About a year ago, Disney announced that it would be moving away from paper tickets and instituting a system of “Magic Bands” — computer-chipped, scannable, waterproof rubber bracelets that would work as entry ticket, FastPass, hotel room key, and credit card. Some preapproved Disney guests were first given Magic Bands…
Well, that’s really nice! AAA auto club, in partnership with Bud Light, is offering free tow truck services for drunk people tonight. It’s part of the “Tow to Go” program that they offer on alcohol-centric holidays like Cinco de Mayo and Super Bowl Sunday. They say it’s gotten 22,000 drivers…
New census data is set to be released on Monday — and New York and Florida will be jockeying for third and fourth place as the most populated states behind Texas and California. If Florida doesn’t surpass New York this year, it certainly will next year, experts say. Reasons for…
Why, it was just a couple of years ago that we had to wait for the paparazzi’s film to get developed, for magazines to be shipped off to the printer, and then wait for the mailman to bring our People magazine to find out that stars — they’re just like…
As shown in the following video, the City of Deerfield Beach has put up a manger scene, along with a few other holiday props, on public property at the city’s fire station. Chaz Stevens, an activist and self-described “militant atheist,” says he warned the city that he would sue if…
Legal blogs are abuzz with chatter saying that Gisele Pollack, a Broward County judge, came to work drunk Tuesday, causing such a scene that Chief Judge Peter Weinstein had to be called out of a meeting to deal with the matter. Pollack is said to have come into work Tuesday…
What is wrong with people? Some mysterious sadist in the Keys is going around slashing the mouths of poor pelicans, and earlier this month, someone shot an 18-month-old female endangered Florida panther in the Big Cypress National Preserve. Yesterday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced a $12,000 reward…
Retired Miami Dolphins star Ricky Williams is alleging in court that his former financial adviser ripped him off to the tune of $6 million. According to a lawsuit filed in Houston, Williams trusted Fort Lauderdale-based Peggy Fulford with almost all of the money he made since 2007 — more than…
The 30-year-old Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key is inviting people to bring holiday props such as Santa hats and reindeer antlers and get their pictures taken with a dolphin. One reader worried that the facility was inviting people to put reindeer antlers on the dolphins — and that this…
“The erection was today,” Chaz Stevens announced via phone. The Deerfield Beach activist and “militant atheist” made it up to Tallahassee to install his Festivus pole in the rotunda of the state Capitol at 9 a.m. today. His antics are to make a point about the separation of church and…
Whoever’s flashing a green laser light in the dark near Palm Beach International Airport, knock it off. It’s messing with flights, multiple pilots report. And it’s a felony to aim a laser pointer at anyone driving a car, vessel, or aircraft. Authorities are trying to track down the flasher(s), according…
Is the West Palm Beach condo called South Tower CityPlace for white people only? Yesterday, the Fair Housing Center of the Greater Palm Beaches Inc. announced that it filed a federal lawsuit against Al Coker & Associates, GB West Palm, Gulfstream Capital Partners, and Cervera Real Estate — the developers…
Bummer — according to a newsletter from the Florida Naturist Society, the group’s November 3 attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most skinny dippers at a single location — Haulover Beach — did not work. Although the group had 805 dippers registered and told the Miami Herald on…
“I got the official letter,” Chaz Stevens announced to New Times late Friday afternoon. “I’m in.” Stevens, a self-described “militant atheist” who is known for relentless, sometimes crude, and usually effective methods of exposing government wrongdoing, got approval today to erect a six-foot-tall “festivus pole” in the rotunda of the…
First, the Barenaked Ladies, now the pigtailed man. About a week ago, the Barenaked Ladies cancelled their scheduled show at SeaWorld in order to protest the treatment of orcas in captivity. Willie Nelson has also cancelled a show at the theme park. A spokesperson at SeaWorld told New Times that…
Yesterday, a private group called the Florida Nativity Scene Committee was installing a manger display in the Capitol in Tallahassee. The Miami Herald reported that another group, Reclaim Christ for Christmas, intends to add the Three Wise Men. The ACLU warned that by allowing private groups to set up religious…
It was basically raining money — well, money that really creative people had to work really hard for — at the New World Center in Miami last night as the Knight Arts Foundation gave away a whopping $2.72 million in grants to 49 local artists who are going make South…
Some people call him an ethnopharmacologist. Others call him a psychonaut. Dennis McKenna — like his more famous brother Terrence McKenna — grew up experimenting with psychedelic drugs, then picked up a few university degrees and and spent his lifetime trying to understand their effects from a scientific perspective. Terrence…
So… This being Florida, of course it was only a matter of time before a plastic surgeon enlisted a child, a home video camera, and a YouTube account to create an advertisement for butt lifts that is aimed at children. Miami doctor Constantino Mendieta’s video features a lil’ dude called…
Jeez, didn’t anybody see Free Willy? The important life lessons of that flick seem to have been forgotten as marine parks have blended in as an acceptable part of our landscape. In fact, Sea World saw record profits this year. Still, backlash against the theme park has grown since trainer…
E. Howard Hunt was a key political figure during the 1950s and 60s. He graduated from Brown University, served in WWII, and joined the CIA in 1949. Stationed in Mexico City, he supervised conservative William F. Buckley. In Guatemala, he helped overthrow the government, partly by airing radio broadcasts from…
Herbert Breuer was born in Vienna Neustadt, Austria, in March 1924. When Hitler came to power, his father was taken to a concentration camp but released; the man and his sons fled to the U.S. in 1940, when Herb was 16. In 1942 at age 18, Breuer joined the U.S…
