Country music star Zac Brown admits he was part of a group of nine people partying in a hotel room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palm Beach on the night of April 8, when four people were arrested for drugs. According to police reports, cops were called to…
In 1989, Milton Bradley created Trump: the Game. This copy is a vintage version; a later one was released after Trump started appearing on The Apprentice. Everything about a Trump presidential candidacy could have been predicted from this game: The thirst for power: The game was designed to be somewhat similar…
Waffling, flip-flopping, failing to deliver… These are common problems among politicians. So, once a year, churchgoers from about 20 Broward congregations come together to put those leaders on the spot. Typically they choose one issue of importance, devise a solution, and then ask the leaders publicly: Are you going to…
The Florida Derby is the highlight of the horse racing season at Gulfstream Park and the most important race in South Florida, with three-year-old thoroughbreds competing for a $1 million prize. It doesn’t quiiiite rival Kentucky Derby day in Louisville, but, boy, it’s looking like race day tomorrow will be a…
Eco-Site is a company that helps place cell phone towers in high-demand areas. It’s possible for the company to disguise the towers as trees — or other things that are arguably aesthetically pleasing, like clock towers. The company had been in discussions with the city of Miami Shores to put…
Today, President Obama commuted the federal drug sentences of 61 people who had been sentenced under outdated, draconian, or ineffective sentencing laws. He was set to speak at 2 p.m. According to a White House statement, “More than one-third of them were serving life sentences. To date, the President has…
Plantation resident Lauren Book, 31, has raised about $1.3 million for her state senate campaign, though she’s running unopposed. Her charity was also awarded a million dollars by the state legislature this session. Book is the daughter of powerful Florida lobbyist Ron Book, and after suffering horrific abuse by a…
Al Holden’s 34-foot yacht, M/V Close Knit, bobbed as he prepared a meal of chicken and dumplings. On his way to Key West, the Canadian had threaded his way off the Intracoastal Waterway and found a sweet spot to drop anchor. Sunset Lake is situated right between mainland Miami Beach…
A half dozen guys from Calgary have made it their trademark to show up to hockey games in costume as Florida Panthers star forward Jaromir Jagr — more specifically, as the various incarnations of Jagr through the years as he’s played for different teams, with various jerseys and various lengths…
Aaron Jackson, a well known activist who runs a non-profit organization called Planting Peace, has just declared Antarctica “the first gay-friendly continent.” He visited the freezing land the first week of March and unfurled both a rainbow gay pride flag and a pink-and-blue transgender pride flag. He explained to New…
There was some crazy weather Saturday in South Florida, and some of it was caught on video. On social media, multiple observers posted footage of a wild-looking storm moving over the water on Fort Lauderdale Beach, taken from various angles. According to Brian La Marre, the Tampa-based Meteorologist-in-Charge for the National…
Karine Prudent was on her boat near the Venetian Causeway in Miami Beach this Tuesday morning when an officer with the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission pulled up alongside her. “It’s 10:00. Let’s go!” he could be heard shouting in the background. Prudent, 45, has been living aboard a boat in…
This just in from SeaWorld: The company has announced it will stop its orca breeding program. The move comes after years of pressure, triggered by the film Blackfish. The company’s CEO, Joel Manby, wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times explaining the move, saying: “Americans’ attitudes about orcas have…
Bobby C. Billie was born in the Everglades, about a mile off of Tamiami Trail, in 1945. For years, that was all he knew of the world. Children planted pumpkins and corn, hunted deer or raccoons, and stuck their feet into alligator holes to see if turtles were hiding inside…
Yesterday, an online company called BackgroundChecks.org released its list of the safest cities in Florida, and three Broward municipalities made the top ten. According to a statement, the organization’s analysis was based on “FBI crime reports, natural language analysis, social media sentiment analysis and their own research” to create the rankings. …
There’s only one thing that would make our presidential election crazier than it already is, what with the candidates talking about one another’s penises, and Donald Trump evoking Hitler comparisons: a former professional wrestler jumping in. Of course!!! Why didn’t we see this coming??? This weekend, while Trump was Trumping,…
Here’s hope that you never need it, but The Florida Retail Federation (FRF), the state’s premier trade association representing retailers, today announced the passage of HB1241, which allows pharmacists in Florida to dispense naloxone, without a prescription. Naloxone — frequently known by the Narcan brand — is can reverse the effects…
The Intracoastal Waterway is like a highway for boats, with cruisers passing through from the north on their way to the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Just outside of the channel, which is federally run, are safe, protected spots where boats can drop anchor for a night — or many nights. …
This Saturday, March 5th, the City of Coral Springs, Florida, is hosting a public rally to raise awareness about Bob Levinson. Levinson, a 33-year veteran of the FBI, went missing in Iran in 2007. His family long wondered whether he was dead or alive, but perhaps because of last year’s…
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation gives out grants around the world from its headquarters in Flint, Michigan. A lot of those funds support wonderful-sounding initiatives for education, children, and the environment. But protestors in Miami today say that the foundation is hypocritical – that it wins praise for giving out…
Broward County on Monday announced that 2015 was the second-best year for sea turtle nests since record-keeping began in 1981. But that good news was tempered by an independent sea turtle advocate, Richard Whitecloud, who, through his organization Sea Turtle Oversight Protection, runs a volunteer army that monitors turtle nests…
Two elementary-school-aged kids — Khendall of Jacksonville and Megan from the Orlando area (their parents asked that their last names not be used) — want to start a billboard campaign in hopes of preventing another bear hunt in Florida. During last year’s hunt, the first in 20-odd years, 304 bears…
