That’s right: $7 (seven dollars). And yet seven in every ten students at the University of South Florida said, “Meh.” That, apparently, is too much to pay for the use of a car for one hour, a price that includes gas and insurance and inflated tires and OK WHAT THE…
That’s the view from within the cockpit of Steve David’s hydroplane. And that flying yellow thing at the three-second mark is a near-death experience: another hydroplane that flipped right over him. That happened at a race on Washington state’s Columbia River in 2006, which is the fastest hydroplane track –…
Anyone else a little miffed that Barack and Michelle have chosen to go campaigning for health-care reform in Cleveland instead of South Florida? Is our health care not bad enough for you?Even the Plain Dealer acknowledges that the president is “us[ing] Cleveland as a backdrop to flog Congress into action.”…
Let’s be good sports and thank the Orioles for their 13 years of playing Grapefruit League baseball in Fort Lauderdale Stadium — a “dump,” as the team’s Baltimore-based beat writer so eloquently put it. Hey, if the guy lives in Baltimore, who are we to question his definition of dump?But…
Today’s South Florida forecast calls for a high of 94, which puts us just two fragile degrees below Fort Lauderdale’s record high for this day. But the residents of this region have an annoying habit of taking their usually bearable weather for granted. And so it’s in that spirit that…
At least a few real estate investors in South Florida have managed to crawl out of the crater that formed from the housing bubble’s burst. They’ve managed to wring profit from an otherwise lost art: renting.An article in next month’s Forbes magazine names Hollywood and West Palm Beach as two…
Charlie Crist and wife Carole Rome are recently returned from a star-studded fundraising trip to the Hamptons. Rome’s ex, Todd Rome, was not invited, probably because he was a threat to give a toast like the one he gave to the New York Post:”THEY figure they might as well come…
Some of my colleagues are not impressed by Michael Jackson tributes, but I still am. Provided the tributes come with Jackson-esque dance moves, are shot with time-lapse video and produce a smashing piece of art. So David German of West Palm Beach, yours is a tribute worthy of the King…
Who knew that this weekend in Fort Lauderdale, the National Karate Federation staged its national championships? Clearly, this is a federation that needs some steel cages, a Kimbo Slice, and a sequel to the 1984 Ralph Macchio classic. Well… one outta three ain’t bad.Here’s video shot from this weekend’s tournament…
Midway through this morning’s meeting of the North Broward Hospital District’s board, Commissioner Robert Bernstein decided it was time to acknowledge the “white elephant in the room.”A tantalizing prospect, because this room was positively teeming with white elephants. There was the pending criminal investigation of the commissioner seated a several…
File this one under “Parent’s Worst Nightmare.” Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of a registered sex offender from Plantation who was working at a water park in Deerfield Beach. Corey Hipscher allegedly told the parents that, due to a boat’s “weight limit,” he couldn’t bring any other adults…
Marty Popelsky is the latest Deerfield Beach commissioner to wander into the crosshairs of the city’s ethics-obsessed blogger, Chaz Stevens. The man behind Acts of Sedition tells Juice that later today, he’ll publish a post that details a flagrant abuse of power by Popelsky. He’ll then blast that post across…
With the news full of moon landings, former Florida Gov. Bob Martinez recalls a far-less-triumphant moment in the American space program. In this month’s Florida Trend, Martinez describes how he was on the campaign trail, hustling for votes in South Florida on the day in 1986 when the Space Shuttle…
Schadenfreude-starved followers of the Palm Beach pirate may be delighted to hear this, from an inmate at Madoff’s prison in Butner, North Carolina, courtesy the New York Post:”Some of the guys were talking about smacking him around a little, just to get the notoriety of it.”But don’t get your hopes…
One can imagine how a financial crook can form a sentimental attachment to his most extravagant purchase: an item that managed to be both outrageously expensive and hopelessly impractical, which for those reasons became a metaphor for his self-destructive excess: the yacht.Mark Pomerantz is the attorney who — with the…
How many illegally overloaded jets does a company have to crash to get credit for slowing business among Manhattan jet-setters? Seriously. Two weeks after the second executive from Fort Lauderdale’s Platinum Jet Management entered a guilty plea to charges that the company allowed unqualified pilots and unsafe jets to fly…
Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are searching South Florida for the human being who belongs to the finger who robbed a 7-Eleven in Pompano Beach. The BSO release does not say exactly what, if anything, was on the tip of that finger that made it so menacing as to cause cashiers…
We reported a few weeks ago that Deon Thomas, the University of Illinois basketball program’s all-time leading scorer who settled briefly in Pembroke Pines, was taking a job as the coach of a community college near St. Louis. And now Thomas tells Juice that he’s taking some of the region’s…
Oh, but the sun is no match for this Prince of Darkness. Jeffrey Epstein, the world’s wealthiest registered sex offender, no longer has to spend nights in a stockade, where since October he’s been in a work release program, reports Jose Lambiet at Page 2 Live.Rather, he returns to his…
It’s adorable how our Canadian visitors are always gobsmacked by what they find in South Florida. This columnist found an astronaut. Or, to adopt his reverent tone: He found a human who has traversed an un-earthly celestial body but whose feet now obey the terrestrial pull of this planet. The…
As the bearer of so much bad news for the North Broward Hospital District, we should acknowledge its recent note of favorable publicity. Despite recent scandals about the commissioners’ ethics, their district is in far better financial shape than the public health care district in Miami-Dade, Jackson Health System, the…
It’s one of those obvious but still necessary tasks: Now that the Florida housing market has been revealed as one giant scam, someone had to document exactly how it happened. So that after we all get buried by debt, Pompeii-style, some future archeologists can piece together our culture, then display…
