Florida Panthers forward Jaromir Jagr made history last night, first tying, then beating Brett Hull’s record to become the NHL player who has scored the third most career goals of all time. Jagr scored both his 741st and 742nd goals during the Cats’ 3-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets. Jagr,…
Professor Stephen M Kajiura has worked at Florida Atlantic University since 2004. Over the years, he would get the occasional call from a TV news reporter, saying that their helicopter had spotted groups of sharks in the water — why? “I would dig through scientific literature to see what we…
According to guys from Abodo.com, a startup website that helps people list and find apartments for rent, the price of a one-bedroom in Fort Lauderdale rose five percent just from January to February of this year. Everyone knows that rent is eating up way too much of our salaries, but dayum. …
Sailing to Cuba — that’s the hot topic in the boating world these days. So the tent was packed full yesterday at the Strictly Sail Miami boat show at Bayside Marketplace, where Wally Moran gave a talk explaining how cruisers and sailors can best explore the communist island. Moran is…
Matt Mahady was writing poetry before there was a poetry scene in Florida. He helped one coalesce and grow. He was on the first Florida poetry slam team that went to the National Poetry Slam. He competed in Providence, Seattle, and Minneapolis in the early 2000s. His poems made book/CD…
For years, animal lovers have been fighting to end greyhound racing in Florida. Today, that goal could be closer to reality if two bills pass through their respective committees in the state legislature. If they become law, says a greyhound advocate, about 3,200 of Florida’s active racing greyhounds could retire. …
Kim Porter is longtime diver who loves just strapping on her gear and wading into the water right off the beach near her Pompano home — no dive boat required. Just offshore, there’s a reef where she see corals and tropical fish, nurse sharks and lobsters. “Everything you would see…
As flops go, this one was spectacular: last year, rich philanthropist Margaret Blume spent many months and $500,000 getting a sculptor to create statues that looked like the famous moai — giant stone heads —- found on Easter Island. To make an artificial reef, she and her team affixed the…
On Sunday morning, just before 9 a.m. mass, about six protesters held signs outside of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Miami Shores, suggesting that parishoners withhold donations. Many parents of students who attend the church’s K-8 Catholic school,are upset because they were not consulted, and thus caught by…
A bill pending in the Florida Legislature would let anyone pay $100 for a so-called “citizen archaeology permit” and then be able to dig up historical artifacts from submerged lands like riverbeds and lakes — and keep what they find. Collectors are psyched about the bill. Archaeologists say that only…
In ten months, Florida voters can decide whether or not to legalize medical marijuana in the state. A group called United for Care has drafted a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would make it legal. For months, its volunteers and workers have circulated petitions. They gathered one million…
Every morning, at St. Rose of Lima K-8 Catholic school in Miami Shores, the white-haired principal, Sister Bernadette Keane, can be found in the parking lot, blowing her whistle. “She tells kids to tuck in their shirts,” says one mom who asked not to be named. “All the kids are so well behaved…
A weekly newspaper, the South Florida Gay News, has long been distributed on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton – a public institution. But according to SFGN’s editor Jason Parsley (a graduate of FAU), earlier this month, “My delivery guy showed up to FAU and realized there…
Fort Lauderdale is the city that made headlines worldwide in 2014 when officers arrested a 90-year man for feeding the homeless in definace of a city ordinance. But cities around the country have been enacting laws to make life uncomfortable for homeless people and drive them away. The latest municipality…
Dr. Nabil el Sanadi, who was the CEO of Broward Health (formerly Broward General Medical Center), died by suicide Saturday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced. The doctor was found dead from a gunshot wound in a bathroom in his condominium lobby in Lauderdale-By-the-Sea, where he and his wife Lori owned…
People in more northern climes are probably ROFLMFAOing at us, but Broward County has declared a “cold weather emergency” from Saturday evening until Monday morning, according to a media release from the county. A news release said temps would be in the 40s, while the National Weather Service published…
It is with great sadness that we announce that after three years of giving Fort Lauderdale a funky, inspiring space for learning and communing, Makers Square Makerspace will be closing its doors, with a final blowout scheduled for February 13. Since opening in 2013, the toolshop/bar/social club/arts and event space…
Your momma didn’t want her baby to grow up to be a cowboy, an English or a theatre major… and based on a recent report, she was right. You should skip college and get a certificate to become a paramedic. A recent report called “Labor Market Experiences After Postsecondary…
Coral Springs police today warned that residents are reporting of a phone/email scam in which con artists pretend to be representatives from the Internal Revenue Service and threaten to arrest the victim unless monies are paid. Coral Springs police announced via Facebook: “Over the past few days, there are have…
Lenny Pozner is the father of a six-year-old boy who was killed during the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. He says that he has been harassed constantly since former Florida Atlantic University James Tracy and other conspiracy theorists began popularizing the idea that the shooting…
Yesterday, the National Rifle Association warned that a shady organization is trying to scam Florida gun owners. A mass e-mail alert was sent out via the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, its lobbying arm. Marion P. Hammer, a past president of the NRA and current president of the Unified Sportsmen…
As a standoff continues in Oregon between armed protesters and federal authorities, right-wing sympathizers around the country continue to watch how the situation plays out. Yesterday, protesters tore down a $100,000 fence to let their cows graze on federal land, but said they would reveal an exit strategy this Friday. …
