Churches do all kinds of things to lure in parishoners these days. Church by the Glades has hip slogans and Zumba classes. Calvary Chapel has daycare, a coffee shop, an amazing restaurant and mission trips abroad. Even the stodgy Presbyterians have forsaken hymn books and now project lyrics on the…
This week, New Times reported on the electronic cigarette business, which is currently booming but faces a crossroads this April, when the Food and Drug Administration is set to release proposals on how it will regulate the industry. A Wells Fargo analyst who studies the tobacco industry told us that…
Like a little kid showing off her new toys, Donna Queen, a 50-year-old housewife from Coral Springs, giddily opens a black pouch and reveals her quiver of electronic cigarettes. One is covered in pink rhinestones that glitter like a disco ball. Another is decorated with a purple flower pattern. She…
A bakery truck traveling on an overpass above I-95 at State Road 84 crashed before dawn and left the cab dangling over the edge. The driver was transported to Broward General Medical Center, and the passenger was reportedly dead. …
What’s left to do after you’ve grown your little ice cream shop into a worldwide brand and sold out to a corporate giant for $326 million? Hiding underneath that mountain of cash is Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream — still acting like the hippie he was in…
Last week, state Rep. Lori Berman, D-Lantana, filed a bill that would make it mandatory for vehicles to have safety alarms if they are designed to carry more than six children. She called it the “Haile Brockington Act,” after a Delray Beach toddler who died after being left in a…
Though he lives quietly in Plantation, Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, AKA “The Amazing Randi,” has a cult following around the globe.In one of the greatest about-faces ever performed, Randi was a nationally famous magician (he appeared on the Today Show, broke at least one of Houdini’s records, and toured with…
Valyn Calhoun posted a photo of himself, looking pale and weighing 95 pounds. “I put up a picture of my body,” the 29-year-old wrote. “It may scare some, but this is something I see everyday.”Calhoun, a photographer who runs in Fort Lauderdale’s music and art scenes, contracted HIV and hepatitis…
Gun lovers around the country designated this past Saturday, January 19, a “gun appreciation day.” In Utah, a guy celebrated by bringing an assault rifle into a JC Penney, and five others celebrated by getting shot at gun shows in Ohio, Indiana, and North Carolina. Locally, the Delray Shooting Center…
Let’s stop wasting our attention on the crazy mofos insisting that the Sandy Hook massacre didn’t happen and direct our precious mental energy over to a group that is doing something positive for Newtown. Gentle Carousel is a Florida-based nonprofit organization that brings miniature therapy horses to visit and cheer…
It’s easy to think of Florida homeboy and 11-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater as an easygoing, all-natural bro who alternates between charging waves and lounging in the Hawaiian rainforest. But he’s also a multimillionaire and a corporate animal, having an admitted affinity for golf and driving untold sales at…
About eight times a year, the Suncoast Gun Show takes place at Fort Lauderdale’s War Memorial Auditorium — city-owned property — and the next event is coming up January 12 and 13. Attendees are allowed to bring guns into the show, and kids get in free!, the website announces. (Admission…
Start off the new year right by nerding out and impressing your friends today at 6:03 p.m., when the International Space Station will be visible over South Florida for about six minutes. Yes, the station is visible to the naked eye as it cruises 200 miles above the Earth. NASA…
In 2001, twentysomething Nicole Jaquis, who’d grown up down here in Wellington and then moved to Boston, left her job and joined some friends who were making a documentary in India about the Kumbh Mela — one of the biggest gatherings on planet Earth, which you’ve probably never heard of. After…
Did you know there are already two major pipelines underground that bring in natural gas from other states to our local power plants? There will be a third by 2017, and FPL is currently seeking “Requests for Proposals” from companies that want the job of building it. FPL says the two…
In 2009, a South Florida woman named Christina saw that her friend in North Carolina had shared pictures pictures of a very unique-looking kitten on her Facebook page. A feral mama cat had given birth to a litter on a neighboring farm. This one particular kitten’s face was exactly half…
Let me tell you a little something about Germans: they take their jobs seriously. When students there are about 16 years old, they get sorted into different educational tracks — those expected to go on to college go to one type of high school called gymnasium, while others are moved…
Balloon Boy 2012: Three Years After Hoax, Falcon Heene Fronts a Metal Band
Yesterday we told you about the Heene Boyz — being touted as the “World’s Youngest Metal Band — and how you might remember the singer as “Balloon Boy” from an infamous news story a few years back. Of course, you don’t want to just read the interview — you want to…
You wondered what “Balloon Boy” family had been doing in the three years since they transfixed the entire nation, reporting that six-year-old Falcon Heene had floated away in a homemade flying saucer. And we told you in this week’s feature story, which catches up with the Heene family in their new…
People around the world were collectively glued to their TVs on October 15, 2009, when Richard and Mayumi Heene called the Federal Aviation Administration and a Colorado TV station and reported that their son Falcon had accidentally floated 7,000 feet into the sky in a homemade experimental flying saucer. Of course,…
Remember in 2009 when a Colorado man named Richard Heene reported that his six-year-old son had accidentally been carried off in his homemade air balloon, but it was deemed a hoax? See also: “Balloon Boy” Family Resurfaces in Florida; The Heene Boyz Being Promoted as “The World’s Youngest Metal Band”…
