While putting together this week’s cover story on the world of fortunetelling fraud, some of the information we gathered ended up on the cutting-room floor. Still, it’s interesting stuff worth your eyeballs and brain waves. The main area we didn’t have the space to explore was the dynamic currently playing…
We sure do love us some GOP self-destruction. And according to local right-wing website Bizpac Review, Palm Beach’s Republican Party is tearing at its own innards like a frenzied jackal, “cash-strapped and crippled by poor fundraising efforts,” key leaders unhappy with Chairman Ira Sabin’s orders to chill on the birther…
Twenty-one-year-old Christopher Warnig really wants to be a Democrat. He’s studying political science at Broward College. He loves MSNBC and adores our Democratic representative, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The youth is filled with so much zeal for democracy that he’s even decided to take a shot at a spot on the…
Great news, South Florida. This week, our latest Best Of Broward Palm Beach issue hits the stands, and it is a galactic-sized monster, packed with more than 180 picks for South Florida’s greatest restaurants, bars, clubs, people, and places. The issue hits stands Thursday, but in the meantime, we’re previewing…
With the Heat facing the prospect of having to travel to San Antonio down 0-2 in their best-of-seven NBA Finals series, Miami found itself in its most must-win game of the season on Sunday night. The Spurs had come off a gut-punching victory over Miami in Game 1, highlighted by…
Former Miramar Police Capt. Juan De Los Rios, a 28-year veteran with the force, was sentenced to four years in prison and five years’ sexual offender probation on Friday after being convicted of forcing a teenaged girl to strip naked during a traffic stop in 2012. In June of last…
Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer and longtime blogger who grew up in Lauderdale Lakes, is apparently the man at the center of the National Security Agency phone spying scandal that has everyone in a huff. It was an article that Greenwald wrote for The Guardian about the NSA collecting telephone records…
Lobster season in Florida runs from August 6 through March 31. The lobster-tail bag limit for the season is six per person, per day. But apparently two men decided that lobster season is right now and that the lobster-tail bag limit is none. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife, two…
Ever vigilant, Florida’s Tea Party stalwarts have (metaphor alert) a new target in their crosshairs: Common Core. Depending on whom you believe, Common Core is either 1) “a set of standards that stops the regurgitation of facts and starts the critical analysis and problem solving in our classrooms” or 2)…
So last night didn’t exactly go as planned. Thanks to some Globetrotter gymnastics on the part of Tony Parker, San Antonio took the lead in the NBA finals 1-0. Something certainly kick-started the old-ass Spurs on the court. It might have just been the fact that they were playing for…
George Zimmerman’s lawyers want the 911 tape of screaming voices to be played in court. They say the voice belongs to Zimmerman, who is supposedly screaming for help while grappling with Trayvon Martin. The prosecution says the voice belongs to Martin, moments before he was slain by Zimmerman. On Thursday,…
After months of hot and sweaty speculation, we”re finally getting some answers out of the Koch Brothers about their interest in the media game. This week in the Wall Street Journal, the Tea Party plutocrats indicated they are in fact interested in purchasing the Tribune Co., a portfolio of newspapers…
The Miami Heat were off to a fast start in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. From the tip-off, they controlled the tempo, played strong defense, and actually hit open J’s. And then the fourth quarter happened. And the Heat suddenly morphed into a bunch of assholes in sneakers. And…
Rare is the day that we see a video that makes us sound the newsroom conch and gather every reporter within earshot — but Thursday was a such a day. At Tuesday’s city commission meeting, Deerfield Mayor Jean Robb — who’s embroiled in controversy over alleged lapses in ethics –…
Did you know that Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs kicks off tonight? True story! And while we’re all living in the midst of one the most dynamic, exciting basketball players in the history of the game with LeBron James, the…
Earlier this morning, forecasters issued a tornado watch for central Palm Beach County that as at first up to 9:00 a.m., then extended to 11 a.m. But now the National Weather Service is all meh screw it, let’s extended it even further — up to 10 p.m. The tornado watch…
Condo association presidents are fun people. They hate fun, won’t let your friends park in spots for more than an hour, won’t allow you to put up a Christmas wreath on the door, won’t allow you to get a pet, and won’t let you have a BBQ. Also, they gamble…
This week’s feature story in the dead tree edition of New Times gives you a crash course in the world of fortunetelling fraud. Inside, you’ll get a basic field guide on the emotional games, legerdemain, and mindfuckery used to convince otherwise rational folks to willingly part with their money. Sure,…
If you thought your hump day was bad, David Subil is here to make you feel better. Subil, 42, was taken into custody Wednesday after accruing more charges than a Lindsay Lohan family reunion. The Miami resident was apprehended in Pompano Beach after allegedly claiming to be in charge of…
Tropical Storm Andrea is a big green blotch of wet awfulness, plodding its way towards the Big Bend on Florida’s west coast. The storm is already a big wet pain in the ass, with Tornado Warnings issued for northern Broward and south central Palm Beach County. A funnel cloud was…
News of the bizarre crisis began in the spring. TV reports flashed footage of manatees — the docile emblems of Florida’s waterways — dead and marooned on the shore of the Indian River Lagoon in Brevard County. Some reports blamed fertilizer runoff, which can cause algal blooms and choke a…
The voice on the other end of the phone, spiky with trans-Atlantic static, told Iiyah that if the curse were lifted, one day she’d be worshiped like a god. The key step now was to build a temple in Egypt that would clear out the dark energy. Sitting in her…
