Remember when the courts prohibited funky games like such as Ultimate Texas Hold ‘em and Three-Card poker at racetrack casinos in 2015? Well, it looks like they’re going to be here for a while longer. This past August 27, administrative law judge E. Gary Early ruled the state of Florida was wrong to simply eliminate…
After delaying development plans for nearly two years, Riverland residents might finally have a real solution to protect more than 400 trees that sit on a lush 5.19-acre private property that is up for sale. Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Romney Rogers has confirmed that he will introduce an amendment at tonight’s…
In the dim light of South Florida’s most famous gay hangout, two dozen men curl around the center bar to down two-for-one drinks on a Monday evening. Some are balding with graying hair. More rugged gents sport baseball caps. A few clean-shaven yuppies in suits scroll through social media feeds…
“Got ’em on!” Mark “the Shark” Quartiano roars while his first mate stabs a shark with a gaff and hauls it out of the placid Atlantic Ocean. “In the boat, get him in the boat! Yeah, got ’em on!” Thwacking its tail and flipping over so the white of its…
Waste Management Inc’s plan to shoot “garbage juice” thousands of feet underground into the Florida Aquifer has outraged environmentalists. They fear the run-off from the company’s Monarch Hill Landfill near Coconut Creek in unincorporated Broward County will pollute drinking water with toxins. “I don’t want this thing going anywhere near…
Florida Supercon, the largest comic book, anime, animation, video games, fantasy, Sci-Fi and pop culture convention in South Florida, is moving north. The four-day gathering in early July that started in 2006 with 1,500 attendees ballooned to more than 53,000 last year. Mike Broder, President of Super Conventions, parent company of Florida…
Earlier this year, members of South Florida Smash HLS learned that Fort Lauderdale-based Landmark Bank had made a $4 million loan to the founder of Worldwide Primates, one of several controversial local primate importers that have drawn scrutiny from animal rights groups in recent years. In hopes of convincing the…
Billy Groeneveld still remembers his first haunted house. It was 1972 and he was dressed like a pirate. When he stepped into a neighbor’s garage, he was directed to shove his 7-year-old hands into a bowl of cold spaghetti and feel the “brains.” Then he groped around a bowl of…
After another monkey death was reported by Hendry County’s Primate Products Inc., a national watchdog group is calling on the feds to revoke the animal dealer’s license. Stop Animal Exploitation Now! says the latest death is a part of a pattern of negligence and abuse. “There are over 100 animal research facilities…
With last night’s preseason finale in the books (a ho-hum loss to the Tennessee Titans BTW) , fake games are officially in the rear-view mirror. Now, Dolphins fans can set a countdown clock that ends in the kickoff of a ball that matters. Like pumpkin lattes and beer, Dolphins football…
Zen Root Kava doesn’t look like a drug den. Located next to a hair salon in a strip mall off Federal Highway in Pompano Beach, it’s got Buddha paintings on the walls and a Himalayan salt lamp on the bar. Reggae music plays softly in the background. There are pita…
Dear Stoner: I have a metal pipe that I can unscrew and clean, and the other day I had a great idea: What if I put a nug in there to get nice and sticky after smoking a few bowls? Will it be more potent? JustBlaze Dear Blaze: Now I…
When the passenger came to, she was on a desk aboard the M/V Norwegian Sky, crying hysterically and trying to figure out how she’d wound up there. Her vaginal area was sore, and the last thing she could remember was being trapped in a storage room by the bartender who’d…
Thursday will be the new Friday in Hollywood. To cut costs, commissioners yesterday passed a year-long pilot program that put most city departments on a 10-hour, four-day work schedule. Starting Monday October 3, City Hall, Annex, and old library, Visual Arts Building at Arts Park, and other departments will only…
Back in November, Broward Judge Matthew Destry sentenced 23-year-old Herb Smith to 60 years in prison after he broke his probation. That sentence—more than four times the prosecution’s recommendation—ignited a viral online petition (that garnered more than 45,000 signatures) calling for Destry’s ousting. After the outcry, Destry reversed the sentence…
At 7:05 am on September 29, 2009, a van came to pick up Tommy Lee Benton at the Hernando County Jail and take him to the Broward County Main Jail, where he’d serve out his three-year sentence after pleading guilty to being the accessory to armed robbery. According to a…
Betty Osceola’s call to action didn’t come from a phone or Facebook. Instead, the Miccosukee grandmother says she sensed that her help was needed. When Osceola heard that hundreds of Native Americans were camped in North Dakota defending sacred reservation land from an oil pipeline, she knew that she had…
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the Boca Raton-based GEO Group, the country’s second largest operator of private prisons. After the Department of Justice announced on August 18 that it would discontinue use of private prisons, stock prices plummeted. Now, investors are suing. A lawsuit filed against the…
Miss Cleo — AKA Cleo Harris — walks briskly across the parking lot of Sawgrass Mills mall, her face hidden behind a pair of mirrored sunglasses. But Carmel Cafiero has already recognized her. Dressed in a plain navy suit and clutching a Channel 7 microphone, Cafiero chases down the fraudulent…
When Justin Bieber announced he’d be stopping in South Florida on his Purpose world tour, Melissa Matthai threw down $1,856.35 for two VIP tickets for her and her 14-year-old daughter. It was a steep investment but the Broward mom justified the price since they included a backstage “Meet and Greet”…
Dr. Rebecca Lent, the executive director of the Marine Mammal Commission (MMC), sent shockwaves across the internet when she deemed the tank of orca Lolita’s at the Miami Seaquarium substandard due to a five-foot-thick concrete island at the center. Though officials at the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service…
Dear Stoner: What is Thai stick? Is it just an old strain of chronic from the ’70s? The Berg Dear Berg: Be ready to take notes if an old-timer ever tells you about the time he smoked a Thai stick, because it was probably crazier than any blunt you’ve ever…
