A lot of people in South Florida’s biking community were upset to see that Ray Strack, a leader of the monthly Critical Mass bike rides in Fort Lauderdale, got hit by a car while riding to get a loaf of bread on January 2. He is currently home recovering from…
Video footage of a Hollywood teen being held down by her friends and beaten before she was allegedly raped has been obtained by the media. The disturbing video, captured on a cell phone, shows Patricia Montes, 15, and Erica Avery, 16, brutally punching and kicking the victim and threatening her…
Twenty-one neglected horses were rescued from a Davie home this weekend, police say. Sixteen of the horses were taken take to Peaceful Ridge while the other four were taken to Pompano Beach. The horses were living in deplorable conditions on a three-acre property in Southwest Ranches in Davie. A neighbor…
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…
As you may recall, the Miami Heat completely obliterated the entire NBA last year en route to its second-consecutive championship (third overall for the franchise). So, as is custom in this great nation of ours, the president of the United States of America will be honoring the Heat at the…
Palm Beach County is experiencing heavy flooding, power outages, traffic jams, school closures, and just an overall feeling of soggy despair after receiving biblical amounts of rainfall Thursday and Friday morning. According to the National Weather Service, between 13 and 18 inches fell in some western regions of Delray Beach…
The Florida Panthers is the latest South Florida pro sports team that has decided to throw on some rags, put on the fingerless gloves, grab a tin cup, and start chanting. “Alms for the poor!” to the public. Yep. The Panthers — a franchise owned by a billionaire — much…
State representatives made drug law history yesterday when they held the first ever Florida legislative hearing on a specific medical therapeutic use of marijuana. The topic was “Charlotte’s Web” a strain of the demon weed said to be greatly effective in the treatment of pediatric epilepsy. In some folks’ view,…
Welcome to Dania Beach, the best little burg in all of Broward. All those other straight-laced towns up and down the coast, they have their “attractions,” their “travel” “destinations,” their “points” “of “interest.” But over in Dania, they get down and dirty with a special twist. This city was unique…
Yep — what the headline says. The US Geological Survey is reporting that there was an earthquake 38km N of Corralillo, Cuba. People in Key West reportedly felt it: LOL ! RT @PamNeedsCoffee: Whoa. Or someone just burped at Hog’s Breath? RT WHAT??? Earthquake felt in Key West? http://t.co/g3xTrPwrEr— Vice-Queen…
This holiday season, the Florida State Capitol Rotunda has served as a coliseum for the First Amendment. Atheists, Christians, and Satanists all did battle, using Festivus Poles as swords and tiny inanimate Baby Jesus figurines as shields. Each group set up displays in the capitol to make various points about…
On Tuesday, we wrote about how Dennis Rodman lost his shit and blew up on CNN’s Chris Cuomo during an interview like an old-school WWF Wrestler. Well, the very next day, with the aftermath that the internet tends to cause these kinds of things and with the NBA players who…
Oh, teenagers. They love to hide things to not get into trouble. They try to get away with things like not picking up their dirty socks by brushing them under the bed, or shoving their nudie mags under their pillows so Mom doesn’t see it, or hiding a shark they…
None of the 70 or so FAU professors who met at yesterday’s faculty meeting to discuss the school’s presidential search had anything good to say about it. Gathered in a second-floor lecture hall at the school’s College of Nursing, skepticism and resignation reigned, with frustration the dominant mood — at…
Kayla Mendoza, the 20-year-old woman who tweeted out “2 drunk 2 care” before driving a Hyundai Sonata the wrong way on the Sawgrass Expressway and crashing into a 2012 Toyota Camry, killing Marisa Catronio and a passenger, Kaitlyn Ferrante, was, in fact, drunk. A search warrant filed by the Florida…
Happy birthday, Gitmo! Saturday, January 11, marks the 12th anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility — the 12th anniversary of indefinite detention without charge or trial. Protestors from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Amnesty International USA, and some 20 other organizations will be marching in Washington to demand…
It was me this time, but it just as easily could’ve been you. The week had been an emotional bruiser. Deadlines, bosses, landlords, bank tellers, traffic, lady friend — each had their go, catching me with one unexpected kaboom after another until my nerves were breached and my patience was…
A tall, heavyset man with shaggy blond hair and straight-cropped bangs stands in the middle of an empty gravel parking lot. He looks around aimlessly, hands shoved in his pockets. When he sees a car pulling up, he turns, hands still stuffed in pockets, and hurries over to a small…
UPDATE: Kat Stacks did end up writing that book, Admire Andrea: Surviving Savagery to Saving Lives, with the help of a hired writer, Tessie Patrick. But when WorldStarHipHop decided not to release it, Kat Stacks gave the book a new title, Becoming Kat Stacks, and released it anyway. Now, Patrick…
Former New England Patriot and Florida Gator, Aaron Hernandez, was in an SUV when someone inside the vehicle shot two people to death in Boston in 2012. This according to a recently released search warrant filed in Connecticut. According to the Hartford Courant, the warrant goes into some details on…
The Chicago-based doctor who fell through the glass ceiling at the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa last November was drunk, according to an autopsy report. Piotr Kulesza, MD/PhD, the Chicago area associate professor in pathology, was in town for the tenth-annual Fairy Tale Ball “The Wizard of Oz” fundraising event…
South Florida-based nonprofit Planting Peace has lost funding from a donor for one of their orphanages in Haiti because of the group’s affiliation and support of the LGBT community. The group, founded by Aaron Jackson and John Dieubon in 2004, was a feature story by New Times in 2005. Since…
