Much to the harrumph of Florida senior citizens everywhere, it looks like internet cafés are closer to being no mas in the Sunshine State. On Tuesday afternoon, a Florida Senate panel voted unanimously to shutter internet cafés and senior arcades…
A motorcycle racing on the northbound exit ramp of the I-595 interchange cleared the median on the highway, hurled over the embankment, and landed on top of a car traveling on I-95 below, erupting into a ball of fire. Amazingly, all involved in the crash survived…
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 inside…
It’s not looking good for the the Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act, a bill that would legalize medical marijuana in Florida. While the Florida Legislature has gone ahead and moved forward with trying to ban bongs, the Cathy Jordan bill has yet to even get a hearing in either the…
Last week, we told you how Polo mogul John Goodman’s attorneys wanted his manslaughter, failure to render aid, and vehicular homicide sentences dropped, and for their client to be awarded a new trial, because of a self-published book written by one of the jurors. See also: – John Goodman’s Lawyers…
Twitter — the world-shaking social media platform that toppled an Egyptian government and organized social causes from Trayvon Martin to gay marriage — is great for public shaming. Boyfriend cheats, blast his ass with 140-characters. Bad service at a hot spot? Spill to the Twitterverse. One LA restaurant is now…
UPDATE 7:50 p.m.: They did “levitate the Pentagon”! Though our initial post was about students playing an April Fools’ joke, the GEO deal was indeed canceled, it was announced this evening. Details below.Students opposed to FAU’s decision to sell naming rights to the school’s football field to the GEO Group, the…
Late yesterday afternoon, Deandre Poole, embattled FAU instructor who is accused of asking his students to “stomp on Jesus,” said that Ryan Rotela — the student who’d refused to participate — had balled his fists that day after class and told Poole he wanted to hit him. Now, Rotela has…
Deandre Poole’s class had just finished wrapping up when student Ryan Rotela approached him angrily, one hand balled up into a fist. The class had just participated in the now infamous so-called “Jesus Stomping” exercise, and Rotela, a self-proclaimed religious person, objected to Professor Poole’s manner of teaching. “I want…
Darrius Johnson attacked his girlfriend, Monica Gooden, from behind, slamming an X-Box 360 console across her head. He then stabbed her multiple times all over her body. When interviewed by police about the gruesome murder, Johnson told investigators he felt like a new man after killing his girlfriend, who, he…
Republican state senator in Florida Alan Hays is a hero! Hays, who once filed legislation to keep public buses from stopping on streets because one time he got stuck in traffic behind one, says Islam is gonna Sharia Law all up the State of Florida like polio. And if Sharia…
FAU Professor Dr. Deandre Poole has broken his silence since being embroiled in the so-called “Jesus Stomping” controversy that derailed into what seems to be a disconcerting theater of the absurd. Since the FAU professor held a class in which he asked his students to write Jesus on a piece…
As Florida legislators bat around a proposed bill that would ban the sale the bong and glass smoking devices, head shop owners aren’t loafing around while the business is legislated out from under them. An effort is cranking into high gear to challenge the proposal on the hill before it…
Prior to Sunday’s big-time-holy-crap-it’s-maybe-a-possible-NBA-Finals-preview game against the mighty San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat Head Coach Erik Spoelstra announced that the team would be without LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Mario Chalmers. All three were apparently dinged up and in need of rest. So the Heat was forced to go out…
It looks like the University of Miami has enough already with the NCAA’s shenanigans and will be formally filing a motion to have the NCAA’s case against them dismissed. According to CBS.com, the motion will account for “recent revelations that the use of attorney Maria Elena Perez was beyond the…
At 1:53 p.m. today FAU officials announced that instructor Deandre Poole was placed on leave “immediately for safety reasons.”See also:- In Defense of FAU Instructor Deandre PoolePoole, a devout Christian, became embroiled in controversy late last week after right-wing critics accused him of anti-Christian activity. During a communications class, Poole…
Tiger Woods has been kicking ass in golf again lately, and yada yada yada he and new girlfriend Lindsey Vonn (she’s a skier!) are on the latest cover of US Weekly which features one of their not-at-all-awkward Facebook photos. See also: -Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn Make Relationship Official Via…
Manatees have been dying at a record pace in Florida this year, threatening their overall population. in just the first three months of 2013 alone, the number of sea cow deaths have already surpassed all of 2012. See also: -Manatees Dying Off Both Florida Coasts; Scientists Trying to Figure Out Why…
In his never-ending, undaunted quest to be the new face of the GOP by being the old face of the GOP, Marco Rubio will add to his nonbigoted hatred of gays, his marginalizing of women, and his denial of scientific fact ways by fighting off any and all attempts to…
Thor Holm Hansen will not stay in the United States — either as a prisoner, or as a free man. Last month, in a 5,000-word cover story, we told the crazy story of Thor Hansen, a Norwegian country singer, a one-time ambassador to a rebel Haitian government, and an Outlaw…
While it may cost him his job, possibly, and his peace of mind, certainly, FAU Professor Deandre Poole’s late February classroom exercise has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, indisputably. Not since Gainesville pastor Terry Jones in 2010 got the Muslim world in an uproar by threatening to build a bonfire…
This is a bit of a guess, but we think it’s safe to say Broward Republican Chair Tom Truex didn’t change his Facebook photo this week to one of those now-ubiquitous red equal signs. Truex — a former Davie mayor who recently took the reins from Rick Petrocelli, private investigator…
