Corporate Accountability International is asking LeBron James to end his affiliation with McDonald’s as part of a campaign it is calling “Slam Junk.” In an open letter to LeBron, CAI asks him to end his partnership with the fast-food titan in an attempt to set a better example for kids…
Former Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Carlton Moore has passed away. He was 60. Moore died Tuesday night at a rehabilitation center in Tamarac, where he had been recovering from a severe stroke. Moore served nearly two decades on the commission. He was known as a strong advocate for improving the…
The Florida Lottery has been very, very good to about 200 people. Suspiciously good. Those 200 have “won” more than 30 times each, according to a Palm Beach Post investigation that rolled out this week. But reporters found that the most winningest gamblers were often store clerks…
Dolphins fans have a great reason to pay attention to the later draft rounds this year: A familiar name may just scroll down your screen. Noah Taylor, younger brother of Dolphins great Jason Taylor, is looking to break into the NFL next season. Taylor, 24, is competing for an invite…
Numerous earthquakes have hit the West Coast recently. A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Chile last night. So many are wondering if these quakes are a sign of a larger one on the horizon. Fear not, South Florida; the ground won’t be shaking here anytime soon. It…
Florida Sen. and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio just can’t stop himself. Though Obamacare exceeded its goal by signing up more than 7 million people nationally by the April 1 deadline, Rubio told Sean Hannity: “There’s still a significant number of people — I saw a report a couple days…
This week in the print edition of New Times, we introduce you to one of South Florida’s most colorful characters, Anwar Zayden. For nearly four decades, Zayden has been a player on the local scene; by day a humble businessman with a frame store in Kendall, he’s also a former…
The final, less-remembered phase of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life was his pivot from the pursuit of racial equality to economic justice — the Poor People’s Campaign. It was a turn even more threatening to the established order, gathering steam up until the date of his assassination in Memphis, where…
Bitcoin has become hugely popular because its potential as a new type of currency that operates outside of any government control. Because it can be bought, sold, and traded anonymously online, outside of banking institutions, proponents say it can help make commerce fast and easy and empower people in third-world…
When 101 Cantina — the same popular bar made famous first in Gainesville — opened in June 2013, FAU students were happy to patronize the place. On March 17, the Sun Sentinel reported that since its inception, 98 arrests have been made on 101 Cantina’s premises and that the vast…
Colin and Andrea Chisholm liked to tell people they were Scottish aristocrats. It wasn’t hard to fake. They were living on a $1.2 million yacht in Palm Bay and training Cavalier King Charles Spaniels — a breed popular in the U.K. One of their pups even got an award at…
Uber, the increasingly popular app that connects riders with drivers at the tap of a button — an alternative to traditional taxi service — has launched a petition on its website that residents of Florida can sign in their support of two bills moving through the state Legislature that would…
Palm Beach billionaire William Koch takes his wine seriously — very seriously. So when it came to the industrialist’s attention that he had been duped into buying hundreds of thousands of dollars of fake wine, he bit back. Koch is the slightly more private brother of billionaires David and Charles…
The Florida House has passed HB 851, a bill that will allow illegal aliens who have attended high school in Florida consecutively for four years to be eligible for resident in-state tuition rates at Florida public colleges and universities. Supporters of immigration reform celebrated it as a win in the…
There’s a hurricane of bass pounding inside Club Cinema, which, close to midnight on a recent weekend, is a sweaty blender of 2,500 teens dancing as Canadian producer Exicison’s set hits lift off. Green lasers stab through the dark in the Pompano Beach club. Shirtless kids grind against girls tricked…
Have you always wanted to express your love for the Miami Marlins and at the same time sport Hello Kitty swag? If so, you’re in luck, because that’s a really real thing now that you can totally do. Sanrio Inc., the mother ship behind the Hello Kitty brand, has signed…
Wait! Before you shove those flowers down the garbage disposal, throw the candy hearts in the microwave, and send that passive-aggressive text message, there’s something you need to hear: Romance is not dead! No. It’s alive and well, and you’ll find it floating merrily down the New River right in…
Environmentalists took heart yesterday when a Texas oil company’s request for official permission to drill deep into the Big Cypress watershed got a thumbs-down from an arm of the Department of Environmental Protection. See also: – Oil Companies Are Planning to Drill in Florida Panther Habitat How great was the…
Kevin Sabet is not one of the more than 70 percent of Floridians who want Amendment 2 to pass in November. Sabet — director of the drug policy institute at the University of Florida and a professor at the college of medicine there too — is one of the few…
Your Miami Marlins kick off the 2014 MLB season tonight when they host the Colorado Rockies at the Broward County Commissioners Should Never Forget What the Marlins Did to Miami-Dade County Before Giving the Panthers Money Park Marlins Park. But before you don’t go to the game and maybe decide…
United for Care campaign manager Ben Pollara is expressing outrage after a Florida woman was abruptly visited by Florida Child Protective Services last week on an anonymous tip that she had been administering marijuana to her son, who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy. Turns out, Renee Petro was…
Just a couple of weeks ago, we told you about two surveys that came to the conclusion that Fort Lauderdale is not only in the top ten among the best downtowns but also in the top ten among most exciting midsized cities. For both rankings, Fort Laudy landed the seventh…
