The always excellent Elgin Jones of the South Florida Times landed a video interview of Norris Wiggins, the promoter the ill-fated 2010 Mango Festival, which failed to deliver musical acts or to sell enough tickets to satisfy sponsors and vendors.As you can see, Wiggins ducked the question about whether race…
What do you give the person who has everything — except critical thinking skills? Why, you head over to the website of Fort Lauderdale-based Coral Ridge Ministries and snatch up a copy of its newly released DVD, Socialism: A Clear and Present Danger. Above, that’s an excerpt from the video,…
Since February questions have been raised about construction projects awarded by the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority. In particular, the agency seems to have a checkered history of following guidelines for keeping its procurement process corruption-free. Earlier this month, executive director Pamela Davis agreed to discuss two controversial contracts. This post…
In the wake of the news that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal is no longer The Main Man in Afghanistan, we strolled into Bob’s News, the venerable periodical shop on South Andrews Ave., past the creepy dude ogling the nubiles in this month’s Barely Legal, past the how-to hydroponics guides, past last…
Big John’s Pickled Sausage was one of the local businesses that took a leap of faith with the Mango Festival. Not only would the company’s vice presidents, Jon and Tim Foster, buy a booth for the event but they paid to be a sponsor, meaning that their company’s banner would…
It sounds like the sort of diabolically genius plot that usually comes from Republicans, but there’s reason to wonder whether Florida Democrats have conspired to put tea party candidates on ballots in hopes that it will siphon votes from leading Republican candidates.Chief suspect: Fire-breathing liberal Alan Grayson, the Orlando Democrat…
A freelance reporter, Sabine Raymonvil, attended the Deerfield Beach Mango Festival on Saturday. She agreed to share her account with Juice readers:At approximately 3:15 p.m., after the first performance was to begin, Harold Cummings, CEO of Drummer Boy Sound Production Inc., was seen disengaging the heavy-duty sound equipment on stage…
Of the Mango Festival’s two major financial backers, only one came through with funding, according to a well-placed source with knowledge of the event. The failure of the other financial backer to follow through on his sponsorship of the festival, says the source, triggered bounced checks and then a crisis…
Yesterday’s episode in the ongoing protest/counterprotest drama centered at Puppy Palace in Hollywood was quieter and more peaceful than usual. The surreal battle, which started with regular animal-rights protests outside the store earlier this year, has included adults dressed as dogs, Hitler-vegetarian references, disputes over PETA, controversial photos of a…
Norris Wiggins, promoter of Deerfield Beach’s Mango Festival, has a day of meetings planned with what he called the festival’s “financial backers” to see about paying the many debts accumulated by this weekend’s disastrous event.”It was a challenge,” says Wiggins of the Mango Festival, which failed to deliver musical acts…
Less than a year after breaking her leg while sliding into second base during a charity softball game, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was back on the diamond, trying to outslug a team of Capitol Hill reporters. The congressional team lost, but at least it stayed injury-free. Proceeds went to fighting…
Last week, we told you about Robb, the anti-tea partier who staged an impromptu counterprotest during a rally at Oakland Park Boulevard and Federal Highway last weekend.The video above is the latest from Robb, who returned to the scene with more friends and a camera a week after his initial…
The date on this video is June 16. So what’s Marco Rubio doing giving speeches for Republican women in San Diego during the heat of the Senate race? Don’t tell me that this young whippersnapper would win the U.S. Senate only to leave his term early to run for president…
In what’s becoming an annual tradition, the Deerfield Beach Mango Festival is exaggerating the role that the Broward Sheriff’s Office has at the June event.Last year, event organizers claimed that BSO deputies ensured that cash collected at the gates wasn’t skimmed. BSO contradicted that claim, saying that its deputies only…
Marco Rubio is correct in saying that Barack Obama’s policy toward Israel is a departure from that of past U.S. presidents. But in his Friday speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition, Rubio neglected to describe the Golden Age of Israeli-Palestinian relations produced by American diplomats’ deference toward Israel.Of course, that…
Hallandale Beach has a tradition of paying a city manager who doesn’t show up for work; so now that commissioners have fired Mike Good, it’s fitting that they should give him one more giant paycheck on his way out the door.Yesterday, the commission moved to give Good a severance package…
There’s nothing particularly dynamic about the U.S. Senate campaign being run by Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene — except when you compare it to the one by Miami Congressman Kendrick Meek. Greene doesn’t really have a message, unless you count his constant bellyaching about “career politicians.” This is a guy…
As union reps work feverishly to prevent 200 jobs in the City of Pembroke Pines from being outsourced to a private firm, that firm has fallen under close scrutiny. Facility Contract Services, the St. Augustine-based company chosen to take over the task of providing city services ranging from auditing to zoning,…
A bill that would require women in Florida to pay for an ultrasound before getting an abortion will tell us much about whether Charlie Crist the Republican has had major philosophical shifts since he became Charlie Crist the independent.If he vetoes it, Marco Rubio will brand Crist a hypocrite and…
Mitch Ceasar, clown dictator of the Broward County Democratic Party, has lent his not-considerable wit to a column for today’s edition of the Huffington Post. Since your time is valuable (and mine is only slightly less valuable!), I will cut straight to his lounge-act punch lines. For optimal effect, you’ll…
An excerpt from Tom Ricks’ 2006 book Fiasco alleges that former U.S. Army Lt. Col. Allen West — a candidate for Congress in Broward and Palm Beach — had to be told by a subordinate that the interrogation of an Iraqi detainee had gone too far.For background on that August…
The founder of the private firm set to receive a controversial, no-bid outsourcing contract in the City of Pembroke Pines has a long history of raking in millions of dollars in business from Broward’s second-largest city.St. Augustine-based Facility Contract Services LLC. was founded by Shawn Hiester, who once owned Capri…
