Bon Jovi juuuuust announced U.S. dates for Because We Can Tour. And it happens to come to Sunrise, Florida, on Jon Bon Jovi’s birthday! (Yes, I know when Jon Bon Jovi’s birthday is. Not ashamed.) Let’s hope Jon’s daughter is all better from her recent heroin overdose; let’s hope that…
UPDATE 2:52 p.m.: Shelby Fox, of Konnect Public Relations in Los Angeles, responded on behalf of Metz with this statement: “Despite recent media coverage, Hurricane Grill & Wings is committed to exploring viable and effective ways to deal with the changing economic climate, including the implementation of The Affordable Care…
In the early 1990s, some the progressive-minded yet fun-loving folks at Adbusters magazine promoted the idea of a Buy Nothing Day — a “holiday” that would condemn consumerism, not involve any monetary transactions, and definitely include some mischievous but harmless festivities. The perfect day to celebrate was, of course, Black…
As if we didn’t already hate Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria (and don’t worry, we did), he just alienated every last person willing to give him the benefit of the doubt by selling off all the good players we had started to like (he holds fire sales every time a…
UPDATE 3:45 P.M.: Capt Engel says: “We found the girl. She had a copper-colored gun lookalike that’s a lighter.” Did the police and school security overreact or not? “I think that they did what was right, because you don’t know. If you saw this thing, it looks just like a…
For 364 days of the year, Harrison Street in Hollywood is almost eerily quiet, the lone trophy wife jogging down the Royal Palm-lined streets, the occasional Mercedes zooming toward the beach. But Halloween night, this street is crawling. With seven-year-olds. Somehow, word got out: this is where the candy is. …
Today at about 1:15 EST, stuntman and skydiver Felix Baumgartner is scheduled to be lifted via a special balloon to the edge of space. Wearing a pressurized spacesuit-type outfit, he will step out of a capsule and hurtle toward Earth, in hopes of breaking the sound barrier — without a…
Did you hear about that fatal car crash Mitt Romney was in? The incident happened in France in June 1968, when Romney was serving as a Mormon missionary. It made the U.S. papers in 2007, but considering that the man is running for president, it’s surprising that the story has…
Here at New Times, we’re accustomed to getting comments on our blog, invitations from PR flacks, and queries from friends wondering whether the food critic might be a tad lonely and need a companion for dinner. But it’s not every day that a reader sits down to write a full-fledged…
Better than: Jon Bon Jovi’s solo show at the Hard Rock on Thursday.Slideshow of Mötley Crüe and Kiss performing at Cruzan AmphitheatreNikki Sixx talks Lady Gaga and Elton JohnKiss Superfan and String Strangler Juan Montoya on His Band of ChoiceBack in, like, 1989, when Ozzy was biting the heads off…
See also:Jon Bon Jovi and the Kings of Suburbia tonight at Hard Rock LiveSo, in preparation for Jon’s big debut as a solo artist at the Hard Rock Live tonight. I found this trivia app from Quizicals. I figured I would easily score, like, 99 percent. But no!Yes, there are…
Jon Bon Jovi is coming to the Hard Rock Live tonight for his first-ever solo show with the Kings of Suburbia, and we thought it would be an opportune time to show gratuitous pictures of him inform you that his brother and dad have teamed up to bring “Great Grandma…
Over the past few months, we’ve told you about the troubles facing Julian Siegel of Riverside Market. He opened the small food and beer joint in Riverside Park/Sailboat Bend six years ago, to the delight of neighborhood drinkers and eaters (but especially drinkers). With more than 500 kinds of beer…
Better than: Lita Ford ever was.Just before Joan Jett bounced on to the Tire Kingdom stage in a skintight outfit and black high-tops with red laces, nature had provided an epic warm-up set: Temps dipped from searingly hot to pleasantly balmy, palm trees swayed along the waterfront, and a giant…
Rachael Barach and her fiancé spent months planning their dream wedding: a small ceremony on the remote Caribbean Island of Jost Van Dyke. Pulling it off would require some effort: flying from Fort Lauderdale to St. Thomas, then taking a ferry over to Jost Van Dyke; hiring a wedding photographer,…
UPDATE: We have picked and notified a winner!!! See after the jump. Yes, we know this is super-last-minute, as the Las Olas Food & Wine Festival is THIS FRIDAY from 7:30 to 10 pm, but good things come in late packages… right?Long story short: This year’s festival, presented by Premier…
In Cuba in 1921, Beatriz Otero’s ancestors founded a bakery called La Gran Via. It eventually grew to have 55 employees, five storefronts, and a dozen delivery trucks. But when Fidel Castro came to power, the family fled to Puerto Rico. The bakery was seized by the government and continues…
A 2-week-old baby in New York has died after being circumcised by a Jewish mohel. The infant reportedly contracted herpes when the mohel put his mouth on the baby’s penis to suck away blood, part of a religious ritual called the metzitzah b’peh, which is sometimes a component of a…
Could a whole coalition of highly accomplished, super educated doctors and researchers — the ones who work at and advise the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Public Health — all be wrong? Or are their critics hindering them from…
Dr. Helen Salsbury, who performs about five circumcisions per month in her Pembroke Pines obstetrics office, lays down week-old Baby Emilio in the gingerbread-man-shaped indent of a white plastic board called a Circumstraint Newborn Immobilizer. Using its wide Velcro straps, she secures his wrists and knees so Emilio cannot move…
To circumcise or not to circumcise? That’s a question that few people ever ponder — until their little bundle of joy is about to arrive and it’s a boy. For years, the American Academy of Pediatrics has said that “the existing scientific evidence is not sufficient to recommend routine circumcision.”…
Every home and every office in America has one — the dreaded menu folder. You know how it is: You stash away takeout and delivery menus from restaurants you might want to order from. But over time, they get shuffled around, misplaced, or covered in won ton juice and pizza…
