Ricardo “Handsome Rick” Dunn was just starting out at LaSpada’s Hoagies when several bloody slices of roast beef sailed through the air and pelted his face. It was July 4, 2016. He was supposed to be making a sandwich. “You can’t arc it when you throw,” says Handsome Rick. “It’s…
The Miami Dolphins opened their season with 28 minutes and 49 seconds of entertaining football against the Tennessee Titans. The Fins’ retooled offense seemed to be firing on all cylinders, the defense was holding its own, and the home-opener crowd seemed livelier than usual at Hard Rock Stadium. The Dolphins led 7-3 about a minute before halftime.
Pilot Mike Griffith and his colleagues at Atlas Air blame the firm that hires them, German delivery company, DHL, for depressing pay and even skirting American law. They claim that pilots who work for FedEx and UPS are paid $300,000 annually on average, while they receive half that. Benefits are better, too. DHL is based in Bonn. Its U.S. headquarters is in Plantation.
The Miami Dolphins are set to open their season this Sunday, September 9, at Hard Rock Stadium against the Tennessee Titans. This 1 p.m. game is the NFL equivalent of a midday nap or, if you will, the missionary position of the NFL.
With Art Basel just a few months off, galleries and art collectors are making plans for a really big show. But they better be careful. Art thieves have been known to visit. And big money paintings are everywhere. Take Art Miami, for instance. Back in 2014, when a tent belonging to…
He was known for his iconic film roles in Deliverance and Boogie Nights, as well as that unmistakable ’70s porn stache. Burt Reynolds’ agent announced today that the iconic film star and onetime Hollywood sex symbol died of a heart attack earlier today in Jupiter.
Maybe you want to throw down at a wizard-themed bar crawl this week. Or just take it easy with G-Eazy? We have options for you.
As he’s done nearly every day since his daughter Jaime died in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February, Fred Guttenberg spent this morning trying to push for gun control. Today he made his way to D.C. for Senate confirmation hearings on Brett Kavanaugh so he could ask Trump’s first Supreme Court pick where he stands on anti-gun-violence measures.
Earlier this year, New Times detailed the horrific case of Maria, a 24-year-old who fled persecution in Guatemala, gave birth to multiple American children, and wound up jailed in an ICE detention facility in South Florida after she was arrested while trying to pay a $150 traffic fine. Speaking from inside the detention center, Maria told New Times in Spanish that she was allowed to see her three young children only an hour or two each week and that her 9-year-old daughter was afraid she’d also be detained if she visited her mom.
The American Civil Liberties Union and a group of lawyers, fresh off kicking the city of Fort Lauderdale’s ass in court for banning food sharing with the homeless, is picking its next fight. In letters sent August 30 to Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, two among several cities in Broward County…
Click on a page called “Tea Party,” which boasts 94,000 followers and claims to be “the oldest and largest #TeaParty group on Facebook,” and you’ll find that one of the first posts this morning is a glaringly racist meme showing side-by-side photos of Melania Trump and a heavily Photoshopped Michelle Obama with the headline “Make the White House Beautiful Again.”
Use all of your senses this week. Hear Charlie Puth. See Amy Schumer. Taste some delicious coffee. Feel the vroom at a classic car show. These are the best things to do in South Florida this week, August 30 through September 5.
This year, record numbers of women across Florida are mounting campaigns for office, most of them progressives motivated by anti-Trump fervor and emboldened by the Women’s March. The so-called Pink Wave had its first real test Tuesday, Primary Day. And the early returns suggest the wave is real.
After last night’s primary results made it official, Floridians assumed newly minted GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis, a Confederate-flag bumper-sticker come to life, would run a wild, dog-whistling, and entirely Trumpian campaign against Democrat Andrew Gillum. But people perhaps didn’t expect DeSantis to start throwing around racial slurs this early…
In 2005, the Florida Legislature passed arguably the state’s most controversial law, Stand Your Ground. Now, whether or not cops can use that defense comes down to how the state’s highest court defines the word “person.”
The running joke among Florida political journalists is that the state’s inept Democratic Party runs a centrist from Tampa every single year for governor. The past few decades of Democratic gubernatorial candidates have been milquetoast centrists who love palling around with their Republican colleagues in Tallahassee and sharing stories about staggering home from bars during their time at FSU. Florida, it seems, does not create populist firebrands.
Brunch it up, wind down with some yoga, or catch a show this Labor Day Weekend.
Corey Jones was sitting in his broken-down car on the side of the highway in the middle of the night while he waited for a tow. Suddenly, Nouman Raja came barreling the wrong way up the off-ramp. Raja, an undercover cop in an unmarked white van, strode up to Jones’ window and demanded he put his “fuckin'” hands up.
Catch some outdoor art, rock to the greatest Prince tribute on planet Earth or sing along to “Jessie’s Girl” with Rick Springfield this week.
In September 2015, social studies teacher Fran Wernersbach was reassigned from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High while the school district investigated a slew of allegations against her, including that she’d ridiculed her class, sworn at administrators, and spread rumors about a student. She was told to contact the principal if she needed to set foot on campus, because her daughter was a student.
Rupert Tarsey was poised to make a fresh start in South Florida when his past caught up with him. Now he’s lashing back at a blogger who helped derail his attempt at a phoenix-like rise.
Broward School Board candidate Elijah Manley called board member Rosalind Osgood a “demonic entity” in a Twitter thread fired off Sunday afternoon. Manley also accused Osgood of violating election laws by intimidating voters and campaigning within 100 feet of the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center
