The days following the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage have featured a kaleidoscope of Crayola colors symbolozing gay pride. From pride parades to Facebook’s latest rainbow-colored profile photo app, it’s easy to forget that everyone else did not spend the weekend flag-waving in Wilton Manors. In fact, if the…
After a decades-long approval process, a plan to deepen and widen Port Everglades was greenlit by the Army Corps of Engineers Friday afternoon. Because the bigger port will accommodate bigger ships, local government officials are praising the expansion as an economic win, but environmental groups aren’t so enthusiastic. They are…
Like bingo and shuffleboard, dominoes is a favorite among Florida’s senior population. It isn’t physically grueling or fast-paced, but one wrong turn of the domino can rile emotions. It did Sunday night on 54th street in West Palm Beach when a game of dominoes ended in blood and an arrest. …
Pedophiles are some of the most hated members of society. But what happens when the person sexually abusing a child is a child themselves? It’s a disturbing thought—children sexually abusing other children—but unfortunately it is more prevalent than most people imagine—especially in Broward, where there are more incidents reported than…
Religious billboards are nothing new for Florida highways, especially the ones in the rural north. But five billboards unveiled on May 8 were erected along Interstate 95 by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) to educate South Floridians about Islam. They were prompted by growing levels of Islamophobia in…
Kolter Group CEO Bobby Julien lives in a swanky beachfront mansion, but the animals who are being displaced by his company have no such homes. That’s the message environmentalists hoped to convey this past weekend. Julien’s company has begin to develop an area known as the Briger Forest — one…
Nine black churchgoers were murdered during their Wednesday night bible study in Charleston, leaving the nation grappling over racist violence. In the immediate aftermath, vigils and rallies to commemorate their lives began sprouting up across the country: in D.C., the Bay Area, and Tallahassee. On Tuesday, there will be a…
Claire was a tall, athletic 26-year-old from the Midwest who boasted a 3.97 GPA, often appeared on the dean’s list, and had earned her master’s degree in philosophy. She had been accepted by three doctoral programs in philosophy but chose the University of Miami. Claire was a perfectionist. On top…
It seems like 27-year-old Josh Krasner spends more time upside down than right-side up. His Instagram (@krasnation) is chock-full of his signature inverted stance, where he balances on his forearms, his legs shooting up in the air. “It’s a whole bunch of yoga moves, depending on where I place my…
Kevin Sabet is not one of the more than 70 percent of Floridians who want Amendment 2 to pass in November. Sabet — director of the drug policy institute at the University of Florida and a professor at the college of medicine there too — is one of the few…
At a kava symposium held in Fiji last week, a main concern was Vanuatu’s export of a specific variation of the intoxicating pepper root called tudei (or as commonly spelled, “two-day”) kava. Experts said they fear countries could ban all kava and destroy the industry because some exporters were selling…
Speakeasies began sprouting up in the 1920s when a ban on alcohol prompted the sale of bootlegged liquor in clandestine bars. Nowadays your chances of stumbling into a speakeasy have significantly decreased, since Prohibition ended in the ’30s. But last Monday, Fort Lauderdale Police shut down the closest thing to…
Dania Beach Jai-Alai opened in the 1950s and was one of the first frontons to operate in the country. At its peak in the ’90s, the sport attracted thousands of spectators, but those numbers have significantly decreased as other gambling options (like horse and dog tracks) became available. Over the…
United for Care campaign manager Ben Pollara announced in January that enough signatures had been collected to force a vote on whether to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. He stopped gathering petitions and started working to get voters to the polls to vote in favor of the constitutional amendment this…
New Times began calling Florida Highway Patrol in late February for an update on Kayla Mendoza’s criminal investigation. After all, it had been almost four months since Mendoza Tweeted “2 Drunk 2 Care,” went behind the wheel, and caused a head-on collision that killed 21-year-old best friends Marisa Catronio and…
The lives of three young women, all in their early 20s, unexpectedly intersected on the westbound lanes of the Sawgrass Expressway last November 17. Twenty-one-year-old best friends Marisa Catronio and Kaitlyn Ferrante were in a red Toyota heading west at 1:45 a.m. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Kayla Mendoza approached driving her boyfriend’s…
Whether you’re in a postapocalyptic nuclear disaster or standing a little too close to the microwave, this radiation-blocking bra will provide lift and shape. It can also simultaneously protect boobs from harmful radiation, heat, and even biological and chemical threats. When was the last time you saw anything from Victoria’s…
Audrey Winkelsas is a junior at the University of Miami. She was just 7 months old when she was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, a form of muscular dystrophy. She studies biochemistry and helps conduct research for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. She hopes one day to find a…
On Friday, January 24, Chad Cooke and Andy Monet went out for a celebratory beer. Earlier that day, election officials had announced that enough petition signatures had been verified to force a vote on whether to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. The duo had been working tirelessly for weeks on…
James Schiltz never went to spring break in Fort Lauderdale. The recent Iowa State University graduate hasn’t even been to Florida. But that didn’t stop him from writing an elaborate 120-page master’s thesis last year on the rise and fall of spring break in Fort Lauderdale. “I was really fascinated…
The University of Miami community was saddened to hear that former football player Jojo Nicolas died around 5 p.m. Wednesday after a horrific crash involving a semi-trailer truck on the MacArthur Causeway Tuesday. Fans, students, and Nicolas’ former teammates took to Twitter to send their prayers and communicate their grief…
The brunt of winter is over, and the median age of South Florida’s population is in for a sharp decline. The snowbirds are migrating north, and college kids are coming south, ready to embark on a week of sunshine and binge drinking. Even though Fort Lauderdale Beach is a shell…
