Miami, Florida and Hollywood, California are known for the best places to spot celebrities. Oohh there’s Jon Hamm. Ooh look, George Clooney! Pfft. Whatever. We all know the sexiest place on the planet is Broward friggin County.Know who else knows that?The Rock. He lives there. Other celebrities sort of live…
It looks like Palm Beach County middle school advanced class students might be able to forego the FCAT test this year, pending on a case-by-case basis. Last week, the Sun-Sentinel reported that parents had been complaining to school officials about their kids being double-tested thanks to the academic albatross known…
Marco Rubio is about to go all-in on being The Guy For The GOPers in 2016, more so than he already is The Guy For The GOPers in 2016. And he’s doing it via the thorny immigration reform policy which, just like every other damn thing in Washington, has split…
Donald Hughes is a convicted sex offender who has been on probation for sexual battery convictions stemming from the 1990s. But Hughes figured there must be a statute of limitations on probations for sex offenders, because he allegedly liked walking around outside his home stark-raving naked like it was all…
Over the last few months, Delray Beach has been torn up by a debate over the Arts Garage, a popular multi-purpose space in the city’s downtown area. The issue is whether a law firm should be allowed to outbid the non-profit on the high-end real estate. If you’ve been plugged…
Monday is the last day to file your taxes. Have you filed them? Probably not. Because, according to a report, Floridians are filing slower than usual this year. This could be a mistake, Plantation spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service, Mike Dobzinski says. Because last-minute crunch-time filings mean more errors,…
The selection of new members of FAU’s Board of Trustees is usually not controversial, passing easily from nomination through confirmation to installation. That may not be the case with Gov. Rick Scott’s choice of Elizabeth Fago.See also:- Best Local Girl Gone BadFago’s nomination was announced March 27th, during the height of…
Community leaders will be gathering in Delray Beach on Saturday for a “We Have Not Forgotten and Demand Action” event. And while the name is overly long and uninspired, the event itself is intended to be a loud shout in the face to Congress and lobbyists alike that gun control…
Looks like the Florida Sheriffs Task Force’s crackdown on underaged drinking during spring break was a success. And by success, we mean craploads of arrests were made, drugs were seized, and fewer visits to the emergency room were made by underaged kids who had been iced one too many times…
Ever get a hankerin’ for a whole case of cheese and peanut butter crackers but don’t have the money or the means to get to a grocery store other than maybe a horse? Well, it’s this kind of universal problem the fine folks at Walmart like to solve with their…
With the 2013 NBA playoffs a mere week away, it’s time to see what LeBron James will be wearing as he prepares to obliterate defenders and defend his and the Heat’s crown as Biggest Badasses in All the Land (or, as most would call it, NBA Finals Champions). With that,…
Jorge Jonathan Cruz-Blanco was evicted from his home on Monday. So he responded in the most reasonable way imaginable for a person who gets kicked out of his place of residence. He went out and got a job. Just kidding. He dropped his trousers and took a shit on the…
If two Colorado State University climatologists are correct, we’re going to get hit up and harassed by hurricanes more than usual this season. Meteorologists Philip Klotzbach and William Gray are predicting from their supercool hurricane prediction base (i.e., their laptops, probably) that there will be 18 storms in total this year,…
With mergers and penny-pinching hitting commercial outfits across the board, air travel is pretty much a soul-crushing, wallet-buster these days. Just getting from A to B seems like a Double Dare obstacle course. The answer one for Fort Lauderdale woman has cooked up? Pop a thumb and hitch a ride…
We saw how Hurricane Sandy caused carousels to flood and wiped out much of the Jersey Shore last year, but in Haiti, the damage was much, much worse. Not only did 54 Haitians die and 21,000 people lose their homes in the storm, but the impoverished country, still reeling from devastation…
Could the mythical, England-based street artist known as Banksy have painted his latest bit of street art in… Tequesta? The small city (population 5,629) is a retirement haven in northern Palm Beach County. Last week, a New Times reader noticed this mural artwork on the wall of a vacant space…
Back on February 25, cops raided the home of the president of the Florida Cannabis Action Network, Cathy Jordan, like a SWAT team crashing into Pablo Escobar’s mansion. Law enforcement officials swarmed Jordan’s home after a government employee who was visiting a neighbor spotted some marijuana plants on her property…
When Jay Miscovich stepped off Duval Street into the Bull & Whistle bar in January 2010, Key West was shivering through a cold spell, the thermometer parked at a rare 70 degrees. A bearish guy in his 50s with a beach-ball gut and an ever-present baseball cap pulled over his…
The four women from Trans and Womyn’s Action Camp (TWAC) who were arrested Tuesday morning after they chained themselves to the doors of the GEO Group corporate headquarters, were released from the Palm Beach County Jail on Wednesday.See also:-Four Arrested in Protest at GEO Headquarters: Activists From Transgender and Womyn’s…
Gov. Rick Scott officially made internet cafés go kaput Wednesday afternoon, when he signed legislation that bans up to 1,000 internet gaming storefronts across the state. See also: -Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll Has Resigned The new law is in large part thanks to Allied Veterans, an internet café operator whose officials were…
Good news, everyone! It looks like it’s going to be a little harder for the government to vaporize you with a drone, thanks to a 39-0 vote by the Florida Senate for SB 92. Sponsored by Sen. Joe Negron, who is the chamber’s appropriations chair, the bill will keep local…
In what can only be described as a rare bout of good sense, FAU administrators have decided to forgo disciplinary proceedings against seven students involved in a March 22 demonstration on the school’s Jupiter campus. The seven were protesting the school’s naming rights deal with global private prison operator GEO…
