South Carolina

Couple Arrested for Having Sex on the Beach

A Boynton Beach man and his special lady friend were arrested after cops caught them having sex on a Manalapan beach. The result was lewd behavior and indecent exposure charges for both, as well as a couple of fantastic mug shots that tell the tale of their crime.

Bong Ban Bill Passes Florida House in a 112-3 Vote

Bad news, potheads. The House voted 112-3 on a bill that bans the sale bongs and pipes that could be used to smoke marijuana. Ex-crackhead Rep. Darryl Rouson believes that The Pot is a gateway drug to things like The Crack. Therefore, he sponsored the bill to ban all bongs, glass bowls, roach clips ... More >>

Larry Lawton, America's Most Notorious Jewel Thief, Just Wants To Masturbate In Prison In Peace

Yesterday, the Sun Sentinel ran a front page feature story on Larry Lawton, a local celebrity jewel thief selling his tale of criminality and incarceration in a new book called Gangster Redemption, but left out just one key fact. Larry Lawton just wants to masturbate in prison in peace.

Publix Issues Recall for Deli Tri Fruit and Grain Salad

If you've ever had food poisoning, you'll know, it feels like death. And no, we're not talking about that time you told you boss you had food poisoning when you were really covering up a bad hangover. Nice try.Some forms of food-borne pathogens are much worse than others: Salmonella, E. coli, Lister ... More >>

Nine Most Important Bills Being Voted on by Florida Legislature

The Florida Legislative sessions got kicked off this week, and since this is Florida, there's no lack of fodder to get super riled up about and make loud angry noises and be an anonymous tough guy in the comments sections of blogs and on Twitter. Lawmakers will look at and vote on about 2,000 bill ... More >>

Zach Deputy at Funky Buddha Lounge on November 29

Five South Florida Food-Related Events This Weekend: Mack House Debut, Truffle Season, and More

Will Hurricane Sandy crash (and/or destroy) your Halloween party this weekend? That remains to be seen, but if you've got weekend plans anywhere in South Florida, it would pay to call ahead to ensure everything is proceeding as planned, as some organizers may pull the plug on events if conditions wo ... More >>

Hatuey Beer Returns to Broward County as a Craft Brew

Last month's New Times Pairings brought an opportunity to sample an abundance of tasty food and drink from around South Florida. Among the liquid offerings was something of a "sneak peek" of Hatuey beer, a new "old" favorite. Though the brand was born in 1914 in Cuba and introduced to the U.S. in ... More >>

Hector Picard Fights Through Beryl Rains, Flat Tires, South Carolina and A Bruised Butt

On Monday morning, while most of you were sucking down coffees and lamenting the Miami Heat's near comeback, Hector Picard, a double-arm amputee, set out for a 103-mile bike ride from North Carolina to somewhere in Virginia. A few weeks back, we told you about Picard, a loca ... More >>

The Craft-Beer Craze Finally Finds Florida

What's New for the Holidays? Some Drink Links

slashfood​Get Crafty: Craft booze is booming, according to Good Magazine, as a result of the recession: "The Second Great Depression has been just as effective as the first at driving Americans into the soothing arms of a strong drink. Only this time around, our options for getting tanked are a lo ... More >>

Photos Ripped From the Internet: a Fascinating Exhibit at the Art & Culture Center of Hollywood

Rick Santorum and Allen West Having a Picnic in a Lake Worth Park This Weekend

newamericatoday.comYou -- picnic.​GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rick "I want to go to war with China" Santorum will be joining Reps. Allen West and Tom Rooney for a cute little picnic this weekend sponsored by the Republican Party of Palm Beach County.Santorum's appearance at the "GOP Family Pic ... More >>

Cliff Reynolds Sent Undercover Cop Loads of Child Porn and Asked Him to Ejaculate in a Cup

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeCliff Reynolds​Cliff W. Reynolds -- who went by "peter_rabbit57" in Yahoo! chat rooms -- spent about five months talking dirty and sending kiddie porn to an undercover Boynton Beach cop over the web.That kiddie porn part is why Reynolds was sentenced yesterday to ... More >>

Florida's Jobs Situation: What Rick Scott Won't Tell You

​Gov. Rick Scott has been proudly touting that Florida has created the second-most jobs in the country (behind Texas) since he took office, but here's what he won't tell you: Those new jobs suck.More specifically, since the governor took office in January, Florida workers have had lower hourly wag ... More >>

The Yankee Chicks

BBQ in the South: A Foodie Tour Guide

Summer's in full swing and that means the kids are driving you crazy vacation, vacation, vacation! Ditch the tired Caribbean and load up the car for a Southern BBQ trip, where the adventure lies in the journey as much as the destination.

