Miami Heat forward Shane Battier hosted the third annual South Beach Battioke event Monday night, where Heat players are given the opportunity to grab a mic and sing karaoke as loudly and poorly as they want. The event, which was held at the Fillmore Theater in Miami Beach, and raised…
Former Florida Governor and Currently Running To Be Florida Governor Again, Charlie Crist, says that he will vote for the legalization of medical marijuana in Florida. On Monday, the Florida Supreme Court approved to have a constitutional amendment to legalize medical weed be put on the ballot this November. In…
We tried to warn you people! Now it may be too late! The Snowpocalypse is headed straight for us, and forecasters are saying that Florida might get pelted with ice, sleet and maybe even snow. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for northern Florida, particularly the panhandle…
A few days ago, New Times received this interesting tale from Fort Lauderdale activist/blogger Cal Deal, via an email titled “Strange Happening:” An odd thing happened this morning. A “elderly” man in a beret delivered a shiny gift bag to Dr. Stoll’s office across the street from me at about…
Yesterday, the Supreme Court OK’d the language in a proposed ballot initiative, so Florida voters this November will get to vote on whether or not to legalize medical marijuana. Surely, stoners compassionate medical professionals are going are going to come out in full force to vote this thing through and…
The time does fly. It was just a year ago today that the thug life fantasies of one of rap’s biggest names (not to mention biggest guts, not to mention biggest bullshit artists?) came to life in a blast of gunfire on Fort Lauderdale’s poshest street. Rick Ross (aka Ricky…
In the week the Super Bowl is being played by two cities (Seattle, Denver) in states that legalize pot, Florida just got that much closer to being a part of the blaze. The Florida Supreme Court has approved to have a constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana be put on…
Cities in Broward and Palm Beach are slowly adding their names to a growing list of places in South Florida that ban the commercial sale of pets. According to the Sun-Sentinel, Coconut Creek just became the latest municipality to get on the no-pets-sale bandwagon, in an attempt to curb overbreeding,…
I was officially inducted into ‘Bitcoin Land’ yesterday, and I’m not sure where the exit is. That’s OK though, I might have to hang out in this mysterious vortex for awhile. The folks are a friendly bunch. Heck, one guy set me up with a virtual wallet and gifted me…
Well, that’s apparently all she wrote for the “Hip Hop Conservative.” Rep. Trey Radel is expected to resign from congress, a spokesperson for the congressman says. Radel, who reps the 19th Congressional District in the Fort Myers-Naples area, was arrested on October 29 for “unlawfully, knowingly and intentionally” possessing “a…
Sixty-five year-old Carolyn Bianco was crossing Las Olas Boulevard at Southeast 11th Avenue on her way to an evening jazz concert when a person driving a black SUV struck her and kept going. Bianco was rushed to Broward General Medical Center, but the head injury she sustained was too severe…
Gov. Rick Scott is expected to ask for more money for schools on Monday. His aides are calling his morning presser “an historic announcement,” though he did this last year, and is expected to ask for less this time around. Scott will be hitting up S.D. Spady Elementary School in…
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. Note: On Mug-Shot Mondays, we don’t put the names associated with the shots. This…
Advocates of medical marijuana met their goal — they collected enough signatures to see that the issue gets posed to voters on this November’s ballot. Elections officials announced today they they verified 710,508 signatures that were submitted — enough to force a vote on a proposed constitutional amendment. If approved,…
On Thursday, we told you all about George Zimmerman’s latest artistic creation, a painting of State Attorney Angela Corey. The grand masterpiece depicts Corey pinching her thumb and forefinger together, with a quote above her head that reads, “I have this much respect for the American judicial system.” But now…
Sadly, Florida has seen a lot of pilot whales wash ashore or beach themselves in the past couple of months. Last Sunday, 25 pilot whales were found dead off the shores of Kice Island, in the southwest part of the state. On Friday, a team of biologists began performing necropsies…
A Florida man sat in his car, pulled out a bag of cocaine, ripped it open like a bag of Tostitos, and began eating the coke. All in full view of police officers. Gainesville police say they spotted the man sitting in the passenger seat of a car parked in…
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. It’s a cliché and a truism — one FAU’s new president, Dr. John Kelly, should heed. The horrors FAU birthed in 2013 — the GEO Group stadium naming rights deal and the “Step on Jesus” kerfuffle, primarily — were…
Hundreds of people stampeded out of Aventura Mall last Saturday night when reports of a gunman spread exponentially from theater 20 to the rest of the mall and eventually the dark depths of the conspiracy-theorizing internet. Eighty-seven minutes after the panicked exodus, Aventura Mall tweeted: “Confusion during movie at Aventura…
If anything, South Florida knows how to get its freak on. No matter what your particular weird way for getting down is, you can probably find it somewhere in the 305, 954, or 561. Megaclubs? Yup. Fetish parties? Sure. But one piece missing from the local lineup has been a…
The filmmakers behind Blackfish and The Cove have challenged SeaWorld to a public debate on the issues the documentary has brought up and the park’s assertions that it’s nothing but propaganda from a group of extremists. The Oceanic Preservation Society has put out a news release and thrown down the…
LeBron James has jumped in on the Richard Sherman controversy via Twitter, and officially backed the Seattle Seahawks cornerback on Thursday morning. Sherman has been in the middle of an internet-driven maelstrom ever since his post-game interview following last Sunday’s NFC Championship game when he yelled at the camera about…
