‘Tis the season for those fantastic nondenominational holiday office parties. It’s a magical time of year (several weeks before Christmas) when you take a few hours to stop thinking about your family and the friends you care about deeply and focus on celebrating the season with the people you see…
UPDATE: A University of Tennessee sports web site is reporting that Richardson says he is not participating in the NCAA investigation of the school’s recruiting practices. He’s quoted saying: “I’m not involved in that.” These are Richardson’s first public comments after being arrested for armed robbery. He also says he…
If you’re like most of the folks at the Juice, watching music awards shows generally ranks somewhere above sniffing Tom Delay’s underwear and below intentionally getting Tazed on your scale of “things I’d like to do with my evening.” But that might change this year, all because of one fantastic…
At noon on Tuesday, there was one man waiting, seated quietly on the curb outside the new Chick-Fil-A on Federal Highway in Pompano Beach. By 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, there were already 20 more people. By 6 a.m., nearly 200 people were waiting in line just for the chance to be…
A recent Florida State University graduate and political activist is being held at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach and faces deportation to Colombia.Andrea Huerfano, who graduated from FSU in 2008 with an international studies degree and now lives in Coral Springs, moved to the United States with her…
Most weekends, at the corner of Oakland Park and Federal Highway, there are some colorful protests. This is a regular spot for self-proclaimed “tea partiers” to tell the world (and the luxury cars going to and from Galt Ocean Mile) about their conservative beliefs (like Obama is a socialist Muslim…
If you watched much of the Vikings-Cardinals game last night (it wasn’t much of a game), you probably saw this week’s installment of Toyota’s “Great Moments in Tailgating History.” The topic: the origin of the giant foam finger.The legend, according to the entertaining reenactment, is that the foam finger came…
If you haven’t heard, the governor of this great state has been directing people to call a phone sex chat line.Anyone calling Charlie Crist’s office heard a recording of the governor directing people to various social services, with URLs and phone numbers. The phone number he gave for Florida KidCare,…
Herschel Walker may be the greatest athlete of our lifetimes, a modern-day Jim Thorpe of sorts. Now Walker, who will turn 48 next year, is bringing that athleticism to South Florida. And by “athleticism,” of course I mean some blend of Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do, and ballet ass-kicking ability.That’s…
In most ways, Sam Borkson had a typical American childhood. Growing up in the suburbs of western Broward County during the ’80s and ’90s, he watched Saturday-morning cartoons, read comic books, and played videogames. Like most kids from his generation, a ceaseless stream of pop-culture images seeped slowly into his…
If you get to one of South Florida’s poker rooms early in the day, you might witness something pretty odd. Around opening time (for the casinos that aren’t 24 hours yet) at the $5/$10 no-limit tables, you might find a group of regular players going all in on every hand…
If you haven’t already seen this, Panther defenseman Keith Ballard was frustrated after the team let in what would prove to be the game-winning goal. He went to break his stick over the goal. Instead, he swiped his teammate, Tomas Vokoun’s, ear. Then blood, writhing, Vokoun carried off on a…
Together, Sam Borkson of Plantation and Arturo “Tury” Sandoval III are the creative minds behind Friends With You, a Miami-based artist collaborative producing a peculiar brand of modern art. As of late, FWY has been getting plenty of attention from the international art community and international corporations alike. Whether you’re…
You probably don’t remember it the same way I do, if you remember it at all. Hardcore Dolphins fans know the most famous Thanksgiving Day game the team ever played, and thinking of that day probably brings about a pleasant smile. Not for me though. I grew up in Dallas…
“Will it ever stop? Yo, I don’t know. Turn off the lights, and I’ll glow.” It’s just before 8 a.m. on a recent Friday at Mom’s Kitchen, a country-style breakfast joint in Wellington. In walks a six-foot-tall, 42-year-old man in cargo shorts, a navy-blue hoodie, and a black ball cap…
Nu’Keese Richardson has been at the center of controversy since first-year University of Tennessee football coach, Lane Kiffin, began recruiting the Pahokee product in the off season. His most recent–and serious–trouble came earlier this month as Richardson and two other Volunteer players were arrested for attempted armed robbery and (rightfully)…
If you were on U.S. 1 in Broward County about 2 p.m. today, chances are you saw the caravan of speeding tow trucks racing south, mixed in with a number of BSO cruisers, lights flashing, sirens blaring.There were at least 30 trucks in total and a half-dozen or so police…
I’m not gonna lie, we had a hard time coming up with a “funny” list this week. With Dolphins fans still reeling from the news Ronnie Brown is out for the season with a foot injury, we figured we’d do “The Most Famous Feet in South Florida” or something like…
As promised here, footage of an American icon soaring over the heads of several drunken morning-radio personalities, including one man dressed as Abe Lincoln. Vanilla Ice (real name: Rob Van Winkle) took a few practice runs, then jumped the Wild 95.5 “Snack Pack” three separate times.Please note Rob’s good friend,…
It wasn’t so long ago that Wisconsin had five dog tracks, second only to Florida in terms of total live-racing facilities. This week, the operators of the Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha announced that the track will end racing on New Year’s Eve. This will mark the end of greyhound…
The Dolphins received a devastating blow Sunday when Ronnie Brown hurt his foot. Much more devastating, it turns out, than most people realized.The franchise announced today that Ronnie Brown will be put on Injured Reserve, ending his season.For the year, Brown had 648 years rushing on 147 carries, 14 receptions…
This week Lou Dobbs, the last of the original CNN anchors, announced he was leaving the station and ending his show on that network to “go beyond the role here at CNN” and “engage in constructive problem solving.”While this could mean many things, the smart money says his “constructive problem…
