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St. Pete Picks Up Crist Story -- And Drops It

Interview: Motion City Soundtrack

Green Eyeshade Award Winners

Wedding Crashers II: When Gays Attack

For all this talk of who's invited to Gov. Charlie Crist's wedding, has anyone remembered the fire hoses and German shepherds? They tend to occupy the front lines of Republican efforts to quash civil rights, and perhaps they'll make the guest list now that regional gays have announced they're cras ... More >>

Because A Regular Wedding Wouldn't Be Uncomfortable Enough

Love is a beautiful thing, especially when it happens 180 feet above a casino parking lot. As if the issue of marriage weren't contentious enough in Florida with all the votes, rulings and appeals, now a straight couple from Boca Raton has decided to flaunt their legal ability to wed in the cl ... More >>

Paparazzi Unimpressed by Ambiguously Straight Gov

Don't you feel just a little sorry for the gawkers of St. Petersburg / Tampa? They've been waiting to get their place on the celebrity map forever! But no, Anna Nicole had to croak in the that other Seminole Hard Rock hotel. Today's Charlie Crist-Carole Rome wedding was supposed to be the cities' Bi ... More >>

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

Random Sort-of-Florida-Band Album Review: WAUMISS, WAUMISS

WAUMISSWAUMISS (Little Ramona Records)The Carrboro, North Carolina-based duo WAUMISS traces its roots back to Florida, to a series of early-Nineties Tampa and St. Petersburg bedrooms that produced many beautifully skewed pop songs. The musicians who comprise WAUMISS became two of many who wandered ... More >>

Letters for August 4-10, 2005

WAUMISSWAUMISS (Little Ramona Records)The Carrboro, North Carolina-based duo WAUMISS traces its roots back to Florida, to a series of early-Nineties Tampa and St. Petersburg bedrooms that produced many beautifully skewed pop songs. The musicians who comprise WAUMISS became two of many who wandered ... More >>

They Can't Be Beat

Customers claim AutoNation lured them into bad loans

Silly Rabbits

Dance-music gurus for over a decade, does Rabbit in the Moon still have anything left in the tank?

How Does One Recognize the Four Year Anniversary of the Death of a Politically Exploited Brain Dead Woman?

The answer, apparently, is to exploit Terri Schiavo one more time, as Ave Maria is doing today. The Catholic city, which lies in the swamps east of Naples and was bankrolled by a pizza delivery baron, is staging a mass in Schiavo's honor. Because Schiavo was -- before she slipped into a persistent v ... More >>

Letters from the issue of December 11, 2008

The answer, apparently, is to exploit Terri Schiavo one more time, as Ave Maria is doing today. The Catholic city, which lies in the swamps east of Naples and was bankrolled by a pizza delivery baron, is staging a mass in Schiavo's honor. Because Schiavo was -- before she slipped into a persistent v ... More >>

Uh-Oh

A consultant arrives at SoFla's top newspaper, and old hands cry foul

How to Cook a Shrimp

And why all brownies are not created equal

Truthier Than Thou

Is honesty the best policy? Just ask the members of Underoath, a fractious hardcore Christian band that lit up the Billboard charts.

Charlie Crist Is NOT Gay

And other things the Republican Party wants you to believe on Election Day.

Charlie Crist Is NOT Gay

And other things the Republican Party wants you to believe on Election Day.

Dark Lords of the Six String

Metal Crusaders Tour

Rep. Hasner: Taking From Teachers, Giving to Jewish Museum

We didn't set out to make this Pick on Adam Hasner Week here at the Juice, but after Monday's heads-up that the Jewish state representative from Delray Beach was supporting a controversial anti-Islam conference, we stumbled across this item from the St. Pete Times showing that Hasner introduced an a ... More >>

Supergrass

Road to Rouen (Capitol)

Suffering Together

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

Bone Appétit

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

The Hospital on the Hill

A mean-spirited VA medical center director has patient care playing distant second to the bottom line

A Dog Day

A movie for mutts

Bowowow --yippyoyippyay!

The Norton Museum takes the phrase "dog days of summer" quite literally

Dr. Strange Train

Or: How I learned to start worrying and hate the bullet train

This Bad House

The Nuisance Abatement Board’s war on blight has had some unintended casualties in West Palm Beach — most of them poor

Floridian High Culture

The Nuisance Abatement Board’s war on blight has had some unintended casualties in West Palm Beach — most of them poor

Cash Dries Up in Key Races for Dems

house.govA painting of Bill Young, whose congressional career may have pre-dated the invention of still photographyOn paper, the congressional district of Rep. Bill Young of St. Petersburg would seem to be one of the best chances for the Democratic Party to pick up a seat. Although Young has kept th ... More >>

Red Eye Rocked

The annual ArtServe show: a music and fashion mashup.

