Twenty-nine-year-old Rachel Alexander woke up on Saturday morning in Delray Beach to the horrific news of a mass shooting at an Orlando gay club. As a member of the LGBTQIA community, Alexander had frequented Pulse nightclub a handful of times, most recently about a year ago. She later found out…
Ever since the New Times pointed out that several streets in a historically black Hollywood neighborhood in Hollywood are named for former Confederate generals (and one member of the Ku Klux Klan,) activists have been fighting to have them renamed. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the debate has brought neo-Confederates out of the…
A week ago, it was all high-fives and ass-slaps for those Miami Heat fans that partake in the #TeamPetty alternative lifestyle by rooting for the team that’s going up against formerly-beloved, now-hated LeBron James. Now those same people are running to CVS to refill their prescriptions. Today, the morning after watching the…
Tim Canova, the longtime Wall Street critic and onetime Bernie Sanders adviser now running to unseat Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, has now raised more than $2 million dollars since announcing his candidacy in January. It’s a campaign haul that is sure to flummox his critics, who…
Heads up to people from Kendall who head north to Hollywood: some politicians are trying to crack down on coolers, tents, and umbrellas so that you’ll stop coming to their beach. Yesterday’s commission meeting in Hollywood, which is at least 34 miles from Kendall, ended in a vote to tentatively…
Joe Kaufman is running against Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, which encompasses parts of Hollywood, Hallandale Beach, and select sections of Miami-Dade county. On Sunday, he put out a call to shut down “every Florida radical Muslim institution” — though he couldn’t say how he’d…
Now that the NBA Finals are just about over, lets check in on the Marli…OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO STANTON?! Partially because the team has managed to tread water, and mostly because most of you don’t care about the Miami Marlins, Giancarlo Stanton’s horrific slump has flown more under…
Not long after the news broke that 49 people had died in a mass shooting at an Orlando gay club, Ghazal Tajalli began seeing the posts appearing in her Facebook feed again. Just as had happened after the San Bernardino shootings, people were blaming Islam and suggesting that Muslims be…
A high school debate teacher ran a food concession out of her classroom, gave grades of “incomplete” to students who didn’t meet fundraising targets, and pushed an expensive summer camp run by her husband, according to a new internal report by Broward County Public Schools’ chief auditor. The report…
Police work is inherently difficult. Cops need to balance competing cases, are occasionally threatened, and must make decisions each day that will permanently affect the people they deal with. It’s a job that requires level-headedness, emotional resolve, and vast amounts of bravery. The job also requires getting addresses right. According…
After Robert Taylor learned that seven of his friends and acquaintances had died in the mass shooting that took place at an Orlando gay club early Sunday morning, he didn’t go outside for two full days. Then, on Tuesday afternoon, he decided it was time. The first place that he…
As a 6-year-old kid, Lily Capeheart would catch lizards in her West Palm Beach backyard. Then one day in 2006, she tried to hypnotize one. She had seen a show on Animal Planet in which a woman hypnotizes an alligator by flipping it over and rubbing its belly. Capeheart figured…
“The current mood in Orlando has been a bit on edge and somber,” says resident Hannah Swope. “We recognize the severity of the tragic event; however, it seems hard to believe this took place in our own backyard. Although many people are worried, the focus is primarily on expressing condolences…
Shoplifting is a crime. But it’s not punishable by death. And yet, after Eduardo Prieto Jr. was caught stealing DVDs for his estranged children from a Hallandale Beach Walmart in September 2012, he was ultimately shot dead by Hallandale Beach Police officers, due to what his family now claims were…
Tensions are high in Wilton Manors after the massacre of 50 clubgoers at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning. People from the city of 12,000 have donated blood, signed a petition banning assault weapons, and donated to Equality Florida, a nonprofit collecting money for victims and their families…
Brian Krebs went to East Grand Rapids High School with American Pie screenwriter Adam Herz. According to a 2011 New Times story, Krebs was a rowdy, drunken sod of sorts back in the day, so much so that when Herz sat down to write the classic 1999 bro-comedy, Herz reportedly based the…
Dog paternity is a contentious issue at animal shelters. Often times, pets are taken in with little knowledge of their ancestry, leaving staff to assume a pet’s breed on its looks. Mary Steffen, director of the Humane Society of Broward County, explains that this guesswork can lead to problems since…
After four straight seasons of watching the Miami Heat play basketball deep into the month of June, it’s now been two years in a row of a large majority of Heat fans filling that space with rooting against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. The latter is…
Fort Lauderdale can be a rowdy place. Drink too much at Cafe Martorano, and you might end up with Journey lyrics tattooed on your neck the next morning. Drink too much at Blondies, and you could potentially get put in a sleeper-hold. But while Fort Lauderdale does have a longstanding…
Jaclynn Moskow was excited to have been invited to the November 2014 taping of Poker Night in America, which airs on CBS Sports. Moskow, a 31-year-old doctor from South Florida who began playing big-money poker in 2013, noted that her emailed invitation from the show’s creative director, Nolan Dalla, carried…
Medical Marijuana is legal in 19 states—not including Florida. But that hasn’t stopped one Fort Lauderdale tech company from reaping the benefits of the booming cannabis industry. BioTrackTHC, a 6-year-old software firm, devised a comprehensive “seed-to-sale” marijuana inventory program that uses an identification number on barcodes to track marijuana from…
You already knew Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade were normal-people wealthy, but did you know they are worldwide-famous-athlete-in-any-sport-wealthy? Well, you do now. Forbes has released their annual The World’s 100 Highest-Paid Athletes study and Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh made the cut. Wade was the 33rd highest paid athlete in the world in 2016…
