The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times’ crack research department using a highly scientific algorithm (i.e., calculating the mean number of these you can look at before getting misty)…
Your world champion Miami Heat have hit up their own version of the internet viral dance craze “Harlem Shake.” LeBron James tweeted it out Thursday evening as a “King James and Dwyane Wade production.” And it is glorious. It has all the ingredients of pure unadulterated awesome: LeBron dressed as…
Cops entered a home in West Palm Beach after neighbors complained of a strong odor. When police entered the home Thursday morning, they found hundreds of empty cans of cat food strewn around the yard in the 800 block of Sunset Road. They also discovered a large number of cats…
The Daily Look At This! is our daily video and/or gif of the day. According to Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, Donald Trump was approached back stage of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon by a guy who called himself Donald Trump’s biggest fan. It wasn’t until later that Donald Trump realized…
Last June, police got a call that a man had beat and choked a woman he allegedly forced into prostitution. When cops caught up with the man — 34-year-old Robert Burton — they pulled him over. He had three women and a little kid riding with him in the vehicle at…
After Florida Atlantic University students flooded her office and staged a sit-in, university president Mary Jane Saunders agreed under pressure to hold a forum to discuss the planned sale of stadium naming rights to private prison operator GEO Group. But Saunders cherry-picked the moderator — and the political science professor…
Earlier this week, we told you about former Chicago Bull, former children’s book author, and current sometimes hanger around in bars of South Florida, Dennis Rodman, leading a magical mystery tour to North Korea with a camera crew and a couple of Harlem Globetrotters. No, this was not a trippy…
On Monday, cops raided the home of Cathy Jordan, president of the Florida Cannabis Action Network, and seized all her pot after a government employee who was visiting a neighbor spotted some marijuana plants on her property. Turns out, Jordan has Lou Gehrig’s disease and uses the marijuana as treatment…
The student organizers behind the protests at Florida Atlantic University are currently prepping for a high-noon showdown Q&A Friday with school President Mary Jane Saunders. The topic on the table is the administration’s decision to sell off the Owls’ stadium naming rights to the GEO Group, one of the largest…
Tuesday, March 5, is the first day of the legislative session for Florida lawmakers. And rabble-rousers are not letting it go unnoticed. People affiliated with a progressive group called Awake the State, whose emphasis is on protecting middle-class families, intend to rally at 5 p.m. outside the Supervisor of Elections,…
FAU’s tone-deaf decision to grant global private prison operator GEO Group naming rights to the school’s athletics stadium has turned into a public relations disaster. But it may yet prove to be a teachable moment — for school administrators as much as for students.See also:-FAU Is a $6 million Whore-Inside…
Everett Wilkinson, portly, nervous, and drenched in Polo cologne, is a man of many titles. In the past year, the New York Times has called him “Chairman of the Florida Tea Party” and a “Tea Party leader.” To CNN, he’s “Chairman of the South Florida Tea Party.” The National Journal,…
By just about any measure, Congress is at its lowest point in history. Only 9 percent of the country has a favorable view of the 535 men and women who make up the bicameral body. One poll even revealed that they’re less popular than cockroaches, traffic jams, and that ultimate…
Former Miami Dolphins cornerback Vontae Davis wanted to tell his 154,955 Twitter followers that current Miami Dolphins cornerback, and current free agent, Sean Smith has been talking to the Kansas City Chiefs about possibly signing with them. As it turns out, NFL free agency doesn’t get kicked off until March…
Last week, we told you about how Tim Tebow was slated to speak at gay-hating, Muslim-hating, Jew-hating Texas preacher Robert Jeffress’ megachurch but then dropped out of doing so after suddenly realizing Jeffress was such a hateful dude. But the First Baptist Dallas Church pastor ain’t sitting idly by while…
The Daily Look At This! is our daily video and/or gif of the day. As he did just a few nights ago, LeBron James decided to fool around during Heat pregame warmups before their game against the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night, and he threw down another filthy Sledgehammer of…
You know, we here at New Times are always looking for ways to spit, polish, and shine up our sites to provide you with a better news-seeking experience. We know, that makes us really awesome, but beyond that, it makes you awesome for keeping up with us. Where can you…
Ah, identity theft. The scourge of our web-retail purchasing nation and a damned pain in the ass to try to fix. South Florida is the mecca of identity theft. Because, of course it is! And now, for the second straight year, we’ve got a monkey-fisted death grip on the number-one…
The Sacramento Kings putting up 129 points on the Miami Heat at the Triple-A and forcing two overtimes is as absurd as IKEA selling meat. And yet, there it is. The Kings came into Miami’s house, put their feet up on the table, ate all the food, and scratched their…
A leading supporter of West Palm Beach City Commission candidate Shanon Materio has warned voters that a Materio loss will expose the city to the danger of having an Operating Thetan (member of the Church of Scientology) in a position of leadership. Not only that, the warning goes, the miscreant’s…
Up north this weekend, they did that thing with the cars, a whole lot of them, going vroom vroom, around and around and around and around, in the big wide circle, and everyone cheering for five minutes and then they drink MGD, and country music and America and white people…
Though a proposed ban on Broward County pit bulls was shelved last night, if the legislation reemerges in some form — and actually passes — the prohibition on the dog wouldn’t be anything unusual. In 1989, Miami may have been one of the first communities to ban pit bulls –…
