Got police abuse? Diop Kamau is your go-to guy. Kamau is CEO of policeabuse.com and former head of the Police Complaint Center in Washington, DC. Kamau, who got his training as a California police detective, now runs an office in Tallahassee devoted to investigating complaints of police misconduct across the…
Freestyle Alligator Wrestling is now officially a professional competitive sport, thanks to the Seminole Tribe in Hollywood. Under the aegis of Tribe President Richard Bowers and tribe member James Holt, who’s been wrestling gators at the Seminoles’ Okalee Indian Village for five years, the first officially sanctioned competition was staged…
On July 12, 2007, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Timothy Boyle was parked outside a hydroponic supply business in South Florida when a green Ford Mustang pulled into the parking lot. Twenty-four-year-old Justin Jones got out of the car and went inside. When he came out, Jones carried a long…
Cast your mind back to your seventh-grade Civics class, when Mrs. Brown drew that sprawling chart on the blackboard detailing the branches of government. That’s when you first found out you had something like a moral duty, as a citizen of this great land of America, to go to the…
We’ve been getting weekly updates from Boca Raton blogger Robert Feeley for some time now: Feeley’s news parody, SPN (for StuPidassNews), is at least as ripe as The Onion, only it’s completely homegrown. In SPN-land, Boca is “Beaver Falls,” and Feeley’s august news outlet is “The Only News Source that…
Ever wondered what it feels like to lift a 32-pound bucket of tomatoes? When the Coalition of Imokalee Workers’ Modern Day Slavery Museum, which kicked off its statewide tour last week, hits town you’ll have a chance. That 32-pound bucket is part of the museum’s multimedia exhibit. South Florida farm…
Florida Republican Rep. Stephen Precourt told the Palm Beach Post this week that he’d like Florida to look a lot more like Mayberry (and presumably a lot less like Sodom) — at least when it comes to cinematic representations. Precourt has proposed a bill that would increase tax credits for…
Your Hungry Man might have to settle for salad tonight: Lakeland, Florida-based Publix today ordered a recall on four seasoning mixes (call them “mother’s little helpers”) distributed in all 735 of its Florida stores. Bad enough that we’ve had to haul back our baby food and dog kibble, our burger…
The PBSO booking blotter tells a routinely depressing story about Friday’s “Operation Cheap Trick,” the Sheriff’s Office sting that netted four prostitutes and 18 good-time guys who hit up the wrong girl at the wrong time: They solicited lady police officers dressed like tramps. According to a PBSO news release,…
Sure, all those coffeehouses, Gay Marts, and laser hair-removal clinics may make Fort Lauderdale or Wilton Manors look like a mecca for aging queer snowbirds. And Lake Worth was voted most gay-friendly city of its size years ago. But this handy scorecard from eQualityGiving.com tells the real story: It totally…
Edwin Febonio says it didn’t pain him to see his son’s alleged murderer in court this morning. “I wanted to see him,” Febonio said simply, referring to Jose Alfaro, who stood shackled, wearing a gray and blue prison uniform just feet from where Febonio was sitting with his friend Michael…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has scrapped plans for a billboard featuring Tiger Woods (“Too Much Sex Can Be a Bad Thing”), meant to encourage the spaying and neutering of pet kitties. They’d planned to debut the billboard in Tiger’s hometown of Windemere, Florida. But talks with…
In the market for a pile of tasseled silk pillows? A pair of matching swan figurines? Or perhaps you hanker to collect the tchotckes of disgraced former pols. Ex-U.S. Congressman Mark Foley has opened a furniture consignment store in West Palm Beach, the Post reported yesterday. The shop, at 1930…
OK, we take it back. Lake Worth blogger and citizen activist Wes Blackman is a reasonable man: Maybe he didn’t dive headfirst into the deep end — he just dipped his toe in. Blackman sent the Juice an email of bullet points about his recent complaint to the Florida Department…
Lake Worth gadfly and blogger Wes Blackman, who ran and lost his latest bid for District 3, against Jo-Ann Golden in the last city elections, appears to have pitched headfirst off the deep end — and we’re afraid the Juice is partially to blame. When we last caught up with…
It’s been six weeks since a deadly earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince, but that doesn’t mean things are getting any easier for the tens of thousands of people who have fled the city to find food and shelter in rural areas. Fred Chalker, a Lake Worth antiques dealer who founded Living Water…
It looks like the murder trial of Jose Alfaro, charged with the premeditated, first-degree murder of his friend Steve Febonio, is gearing up to be a cliff-hanger. This month, state prosecutors told West Palm Beach Judge Amy Smith that they are seeking the death penalty for Alfaro, accused of murdering…
Guess the Christian Defense Coalition hasn’t been reading the Juice lately.If it had, it would have figured out that the fatal shooting of Tite Sufra and Stephen Ocean in Boynton Beach on January 30 probably had exactly nothing to do with the fact that it was evangelizing. But the Rev…
As we reported yesterday, a new pain clinic has opened in Lake Worth, a big white elephant of an unmarked two-story building on North Dixie Highway. Following the lead of other South Florida cities, Lake Worth City Commissioners took steps at their Tuesday-night meeting to put a moratorium on pain…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
The Lake Worth City Commission voted last night to pass an emergency ordinance that would place a 180-day moratorium on filing or receiving any applications to establish a pain management clinic within city boundaries. The commission scheduled a second reading and public hearing for Monday morning, March 1, hoping to…
It all depends on what your definition of free is. A decade ago, just as CityPlace was planning its grand opening in downtown West Palm Beach, lawyers and developers were debating just how much democracy, in the form of public speech, the new live/work/shop development could tolerate. “Profit Relegates Free…
