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Welcome to Coral Springs, the best neighborhood in Broward County. I’m not just saying that; I’ve lived the dream for 20-plus years. You might be saying to yourself, “Hey, I’ve been to Coral Springs — you’re crazy.” Well, you would be right — craaaaazy about my love for the city…

At the end of a leafy, dead-end street in Coconut Grove, past actor Christian Slater’s new digs and the sprawling grounds of Hollywood director David Frankel’s home, sit mounds of rubble. Just a few days ago, this was one of Miami’s grandest, most envied private homes: the five-acre, 26,000-square-foot du…

The first thing cops noticed was the footprints. They began near the entrance to the expensive oceanfront townhouse: size-12 sneaker outlines, stamped in blood. They wound up a flight of stairs to the second floor, across smooth white marble tiles, and around rich leather furniture. They led through the kitchen…

A Boca Raton man tried to sneak his girlfriend into the halfway house he was staying at by stuffing her into a duffel bag, like that tiny Chinese dude in the Ocean Eleven movies. The man, Jared Mustrat, had been staying at the Boca House, a sober-living halfway house for…

Just a month or so back, Fort Lauderdale’s black community was good and mad about what’s in a name. The moniker in question was “Sistrunk Boulevard,” the strip that runs through the city’s historically black neighborhood. The debate pitted white yuppies in a neighboring gentrifying area against an older African…

National Geographic made an interactive map recently to show what exactly would happen to the earth if all the ice melted. And good news, everybody, we’d all drown! Other big cities, like New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, and London would also be screwed. But only partially. Florida, on the…

Vitaly Zdorovetskiy — who New Times profiled a few months ago — made a name for himself on YouTube with Jackass- / Borat-style pranks. With stunning confidence and a dose of frat-boy humor, he got internet-famous by filming around South Florida and teaching people “How to Get Girls to Kiss…

Parents upset about a history textbook that they say emphasizes Islam more than other religions protested outside Volusia County school district headquarters. The parents claim that the book contains too much information about Islam and not enough about Christianity and other religions. There was even a call by organizers asking…

If you haven’t already, add coral snakes to your mental list of Florida critters you don’t want to mess with. Hard to miss thanks to their distinct yellow, black, and red pattern, the snakes — micrurs fulvius to all you nerds out there — are usually found hanging around the…

Brian Warner grew up in Fort Lauderdale, put on makeup, started a band, and proceeded to shock conservative people around the world as Marilyn Manson. Over the years, he continued to surprise people by writing books, appearing in Bowling for Columbine, speaking eloquently, and getting beautiful chicks to go out…

Anonymous will be hitting up Hollywood’s Arts Park at Young Circle today as part of a global protest. Starting in Washington, D.C., and all international parts in between, the group will be protesting issues ranging from NSA surveillance to government corruption. The theme of today’s protest is to “remind this…

Out of the shadows and into the classroom, Palm Beach State College students who are undocumented but whose immigration status is unresolved are pressing the school to allow them to pay in-state tuition rates. The move comes on the heels of decisions by two other area schools to arrange such…

Obviously, the whole, like, point of newspapers is to keep the powers-that-be in check, so when the media criticize police forces or government agencies, there’s not always warm fuzzies going on between them. But yesterday, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel came out swinging after the Sun Sentinel published an October 27…