Environmentalists took heart yesterday when a Texas oil company’s request for official permission to drill deep into the Big Cypress watershed got a thumbs-down from an arm of the Department of Environmental Protection. See also: – Oil Companies Are Planning to Drill in Florida Panther Habitat How great was the…
Stargazing! Owl presentations! Food trucks? Palm Beach County’s second annual Dark Sky Festival sounds fun enough to postpone other evening activities and/or keep the kids up late. Not only that, it’s a way to raise awareness of an under-recognized environmental issue with consequences for wildlife and human health. See also:…
The sound of the ukulele simply harkens Jazz Age college swains courting flapper damsels in canoes or Tiny Tim on The Tonight Show (and where is Miss Vickie now)? Wrong. There’s a whole lot more to the teeny, tiny instrument than fits the stereotype, according to the folks at the…
A multi-year project exploring the art and culture of tattoo takes center stage at Florida Atlantic University tonight in what’s becoming an annual event. This year’s show, “Academic Ink,” includes tattoo-inspired work by faculty from the school’s theater, music, and dance programs; a display of photographs featuring inked-up faculty and…
Anticipating passage of the Florida medical marijuana amendment this fall, our favorite retired pot smuggler is hosting a conference this weekend on the business of therapeutic maryjane. Guest speakers from around the nation will spill the seed on the legal, medical, financial, and probable regulatory landscape for entrepreneurs of the…
Caught between developers on one hand and environmental preservationists on the other, Palm Beach County Commissioners Tuesday postponed any decision on opening the county’s Agricultural Reserve to greater commercial development. See also: – Developers Trying to Build in Everglades Agricultural Reserve For now, that is. The board voted to move…
South Florida prison reform and immigrant rights activists are mounting a vigil this evening at the Boca Raton home of GEO Group CEO George Zoley, in support of hunger strikers at the global private prison company’s Tacoma and Houston-area immigrant detention centers. See also: – GEO Group Earns Over $600,000…
Business interests pushing for looser restrictions on commercial development within Palm Beach County’s Agricultural Reserve — 21,000 acres of specially protected, environmentally sensitive land — have lead the County Commission to reconsider zoning in the area, causing alarm among members of the local environmental community. See also: – Way of…
FAU’s new president, Dr. John Kelly, freshly re-located to the school’s Boca Raton campus and two weeks into the job, invited us in last Tuesday for a 15-minute sitdown. Our time with the well-spoken and gracious South Carolina native stretched into half an hour. See also: – FAU Faculty Critique…
“You’re really looking for trouble this time,” we told Unit 1’s proprietor/evil genius Jacques de Beaufort when we heard about this weekend’s show. “Yes, we are,” he agreed enthusiastically. “That’s what we do.” “You could end up with someone calling the cops,” we said. He laughed. “That would be the…
Concerns about safety and economics are roiling the kava industry in Polynesia. Roots of the kava plant are used to make a mildly stimulating, euphoric beverage that has long been a cultural mainstay in the Pacific Islands and, more lately, a significant and remunerative export. But one type of plant…
The speaking appearance at FAU next week of FOX News talking head Walid Phares has been preceded by little fanfare, unusual for a school that trumpets such events as a local Boys & Girls Clubs’ art exhibit or the school’s Jupiter campus being named a “Tree Campus USA.” See also:…
After a massive citizen turnout at public hearings in Naples yesterday, Environmental Protection Agency officials have extended the comment period on a Texas oil company’s request to drill a wastewater disposal well in the Everglades. Environmental activists at the meeting claim 300 to 400 of their number were in attendance…
FAU’s in-house, DIY record label, Hoot/Wisdom Recordings, is looking for new artists to include in the label’s fourth installment of their “CompOWLation” series. As before, the casting call extends to FAU and Palm Beach State College students and alumni, as well as FAU faculty and staff. See also: – FAU’s…
A Texas oil company’s request for official permission to drill a wastewater disposal well deep into the Big Cypress watershed is the latest flashpoint in South Florida’s enviro-wars. Next Tuesday, in Naples, EPA officials will hold public hearings on the proposal, with activists statewide planning to converge there and confront…
[Update: Tonight’s show has been cancelled but the Bamboo Room event is still on.] Raising the roof in Orlando with music born out of Memphis and Detroit, the Sh-Booms revive the sound and showmanship (the look, the steps) of classic ’60s soul — boisterous, tight, and buttery smooth all at…
Rodney King once asked: Can’t we all just get along? Here in South Florida, we found one instance of this ideal scenario. Latin music and that of the Ashkenazi have joined sonic forces in Jubano jazz, a blend of Eastern European klezmer music and Latin jazz. Working the soulful strains…
A federal judge in two California cases has swatted away Donald Trump’s efforts to defeat claims of fraud, financial elder abuse and racketeering. In San Diego last week, Judge Gonzalo Paul Curiel held that California, New York and Florida residents who were students at Trump University could proceed as a…
Five protesters from the radical environmental group Earth First! this morning chained themselves together at the entrance to FPL headquarters in Juno Beach in an attempt to disrupt company operations and protest FPL’s plans to build a massive new power plant on 3,200 acres of land adjacent to the Seminole…
Not content with helping to foul our own environmental nest here in Florida, Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi this week signed up with 20 other GOP-dominated state governments on the side of corporate lobbyists in opposition to an historic agreement to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. See…
Residents of the Palm Beach County enclave known as The Acreage see their rustic lifestyle under attack by international homebuilding giant the Minto Group. From the look of things they’re not going to take it lying down. See also: – Farms in the Acreage May Have to Shut Down Because…
Bitch-slapped by the 100-year flood of last January, the intrepid artists and entrepreneurs of the Boynton Beach Art District are back on their feet again and ready to roll. To celebrate, they’re hosting an art walk tomorrow night including live music, live painting and fire dance. See also: – Best…
