Each time the next cool computer/electronic thingamajig comes out, you’re excited to have a new toy and ditch the old ones. But what happens to that sad, suddenly outdated electronic gadget you loved yesterday? Will it inevitably collect dust at home or the office? It should probably be recycled, and there’s a uniquely excellent option in South Florida.
Moments before a rented Dodge Journey swerved in front of chart-topping musician XXXTentacion’s BMW outside a Riveria Beach motorcycle shop June 18 and two men pumped the 20-year-old full of bullets, surveillance cameras inside the dealership captured a short, heavyset man nicknamed “Big Rob” walking around the store.
Even in the “Gunshine State,” the National Rifle Association is rapidly becoming politically toxic. After the Parkland school massacre February 14, every politician closely aligned with the NRA took a rightful beating: Sen. Marco Rubio was ridiculed on live TV during a CNN town hall, and GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam has still not lived down calling himself a “proud NRA sellout.”
Being blackballed by a half-dozen of Miami’s highest-profile nightclubs might not be catastrophic for the average South Florida reveler. On the bright side, you’d stay blissfully clear of strangers’ arm sweat and debris from Steve Aoki’s cake-throwing stage antics. But for booking manager Jason Kasten, getting banned from LIV, Space, Story, Komodo, E11even, and Mokai amounted to a professional disaster.
Go vegan, catch Panic! at the Disco live or kayak under a full moon. It’s up to you this week.
Barbara Carroll just wanted to cash a check for $140. The 78-year-old former probation officer and assistant bank manager, who is black, stopped by a Wells Fargo branch in Fort Lauderdale last November for what she thought would be a quick errand. Instead, she says, she spent two and a half hours…
Being a fan of South Florida sports teams is a microcosm of the city itself: The highs are extremely high, but the lows — oh, the lows — they are so low. Whether you’re a fan of the Dolphins, Panthers, Hurricanes, or Marlins, supporting each team has its major ups and downs.
It’s mid-June in Lakeland, Florida, and Andrew Pollack is hunched over in a pitch-black trailer, gripping a nine-millimeter pistol with both hands, preparing to hunt a school shooter. He assumes what’s known as an isosceles stance — feet square with his shoulders, knees flexed to absorb recoil, and toes facing…
After a 2014 appointment at Massage Envy turned into a sexual assault, a South Florida woman filed a report with the Coral Springs Police Department. But it wasn’t until detectives began investigating that she learned she wasn’t the massage therapist’s first victim — according to police, Gabriel Mata had previously sexually battered another client at the same Massage Envy location.
The Underground Create Map has arrived – an interactive tool showcasing Fort Lauderdale’s art walks, music events, trendsetting galleries and eateries, funky happenings, and everything in between.
A mop, a bucket, and bottles of bleach line the wall by the door in Kiara Canady’s barren, one-bedroom place at the Stonybrook Apartments in Riviera Beach. The slim African American 22-year-old says management at the housing complex located on Martin Luther King Boulevard just off I-95 mops the tile floor every…
Learn to surf for free, make a flower arrangement for bae, or partake in more of the best things to do in South Florida this week, July 19 through July 25.
A Las Olas staple is tuning up for its last gig. Two&, the unique bar, music venue, and bicycle shop hybrid will cease operations at the end of August. According to co-owner Zoe Love, who runs the business alongside her husband, Elmo Love, the business reached the end of its…
Sonia Stratemann, owner of Elite Greyhound Adoptions, says she received dogs from the Palm Beach Kennel Club with legs that literally dangled. Many of them were kept for use in blood banks rather than being euthanized, and needed urgent dental care. She eventually sent photos of the abused dogs to Hume, asking for financial help.
Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Florida by slightly more than 100,000 votes. At least according to the official recount numbers, George W. Bush beat Al Gore in Florida in 2000 by fewer than 600 votes. Had the constantly ineffectual Florida Democratic Party gotten its act together decades ago and…
Michael Boatwright, a 22-year-old Broward resident, was arrested on July 5 on marijuana possession and probation-violation charges. Boatwright has been sitting inside the Broward County Jail ever since — and it now looks like he might wind up staying there for quite a while, since he was charged this morning…
Hang with William Shatner? Do some yoga in a brewery? Catch the first Cirque du Soleil show on ice? The week is your oyster.
Donna Kalil steers her forest-green 1998 Ford Expedition down a narrow path through the vast expanse of the Everglades. Leaning far outside the open window, she scans the tall grasses. On the roof, her best friend, Renee Yousefi, perches on a brightly lit platform modeled after a tuna tower and…
The Trump era has been horrible for many of us, but few have suffered more than immigrants and those seeking asylum from oppressive regimes. But Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown has been fantastic for South Florida’s massive private-prison corporation, Boca Raton’s GEO Group. According to a breakdown of current ICE contracts…
Since the Parkland shooting last February, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel has been the target of a bunch of insane, conspiratorial fearmongering and outrage. He’s been lambasted on InfoWars and attacked by National Rifle Association ghoul Dana Loesch. But there are plenty of very real problems with the sheriff, including the…
While our big, sweaty grandpa president is busy tweeting that immigrants don’t deserve due-process in immigration courts, the business bearing his name (which he pretty much still runs) is trying to hire more foreign workers. According to federal Department of Labor documents BuzzFeed first dug up yesterday, the Trump Organization has…
Singer Chris Brown was arrested last night shortly after walking offstage at his Coral Sky Amphitheater concert in West Palm Beach. Brown was arrested for an outstanding felony battery warrant stemming from an incident in which he allegedly punched a photographer in a Tampa nightclub last year. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office says the singer was booked into jail at around 11 p.m. and released after paying a $2,000 bond.
