On March 6, 2014, a gray-haired Japanese-American man in wire-rimmed glasses swept past a swarm of television crews that had been staking out his home. He jumped into a car and led a chase through Los Angeles, the likes of which had not been seen since O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco…
Kindergarten is the new university. Or at least that’s what it feels like, with families having to apply to a wide range of schools months in advance and biting their nails in anticipation that Junior will get into that public Montessori — or at least his “safety” elementary school…
Fort Lauderdale isn’t called the “Venice of America” for nothing. The city’s maze of navigable waterways — from the Intracoastal Waterway to a series of canals to the New River that cuts through downtown — offers a scenic way to travel through the city, preferably by megayacht. Fort Lauderdale is…
Yesterday, Dean Parker, a West Palm Beach native who had gone to Syria to fight ISIS, announced on his Facebook page that he was going home, though it was unclear whether he was referring to West Palm Beach, Costa Rica, or another place. (In a December radio interview, he referred…
Several members of the Miccosukee Tribe are reporting that former chairman Buffalo Tiger has died. He was 94. He died at his home in Kendall due to natural causes, according to his family. Tiger was one of the founders of the Miccosukee Tribe — whose members organized separately from the…
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz was roped into a international sex scandal, and now, in a court motion, he’s firing back against the “outrageous and impertinent allegations” that he victimized an underaged girl. Allegations that Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein kept underaged girls as masseuses/sex slaves are old news –…
As gay marriages begin just after midnight tonight, it’s a historic day for Florida — and particularly for Fort Lauderdale, which according to 2012 Census data, has the highest percentage of same-sex households in America, 2.8 percent. South Florida has come a long way in acceptance of gay rights. In…
Craig Attebury launched his retail shop, GayMart, in 1994 in Laguna Beach, California, and opened another outlet in Wilton Manors in 1997, just as now-legendary gay bar Georgie’s Alibi started getting popular. “The plaza was quite empty back then,” he remembers. In the intervening years, Wilton Manors and the surrounding…
It’s been almost a decade since Palm Beach financial guru Jeffrey Epstein was first accused of having sex with underaged girls at his Palm Beach mansion. Epstein, now in his 60s, eventually took a plea deal and served 13 months of an 18-month sentence on just one prostitution charge. However,…
Update, 11:35 a.m.: Barbera responded: “The only way we can determine this is to run every vandalism report we have and read them. This could be labor intensive.” We won’t put her through the trouble. For alternate context: of the 140 media alerts I have received from Barbera since November…
In the first two weeks of December, Michael Franti was recording in Miami — the same time as protests were breaking out around the country over the lack of indictments for police killing unarmed black men. In response, he was inspired to write the song “Same as I Ever Was…
Last week, a photo floated around on Facebook — it was shared at least 48 times — of a Lamborghini Aventador that was wrapped in logos for the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Though the car was supposed to a be a cool promo for the department, it somewhat backfired when an…
Elf on the Shelf. It was cute for a while, but any parent knows that it’s a pain in the hoo-ha to hide that sucker every night, and even if you do remember to put it somewhere, your elf scenarios will never live up to the ones on Pinterest. We…
It’s looking likely that gay marriage in Florida can proceed after January 5, and court clerks around the state have been seeking advice from legal experts about exactly how and when they will issue marriage licenses and let weddings proceed. Yesterday, the Broward Clerk’s Office posted a memo on its…
Inside a Miami Shores Starbucks, a 34-year-old with tangled hair and a slight limp shakes his head at the green-aproned baristas while he tries to order a simple coffee. “The one with milk. A latte? A macchiato?” Travis Donald has been homeless around Fort Lauderdale since 2011, though he prefers…
For the past few months, anyone who has driven past Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino on Federal Highway in Hallandale Beach has noticed a curious shape taking form: a giant statue of a mythical creature. It is a massive and curious sight to behold, especially juxtaposed against the shopping-mall landscape…
The Tortuga Music Festival this morning announced the partial lineup for April’s event: Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown will headline. The concert on the sands of Fort Lauderdale Beach is scheduled for April 11 and 12. Here are the acts that were announced today, from a news release:…
For the past few weeks, the City of Fort Lauderdale has garnered bad press around the world for enacting ordinances that aim to crack down on the city’s homeless population. Although the initial outrage has somewhat blown over, some protesters are vowing to dig in and fight the ordinances for…
Just after midnight last night, a man opened fire at the Strozier Library on the campus of Florida State University. The gunman shot three students and was then killed by campus police. Throughout the incident, students posted videos and tweets from inside the library as they hid between stacks of…
Just off the six lanes of Tamiami Trail, west of Florida’s Turnpike and behind a Kentucky Fried Chicken, a secret gate leads to a backyard where dugout canoes rest under a chickee hut. Across the grass and through a sliding-glass door is a living room that doubles as the Medicine…
“I wonder if Chase wants his penis cut? I know I wouldn’t!” On Facebook, those words are transposed over a picture of an infant boy, along with hashtags including #foreskinisnormal. As we reported in the spring, Boynton Beach mom Heather Hironimus was ordered by the court to have her then-3-year-old…
Activists with Earth First! are reportedly locking themselves to a disabled van to bring attention to construction happening in the almost-700-acre Briger Forest, one of the largest — but unprotected — forests in South Florida. “We’re here stopping a crime,” said Ryan Hartman in a news release. “The illegal destruction…
