Locals You Can Cheer (or Jeer) at the Super Bowl

Yeah, all the Florida football teams are done for the year, and when you watch the big game this weekend you’ll probably care more about the commercials than either team (unless you’re a gambler, like me, and the commercials just delay the inevitable sobbing and cursing and swearing never to…

Grand Old Puny: Republicans Feeling Blue

Not that it matters for another 22 months, but a recent in-depth state-by-state analysis of party affiliation by Gallup says Florida “leans Democrat.” The study included more than 18,000 interviews with Floridians and ultimately says that since 2002, the country has gone from mostly Republican to mostly Democrat. In fact, according…

Holocaust Denier Blessed by Pope, Cursed by S. Florida Jews

This week Pope Benedict XVI reinstated Bishop Richard Williamson after 20 years of excommunication from the Catholic Church. Williamson’ excommunicable offense was being consecrated without the Vatican’s consent (which sounds like some hardcore Da Vinci Code shit, right?) but the offense that’s caused an international uproar is Williamson’s denial that…

Sex Addict Makes Lauderdale Stop

Author Benoit Denizet-Lewis, a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, recently came out as a sex addict in the pages of the Modern Love section. He’s on the last leg of his first book tour, promoting America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, and last night he…

Jug or Not

At a smoky pub on Powerline Road in Pompano Beach called Greenbrier Restaurant, there’s a long-standing, much cherished tradition known only to the regulars and their servers: A patron stacks his cash tips in just such a way to cue the female bartender, who in a flash takes down her…

The Pro Bowl Blows

I wish I could say that today’s appointment of Kerry Collins as Brett Favre’s replacement in the NFL Pro Bowl was the fatal blow to this game’s credibility. But that credibility left long ago. So let’s just call this a signal that the powers that be don’t believe that Chad…

Huizenga Defeats Obama

In a press release just sent out over the wires, the Miami Dolphins announced that Stephen M. Ross now owns 95 percent of the franchise and Dolphin Stadium. Combined with the 50 percent of the team Ross purchased last February, Ross and Wayne Huizenga officially sealed the deal on an additional…

Buddha Thinks Aaron Jackson is Hot

Aaron Jackson, the laid back, scruffy local saint, who just so happens to be the cover boy in this week’s print product, has a lot of fans. Among them: Larry King, Rainn Wilson, Charlie Crist, and rock stars and actors all over Hollywood, California. But none of those famous admirers…

Paul Blart: Mall Cop As Reviewed by Steve: Mall Cop

We all know what a sad state journalism is in these days, but some reporters still perform actual fact-checking. On Friday afternoon at the AMC Theatres Coral Ridge 10, I “fact-checked” Paul Blart: Mall Cop — released nationwide this weekend — by inviting a real mall security officer from Fort…

Obama Partners With…Spiderman

President-elect Barack Obama will be making plenty of appearances over the next few weeks, but one in particular has comic book fiends and political junkies combining forces . In Spiderman #583 (pictured right), released on Wednesday, Spidey receives a special guest appearance from the most popular superhero in the world right…

Some Kind of Bust: BSO Corrals Runaway Nipples

This act, and variations of it, will no longer be performing at Greenbrier RestaurantAt a smoky pub on Powerline Road in Pompano Beach called Greenbrier Restaurant, there’s a long-standing, much cherished tradition known only to the regulars and to their servers: A patron stacks his cash tips in just such…

The Half-Pound Bag A Loophole in Drug Trafficking Law

Meet Orlando Rafeal Dager, 24, from Southwest Ranches. He was arrested late Tuesday night with eight bags of marijuana in his 2003 Toyota Camry. This is shocking only because Dager has been a substitute teacher at Cypress Bay High School in Weston (where the kids can afford all sorts of…

Gators Binge, Purge, Intend to Repeat

For an encore, Tim Tebow will rescue a kitten from the top floor of a burning skyscraper.Judging by the large number of blue and orange-adorned ticket holders puking in the parking lot, it was great to be a Gator last night. The Super Bowl of college football featured jets and…

Live Blogging from the BCS National Championship Game

As any blog reader knows, live blogs are the current way of the future. And any journalist who wants to keep his job embraces the latest way of the future. So…welcome to the first ever LIVE BLOG in Juice history. I secured my spot in the press booth months ago, when it looked like…

Tip to Cops Investigating Money Laundering: Do Not Launder Money

You will get caught. From the “Really Coulda Seen This Coming” South Florida crime files, we have 32-year-old Fort Lauderdale detective Jorge Reyes, who was assigned to a special task force aimed at breaking up money-laundering rings. Such a job is vital to bringing down all sorts of criminal enterprises,…

Florida Home to Fresh-Squeezed… Handguns?

A study published last month by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group lead by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, says that not only do lax gun laws lead to more murders, higher crime rates, and more law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, guns from those states…

What Is Wrong With This Picture?

 If there was a rash of Dolphins-related suicides around 10:45 p.m. last night, one local TV station certainly won’t be reporting on it. That’s because Channel 7, WSVN, hates the Miami Dolphins and doesn’t care if the team’s fans kill themselves. Or maybe some intern just made a horrible mistake…