The Wall Street Journal

Sun Sentinel Wins Its First Pulitzer Prize

South Florida's largest newspaper has finally snagged its first Pulitzer Prize, the award committee at Columbia University announced this afternoon. A three-part series called "Cops among Florida's Worst Speeders," which detailed how often -- and egregiously -- off-duty police officers speed on our ... More >>

Marco Rubio Is Going to Go Hard to the Hoop On Immigration In the Coming Weeks

Marco Rubio is about to go all-in on being The Guy For The GOPers in 2016, more so than he already is The Guy For The GOPers in 2016. And he's doing it via the thorny immigration reform policy which, just like every other damn thing in Washington, has split the parties asunder. According to Politi ... More >>

Starbucks Is Expensive in South Florida: Outrageous in Norway

Are you addicted to Starbucks?  We are too -- so much so that we're seriously afraid to find out what horrible detox we'd go through if we didn't have our daily allowance of caffeine and sugar.Recently looking at our bank statement, we were shocked to see all the Starbucks charges. At about fou ... More >>

E-Cigarettes: Danger or Healthy Alternative?

Kellogg's Mini-Wheats Recall: Watch Magnet Pick Up Metal Fragments Found in Cereal (Video)

Kellogg's has issued a massive recall of multiple lots of their popular Mini-Wheats cereals due to the possibility of metal shards in the product due to a malfunctioning machine at the plant. According to the Wall Street Journal, the cereal giant issued the following statement: "According to Dr ... More >>

How to Speak Republican: Leaked Document Reveals the Secrets of the GOP's Coded Language

Lake Worth's Gulfstream Hotel: Bahraini Petrodollars, the Black Gatsby, and Foreclosure

The fate of the Gulfstream Hotel, the faded crown jewel of Lake Worth's historic downtown, appears at first glance to rest in the hands of the Schlesinger family of Palm Beach and Connecticut. The hoteliers/developers bought the property in 2005 but have fallen on hard times. The hotel is in foreclo ... More >>

On Becoming a South Florida Regular

There are three types of regulars, though they're not mutually exclusive. There are those who patronize a place because their friends own it and hang out there. Take the crew that's often at Laser Wolf, who dated/went to high school with/are in the same social circle as the people on both sides of t ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Secret Palm Beach Stump Speech: Destroy HUD, Pitch a "Republican DREAM Act"

It's amazing what a politician will say when he doesn't think the press is around.Mitt Romney, who's the subject of this week's cover story, held a closed-door, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach Sunday night, and, though he has been irritatingly vague in his publicly announced plans for his p ... More >>

"Best Supermarket in Town" to Open Tomorrow in Sunrise

​New York Mart in Sunrise is set to open tomorrow in Timberlake Plaza at 8 a.m. The chain has set off heated responses in New York, chronicled by the Wall Street Journal in "Changes in Flushing Set Off Food Fight" when the grocery store replaced a crappy Key Foods to accommodate the growing number ... More >>

Coca-Cola Drops White Polar Bear Cans Because We're Too Stupid

​When Coca-Cola decided to team with the World Wildlife Fund to raise money for endangered polar bears, who would have thought there would be backlash?

Former Alcee Hastings Aide Convicted on 30 Counts in Fraud Case

​Mikel Jones, a former aide to Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, was convicted for his role in a scheme to defraud a New York venture capital fund that financed the operation of his Philadelphia law firm.Jones, a 55-year-old Boynton Beach resident, was convicted of conspiracy, money laundering, 14 c ... More >>

Five Post-Fort Lauderdale Boat Show Restaurants Where Rich Yachters Will Dine

Hey girl, want to see my yacht?​Yesterday marked the end of the annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. If you missed the show we can give you a small yet correct synopsis now:Many extravagant yachts floated through the intracoastal waterways from Oct. 27-31. Those yachts were hosted by ya ... More >>

Tryst in Delray Beach is the Place to Sip a Funky, Aged Beer

365beers.blogspot.com​Until I started writing about beer a couple years ago, the only reds I'd had were hyper-sweet lambics and Killian's from the '90's, the Coors-bought lager made red by caramelized, malted barley. I was underwhelmed by them until I sipped a gueuze.Though it's also a lambic, the ... More >>

Bill Koch, Billionaire Coal Man, Donates Heavily to John Boehner, Throws Bone to Allen West

Kim SargentBill Koch supports pro-coal candidates.​Last month, New Times introduced you to Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire who owns a coal and gas company, is known for his voracious appetite for wine and women, and has two brothers famous for being the sugar daddies of the Tea Party. W ... More >>

Alcee Hastings Faces Ethics Investigation; Allegedly Too Touchy-Feely With Ex-Staffer

Wikimedia CommonsIt's sex-scandal o'clock in Congress.​Miramar's Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings faces a House ethics investigation after he was allegedly a little too hands-on with a former female staffer.Winsome Packer -- who worked on the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation chaired by Ha ... More >>

Alcee Hastings Stands Accused of Malfeasance – Again

Alcee Hastings' Scandals Collide in Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

