The first installment of our highlight reel from the area blogosphere featured everything from legal scholarship to sex toys. Round two keeps the quality flowing, with a diverse selection from all over the ideological map. Here are laser-guided muckrakes and movement funeral oratory, community issues, and court cases. If anything,…
As a way of wrapping up 2012, we reached out to the bloggers working the turf in Broward and Palm Beach for their favorite posts from the calendar year. Here is the first installment of what we received. Below you’ll find a few lines from the writers themselves about why…
Well, it happened. You’ve crossed into the Red Zone. We know, we know, you meant to get around to it yesterday, but TNT threw on a back-to-back showing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended cut) and you ate all those cookies. Now it’s 9 am on Christmas Eve…
The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times’ crack research department using through a highly scientific algorithm (i.e. cocktail napkins and a Boggle board). 5. Congressman Allen West. The clock might be running out for Congress’ preeminent Tea Party…
Scott Israel’s November win in the Broward County Sheriff’s race will probably mean a big shakeup at the area’s largest law enforcement agency. But it’s a labor dispute time-stamped from the sheriff-elect’s failed 2008 campaign for Al Lamberti’s job that might change daily business at departments across Florida. Jeffrey Stanley…
Well, by not doing much, it turns out. Guess it figures. If your life is anchored by gaming out possible doomsday scenarios, a little media hype about Mayan calendars or some such bull ain’t about to slow your step. Mayan, shmayan. Have you heard about the asteroid swinging by next…
Despite a couple of good swings, the Miami Herald’s Dan Le Batard pretty much failed to connect with reality in his column last Sunday, a 1,000 word humble-brag tricked out as a nostalgia job. The basic thesis here moans that the Heat’s 2012-13 season is a lot less “fun” now…
Scott Israel’s November win in the Broward County sheriff’s race will probably mean a big shakeup at the area’s largest law enforcement agency. But it’s a labor dispute time-stamped from the sheriff-elect’s failed 2008 campaign for Al Lamberti’s job that might change daily business at departments across Florida. Jeffrey Stanley…
Broward County Circuit Court’s Jeffrey Streitfeld really took home the “activist judge” belt when he presided over Lucinda Naugle’s 2009 lawsuit against Big Tobacco. The sister of a former Fort Lauderdale mayor, Naugle was a smoker whose 25-year habit led to emphysema. She asked the court to put Philip Morris…
On Tuesday night, some 11.3 million people watched The Voice finalist Cassadee Pope perform on-air CPR. One of the four finalists in NBC’s blockbuster song-off, the West Palm Beach native took up a lifeless Keith Urban song, pumped that sucker full of actual artistic juice, and miraculously came out with…
Politicians have to be All-Pro when it comes to shouldering hits from the sideline about job performance and bungled expectations. But it’s still got to be a little bit embarrassing when the electorate decides to trash your term in office on the White House’s front steps, electronically speaking. That’s what…
With the holiday season rolling in fast, everybody could use a few extra dollars in the bank. For some, that means cutting back on spending or picking up a second gig. For others, the move is to grab next month’s rent payment, sacrifice some chickens to the right patron saint,…
Last Thursday morning, drivers motoring down NW 40th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale might have eyeballed an odd sight outside of Plantation Hospital: three protesters waving signs. Anyone close enough to make out the fine print would have been surprised to see the group wasn’t hawking pro-life slogans or any of…
Sad news today for South Florida environmentalists, sea turtles, and Mother Earth: After a circuitous and arguably shady legal battle, Fort Lauderdale’s Mayan Beach Sand Dune was plowed over at some point in the past 48 hours. Even though an August court decision sealed the dune’s fate, the destruction blindsided…
Imagine you want to travel to a foreign country to work with the locals. You link up with a company that promises to handle the specifics across the ocean. Everything sounds legit, so you kiss the family goodbye and hop the thousand-some miles for the big adventure. But when you…
Alex Galvan was in El Salvador teaching English to poor kids when he first learned about his ties to terrorism. It was last March, during the patch of the calendar most universities cut out for spring break. But instead of beer-bonging his way through a beach week or posting up…
There’s been a lot of sideline crystal-balling and analysis about the national decline of horseracing, but Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach racked up some impressive numbers this past weekend with the kickoff of the thoroughbred season. Besides tanking cultural relevance, the big issue here was the start date. Traditionally, thoroughbreds begin…
