The White House

Obama Rides, Praises Broward Students' Science Project Bike

Kionna Elliot, 18, and Payton Karr, 16, of Northeast High School in Broward unveiled their science-fair project in the East Garden of the White House on Wednesday afternoon.And the result was not only a display of pride from students repping our hometown but it also gave us a fantastic image of Pres ... More >>

White House Kitchen Affected by Sequestration

The federal government's budget cuts are being felt everywhere these days -- including in the White House kitchen.In an interview with reporters, the White House's assistant chef and senior policy adviser for the healthy food initiative, Sam Kass, announced that he was being furloughed, according to ... More >>

Obama to Honor the Miami Heat for Being the Most Awesome Basketball Team on the Planet

As you may have heard, the Miami Heat are kind of a big deal. In that the team eradicates anyone and anything that gets in its way of winning basketball games. And, as you may have heard, the Miami Heat won the NBA title last year. So, as is custom in this great nation of ours, the President of th ... More >>

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 >>

Mavericks High School Pocketed $160,000 in Extra State Funding, Audits Say

On paper Mavericks High School has all the makings a good charter school. Catchy name? Check. Celebrity endorsements? Hell yes. Political pull? Right into the White House. So what exactly is the problem? Well, there's the whole issue of proper usage of government funding, but does that really matter ... More >>

Rick Scott Impeachment Petition Lands on White House Web Site

Politicians have to be All-Pro when it comes to shouldering hits from the sideline about job performance and bungled expectations. But it's still got to be a little bit embarrassing when the electorate decides to trash your term in office on the White House's front steps, electronically speaking.&nb ... More >>

Florida Residents Who Petitioned to Secede From the U.S. Don't Even Live In Florida

A few weeks ago, we told you about a group of Floridans fed up with all that government interference (like roads and hospitals and police and stuff) and put together a petition on the White House's website to allow the state to "peacefully" secede from the United States LEST OBAMA INVITE THE WRATH O ... More >>

President Obama Releases Top-Secret Beer Recipes for White House Home Brews (Video)

Time to get your swerve on just like the prez. After much begging and pleading from the nation's contingency of home brewers (and a popular online petition, to boot), the White House has released the top-secret recipes for President Obama's home brews. In an announcement made Saturday, the White H ... More >>

Tap 42 and The Blind Monk Want You To Drink Florida Beer This Week

The biggest news this week in the craft beer world -- aside from the announcement that Goose Island will finally! hit Florida shelves this year -- is the concerted effort to get President Obama to release the super-top-secret recipe for his White House home brew Honey Ale. There's eve ... More >>

President Obama Brews Beer and Buys a Round at the Fair

When choosing the next president of the United States, one has to weigh many issues. There's the economy, health care, beer appreciation...President Barack Obama, for instance, likes his beer so much that he's brewing and bottling his own private-label stash at the White House.For more than a year, ... More >>

Your Super Tuesday Republican Nominee Parcheesi Game

​There are still four contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, all desperately trying to pander to voters by crusading for relief from women, gays, minorities, the poor, immigrants, atheists, government workers, and anyone who believes in scientific discoveries made after the 17th Ce ... More >>

Is Farm to Table Worth the Price? Some Floridians Say No.

​From LA to Boston, farm to table has taken root. Even the White House is in on it. Shaped by books such as Michael Pollan's Ominvore's Dilemma on "why we consume what we consume" and films like Food Inc., many have embraced the mantra and spend dining dollars at farm to table restaurants over o ... More >>

No Budget For Sadism: Arthur G. Dozier Boys' School To Close

The White House BoysThe White House at the Dozier School​There probably are no real ghosts in this world, but some places are haunted anyway. One of them is the Arthur G. Dozier School For Boys, which has existed for a century just outside of a greasy mosquito-cloud of a town called Marianna, in a ... More >>

Costco Unknowingly Caters POTUS Situation Room During Osama Operation

The White House Museum Was Sunday's operation too secret for the White House kitchen staff?​As details are released about the operation that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, one of the more interesting things to note is the food in situation room on Sunday. A detailed story in The Ne ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden is Dead! (Dead Body PHOTO?)

​If you haven't yet heard, Osama bin Laden is dead!  President Obama just spoke and confirmed that his body

Jon Karl Can't Stop Asking Marco Rubio About The Presidency

What follows is a dramatic imagining of ABC journalist Jon Karl interviewing a blogger.

