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Pompano Seafood Festival Continues Today, Here's What to Expect

If you're headed to the 29th-Annual Pompano Beach Seafood Festival on the beach near the Pompano Pier today, here is a quick guide to what you can expect. At the beginning is Papa Hughie's Seafood World, a staple at the festival for 28 of the festivals 29 years and at the very end is Walker's Seaf ... More >>

Tortuga Music Festival and Marine Conservation: Where to Find Sustainable Seafood in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

Starting tomorrow Tortuga Music Festival  will be taking over Fort Lauderdale. Artists ranging from Grace Potter, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, and G. Love and Special Sauce to Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Avett Brothers, and Kenny Chesney will be playing right smack dab on the beach. Aside ... More >>

Marco Rubio Pledges Opposition to Gun Legislature Because of Reasons!

In his never-ending, undaunted quest to be the new face of the GOP by being the old face of the GOP, Marco Rubio will add to his nonbigoted hatred of gays, his marginalizing of women, and his denial of scientific fact ways by fighting off any and all attempts to pass gun legislation.He signed a thin ... More >>

Man Arrested After Threatening a "Blood Bath" Over Some Cat Food

Wayne Clark was arrested after cops say he threatened a couple of Walmart employees with a "blood bath" over a bag of cat food and a case of soda. Clark, who is reportedly a transient, tried to scam the store into giving him a cash refund by going to the customer service line and trying to return a ... More >>

Promised Land Movie Review: For Matt Damon and Company, the Message is the Message

Rush Limbaugh Says "Leftists" Using Newtown to Promote Anti-Gun Agenda

Didn't take conservative blowfish blowhard Rush Limbaugh long to jump into the Newtown fray and open his mouth hole to say things about how the media, the Left, Democrats, and all other Pee-On-the-American-Flag-and-Use-the-Constitution-to-Wipe-Their-Dicks Freedom-Hating Groups to come out and try to ... More >>

Woman Drives Stolen Car into Parking Lot Filled With Cops

A Boynton Beach woman's day went from bad to pretttaayyy craptacular (and deservedly so -- allegedly!) when she pulled the stolen car she was driving into a parking lot filled with cops. Tesia Cain allegedly stole herself a car that just happened to have a LoJack tracking system. She also just ha ... More >>

Out of The Box, Into The Big Bag

Florida Woman Finds Live Frog in Her Salad

It's dinner time and you break out the bag of delicious fresh greens for a nice healthy salad. Suddenly you see something pink inside the bag of lettuce. You look closer and see a tiny little amphibious hand. Then you see movement. Grossed out, you lose all your good feelings about vegetables.Read a ... More >>

Muggles, Be Warned

Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Wants to Meat You in Pembroke Pines

If you always wished you were an Oscar Mayer wiener, now's your chance to "meat" a few people that actually are.They're called hotdoggers, and they're the brand ambassadors who take the Wienermobile for a spin. 

Red Sox Fan Who Robbed Boca Raton Bank in Custody, According to FBI

Myles Dowling of Newton Massachusetts was arrested for robbing a PNC Bank in Boca Raton last week, according to an FBI criminal complaint filed in federal court. The complaint says Dowling demanded money from the tellers using a black revolver handgun, and then took off in a four-door 2000 Honda Ci ... More >>

Cops: Woman Hit Husband With a Brick and Then Called Police to Report She Was Attacked

Boynton Beach Police say a woman who called them Tuesday to report her husband had attacked her was actually the one who did the attacking. Natacha Jean-Baptiste, 41, was arrested after cops showed up responding to her call, only to find that she allegedly hit her husband in the face with a brick. ... More >>

Homeless Guy Gets 180 Days in Jail for Stealing $2 Worth of Candy

Better get a candy lineup ready. Delvis Rodriguez-Ramos, a 21-year-old homeless man, was sentenced to 180 days in jail for stealing a Twix and a Snickers from an Ocala, Florida, store. The total price for both candies: $2. We're not sure which is the bigger outrage here: the punishment, or the ... More >>

Tarra Coppola Tried To Assault Boyfriend with a Fishing Pole, According to Police

