Boynton Beach is getting set to join other Palm Beach cities in offering domestic partner benefits for its gay employees. The City Commission is expected to address offering employees with domestic partners or same-sex spouses the same benefits that those whose marriages are recognized by the state. Mayor Jerry Taylor…
Uri Pilichowski’s new view is breathtaking. Last Monday, the Boca Raton rabbi packed up his wife and five kids, boarded a chartered flight, and relocated to Mitzpe Yercho, a suburb of Jericho. When he looks out his window, all he sees is Jordan. Jericho — one of the oldest inhabited…
In recent weeks, Israel has unleashed a torrent of military attacks on Gaza. Though the Israeli government claims it’s just a response to bombing by Hamas, it’s all really part of a multi-decades-long, U.S.-backed Israeli occupation of the seaside strip. To suggest otherwise is simply to attempt to flip reality…
Pitbull Impersonator Wanders Around Dolphin Mall from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. It’s the dinner hour at Dolphin Mall, and the food court is a busy hive. Teenagers guzzle from Smoothie Kings while tables full of abuelitas fire Gatling-gun Spanish over steaming plates of Lotus Express. At the Segafredo Zanetti…
So apparently there’s a flesh-eating bacteria that thrives in warm saltwater and is living in our oceans, according to Florida health officials. The bacteria, known as vibrio vulnificus, has caused 32 people to be hospitalized and killed ten in Florida. That was through a period of years, not all at…
Floridians have been supporting the idea of legalized medical marijuana since the idea of it getting onto the ballot was brought up. With each successive poll, Florida has shown a growing support for medical weed. Now the latest Quinnipiac poll released Monday gives us the clearest picture to changing attitudes…
Officers from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department started following alongside the city’s Critical Mass in May. To say the event didn’t go well would be an understatement. Dan Littell, a 30-year-old accountant, was tackled by an officer in an altercation that was caught on video. Rahim “Ra” Benjamin, a 23-year-old…
The dog was electrocuted before it even had a name. In October of last year, the anonymous animal “fell into a rail” and died at a Flagler compound training track, newly released records from the Department of Parimutuel Wagering show. “Some of the cases are just heartbreaking,” says Carey Theil,…
Usually, you don’t see enough high-level punking among grown adults in corporate positions. Bravo. *Slow clap* According to a lawsuit now grinding through the legal system in Chicago, Florida arena-football owner David Pearsall isn’t a guy you want to mess with. A former owner with the Arena Football One league,…
Miami-Dade has given David Beckham a hard time in finding a place for his new soccer stadium. So now the rumblings have begun: He and his investors are considering Broward County. Some say it’s an empty threat made only to pressure Miami. But before anyone scoffs at the idea of…
Judge Sarah Zabel of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court has ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage in Florida is unconstitutional. Back in May, six same-sex couples filed a motion asserting that Florida’s marriage ban cannot stand in light of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court of Miami-Dade ruling that the…
About ten days ago, the victims of an alleged fight that took place at South Beach’s Cameo nightclub July 11 said they planned to sue for damages. There had been a birthday celebration for NFL football players Mike and Maurkice Pouncey. (Mike is a Miami Dolphins offensive lineman.) Now the…
Critical Mass Fort Lauderdale is back and running tonight, and while joining in on the ride is a fun and cool way to take part of the community, it’s also seen its share of problems. Particularly during the past few Critical Masses, when a cop tackled a cyclist and another…
Not so fast. That’s the message to environmentalists who had been celebrating the departure from Florida of the Dan A. Hughes Co., Texas oil prospectors whose unauthorized drilling in the Big Cypress Swamp watershed last year put them upside-down with homeowners, elected officials, and, ultimately, state regulators, who yanked the…
A couple of weeks ago, we told you about the horrible and sad places in Broward County. Needless to say, we hit a nerve. And that’s cool. Many of you are proud of your home and got supermad that we had the audacity to bitch about how a drug store…
Florida’s solar industry might be up against the ropes, but it’s vowing to fight on. As we reported a few weeks back, the small but feisty solar industry — with an assist from the Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC), a national group pushing sun energy — is trying to outlive…
New Times Broward Palm Beach is looking for a restaurant critic. The ideal candidate will have experience both reporting about food and writing long-form restaurant criticism. He or she should have knowledge of Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, which makes up one the nation’s most burgeoning epicurean scenes. Job duties…
When Monroe County Circuit Judge Luis Garcia overturned Florida’s 2008 constitutional gay-marriage ban and ordered that couples wishing to be married in Key West should be allowed to do so as early as this week, Attorney General Pam Bondi worked quickly to stamp out the ruling. Bondi’s office issued a…
On Wednesday, Broward Circuit Judge Lynn Rosenthal entered a no-contest plea to a reckless-driving charge after ramming her black BMW SUV into a police car in the Broward County Courthouse parking lot back in May. Rosenthal, who was not in court while her lawyer entered the plea, was sentenced to…
Barack Obama’s approval rating is pretty abysmal right now in Florida, at 44 percent. That number seems OK until you consider that Gov. Rick Scott is at 43 percent. Then you realize that number is terrible. But Floridians aren’t so disenchanted with the president that they’re seeing red. A Quinnipiac…
With rising sea levels, Great Whites on the loose, and coral development quickly getting knocked down, there’s a lot of trouble brewing out there along the east coast of Florida. Now we can add another to the list: sonic cannons. Yup, you read that right. These devices are typically used…
Adrian Wyllie was in good spirit when we got him on the phone yesterday, riding high on a burst of publicity prompted by the news he’d polled 9 percent in the Florida governor’s race, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll. He wasn’t quite so happy 15 minutes later, when he…
