Moriah Barnhardt has a three-year-old daughter, Dahlia, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor last May. Anecdotal evidence suggests that a soon-to-be-legal brand of low-THC pot called Charlotte’s Web might help her condition. If not, legalizing medical marijuana as a whole would give her a plethora of treatment options by…
When Jennifer Ringley first turned on her webcam in 1996, she had no idea she would be spawning a $1 billion industry. Although the 20-year-old’s show wasn’t explicitly pornographic, the genre of entertainment she spawned now makes up roughly 1/5 of adult content. Livecamming is easily the fastest growing segment…
Uri Pilichowski’s new view is breathtaking. Last Monday, the Boca Raton rabbi packed up his wife and five kids, boarded a chartered flight, and relocated to Mitzpe Yercho, a suburb of Jericho. When he looks out his window, all he sees is Jordan. Jericho — one of the oldest inhabited…
Officers from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department started following alongside the city’s Critical Mass in May. To say the event didn’t go well would be an understatement. Dan Littell, a 30-year-old accountant, was tackled by an officer in an altercation that was caught on video. Rahim “Ra” Benjamin, a 23-year-old…
The dog was electrocuted before it even had a name. In October of last year, the anonymous animal “fell into a rail” and died at a Flagler compound training track, newly released records from the Department of Parimutuel Wagering show. “Some of the cases are just heartbreaking,” says Carey Theil,…
Barack Obama’s approval rating is pretty abysmal right now in Florida, at 44 percent. That number seems OK until you consider that Gov. Rick Scott is at 43 percent. Then you realize that number is terrible. But Floridians aren’t so disenchanted with the president that they’re seeing red. A Quinnipiac…
Paula Crews, a suburban mom with short black hair, dumps a stick of butter into a double boiler and stirs in her secret ingredient. Her 24-year-old son, John, waits expectantly at the white Formica counter in their West Broward kitchen, watching while his mom mixes the butter into a pot…
John Paul Alvarez lives for the look in a student’s eye that shows he or she gets it. At Stirling Elementary School in Hollywood, the baby-faced teacher is known for working well with troubled third-graders. Perhaps it’s because he recognizes himself in them. Alvarez grew up in Miami, just south…
As support for Amendment 2 picks up across the state, Floridians are eager to get their hands in the medical weed industry game. But it’s become clear recently that the Republican-controlled Legislature might cap the number of dispensaries and limit the number of people who can cash in. Consider California…
Paula Crews, a suburban mom with short black hair, dumps a stick of butter into a double boiler and stirs in her secret ingredient. Her 24-year-old son, John, waits expectantly at the white Formica counter in their West Broward kitchen, watching while his mom mixes the butter into a pot…
“You kids act like you never did something stupid in your life,” one wrote on her Facebook. “So fuck off!” the other one commented. “Gettttttt obvvveeeerrrrrrr it,” the Orange Park teenager with a black bob and perfectly manicured eyebrows fired back. “It’s not like we took the last one off…
The nickname of Fruitland Park, Florida, might be “The Friendly City,” but something sinister is lurking behind the Lake County city’s façade of Southern hospitality. Deputy Police Chief and Fire Chief David Borst stepped down last Thursday after the FBI confronted him with evidence that he was involved in the…
It was Fourth of July in St. Augustine when a cop spotted Raul Reinoso Martinez pushing a beaten-up bike down A1A. A car braked as he cut across the road, and the homeless-looking man angrily slammed on the vehicle’s hood. When Officer Todd Smith called the man over, he noticed…
Ever seen a gay man’s living room? A bloody, mounted head of some Christian is not, I repeat NOT, there. But Rick Wiles, a former marketing exec for Trinity Broadcasting Network, thinks otherwise. According to him, gay rights activists are the second-coming of Nazis, because both groups were trying to…
Daniel Soligny had a good life, except for the whole health insurance thing. He didn’t have the most glamorous job, sure, but spending 14 hours a day on rollerblades at Sonic Beach Miami Gardens kept him active, and his girl, Jacqueline, was always by his side. Although he was 20…
The first time Tim Morgan smoked Afghani weed, he thought, “I like this.” The 20-year-old Sante Fe College student was hanging out in his Gainesville apartment with his high school girlfriend and about ten friends. Everyone was huddled around a single measly joint. “I thought it wouldn’t last long, and…
He giveth unto South Florida what he taketh away from our neighbors to the north. Although Rick Scott refused $2.4 billion federal stimulus money in 2011 that would have funded a bullet train between Orlando and Tampa, he was one of the biggest supporters of All Aboard Florida. Either our…
The first time Tim Morgan smoked Afghani weed, he thought, “I like this.” The 20-year-old college student was hanging out in his Gainesville apartment with his high school girlfriend and about ten friends. Everyone was huddled around a single measly joint. “I thought it wouldn’t last long, and I didn’t…
There’s a classic episode of Current TV’s Vanguard that takes place in Florida. “Oxycontin Express” took reporter Mariana van Zeller to Broward, where she talked to pill addicts and the people who travel here from out of state to purchase drugs and traffic them elsewhere. It’s so good! It won…
Fort Lauderdale is no stranger to luxury condos. Las Olas River House, the Waverly, and Nu River Landing all offer A-list amenities, if you’re into that sort of thing. Besides making downtown a live/work/play area, they all also pack in a lot of people…
At this month’s Critical Mass in Fort Lauderdale, there seemed to be more police present than cyclists. Cops on bikes, in cars, and mounted atop horses showed up at Holiday Park to herd several hundred riders along their group ride on Friday. Even (and oddly enough) park rangers were present…
Officials estimate that there are fewer than 200 Florida panthers roaming the state. Although the method of counting is imprecise, the big cat is — by any measure — far from getting off the endangered species list. When one gets hit by a car and killed, it’s a pretty big…
