This story is so abnormal, you’d think it was coming out of Florida. Alas, it’s not. A 2-year-old in Brooklyn, New York, dropped his teddy bear, aptly named Mr. Bear, in his school’s playground. His mother didn’t realize until later that night, but by the next morning, Mr. Bear was gone…
LeBron James brought his talents to Miami this year to complete what should have been the first ultimate triumvirate the NBA has ever seen.James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh were hailed as superheroes who were going to lead the Miami Heat to championship after championship after championship.And we all believed…
If you thought you’d missed your chance to don your best ’80s rocker costume alongside Russell Brand and Tom Cruise, you can breathe easy. Rock of Ages, the musically inclined film that brought you Mount Trashmore Hollywood Edition and convinced Alec Baldwin to forget about his “newly discovered medical condition,”…
Hallelujah! Nacho Bizness has surpassed the ancient technique of bartering accepting only legal tender and is now allowing you to pay for your delicious Mexican street food with a good ol’ American credit card.Catch them today at 2800 SW 2nd Ave. in Fort Lauderdale from 11-2, load up on a…
Update: A representative of the Seminole Hard Rock just called to tell us that last night’s food truck round-up was never actually planned. June 2 and June 10 were test runs for their weekly food truck round-up idea. The June 16th round-up will mark the beginning of a weekly ritual.Earlier…
Thanks to the results of last night’s 2011 CMT Awards it looks like the down-home Southern-bumpkin style of music so lovingly referred to as “country” has gone a little insane. It used to be that country music was known for it’s twangy banjo and lyrics that cried about broken marriages,…
Standup comedian Joel McHale is arguably best-known for his role as celebrity taunter extraordinaire on E!’ Network’s The Soup. He spends a majority of his time in front of a green screen cracking jokes about the dumb shit that Miley Cyrus, Gary Busey, and other semi-A-listers say when the cameras…
Country music fans are all too aware of tonight’s CMT Music Awards. Much like the MTV Music Awards, CMT pits the most popular country singers against each other for an all-out Southern battle royale.Apparently not much has changed since the 2010 CMT Awards because seven of this year’s ten nominees…
Democratic Representative Anthony Weiner is either dumb or brilliant. Either way showing Gennette Cordova, a Seattle college student, his weiner was basically the money shot for his political career.It’s been over a week since Rep. Weiner tweeted a photo of his engorged manhood via public tweet to Cordova. Since then…
It used to be that if men wanted to rip the meat off a chicken leg while staring down a sexy, buxom waitress they had to head over to Hooter’s. But Entrepreneur Magazine is reporting that ‘breastaurants,’ or restaurants that use a scantily-clad business model, are set to exceed other…
Lady Gaga is known for her “out there” fashion and while we wouldn’t necessarily call it “couture,” other people might. In fact she received a “Fashion Icon” award at last night’s 2011 CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) Awards in New York City.The pop icon is known for her…
Taylor Swift glittered on stage last night at the BankAtlantic Center. It was the first of her two performances in Fort Lauderdale and our concert review earlier featured a few photos from the show. But we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss them at all.This blog has some professional…
Taylor Swiftwith NeedToBreatheBankAtlantic Center, SunriseThursday, June 2, 2011Better than: a real relationshipTaylor Swift is like any other dramatic 21-year-old girl. Except she has the ability and the means to turn her imagination into a reality. That’s exactly what happened during her June 2 show at the BankAtlantic Center, the first…
Stage 84 pushes aside the usual punk-rock and hipster community of South Florida in favor of the funkier hip-hop genre Saturday. “It’s Hard to Hear a Vision Part II” is an art, fashion, music, and car show seemingly meant to appeal to locals who know how to get down and…
Have you ever looked at the Fort Lauderdale cops on horseback and wondered how they’d really stop a crime if there’s a getaway car? We all have.We brought you a story this morning explaining the “mounted unit” and how they serve the city. One reader thinks the unit is incredibly…
Here in America, it’s perfectly acceptable to order a Big Mac meal with a Diet Coke. An ambulance takes longer to get to your house than a Jimmy John’s sub. And here in this gloriously free country of ours, we honor our dead soldiers with naked breasts. Stage 84 had…
Macho Man Randy Savage, world-famous WWE wrestler, died at 10 a.m. today in Tampa. TMZ is reporting that the wrestler had a heart attack while driving and “lost control of his vehicle.” He was only 58 years old.In his career, Savage went up against big names like Andres the Giant and local…
Apparently the producers of the new Tom Cruise/Russell Brand flick Rock of Ages had a little trouble figuring out how to turn South Florida into the iconic scenery of Los Angeles.Their solution was to put a “Hollywood” sign on a landfill. Yes, a landfill…
The MaineWith Augustana, Austin Gibbs and HugoRevolution, Fort LauderdaleWednesday, May 18, 2011Better than: Watching the aged and out-of-sync Backstreet Boys attempt a clumsy comeback.The Maine’s headlining show at Revolution last night was indicative of how much their fame has grown. The young Tempe, Arizona, act blazed onto the scene almost four…
Billboards have popped up all over the U.S. declaring that Rapture, or Judgment Day, is May 21. That’s less than a week away.Sure, the Bible said that no one will know when rapture will happen but that didn’t stop Harold Camping, the president of a California-based religious broadcasting network called…
This morning, we brought you some news about a local undercover operation in which cops posed as high school students. The officers went undercover, à la 21 Jump Street, in an effort to take down the delinquents. But unlike the TV show, these cops were going after small potatoes: weed…
This morning, we brought you news that 2,026 Broward County seniors failed the tenth-grade FCAT, which means they can’t continue on to college. Florida school systems are centered around this standardized testing system that seems to measure a student’s ability to take a standardized test — not their intelligence. One…
