The Summer of LeBron just got weirder.In July, a group of guys in Northeast Ohio launched a campaign to collect LeBron James’ old Cleveland Cavaliers jerseys and send them to homeless people in Miami. It seemed like a wholesome idea. Clevelanders were so pissed off at the King’s betrayal of…
The Soma Center Cafe in Lake Worth has long been a favorite spot for healthy eating in Palm Beach County. New Times named it Best Vegan Restaurant this year, praising the deliciously fresh, innovative dishes and warm, free-loving atmosphere.But behind the counter at the crunchy, laid-back café, insiders say, chaos…
He sweats in record-breaking heat. He puts up with wrinkly old men in thongs. He drags your ass out of the ocean when you swallow too much saltwater. And you never share your Hebrew National hot dogs with him.In honor of Labor Day weekend, we asked a Palm Beach County…
Palm Beach Atlantic University is a no-nonsense place. The private, Christian school in West Palm Beach strictly prohibits drinking and premarital sex on campus. But what happens when a God-fearing student is accused of a different kind of sin — selling drugs?Magdala Chery, 31, a student in the Gregory School…
This spring’s murder of L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams brought to light a harsh truth about AIDS among African-American men. For many in South Florida, sex on the down-low is a deadly gamble.According to Riviera Beach police reports, Williams’ lover, Lawrence Hunt, 20, allegedly shot the teacher because…
Walking into the Boys of Summer celebrity chef charity event at Florida Builder Appliances in Pompano Beach, we could smell the chocolate before we saw it. We wound our way through islands of glimmering stainless-steel refrigerators, gas stove tops, and high-tech wine coolers to find the source.Each model kitchen brought…
By 8:30 last night, the subdued gathering in the West Palm Beach Marriott conference room had the feel of an awkward bar mitzvah. Heavy chandeliers cast a dim glow on the gaudy pink-and-green carpet. In a far corner, the DJ was spinning Sade-style mood music. Hardly anyone touched the small table…
Debra Villegas, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme, will not be sentenced on Friday as planned.Rothstein’s former right-hand woman has two more months of freedom, thanks to summer vacation scheduling conflicts and her lawyer’s insistence that she’s working “diligently” to…
Two years before he was allegedly murdered by a lover, middle school teacher Calvin Williams twice called Riviera Beach police to his apartment to respond to violent domestic disputes.The first call came on the night of September 25, 2008. Williams, then 39, told the dispatcher that his 19-year-old roommate, Tirrelle…
By day, he was Mr. Williams, the handsome, six-foot-four-inch teacher at L.C. Swain Middle School, always ready with a smile and a word of encouragement for the kids who struggled most.Calvin Williams, 41, was certified to teach special education and had a bachelor’s degree in social work. He began his…
L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams, 41, was allegedly shot and killed this May by a lover who believed Williams had HIV.The lover, Lawrence Hunt, 20, told police he fired his gun because Williams was attempting to rape him. Hunt now sits in the Palm Beach County jail awaiting…
If slain L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams had HIV, as police reports suggest, his bosses at the Palm Beach County school district did not have to know. Teachers’ personal health information is protected by federal law. “They are not required to disclose their status,” says district public affairs specialist…
If TMZ is correct and LeBron James paid Rabbi Yishayahu Yosef Pinto to sit in on a business meeting yesterday, then the Heat star is officially courting South Florida mogul status.What better way to ingratiate himself to his new hometown than meet with a celeb rabbi known for providing business…
It was a landlord’s worst nightmare. The tenants who never paid the rent or the light bill on time were finally evicted from Maria Rosa’s house on Branch Street in Hollywood, but they left behind an unsolicited gift: two pit bulls.Both dogs were “muy peligrosos” — very dangerous, says the…
One might assume the $7 million stimulus contract that Deerfield Beach businessman J. David Eller recently won for his family’s manufacturing company, MWI Corp., was the result of some successful schmoozing or campaign donations to his congressman, U.S. Rep. Ron Klein.But Eller’s no Klein fan. When contacted last week, Klein…
David Eller, former Jeb Bush business partner and longtime GOP donor, rarely has trouble snagging government work for his family’s Deerfield Beach manufacturing company, Moving Water Industries (MWI).But the $7 million federal stimulus package contract MWI recently received could raise some eyebrows.MWI will be supplying water pumps and motors for…
The Palm Beach Daily News, better-known as the “Shiny Sheet,” the glossy newspaper that has covered news and socialite gossip on the wealthy island of Palm Beach for more than a century, will soon get new digs.Employees at the paper learned yesterday that their $2 million building on Royal Poinciana…
Jesse Scanlon, a 21-year-old English major at Florida Atlantic University, recently completed a 2,500-mile bike ride across the country. He rode from Jacksonville Beach to Los Angeles (with a stop in Tijuana), covering anywhere from 20 miles to 100 miles a day. He chronicled his adventures on his blog, America…
The man accused of fatally shooting his alleged lover, L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams, is no hardened criminal, but he has been accused of violence before.Three years ago, when he was in 11th grade at Palm Beach Gardens High School, Lawrence Hunt was arrested for strong-arm robbery.On February…
It was 12:30 p.m. last Saturday, and I was starving. I’d just finished an extremely sweaty yoga class and was eagerly speeding off to Sunrise to meet some friends for dim sum. Toa Toa, the highly acclaimed Chinese-food institution in a strip mall, would surely be worth the half-hour schlep…
Last week, just as his pissing match with the state Legislature over oil drilling in the Gulf reached ludicrous proportions, Charlie Crist got a big, wet boost to his Senate campaign from the national press.In a Newsweek article, “The Resurrection of Crist” (who knew Jesus was so tanned?), writer Arian…
Next time you get drunk, hit the slot machines, and hook up with that hottie from accounting, be warned: Your debauchery may be recorded.The Seminole Tribe of Florida has just received $595,000 from a federal Homeland Security fund to install four mobile surveillance towers and a dozen license-plate scanners on…
