Dada 5000 — the Mohawked, muscled monolith born Dhafir Harris but better-known as the P.T. Barnum of Miami’s backyard fisticuffs — spotted them through the window. It was July 5, and the promoter was chilling at home, the same “Famous Green House” where thousands of knuckle-busters and bloody noses have…
Call it Boca Raton’s chicken and egg. On the one hand: More and more cars are coming through the city’s downtown, so finding a parking space has become difficult. On the other, more cars means the city gives more parking tickets when folks are staying too long. The solution? Parking…
Broward County has three cities in the top ten when it comes to employment growth, income growth, and population, according to a recent study. NerdWallet.com, which crunches numbers on banking and finance, looked at more than a hundred cities, towns, and census-designated places throughout the state to find cities with…
Police were called around 1 in the morning today in Daytona Beach by an (as of yet) unidentified father. He was calling to report 18-year-old Raymond Frolander, who lay unconscious on the floor with both eyes nearly closed shut from a beating, his cheeks swollen like a blowfish. The father,…
In what some would call a wily veteran move, Charlie Crist has publicly offered to meet with the ten Florida environmental scientists who asked Gov. Rick Scott to meet to discuss climate change. And now that Crist has come out and said he’ll meet with the scientists, Scott has also…
Throughout this past week, people spending their summer on Fort Lauderdale Beach have been able to capture photos and video of the filming of Ride Along 2, the sequel to the buddy-cop comedy action flick released earlier this year. The first film starred Kevin Hart and Ice Cube and apparently…
Just 10 days ago, All Aboard Florida held a news conference announcing design plans for a sleek $30 million Fort Lauderdale station. The passenger rail service originally had plans on running trains from Miami to Orlando, but for now, plans include stops at Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach…
So it begins. All summer, scientists and health officials have been biting their nails over a rare mosquito-borne virus that has begun showing up stateside from the Caribbean. So far, the 80 or so cases diagnosed of chikungunya have been found in people who were traveling abroad. Now, it looks…
Fort Lauderdale is sexy. But you already knew that. Well now, thanks to a study, it’s official. And not only is Fort Lauderdale sexy but it’s the sexiest place in the world. And by “sexiest place in the world,” we mean it’s the sexiest midsized city in America. Suck on…
Earlier this week, a listener to the Zaslow and Joy morning show on the Ticket Miami submitted a remake of the popular song by Magic! called “Rude.” See also: Joy Taylor: South Florida’s Female Sports Radio Host The listener — who goes by @itsleooo on Twitter and Wolf Coat on…
Back in January, Gov. Rick Scott named Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera as his lieutenant governor and eventual reelection running mate. This was seen as a good move at the time to lock down the Hispanic vote. But on Thursday, Charlie Crist has doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down by announcing…
A grand jury has ruled that the police officers who shot and killed fugitive Shawn LaBeet will not face criminal charges, according to the Broward State Attorney’s Office. LaBeet had been named the prime suspect in the murder of Broward Sheriff’s Sgt. Chris Reyka in 2007. LeBeet was shot and…
Zoe Brugger was pulled over in Lakeland last May for a busted headlight, but what happened next had little to do with that. The 29-year-old was forced to lift up her shirt and shake her bra in an attempt by the cops to find drugs. The incident was caught on…
“You kids act like you never did something stupid in your life,” one wrote on her Facebook. “So fuck off!” the other one commented. “Gettttttt obvvveeeerrrrrrr it,” the Orange Park teenager with a black bob and perfectly manicured eyebrows fired back. “It’s not like we took the last one off…
For the some 70,000 people each year, it was already too late. But thanks to the push from some concerned citizens — including a lot of South Floridians — bike riders, pedestrians, and motorists struck by hit and run drivers will now have a little justice. And to mark the…
Last week, a pair of public defenders was fired after it was discovered they called Palestinians “cockroaches” and “swine” on Facebook comments. On Wednesday, one of the fired public defenders, Gary Sheres, released a statement explaining that he tried to apologize for his comments but was fired by his boss,…
“We’re finished!” Samuel Del Brocco shouted. The words crashed off the walls of the $2 million mansion, careened across the 500-square-foot swimming pool, and spilled into the quiet Washington, D.C. suburb. “Get your shit and get out!” Justin DeVinney said nothing. They were an odd…
By 2 p.m. on the Fourth of July, the bacchanal at Nixon sandbar just off Key Biscayne is in full swing. A few hundred feet from the sprawling waterfront mansions of Harbor Drive, dozens of women in bikinis gyrate atop boats, strangers with supersoakers generously squirt rum into one another’s…
Last December, bicyclist Craig Camlin was the victim of a heinous hit-and-run crash that left him horribly injured. Camlin succumbed to his injuries and passed away in February, but his story left a ripple effect across the cycling community, given the manner in which he was injured, the attention it…
We’re no scientist. But you know who is? Scientists. And a group of them has written Gov. Rick Scott about his noncommittal stance on man-made climate change. Scott has been wishy-washy on the issue, and whenever he’s been pressed about it, he has inexplicably decided to go the Marco Rubio…
A 39-year-old Tennessee man named Terrell Moore was swimming off Okaloose Island — located in Florida’s Panhandle — with his wife and 11-year-old son yesterday. They were about 75 yards from shore when Moore suddenly bolted below the surface, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News. “He got on the…
Ever since LeBron James left, shit has been weird in South Florida. The mood, at first, was grateful and appreciative. That was nice. Necessary, even. Then we got defiant, and Cocky Heat Fan returned, celebrating in a loud way the return of a roster that we didn’t like a whole…
