A half-mile off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, 35 feet below the ocean’s surface, two battery-powered golden-yellow submarines the size of Volkswagen Beetles puttered around Barracuda Reef. In one submarine’s cabin — a transparent sphere that looks like a giant fishbowl — sat Rachel Silverstein, a dark-haired PhD who holds…
When New Times first profiled Tim Canova in January, the onetime Bernie Sanders adviser running to take Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s congressional seat, a handful of political analysts wrote him off entirely. “It totally comes down to money,” said David Custin. “The conventional wisdom says, ‘Nope, no way. The guy running against…
Everyone is biting the style of drag queens. On Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, A-list celebrities lip-sync for their lives. The Kardashians have prompted millions of copycats to contour their faces with makeup. Middle schoolers are all “throwing shade” at one another nowadays. See? You might chalk it up to the…
Abbe Rifkin says she has wanted to be a judge ever since she was sworn into the Florida Bar. That was in 1981, when she had just started working as a prosecutor with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. She has tried dozens of high profile murder cases and is active…
In 2012, Michael Saphir was a student at Cypress Bay High in Weston. Saphir has severe developmental disabilities and functions at the level of a 10-year-old. Because of this, Barbara and Albert Saphir say they found it strange when a Cypress Bay teacher danced “all over” their son at the…
In 2001, Lional Dalton won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens. He started three games that season as a defensive tackle. But in 2006, Dalton succumbed to injuries to his spine and retired. Now, ten years later, his lawyers say he’s become so debilitated by his injuries that traveling around…
On March 27, Ivanka Trump gave birth to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s eighth grandchild, Theodore James Kushner. After marrying husband Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism. Donald Trump recently told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that his daughter had a “beautiful Jewish baby.” If the family sticks with…
As she explained last week, Catherine Uden was saddened by all the litter sprinkled across Fort Lauderdale Beach during spring break. As the Broward Chapter secretary of Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit grassroots environmental group made up of surfers and beach lovers, it was especially hard to see. For years, Uden…
The Florida Derby is the highlight of the horse racing season at Gulfstream Park and the most important race in South Florida, with three-year-old thoroughbreds competing for a $1 million prize. It doesn’t quiiiite rival Kentucky Derby day in Louisville, but, boy, it’s looking like race day tomorrow will be a…
I’ve been the editor of the student newspaper at Florida Atlantic University for a year, but until this week, I’d never been threatened to be struck down by a “higher authority,” or had tweets written about me telling people to pray for me. And our beardy mountain man of a…
When Richard Couto went undercover into Loxahatchee’s Rancho Garcia farm, he found pigs slaughtered and goats skinned alive. Couto, the founder of Animal Recovery Mission (ARM), a nonprofit animal-abuse investigation firm, made covert videos and brought them to police. “Basically anything and everything they could do to make a dollar…
Eco-Site is a company that helps place cell phone towers in high-demand areas. It’s possible for the company to disguise the towers as trees — or other things that are arguably aesthetically pleasing, like clock towers. The company had been in discussions with the city of Miami Shores to put…
Today, President Obama commuted the federal drug sentences of 61 people who had been sentenced under outdated, draconian, or ineffective sentencing laws. He was set to speak at 2 p.m. According to a White House statement, “More than one-third of them were serving life sentences. To date, the President has…
On March 8, at news conference at Trump National Golf Club, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was accused of grabbing Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields as she went to ask Trump a question. Fields said that her arm was yanked aggressively, she almost fell, and that she was definitely “shaken”…
Uber just made catching a ride cheaper, more eco-friendly, and probably more interesting. Tuesday, the ride-sharing company introduced uberPOOL, which connects riders traveling along your same route, letting them squeeze into the same car to share a trip and share the cost. The service will be available for request in the entire…
When people think of startups, they might imagine a warehouse office in Silicon Valley, crowded with young software engineers who prefer T-shirts to suits. Think Google, Facebook, and billionaires under the age of 30. But could Broward County become the Silicon Valley of the East? Don’t laugh! The burgeoning startup…
On Sunday, March 13, Donald Trump held a massive rally at Boca Raton’s Sunset Cove Amphitheater. Despite the fact that Trump’s rallies have been overcome with violence and hatred as of late, initial reports said the few thousand attendees in Florida had been “peaceful.” As it turns out, this may…
Plantation resident Lauren Book, 31, has raised about $1.3 million for her state senate campaign, though she’s running unopposed. Her charity was also awarded a million dollars by the state legislature this session. Book is the daughter of powerful Florida lobbyist Ron Book, and after suffering horrific abuse by a…
Al Holden’s 34-foot yacht, M/V Close Knit, bobbed as he prepared a meal of chicken and dumplings. On his way to Key West, the Canadian had threaded his way off the Intracoastal Waterway and found a sweet spot to drop anchor. Sunset Lake is situated right between mainland Miami Beach…
Last week, the New York Times released a staggering investigation, alleging that the NFL’s concussion-research team used faulty data to downplay athletes’ risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE. The disease, which has been repeatedly diagnosed in football players, causes a person’s brain matter — and memory —…
On March 14, Fort Lauderdale Beach lifeguard Zoard Janko uploaded a photo onto Facebook. In it, a few lingering spring-breakers make their way off the beach. Their emptied plastic water bottles, crushed cans of Red Bull, and Styrofoam cooler, though, are left behind in the sand. “They laugh as they…
“It’s a lot easier to cool a body from the inside-out, rather than the outside-in,” says Catherine Baldwin, CEO of Suspended Animation, a Boynton Beach company that specializes in transporting dead bodies to be cryogenically frozen and stored. Thursday night, she spoke from a podium at the Church of Perpetual…
