Not even Don King, the unflappable cartoon-like boxing promoter, was safe from the long paper trail following Scott Rothstein’s $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme. He settled a $700,000 lawsuit for $30,000 this week. Herbert Stettin, trustee for Rothstein’s closed law firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, sued King’s Deerfield Beach-based Don King productions…
Update February 4, 2013: Heather Ray disputes Goehrig’s version of events. She contends that she first wrote e-mails to the city announcing her intention to get a therapy pig, and the city told her it was not allowed. She claims she then researched the Americans with Disabilities Act and spoke…
Apparently carnival workers didn’t have a bad enough reputation, so Gregory Matthew Bruni decided to add yet another story to the stereotype and “attack” a Fort Myers couple’s home using only his bodily fluids and craziness as a weapon. The naked 21-year-old reportedly climbed on top of Tony and LaDonna…
Tropical Acres Steakhouse has been a landmark South Florida restaurant since opening in 1949, long before condo towers lined the coast and the nearby highway connected the region. Nearly four generations of the Studiale family have run the restaurant as a second home for both longtime customers and employees. Although…
Bring out your pills! Leave no injectable behind! Think that two-year old bottle of codeine isn’t safe to mix with Sprite? Ditch it! Fort Lauderdale is hosting a no-questions-asked medication take back on Jan. 27 at 301 N. Andrews Ave. from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The city and much…
Staring down the barrel of what’s sure to be a brutal campaign to stay in the governor’s mansion beyond 2014, Rick Scott is pushing out a variety of campaigns that seem aimed at scoring points with weary voters. On Wednesday Scott announced he’s planning to give every public school teacher…
Commissioners in Miami-Dade County said they want the Dolphins’ Broward County operations come south of the county borderline should they help fund the team’s $400 million revamp of Sun Life Stadium. “Any public investment we entertain, we must have a return, a clear public purpose,” said Mayor Carlos Giménez. “If…
As plates were cleared from our table, sitcom-style hilarity popped up in a steak house that has long been popular among snowbirds and grandpas. “In honor of your birthday, how’s about we go home and fool around?” a man asked of a woman who announced she was celebrating her 70th…
A West Palm Beach man and four others have been indicted in Philadelphia for beating and locking several mentally disabled people in basement dungeons in three states for years at a time to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars of Social Security benefits. The 196-count indictment accuses West Palm Beach’s…
When incoming Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel wanted to bring in his own people to help run the department, he didn’t realize that removing some of former Sheriff Al Lamberti’s top lieutenants would cost nearly $4.3 million, including a more than $340,000 payout to one colonel who had never called…
Just because you’re a public official once accused of corruption, doesn’t mean you can’t pick make a comeback. Tamarac city commissioner Patricia Atkins-Grad in December was acquitted on corruption charges stemming from a 2010 indictment. The commissioner, a realtor who goes by the nickname “Positively Patte, had been accused of…
We grabbed a seat in a beige booth at Toa Toa Chinese restaurant in Sunrise for a dim sum brunch and found what you might at any similar eatery. On each table were pairs of paper-wrapped chopsticks, set next to small plates and teacups. To the side was a small…
When it comes to Broward county dim sum restaurants, the world is your chicken foot. Some offer steamed, fried and sautéed bites in the traditional pushcarts while at others you pick your meal from a checklist. The three-to-four-bite dishes are mostly standardized with everything from shrimp dumplings to baked and…
Public radio nerds assemble: Diane Rehm is coming to town and will be hosting morning and evening discussions, with breakfast and dinner, to benefit South Florida’s public radio station WLRN. On Feb. 8 from 7 to 11 p.m. she’ll be speaking at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa in…
CandaceWest.comShrimp Pad Thai and Siam Rice.In today’s food centric culture, eating obscure ingredients and dishes is almost like racking up Boy Scout merit badges. It’s how those of us with unholy food obsessions keep score. Siam Rice Thai and Tapas in Hollywood had flickers of the authenticity many gastronauts seek,…
A short waitress with a high-pitched voice and a thick, almost indecipherable accent set a golden, grapefruit-sized orb — topped with a dollop of whipped cream, surrounded by strawberries, blueberries, and their sweet sauces — on the table. Inside of a thin, deep-fried crust of panko bread crumbs lay a…
A genetically modified salmon, ominously dubbed the Frankenfish, recently took another step from the farm to your plate. The Food and Drug Administration last week released an environmental report on the impact of the AquaAdvantage salmon, developed and patented (yes, patented) by Massachussets-based AquaBounty Technologies. The FDA concluded the salmon…
There are nearly a dozen taco options on Pinche Taqueria’s concise Mexican-American menu. Despite our expectations for more true-to-form Mexican fare, stemming from Pinche’s New York locations and their strict adherence to those traditions, Stephanie Lee, owner of the Wilton Manors outpost, told us that the New York menu wasn’t…
Are we safe anywhere anymore? Orlando’s Wesh.com is reporting a wheelchair-bound man was stabbed a handful of times in the abdomen at a McDonald’s restaurant late Christmas Day…
As we waited for a server to bring us the bill after a weekday dinner, we heard someone yell “Bitch!” in a joking, high-pitched voice. It turned out that one man at a neighboring table of three had taken it upon himself to pay the check. He got the usual…
It’s the middle of the night and, for whatever reason, you’re hungry. Fork in hand, you open the refrigerator door, praying there’s something waiting. You find condiments, some processed grated cheese that seems to never go bad, and a white styrofoam container. Inside it are the remains of a two-foot-wide…
Let’s get serious. Even in 1950s, when the woman’s place was supposedly in the kitchen, men still had a role in home cooking. Take summer barbecues for example. Manning the grill was a matter of pride. Men staked their reputations on everything from the way the charcoals were arranged and…
