On most maps of South Florida, civilization simply ends somewhere out west. In Broward County the demarcation line is I75 in the south and the Sawgrass Expressway in the north. In southern Palm Beach County, State Road7 is pretty much the end, though some development straggles west of the line…
On most maps of South Florida, civilization simply ends somewhere out west. In Broward County the demarcation line is I-75 in the south and the Sawgrass Expressway in the north. In southern Palm Beach County, State Road 7 is pretty much the end, though some development straggles west of the…
There’s nary a bump in the road as you pass over the bridge that spans the New River at Broward Boulevard, nothing to call attention to the fact that you’ve just crossed a dividing line between two worlds. On the south side of Broward, the New River is lined with…
For most people who help kids entangled in the legal system, the only reward is the warm glow that comes from having done a good deed. For a lucky few, however, the payback is more pecuniary. Downright lucrative in some cases. How do you go from being a concerned citizen…
There’s a prescribed method to get into a Consulier, and it goes like this: Stand by the open door, turn 180 degrees away from the car, stick one leg behind you into the passenger compartment, crouch down and fall into the seat, haul your other leg in, and spin around…
There’s a photo on Tom Tornatore’s desk of him and his two kids at Disney World. In the photo Tom is on the left, Katie, age 12, is in the middle, and Tommy Jr., 16, is on the right. They’re standing in front of Cinderella’s Castle, which is decorated in…
Gail Norton is knocking on the front door of a Century Village condo in Deerfield Beach, but nobody’s answering. So she knocks harder. Then she raps on the window. Then she cups her hands to her mouth and yells between the glass slats in the door, which are open to…
Chris Murch has a Bud in his hand and a gleam in his eye. He’s fired up about the thought of killing “Mama Melaleuca,” the enormous tree in Davie thought to be the progenitor of the melaleuca plague. “I could take it out in ten minutes,” says Murch. “By myself…
