Though last night’s Planting Peace fundraiser at the Bubble was canceled due to last-second scheduling conflicts, the charity’s founder, Aaron Jackson, was in town from Haiti (where Planting Peace has several orphanages), and that gave me the opportunity to ask him about this week’s big feature spread in the Sunday edition of the…
e and the Miami Heat will be without the services of an undersized, over-the-hill veteran troublemaker this season. And Heat fans more concerned with wins and good basketball are probably rejoicing right now, but South Florida bloggers and other fans of controversy and stories ripe for the advancing will shed…
If you don’t know the backstory, later this month in Seattle, Marc Emery, the so-called “Prince of Pot,” is scheduled to be sentenced to five years in American prison for selling marijuana seeds through the mail. The Canadian — and publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine — claims to have sold…
Less than a year after he lost his UFC heavyweight title to former NFLer Brock Lesnar, Couture had another hard loss last weekend to Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in a fight MMA experts are calling one of the best of all time. But even after a string of losses, the 46-year-old…
But much was cut from the story too, including a few bits editors thought too literary (or not literary enough, maybe?). One of the many joys of the Juice, though, is that this space allows us to tell you more. For instance, the story once had the following epigraph: “You…
The humans are mostly quiet, polite young men, willing to climb atop animals a dozen times their size and try to hold on for eight seconds. The quadruped participants in this arrangement are snorting, slobbering masses of muscle, with lethal weapons affixed to the end of each leg and to…
corporate homepage, the compandy says “LA Fitness: Where Fitness is a Way of Life.” At the Fort Lauderdale location, a block north of the intersection of Oakland Park Blvd and Federal Highway, apparently tiny bits of shattered glass from car windows is also a way of life. After a break-in there this weekend, the…
So after the first four episodes of Broward’s double-X chromosome cop show, the main characters are getting a little more fleshed out. We’ve seen Detective Andrea Penoyer scream at crack heads, mother her son (sometimes seconds before screaming at crack heads), go to the beach in a hot pink bikini…
The day is upon us. Yes, every Simpsons fan knows Whacking Day started in 1924 as an excuse to beat up the Irish. And yes, technically Texas has had organized snake whacking for years. But now Florida’s bravest most cunning snake-hatingest citizens will descend upon the swamps of this state…
[jump] James Randi disagrees completely, obviously. He offers $1 million to anyone who can prove their paranormal abilities in a testable setting. While Geller makes the argument that most people in the world believe in something supernatural (“Seven billion people can’t be wrong,” he told me), Randi is the leader…
On stage in a spacious Las Vegas banquet hall sits a nervous-looking, dark-haired Danish woman named Connie Sonne. The 46-year-old retired police officer has made a name for herself as a psychic in Europe, claiming she knows the whereabouts of famous missing British toddler Madeleine McCann. Sonne also says she…
[jump] A salesperson at Maroone Chevrolet in Fort Lauderdale told me that location stopped taking in clunkers on Friday. Maroone is owned by AutoNation. The program (and indeed the president) has many detractors (something about not wanting to give away taxpayer money), and some dealers aren’t totally confident they’ll get…
Miami Heat forward Michael Beasley checked into a rehab facility in Houston over the weekend, just days after a photo of the number two overall draft pick with what may have been a bag of pot made waves on sports blogs across the country. Beasley posted the photo to his…
Aaron Jackson, founder of Planting Peace — a locally based nonprofit running orphanages in Haiti and shelters around the world — says he does not “kill children.” That’s right, not even one. I’ve hung out with the man on several occasions, for extended periods of time, and as far as…
[jump] A few days after the stolen remains story ran, the Sun-Sentinel published a short story about a gas station robbery in Boca Raton. The robber didn’t get the safe open, and didn’t hurt anyone, but did get away with the cash in the register. If you’re looking for this…
[jump] 1. Before the Hurricane/Storm Planning ahead is the most important thing you can do for your pets if you must evacuate your home, but NEVER refuse to evacuate because of your pets. Below are tips to help you be prepared in the event of evacuation: Research a safe place…
Last weekend, greyhound racing was suspended at Twin River, the only active track in Rhode Island. The track is bankrupt, in part it says, because of the cost of dog racing. The state assembly there is trying to revive the moribund industry, but the track has let go all 27…
The dawn of fall in America brings a cornucopia of emotions for the die-hard football fan. The titillation of gridiron season nears — the symphony of collision in a goal line stand, the despondency of a last-second field goal through your heart, the fiendish compulsion of a fantasy football run…
[jump] “Florida’s interior design law has nothing to do with protecting the public and everything to do with protecting state-licensed interior designers from fair competition,” declared Neily, adding that the injunction “is an important step towards getting rid of Florida’s unfair, illegitimate and anti-competitive licensing law root and branch.” In…
In the video above we have Andrea, the most aggressive of the Police Women of Broward County. In this episode she strips down to a thong and gun belt, then shoots a guy just for looking at her the wrong way yells a lot and manhandles (and yells) at some…
