The latest edition of our annual Best Of Broward-Palm Beach issue is up and live, and it is chock-full o’ awesomeness. From the best dive bars to the best places to meet single men and ladies to the best local restaurants in town and even your readers’ choice votes, it’s…
Everyone’s seen the moms who treat their children like really high-maintenance pomeranians and drag them around shopping malls on leashes. That is, however sadly, a thing. What’s definitely not a thing is branding your children with a hot stick like cattle. Nope. Not even a little bit. That’s what Port…
“Apres moi le deluge,” Madame de Pompadour supposedly said, shortly before the people of France rose up and removed her head: “After me, the flood.” See also: – WPB Sea Level Rise Symposium Keynoter: “There Will Be Catastrophe” South Florida’s coastal cities are beginning to say the same. But one…
A West Palm Beach psychic claims the $10,000 in cash a client had given her to pray over was burned up at a church altar. The psychic, Sonya Gallego, was given cash after she promised the client that the money would be returned once it had been prayed over in…
Gay rights advocates have been arguing for a while now that marriage equality and overall rights are not just a matter of allowing the LGBT community to be treated like all others but also a matter of the economy for the state.And now a brief put together by the national…
Miami Heat President Pat Riley held his annual State-of-the Heat address Thursday morning. And, as expected, he was a bit on the ornery side after his team got throttled in the NBA Finals last week. Still, Riley was Riley, showing his resolve and determination as a dynasty-maker, and dropped several…
The latest edition of our annual Best of Broward-Palm Beach issue is up and live, and it is chock-full o’ awesomeness. From the best dive bars to the best places to meet single men and ladies to the best local restaurants in town and even your readers’ choice votes, it’s…
Apparently, laser pointers are huge problem for both local law enforcement and the FBI. Nope, not your high school physics teacher who just realized she had a red LED light on her forehead the entire time some smart-ass was asking when the class would be “learning about lasers.” Not your…
Cops arrested Mandy Dawson, Broward County’s first black female legislator, and took her to jail in Daytona Beach last Friday. It was, hopefully, the last stop in the downhill slide for the woman who represented central Broward County for 16 years. Dawson improperly took money from disgraced Hollywood lobbyist and…
Stephen Brennan, a Brit, teacher, and soccer fanatic, will tell the World Cup’s craziest moments over the next few days. This is the sixth installment. Read the others here. The Battle of Santiago, Chile versus Italy, First Round 1962 The so called “Battle of Santiago” in the ’62 tournament was,…
The owner of the Village at Gulfstream Park has been granted permission to build a 21-story, 182-unit luxury condo atop a parking garage next to the mall at the pari-mutuel casino. The project will cost $92 million and is expected to bring an estimated $523,000 a year in property taxes,…
Grab your controller and heed the call of duty. It is time to read about the best places to eat brunch, drink beer, and party until dawn in Broward and Palm Beach counties. In the pages that follow, you’ll find more than 200 of our picks for the best artists,…
The Florida Department of the Lottery — the department that hands out and handles billions of dollars — apparently can’t keep its books straight. This according to an audit conducted by the office of the state auditor general, David W. Martin. As first reported by FloridaWatchDog.org, the survey found that…
In what at one point had a bleak outlook turned into a symbolic victory for Fort Lauderdale’s LGBT community when commissioners approved a marriage-equality resolution Tuesday night. The measure, sponsored by openly gay Commissioner Dean Trantalis, is nonbinding and asks Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature to make gay…
Stephen Brennan, a Brit, teacher, and soccer fanatic, will tell the World Cup’s craziest moments over the next few days. This is the fifth installment. Read the others here. England versus West Germany, Semifinal 1990 Since winning the World Cup on home soil in 1966, there had been little for…
In 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a huge legal settlement with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that meant the agency needed to decide whether to put 757 different animals on the endangered species list. They bragged, using animals that would pull at people’s heartstrings, touting photos of…
Fort Lauderdale is like a strange foreign land. If you enter without knowing its ways, you’ll be chewed up and spit out, bloody and naked. (Bloody and naked was actually the third runner-up as Fort Lauderdale’s slogan.) But if you learn your way around, where to go and what to…
Porn is going mainstream, sure, but is straight-edge Palm Beach County ready for a former skin-flick actor to sit on its School Board? As outrageous as the idea might sound, David Mech — a ex-porn actor and director who’s been working as a math tutor in recent years — has…
Sheldon Adelson, the mega-rich casino magnate who last week donated $2.5 million to the anti-Amendment 2 group Drug Free Florida, also happens to have his own medical research group. And according to that group’s own studies, medical marijuana has been shown to aid those who suffer from multiple sclerosis. See…
Palm Beach Gardens city leaders greenlighted the bulldozers early this month, cheering on the clearing of Briger Forest, the last major tract of undeveloped land along I-95 in Palm Beach County. Jobs! Progress! Townhomes! But as night follows day, local environmental activists soon replied with a renewed assault on the…
A City Fort Lauderdale measure asking commissioners to openly support marriage equality and gay rights is in danger of not having enough votes to pass Tuesday. The measure, sponsored by openly gay Commissioner Dean Trantalis, is nonbinding. However, it would speak loudly for city officials to openly support marriage equality…
When someone thinks “government corruption,” one readily thinks “FLORIDA!” But as it turns out, our fair state of supreme malfeasance has been tanking a little in the rankings. At least, according to one study. Researchers at the University of Hong Kong and Indiana University studied more than 25,000 convictions of…
