If any of Jah out there in internet-land are chilled-out rasta fans or just appreciate a good groove, you’ve probably got some Burning Spear in your iTunes. The Jamaican-born roots musician has been a mainstay on the scene since the 1970s, racking up Grammys and hordes of fanboys and girls over the years. …
A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit to go forward claiming that Boca Raton-based GEO Group, the nation’s largest federal contractor of private immigration detention facilities, is guilty of violating human trafficking laws by forcing detainees to perform manual labor for a meager $1 per day or no pay at…
In case you weren’t aware, we’re about to reach the planet Pluto for the first time in history Tuesday morning. And Florida Atlantic University is all geared up to host free public events on the whole shebang. Early Tuesday morning, a NASA spacecraft known as New Horizons will be beaming…
Donald Trump has been unapologetic over his controversial statements about Mexicans coming into America illegally. And the news of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s recent jail break has only emboldened the GOP presidential candidate to tell the world that he’s right about the Mexicans and that everyone is…
A throng of Confederate flag supporters showed up to the “American & Southern Flag Rally” in Loxahatchee on Saturday to show support for the flag, which has been at the center of debate in the U.S. for the last month. Supporters adorned their cars and pickups with the rebel flag…
On Yelp, a commenter praised the Taco Bell at 1830 South Federal Highway: “For anyone visiting Fort Lauderdale, I would highly recommend that they make sure to experience Taco Bell not only for the nourishment but also for an experience they won’t soon forget,” Dave. M. from Washington wrote. His…
Summer is the high season for getting the hell out of South Florida. Hurricanes, mosquito clouds, daily Mars-like temperatures — pick your reason for why no one wants to be here in the middle of the year. That seems to be true also for the Broward-based crews of scammers who…
The BB&T Center, tucked away in a corner in Sunrise across the street from the Sawgrass Mills Mall, has been the home to the Florida Panthers since 1998, when the team moved from the old Miami Arena. This was two years after the Cats made their historic run to the…
While vacationing in a resort at Lauderdale-By-The-Sea on the Fourth of July, I learned that one of the turtle nests in front of our building was that of a leatherback. Each of the world’s seven species of sea turtles are classified as either threatened or endangered, but the leatherbacks are “critically…
Fan rankings, and deciding what makes a good sports fan and what doesn’t is dumb. But that didn’t stop the University of Emory from culling data and putting together a ranking of best and worst NFL fan bases. And — shocking news here — Miami Dolphins fans ranked dead last…
Teofil Brank, the gay porn actor who performs under the name Jarec Wentworth, has been found guilty of extorting Palm Beach tycoon, magicJack executive, and Republican political activist Donald Burns of $1.5 million. Brank, 25, had threatened to expose Burns over their relationship unless the millionaire forked over money and an…
Over a year ago, we clued you in on a strange case of he-said-she-said involving a homeowner and a BSO deputy in North Lauderdale. This week, the charges were dropped involving the case — after nearly two years of wheel-spinning and hair-pulling. In December 2013, Valarie Joaceus, a North Lauderdale mother…
Hollywood Police says they are looking to crack down on the group responsible for painting over street signs named for Confederate generals in the city. On Wednesday, New Times reported that a group calling itself #BlackOutWhiteSupremacy had claimed responsibility for painting over signs on Forrest Street and Lee Street as…
Senator Bill Nelson has announced that he will be undergoing surgery on Monday to remove prostate cancer. According to a press release, Nelson has exhibited no symptoms, and that doctors found the cancer early during a routine medical exam. The cancer has not spread, according to further studies done on…
The American Democracy Legal Fund has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Florida’s Lieutenant Governor, Carlos Lopez-Cantera, for allegedly violating the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. On June 20, Lopez-Cantera told a group of Republicans at a Miami-Dade fundraising dinner that on July 15 (today!), he’ll…
Catherine Pileggi, the Fort Lauderdale woman convicted for murdering her 70-year-old multimillionaire boyfriend, Ron Vinci, has been sentenced to 25-years in prison. The murder investigation, which was the subject of a New Times feature, was initially handled sloppily. But during the trial, the defense argued that Vinci was a drunk,…
They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. Those words about Mexicans from Donald Trump’s presidential announcement speech have been on a near-continuous loop since the comb-covered one uttered them on June 16. Within nine days, Univision, the largest Spanish-language TV network in the country, declared it would cancel its…
Probably the only benefit from the steady beat of violent public deaths of young black men — a public fuse lit with Floridian Trayvon Martin, continued with Jacksonville’s Jordan Davis, and that now includes the litany of Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray and others — is that these tragedies have…
Palm Beach tycoon and Republican political activist Don Burns has been identified as the target of an alleged $1.5 million extortion attempt by a gay porn star named Teofil Brank — whose performer name is Jarec Wentworth — during his first day of trial. On Tuesday, Burns, who has donated…
On the heals of South Carolina voting to take down the Confederate flag from its Capitol grounds, and Marion County voting to fly the Confederate flag again, and a New Times article reminding everyone that the City of Hollywood has several streets named after Confederate generals, a group calling itself #BlackOutWhiteSupremacy…
Fred DeLuca, Fort Lauderdale resident and co-founder of Subway, has seen his fair share of controversies hit his sandwich chain empire. From Hepatitis A contaminations, to trademark court battles, to what the sandwiches are made from, to the supposed false claims that the subs are actually 12-feet-long. But nothing has…
From May 13 to 15, across the state, a slew of “body rub” businesses were busted by the Department of Health for operating without proper massage licenses. Operation Trigger Point lasted only three days but the final count was 64 cease-and-desist orders being issued as a result of the sting…
