Every second Saturday of the month, hordes of people make the trek down to Wynwood in Miami for its art walk. It’s hip, urban, and usually overshadows FAT Village’s ArtWalk in downtown Fort Lauderdale. But it shouldn’t. Since Wynwood’s art walk is on the second Saturday and FAT Village’s is…
Five protesters from the radical environmental group Earth First! this morning chained themselves together at the entrance to FPL headquarters in Juno Beach in an attempt to disrupt company operations and protest FPL’s plans to build a massive new power plant on 3,200 acres of land adjacent to the Seminole…
A preliminary result of Ryan Uhre’s autopsy indicates that his death was accidental. According to the Leon County Medical Examiner, Uhre’s death may have been the result of him falling from the second story of the building where his body was discovered last week. Uhre’s body was found on the…
A Florida man decided to catapult himself into first place as Worst Human Person on Earth after he allegedly slathered his girlfriend’s 3-month-old puppy with hot sauce because it was making too much noise. According to a Sarasota Police report, the Dachshund/Chihuahua mix named Gizmo was having a seizure and…
The Sting, 48 Hours, The Odd Couple, Dumb & Dumber. Apparently 20th Century Fox thinks the friendship between Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un are on par with these classic buddy comedies, because someone, somewhere actually pitched this as a movie and someone, somewhere actually gave the project the green light…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
The brunt of winter is over, and the median age of South Florida’s population is in for a sharp decline. The snowbirds are migrating north, and college kids are coming south, ready to embark on a week of sunshine and binge drinking. Even though Fort Lauderdale Beach is a shell…
Two men and a boy had to evacuate a sportfishing boat they were on when the vessel caught on fire and sank on Sunday morning. The 46-door Sea Lion caught fire around 7:30 a.m. as it sailed off the Hillsboro Inlet. An hour after the distress call was made, the…
Sharks are apparently going to be replacing weathermen soon, because according to this report, hundreds of them have been tagged with special satellite links that scientists are hoping will be forecasting information of oncoming hurricanes. Scientists at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science began tagging…
House Speaker John Boehner is apparently not orange enough, so he’s gone and bought himself a vacation condo right here in the Sunshine State. The luxury condominium is located in exclusive Marco Island, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. Now Boehner will be able to be closer to his daughter and…
Police are still awaiting the autopsy results of Weston native and FSU student, Ryan Uhre, whose body was discovered on the rooftop of a building in Tallahassee on Wednesday after he had vanished for nearly two weeks. Uhre’s disappearance has been a high-profile case, hitting close to home and coming…
Last spring, a legal tussle started over the past life of a Palm Beach-area math tutor. David Mech — known around Boca Raton as “The Happy/Fun Math Tutor” — called foul when school officials pulled down signs advertising his services. What was behind the move? Mech believes it was because…
Yesterday afternoon as traffic clogged the Dolphin Expressway in Miami, a woman jumped out of her car holding her 5-month-old nephew, who was having trouble breathing and turning blue. Right behind her in his car was Miami Herald photographer Al Diaz (famous for having taken this image of Elian Gonzalez,…
LeBron James is, in fact, human. Although he might be a cybernetic organism programmed to terminate all opponents on the basketball court. Either way, LeBron had his nose busted by Oklahoma City Thunder’s Serge Ibaka Thursday night, and had to leave the game. But before exiting the court with piles…
Megan Auclair is not some tie-dye-wearing college kid whipping up potent pot brownies in the communal dorm kitchen. In fact, Auclair wants to wipe that stereotype from everyone’s subconscious. Auclair is a medical professional, an entrepreneur, and as soon as the bill for medical marijuana passes, Auclair plans to heal…
When you think about Fort Lauderdale, of all the things that pop into your head, chances are comic book conventions aren’t one of them. And there’s a reason for that. There aren’t really any. But Joey Cammisa and Troy Humble are hoping to change that with Wap! Comic Con, Fort…
Not content with helping to foul our own environmental nest here in Florida, Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi this week signed up with 20 other GOP-dominated state governments on the side of corporate lobbyists in opposition to an historic agreement to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. See…
And now for the most awwwwwwww look it the little baby! news item you’ll read pretty much for the rest of your life. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced that biologists working at the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge found and rescued a panther kitten that was near…
LeBron James, the greatest basketball player on the planet, took to Instagram to post a thank you note to the father who abandoned him as a child. LeBron grew up in inner city Akron, Ohio, and was raised by single mother Gloria James. But on Thursday morning, his open letter…
Dania Casino & Jai-Alai is re-opening its doors Thursday night, and now it’s got a lot more than just little dudes running around chasing a tiny ball with giant wicker baskets on their hands. After several years of being closed, the newly christened Dania Casino is just that — a…
Residents of the Palm Beach County enclave known as The Acreage see their rustic lifestyle under attack by international homebuilding giant the Minto Group. From the look of things they’re not going to take it lying down. See also: – Farms in the Acreage May Have to Shut Down Because…
Landlubbers may not be aware of a current epic sea battle: shrimpers v. sea turtles. The reality is that we have very little idea what kind of impact the former has on the latter endangered critters. In part, that’s because the federal government is dragging ass about conducting meaningful studies…
