The mystery ingredient in last Saturday’s Garlic Chef Competition at the Delray Beach Garlic Fest came from an unlikely source. Mayor Nelson “Woodie” McDuffie provided 60 pounds of pork for the occasion — and slayed the hogs himself.”I was also sworn to secrecy,” McDuffie says. But now that the fest…
It all started when owners of a French restaurant decided the noise from a bar next door was causing customer indigestion.They politely — well, as politely as the French can — asked their neighbors to turn it down during the dinner hour. The open-air bar told the French to go…
Nice try, VeriChip, but your plot to implant mankind with the “mark of the beast” was foiled by Mark Cole, Virginia delegate. VeriChip, a Delray Beach company that was purchased earlier this month by IBM, makes an FDA-approved microchip that contains a person’s medical information so that it can be…
One of the fiercest battles to be waged this election year will be over Amendment 4, a citizens initiative aimed at putting decisions about growth in Florida back into the hands of voters. On November 2, we’ll go to the polls, and essentially send our government a message about whether…
City Commissioners are not often noted for their vibrant good health; up there on the dais under those fluorescent lights, most of them look little gray around the gills. But judging from her consumption of green leafy vegetables, Lake Worth City Commissioner Cara Jennings, 33, now in her second term,…
The City of Pompano Beach thundered last week, and thousands of miles away, Joyce Tarnow picked up the faint murmurings of her old adversaries.On Tuesday, January 26 the Pompano City Commission unanimously voted for a resolution to oppose Amendment 4. Vice Mayor George Brummer led the charge against the citizens…
In one respect, Living Water Ministries was lucky when it came to helping Haitian victims of last week’s earthquake: They already had a large network of employees and contacts in Port-au-Prince and many others in outlying villages in the far Northwest, where the charity has set up schools and medical…
Environmental activists and some Riviera Beach residents are fed up with living with “one of the dirtiest power plants in the entire state of Florida,” according to a news release from the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition. The coalition, along with the Riviera Beach Civic Association, will host a public…
Jon Pace, a boardmember of local charity Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches told us by phone this morning that Executive Director Pastor Etienne Jacklin’s house in the Bon-Repos area north of Port au Prince was destroyed, and his wife’s arm badly injured by a falling block, when the…
Iguanas falling from the sky.Pythons slithering from the swamps and into suburban yards in search of warmth. It would make a great horror movie if it weren’t true life. It’s been so frigid in South Florida this week that 250 sea turtles in cold shock have already been picked up…
Tis the season for charitable giving, and choosing where to spread your meager holiday surplus is harder than ever this year. But folks who donate to one Lake Worth charity don’t have to worry about whether their dollars will be spent wisely. For the Children made Florida Trend’s list of…
Maybe gambling should be treated like any other addictive substance. Researchers have found that the same antidepressants typically used to combat addictions to alcohol and drugs can help people who have a compulsion to gamble themselves into poverty.That report is one of the highlights of this week’s science conference at…
When German-born Erika Biddle first set foot in Key West in 1994, she looked around and thought, “This is the only city I’ve ever visited where I’m not the most eccentric person around. Here, I’m the normal one!” Biddle had been an active Green Party member in Germany; she was…
If you watched much of the Vikings-Cardinals game last night (it wasn’t much of a game), you probably saw this week’s installment of Toyota’s “Great Moments in Tailgating History.” The topic: the origin of the giant foam finger.The legend, according to the entertaining reenactment, is that the foam finger came…
For those of us in the news business, it’s a tad frustrating to see people skip past news stands so they can stand in long lines for movies like 2012. Not that you can blame them entirely. The media in the kiosk describes a complicated world. And the movie describes…
Here’s a cut-and-paste press release about where and when you can — finally — get the swine flu vaccine. Officials at the Broward County Health Department announced Broward County’s first H1N1 Vaccination Clinic which shall be open to all members of the public starting Monday, November 30, 2009 at the…
Dr. Rene Varela The local community of marine mammal experts is a relatively small one, so the Juice has been asking some high-level folks in the scientific community to weigh in on the recent controversy surrounding veterinarian Dr. Rene Varela, candidate for mayor of Lake Worth. One expert, who spoke…
This Thursday, Tamarac residents will be able to hop on a bike for free, then take it for a spin, all at the expense of Humana, a health-care corporation that’s out to encourage bicycle riding as an alternative to driving cars. But “Freewheelin,” a program that first launched in Louisville,…
If the most famous magician in history were to come back from the dead as a publicity-related favor for any group or organization, it would probably be the skeptics.Harry Houdini spent most of his career debunking psychics and scamsters, convincing the world that these people are frauds — not worth…
Two days ago, we posted this story about how protesters in Lake Worth targeted mayoral candidate Rene Varela, shining light on his work with Ocean Embassy, an Orlando company (formed by ex-SeaWorld employees) that has plans to build a resort in Panama featuring marine animal attractions. The company has also…
Historians will look back some day on the autumn of 2009 as a period of mass hysteria over a relatively innocuous strain of flu called H1N1, which so far has killed 1,000 Americans (normal seasonal flu averages 36,000 U.S. deaths per year, according to the CDC — see how they…
It’s not unusual for politicians to want to hide controversial details of their lives: adulterous affairs, DUI arrests, bankruptcies. Leave to the reliably kooky city of Lake Worth to have this week’s most interesting political scandal: rivals of mayoral candidate Rene Varela — a marine mammal veterinarian — say that…
