Two months after “the world’s preeminent canine painter,” a Jack Russell terrier named Tillamook Cheddar, wrapped up his exhibition at the Hollywood Art and Culture Center, it’s only a matter of time till the next paintbrush-wielding mutt comes along: Meet Sam the painting hound mix. He just sold a painting…
Hot off the wire from the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office: There have been several suspicious incidents in the area of Osceola Creek Middle School, Loxahatchee in the last week or so. We have two vehicles that have tried to stop and talk to middle school children.Talking cars, eh? Are we…
Sure, he may have a gun and be speaking into a shoulder-mounted radio but the man in the sketch is most definitely not a deputy with the Broward Sheriff’s Office, as he claimed during a Tuesday evening visit to 62-year-old Roland Mozard’s Pompano Beach apartment.From the BSO release:Mozard told BSO…
That’s a video from this past April, which gives you some context for the briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill by SIECUS — the organization that promotes sex education and attacks the abstinence-only curricula that gained momentum during the Bush years.Obama’s election brought a halt to that momentum on a national…
Now that the U.S. Justice Department has committed — at least rhetorically — to an “efficient and rational use” of its enforcement powers against marijuana users and sellers, there’s money to be made. Maybe Commerce Online of West Palm Beach will emerge as a kind-of mountain cabbage Mastercard.The company, whose…
Can’t get laid? Well, maybe some free WiFi will cheer you up. Google is teaming up with the newest airline to serve Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport so that virgin travelers can have free internet.Oh wait, maybe that’s Virgin travelers? Haha. This is just a sample of the fun…
The headlines in Broward and Palm Beach:Investigators are circling Bruce Chait of Prestige Homes — and not just for the developer’s hiring of Broward School Board member Stephanie Kraft’s husband. Tamarac Mayor Joe Schreiber has alleged that Chait offered a $200,000 bribe in exchange for Mae Schreiber, Joe’s wife, to…
Thanks to Chaz Stevens for uploading this amazing video of last evening’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, in which it finally awarded a winner in the bid for the restaurant space on the end city’s pier. But not without high drama. After the commissioners ranked the bidding restaurateurs,…
The best visits to tattoo studios are usually spontaneous, but Hollywood Sen. Eleanor Sobel is not your typical patron. She has scheduled an appointment at 10 a.m. Monday at Stevie Moon Tattoo NE 26th Street in Fort Lauderdale. There she’ll meet her foe-turned-friend, Stevie Moon, who earlier this year led…
Another conservative U.S. Senator has defied party leaders to give an endorsement to Marco Rubio over Charlie Crist. And check out the statement by Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, particularly this part:”Like me, Marco believes that the federal government works best when it returns dollars, decisions and freedom to our local…
The Boynton Beach Police Department has arrested Magaret Ann Willett, a volunteer for the Girl Scouts of America, on suspicion of credit card fraud after a victim picked out Willett from a surveillance video.According to the probable cause affidavit, Willett is suspected of having gone on a shopping spree with…
Sure looks like the folks behind Coral Ridge Ministries are courting the defectors of Fort Lauderdale’s Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. The Coral Ridge Ministries, originally founded as a media arm for the church’s icon, Rev. James Kennedy, is now a separate entity. In a series of Youtube clips the Ministries…
Broward County’s a popular place for retired athletes — for better, and in Jim Leyritz’s case, for worse. Count Errict Rhett in that former category. The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back, who starred at the University of Florida and, before that, at McArthur High School in Hollywood. Recently, Rhett…
The news this morning in South Florida:At last night’s Broward County School Board meeting, members discussed a refresher course on ethics. So… like that safety meeting the Soviets had after the meltdown at Chernobyl? [Miami Herald]Crist is going to demand the state review loopholes that allow felons to land jobs…
Whattaya say, Broward Dems? Are you willing to pay higher taxes purely for the sake of watching the portly pontificator pack his bags and move to Texas? Am I hearing a yes? Thought so.A recent St. Pete Times article cited a portion of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show in which he…
Watch out, boaters. There are plenty of signs like the one to the left, warning you about those adorable manatees, who have a way of wrapping their fat asses around boat propellers. But if you’re cruising near the Fort Lauderdale shore you may be faced with a choice between hitting…
God only knows how good he is in the pulpit, but there’s no doubting Rev. Greg Barrette is a master of self-promotion. Several years ago, when he was a pastor in Delray Beach, he landed a gig performing the invocation at a Dolphins game:In front of 80,000 fans, he asked…
Cops are trained to spot the kind of peculiar behavior that precedes a reckless, destructive act. There was something not quite right about the 23-year-old man standing near the wall to the freeway on-ramp in Boynton Beach. From the police department’s news release:Officers Daniel Griswold and Anthony Magnanti first noticed…
Whatever comes of the DUI manslaughter case against Jim Leyritz, there’s no doubting he’s been humbled by the experience. This past weekend, the former Yankees catcher, who stands accused of killing a motorist while driving drunk in Fort Lauderdale, was barred from an on-field celebration of the 1996 team on…
When you read the first few paragraphs of this weekend’s article about Fort Lauderdale in the Toronto Star, you can’t help but say, “You can’t pay for publicity that good!” Seriously — imagine you’re a gay man marooned in the Frozen North, preparing to go the next six months or…
