Protesters dressed in scuba gear, a polar bear costume, and as various sea creatures are gathering in Pinecrest near former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning’s house Thursday afternoon. President Obama is scheduled to have a fundraiser at Mourning’s home, and members of groups like 350 South Florida, the Center for…
Andy Amoroso, the first openly gay city commissioner in Palm Beach County, is leading the charge for a gay marriage demonstration this coming weekend. But the angle Amoroso is taking is unique. Instead of the usual call for gay rights, the city commish and countless others will try to reason…
The Chicago-based megachurch leader with serious ties throughout Florida and in Broward has lost his flock due to a sex scandal. Since the ’60s, Bill Gothard has been preaching a submit-to-authority brand of Bible that excoriates rock music and free thinking: Listen to your parents, obey your husband, toe the…
Speakeasies began sprouting up in the 1920s when a ban on alcohol prompted the sale of bootlegged liquor in clandestine bars. Nowadays your chances of stumbling into a speakeasy have significantly decreased, since Prohibition ended in the ’30s. But last Monday, Fort Lauderdale Police shut down the closest thing to…
Concerns about safety and economics are roiling the kava industry in Polynesia. Roots of the kava plant are used to make a mildly stimulating, euphoric beverage that has long been a cultural mainstay in the Pacific Islands and, more lately, a significant and remunerative export. But one type of plant…
Ever wanted to own Scottie Pippen’s lavish mansion with basketball court and putting green? If so, now’s your chance. The former Chicago Bulls star and Michael Jordan sidekick has put his Fort Lauderdale mansion on the market, and it’s a humdinger of a house for anyone who ever wanted to…
When Karina moved to Miami Beach from Eastern Europe in 2007, she used no nicotine, no alcohol, no drugs, nothing. Although she’d had a problem in her midteens with booze and MDMA, the 22-year-old was determined to begin her new life in America clean and sober. Soon after she arrived,…
A West Palm Beach man allegedly attacked another man with a scythe, which is pretty much the same kind of curved blade the Grim Reaper carries around to take you to the other side. Carlos Vasquez, 24, is now facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he…
Yesterday, we brought you the news on how the internet made it official that Downtown Fort Lauderdale was a kickass place. But today, we’re here to tell you that not just the downtown area is kickass but the whole of Fort Lauderdale is kickass. All of it. A new study…
The new I-595 reversible lanes will kick off at 2 p.m. on March 26, the Florida Department of Transportation has announced. To alleviate congestion, three sets of reversible lanes will move traffic east in the morning, then west in the evening. As a sort of test run, the lanes will…
Dania Beach Jai-Alai opened in the 1950s and was one of the first frontons to operate in the country. At its peak in the ’90s, the sport attracted thousands of spectators, but those numbers have significantly decreased as other gambling options (like horse and dog tracks) became available. Over the…
All of the aerospace experts in the world cannot find a missing jetliner here on Earth, but the sun? That’s big. We can find it! Yesterday, NASA announced it had chosen a company — United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colo. — to handle the launch of a solar orbiter…
A couple of bills that would force greyhound tracks to report dog injuries are making their way through the House and Senate. Meanwhile, the fight to add decoupling to the bills is also on the docket. If decoupling can get pushed through, it could virtually end greyhound racing in Florida…
Looks like the Florida Panthers’ latest proposal to Broward County has altered language that would basically screw over the county while they make the big dough, according to a rundown of the proposal by the Sun Sentinel. The first proposal the Panthers made at the beginning of the year had…
Steve Carell is attached to star as David Menasche, the Broward resident and former Coral Reef Senior High English teacher who was stricken with brain cancer and wrote a book about reconnecting with his former students. The rights to Menasche’s The Priority List: A Teacher’s Final Quest to Discover Life’s…
The internet has made official what we pretty much already knew: Downtown Fort Lauderdale is a kickass place. How kickass? According to Livability.com, it’s the seventh-best downtown in the U.S. The website is all about tracking down and ranking the best cities to live and work in, avoiding the obvious…
No single debate is as overstuffed with bloody history and hot feelings like the Israeli-Palestinian standoff. With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expected to unveil a plan to settle the century-long tug of war this spring, the heat is only rising. And now, stumbling into the picture, here comes…
The identity of the machete-wielding man who was shot and killed by a BSO deputy has been released by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Homicide detectives say Deosaran Maharaj, 51, was the man who allegedly threatened a woman with a machete and was later shot and killed by BSO Deputy Paul…
A group calling itself Floridians for Immigration Enforcement (or, FLIMEN) is putting on the full-court press to get legislators to derail HB 851, a bill that would allow all students who have studied in Florida for three consecutive years the opportunity to pay in-state tuition at a state college or…
If you’ve had a few too many green beers later tonight, keep those keys in your pocket and call AAA, which is offering free towing tonight for impaired drivers. The company’s “Tow to Go” program is offered throughout Florida and Georgia on big drinking holidays such as New Year’s and…
United for Care campaign manager Ben Pollara announced in January that enough signatures had been collected to force a vote on whether to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. He stopped gathering petitions and started working to get voters to the polls to vote in favor of the constitutional amendment this…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
