Even in dire economic and political times, Americans have an enormous amount to be thankful for. But as South Floridians think over all that is good and hopeful this holiday season, there probably won’t be nearly enough gratitude for Rob Van Winkle — the man you know as Vanilla Ice…
When the state Clemency Board meets for the final time later this week, the four-person commission might, against better judgment, pardon long-dead rocker Jim Morrison. And the board may look at the case of a condemned South Florida dog. But a network of activists stretching from Florida to New York…
Less than an hour into this weekend’s protest of Puppy Palace in Hollywood, there were already four Hollywood Police Department squad cars on the scene. And before the three-hour protest was over, the police would be called at least twice more. Store employees out counter-protesting said they felt threatened. The…
Earlier this week we told you about how the anonymous, dancing FAU student known as “Green Mann” held an official unveiling ceremony. Though it was the middle of the day during end-of-semester exams — one of the reasons Green Mann kept the ceremony so short — there were still more…
To see a video of Mickey Clean’s band on an old episode of the cable access show TV Party click here. A wiry man with tufts of gray hair hanging over his glasses shuffles into the Pirate Republic Bar late one warm Thursday night carrying a cigar box full of…
Amerijet, the international cargo shipping corporation headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, is one of the few airlines that still transports research primates, specifically the ones used for controversial vivisection experiments. The company has done business with Primate Products, the South Florida-based research facility where several monkeys were photographed with severe –…
The cover story in this week’s print product chronicles the life of one of Fort Lauderdale’s favorite characters: Mickey Clean, the man who has drawn crayon caricatures of tourists and locals by the beach for the past ten years.Among the many things most people don’t know about Mickey — born…
In this video, made last Friday on what activists deemed “Fur Free Friday,” a local animal rights crusader named Josh Durden takes a camera into several high-end clothing stores to ask the employees selling fur what they think of the disgusting animal-skinning processes used to procure most fur.He visits the…
Since they started earlier this year, the regular animal-rights protests outside Puppy Palace in Hollywood have run the gambit from the awkwardly sarcastic to the deeply personal to the nearly violent. There have been police, PETA cookies, and a petting zoo. This weekend, though, as about 30 protesters gathered outside,…
The anonymous, green-Lycra-clad student who dances around the Florida Atlantic University campus will unmask himself today in front of a group of what will likely include hundreds of people.Though the University Press, one of the school newspapers, reported his name after he was arrested on campus for disrupting a music…
It wasn’t rare to see him strolling through the airport with a smile or shopping at CVS or dining with family in the restaurants near the 17th Street Causeway, not far from where he lived. In South Florida, a land full of Canadian snowbirds, there was no more famous or…
Even in dire economic and political times, Americans have an enormous amount to be thankful for. But as South Floridians think over all that is good and hopeful this week, there probably won’t be nearly enough gratitude for Rob Van Winkle — the man you know as Vanilla Ice.It used…
This week the Transportation Security Administration announced that travelers who don’t want strangers to see their naked form in a full-body scanner and also don’t want a stranger groping them will not be fined $11,000 for their refusal to cooperate. (If you decline the searches and then bolt for the…
You and your family have just finished the first of four courses on Thanksgiving Day. You can smell the rest of the food, but it’s not time yet. So you’re stuck in a warm room with the people you love, but may not get to see too often. It could…
Police in Boynton Beach are on the lookout for a large green mermaid. Or a statue of one anyway.Last night, Timothy Gallo, 47, reported to police that the statue had apparently been stolen from the backyard of his house on NE Tenth Avenue. The statue has been gone for a…
Last week, we told you about the animal-rights activists protesting the Cole Bros. Circus. They’ve followed the circus around South Florida, explaining with signs and megaphones that circus employees and patrons alike “support animal cruelty.”Last weekend, though, the protest in Margate turned into an assault. And one protester captured the…
The Miami Dolphins are desperate right now. Less than a week after benching Chad Henne in favor of Chad Pennington, the team may have lost both players for the remainder of the season. Third-stringer Tyler Thigpen finished Sunday’s win against the Titans at quarterback.Now the team seems to be scrambling…
After all the drama and controversy surrounding conservative talk-show host Joyce Kaufman last week — her accepting, then turning down, incoming Congressman Allen West’s invitation to be his chief of staff, then a terrorist threat against Broward schools citing Kaufman — local Tea Partiers held a rally supporting her this…
The TSA just released video of the recent full-body scanner incident from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. (See above and, from different angle, below.) There’s no sound, but you can see Meg McLain enter the video at about the 1:10 mark. Then she’s off-camera (except for her frantic hands). You…
If you’re not a fan of powerful, liberty-stomping bureaucratic assclowns walking all over basic civil rights, this story might bother you.Now, the new full-body scanners used by airports have already caused quite a bit of controversy. But Meg McLain, New Hampshire-based marijuana legalization activist and host of the freedom-focused internet…
It was supposed to be a pleasant Christian festival, scheduled for this Saturday in Pompano Beach. There are supposed to be a few bounce houses, some face painting, a mechanical bull, a beach volleyball tournament, some live music, and a silent auction.But it was something else on the itinerary at…
With the Dolphins 4-4 at the halfway point in the season, head coach Tony Sparano announced today that starting quarterback Chad Henne will be benched this week in favor of former savior (and two-time comeback player of the year), Chad Pennington. (Insert “hanging chad” jokes here.)Oddly though, Sparano had nothing…
