In case you missed it, the Miami Dolphins got thoroughly pulverized with a sock full of pennies by the New England Patriots yesterday to the tune of 28-0, mercifully bringing the 2012 campaign to an end and ensuring yet another 7-9 season. Yet, on Black Monday — the Monday following…
Trying to find out what’s going on in the Town of Jupiter’s quest to purchase land owned by Business Development Board of Palm Beach County CEO Kelly Smallridge’s husband, Mark Smallridge, is like playing Whac-A-Mole: Nail down the answer to one question and another pops up to take its place.See…
Right out of the gate, let’s set the obvious into stone: Don’t drink and drive. At all. Ever. Especially tonight. It’s not only dumb but expensive. Worse, all your friends will find out. They’ll laugh at you. But let’s say you have a friend. This friend has a big New…
So, it’s New Year’s Eve. And yes, it’s 9 a.m. But we can only assume that you’re already wasted. And this — this is a good thing. What’s terrible, however, is that you’re lost somewhere amid the throngs of corporate America, hammered drunk, perhaps irritated these pussies you work with…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital Sunday after doctors found a blood clot related to a concussion she suffered ten days ago. Earlier this month, Clinton was sick with a stomach virus when she fainted and banged her head, causing a concussion and opening…
Here’s a nice little news item to warm your cockles before kicking off the last weekend of 2012: Batman visited the kids at Joe DiMaggio’s Children’s Hospital on Friday morning. The Dark Knight came complete with costume, the Bat Mobile and, of course, Robin, to lift the spirits of some…
Eva Leslie Weinberg, 52, was arrested Thursday by a Broward Sheriff’s deputy and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after she allegedly got into a domestic dispute with her son and then pointed a gun at him. Weinberg, it turns out, has been employed with the Broward Sheriff’s…
It’s easy to look at the bizarre and terrible history of Nazi Germany and focus solely on the millions of victims. Or to make a fetish of the perpetrators and inadvertently honor their crimes. But what I found most compelling in the Compass Center exhibit “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945″…
Beginning January 7, the Broward County Transit will be cutting the east-west 595 Express bus fares from $2.35 to $1.75, with monthly passes at $58. The move was made mainly to boost ridership, which averaged 80 riders a day on the Sunrise to Fort Lauderdale 595 Express route. In contrast,…
Brace yourself. Here comes the Most Florida Thing You’ll Read All Day!: Hernando County Deputies arrested a North Florida woman after the 9-year-old child in her care ate some crack cocaine. Kimberly Losurdo is facing child abuse charges after fire rescue officials were called to her home on a report…
Dwyane Wade has been suspended by the NBA for one game, without pay, for supposedly kicking another player in the balls. On Wednesday night in Charlotte, the Miami Heat were busy dismantling the Bobcats midway through the fourth quarter when Ramon Sessions fouled Wade. As he reached in for the…
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., burning stacks of old Broward phone books and reading the ashes).5. Hollywood 104.7 FM “The Jam.” Hollywood Police have been busy trying…
The first installment of our highlight reel from the area blogosphere featured everything from legal scholarship to sex toys. Round two keeps the quality flowing, with a diverse selection from all over the ideological map. Here are laser-guided muckrakes and movement funeral oratory, community issues, and court cases. If anything,…
This one’s embarrassing. Chris Siegert, quite possibly the most failed social media actor in internet history, has many problems. One of them being he makes model Ghostbuster cars — WHILE ON VACATION — that flash: “Ghostbusters.” Another one being that he’s tried hundreds of times to start conversations on Twitter…
Some robbery victims come home to find a missing television, or computer, or DVD player, or jewelry. Others have their furniture taken, while others have even come home to find their pet gone. And then others come home to find their driveway’s been stolen. Yup.At least, that’s what happened to…
Hey, Florida! Looks like we’re number one in yet another dubious category! Just a few weeks ago, we became number one in most concealed weapons permits (just days before Newtown, no less!). And now, it looks like we’re number one in sending convicted inmates to death row. Most concealed weapons and…
Nely Limeira, 73, of Oakland Park fell victim to a lottery scam that took advantage of her kindness. And now authorities are on the lookout for two women who perpetrated the shakedown that robbed Limeira of $12,300 in cash and jewelry. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Limeira was approached…
In 2001, twentysomething Nicole Jaquis, who’d grown up down here in Wellington and then moved to Boston, left her job and joined some friends who were making a documentary in India about the Kumbh Mela — one of the biggest gatherings on planet Earth, which you’ve probably never heard of. After…
The internet nearly stopped existing yesterday when sports blog Deadspin revealed what could possibly be the new Miami Dolphins team logo. Deadspin credited fan site DolfansNYC for leaking the possible logo, and Dolphins fans everywhere chimed in. Mostly, they hated it. And, if the leak is indeed the real logo,…
Thwack! Thwack! The three men hack their way through the Guatemalan jungle, one machetazo at a time. A thick canopy of kapok trees filters out all but the faintest stream of emerald light. As they reach the ruined temple, each man fires up his torch. The youngest, a college student,…
It was midday at Miami International Airport when a scraggly, intense kid with a face like a razor blade unfurled a small rug and knelt, forehead to the floor, and then performed the Muslim rite of salah. “God is great,” he murmured. “God is great.” The sounds of the chants…
Two women, Ashlie Alewine, 22, and Nakilya Latisha Wright, 18, nearly pulled off the heist of the century when they robbed the InnPlace Hotel on Fifth Avenue South in Naples. They took money from the register. And they made a clean getaway. That is, until one of them accidentally ass-dialed the very hotel…
