Women won’t walk alone through the intersection of Chase Street and Trinity Place in West Palm Beach anymore. There have been assaults, merciless attacks… by birds. According to a WPBF report, nearly a dozen residents have been assaulted by a winged rebel intent on pecking, squawking, following, and other ruthless…
Earlier this week, I reported on how Jeff Greene was smarter than you when the housing market collapsed and how somehow he thought that meant you should vote for him. If you liked that one, Florida, you’re going to love this one: Greene is currently being sued for allegedly defrauding…
Pulling away from last week’s will-he-won’t-he-gasp-he-did Crist frenzy for just a sec, I got an e-mail yesterday from Democrat Jeff Greene’s campaign, in which Greene reminds voters that he “took on Wall Street and won and will take on Washington and win for the people of Florida.”In case you are…
Hey there blogosphere, do me a favor. I need you to send seven bucks and a couple unshucked peanuts (my approximate daily wage) to the New Times newsroom, because if you fine supporters do so, I can have the day off. Mayhap I shall venture to K-Mart. Time will tell.Apparently,…
Mark your calendars, ladies and gents, as the day a Palm Beach lawyer didn’t charge you for a service — not a lump sum, not by the hour, not by your first- born. Christopher Hopkins, an attorney with Butzel Long on Worth Avenue, has developed a free iPhone app that…
Purvis Young spent most of his life free: riding his bike up and down Overtown streets, coming and going as he pleased, and staying up all night to paint. When the prolific mixed-media artist died last week, he was confined to a nursing home, under the care of guardians appointed…
These years have not been kind to the proverbial Floridian wallet: If Madoff didn’t take your money, then Rothstein probably did, and good luck selling that four-bedroom for more than the price of a Lego pirate ship. Now, Florida’s own cash crop, sugar cane, is under fire as the Environmental…
On the coattails of this morning’s tornado watches comes the news that the Wicked Witch of New York Real Estate may be landing for good in Wellington — again. According to Page2Live, Madonna is “thisclose” to closing on a home in Mallet Hill, neighborhood to New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg…
Larry Clemons almost threw up this morning when he read in the paper that Purvis Young, who died yesterday at 67 of cardiac arrest, passed away penniless. “That’s absolutely disgusting. When I was there for Purvis, he had money,” says Clemons, a longtime friend and publisher of the artist as…
He found Purvis Young in 1992, sitting on a milk crate under a Miami overpass, sketching. Young never drove or had a driver’s license but instead would bike around Overtown, stopping to draw people he saw on the streets. In the process, he had documented the riots of the early…
For too long did grandmothers of yesteryear express their anger quietly, perhaps by “accidentally” missing a cross-stitch on this year’s Christmas sweater (and once there’s a run, there’s no saving Rudolph).That wasn’t Vicki Ryder’s style. For the past few years, the 67-year-old founder of the South Florida Raging Grannies has…
Robert Dow is doing “pretty darned good” today, and it’s not hard to see why: Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed the unpopular teacher’s merit pay bill on Thursday, ending the threat of no-tenure-hires and pay scales based on students’ standardized test performances. So if Dow, president of the Palm Beach County…
In recent press, Gov. Crist has said that he’s human. That’s what Palm Beach County schoolteachers are counting on as Crist, currently campaigning for the Senate, reviews a bill that would end tenure and hinge teachers’ pay on student performance on standardized tests, mainly the (maligned) FCAT. Crist’s decision will…
If pink flamingos framed against curiously striped orange suns cause you to immediately start scrounging your pockets for a dollar bill… then you’re probably a redneck Floridian. As eponymous as the lotto symbol is to our din of sundrenched wealth, the Florida Lottery is actually struggling: Total sales for the…
Nine students–some pregnant–and two staff members were hospitalized Friday afternoon when a student attacked another student with pepper spray at Seagull Alternative High School, says the Broward County school board. “The perpetrator has been arrested, there’s been a suspension, and an expulsion is recommended,” says spokesperson Marsy Smith.According to district…
Imagine getting a text from your 9th grade algebra teacher: “Ur homework is due in 45 min!!” No, this is not a nightmare, and yes, you are wearing pants.As part of a revision of the district’s technology plan, school technology officials recommended to the Palm Beach County school board yesterday…
Bruce Springsteen may have been born to run, but he must have mumbled the lyrics about the treadmill fetish. Over the weekend, the 60-year-old Wellington resident was named “the other man” in a New Jersey divorce, the female party whom Springsteen allegedly seduced at the gym by complimenting her, ahem,…
A Port St. Lucie truck driver arrested for perjury and driver’s license fraud may also be wanted in Brazil for swindling, unlawful seizure, receipt of stolen goods, and a fun little thing called murder, TCPalm reports.The Florida Highway Patrol arrested Geraldo Ricardo Miranda, 42, on Wednesday for twice providing a…