Ann Coulter: If You're Reading This, You're Probably a Traitor

Surrounded by enemies, but smiling.​Tuesday on Coulter Watch, I tried defending SoFla's sexiest pundit for her Q&A performance at last week's CPAC. I stand by my defense. In those twenty minutes, she seemed to honestly wrestle with issues of concern to both her and her audience. And if she cam ... More >>

President Obama's Official State Dinner Menu

The White House Setting up for the State Dinner​Last night, President and Mrs. Obama hosted an official state dinner for President Hu of The People's Republic of China.  225 guests attended the dinner, held in The White House. Of those guests, only 20 were actually in the same r ... More >>

Hungover from Too Much Freedom

The Blind Boys of Alabama to Bless Miramar Cultural Center

Two-Thirds of Florida Republican Voters Have Doubts About Obama's Citizenship

FlickrA birther demonstrating outside the White House.​This poll by Daily Kos came out a few weeks ago, but there's a statistic buried near the bottom that deserves more attention: Roughly one-third of registered Republicans likely to vote in Florida's August primary believe that President Barack ... More >>

The Decade in Meat: From the McRib Comeback to a President Obama Meat Blunder

Photo from Flickr user Cap'n SurlyThe decade brought us many great meat products, like the Bacon Explosion.​Growing up, I was always a fan of those ubiquitous "best of the year" stories that news outlets put together every December, so I thought it fitting that I give a little something back this ... More >>

2012 Shows That the End of CGI Marvel Is Over

Cash4Gold Offers to Take Over Cash for Clunkers

Flickr: jamesos1Should the feds trust the guy with the biggest pile of gold in Florida?​Jeffrey Aronson and his partner in Cash4Gold are mighty proud of themselves. They wrote a letter to Congress and the White House boasting of how their Pompano Beach-based company has turned a recession into a w ... More >>

Obama's Listening Tour Comes to Broward Monday

Flickr user: fyunkieSure, President Obama's ears are big, but he's got a helluva lot of people competing for their attention. If you have a message you hope will make its way to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., your best bet may be to attend Monday's "Listening Tour" stop in Plantation.  The prez himsel ... More >>

Does Michelle Obama Have "Thick Rhinoceros Skin"?

Just before the 2000 presidential election, Robert Watson, associate professor of American studies at Lynn University in Boca Raton, decided to rally his fellow presidential scholars and collaborate on The Report to the First Lady, a 200-page book of advice for the incoming woman in the White House. ... More >>

On the List - XXXChange, VNDLSM, Little Louie Vega and Yo! Majesty

Should we be worrying, ya'll? Economy is going to shit. Let's hope Obama fixes things soon after he gives Bush the boot from the White House next week. Until then, there shall be more drinking and partying to forget we are on the verge of going broke.Here is what you'll want to check out this weeke ... More >>

Reporter Bound for D.C. Seeks Gotcha Questions, Ball Gown, Proper Footwear

When I was a wee college student at FSU, my best friend and I decided to road-trip to DC for President Clinton's inauguration.  There we were, two unprepared, underdressed 18-year-olds waiting for hours upon hours in the freezing cold for little more than a nanosecond's glance at a speeding lim ... More >>

Stand-up for Leno

Rather, you sit down while he stands up

With a Bullet

Corruption-busting lawyer Bruce Udolf wants to be Broward sheriff. After the Ken Jenne experience, though, are voters too suspicious of lawyers turned cops?

Kanye West, N.E.R.D. and Wyclef to Perform at the Democratic National Convention

Confirmed: Worst President Ever

Pop Goes the Art

Artbeat

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Bush Appointee: We're at War With 'Evil' Islam

From Gitmo With Love

The elephant in Guantanamo's living room gets 4,200 calories a day and a Koran.

What Hath Ronstadt Wrought?

By digging into the great (and usually corny) American songbook, Linda Ronstadt opened the door for countless other to do so, too.

Bush's Crimes

Impeach the president? Yes. A well-documented case ties him to Abu Ghraib.

Shut Up, Kid

... and listen to this 15-year-old

Desert Storm

Desert Storm

Dude, Where's My Planet?

Earth to humans: Save me!

Stagebeat

Buyout Revisited

Yoo-hoo! Investigators! Check the president's pockets!

The First Train to Clark-ville

Lauderdale hosts a candidacy in its infancy

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Fourth Festivities

Fourth of July offers plenty of explosions and heaps of red, white, and blue

Jello Biafra

The Big Ka-Boom, Part One (Alternative Tentacles)

Night & Day

February 11 - 17, 1999

Night & Day

January 14 - 20,1999