Jon Stewart talks about this sort of nonsense a lot. Every election, he gets asked who he wants to win based not on his own political leanings but on comedy. Who will provide the best fodder for the meat grinder? Invariably, Stewart says something along the lines that it’s not…
If Crystal Lakes Middle School doesn’t cough up some details soon about why its security specialist, who appears to beat up a female student in the video below, hasn’t been disciplined — or thoroughly investigated — for the altercation, the girl’s father, Robert Donald, will take this thing to court…
There was a moment — maybe it’s difficult to remember now — but there was a moment back in early September when Barack Obama ran advertisement after advertisement suggesting Mitt Romney was a rapacious and perhaps soulless businessman. But the question was: Would the barrage work? Would the message stick?…
One of the major rules of party décor is that you show up to your own shindig. Just don’t tell that to Fort Lauderdale Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who skipped her victory bash last night for the national spotlight in Chicago.She left her supporters, dizzied with political victory, to feed…
The refrain at the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office goes something like this: We told voters everything they needed to know. It’s not our fault the lines were so long. We’ve been preaching absentee ballots for months. People knew everything they needed to. Believe us: They did. We did…
According to a recent New Times poll of Broward County psychics, there’s a general consensus among the spirits that Barack Obama will win a second presidential term over Mitt Romney. Though, as one of the three psychics we interviewed cautioned, “the cards are tight.” Indeed. There are apparently conflicting elemental…
We’ll miss a lot of things about covering Barack Obama’s addresses — all that hopey changey stuff, the enthusiasm, the fact that we’re not cheering another old white dude — it just gets us. But what we won’t miss? Yesterday. Yesterday, Obama said all of the things one might expect…
Former President Bill Clinton said a lot of things during his his hour-long speech in Tampa last night before a crazed crowd of 1,000 supporters at a campaign rally here Friday night. It would be nice to know what most of it was. We’re not sure whether it was the…
Words that are rarely combined in common nomenclature: parking garage, art, and intellectual property. But somehow a strange showdown on South Beach has brought them all together for local photographer, Hester Esquenazi. Who knew taking pictures of the 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage, which has become one of the most-photographed…
By now, more than 2 million people have already voted in Florida, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the state’s voters and trouncing early concerns that voter-suppression measures would stymie turnout. We already knew how bogus concerns over voter fraud were, but does the same go for our trepidation regarding voter…
It’s been four days. Just four days of early voting. But our New Times freelance photographer, Ian Witlen, says at least one voting station in Broward County is already having troubles.It went down like this. He got to the Northwest Regional Library at 7:30 yesterday morning to get his vote…
