Kadesha Roberts was camped out at a friend’s condo in a cookie-cutter, tile-roofed development off McNab Road when the knock came. The short Jamaican woman with spiked hair opened the door to find a UPS man clutching a large package. After identifying herself, she grabbed it. Then all hell broke…
Yesterday, Palm Beach County health officials sent out the alert: a second case of the mosquito-borne, bone-crushing virus everyone is having trouble pronouncing these days has been detected in the area. A single case of Chikungunya contracted locally could have meant anything; this second instance, however, is prompting health officials…
It’s the dinner hour at Dolphin Mall, and the food court is a busy hive. Teenagers guzzle from Smoothie Kings while tables full of abuelitas fire Gatling-gun Spanish over steaming plates of Lotus Express. At the Segafredo Zanetti Espresso kiosk, a young girl in black shirt and pants offers a…
Pitbull Impersonator Wanders Around Dolphin Mall from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. It’s the dinner hour at Dolphin Mall, and the food court is a busy hive. Teenagers guzzle from Smoothie Kings while tables full of abuelitas fire Gatling-gun Spanish over steaming plates of Lotus Express. At the Segafredo Zanetti…
Usually, you don’t see enough high-level punking among grown adults in corporate positions. Bravo. *Slow clap* According to a lawsuit now grinding through the legal system in Chicago, Florida arena-football owner David Pearsall isn’t a guy you want to mess with. A former owner with the Arena Football One league,…
Florida’s solar industry might be up against the ropes, but it’s vowing to fight on. As we reported a few weeks back, the small but feisty solar industry — with an assist from the Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC), a national group pushing sun energy — is trying to outlive…
With rising sea levels, Great Whites on the loose, and coral development quickly getting knocked down, there’s a lot of trouble brewing out there along the east coast of Florida. Now we can add another to the list: sonic cannons. Yup, you read that right. These devices are typically used…
The news started filtering out to media outlets yesterday afternoon: Dan Borislow, the West Palm Beach tech entrepreneur who radically changed the telecom industry with an internet-based phone service, passed away on Monday evening. The former executive’s company confirmed the death, and already tributes are starting to flow in regarding…
Dada 5000 — the Mohawked, muscled monolith born Dhafir Harris but better-known as the P.T. Barnum of Miami’s backyard fisticuffs — spotted them through the window. It was July 5, and the promoter was chilling at home, the same “Famous Green House” where thousands of knuckle-busters and bloody noses have…
So it begins. All summer, scientists and health officials have been biting their nails over a rare mosquito-borne virus that has begun showing up stateside from the Caribbean. So far, the 80 or so cases diagnosed of chikungunya have been found in people who were traveling abroad. Now, it looks…
For the some 70,000 people each year, it was already too late. But thanks to the push from some concerned citizens — including a lot of South Floridians — bike riders, pedestrians, and motorists struck by hit and run drivers will now have a little justice. And to mark the…
With a November ballot initiative teed up for medical marijuana, the camps working both sides of the issue are now deep in the trenches, trying to lure voters. Cold, hard cash is obviously powering the efforts, which begs the question: Where’s the money coming from? In both camps, big-money donors…
Acoustic guitar chords rang from the speakers, and the 60 or so people filling the sanctuary clapped along with the music. But the services held last night at the Parkway Christian Church in Davie weren’t the usually scheduled Sunday fare. Instead, friends and family gathered last night to mark the…
As your resident Clevelander living and working now in South Florida, let me just say that I’m glad this roller-coaster has finally hit the breaks. A couple weeks back, when someone told me LeBron might re-sign with the Cavs, I brushed it off as homer, pipe-dream BS. After one shirtless…
The troubled Tribune Company – the newspaper conglomerate that includes the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and local Sun Sentinel as well as other dailies across the US — is reportedly being eyed by the biggest, baddest, paper baron left in world publishing: Rupert Murdoch. Yesterday afternoon, journalism insider site Poynter…
Valarie Joaceus looks beat. Inside her tidy living room in North Lauderdale, the blinds drawn tight against the July sun’s bite, she’s slumped on a leather couch, a heavy-set, middle-aged mom overloaded with worry. Joaceus’ two sons — 26-year-old Jonathan and Gregory, 25 — have had their trouble with police…
LeBron is leaving Miami. LeBron is staying in Miami. LeBron is going to Cleveland. LeBron isn’t going to Cleveland. LeBron is LeBron is LeBron is LeBron is . . . This is a snapshot of the pretzeled thought process of your average hoops fan right now. It’s nerve-smashing, torturous, and…
Well hell, this is getting out of hand. Miami megastar LeBron James is gargling over his free agency options, and us lugs are camping out on our duffs all day, sweating and refreshing Twitter every 30 seconds or so. And what makes it all worse, for those of us from…
Valarie Joaceus looks beat. Inside her tidy living room in North Lauderdale, the blinds drawn tight against the July sun’s bite, she’s slumped on a leather couch, a heavy-set, middle-aged mom overloaded with worry. Joaceus’ two sons — 26-year-old Jonathan and 25-year-old Gregory — have had their trouble with police…
Tucked on the Intracoastal, the Anheuser-Busch estate is one of the snazzier stacks of historic brick in Fort Lauderdale. Built by America’s first family of beer in 1938 by world-class designer Francis Abreu, the six-bedroom Spanish-style villa spreads out over 12,533 square feet of waterfront property, making it one of…
Although it flopped like a dead grouper when it hit in 2008, the straight-to-DVD The Onion Movie was a rare misplayed hand by the world leader in smart-ass news. Since launching in 1988, the Onion has burrowed a niche deep into the American news cycle by uncorking snark and scathing…
A short list of the worst ways to get back at an ex: poison the goldfish, glitter-bomb the car (shit never vacuums up), and here’s a new one: Have your mom write a tell-all book, then ship the skinny out to everyone in his or her life. That’s the scenario…
