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…
Oh, April Fool’s, you’re the silliest of all the days. Yes, sillier than Arbor Day, Flag Day, and even charades night at Rick Scott’s house (where 90 percent of shouted-out guesses include the words “evil” and “snake”). Whimsy reigns supreme, and across America, fun is had while Whoopee Cushions deflate…
You spoke; we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding New Times franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale. Click on and enjoy…
Sir Colin Chisholm III and his wife, Lady Andrea Chisholm, the extravagant Minnesota couple who lived for a time in Palm Beach on a $1.2 million yacht, are on the lam from authorities. They’re also not royalty, and their extravagant lifestyle was earned fraudulently, a criminal complaint alleges. Colin, 62,…
Palm Beach County got a huge check to help with the beach erosion problem. In Ocean Ridge on Friday, congresswoman Lois Frankel presented the county with a $12 million check as reimbursement for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project. The project is for the county’s beach renourishment and to…
The Miami Seaquarium is being sold to California-based Palace Entertainment, which is subsidiary of Spanish theme park operator Parques Reunidos. The sale has been in the works for at least two years, but the official news comes out on the same day National Marine Fisheries Service set as the deadline…
The nonprofit association known as SCORE has sent out an alert to Florida business owners to be on the lookout for a couple of notices that may end up fooling them into spending hundreds of dollars they may not need to. The notices may or may not be scams, but…
Stargazing! Owl presentations! Food trucks? Palm Beach County’s second annual Dark Sky Festival sounds fun enough to postpone other evening activities and/or keep the kids up late. Not only that, it’s a way to raise awareness of an under-recognized environmental issue with consequences for wildlife and human health. See also:…
For nearly the last decade, residents up near Boca Raton’s Mizner Trail golf course have been fighting a developer’s efforts to throw up residential units on a 130-acre swath of green space. These are not your usual NIMBY complaints — preliminary tests show the ground is possibly soaked through with…
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office was part of a state-wide Organized Retail Crime task force that helped nab a massive retail theft ring. According to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, 16 people were arrested in the $15 million statewide shoplifting ring after a year-long investigation. The Organized Retail Crime task…
Everett Wilkinson, Palm Beach Gardens’ Tea Party czar, does not want Obamacare, or its birth control coverage (we certainly hope he wouldn’t need the latter).
Despite Florida Republicans pretty much doing everything within their power to derail Obamacare, more than 440,000 Florida residents have already enrolled Affordable Care Act through the federal marketplace website. According to a report by the AP, the state is expected to blow projections out of the water by the time…
Steve Drain, a University of South Florida alumnus, might be taking over Westboro Baptist Church. Drain, who used to be an atheist and once set out to expose the hate-mongering church, became enamored with Westboro and became one of Fred Phelps Sr.’s closest disciples. Drain went so far as to…
Anticipating passage of the Florida medical marijuana amendment this fall, our favorite retired pot smuggler is hosting a conference this weekend on the business of therapeutic maryjane. Guest speakers from around the nation will spill the seed on the legal, medical, financial, and probable regulatory landscape for entrepreneurs of the…
