Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan is a 31-year-old Iranian woman accused of trying to export night-vision goggles to Iran. This detail probably means she won’t ever be a confidant of the Obamas, but that hasn’t stopped Gholikhan from offering the First Couple her thoughts.Juice recently uncovered a letter Ms. Gholikhan penned to…
Just before the 2000 presidential election, Robert Watson, associate professor of American studies at Lynn University in Boca Raton, decided to rally his fellow presidential scholars and collaborate on The Report to the First Lady, a 200-page book of advice for the incoming woman in the White House. One expert…
Michael Israel, the Boca painter who whips out large-scale portraits of patriotic scenes (like the ones above) by karate-chopping his canvas, was scheduled to create a painting at the so-called Veterans Presidential Inaugural Ball in Washington on the night of Barack Obama’s inauguration. But the ball got canceled at the…
Like many nonprofits that depend on government funding, the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions is facing cuts. The organization that focuses on prenatal and infant health may have 22 percent trimmed from its 2009 budget. Unlike other nonprofits, however, the organization has proposed a solution. Healthy Start recently wrote to…
FAU administrators, looking to cut costs during a tight budget year, have apparently decided to shut down the university’s Women’s Studies Center and related master’s degree program. The affected women did not take the news lightly. In a petition currently making the rounds, supporters assert that shutting down these programs…
Beach erosion has been a problem in South Florida at least since the Army Corps of Engineers created the Intracoastal Waterway last century. Under natural circumstances, winds and waves push sand down the coast, gently and perpetually southward. But wherever there’s a man-made jetty that interrupts the coastline and provides…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office sent out a press release yesterday afternoon boasting “Young Thelma and Louise Back Behind Bars.” A pair of 20-year-old girls were arrested after stealing and crashing a 2007 Chevy Tahoe. Thing is, this is the 12th time Erica Eisworth has been booked into the Broward County…
Tonight at 7, local magician Avi Frier plans to be put in a straitjacket and chained to the 100-foot tall, 60-mile-an-hour Hurricane roller coaster in Dania Beach. He claims he can escape from the getup before the ride ends its two-minute run. He promises there will be a “surprise ending.”…
Yesterday in Palm Beach County, seven environmental activists were sentenced for trespassing, unlawful assembly, and resisting arrest without violence. Two of them — Panagioti Tsoklas and Lynne Purvis — got jail time. Tsolkas, 60 days; Purvis, 30 days. As several of their supporters pointed out, the sentence is unusually harsh…
Falcor may soon be the last line of defense in the War Against TerrorGlobeTel is a Pembroke Pines company that first appeared on the local radar a few years ago, when it was promising to fill South Florida airspace with sci-fi machines called “stratellites” — a clunky combination of a…
Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper became a familiar sight on TV after the death of Anna Nicole Smith two years ago, when he was the man overseeing her autopsy. These days, he’s been popping up regularly on Nancy Grace to talk about the death of toddler Caylee Anthony,…
Jason Soldini has been working in Animal Control for the city of Pompano Beach since 1996. On an average day he might pick up dogs, put down a raccoon, and scrape some roadkill off the street. In 2005 he recalls hearing the city’s meter readers routinely being attacked by giant…
In the past couple of years, boat owners Erick Kelesceny, John Egizi, and Todd Jessup kept on filling up their boats’ gas tanks like they always had, with unleaded fuel. What they didn’t realize was that, since at least 2006, the big oil companies had been taking a chemical called…
When you’re done with a guy, you can’t mail him cross-state to be melted down and recycled. But now you can with your dildo.In December, a Tampa-based sex toys company called Dreamscapes announced that it would begin accepting used vibrators and dildos for recycling. The response ranged from “Hey, that’s…
Since I was in Washington this week, I figured I’d stop by the Capitol to pay our congressional delegation a visit. Also, because it’s heated.I caught a few minutes (and I do mean a few… like, seven) with a very busy Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz (above), who said that this…
We first heard of Fort Lauderdale artist Ryan Paul Simmons in the fall, when he made a real cool painting of Barack Obama and offered it up to help the campaign in whatever way he could. He ended up participating in a Miami event where actors Matt Damon and Alicia…
Well, my friends, I had hoped to provide you with a dispatch about the Washington, D.C., performance of painter Michael Israel, an awe-inspiring, mulleted dude who was booked to speed-paint a portrait of Barack Obama at an inaugural ball called the Virginia Black Tie and Blue Dominion Ball. Virginia Gov…
On Monday, Democratic Congresspersons Robert Wexler, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Ron Klein held a “dessert reception” to welcome folks to the inauguration. They walked from their offices in the Capitol: directly across the lawn to the Library of Congress: where attendees had to wait in line to go through a…
It is hard to overstate how crowded it was on the National Mall Sunday. I’ve been to New York City. I’ve been to Disney World. I’ve been to Phish concerts. But to be one amongst nearly a million human bodies is oddly disconcerting. Especially because it seemed like a good…
This is James Martin, but “they call me the mayor of Union Station,” he says. Since retiring from the Bureau of Engraving, Martin has held various jobs at DC’s historic train station. Martin was catching a lot of people’s eyes because he was in a city of Obama-lovers wearing a…
The view from my train, bound for the center of the political universeAfter trekking 21+ hours by Amtrak from West Palm Beach to Washington DC. — along with 140 kids from a high school marching band and conductors who swore they had graduated from “Choo Choo U.” — the first…
It seems an odd target of a violent crime, but a Pompano Beach party supply company called Rides, Slides, and Games was set ablaze by five arsonists — or as the Broward Sheriff’s office calls them, “firebugs” — on Sunday night. Five males, all with their faces covered, poured gasoline…
