener

God Hates You

The Westboro Baptists have a message for South Florida

Letters for May 3-9, 2007

Six-String Preacher

A testament to the importance of guitar lessons.

Net Hate in Neverland

To locals, he's a roadside institution. But to the Usenet, he's a monster.

Sleaze! Sex! Suspense!

South Florida writers live the life

Incidentally Vocal

The Six Parts Seven gets heavy in the interludes

Tailpipe

Police Pranks

Suffering Together

In Lake Worth's Growing Together, kids don't kick drugs. They're beaten and humiliated.

Punk Poverty

Anarchy and flying French fries collide in the world of Against Me!

Loophole? What Loophole?

Low-profile "legal" gambling operations are slipping into Florida under the door and through the transom

Willingham Steps Up

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

Poison Pill

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

The Show Must Go On

Animal-rights protests and changing audience tastes beg the question: Will this generation of the Hanneford circus dynasty be the last?

Smear Campaign

Decades after the death of a great doctor, a pair of jet setters claims his legacy

Sand Blast

Frank's Plantation

It was envisioned as a well-planned community in a rural setting. Too bad long-time mayor Frank Veltri couldn't make it happen.

A Natural Alliance

Buck Island Ranch is home to the threatened caracara, and it's a laboratory where ranchers and conservationists are learning to work together

Man From Atlantis

You Spray, You Pay

A pilot program in Fort Lauderdale challenges the notion that the grass is always greener when treated with chemical pesticides