The Florida Panthers made history Tuesday night when they played in an unprecedented 20 round shootout against the Washington Capitals. It was the longest shootout in NHL history, blowing out the previous record of 15. The final score was 2-1, but it took nearly twenty minutes of edge-of-your-seat-slap-a-random-stranger-with-a-sock-full-of-pennies amazeballs hockey…
Last week, a photo floated around on Facebook — it was shared at least 48 times — of a Lamborghini Aventador that was wrapped in logos for the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Though the car was supposed to a be a cool promo for the department, it somewhat backfired when an…
As expected, the powers-that-be in Florida are doing all they can to halt same-sex marriages from being allowed come January. This even after the news earlier this month that a Judicial Circuit of Florida Judge denied Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request for an extended stay on a federal judge’s ruling…
And here we go… After months of speculation and hinting and non answers, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush announced on Tuesday morning that he’s starting an exploratory run for the Presidency of the United States of America. As all pols do nowadays, Bush took to social media to announce his…
Florida For Care, the group that put together a bipartisan Blue Ribbon Committee to dictate regulatory standards had the medical marijuana amendment passed back in November, is hosting a couple of conferences they’ve dubbed “The Future of Medical Marijuana in Florida.” With Amendment 2 defeated in the polls in November,…
Pam Bondi just won’t leave gay marriage alone. Despite the growing consensus in the Sunshine State drifting toward marriage equality, the state’s top law official now is asking the country’s highest court to block same-sex-marriage next month — the latest move in Bondi’s campaign to keep Florida’s gay population from…
If you would like to read a heartbreaking story that will make you sad for the rest of the day, keep reading. Beautiful horses are getting sick and dying at the Masterpiece Equestrian Center in Davie because of some tainted feed. As of today, four horses have died since November…
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has always tried to look forward when it comes to his football team. Yet he’s very much been about aesthetic more than substance. Starting with the orange carpet and selling team stakes to C-list celebrities, all the the way through to those revolting new pseudo-pastiche…
On the second day of eighth grade in 1975, Teo Castellanos, a runty Puerto Rican kid in shiny new Pro-Keds, nervously scanned the hallways of Carol City Junior High between classes, on the lookout for his nemesis. The year before, a much bigger kid had approached from behind in drama…
Convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein’s right-hand woman, Debra Villegas, may be getting her prison time reduced, if a judge listens to the prosecution’s recommendation. Villegas received the maximum sentence of a decade in prison in 2010 for her role in Rothstein’s $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme. But prosecutors are recommending U.S…
While the current Florida governor is doing everything he can to hide his email exchanges, one former Florida governor just released a bunch of his to the public. And there can really be only one reason anyone would do this: so that he can be transparent as he gets ready…
The Sun-Sentinel’s Gary Stein is FED UP. Fed up with you dirty no-good life-inconveniencing protesters! You just don’t know how to protest properly! That is to say, you’re not a proper protester and you will never get anything done because GARY STEIN SAYS SO. And so, he took to his…
It has been five long years since reggae super-star Buju Banton was busted by law enforcement in a shady operation that resulted in a ten-year prison sentence. The Grammy winner — born Mark Myrie — has maintained his innocence, and as we documented in a 2012 feature, it appears Banton…
The Miami Dolphins are once again the mediocre soul-swallowing suck monster we’ve come to know them as thanks to a 41-13 shellacking at the hands of division rival New England Patriots. Ryan Tanehill was inconsistent (SHOCKING!), the offensive line terrible (NOOO), the defense abysmal (WHAAAT) and Joe Philbin clueless (YOU…
Elf on the Shelf. It was cute for a while, but any parent knows that it’s a pain in the hoo-ha to hide that sucker every night, and even if you do remember to put it somewhere, your elf scenarios will never live up to the ones on Pinterest. We…
The FBI has one of the flyest pads in South Florida with a brand-new, technologically advanced building in Miramar — and it wasn’t cheap. The stylish new digs cost $156 million, but don’t worry about that, taxpayers, because it was built to be environmentally-friendly and help the Bureau save on…
Evan Rowe is an adjunct professor of history at Broward College. See Update at end of text. There were two arrests. It just so happens that Christmas 2014 is coinciding with social tensions over both police brutality and treatment of the homeless population. That should make for an interesting scene…
SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. announced that CEO Jim Atchison is stepping down from his position come January. The company made its announcement on Thursday amid free-falling stocks and failing P.R. stemming from the popular documentary Blackfish, a film that exposes the dangers of keeping orcas in captivity. In addition, the company…
The City of Lake Worth has accepted the request of an atheist to give a “Satanic” invocation before an upcoming commission meeting. Atheist and blogger Chaz Stevens sent his request to the city last week, after news broke that Lake Worth’s mayor and a few commissioners had walked out during…
Back in 2010, then-Broward School Board member Stephanie Kraft and her husband, Mitchell, a former Tamarac city attorney, were arrested on unlawful compensation, bribery, and other charges. On Thursday, a Broward jury found Stephanie guilty of official misconduct. The verdict ends a corruption odyssey that began in 2007, when Stephanie…
It takes varying degrees of balls to sling any kind of drugs. Even your down-the-block teenaged weed hustler is working on some equation of eff-the-system brashness plus a healthy dose of stupidity. But to try to smuggle drugs into the Broward County Jail? That just might belong more to the…
The Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade takes place this Saturday night, and if you’re planning on going, this is your life-hack-guide to navigating the night. “The Greatest Show on H2O” aka “The World’s Most Watched Boat Parade” aka “Why Does A Boat Show Have Multiple Nicknames” is going with…
