Deerfield Beach is still reeling after last week’s arrests of Mayor Al Capellini and Commissioner Steve Gonot. Residents keep calling the Juice newsroom with the same questions, and we’ll answer them here.1) No, tomorrow’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission will not take place at Broward County Jail, even…
Part of the trouble with stating one’s political case via graffiti is that there’s only so much wall with which to write. Then one has to use big letters so that the message can be seen at a great distance. Well, you can imagine how it’s tempting to resort to…
I realize it’s tough to scrounge up money in this economy, Palm Beach County, but must you really take it out of the g-strings of our courageous strippers? Those hard-bodied girls and guys need that money to pay for college! To put food on the table for the cute little…
The Juice has invited New Times theater critic, Brandon K. Thorp, to provide a running critique of one of the region’s most popular, most enduring stage shows: Sunday service at Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale. With nearly 20,000 members it is the state’s biggest church. In his first installment of…
Seriously, the Sun-Sentinel’s news-you-can-use crew, so quick to report on stop signs and chuckholes and banana peels on the sidewalk, had better hustle down to Hollywood Boulevard. A Juice correspondent tells me that the Tri-Rail crossing has malfunctioned and traffic’s backed up somethin’ fierce. If you’re working late and contemplating…
Don’t you feel just a little sorry for the gawkers of St. Petersburg / Tampa? They’ve been waiting to get their place on the celebrity map forever! But no, Anna Nicole had to croak in the that other Seminole Hard Rock hotel. Today’s Charlie Crist-Carole Rome wedding was supposed to…
I don’t mean to turn this blog into an issue of Cigarette Aficionado, but an area smoker who agrees with my Obama idea just told me about a Sunrise-based company selling an electronic cigarette that you can smoke anywhere. Airplanes! Restaurants! Day care centers! Gas stations! Elevators! In bed, post-coital,…
From panty raids to war profiteering. Frat brothers grow up so fast, eh Charlie?What’s a wedding without at least one war profiteer? That’s the baggage that Harry Sargeant’s been lugging around the last several months, ever since a congressional oversight committee took a close look at the deal Sargeant’s Boca…
Let’s hear for the home team! Office Depot, which is based in Delray Beach, today landed a big-ass contract to provide office supplies to Goodrich Corp., the international aerospace firm. Yay!And maybe that will cushion you for the even-more-recent news that Office Depot will be closing 112 stores nationwide.Seems like…
No to be contrary, but I’m not remotely bothered by the fact that the incoming president is a smoker. Or at least I’m not as concerned as Palm Beach Post columnist Rhonda Swan who today demanded that Obama “Quit Smoking, Period.”This habit makes him human. The man who directed the…
And not a moment too soon. Would someone please unlock Nancy Grace’s cage and wheel her gurney in front of the television cameras?Maybe now the grandparents can retire those ridiculous “Where’s Caylee?” shirts. All this time, maybe the answer was right in their backyard.Hey, Florida! How’s about a five-year moratorium…
Asa Boynton has a flair for the dramatic. You sorta have to when you’re in the singing telegram biz. But Boynton — that’s him above, as the Hairy Fairy, a favorite character — can’t resist applying his performance art in the political realm. He’s one of Hollywood’s fiercest rabble rousers,…
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz is the president of some mayor’s only fraternity and like everyone else this holiday season, he has a wish list he’s sending to Barack Hussein Santa Claus Obama.When it comes to Broward, Manny’s got shit on his mind. Specifically, the “treated” sewage that Hollywood is currently…
In December 2007, New York Yankees World Series hero Jim Leyritz allegedly got sloshed at his 44th birthday party, ran a red light in Fort Lauderdale, then plowed into the Mitsubishi Montero of 30-year-old Freida Ann Veitch, killing the mother of two. In December 2008 he’s looking for a job…
Joe the Plumber is over. America needs a new working class hero. Meet Joe the Vagrant, the deranged man who expectorates with uncanny accuracy and astute political judgment. This morning, as lobbyist Ron Book left the Broward Government Center, fresh from shepherding an embattled, ill-conceived development through the county commission,…
Are you as excited about the Fort Lauderdale City Commission election as I am? I thought so. Are you as excited as ex-commissioner Tim Smith? Fat chance.For the uninitiated, Smith’s blog has a Pavlovian response to impolitic remarks by Mayor Jim Naugle, which keeps him plenty busy. For the longest…
We may never know. But eventually, maybe our friends who live in the western half of the United States will learn. Exactly 24 of their attorneys general partied up at the Ritz Carlton (formerly the St. Regis) on Fort Lauderdale Beach, flocking for a conference strewn with corporate sponsors.The organizer,…
Every now and then, a news story will come along and remind us that South Florida did not invent the phenomenon of public corruption. In Chicago they’ve been doing it longer and better than anyone else. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is the latest example for his breathtakingly audacious scheme to…
Are there no nativity scenes to vandalize in Greater Broward? Perhaps not. Well, Oakland Park is getting into the Christmas spirit by tearing down a Christ statue along Powerline Road. Don’t. Tell. Bill O’Reilly. Or he will fucking lose it! Also, don’t tell him that there’s a big gay community…
Oh Jesus Charles J. Crist! The governor’s in hot water over his European vacation trade mission this past July. Apparently, Crist and his entourage ran up a tab of just under a half-mill, part of which was spent on nine “bodyguards.” Yes, that’s what they’re calling them now. Above, Crist…
Apparently, MTV is still making Real World programs. In fact, it never stopped, even though most of us stopped watching when they closed the Real World San Francisco house because that’s when Newt Gingrich moved in with the Clintons and that was more interesting. Two of the eight new cast…
Hey kids, good news! If you want to create a Facebook page that declares some teacher “the worst teacher in, like, the world,” and then you are suspended for that, the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida will sue the damn school to protect your First…
