It all started when owners of a French restaurant decided the noise from a bar next door was causing customer indigestion.They politely — well, as politely as the French can — asked their neighbors to turn it down during the dinner hour. The open-air bar told the French to go…
When is a city not a city? When it’s a shopping center disguised as something “reminiscent of an Italian town center.” Note that word reminiscent. As West Palm artist Bruce Kevin Bates found out, you may be able to set up your easel at the Villa d’Este in Tivoli or…
At around 8:15 on a Saturday night late last month, Detective Alex Marino Moreno of the Boynton Beach Police Department responded to a call. Two men were lying dead on SW 2nd Ave., both of gunshot wounds. One of the victims was 23-year-old Stephen Ocean. The other, 25-year-old Tite Sufra…
One of the fiercest battles to be waged this election year will be over Amendment 4, a citizens initiative aimed at putting decisions about growth in Florida back into the hands of voters. On November 2, we’ll go to the polls, and essentially send our government a message about whether…
City Commissioners are not often noted for their vibrant good health; up there on the dais under those fluorescent lights, most of them look little gray around the gills. But judging from her consumption of green leafy vegetables, Lake Worth City Commissioner Cara Jennings, 33, now in her second term,…
A couple of days ago we asked Vice Mayor George Brummer about the City of Pompano Beach’s official opposition to the controversial Amendment 4. The “Hometown Democracy” movement is sweeping across Florida, revving up its engines for a vote this November 2010 that would put growth back in the hands…
Lt. Mike Wallace, who heads the Violent Crimes Task Force for Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, is a “big picture” kind of guy. When it comes to fighting gang activity in Palm Beach County, Wallace looks at not just crime statistics and not just kids as young as fourth grade…
Tell us the who’s the best theater company in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here for an archive of articles about South Florida’s best thespians.And click here for a master list of all Readers’ Poll items. …
The City of Pompano Beach thundered last week, and thousands of miles away, Joyce Tarnow picked up the faint murmurings of her old adversaries.On Tuesday, January 26 the Pompano City Commission unanimously voted for a resolution to oppose Amendment 4. Vice Mayor George Brummer led the charge against the citizens…
Tell us the who’s the best local Hip-Hop Artist in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here for an archive of articles about South Florida’s best rappers and rhymers.And click here for a master list of all Readers’ Poll…
With a full container of vitamin- and mineral-enriched meals now on its way to Haiti, Living Water Ministries has turned its attention to collecting supplies to ship over to the island as soon as possible. According to Living Water founder Fred Chalker, who oversees the Lake Worth-based charity, volunteers will…
Collecting and showing prisoner art is Carol Strick’s second career. It started when she left her job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1994, where she worked making faience reproductions for the Ancient Egyptian collection. Her husband had died, she’d moved to Florida, and she was…
They all had to start somewhereTell us the who’s the best DJ in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here for an archive of articles about South Florida’s best spin doctors.And click here for a master list of all…
The story of the speeding BSO police cruiser that killed 14-year-old Cara Catlin last Saturday in Oakland Park is hauntingly similar to the case of Eric Brody, the 18-year-old boy who 12 years ago turned into the oncoming path of a Broward sheriff’s deputy named Christopher Thieman on his way…
At least three dogs were involved in the Febonio murder saga. “You can’t make this shit up,” Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Detective Sean Oliver must have muttered to himself at least once during the course of his two-year investigation into the murder of Stephen Febonio.Discovery documents made available to the…
In one respect, Living Water Ministries was lucky when it came to helping Haitian victims of last week’s earthquake: They already had a large network of employees and contacts in Port-au-Prince and many others in outlying villages in the far Northwest, where the charity has set up schools and medical…
As Juice commenters have pointed out often enough in our coverage of the murder of Stephen Febonio, neither the accused nor his victim were angels when it came to prior criminal history. And despite a string of felony charges, neither man had much trouble slipping out of doing any real…
Still waiting for their big breakTell us the best local album in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here for an archive of articles about South Florida’s best recordings by local musicians.And click here for a master list of…
Environmental activists and some Riviera Beach residents are fed up with living with “one of the dirtiest power plants in the entire state of Florida,” according to a news release from the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition. The coalition, along with the Riviera Beach Civic Association, will host a public…
The Airport Hilton, Palm Beach. The Marriott Key Largo. The Clevelander Miami Beach. The Ocean Manor Resort Fort Lauderdale. The Embassy Suites in Boca. These are only a few of the South Florida hotels and guesthouses riddled with bedbugs, according to the bedbugregistry.com, a site devoted to tracking the evil…
U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force Commander Lenny DePaul told New Times yesterday that the apprehension of Jose Alfaro at his mother’s condominium in New York last August was no piece of cake. “He put up a pretty good fight, he resisted us pretty good,” DePaul said of Alfaro. “We’d had…
Jon Pace, a boardmember of local charity Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches told us by phone this morning that Executive Director Pastor Etienne Jacklin’s house in the Bon-Repos area north of Port au Prince was destroyed, and his wife’s arm badly injured by a falling block, when the…
