Commie pinko libs that we are (except for El Jefe, our editor in chief — he’s a company man), we feel duty-bound to tell one and all there’s a big nationwide protest against Monsanto on Saturday, with marches slated for West Palm Beach and Miami. We feel that duty if…
A musician of many guises at a venue of many enterprises, all it needs is a coat of many colors and the evening would be positively Biblical. And with onetime local staple Timb’s taste for costumes and the theatrical, that’s not out of the question either. A fixture on the…
The quirkly little town of Lake Park’s unusual history left the original character of its downtown corridor untouched by over-development, its charm preserved. Arts-friendly and idiosyncratic, it hosts an art house cinema, a vintage record shop, and dining a la Vietnam. Tonight in town, there’ll be the soft opening of…
An annual green event that started in Florida in 2010 now spans the globe, uniting people of many lands in a cry for energy sanity and environmental preservation. See also: – Rick Scott Says “I’m Not a Scientist” as He Continues to Ignore Climate Change Issue Hands Across the Sand…
Urged on by a coalition of engaged and alarmed citizens, public officials in Collier County yesterday stood up to a Texas oil company and the state Department of Environmental Protection and pressed on with their decision to sue for greater safeguards against acid fracking in the Everglades. See also: -…
Chicago businessman and GOP activist Larry Horist moved to Boca Raton two years ago and has started to make a splash in local right-wing circles. He’s featured speaker at tonight’s Wellington meeting of the Palm Beach County Tea Party. See also: – Tea Party: Let’s Rewrite the U.S. Constitution Touted…
Wouldn’t it be nice if folks who wanted to form a Florida corporation to do good (it could happen) and turn a profit were able to incorporate without worrying about being sued for putting the good ahead of the profit? See also: Medical Marijuana: Who Will Profit? Only One “Marijuana”…
Interested in drugs? No, like, seriously interested in drugs, as a social and cultural phenomenon and, possibly, a path to higher (no pun intended) consciousness? (Not that kicks and satori are mutually exclusive, as any good beatnik will tell you.) If so, girls and boys, the good folks at the…
This week’s grievance hearing on FAU’s firing of dolphin rescue expert Stephen McCulloch — after 16 years of high-profile service — was over almost before it began, with FAU lawyer Lawrence Glick storming from the room and threatening to call the cops to clear the room of McCulloch’s supporters. See…
The grievance hearing tomorrow in the case of Stephen McCulloch, the “dolphin gurn” fired by FAU, has been preceded by wrangling over procedure. The school has agreed to allow McCulloch to bring witnesses and cross-examine the school’s witnesses but has declared the hearing a closed-door affair. See also: – Dolphin…
We’ve already written about how, according to a recent study, the Florida Legislature’s failure to expand Medicaid coverage to an estimated 1.27 million low-income Floridians will result in as many as six otherwise avoidable deaths a day in the Sunshine State. Now we’ve come across another study about the consequences…
Critics of oil company plans to drill in the Everglades saw some of their worst fears realized late last week when the Florida Department of Environmental Protection revealed it had sanctioned Texas-based Dan A. Hughes Co. for unauthorized fracking in Collier County in an area surrounded by the Corkscrew Swamp…
An American original on both sides of the lens, Miami’s own Bunny Yeager mixes it up tomorrow among the swells of Palm Beach. How high the risqué have risen! The ’50s pin-up girl, who went on to a long career as a photographer, is in town for an exhibition of…
Stephen McCulloch wants his job back. A prominent master of the arcane art of dolphin rescue, for more than a decade, he was a leader and key force at the Marine Mammal Program at FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI). On February 14, he was fired. See also: – Dolphin…
Department of Environmental Protection officials earlier this week told a state judge that they have no authority to deny a Texas oil company’s plans to drill in the Everglades, in an area adjoining the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. See also: DEP Advisory Committee Says No to Oil Drilling in…
“Hey Jack Kerouac” was all Natalie Merchant had to say, and you had to listen to the song. The Beat Generation’s impassioned chronicler, patron saint of the open road and the search for cosmic kicks, his name compels to this day, ringing the allure of bohemia. It’s that energy the…
Under the banner of environmental preservation and with leading participation by the Independent Traditional Seminole Nation, Earth Day will see protests against FPL’s plans for a power plant in the Everglades on the border of the Big Cypress Reservation. See also:Welcome to the Everglades Ranch Where FPL Might Build a…
In a controversial decision to allow advertising along trails and greenways in the state parks system, the Department of Environmental Protection on April 3 inked a deal with Bikepath Country Florida, a Fort Myers company whose managing partners include two powerful Tallahassee insiders. See also: – DEP Secretary Herschel Vinyard…
Pagans are unorthodox but they do have their limits, apparently, and rumors that some of their number have crossed the line by advocating pedophilia have cast a cloud over the Florida pagan community’s big annual May Day shindig, the Florida Pagan Gathering. See also: – Local Pagans Get Down With…
Stephen McCulloch has gone into seclusion since FAU fired him last February from his job as program manager of the Marine Mammal Program at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. We haven’t been able to reach him or his attorneys. See also: – Navy Tests Could Kill Dolphins by the Thousands Off…
Heartened by Obamacare’s hitting the 7 million enrollment mark needed to make the system work, Florida Democrats are making a renewed push for a key element of the program, Medicaid expansion. It is likely to be a major issue in the fall elections. See also: – Florida Is Becoming an…
The final, less-remembered phase of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life was his pivot from the pursuit of racial equality to economic justice — the Poor People’s Campaign. It was a turn even more threatening to the established order, gathering steam up until the date of his assassination in Memphis, where…
