There’s no escaping the cult phenomenon of Pokemon Go in South Florida. Millennials teem the tri-county area on their phones, hunting for invisible creatures in what the app calls an “augmented reality.” Generally, the battling and violence stays in the virtual realm, but the Morikami Museum is reporting that Pokemon…
Geeking out over Pokémon is finally cool with the recent arrival of Pokemon Go It’s no longer a passive, 1990s card game played in middle school cafeterias. In order to catch ’em all, you need to ditch your air conditioning and Netflix and take to the actual streets. But the…
One day early last year, Luiz Rodrigues gazed out at the dunes near the Fourth Street Beach. The sandy hills are cordoned off with rope and wooden fencing, a sanctuary for many amid the bustle of South Beach. Inside, sea oats swayed in the wind. Fuchsia bayhop flowers blossomed. But…
Four months after North Carolina lawmakers required transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender listed on their birth certificates, the City of West Palm Beach has announced that it will now make life a little easier for its transgender employees and their families. Now the city’s health insurance…
Jay Scott, sporting a brown ponytail and a shirt that exposes his tattoos, walks through Habatat Galleries in West Palm Beach, past Dale Chihuly’s fluorescent, coral-like cylinders and William Morris’ display of ancient tools. The 39-year-old weaves among pieces created by some of the world’s most renowned glass artists and…
Johnny MacDougall, a blond-haired, blue-eyed little leaguer from Weston, loved baseball. He shared that passion with his dad, Dave, who took him to more than 100 Marlin games.. After watching a one at Camden Yards in Baltimore when Johnny was 5 years old, the pair made a pact to visit…
If Grant Sadowski had his way, The Martian wouldn’t have been nominated for best picture of 2016. Because at the beginning of Act 2, Matt Damon wouldn’t have had to MacGyver trinkets for his survival on the red planet. Instead, he’d be taking it easy, sipping on margaritas out of…
The homeless contend they’re being unfairly targeted in the city’s efforts to clean up one of the most troubled sections of downtown. Tuesday morning marked the second time in less than two weeks that the homeless report their belongings being taken. James Watkins says his bike was confiscated from his…
Florida’s unconstitutional plan to limit abortion might have killed a Palm Beach County teen program focusing on drop-out prevention. To keep the program running, program officials scrambled to re-do contracts by the July 1 deadline. To comply with the new restrictions, they cut Planned Parenthood out of the budget to…
Plastic doesn’t biodegrade. This is great for storing a tub of mayonnaise in your fridge, yet awful for the environment. Millions of tons of plastic pile up in landfills and oceans. There have been some ideas to address the plastic crisis, but none have been as revolutionary as the one…
The American Civil Rights Union. a conservative group, says census data proves more people are eligible to vote in Broward County this November than are currently alive. “The result could be people inadvertently voting who are not registered to vote,” says Joseph Vanderhulst, an attorney with the Public Interest Legal…
Last week, Americans flocked to social media to comment on how stupid and selfish it was for Britain to revolt and separate from a large bureaucracy like the European Union. Timing couldn’t be more unfortunate now that Americans are firing up the grills and dressing in red, white, and blue…
As part of the city’s effort to clean up one of the most troubled sections of downtown, cops seized all of Jennifer Shoop’s belongings—including vital blood pressure medication in Stranahan Park last Thursday. In doing so, Shoop’s life is in danger. “I’ve been trying to stay out of the sun…
A blue thicket of braided, industrial nylon rope winds through the four-story atrium gallery at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami) in the Design District. A foot wide at one end, the rope narrows and wraps around the museum’s white support beams and columns like a giant cobra. By…
Twenty-nine-year-old Rachel Alexander woke up on Saturday morning in Delray Beach to the horrific news of a mass shooting at an Orlando gay club. As a member of the LGBTQIA community, Alexander had frequented Pulse nightclub a handful of times, most recently about a year ago. She later found out…
As a 6-year-old kid, Lily Capeheart would catch lizards in her West Palm Beach backyard. Then one day in 2006, she tried to hypnotize one. She had seen a show on Animal Planet in which a woman hypnotizes an alligator by flipping it over and rubbing its belly. Capeheart figured…
Tensions are high in Wilton Manors after the massacre of 50 clubgoers at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning. People from the city of 12,000 have donated blood, signed a petition banning assault weapons, and donated to Equality Florida, a nonprofit collecting money for victims and their families…
Dog paternity is a contentious issue at animal shelters. Often times, pets are taken in with little knowledge of their ancestry, leaving staff to assume a pet’s breed on its looks. Mary Steffen, director of the Humane Society of Broward County, explains that this guesswork can lead to problems since…
Medical Marijuana is legal in 19 states—not including Florida. But that hasn’t stopped one Fort Lauderdale tech company from reaping the benefits of the booming cannabis industry. BioTrackTHC, a 6-year-old software firm, devised a comprehensive “seed-to-sale” marijuana inventory program that uses an identification number on barcodes to track marijuana from…
It’s not easy to book a helicopter flight. You can’t hail one off the street like a taxi. You can’t catch one at a certain time or place like the bus. You certainly can’t purchase a flight on Orbitz. Until recently, an interested flier in South Florida would have to…
Beverly Hawthorne is thrilled to celebrate her 65th birthday with her grandchildren later this month. For 35 years, Hawthorne struggled with a crack addiction that kept her cycling between the streets, jail, and the emergency room. Finally, in January 2014, Hawthorne filled out a survey, which revealed that of the…
In 1994, Richard Rabin migrated from snowy New Jersey to Plantation. The 54-year-old retired union leader and former bodybuilder was ready to spend his days taking it easy in the warm weather, entertaining his four grandchildren when they came to visit. Adept at computers, he took up graphic design as…