Carolina Chocolate Drops at Culture Room 5/11

Ten Must-Try Beers at the Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival

Got stout?​The Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival is less than a week away, and with it comes over a hundred amazing craft beers from Florida as well as nationwide. With that many brews on tap, making your way from booth to booth sampling will be something like a scavenger hunt. To cross everything of ... More >>

Too Much Caffeine Is Never Enough -- Starbucks Announces the Trenta

Flickr/Abllo Trenta-Size me!​From spring break movies of the '50s and '60s to the Winter Music Conference, South Florida has a party-all-night reputation. Unfortunately, most of us also have a work-all-day job to go to. How can we mere mortals enjoy all the restaurants, concerts, clubs, and ... More >>

Should Brandie the Dog Die? Depends on Your Definition of Self-Defense

Brandie may be put to death if Gov. Crist doesn't step in.​Justin Lamar Dillard lost an old-school shootout back on November 10. That's when Dillard pulled a gun on the front yard of an apartment complex in Greer, South Carolina. Rusty Jones, one of the complex's residents, drew his own handgun an ... More >>

Orange Blossom Pilsner to Open Brewery in Orlando Next Year

Tom Moench, owner of Orange Blossom Pilsner, poses with his brew.​Check out the package on a shiny new six pack of Orange Blossom Pilsner -- which hit stores in South Florida last month -- and you'll find the company's prominently displayed tagline: "Florida's Honey Beer." It's so called, because ... More >>

Nile's Egypt-Themed Death Metal Coming to Culture Room

Concede? Hell No. Secede!

​It just happened. Florida has officially elected the man who oversaw the greatest Medicare fraud in U.S. history as its governor. You might think I would welcome this sort of thing. I remember when I covered the 2000 recount thinking at the end of it, after the U.S. Supreme Court gave t ... More >>

Lt. Gov. Candidate Jennifer Carroll Sponsored Bill to Essentially Break Florida Off From Feds

Carroll: Let's avoid those pesky federal laws.​State Rep. Jennifer Carroll had a pretty radical idea during the Legislature's last session: What if Florida just ignored federal laws that don't come attached with funding? The idea is widely supported among tea party types. So the Jacksonville Repub ... More >>

Report on Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection Finds Florida Ahead of Southern Neighbors

​Good luck getting onto a jury in the South if you're black. And if you're a black defendant, good luck challenging the fact that the prosecutor eliminated potential jurors just because of the color of their skin. Unless you live in Florida.The Sunshine State's laws aimed at protecting jurors from ... More >>

Will Identity Crisis Divide Florida Tea Party?

Flickr​They all hate taxes, so why can't all tea partiers love one another? This week has revealed divisions within the tea party activist community of South Florida, and in Central Florida the infighting has spilled into the courts, where an Orlando radio host is being accused of "hijacking" the ... More >>

Tennis’s Crystal Ball

Florida Falls From Daily Show's Top Spot After South Carolina Guy Shtups a Horse

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThank You, South Carolina!www.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorSpinal Tap PerformanceApparently, Florida has disappointed the staff of Comedy Central's Daily Show with its failure to more consistently deliver bizarre and deep ... More >>

A New Black Market in South Florida Is About To Explode

Jeopardy time. This black market product costs governments worldwide $50 billion every year, fuels Hezbollah, the PKK and other terrorist cells and runs on global crime syndicates and hundreds of underground factories in China and Eastern Europe.via Wikimedia CommonsHeroin, you say? Cocaine? Automa ... More >>

Long Before Affair, Sanford Fibbed About His Youth in Fort Lauderdale

Flickr User: Frani FavoritesNeither side wants to admit it, but we South Floridians have something in common with philandering South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford: namely, a South Florida residence, however fleeting. A Fort Lauderdale native, Sanford prefers that voters in his current state regard him ... More >>

John Patrick Fravel's Con Artistry

South Florida papers refer to John Patrick Fravel (pictured) as a "Coral Springs man," while to upstate New York papers, he's a "Salina man." In fact, the real Fravel appears to be a modern version of the carpetbagger: According to police, he finds a mark, fleeces him, then leaves town one step ahea ... More >>

Cops OK'd to Beat You for Riding Elevator; Even Dominicans Apparently Have Better Anti-Brutality Policies

Prosecutors have dropped battery charges against a guy after watching a surveillance video  showing that cops bum-rushed the shit out of him. The tape, which shows officers grabbing and punching Josh Ortiz, reinforces the idea that I'd better say some really nice things about Fort Lauderdale co ... More >>

How Esquire Rates Miami Food and Drink (A Partial Retrospective)

I recently came into possession of a half-dozen back issues of Esquire, a magazine somewhat obsessed with naming the best of this and the best of that. The food section is no exception -- three of the issues I thumbed through featured such listings. I took a tally to see how Miami fared: MARCH ISSU ... More >>

Murder, Spies, & Voting Lies and Boogieman

South Beach Obama Bake-Off

Southeast Campsite

The good art floats to the top in FAU's regional show. The rest? Sinks to the bottom, silly.

Artbeat

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Soul Kitchen

A Deep South journey puts some meat on our bones.

Tooth & Nail Rank & File

Emery and Anberlin

Scream On

Grab your guns, and get in the pit

Rivers of Song

History courses through the folk music of South Florida transplant Iron and Wine

Wanna Rassle?

More fun than an elbow in the eye

Bug Out

Who are you calling a lepidopteran?

Best Team

FAU Men's Basketball

O, Brother, When Art Thou?

Tim Blake Nelson's new Othello seems to be a man out of time

A Place in Time

"Haitian Celebration: South Florida Collects Haitian Art" and "A Sense of Place: Gullah Images" at the Coral Springs Museum of Art

Board Silly

The NRG 2000 East Coast Summer Tour

Southern Comfort