Imagine the hours upon hours of creative exertion that must have taken place at Spirit Airlines’ corporate headquarters in Miramar before some clever bastard realized that for this weekend’s promotion, they could dust off an old, hackneyed but effective slogan, then trim just a single, crucial letter.Voila! Behold Spirit Airlines’…
Aston Martins and dry martinis: two James Bond trademarks that — for us civilians — should never be mixed and should be enjoyed only in moderation. Or else the consumer might take his spy schtick past the limits of international law. This warning may come too late for the staff…
Cliff Berry Inc. is a Fort Lauderdale-based environmental services company that in December was convicted on two counts of grand theft and two counts of fraud for bribing folks who could help it steal jet fuel from Miami International Airport. But since a company can’t do jail time, its punishment…
Last week I joked how maybe this upcoming documentary by director Kirby Dick about closeted gay Republicans should toss a scene to Charlie Crist, and it looks like that’s exactly what happened. An article in showbiz mag Variety confirmed that Crist stars — unwittingly, I guess — in Outrage, which…
Yes, we’re all furious about the Wall Street culture of deception and cheating that has pushed this country to the brink of economic collapse, but maybe it’s time to put down our torches and pitchforks so we can think this through. Or at least that’s the impulse I got after…
Florida Republicans celebrated Earth Day by moving the state one step closer to lifting a ban on oil-drilling off the coast. Hear that, Galt Ocean Mile residents? How loudly you cheered when the governor came to your condo to tell you that another potential environmental hazard, the Calypso natural gas…
Don’t call it a comeback, but disgraced Republican instant-message seducer Mark Foley has a tidy $1.2 million to spend on a campaign to take back his congressional seat, as you can see from the FEC filings (oops, link doesn’t work but just use the search engine… or trust me). Compare…
Just as all good Sunni Muslims make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca, all good Fort Lauderdale Catholic boys go to Notre Dame. So maybe it was inevitable that two of the most well-regarded players on next year’s defending state champion St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders football team have named the…
This blog has neglected the 2010 mid-term elections that are only 18 (eighteen!!) months away. It is the longest game of musical chairs. Ever.In the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, Kendrick Meek has surged to frontrunner status, raising $1.8 million in the first quarter — roughly five…
I know that Crossfire was killed and that this is right and good because there was too much yelling on cable anyway; but shouldn’t there be some conflict? Democrats go on MSNBC, Republicans go on Fox News, and at the end both interviewer and interviewee agree about what is Right…
‘Tis the season of perplexing, politically loaded holidays. Today is Earth Day, which according to the video below (by the blessedly clairvoyant religious right) is destined to replace Patriot’s Day on the school calendar — which is strange because Patriot’s Day isn’t actually on the school calendar, is it? No…
Considering South Florida’s love of all things kinky and Democrat, you’d have reason to expect a GOP-dominated legislature to be combing through our local police reports so they could A) figure out what weird sex stuff we’re up to; and B) pass laws against it.Yet this legislative session, the very…
That’s the photo that BSO is circulating ostensibly to convince people in the Weston area to be extremely careful lest they be mauled by this huge, aggressive, OK, extremely small and harmless-looking bearI can’t even type that word with a straight face. Are we sure this isn’t a big badger?…
Another day, another Philadelphia man accused of committing fraud and enjoying his allegedly ill-gotten gains in sunny South Florida. Tony Young, a financial adviser in suburban Chester County, is accused of bilking investors out of $23 million, a portion of which he’s alleged to have used to buy this $2.3…
If that looks like your shopping list then, well, thank you, good sir, for generous contributions to the State of Florida, but you probably should have waited till after the legislative session. A bill recently passed by the House Finance and Tax Council would remove sales taxes on yachts and…
The Miramar-based airline notorious for an ad that shows a post-coital cuddling session between a young man and a cougarish lady that advertises an innuendo-thick “three way” deal to its customers and treats its flight attendants as billboard space has — if you can believe this — stumbled into another…
Sunrise Mayor Roger Wishner, facing scrutiny for having been among those commissioners who hired his former attorney Stuart Michelson as the city attorney, provided Juice with documents suggesting that in Michelson’s first six months on the job, he has helped the city save more than a half-million dollars. The documents,…
This is a photograph (click to enlarge) that tells a heart-breakingly tragic story. It is the picture of a single, doomed transaction between two human beings who may never meet, and though it shows only the mid-point of that drama, we fellow humans can picture vividly its beginning and end;…
The media klieg lights are always on, but they dim just a tad around the close of the business day Friday. Everybody’s off to happy hour, or making the week’s last commute home. Media consumers take a break to spend time with friends and family, and it may be late…
In a conversation that seems to have been recorded at the cafeteria lunch table where the in crowd sits, Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter and Commissioner Ken Keechl decided that fellow Commissioner John Rodstrom is not in-crowd material. That’s because Rodstrom’s pushing a bill that would bar commissioners from calling upon…
Currently, it’s called “A Child Is Missing,” but the Fort Lauderdale organization founded to quickly circulate reports of missing children to Florida law enforcement may soon name itself after Caylee Anthony. It’s not even the organization’s idea. Rather, it’s the brainstorm of Orlando-area U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, who told the…
