Barack Obama took to the TV and told the world that Marco Rubio “has been a very positive force” in the immigration debate. Hmm.Obama is up to no good. He has to be. Why else would he suddenly be praising the GOPers’ Goldeny Golden-Touch Golden Boy of the Golden Future…
After a pretty bruising back and forth, Delray Beach finally made a decision on what to do with the Arts Garage. In front of a pro-Arts crowd packing the house, the city commission last night voted three to one to let the nonprofit stay put. The decision put a win…
In a classic example of bolstering the bunker instead of looking in the mirror, FAU’s Board of Trustees yesterday blasted those who criticized and publicized the school’s recent high-profile public blunders. See also: – FAU President’s Collision With Student – FAU Instructor Placed on Leave Rather than question the wisdom…
Yesterday afternoon, New Times received this e-mail in response to our story highlighting Carlos Arredondo, now famous as the cowboy–hat-wearing man helping an injured man in a wheelchair to receive medical help after the Boston marathon bombings.(The injured man was later identified as Jeff Bauman. The New York Times located…
The Everglades Wonder Gardens in Bonita Springs is soon going to be closing its doors. There have been some communication with potential buyers to keep the zoo open, but so far things are just in the talking-stage. But one Florida man had a better idea. Why not just saw through the…
UPDATE [5:00 p.m.]: Hans Huseby of Team Foot Works tells New Times that the Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run in West Palm Beach for Wednesday will go on as scheduled.”The West Palm Beach Police Department held a meeting today, evaluated the situation and informed us the event can go on,” Huseby says. “They…
Texting and driving is even closer to being an illegal thing in Florida. The Senate has unanimously voted to push through Bill SB 52, banning texting while driving on Florida’s roads. The law would allow texting while a vehicle is stopped, texting while at a red light, or voice-command texting…
One of the most iconic photos to emerge from Monday’s tragic bombings at the Boston Marathon is that of a man in a cowboy hat, rushing a victim who has had his legs blown off to safety. The man in the cowboy hat is Carlos Arredondo. He is an anti-war…
As the city of Boston reels from yesterday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon and the rest of the world wonders what the hell is wrong with people, police continue to look for a killer (or killers) whose atrocious act of violence did little than to terrify runners (runners of all…
Yesterday, the Sun Sentinel ran a front page feature story on Larry Lawton, a local celebrity jewel thief selling his tale of criminality and incarceration in a new book called Gangster Redemption, but left out just one key fact. Larry Lawton just wants to masturbate in prison in peace…
The last election season signaled big changes for marijuana in America. Two states opted for legalization, meaning weed use might soon be the accepted norm. Into that shifting cultural sand steps Alfred Ryan Nerz. After writing a book about competitive eating, the Yale-educated New Yorker dropped down into a funk,…
Hey. You love things. We know you love things. And you want to voice your opinion on those things that you love, because people who don’t love the things you love are dumb. And wrong. But, mostly dumb. Well, that’s what the internet is for, friend-o. That, and cat videos. But, more…
South Florida’s largest newspaper has finally snagged its first Pulitzer Prize, the award committee at Columbia University announced this afternoon. A three-part series called “Cops among Florida’s Worst Speeders,” which detailed how often — and egregiously — off-duty police officers speed on our highways, netted the honor for public service…
One Tampa-area squirrel is being hailed as a hero by public school students today, probably. On the first day of FCAT testing, the ChristSquirrel got fried on a live electrical power line, causing a massive morning power outage in three different schools, as well as to an additional 700 customers,…
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen “Chad Henne Is The Next Dan Marino” Ross is bringing an international soccer tournament to South Florida which is kind of like the World Cup, but not at all like it in the least. Ross is expected to announce that South Florida will host matches for…
Mid-day Sunday, about 75 people showed up near the Pirate Republic bar in Fort Lauderdale, then walked a block to the site of a now-famous rain tree. The six-story-tall, nearly hundred-year-old specimen will be moved if a developer is permitted to build a condominium complex called Marina Lofts on the…
So, giant rat-sized snails have decided to invade Florida now.And they’re roaming about by the thousands. According to the Florida Department of Agriculture, a South Florida homeowner first reported the creepy things, and a recent report says that a total of 117,000 of these suckers have been caught since and…
Marco Rubio appeared on one of the Sunday political talk shows on, uh, Sunday (THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM!) and slammed, ripped, dunked on, smacked down, put a hurtin’ to, Jay-Z and his recent decision to not only visit Cuba, but to also be unapologetic about it in a…
Ya gotta hate Mondays. Especially if you’re FAU President Mary Jane Saunders and you come in and open your email and find two open letters “to the FAU community” raking the school over the coals for its handling of two recent scandals. One letter came from John Hiatt, of Wellington,…
Though it may seem too good to be true, Bobbie Bauman’s fly ride is street legal. Instead of car seats, the 1949 Ford has lawn chairs latched inside its frame. Rather than a coolant container, it’s got a Jack Daniels bottle. Instead of steering-wheel pleather, there’s motorcycle chain. The car’s…
“Write what you know” is the cardinal rule of creative writing, and it would seem to be even more important in the writing of legislation. Bad literature can be ignored; bad law, not so much. State Rep Dave Kerner has taken that thought to heart.Kerner (D-Palm Springs) has played a…
Last week Gary Karp was on the phone with John Curcio, the Broward Sheriff’s Office detective now investigating the death of Karp’s daughter, Marissa. The men touch base often, endlessly groping through the dark spots in a case file that’s been gathering dust for more than a decade. This time,…