A Full House (or an Empty Bank Account)

The annual ArtServe show: a music and fashion mashup.

Florida Smoke Shop Owners Organize Against Anti-Pipe Legislation

flickr.com​State Representative Darryl Rouson, a Democrat from St. Petersburg, wants to ban glass water pipes (bongs) in Florida. He has proposed and backed several bills that would effectively shut down stores that sell these products. His first bill, which never made it to a vote, would have put ... More >>

UPDATED: Florida Bong Ban Passes (Does Not Puff Puff)

flickr.com​Despite organized opposition from smoke shop owners across the state, the Florida Senate passed a bill that will effectively shut down most headshops in the Sunshine State. Under the so-called "Bong Bill," the only shops allowed to sell water pipes will be stores where the sale of tobac ... 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 >>

Billy's Back

The Smashing Pumpkins' small-venues tour stops in at Revolution on Tuesday.

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

The Smashing Pumpkins' small-venues tour stops in at Revolution on Tuesday.

VersaEmerge's Alt-Rock Crunch Coming to Revolution

The Smashing Pumpkins' small-venues tour stops in at Revolution on Tuesday.

Don't They Look Happy Together?

​ During Obama's State of the Union speech last night, Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson sat together to show unity in light of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting.  But enough about our dysfunctional Congress, let's move onto our dysfunctional Florid ... More >>

Pants Save Man From Gator: A Tale From the Brotherhood of the Sagging Pants

via thekruser.comThe varying degrees of bagging sagging pants.​Criminal! Dropout! Maverick of personal style! What do your baggy pants say about you? Survivor?! (Maybe... read on.)State lawmakers have been on a tirade against baggy pants for well over a year, but one St. Petersburg teen says if hi ... More >>

Rick Scott Gives High-Paid State Job to a Disgraced Bureaucrat

via miamiherald.com​In early February, Gov. Rick Scott picked Carl Littlefield to run the Agency for Persons with Disabilities. Littlefield quit 17 days later. He stepped down on Monday Feb. 22, the day before a Senate panel was supposed to question him about sexual abuse allegations at a group ho ... More >>

Florida Company Accused of Paying Homeless Men to Let Women Brutally Beat Them

shefights.net​A Florida pastor and a group advocating for the homeless is accusing a Florida-based website of offering homeless men money to get tortured on camera. The site, shefights.net, offers customized videos of attractive young women beating the holy fuck out of men, often until the men are ... More >>

Holocaust Rail Car Restoration is Another Train Project that Rick Scott Won't Fund

A rail car used in the Holocaust​The whole country knows that Governor Rick Scott turned down $2.4 billion in federal stimulus money for a high-speed train between Tampa and Orlando (and many are blaming that move for his current dismal 29 percent approval rating). But another train project, this ... More >>

Still Moving

A rail car used in the Holocaust​The whole country knows that Governor Rick Scott turned down $2.4 billion in federal stimulus money for a high-speed train between Tampa and Orlando (and many are blaming that move for his current dismal 29 percent approval rating). But another train project, this ... More >>

Gay Marriage: Ken Keechl Says He'll Tie the Knot in New York; Rick Scott -- Not So Much

ithacalibrary.com"That can't come here." -- Rick Scott​New York's passage of gay marriage equality Friday night has had quite different reactions nationwide -- including a couple down here in the Sunshine State.Former Broward Mayor Ken Keechl announced on Facebook that he's getting married to his ... More >>

Lawyers Complain to Florida Bar About 411-PAIN Ads

Facebook.comSome lawyers find this unethical.​The Florida Bar is finally paying attention to the 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service, in part because other lawyers have been complaining.411-PAIN is a Broward-based network of chiropractors and lawyers that solicits clients who have been in car accident ... More >>

Rick Scott's Emails Magically Go Missing

Yeah, you can find those emails next to the Columbia/HCA memos. LOL!​Gov. Rick Scott loves to tout how open his office is to records requests -- never mind the outrageous price tag -- but it gets a little tough to acquire public records when they magically disappear.That's what happened to the ... 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 >>

Fox News and Bill O'Reilly Accused of Airing "Distorted" Re-Creation of Florida Man's Email

Email comes in, new email allegedly goes out. You can't explain that.​Fox News has been accused of distorting its news content in the past. Often.Now, a St. Petersburg man says he sent an email to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, and it ended up being displayed on his show, the O'Reilly Factor. Well, ... More >>

Rick Scott Signs Death Warrant Number Three -- Robert Waterhouse Is Next

Florida Department of CorrectionsRobert Waterhouse​Gov. Rick Scott signed the third death warrant of his governorship yesterday, this time calling for 65-year-old Robert Waterhouse to get the juice.All three death warrants signed by the governor have been for inmates over age 60.Waterhouse, who wa ... More >>