A sexual harassment suit filed against Congressman Alcee Hastings combines two of the Miramar Democrat's weaknesses -- taxpayer-paid globetrotting and women underlings he has had in the government's employ. RightklikPacker and Hastings​Winsome Packer, the former high-level Capitol Hill policy ... More >>

Foreclosure Madness Just Won't Stop

More pain is forecast in the housing market. All you need to do is look at Broward County Property Appraiser records to see why. There are thousands of properties left over from the housing boom that have neither been foreclosed or short sold. They're saying the bottom might hit in 2012 and th ... More >>

I'm Eating What?! Sizzlin' Bacon Sunflower Seeds

Photo by Riki AltmanHey! There's no pig in my seeds!​OK, now the bacon craze has just gone too, too far. We were down with the whole bacon-infused bourbon thing; we thought the maple-glazed doughnut with a bacon topper and deep-fried bacon munchies were fun novelties; and the whole bacon ice cream ... More >>

Playing the Field

Malcolm Glazer's Palm Beach Digs a Steal at $24 Mil

Flickr: foje64A home with dimensions similar to the one Glazer sold.​Make room in the pool for a whale of a victim of the South Florida housing slump. Malcolm Glazer, a billionaire corporate raider/sports franchise owner, had to mark down a Palm Beach home he was listing for $27.5 million. It sold ... More >>

Can Boca Firm Save Playboy Magazine?

Flickr: Alexandra HayesHef: You worry about the debts; I'll take care of the bunnies.​In what may be a sign that men are no longer curious about the nude female form -- or that the internet exists -- Playboy magazine is struggling to stay afloat financially. Now a Boca Raton company, American Medi ... More >>

With New Video, Flo Rida Pimps Sex Site Based in Boca

Flickr: Jazmin MillionFlo Rida​Two of South Florida's most powerful industries -- sex and hip-hop -- are collaborating. Yesterday, Miami-based hip-hop star Flo Rida released the video for his song "Touch Me" on a risque website based in Boca Raton: AdultFriendFinder.com.The site is owned by Pentho ... More >>

This Week in Boozing/Dining Events

​Summer is here, and apparently that means its time to get loaded on wine, scotch, and beer pairings. Check out these events taking place over the next week, and bring an extra liver, if you can.• Himmarshee Bar & Grille is teaming up with B.R. Cohn Winery for a four course wine dinner ... More >>

For Wexler It's Hard to Be Good Cop When White House Is So Bad

Robert Wexler​By helping Obama win Florida, Congressman Robert Wexler earned himself a higher profile in Washington, but the new administration has also placed him in some no-win foreign policy situations.Wexler, who is Jewish and has a large Jewish constituency in his central Palm Beach and north ... More >>

Ask the Critic: Is Tipping Optional?

Your server has the right to play too.Dear Insufferable Know-It-Alls:My husband and I agree that we'll give up just about anything -- new Wii games, Stella McCartney frocks, our children's dental checkups -- if we're forced to cut back on our spending. But the one thing we're stubbornly refusing to ... More >>

Dan Marino Now Throwing to Dauphins

Courtesy Sotheby's International RealtyBehold, the Marino living room!Seriously, does that not look like a room in a castle where one might expect to see a French dauphin fanning himself? And in this economy, who else but royalty can afford the $13.5 million asking price for the Dolphin legend's Wes ... More >>

More Turbulence for Lauderdale Flight School

The Federal Aviation Administration has been investigating Gulfstream International Airlines in Fort Lauderdale ever since operator error was blamed for the February 12 crash of a flight bound for Buffalo, N.Y. The regional operator has come under fire for allegedly falsifying flight logs and lettin ... More >>

New York Prime in Boca Raton Apparently Bucks the Downward Steak-House Trend

WSJ: Visit Exotic, Sunny... Lake Worth?

So you're a Wall Street Journal subscriber. You're stinging from the horrible depression, but you're smart. You'll recover. You'll figure out a way to get the kids to college. In the meantime, you want to vacation. You want to go somewhere fun. Somewhere bright--where you'll be far from the fal ... More >>

A Few Election Eve Headlines

Condo Hell, Lambiet 2.0, and UA-Gate Revisited

A Coke and a Journalistic Quandary

Miami Herald Cutting Staff Via Buyouts

Cheat the Rich

Life as a Hot, Young, White Educated Nanny Is a Drag

As Suspected ...

Letters for December 22-28, 2005

Hot Rods

Ladies touch the long poles at a fishing clinic

Don't Eat the Chum

Slick Willy

The ex-prez speaks his mind

Café Conspiracy

Take away the salt shakers and this place could be topnotch

Uh-Oh

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

Undercurrents

When bad things happen, SoFla newspapers react. Sometimes they overreact.

Eat, Drink, and Lament

The terrorism in the Northeast can bring us together

Undercurrents

Uncounted Presidential Ballots

Undercurrents

Best Place To Beat The Heat

Riverside Hotel

Best Newsstand/Palm Beach

Main Street News