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Expand or Die: For At Any Price Director Ramin Bahrani, Bigger Films Demand Bigger Targets

Activists With One Struggle Protest Walmart Saturday in Support of Bangladeshi Workers

Ain't no free lunch in this country. Ain't no bargain prices either, unless someone's cutting costs. Globalization lets corporations ship jobs from countries with high labor costs (like decent wages and working conditions) to countries with low ones so Walmart shoppers get blue-light specials while ... More >>

Expand or Die: For At Any Price Director Ramin Bahrani, Bigger Films Demand Bigger Targets

You Are Now Free to Ride Your Horse to Walmart

Ever get a hankerin' for a whole case of cheese and peanut butter crackers but don't have the money or the means to get to a grocery store other than maybe a horse? Well, it's this kind of universal problem the fine folks at Walmart like to solve with their undaunted Walmartness. A brand-new Walma ... More >>

Turn In Your Gun For a Walmart Gift Certificate This Saturday

Ever thought to yourself, "Boy, I really wish I could get rid of this gun," while at the same time thought, "Boy, I really wish I had a hundred dollars so I can buy stuff at Walmart"? Well Saturday is your lucky day, sir. Sheriff Scott Israel and the Broward Sheriff's Office are holding a gun buyb ... More >>

Walmart Might Be Coming to Fort Lauderdale to Spread Its Walmartness Everywhere

Walmart wants to spread its awfulness Walmartness on a seven-acre site on the southwest corner of Andrews Avenue and Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, according to a Miami Herald report. So now those who live in Fort Lauderdale won't have to travel to Miami anymore when they need to buy a lamp, ... More >>

Meat the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile This Weekend

We're not sure about that famous song in which we wish we were a meat tube. Seriously -- do you really want your ultimate end to happen by being laid in a roll, doused in mustard, and eaten?No... what we really do want, however, is to trade in our used Toyota for the sweet ride that is the Oscar May ... More >>

Man Arrested for Drunk Driving Inside a Walmart

A guy was arrested over the weekend for drunk driving. Except that the vehicle he was drunk driving in was a motorized shopping cart. And the place he was drunk driving was inside a Walmart. Because, you know, FLORIDA! But hey, if there was ever an incentive for getting shitfaced before havi ... More >>

Boycott of Walmart Scheduled for Black Friday; Boynton Beach Store One of 20 Targeted Nationally

In the early 1990s, some the progressive-minded yet fun-loving folks at Adbusters magazine promoted the idea of a Buy Nothing Day -- a "holiday" that would condemn consumerism, not involve any monetary transactions, and definitely include some mischievous but harmless festivities. The perfect day to ... More >>

Walmart Asks School They Kicked Out To Come Back And Sing For Them

Yesterday we told you about the Pembroke Pines Walmart that did the most Walmart thing ever by telling school kids to take their 9/11 singing tributes someplace else. Even though they had already arranged it with the store in advance. Well since corporate greed knows a good boycott looming when it ... More >>

Walmart Says Sorry For Telling Little Kids They Couldn't Sing At Their Store On 9/11

Because Walmart is a gaping maw of soul-eating despair, this story shouldn't be too surprising. But, somehow it is. As part of a school-related "I Will" campaign, which encourages kids to help their fellow citizens and do a public service on 9/11, students from Coconut Palm Elementary in Miramar ... More >>

Teen Poses as a Police Officer So He Could "Arrest" His Shoplifting Buddy

Oh, teenagers. Two Port St. Lucie teen boys wanted to buy stuff at a their neighborhood Walmart but just didn't have any money. So they hatched a fail-safe plan. One dude robs the store, and the other dude poses as a cop to arrest him. Boom. Heist. Of. The. Century. Unfortunately, the two didn ... More >>

Las Olas Wine and Food Festival, Old School Beerfest, and other Food and Drink Events this Week in South Florida

With wine competitions, wine festivals, beer festivals, and all manner of pairings on the docket, this is a busy week for food and drink fans in South Florida. In addition to the typical end-of-season flood of events, there are a few special observances this week. Tax day is Tuesday and if you need ... More >>

Walmart Choice Steak Challenge Pits Two Local Chefs In a Fiery Battle

Two local South Florida chefs are competing in a fiery battle to see who has the best grill skills in the Walmart Choice competition. The grill-off, sponsored by Kingsford charcoal and Coca-Cola, will have the executive chef and sous chef of Miami's Red Fish Grill battle it out in a head-to-head com ... More >>

