You’ll soon see this in Boca.Abu Dhabi, Munich, and Madrid were the first places to get ATM machines that dispense gold bars. Next up for the gold ATM is America, and the first two cities to get the machines are Las Vegas and Boca Raton. That’s right, the city famous…
Ault may be brain damaged, but he’s still going to spend his life in prison.Howard Steven Ault has an abnormal brain. Defects in areas that process memories and emotions make him incapable of taking in data the way most people do — common problems among fellow pedophiles. And so, his…
Dragic’s Facebook profile photo.On Thursday, deputies say, Slobodan Dragic’s divorce from his wife, Jelena, reached a bloody end. During an argument on their front lawn, Dragic pulled out a .38-caliber gun and shot her in the shoulder. “You are killing me,” Jelena cried out, before Dragic leveled the pistol and…
West Palm Beach-based Florida Crystals announced yesterday that it has purchased European refineries in a deal that will increase the company’s capacity to 6 million tons a year. Florida Crystals CEO Alfonso Fanjul Jr., in a news release, described the deal with Tate & Lyle Sugars as “proof that working…
South Florida’s two largest newspapers, the Sun-Sentinel and the Miami Herald, ran stories on their websites yesterday about local TV stations refusing to run an anti-McDonald’s ad. Oddly, the stories, written by a Herald reporter, both lacked something obvious: the actual video. Or at least a link to the clip…
Abratt: the booking mug for a business ethics expert.ADDENDUM June 25, 2013: New Times did not report on subsequent developments in this case. An attorney for Russell Abratt provided copies of court documents which show that the charges against him were dismissed and his record expunged on August 31, 2011. …
Rynerson: the face of the new media.Earl Rynerson knows a rumor circulating around Fort Lauderdale City Hall. It has to do with Mayor Jack Seiler supposedly pressuring the Sun-Sentinel into making a personnel change. It’s almost certainly not true, but Rynerson wonders if people ought to know about it anyway.”Just…
Photos by Eric BartonDon’t call it a Celica.This may be the closest you ever get to the Lexus LFA. And that’s the way Lexus wants it.Its new sports car is headed only to the garages of those who apply and are approved for ownership. The people’s car this is not.But…
Venezuelan police take Abarca to the airport before he’s extradited to Cuba.Francisco Chávez Abarca didn’t make it far when he tried to get into Venezuela on July 1. Authorities detained the Salvadoran at the airport on charges that he allegedly planned bombings in Cuba.After Abarca’s arrest, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez…
The Glades Day championship team of 2006 wore a uniform with a UF-looking logo on the right shoulder.Glades Day School has a pretty amazing football team, considering. The kindergarten-through-12th-grade private school has just 400 students on a tiny campus north of Belle Glade. Yet it has won six class 1B…
If you’ve been to Café Martorano, you know there’s no restaurant like it. The white walls, the huge bar in the center, the booming music, the videos of old gangster movies — nobody does dining like this. Then there’s the food: throwbacks to Italian-American classics that make restaurant critics rave…
GOP candidate for governor Rick Scott released this pretty snazzy new website on Friday: It’s a property tax calculator that figures out a Floridian’s tax if Scott gets elected versus Democratic opponent Alex Sink. There’s just one problem with his site: It ignores the Florida Constitution.Scott’s calculator, which is titled…
The question Allen West was fielding at the Pompano Civic Association on September 21 was about the tax lien that had been placed against him. But the retired lieutenant colonel went another way, launching into a soliloquy about his government secret security clearance. “I still retain a secret security clearance,”…
The national conservative blogosphere has picked up on a local story of an 8-year-old Broward County kid expelled for at least a year, maybe two, for bringing a toy gun to school. And no matter what you think about the national conservative blogosphere, it seems it has this one right.The…
Rick Scott might be the GOP nominee to become Florida’s next governor, but you won’t hear much from him. He has skipped out on scheduled debates, rarely gives interviews, and has taken the very unusual move of refusing to sit down with newspaper editorial boards.Luckily, there are plenty of videos…
State Rep. Jennifer Carroll had a pretty radical idea during the Legislature’s last session: What if Florida just ignored federal laws that don’t come attached with funding? The idea is widely supported among tea party types. So the Jacksonville Republican put it on paper, submitting H0679 — a resolution that…
Le Tub may make a damned fine char-grilled burger, but the place has never been known for looking well kept. But lately, Le Tub has gotten a bit of a makeover, with new murals and even a fresh coat on the antique bathtubs. The art is the work of Chuck…
The bottle that holds Luna Sueño Tequila Añejo is hand-blown, with little imperfections along the edges, air bubbles floating in the clear glass, and a cork topped with a glass crescent moon. You have to figure what’s inside is damned good.And it is. It’s also part of New Times Pairings…
Last week, an investment firm bought South Florida-based Burger King Holdings, and hopefully the move signals an improvement in what has always been the fast-food industry’s ugly burger stepchild.So where does the new owner take Burger King now? Here are five ideas on how to remake the fallen burger royalty…
It used to be that pit bulls rescued from dogfighting rings like the one written about this week in New Times were destined to be put down. Even some animal activists thought they’d be too aggressive to become family pets. Now many of the dogs are placed with families through…
Earlier this week, as the Dolphins were getting ready to play the Cowboys in last night’s exhibition game, starting QB Chad Henne described to the media what he hoped to do.Well, I mean, I definitely want to come out with a lot of pluses. I mean, I have a really…
This week’s cover story in New Times details a dogfighting bust that involved eight states, 107 suspects, and 500 dogs. More than anything, though, it’ll be remembered for how it went down: Police fought their own dogs to gain the suspects’ trust. As part of the case, investigators shot a…
