With great fanfare, Gov. Rick Scott last month announced the latest trophy in his campaign to get corporate America to relocate to Florida. Infelicitously calling it a “one-way ticket to the Sunshine State,” Scott hailed the Boca Raton arrival of Cancer Treatment Centers of America and the “more than 200…
It’s looking like another rambunctious Saturday night on the wrong side of the tracks in Lake Worth, as L.A. transplant Jacques de Beaufort’s Unit 1 gallery/performance space again brings new art and new music to the seaside city’s Little Mexico district. “Women, Money, Fiction” will be Colombian artist Juan Doncel’s…
A wandering troubadour and rabble rouser in the tradition of folk music icons like Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston, Anne Feeney plays Boca Raton and Miami this weekend, wrapping up the South Florida leg of her never-ending tour, 2014 edition. Noted for her extensive repertoire of traditional folk and original…
A Brooklyn guy who fell in love with the wilderness of off-road South Florida, Matthew Schwartz was alarmed to learn last spring of plans for oil drilling on the edge of the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. The group he leads, the South Florida Wildlands Association, joined with others to…
Civil and voting rights groups hosting a panel discussion in Lantana this weekend hope it will kick off a renewed discussion of Florida’s restriction of felons’ voting rights. An additional penalty on citizens who have otherwise paid their debt to society, the restriction has left one in ten voting-age Floridians…
Several candidates for Palm Beach County and Lake Worth municipal offices have taken money from a Political Action Committee largely funded by gambling interests. The money went to Melissa McKinlay, candidate for County Commission ($1,000); Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo ($500) and City Commissioner Andy Amoroso ($500); and School Board…
A chorus of citizens in red greeted the Palm Beach County Commission yesterday. The Tea Party, some 80 strong, had come to warn the commissioners against Seven50, a regional planning initiative. See also: – Florida Tea Partiers: Urban Planners Are Using Mind Control, Tyranny in Sustainable Development Project Seven50…
The release last Friday of a State Department study that some have read as a green light for the Keystone XL pipeline has sent those opposed to the project into overdrive. A nationwide protest against the pipeline has been set for tonight, with local demonstrations in four South Florida counties…
Environmental activists allied with Everglades Earth First! are planning a demonstration tomorrow morning at the Citibank offices on Palm Beach, in solidarity with Midwest activists facing felony charges for obstructing a Michigan pipeline project. “I know everyone loves an opportunity to raise a ruckus on ‘The Island,'” one protest organizer…
An organization is a terrible thing to waste. Especially if you’re in the business of winning Florida elections and the organization is one that in six short months canvassed statewide, located more than 700,000 legally registered voters and got them to sign a petition to amend the state constitution. Think…
The news this morning that Pete Seeger had died was not unexpected; the man was 95-years-old. And yet it came as a blow, for Pete’s spirit was youthful until the end, and his stature and inspirational value had only grown with the passing of time…
The entrance to the Recorded Sound Archives at FAU is guarded by the remnants of hi-fi history. Walnut-paneled gramophones from the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties line one wall. On shelves across the way, postwar portable sound systems and reel-to-reel tape decks compete for shelf space with 78 rpm…
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. It’s a cliché and a truism — one FAU’s new president, Dr. John Kelly, should heed. The horrors FAU birthed in 2013 — the GEO Group stadium naming rights deal and the “Step on Jesus” kerfuffle, primarily — were…
Ric Pattison had no choice. Known in the local music scene as a singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and sound engineer, he is a child of the UK’s clubland, coming of age in the early ’70s Northern Soul scene. He was a regular at the fabled Wigan Casino, where all-night dance…
Just one year in, and Coastars Coffee has sealed the transformation of Lake Worth’s South “J” Street into Little Portlandia. Young persons (and those young of spirit) with interesting hair and vintage and/or steampunk gear bicycle over to lead the digital life, be artsy, sip craft coffee and gab. See…
FAU faculty met on the school’s Boca Raton campus yesterday to discuss the three remaining candidates for the school’s presidency. They expressed a clear preference that Dr. John Kelly, Clemson University’s VP for economic development, take the helm. Former Florida Sen. George LeMieux and Dr. Christopher Earley, dean of Purdue…
Bills that throw a cloak of secrecy over fracking operations in Florida passed out of the House Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee on Tuesday. The measures exempt from public disclosure the chemicals, which are rich in toxins, used in the process. See also: – Florida Fracking: Sen. Jeff Clemens Says…
Original art (oils and assemblage), vintage LP covers (name your genre) and used furniture (cheap) decorate the Beat Cup Cafe; musical instruments lean against walls or in corners. Tables and chairs and big, comfy couches are spread around the floor, while sculpture graces the lawn outside facing the patio with…
State representatives made drug law history yesterday when they held the first ever Florida legislative hearing on a specific medical therapeutic use of marijuana. The topic was “Charlotte’s Web” a strain of the demon weed said to be greatly effective in the treatment of pediatric epilepsy. In some folks’ view,…
None of the 70 or so FAU professors who met at yesterday’s faculty meeting to discuss the school’s presidential search had anything good to say about it. Gathered in a second-floor lecture hall at the school’s College of Nursing, skepticism and resignation reigned, with frustration the dominant mood — at…
A limited but significant revision of sentencing guidelines for certain nonviolent drug crimes will be taken up by the Florida Senate this week. Another crack in the crumbling wall of Stone Age attitudes about drugs and criminal justice — even here in Florida — the proposal has bipartisan support and…
In little more than an hour yesterday, a field of 61 candidates for the presidency of FAU was winnowed down to ten. The two most high-profile aspirants, State Treasurer Jeff Atwater and former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, made the cut despite strong reservations voiced by two key members of the…
