Jordan Parsons is a 25-year-old MMA featherweight fighter. He trains with the Blackzillians, an MMA team based at the Jaco Hybrid Training Center in Boca Raton. Since 2010, Parsons has 11 wins and two losses under his belt. Parsons is currently a featherweight prospect and was gearing up for a…
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We know, we know —- this week, Fort Lauderdale seems to be crawling with sailors, pilots, skydivers, captains, cooks, deckhands and engineers, all looking super fly in their uniforms. That may seem like allllll that matters. But there are actually some important distinctions between the Fort Lauderdale Air Show…
In 2009, Los Angeles-based celebrity hair stylist Chaz Dean released Wen, a line of hair-care products that purportedly cleans and conditions without harsh sulfates to create a healthy, natural look. Actresses Alyssa Milano and Christina Applegate have touted the products on infomercials. So has Brooke Shields, who in one commercial…
On the TV show American Takedown, which airs on A&E, camera crews follow elite police forces as they bust high-stakes criminals. It’s basically Cops on steroids. In one episode, the U.S. Coast Guard ambushed a drug-filled boat en route to Puerto Rico. In another, a sheriff’s office in Tennessee busted…
Miami is something of a spawning ground for the champagne-infused salmon that is Aubrey Drake Graham, America’s leading male pop star. He seems compelled to return to South Florida biannually to roost. And why not? The confines of South Beach offer just about everything he could want: Clubs that blast…
In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in the federal court in the Central District of California, a woman named Katie Johnson accuses Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of having forced her to “engage in various perverted and depraved sex acts” and threatening to harm her and her family. A…
Beginning Sunday, if you hear thunderous sounds in the air and catch glimpses of fighter jets, don’t freak out — it’s not Jade Helm. Most likely, it’s pilots getting ready for the Fort Lauderdale Air Show. In fact, Major Scott Petz, the advance pilot for the Air Force Thunderbirds —…
Firehouse Subs is a chain restaurant that whips up hot sandwiches. The shop has a firefighting theme: firefighters’ equipment is posted throughout the store and local firefighting history is mounted on the walls. However, according to one lawsuit filed last month in Palm Beach County, this firefighting theme and décor…
The biggest knock on Democrat Tim Canova, the onetime Bernie Sanders adviser who is trying to oust fellow Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz from Congress, has been that most of Canova’s support is from a rabid group of “Bernie Bros” on websites like Reddit, rather than folks in South Florida. While…
Fort Lauderdale has over 200 miles of sea walls. During high tides and storms, sea walls protect properties from coastal flooding. Legally, a city ordinance dictates that sea walls be no higher than 5 and a half feet. As sea levels rise, especially during the really high tides in September,…
The Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office could have charged Nouman Raja, the ex-Palm Beach Gardens cop who shot local drummer Corey Jones to death in October, with a crime by now, if they wanted to. Prosecutors have interviewed more than 230 witnesses in three countries about the case, and the investigation…
Last year, Stephen Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins, teamed up with the government of Qatar to buy a stake in Formula 1 racing. Now, there are reports that the Middle Eastern country’s state-owned airline, Qatar Airways, could get naming rights to New Miami Stadium (formerly Sun Life Stadium), where the…
Approach and the first thing you hear is buzzing. It’s like a swarm of food processors flying overhead. Look up. In the twilight sky, Tron-like flashes of neon turn circles, some stopping midair before diving close to the ground at breakneck speed. They’re like tiny comets or steroid-stoked fireflies. Suddenly,…
Earlier this month on Miami Beach, revelers gathered with their inflatable tubes and rafts for Floatopia, a massive, informal party that has been happening since at least 2012 and left the beach smothered in trash. The event (which is just an excuse to drink beer, smoke weed, and eat corn…
It took four entire paragraphs in James Tracy’s latest press release before he accused someone of orchestrating a conspiracy. We can only imagine how long that wait must have felt for him. Tracy, who was fired from his tenured position as a Florida Atlantic University professor in January after the…
Former NFL Linebacker Clinton Session claims he can’t afford to pay what he owes in child support for his severely disabled daughter, even though in 2011 and 2012 he received $9.8 million playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Yesterday, a judge gave Sessions ten days to pay, or go to jail. …
Broward County’s Human Rights Board last week recommended that the County Commission prohibit county-funded employee travel to North Carolina and Mississippi in order to condemn legislation recently passed in those states that is seen as discriminatory to gay, lesbian and transgender persons. On March 22, North Carolina passed the Public…
The low-rise warehouse district on East 45th Street in Hialeah is filled with noisy clutter from auto mechanics’ shops and cafeterias during the day. But on a recent Saturday night, the humid air was glued to the concrete. It was quiet. At 11th Avenue, the faint vibrations of hip-hop bass…
On Twitter, someone using the handle @kellyblaus claims to be a 17-year-old girl and says she and her mom were harassed by radio host Paul Castronovo at the Pompano Beach Seafood Festival this past weekend. She said in a series of Tweets Saturday that the radio host called her mom…
The day has finally come that had been speculated about for a good decade: Gannett newspapers, the behemoth of the print world, is making a play for Tribune Publishing. The South Florida implication of this is huge: The Sun-Sentinel, which somehow employed me from 1985-2015, could be yet another feeder…
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew wiped out Six Flags Atlantis in Hollywood. There has been a giant, aching waterpark-shaped hole in Broward County ever since. But opening another Broward waterpark has been no trip down the lazy river for Schlitterbahn, one of the country’s leading water amusement corporations with outposts in…
