Back in 2009, during Barack Obama’s first inauguration, the Lesbian and Gay Band Association became the first LGBT musical organization to participate in a presidential inaugural parade. Members of the South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble participated in the 2009 parade and will be doing so again this time around. Of…
A fire broke out at the Hope Medical & Wellness clinic in the 2800 block of Hollywood Boulevard on Christmas night. Now Hollywood police, fire rescue, and the state fire marshal are joining together to investigate a possible connection to the fire and a cryptic message scrawled on the clinic’s…
Throughout the early part of the NBA season, the men of the Miami Heat played basketball games like they were simply hoarding their fucks for the impending Mayan Apocalypse. Their defense was terrible. Their shooting, erratic. Their desire, seemingly lacking. But, since Christmas is a time of giving, the Heat…
As a way of wrapping up 2012, we reached out to the bloggers working the turf in Broward and Palm Beach for their favorite posts from the calendar year. Here is the first installment of what we received. Below you’ll find a few lines from the writers themselves about why…
Most people won’t notice a difference. Really, who would? The bylines hide between the headlines and the article, and besides, the entire intent of journalism isn’t the writers but the stories. So, maybe, people won’t notice. But they should. In the wake of Newsweek’s last issue and the Miami Herald’s…
It’s Christmas Day. Which means family, gifts, egg nog, and Miami Heat basketball. Lately the Heat have had to face off against the Lakers during the X-Mas Day Showdown. But this year, the NBA deemed it necessary to schedule a rematch of the NBA Finals (Remember that? When the Heat…
Merry Christmas, South Florida! It’s 304 manatees! The recent cold snap forced hundreds of the sea cows to the FPL plant located east of State Road 7 right off Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The herd sought refuge from the suddenly chilly weather in the plant’s discharge of warm water. So…
Christmas Day. Now is the time to spend time with family, read a book, listen to Christmas jams, open gifts, and, if you’re a South Florida celebrity living in a postmodern age, reach for your Twitter feed to dispatch the good tidings. Because apparently it’s not Christmas unless it’s an…
Listen close, junior terrorists. How do you, aspiring distributor of chaos and mayhem, orchestrate something that will stir things up — really get your jihad on — when you’re stuck in the middle of suburbia, without a car, money, and your mom blows? Well, al-Qaeda is here to help. And…
Well, it happened. You’ve crossed into the Red Zone. We know, we know, you meant to get around to it yesterday, but TNT threw on a back-to-back showing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended cut) and you ate all those cookies. Now it’s 9 am on Christmas Eve…
With Christmas Day fast approaching, so many of us are still expecting that package to arrive via mail just in time. Some are waiting for that box from Amazon. Others are waiting for that package of clothes ordered from the J Crew catalog. And others are waiting for two kilos of cocaine…
It took them exactly one week after the Newtown tragedy to come up with things to say, but the NRA finally held their much ballyhooed press conference Friday to let all of America know that guns are totally awesome so don’t stop buying them, please. NRA Head Honcho Wayne LaPierre…
You may or may not be aware of this, but other parts of the country go through what scientists call “winter weather” this time of year.And now it appears that South Florida will be experiencing this phenomenon, probably for like a day though.The National Weather Service has issued a wind…
The local personalities, egos, and public figures who swung through the news cycle this week, ranked by New Times’ crack research department using through a highly scientific algorithm (i.e. cocktail napkins and a Boggle board). 5. Congressman Allen West. The clock might be running out for Congress’ preeminent Tea Party…
Pretty goddamned embarrassing when Palm Beach County’s premier performing arts showcase chooses to break the law with impunity rather than do right by its employees. But for 12 years now Palm Beach’s Kravis Center has engaged in an illegal campaign of union busting that’s simmered like a boil on the county’s public…
It took more than six months to coax Diane Carle out of her home. Authorities had heard complaints for weeks about all the filthy cats roaming her front porch, and no one had seen inside her house — not ever. But when authorities finally obtained probable cause for animal cruelty…
“I’m dangerous,” 23-year-old Garrett Holeve warns as he bounces around a bedroom in his parents’ suburban, single-story house, throwing punches and kicks. A pungent combination of protein-powered farts, dirty laundry, and ball sweat permeates the air. “I’ll hurt a guy real bad,” Garrett brags. “I’ll be covered in too much…
At 9 one Saturday morning in mid-August, David Parga threw back the barn doors at his Southwest Ranches farm to a surprise. Marco, one of his two horses, was gone. Parga’s first thought: Someone has stolen Marco — or maybe, by some measure of equine wizardry, Marco escaped. He was…
Scott Israel’s November win in the Broward County Sheriff’s race will probably mean a big shakeup at the area’s largest law enforcement agency. But it’s a labor dispute time-stamped from the sheriff-elect’s failed 2008 campaign for Al Lamberti’s job that might change daily business at departments across Florida. Jeffrey Stanley…
Ken Dandar doesn’t trust anybody. Not after all the spies searched his trash. Not after the interlopers dialed his office, pretending to be somebody else. Not after he took on Scientology in one of the biggest legal clashes in the church’s history. So when we called Dandar last week, he thought we were…
On Monday, we told you about the 40-foot sperm whale that washed ashore in Deerfield Beach. Turns out, a couple of dudes were jumping on top of and riding the whale as it died off the shore of Pompano Beach. And now a federal investigation has been launched to find…
Tensions have been high right here in Florida ever since the tragedy that unfolded in Newtown, Connecticut, last Friday. People are being arrested for bringing guns into schools, modified lockdowns are being enforced over bullets found on a school bus, and we’re learning that bulletproof backpacks are a thing, and…
