On Tuesday, Rick Scott, the guy who sent his mom to replace him in a debate, got the green light to grab Floridians by their purse strings. Scott won by a small margin over Alex Sink, who conceded before the final results were in.Well, it seems that even thedailybeast.com has…
If you grew up watching Saturday Night Live (and who didn’t?), you’re familiar with the period of time when the show’s popularity declined. But right when SNL’s viewer ratings were scraping the bottom of the barrel, new comedians — and characters — swooped in. All of a sudden, you were…
South Florida boasts some of the world’s more beautiful people, but we don’t claim to have the brainiest.Yes, we have universities. But out of all the universities in the country, ours are picked last for basketball.The Daily Beast just released its first “America’s Smartest Cities – From First to Worst” list…
If you’ve seen Steven Tyler from Aerosmith anytime in the last decade you’ve surely thought, “That man was dashing when he was young but now his face could scare a blind woman.” Well, now that observation could make you money, $25,000 to be exact. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and…
Scary Mary claims she can call on the dead in photos. She says she has photos of orbs, ghosts, and vortexes. Don’t believe ghosts are real? She’ll prove you wrong during her undead art show. On Halloween, she’ll reveal more than 200 ghost pictures at the Spider Web (607 E…
Want to invest in some real estate? Don’t start looking in Florida.Forbes.com writer Francesca Levy published a list recently called “The Worst Cities for Real Estate Investing.” Out of the article’s top ten list, five of the cities were in Florida. Luckily, or not, those five doomed cities were nowhere…
As we’ve written in previous posts, people who can’t eat gluten (AKA celiacs) are forced to carefully read every label to make sure to avoid gluten — which seems to be in just about everything.Reading labels can make it difficult for gluten-free children come candy time — Halloween. Tiny pieces…
Welcome to South Florida! You’re now living in a state where the babes are beautiful but the students are lost.U.S. News & World Report recently released its Best Colleges 2011 list, which rates the top 75 percent of all American universities. On that list, you can find the South Florida…
The six finalists for the WLRN Miami Herald Radio LeBron James poetry contest will be announced today in the sports section of the Miami Herald.But before any finalists were chosen, the contest’s coordinators had to sift through more than 1,000 entries. To keep things interesting (and themselves entertained), they started…
You’ve surely heard of “The Cookie Diet” as a way to lose weight by eating several specialized, high-protein cookies a day. Well this isn’t it — kind of.This gluten-free cookie diet is actually a product of “The Cookie Diet” inventor’s breakup with his businessman, Dr. Sasson Moulavi, thus resulting in the…
Update: The Miami Heat has decided it wants no part in the judging and therefore neither does LeBron James. This decision came because the event was coordinated without the team’s input.Want LeBron James to check you out? You may only need to write a poem. But that all depends on…
Allen West, Florida’s controversial and tea-party-backed candidate for Congress, was accused recently by NBC News of being connected to the Outlaws motorcycle gang.The Huffington Post reported Monday that West’s campaign fired back. They claim the Outlaws do “not accept blacks, Jews or gays.” While they might not initiate West as…
Some people pride themselves on their ability to paint like Matisse. Others pride themselves on their ability to cook like Emeril Lagasse. And still others are proud of their ability to combine dialog like Hemingway’s with Chuck Palahniuk’s wit and sarcasm into a novel. The latter person is specifically Casey…
Last week, Art Johnson, Palm Beach County Superintendent, made headlines — again. Granted this isn’t anything new. In April, the teacher’s union voted “no confidence” in him while we voted “no confidence in his graduation speeches.”This time, he was making news with his request for the almighty power to transfer…
Fox 29 didn’t disappoint this morning. As part of their usual repertoire of using minifacts to fill the two-hour morning news segment, they provided loyal readers with some cheap gas prices. This would be nice and useful if you live north of Palm Beach County. That’s unfortunate for those of us…
Commuters near Sunrise can get some free and tasty treats on October 11 if they can beat the crowd.Dunkin’ Donuts is opening a new location at 10019 Sunset Strip and, to celebrate, will be giving away coffee and travel mugs. But that’s only if you’re one of the first 100…
Florida’s Division of Emergency Management and the American Red Cross want you to participate in the 2011 Severe Weather Awareness Week.They want you to make a poster for each day of the awareness week (January 31 to February 4) with each poster representing their designated themes.We got very excited at…
You’ve seen the movie Beerfest at least 20 times. Each time you watch the drunk-heavy film, you lament the fact that you can’t experience “Das Boot” without actually traveling to Germany. Your friends try to cheer you up with rounds of beer pong but alas your sadness remains. The American…
At the beginning of September, the Juice’s Lisa Rab wrote about how a group of Ohioans were collecting LeBron James’ Cavs jersey to donate to Miami’s homeless population. After that idea was halted by “politics,” our sister paper Miami New Times took the matter into its own hands.The kind folks down…
Gary Kompothecras, a chiropractor based out of Sarasota, has been pressuring a Department of Health official to turn over sealed immunization records. “Dr. Gary,” as he’s called, wants those records turned over to father-son duo Dr. Mark and David Geier, crusaders for the “vaccinations cause autism” argument.The idea is that…
South Florida was placed under a Tropical Storm warning earlier today in preparation for Tropical Storm Nicole. Heck, many of us Floridians are used to the pelting rain, gale-force winds, and loss of power. It’s practically part of our lifestyle.Therefore you should already have the standard supplies on hand. Mom…
Tan and muscular Steve Martorano, owner of Cafe Martorano in Fort Lauderdale, is claiming someone stole his restaurant’s idea. As the Juice reported yesterday, Martorano filed a lawsuit against Cafe Longo in Rhode Island for “unfairly copying Cafe Martorano’s concept.”That concept? White walls, booming beats, and the classic Italian-American dishes…