Looks like Palm Bay cops may have foiled another possible Lorena Bobbitt situation (she's the lady that cut her husband's dong off and threw it out her car window into a field). 30-year old Tarra Coppola was taken into custody after allegedly chasing her boyfriend with a fishing pole and a knife in ... More >>

The Thai Room Opens in West Palm Beach

As a Florida native, non-natives tend to whine open up to me about why they hate Florida, disdainfully referring to my beloved sunshine state as "the foot of the nation" (in which case New Jersey is clearly the armpit). They lament about nearly everything--the suffocating humidity, our lawless pill- ... More >>

Roger Scotton Stole Five Years of Shipping Services by Pretending to Be Walmart, Prosecutors Say

​A 41-year-old Boca Raton man was indicted on federal mail-fraud charges Friday after authorities say he got free shipping for his internet businesses by setting up accounts with UPS, DHL, and FedEx and saying he was a representative of businesses such as Target, Walmart, and Apple, according to p ... More >>

Last Minute Thanksgiving: What Grocery Stores Are Open?

Start again? Some stores are open on Thanksgiving.​So it's Thanksgiving, the turkey's in the oven, and you're about to start the sides when you realize you're out of cream and you totally forgot the cranberries!  Don't panic. Though most stores are closed, we've compiled a list of stores that ... More >>

John Henry Convicted of Murder in Beating Death of Man Who Broke Into His House Twice

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeJohn Henry​Here's the thing about Florida's "stand your ground" law: It doesn't cover beating the burglar to death with a baseball bat when you find him later in a Walmart parking lot.A jury decided yesterday that 28-year-old John Henry did just that, convicting H ... More >>

Kid KJ Is the World's Most Famous, and First, 8-Year-Old Monster Truck Driver

Tom Hanks Seems Lost in "Larry Crowne"

Questions About a Father’s Disappearance Led to Answers That Were Far Too Close to Home

Hug a Hippie, Help a Haitian

Cash, Weapons Stolen From Bus in Wal-Mart Parking Lot

Sketch: Broward Sheriff's OfficeA drawing of the suspect.​A bus that belonged to X-Centric Club in Deerfield Beach was robbed on January 2 -- and Broward Sheriff's Office detectives are still looking for the thief, who made off with $20,000 in cash and three handguns.The incident occurred around 1 ... More >>

Stop, Drop, and Rock 'n' Roll

Your 912 Project Scavenger Hunt

Pretending Obama is a Muslim might never get old. ​Here's a fun way to look at today's so-called 912 events. But first, some background: Eight years ago, this country was struck in the worst terrorist attack in our history. In the days and weeks following, Americans felt a sense o ... More >>

Lauderdale Couple's Shopping "Spree" No Splurge

"If toys are legal, only criminals will have toys."​When even criminals value frugality, you know the economy has truly hit bottom. Lauderdale friends Timothy Seamore and Sebrina Smith went on a shopping spree in Palm Beach County yesterday, passing forged checks and using stolen credit cards. Bu ... More >>

Origins of the Leviathan

The Eagles

The Eagles to Perform at BankAtlantic Center on Monday, Jan. 26

Critical respect has been a long time coming for the Eagles, who didn't exactly help their cause much with last year's mediocre double disc Long Road Out of Eden -- which, despite (or maybe due to) being available only at Wal-Mart, wound up as one of 2007's top-selling albums. The quintessential Am ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

New Found Glory Signs With Epitaph

Burger King Pitches Penny To Tomato Pickers

Corporate Concert Stranglehold

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

Making The Family Proud

Wait: Local Indie Music Stores Actually Grow

Don't Photograph This at Home!

Fooled Again

Mother Nature plays dirty, but curfews, cancellations aren't exactly fair either

Cloth, Paper, Roosters

One for the Girls

Traveling Pants is an ill fit for the screen, but teens and tweens will love it

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Getting Served

Art by the Square Foot

At the Art Marketplace, you can pick your theme, then match your living room décor

Best Beer, Bait, and Bullets

The Corner Store

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

The Handsome Family

Singing Bones (Carrot Top)

Loophole? What Loophole?

Low-profile "legal" gambling operations are slipping into Florida under the door and through the transom

Still Tripping

Rolling down the staircase with Trip Theory

Citrus Tree Removers Leave Sour Taste

Letters for July 20, 2000

The Straight Dope