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Obama Welcomes Miami Heat to the White House

President Obama welcomed the Miami Heat to the White House on Monday afternoon to honor the team for kicking everyone's ass in the 2012 NBA Finals. Obama cited a pickup game some of the members of the Heat participated in with the president on his birthday as the real reason the Heat were able to g ... More >>

George McGovern, Nominated in South Florida, Could Have Saved America

The guy who Richard Nixon cheated out of the presidency is gone.George McGovern died Sunday at age 90. His loss in 1972 was the first presidential race I remember,. He was gonna get us out of Vietnam. He was gonna remake America. He wasn't Richard Nixon.   I grew up in Minnesota, next ... More >>

Cheesy Mount Rushmore In West Palm Beach For Fourth of July

If you can't get to South Dakota to watch the fireworks over Mount Rushmore tomorrow, we've got a cheesier (and closer) alternative for you.Come to West Palm Beach City Hall to watch famed cheese sculptor Troy Landwher turn a 640-pound block of mild Wisconsin cheddar into Mount Rushmore.The city has ... More >>

Delray Represents at Tonight's Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant (Photos)

If you need proof that south Florida women are beautiful, you need look no further than tonight's 16th annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Two of the 101 contestants, chosen from about 18,000 Hooters "girls" worldwide, are from the Glades Road Hooters in Boca R ... More >>

John Goodman Sentencing Liveblog: BREAKING -- 16-Year Sentence for Goodman

Note, 4:30 p.m: This liveblog is over. More updates to come in separate blog posts; check out The Pulp for more soon. And thanks for sticking with us this whole time.) Hello, crime-gawkers -- here's where we'll be liveblogging the 2 p.m. hearing in the John Goodman murder trial. For those of you who ... More >>

A Korean Adoptee Does Her Own Detective Work in a Gamble to Find Her Family

Pill Mill Expert Witness' Newly Disclosed Criminal Past Could Spark Wave of Appeals

​Dr. Arthur Jordan, an expert witness paid $300 per hour by federal prosecutors to testify in a number of pill mill cases, has a bizarre criminal past that the government kept secret for years. The new information could be used to appeal a slew of pill mill convictions throughout the country.An At ... More >>

Bee Killer Snuffs Thousands of Florida Hives

treehugger.com​If it's not colony collapse disorder, it's a crazy bee killer. Hundreds of thousands of bees in Brevard County died this past September, tied to a tainted food supply that contained an insecticide used to kill roaches, ticks, and fleas, county agriculture officials determined yester ... More >>

Let It Bleed: Hard at Work on His Eighth Novel, "Deadwood" Author Pete Dexter Still Packs a Punch

Further Seems Forever Reunites for the First Time in Six Years at Propaganda

Kids Claim Abuse and Violence at Juvenile Lockup Thompson Academy

School Grading System Ignores one Problem: Florida Is Still Dumber Than South Dakota

He's smiling because he thinks he's going to learn something.​Good news: According to our new grading system, Florida's public schools are doing better than ever! "D" schools are "B" schools! "C" schools are "A" schools! Florida is an educational dynamo!Bad news: Our high school seniors are totall ... 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 >>

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 >>

The Humane Society's Battle With Farmers Began Right Here in Florida

Kentucky Police Struggle to Halt Pipeline of Pain Pills From South Florida

​Florida has given the rest of America so much over the years: delicious orange juice, great football players, cop dramas, a preposterous quantity of Disney paraphernalia, and more recently, the devastating social destruction of prescription pill addiction. Wayne Bird, chief of police in Williamsb ... More >>

The Stripper Mobile Rolled In to South Florida on Super Bowl Weekend, and No One Noticed

Art's BBQ

More Worthy 'Cue Out West: Art's Barbecue in Coral Springs

John LinnThe ribs at Art's Barbecue are smoky and succulent.​ A rib dinner at Art's Barbecue in Coral Springs comes with two sides, cornbread, and a half-rack of tender ribs mounted on top of two pieces of white bread. The ribs sported a slightly pink smoke ring and had a the sort of soft-but-firm ... More >>

Review: Gary T. Erbe, Clyde Butcher, and Stephen Althouse at the Boca Raton Museum of Art

On the Hunt for the Sheik — South Florida's Most Feared Wrestler

U.S. Military Deserters No Longer Find Solace in Canada

Undisputed Underdog

At 40, Glen Johnson is still fighting for respect

Take It to the Bank

FLIFF wins one, then hits a downturn

The Weekend In Live Music, September 26 - 28

New Dogs, Old Tricks

The future of dog racing clouds a classic race

Wide-Open Spaces

Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie that doesn't go all hippie-dippy

Pulp Football Picks

Spring Forward

The beach is haunted by the ghosts of spring breaks past

Well Hung

To bead or not to bead, that is the question.

A Frenzy Within

The grand old tradition of indoor football is twisted but not broken by the NIFL.

AIDS Walk Turf Battle

Is a For-Profit Group Being "Cannibalistic"?

Letters for November 10-16, 2005

Just Skiddin'

Southern Culture on the Skids are the kings and queen of the road

Letters for October 24, 2002

Jeff H. Christ

Identity Crisis

Latin American artists confront their own exile -- self-imposed and otherwise -- at the Boca Museum

Best Computer Store

Gateway Country Stores, Inc.

Night of the Living Heads

What's it like to ring in the new millennium with 80,000 drug-addled Phish fans? Expensive. Noisy. Crowded. Uninspiring.

You're on Your Own