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Florida Lottery to Offer Additional Sucker Bets

By Nick Sortal Those days of buying a Powerball or Florida Lotto ticket, then waiting for Wednesday or Saturday night for the results, are dying. For low-stakes gamblers who crave daily action, there has always been Cash 3 and Play 4. Both games cost $1, provide results daily and pay...
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BSO Crime Lab’s New Software May Not Hold Up in Court

Ever since a whistleblower pointed out that there might be some serious flaws in the DNA analysis performed by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the crime lab has been in a tailspin. Its leaders are fighting to maintain accreditation and the Broward state attorney’s office has been forced to re-open as many...
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New York Food Blogger Busted for Cheating in Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon

Jane Seo blazed across the finish line at last weekend's Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon with a stellar time of 1 hour 21 minutes. The professional New York food blogger's blistering 6:15-per-mile pace earned her second place among the thousands who raced. Seo paraded around the finish line while grinning and gripping a gaudy medal.
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Larry Flynt on President Trump on TV: “He Should Be Disinvited Until He Can Tell the Truth”

Larry Flynt is, to say the least, one of the more polarizing figures in American entertainment history. The 74-year-old Kentucky native is the founder of the infamous Hustler, a porn magazine that since 1974 has pushed the boundaries of the public’s sensitives. It was his contribution to the porn industry that brought him wealth in the form of a diversified empire that now stretches into casinos, hotels, films, and retail outlets.
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Florida Pot Growers Might Soon Get Rich

A pudgy man in a white lab coat, protective goggles, and a white hardhat ambles down several long rows of potted marijuana plants. An industrial A/C unit cranks frigid air into the capacious grow room, located inside a 300,000-square-foot warehouse just outside Tallahassee, while an array of high-pressure sodium lights...
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Election Just About Here: Trump Intimidates, Green Party Surges

With the election just two weeks away, things got weird this week — with one survey showing Green Party candidate Jill Stein surging in South Florida and Donald Trump targeting Fort Lauderdale for what some say will be intimidation at the polls.  Trump pushed hard this week on claims that...
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Seal Reflects on a Career of Triumphs and Trials

Some people might recognize Seal solely from the scars that line his face or the tabloid tales that were the inevitable result of his marriage to and subsequent split from supermodel Heidi Klum. Sadly, though, those things have nothing at all to do with the music he's made over the...
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MeowLux: Fort Lauderdale’s Luxury Cat Hotel

If you're going on vacation, your cat should too. That's the idea behind MeowLux, one of South Florida's few all-inclusive, cat-only luxury boarding facilities. It is designed specifically for furry feline companions. Here, your cat can lounge in spacious suites on mini sofa beds, watch mice scurry across an in-room...
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Seriously, Dan Brown Deserves Better Than Inferno

I'm not afraid to admit that I get a kick out of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon thrillers. Yes, they’re indifferently plotted and predictably written. But I’m a sucker for ludicrous, centuries-spanning conspiracies and indulgent faux-gnosticism. The books serve, if nothing else, as gripping tours through art-world apocrypha, and Brown’s know-it-all...
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Five of the Best Shaved Ices in South Florida

For most, shaved ice is synonymous with snow cones. And while you’re certainly not wrong to equate the two, an injustice occurs when your thoughts end there. As various parts of the globe prove, shaved ice is much more than ice shavings or crushed cubes doused in sweet syrup. Many...
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Eat That Question Sifts Through Frank Zappa’s Cosmik Debris

Steve Allen didn’t know what to make of Frank Zappa. The clean-cut young musician was promising to “play the bicycle” on the set of The Steve Allen Show in 1963, spinning the wheels and tapping on the spokes. The result, with the help of a tuneless orchestra behind him and...
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Revamped Miami Heat Heads Into Tonight’s Home Opener Feeling Good

It may have been just one regular season game in October against the putrid Orlando Magic, but the Miami Heat's 108-96 win in Wednesday's season opener has both Heat fans and the team itself feeling pretty damn good about themselves. The 2016-17 season promises to be like no other Heat campaign...
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With an Interior Epic, Ang Lee Gets Too Real for His Medium

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a small film burdened with the epic, thanks to both its subject and its setting. Based on Ben Fountain’s 2012 novel, it depicts a day in the life of a young soldier (Joe Alwyn) briefly returning from Iraq to be honored with his squad...