Sex Columnist Dan Savage Gets TV Sitcom; Conservatives Protest

Dan Savage rose to national prominence as a gay sex columnist whose darkly humorous, sometimes raunchy writings — like whether to use an enema before “buttfucking” —  appeared in a weekly Seattle newspaper and were later syndicated to other newspapers, including New Times.   He made national headlines for a…

Blake Shelton to Headline Tortuga Music Festival 2016

The sun just set on Tortuga Music Festival about 18 hours ago, and already, a limited number of advance tickets are on sale for the 2016 edition of what is becoming a signature event on Fort Lauderdale Beach.  They’ll cost you $165. Dates have not yet been determined, but they…

Broward Bridges “Structurally Deficient”

The good news: only two percent of Florida bridges are structurally deficient — making ours the state with the lowest percentage of problem bridges of all 50 states.  The bad news:  two of the ten most heavily-traveled stressed bridges in the state are in Broward County —  the one on…

Racist Cop Called Ku Klux Klan Hotline

Two weeks ago, four Fort Lauderdale police lost their jobs after one of their ex-girlfriends turned in racist text messages between them as well as a video showing racist imagery: dogs siccing blacks, Ku Klux Klan hoods, etc.  An interesting detail from the internal affairs report were allegations from the…

Tea Party Hires Actors to Protest Everglades Land Buy

Tea Party activists are encouraging people to “stop the land grab” — meaning stop the state from buying 46,000 acres of land south of Lake Okeechobee that environmentalists say would be critical to cleaning up the Everglades. Tea partiers held a protest yesterday at the South Florida Water Management District’s…

In Lake Worth, Worry That Developers Will Overtake Public Beach

In Lake Worth, some residents fear that private developers will be given too much power in controlling the city’s beachfront. Lake Worth beach has always been one of the coolest in South Florida — awesome for people-watching, surfing, and chilling. You could grab breakfast at John G’s, fish off the…

Is Lauren Book’s Charity Being Used for Political Gain?

As she climbed the hill leading to Florida’s State Capitol last spring, Lauren Book broke from a walk into a run. The 29-year-old blond with a pink ribbon wrapped around her ponytail raised both arms in triumph and flashed a huge smile as she crossed the finish line of the…

Cooper City Launches Rewards Program for Recycling

You should probably recycle just because it’s, ya know, the right thing to do for the ecosystem, but Cooper City realizes that a few of us might need some incentive to throw jars into the recycling bin rather than the trash can. It’s instituting a program that rewards people for…

Grammy Winners Perform at Sea of JazzFest

A slew of Grammy-winning jazz artists are coming to Pompano Beach for the Sea of JazzFest this Friday and Saturday at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre. Christian McBride, Ken Peplowski, the Clayton Brothers, Randy Brecker, Hubert Laws & Tierney Sutton, Nanny Assis & Brazilian Carnaval Jazz, and the Phil Woods Quintet…