Season – with a capital “S” – is quickly returning to South Florida. And with it, the excellent bands, terrific musicians, comic and serious theater offerings, and special museum exhibits that are part of the October-to-May segment of the Sunshine State calendar. Actually, two venues are opening their seasons this…
The devastation on Great Abaco wasn’t apparent at first. While the pilot we’d paid $1,300 for the 45-minute flight from Nassau began the plane’s descent, the teal-and-cobalt Atlantic gave way to vast expanses of jagged green spits bordering shallow, sandy lagoons. A grounded boat lying on its side some 500 yards inland was the first indication of what was to come.
The good news is that on Sunday, the Miami Dolphins looked better than they have all season. They even had a lead at one point! The bad news is the Miami Dolphins have been so bad this season that getting quietly thumped by the San Diego Chargers 30-10 qualifies as progress.
Florida is back to draining swamps, and for once, it’s not the Everglades. Long considered one of the most corrupt places in the country, the Sunshine State is apparently raising the bar when it comes to transparency around ethics enforcement.
South Florida sports fans have some unfortunate recent experience with ranking near last. Between the Marlins losing 100 games, the Heat missing the playoffs, and the Dolphins doing their damnedest to ensure they don’t win a game again this year, rooting on the local teams has been quite the chore…
In April, veteran CBS Miami investigative reporter Jim DeFede released a scathing report about two contractors at Miami International and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International airports, in which workers alleged they were grossly underpaid, neglected, faced cockroach infestations, and had to create a food pantry so their underpaid coworkers could eat.
Just before 4 a.m. January 15, a Miami-Dade man woke up in his car outside a strip club with bruises on his face, his extremities bound, and his hands gruesomely burned.
PETA filed a request early Thursday, calling for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to terminate the federal exhibitor license for SeaQuest in an attempt to stop the aquarium and petting zoo operator from opening in Fort Lauderdale.
Hang out with some otters, Blue October and mermaids to end September and kick off the new month.
In a direct blow to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Florida Senate special master tasked with considering the suspension of former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has concluded that the embattled cop should be reinstated.
Music of all sorts reigns supreme around Broward and Palm Beach counties this weekend. A famed band from the 1970s is coming to Boca Raton’s Funky Biscuit to perform a chunk of its repertoire, and a musically faithful tribute band will play the best of the Fab 4 at the…
Everyone is mad that the Miami Dolphins are bad. The fans are mad. The players are mad. And the national media, most flamboyantly, is mad.
When the history of Venezuela’s ongoing collapse is finally written, entire chapters will be dedicated to the crooks. Swindlers, scoundrels, and sinvergüenzas of all stripes — protected by a wall of state-sanctioned corruption that allowed them to siphon billions of dollars out of the country into private bank accounts around the world.
In a city seemingly driven to pave over itself with the next big development, appreciation for the past is hard to come by. Fortunately, for over five decades History Fort Lauderdale has been the city’s heritage cheerleader. Tuesday, October 1, heralds one of the museum’s most significant exhibits chronicling the…
When he was ordered deported from the United States, Diego Alejandro Rojas didn’t think of himself. His mind didn’t turn to the chaos that awaited him in Venezuela. He didn’t linger on the death threats from the local paramilitary thugs who forced him to flee in the first place.
Several days after his May 2016 arrest for the murder of Dan Markel, Sigfredo Garcia made a jailhouse phone call to Kathy Magbanua, his former girlfriend and the mother of two of his children. He told her he would “be out soon and [would] either file a lawsuit or ‘get the hell out of dodge’ and leave everything behind them,” according to an FBI transcript of the call.
If the NFL counted style points, the Dolphins might have earned themselves a few yesterday. Unfortunately, the NFL doesn’t keep track of how pretty you looked in a 31-6 loss, so the Dolphins are just your normal, everyday 0-3 after their latest loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
Honestly, we thought we would have stopped doing this by now. Tracking the Dolphins’ mission to #TankForTua seemed like a good idea when the season began, but we figured by now there would be more pressing matters to deal with and newsier news to discuss.
Today 58-year-old Bernard Gonzalez became the first person in Broward County to be charged with murder for selling fentanyl to a person who later overdosed.
In addition to being a Florida senator and a villain from the Mummy film series because he scared Brendan Fraser too much, Rick Scott was, in varying stints, a hospital-chain executive and the governor of the Sunshine State. In both of those jobs, Scott showed utter contempt for poor people, the sick, and the concept of taxpayer-funded medicine…
It’s a rockin’ week in South Florida, with visits from The Who, Jai Wolf, GWAR and Senses Fail. On the culinary front, enjoy a super-snazzy Italian dinner and a Barley & Hops weekend.
Sitting in front of a computer screen in his home in Brandon, Florida, Daniel McMahon allegedly carried out a campaign of terror, encouraging violence against countless people and helping influence at least one murderous white nationalist. This week, federal authorities finally caught up with him.
