The Lake Worth elections slated for November 3rd just get weirder by the minute. As if the flap about Mayoral candidate Rene Varela’s role in the sales of wild dolphins to a marine park in Dubai weren’t scandal enough, now the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition is claiming that one…
WPTV reports today that the bus stop across the street from convicted sex offender Alexander Scholling’s residence will be moved, thanks to a decision by the Palm Beach County School District yesterday.Alexander Scholling, the Tequesta man who was arrested in 2005 when he took a computer filled with kiddie porn…
Serial bank robbery was one of South Florida’s favorite new sports this summer, and the game turned out to be surprisingly polite and thankfully bloodless. Police announced today that they’ve taken one pair of our local Bonnie & Clydes off the street. An unusually calm man, who has now confessed…
Historians will look back some day on the autumn of 2009 as a period of mass hysteria over a relatively innocuous strain of flu called H1N1, which so far has killed 1,000 Americans (normal seasonal flu averages 36,000 U.S. deaths per year, according to the CDC — see how they…
Carole Chapuis says the $5,000 and endless hours she spent trying to rescue five half-feral dogs in the Egyptian desert was no publicity stunt. “It was two months of living hell,” she said by phone Friday, describing her ordeal. “I was on the phone with the Egyptian rescue at 2…
In what may come to be called the Great Swine Flu Fuck-Up, local health officials have vaccinated thousands of schoolkids this year with the regular seasonal flu nasal mist — a vaccination which unfortunately promises to protect them not at all. The seasonal flu vaccine purportedly protects against three viral…
67-year-old Jeffry Picower was found dead in the pool at his $33 million Palm Beach oceanside mansion at 1410 South Ocean Boulevard yesterday afternoon, leaving lots of unfinished business. Picower was the guy who helped Madoff manage his Ponzi scheme, and he appears to have made even more money in…
If you happened to be a highly prominent person of color visiting West Palm Beach in the first half of this century, chances are you would have stayed at Haley Mickens’s house at 801 4th Street. Mickens and his wife Dr. Alice Frederick Mickens, a well known civil rights activist,…
Mission: Impossible?They say they’re trying to “make a difference, one person at a time.” They’ve provided a home to over “10,000 souls seeking love, understanding, and compassion.” Indeed, The Mission of Saint Francis in Fort Lauderdale seems like an ideal place to temporarily house sex offenders who have served their…
Harry’s Banana Farm in Lake Worth has long been famous for its stuffed alligator, its paperback “lending library,” its Penthouse designation as one of the ten sleaziest bars in America, and for the philosophical musings posted on its outdoor sign. But this week’s message struck a deeper chord. Maybe we’re…
We wrote about sex offender Ronald Murphy last week here and here, a man released from prison in September after serving 13 years on a rape conviction, and stuck in limbo ever since.Murphy’s home is currently a bench outside the Delray Beach Florida Department of Corrections Probation and Parole Office…
Florida Fish and Wildlife has yet to respond to a July 30th letter from Lori Kettler, senior counsel for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), concerning humane death for Florida’s thousands of Burmese pythons. Tori Perry, senior cruelty caseworker at PETA, told the Juice today that the guidelines…
With Broward politicians and contractors in hot water over bribery allegations today, it’s not surprising that Governor Crist has called for a statewide corruption Grand Jury. According to the Sun-Sentinel: Citing an apparent “culture of corruption” taking root in South Florida, Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday called for a statewide…
One morning in 2002, Carl Flick got up early for a walking tour with architect George Perez. Flick wanted to show Perez every historic building in downtown Northwood, a 4,500-home neighborhood in the northeast section of West Palm Beach. They started with the Northwood Hotel, on the corner of Northwood…
This week’s New Times feature details the battle between forward-thinking urban activists and the City of West Palm Beach over how to develop a blighted section of West Palm Beach, Northwood Village. That battle centered around whether or not Publix could be wooed to the neighborhood’s planned anchor site. The…
“We’d love it if the world turned vegan tomorrow,” Dan Mathews says breathlessly. Mathews is senior vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the controversial animal rights group founded by Ingrid Newkirk in 1980. When I spoke to Mathews by phone Friday, he had to raise…
Sex offenders in Florida are off the hook this year: They won’t have to spend a fortune at Target on plastic pumpkins, corn-sheaves, and fake spiderwebs. They can keep all the Reese’s Pieces for themselves. The Florida Department of Corrections says that for registered sex offenders — at least the…
The case against Lake Worth City Commissioner Cara Jennings, who was arrested during a peaceful vigil outside the Israeli Consulate in Miami last March, has been dismissed today. Jennings was arrested for “Resisting an Officer without Violence” during the demonstration, where she was photographed wearing a hooded shawl and carrying…
In case you missed International Swingers Day on August 15, there’s still time to get your costume ready for the inaugural HOT SWINGERS PARTY on Halloween, the first of a series of “themed” events devoted to a celebration of open relationships and the people who love them. And wipe that…
They call them Flippers, Flippers,Faster than lightning;No one you seeIs smarter than they….That’s right folks, our favorite highly intelligent mammal has been spotted cavorting in Florida waters. Florida Trend reports that the flipper is schooling again, only this time the goofy grin is for real and these animals really are…
A six-foot iguana thought Madison Wells tasted pretty good this week. Sorta like a strawberry, in fact. Little 7-year-old Madison was feeding the beast strawberries when it decided to clamp down on her ankle, tearing up her tendons and requiring a couple of dozen stitches.But the story gets better. According…
Palm Beach County Tax Collector Anne Gannon would like to charge us all with smoking. Gannon announced yesterday that she is going to stop hiring anybody who “regularly uses tobacco products” for jobs with the tax collector’s office. Juice finds itself in the itchy position of agreeing with that irrepressible…