South Park's Cheesy Poofs Coming to a Walmart Near You

sully213 at flickr.com ​In South Park, food isn't just funny. It's also pretty gross. Like the recipe for Chef's salty, chocolate balls...  Now, Comedy Central and Frito-Lay have teamed up to bring you something even better. To celebrate the show's 15th season, look for th ... More >>

Hollywood Mom Accused of Diving Into Lake With 5-Year-Old Daughter After Allegedly Stealing DVDs

BSODeanna Headley​Deanna Headley's plan to evade a Walmart security guard after allegedly stealing DVDs included holding her 5-year-old daughter like a football while she ran across six lanes of traffic and jumped into a lake with the girl.Did we mention neither of them can swim?The cops say Headl ... More >>

Cult of the Can: Red Bull Fine-Tunes the Science of Hype

Joyeria de Walmart No Cumple con las Promesas Verdes

Walmart's "Love, Earth" Jewelry Line Doesn't Live Up to Green Promises

Anatomy of the Gelber Attack: From Amway To Huizenga

Sometimes  negative campaigning lives up to its bad name. The weekend attack on Florida Attorney General candidate Dan Gelber is a perfect example of the kind of sleazy negative campaigning that should make your skin crawl. In the ads sent out this week ... More >>

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Palm Springs Council Votes To Oust Trailer Park Residents and Move In Wal-Mart

Photo by Gail ShepherdGarcia: Making way for Wal-Mart​Ain't no sunshine in Sunshine Village today. Yesterday the Palm Springs City Council voted unanimously to change the zoning at this trailer park off 10th Avenue North to commercial, thereby making way to clear the park for an incoming Wal-Mart. ... More >>

Your DIY Love Guide

Girl Scout Leader Gets Badge for Credit Card Theft

Flickr: wintrspawnApparently, this Girl Scout couldn't afford clothes, either, so she improvised!.​The Boynton Beach Police Department has arrested Magaret Ann Willett, a volunteer for the Girl Scouts of America, on suspicion of credit card fraud after a victim picked out Willett from a surveillan ... More >>

The House of 1,000 Vinyls

Have You Been Had by Plasma Pat?

Largo Police DeptThe man they call Plasma PatThe city of Largo is looking for an alleged con man who's got it all. The bitchin' nickname, "Plasma Pat." The elegantly simple, three-step scam: 1) pretend to be a Wal-Mart employee, 2) offer customer deal on a plasma TV, 3) pocket cash. And he's an insu ... More >>

Brides Fight it Out Like Clever Animal Analogy, Manatee Sneaks on to Golf Course

If there's anything I've learned from TV news, it's that I've got to tease you, the reader, about upcoming things in this blog. So coming up, snakes attack at Wal-Mart! But first, a manatee tries to sneak into a golf course! And even more first than that, brides in Palm Beach Gardens fight it out on ... More >>

Tonight: Magician Escapes From Straitjacket on Dania Roller Coaster!

Tonight at 7, local magician Avi Frier plans to be put in a straitjacket and chained to the 100-foot tall, 60-mile-an-hour Hurricane roller coaster in Dania Beach. He claims he can escape from the getup before the ride ends its two-minute run. He promises there will be a "surprise ending." The publi ... More >>

How Much Justice Was Sold in Fort Lauderdale Last Week ?

We may never know. But eventually, maybe our friends who live in the western half of the United States will learn. Exactly 24 of their attorneys general partied up at the Ritz Carlton (formerly the St. Regis) on Fort Lauderdale Beach, flocking for a conference strewn with corporate sponsors.The orga ... More >>

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Death Is Such a Drag

Duct Tape Can Fix Anything

But it won’t mend your broken heart.

Herald Hijacks Ghost Ship Tale

Wal-Mart Bandit Involved In Sea Mystery

Will This Make Any Reel Difference?

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything.

Il Duce Does Wal-Mart

The Art and Culture Center brims with art that takes liberties with corporate images

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 15

Best Park in Palm Beach

South County Regional Park

New Found Glory

Catalyst (Drive-Thru)

Best Mall in Broward

Riverland Shopping Center

18 Wheelers

(self-released)

Letters for January 29, 2004

Hang onto Your Check Gramps

It's Buy Nothing Day!

Fight the urge to splurge, and stick it to the man

Best Ornamental Salvage

Eastside Antique Market & Architectural Depot

Butthole Surfers

Humpty Dumpty LSD (Latino Buggerveil)

Beyond Pub Grub

When it comes to pub fare, the George and Dragon proves that bigger is better

Canker Sore

State workers are cutting down homeowners' citrus trees to save Florida's fruit industry. It's a South Florida chain saw massacre.

Where the Stars Are

Where the Heart Is

Best Bookstore

Liberties Fine Books, Music & Cafe