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…
Police are investigating the death of a man who fell through the glass ceiling of a luxury hotel in Hollywood early Sunday morning. The man’s death, following the tenth-annual Fairy Tale Ball “The Wizard of Oz” fundraising event hosted by the Diamond Angels of Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Foundation, is…
So, apparently, yesterday at the Miami Dolphins game, some fans were so passionate that they decided to enlist an expensive method of getting their message across — an airplane carrying a banner. As broadcast on Twitter, fans could see this sign: There is a banner flying over #Dolphins stadium right…
Every Saturday since February 28, 2009, from 1 to 3 p.m., the Fort Lauderdale Tea Party has gathered on the northeast corner of Oakland Park Boulevard and North Federal Highway. And almost every Saturday, I have caught them out of the corner of my eye. It’s usually just a quick…
Founding Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids guitarist Scott Mitchell Putesky, formerly known by his stage name Daisy Berkowitz, is battling stage-four colon cancer. Asked about how his treatment is going, Mitchell tells New Times: “I don’t know how the cancer happened but my diagnosis was this past August, and…
Earlier in the year, Google and Visit Florida recruited four men to walk 825 miles of Florida’s coastline, with the goal of photographing Florida’s beaches, then posting the results on Google Street View for all to see. The journey for the four men consisted of lugging around 45 -pound backpacks…
Another decade, another trade pact, another round of protest. Ten years since anti-globalization demonstrations at the FTAA in Miami broke down into a full-scale police riot, veterans of that battle and new adherents to their cause are gathering throughout South Florida to mark the date and raise the banner anew…
This just keeps happening again and again. This week, Boca Raton Police tossed the cuffs on another psychic accused to using her connection to the spirit realm to line her pockets with cash. Stephanie Thompson — who did her cosmic business under the name Stephanie Lee — had a plan…
Welcome to Deerfield Beach, the best neighborhood in Broward. Back in 1890, a group of people settled in a field where countless deer roamed, so they named it Deerfield, duh, right? Well, come some 40 years later, tourism was down, and the people of Deerfield decided now might be a…
Palm Beach Police have a released a video of nine suspects, seven of them minors, in the burglary of the Toys ‘R’ Us located in the 20000 block of South State Road 7 in Boca Raton. On the video, it appears a family of nine — one adult male, one…
Spirit Airlines, based right here in Miramar, is definitely known for its infuriating nickel-and-diming borderline tasteless marketing gimmicks. In 2008, a slogan was “Return of the MILF (Many Islands, Low Fares)”; in 2010, “Check out the oil on our beaches” — meaning suntan oil — after the BP oil spill…
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the pilot of a Piper PA 46 reported to them that a passenger fell from aircraft on Thursday afternoon. The pilot told the FAA that he had been flying at 1,800 feet, about eight miles southeast of Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport, when the passenger…
Hundreds of animal lovers and animal rights advocates are coming together and converging in Fort Lauderdale as part of the March Against Cruelty to Animals rally on Saturday. The rally, which will run from Huizenga Plaza towards the Riverwalk, is something organizer Andrew Kirschner hopes will be the beginning of…
The Miami Marlins’ young pitching phenom, Jose Fernandez, was named the 2013 National League Rookie of the Year, taking 26 of 30 first-place votes and beating out Yasiel Puig of the Dodgers. Fernandez, 21, was the lone bright spot in an otherwise dismal and crappy year for the Marlins, who…
SeaWorld reported its quarterly earnings Wednesday — and they were at a record high, according to the Orlando Sentinel, which reported that the company’s “quarterly profit ballooned 30 percent from the same period a year ago, from $92 million to $120 million. Total revenue rose 3 percent, to $538 million.”…
With all the flip-floppy talk that is sure to come at Charlie Crist in the coming year from Rick Scott and the GOP, there’s one area they might not be able to touch: the environment. Even before he changed parties and began changing his views from right things to left…
Rise and shine there, big shooter. It’s time to start the day. And what better way to kick things off than by checking the news. If you’re like us, you head over to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun Sentinel for a daily dose. Maybe you want to want to see what…
It was near midnight on a Saturday in late August when a thin 25-year-old in a Miami Dolphins cap flexed the platinum chain around his neck, hoisted a two-inch-thick stack of hundred-dollar bills, and giggled at the absurdity of it all. Just two months ago, the young rapper had been…
Neither land nor rescue craft was in sight. An hour after his 21-foot catamaran had plummeted 2,100 feet to the bottom of the sea, bulky Seattle boat broker Sandy Williamson was treading water in six-foot swells 15 miles off Miami. Just a few inches away, Corey Whittaker, a wiry and…
Allen West wrote a book. AND WE TOTALLY CAN’T WAIT TO READ IT. No, really. A book by Allen West has to be the most awesome thing to hit the literary world because how can it not be? We’re pretty sure it’s a book filled with American flags, and Freedom…
A Florida man was arrested for impersonating a police officer after his grand scheme to score cheap donuts was blown up. The man’s scheme involved flashing a police badge at the drive-thru employee so she could give him donuts at a discount. He also allegedly flashed a piece, but not…
Know what we need more around these parts? Crazy-ass drivers challenging Chuck Yeager’s sound barrier speed record on our highways. And thanks to some lawmakers, that just may happen sooner than we think. Florida Sens. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, and Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, have joined forces in a bipartisan…
