Last week, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told us she was in the room when Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes. Last night on MSNBC, she said Giffords has been making exciting improvements, including, at one point, somehow giving her husband a neck massage. This weekend, the usually pointed congresswoman took to…
In the February issue of The Advocate, America’s best-known LGBT-interest magazine, the publication has its second-annual list of the country’s “gayest cities.” On the list are places such as Oakland, California (“Now that San Francisco’s too pricey for most of the middle class — including artists and the funky gays…
Did Dolphins legend Dan Marino spark up before games? That’s what former NFL offensive lineman Kyle Turley claimed yesterday on the Dan LeBatard Show. Turley doesn’t know for sure but said that stories of Marino sparking up before games is the stuff of common locker room lore. Turley was on…
From director Billy Corben and the minds that brought you Cocaine Cowboys and The U, comes Square Grouper, a new documentary about the heyday of South Florida pot smuggling. The movie has been described as: “a colorful portrait of Miami’s pot smuggling scene of the 1970s, populated with redneck pirates,…
Boynton Beach police have released the surveillance video from yesterday’s bizarre attempted robbery at the Home Depot. That’s the one in which two men wearing women’s clothing came into the store, allegedly tried to steal some power tool batteries, and proceeded to pepper spray store employees in an effort to…
As the Miami Heat has hit a stride of domination over the past few weeks, LeBron James has said publicly that he’s beginning to enjoy his new “villain” role. (Especially, it seems, when it comes to the King’s former kingdom.) And to that end, last night was a fantastic kick…
Last month, we told you about a letter from local animal rights activists to Amerijet, a Fort Lauderdale-based cargo airline, asking the company to shop shipping primates used for research — specifically the ones used for controversial vivisection experiments. Several South Florida groups, including the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida,…
A former long-serving federal inmate living in South Florida says the real reason for the proliferation of cell phones in prisons has more to do with privately owned institutions gouging inmates and their families with ridiculously overpriced phone time than it does organized crime.The ex-con — who advocates for other…
A lot of things are up in the air for the Miami Dolphins this offseason. There are serious questions about the general manager, the head coach, the starting running backs, and, of course, the quarterback position.For a little while, it looked like Chad Henne was the future of the franchise…
Advocates and supporters of Antonio Balta, the man sentenced to 20 years in prison for allowing his daughter to die in a hot car as he gambled, were given sad news over this holiday season: The same clemency board that voted to pardon long-deceased rocker Jim Morrison chose not to…
Yesterday we brought you a list of the five worst moments of this dreadful Miami Dolphins season. And though the team went 7-9, finished third in the division, and missed the playoffs for the second straight year, the season wasn’t an entire bust. There was a lot more learning than…
We can all agree this has been an awful season for the Miami Dolphins. Even the thoughtful sage and conscience of the team has admitted he’s angry at the way the year went. And now the franchise has all sorts of question marks going forward: the coach and general manager…
LeBron James is not a subtle man. Not in the way he plays, not in the way he advertises, not in the way he chooses where to take his talents, and certainly not when it comes to birthday cakes.Last weekend, South Florida’s least inconspicuous professional athlete threw himself quite the…
A male named Carlos Arroyo was arrested in Broward County this morning on charges of criminal mischief (200 dollars and under), pot possession (under 20 grams), and a violation of probation. …
Click here to see illustrations and photos of our Dirty Dozen picks. Apathy. Can you hear it? The silence that hovers from the beaches to the swamps. The lethargy that keeps people from standing up and fighting back. The malaise that makes South Florida so seedy, so corrupt, so chock-full…
There was snow, there was suspense, there was history being made, and if you were still watching that horrible football game last night in the fourth quarter, there was this: a sign from a man and son who apparently drove to Minnesota — to sit outside in single-digit temperatures and…
The crime is among the most famous in Fort Lauderdale history: Nearly ten years ago Miami Subs-founder and gambling boat mogul Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis was driving his black BMW sedan through downtown when the truck in front of him stopped short. Boulis slammed on his brakes, and when he did,…
Lisa Quinn, a teacher from Fort Lauderdale, certainly has plenty of tales from her travels. The former beauty pageant contestant has been around the world; she’s touched down on every continent except Antarctica, and she plans to go there soon. But right now Lisa needs your help in her effort…
This is footage from today’s Dolphins-Jets game. Look closely at the :27 mark, and what looks like someone on the Jets’ sideline sticking his leg out to trip the Dolphins’ Nolan Carroll as he runs up the sideline on punt coverage in the third quarter. The culprit has been identified…
It was 35 years ago, in a dirty, smoky, subterranean dive bar in Boston known as “The Rat.” Located in the basement of a restaurant in Kenmore Square, The Rathskeller is where a lot of people say the punk music movement in this country was born. The venue, which is…
Never has the word dickwad been used with such eloquence. If you don’t frequent the journalism aggregate website Gangrey.com, you are missing out on some of the best writing in the country (in addition to an occasional New Times story).But more recently, you’ve been missing a very entertaining (and very…
Through the Miami Dolphins’ media relations, Ricky Williams says there is no truth to a Dallas man’s claims that he is the running back’s estranged father.But that hasn’t stopped Ross Williams one bit. The 68-year-old retiree says that in the mid-’70s, he had a two-year relationship with Ricky’s mother, Sandy…
