For city officials, Hurricane Sandy was was like Fort Lauderdale’s real life The Day After Tomorrow. In October 2012, the category two storm whipped up 15-foot high waves that pummeled Fort Lauderdale’s coast. The tide breached the sea wall and flowed freely across A1A. The road was not passable, entire neighborhoods…
Much like the roaches that set up shop in your college apartment, the small cadre of Islamophobes that have infested South Florida for the last decade will. Not. Go. Away. David Rosenthal, a man convinced multiple members of the Broward Sheriff’s Office and Broward Public Schools are promoting Sharia law…
Through nearly six months of campaigning for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, former Bernie Sanders advisor Tim Canova hadn’t heard a peep from the presidential candidate. “I’ve had no contact with Bernie Sanders at all,” Canova told the Washington Post in February. (Sanders once tapped Canova to sit on a Wall…
For the last three years, Davia Bradshaw has fought to force her ex, former NFL linebacker Clinton Session, to pay child support on time and in full. Bradshaw and Session have a severely disabled, special-needs three-year-old daughter for whom Bradshaw cares in Pompano Beach. Bradshaw says that because of financial…
The Miami Heat are done playing basketball until the Dollar Tree starts selling Halloween decorations… How is a South Florida sports fan even to deal right now? It’s always a bitter reality-pill to swallow when the Heat seasons ends, but because of the way that injuries robbed the team of…
Fort Lauderdale’s City Commissioners have voted to to allow redevelopment of the Bahia Mar complex on Fort Lauderdale beach, and a final vote is scheduled for June 7. It’s been controversial: Two major public hearings about re-zoning the property — to allow a set of skyscrapers to be built on…
In 2011, the Malaysian company Genting paid $236 million to buy 14 waterfront acres in Miami that included The Miami Herald building. When a newspaper building is sold, that’s news. When the building is sold to a company looking to change state laws and move in on long-standing pari-mutuel businesses,…
Two intersections on Breakers Avenue received colorful facelifts over the weekend. A vibrant mosaic of shapes was painted onto the sidewalks by volunteers. The design at the intersection of Riomar Street is different sizes and colors of circles, the intersection at Terramar Street is different sizes and colors of squares…
There comes a point during every presidential race when the candidates stop feeling like candidates and begin to seem like the worst members of your extended family. They fight every night. They make mean comments about each other through lawyers and surrogates. Hell, you probably hear Donald Trump’s voice in…
Dogs can go on walks, tag along to brunch, and beg for scraps under the table naked. Most exist comfortably in society without any clothes — but not Ivana Kochanova’s 12-year-old Yorkshire terrier named Lilly. According to Kochanova, Lilly needs to be dressed at all times. If not, she grows anxious…
In 2012, Fort Lauderdale Police paradoxically arrested Michael Cunniff, now 33, for resisting arrest, without any underlying charges. In a lawsuit Cunniff later filed, he says he’d gotten locked out of his own home, and a neighbor had mistakenly called the cops, thinking there was some sort of disturbance. But Cunniff…
If you walk into Allpets Emporium in Davie to purchase a leash or bag of dog food, you’ll see the store is also selling animals you’d expect to encounter on a farm, or perhaps out in the wild. Recently, the selection included a pair of petite baby pigs, chickens in a…
On a Sunday afternoon one week before Easter 1999, Mark Williams pulled his SUV into the parking lot outside his estranged wife’s West Palm Beach apartment with his 11-year-old son Lamatra riding shotgun. For most of his life, Lamatra had shuffled between his mother and his grandmother, but this week…
Spanish River Boulevard is one of the main traffic arteries for students and faculty traveling to Florida Atlantic University. According to a report released by Cheap Car Insurance, it’s also the site of one of Florida’s most complained-about speed traps. Boca Raton Police lie in wait to ticket drivers at…
Last week, my colleague over at Miami New Times, Ryan Pfeffer, made the salient point that government agencies are responsible for killing nearly all the world’s memes. The “Harlem Shake” stopped being fun after your local DMV hate-shook its arms to Bauuer in 2013. And that was the Harlem Shake, a…
Over the weekend, as the media reported on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s chauvinist and sexist past, a dozen middle-aged and elderly women rallied for him in Broward, Florida’s most Democratic county. They’re not affiliated with the Trump campaign, but had nonetheless grown frustrated with the belief that all…
A 144-page deposition given by Seminole Gaming CEO James Allen April 27 in West Palm Beach has some interesting revelations. The deposition was taken because the Seminole Tribe is suing the state, claiming that competing racetrack casinos violated the Seminoles’ right to exclusively offer certain card games. Currently, the Seminoles…
Catherine Uden, secretary for the Surfrider Foundation of Broward County, has spent much of the last month trying to stop an informal beach party. During “Floatopia” events, thousands of revelers take to the sea in inflatable tubes and proceed to drink heavily. After a Floatopia in Miami Beach last month,…
The website Politico hustled out a story today with this news flash: HEY! THE SEMINOLES MAKE A LOT OF MONEY! With the cat out of the bag, the tribe dropped a lawsuit it had filed just two days before to keep the information from going public. Back in 2010 when…
Less than three weeks ago the Miami Heat found themselves in a similar situation; on the verge of elimination headed into Game 6, unsure if this would be the last day of their 2015-16 season, and a shell of the former revamped team that thunder-punched opponents post-All Star break. There…
Of the 42 states and one city (Washington D.C.) that maintain Pre-K programs in America, the State of Florida manages to spend less on preschool care than almost all of them, according to a report released yesterday by Rutgers University’s National Institute of Early Education Research. Of the 43 areas…
By 2045, sea level is expected to rise at least a foot. In South Florida, where most land sits five feet above current sea level, homes and roads are expected to start flooding more frequently. It’s only a matter of time, scientists and economists warn, before it becomes so unbearable…
