You might think that a national preserve would be used to, y’know, preserve some natural land and protected species. Naw, you crazy! Parks and preserves are used for extracting resources, silly! Tomorrow night is an important meeting to determine the fate of oil exploration in the Big Cypress National Preserve. …
President Barack Obama spoke to the nation during a prime time address where he spoke of the mass shooting in San Bernardino that left 14 people dead, and it’s possible connection to ISIL. This led to Obama calling on congress to address the threat of those on a no-fly list…
While the United Nations has been holding a climate change summit in Paris (November 30 to December 11), several indigenous leaders from Turtle Island (what you might call North America) voiced their frustration with the destruction that has brought us to this point. “We cannot live on the Moon or…
After many days of speculation and rumors, the Miami Marlins have made it official and are naming Barry Bonds their new hitting coach. Bonds, who has zero coaching experience, is currently the home run king, and considered one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. There’s also that whole steroid…
On Wednesday December 2, Nina “Dotti” Fuentes’s luxury loft on the outskirts of Wynwood, Miami’s thriving art district, is bustling. Her hair has been styled in flowy waves. Her white silk skirt suit has been pressed. Her make-up sits flawlessly on her her smiling face. Her stylist douses her hair…
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has announced that Uber drivers are independent contractors, not company employees. Overall, the ruling, announced by the Deparment’s executive director, Jesse Panuccio, is a big victory for the ride-sharing company, which would otherwise have to pay unemployment benefits for all its Florida drivers. “We…
Before you head out for the weekend to either hit up Art Basel or get as far away from it as humanly possible, you should know that the Broward Sheriff’s Office will be conducting a DUI checkpoint tonight in Pembroke Pines. BSO says the DUI enforcement operation will be going…
The Pembroke Pines Police Department have arrested a man for making a bomb threat to the Pembroke Pines Social Security Office Thursday morning. According to an arrest affidavit, police responded after the bomb threat was made over the phone. The man, identified by Pembroke Pines Police as 42-year-old Angel Rodriguez,…
Wellington pill mill “kingpin” Jeff George has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the overdose death of Joey Bartolucci in 2009. George, along with his twin brother Chris, rode the pill mill craze from several years back and became overnight millionaires through their pain pills empire. On February 27,…
Kenneth Moore, the proprietor of Fort Lauderdale bar and bike shop Two &, owns a small business and needs the parking area in an alley adjacent to it to operate. “We don’t allow any parking there, except deliveries, or people working for us,” he tells New Times. Furthermore, “not having customer…
Broward Sheriff’s Office says they’ve arrested three men connected to last week’s shooting at Fort Lauderdale’s Club BAM that left one Pompano Beach man dead. According to a BSO report, homicide detectives arrested Awince Lasseur, 27, Peudritto Joseph, 32, and Dieuphen Joseph, 27 on attempted murder charges for “their role in the…
Burning Man, the epic party in the middle of Nevada is a killer event … but unfortunately a few too many thousand miles away for most of us to enjoy. But you can thank Bram Portnoy, co-founder of the Edge Art Fair, for bring its anything-goes spirit and a dose…
Donald Trump, the current leading GOP candidate, is known for insulting people on Twitter and getting into epic beefs with journalists, celebrities, and even utility companies. But his latest Twitter rival comes in the form of Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen. Teigen, who is known for her sharp wit, instigated…
Local activist Robin Merrill has made it her mission to have the City of Fort Lauderdale abolish Columbus Day and have it replaced by Indigenous People’s Day. Merrill, a locate artist who has worked with the city on numerous art projects, says she’s been moved by her spiritual believes and her…
First, we had “cool pope” Francis espousing all his liberal ideas like not judging gay people and caring about climate change. (Read his encyclical, Laudato Si, here.) Now we have Miami’s Catholic archbishop suggesting we welcome poor refugees. In an opinion piece about the Christmas spirit, Archbishop Thomas Wenski compared…
In October, officers with the Broward Sheriff’s Office stopped Herbert Smith because he was driving a car with tinted windows. When an officer checked the 23-year-old’s license, it was found to be suspended. A search of the car turned up a magazine filled with bullets. For other people, being in…
Chaz Stevens has been something of a gadfly in Broward County for a good decade, but he went national two years ago, when he made a very public point about the separation of church and state. He claimed to be a Satanist and applied to place a “Festivus Pole” made…
It’s that time of year in Fort Lauderdale where we get all of the White Christmas everyone else in the country gets to have, with none of the every day hassles of having to wear eight layers of clothing, and shoveling mounds of snow from our driveways. It’s the 53rd…
Four months after the Coast Guard called off the search for two boys missing at sea, the family of one of the boys, Perry Cohen, has begun a non-profit foundation under his name that will promote boat safety and offer scholarships. In a news release, the boy’s family says that…
In February, then-14-year-old Deyab-Houssein Wardani, a Muslim-American of Lebanese and Moroccan descent, walked into his ninth-grade French class at Cypress Bay High wearing a hoodie. In what was apparently a poor attempt at humor, teacher Maria Valdes called the student a “raghead Taliban.” Over the next few days, she would…
The Miami Dolphins were slammed by the New York Jets on Sunday, to the tune of 38-20. But some foul news was percolating even before the Dolphins went out and played miserably against their hated rival. According to NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport, Ndamukong Suh gave his defensive teammates a pre-game speech where he…
If you’re planning to hit the beach for some day-after-Thanksgiving — or any time this weekend for that matter — you might need to stay out of the water. The National Weather Service has extended a coastal hazard warning for coastal areas that include a high risk of rip currents as…
