It feels like just yesterday Justin Bieber was in our neck of the woods allegedly blocking off a Miami Beach roadway, drag-racing with R&B singer Khalil and being snarky with the po-po. The Biebz was placed under arrest for failing a field sobriety test, resisting arrest, and driving with an…
Every second Saturday of the month, hordes of people make the trek down to Wynwood in Miami for its art walk. It’s hip, urban, and usually overshadows FAT Village’s ArtWalk in downtown Fort Lauderdale. But it shouldn’t. Since Wynwood’s art walk is on the second Saturday and FAT Village’s is…
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…
Megan Auclair is not some tie-dye-wearing college kid whipping up potent pot brownies in the communal dorm kitchen. In fact, Auclair wants to wipe that stereotype from everyone’s subconscious. Auclair is a medical professional, an entrepreneur, and as soon as the bill for medical marijuana passes, Auclair plans to heal…
There’s nothing more American than apple pie, right? Wrong. When was the last time you saw anyone eating a piece of apple pie? Exactly. That’s why the USDA in its infinite wisdom conducted a four year study on the taxpayer’s dime about the demographics of pizza consumption in this country…
The three intersections on East Las Olas Boulevard from Southeast First to Southeast Third Avenue are gray. While their purpose in keeping fast-moving vehicles from crashing into each other used to be enough, the millennials have spoken, and if they’re going to help a grandma cross the street, they’re going…
The greyhound racing industry has always had considerable influence in Tallahassee. The passage of the 90 percent rule (a rule that allows dog racing tracks to add gambling tables only if they maintain 90 percent of the races the track ran in 1996) might be its greatest feat since greyhound…
University of Central Florida student Sean Shahid is a millennial. The 20-year-old has 674 followers on Twitter and 745 on Instagram. He also snapchats and posts Vine videos. And when Shahid’s ex-girlfriend was approached to testify in a case Shahid was involved in, Shahid threatened to post comprising photos of…
With Valentine’s Day coming Friday, let us warn you:The OkCupid dream is even more fictional than the American dream. Opening an account sounds great — it’s free, all your friends have one, and you have nothing to lose. At first, you trust those personality questions will compute into some top-secret…
Our justice system is the string that holds the fabric of civilized society together. There would be no repercussions for murder, rape, and all sorts of horrible things humans are capable of doing without it. And without punishment and discipline against those who commit these crimes, people would be forced…
A little past 2 a.m. Sunday, Jada Wright was driving south on the I-275 in Tampa. When she looked over in the northbound lanes on the other side of the concrete barrier, she saw a white Ford Expedition traveling parallel to her on the wrong side of the highway. “What…
In South Florida, the roads are a lawless morass where turn signals are optional and drivers seek a blood vendetta against anyone who tailgates too closely. People are stalked, shot, and killed. By now, Floridians know to toot their horn at their own risk because from the rear-view mirror, it’s…
Twenty-two-year-old Alayna Lakatos admits that the backyard of her house on Seventh Avenue in Delray Beach needs landscaping. There’s hardly any grass. She moved in last month with two roommates, but on Saturday, January 25, her roommate’s dog, Otis, a German Shepherd-Lab mix, was outside working in the yard. When…
Diane Gerino enjoys looking out at the lake behind her Sabal Lakes home. It was one of the selling points when she bought the property ten years ago. On Friday, January 24, the 63-year-old was on the phone with her daughter in Connecticut when she gazed out her sliding glass…
Like all epic stories, we found this one while talking to someone at a bar. In fact, it was Taco Tuesday at Miami’s Wood Tavern. We were four tacos and two beers deep when I asked him if he’d seen anything particularly newsworthy recently. “I saw a UFO the other…
At 7:20 a.m. Sunday in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil awoke from hibernation, saw its shadow, and unwittingly predicted six more weeks of winter. Considering that temperatures were in the 20s that day, no one can really blame the poor fellow for retreating to the warmth of its…
Everyone knows The Plastics wear pink on Wednesdays and, in another uncanny similarity to Mean Girls, everyone knows congresswomen wear red on State of the Union Tuesday. Apparently there’s even a memo about it because Palm Beach Post Editorial Page Editor Rick Christie was quick to tweet to the SOTU-hashtagging…
Joseph Serian was used to the duck-face pout of the young twenty-something girls on Match.com. They were half his age. When he messaged them — and he rarely did — they never replied. After all, he was a 65-year-old optometrist who moved to West Palm Beach in the mid-80s after…
Sixty-five year-old Carolyn Bianco was crossing Las Olas Boulevard at Southeast 11th Avenue on her way to an evening jazz concert when a person driving a black SUV struck her and kept going. Bianco was rushed to Broward General Medical Center, but the head injury she sustained was too severe…
Hundreds of people stampeded out of Aventura Mall last Saturday night when reports of a gunman spread exponentially from theater 20 to the rest of the mall and eventually the dark depths of the conspiracy-theorizing internet. Eighty-seven minutes after the panicked exodus, Aventura Mall tweeted: “Confusion during movie at Aventura…
Twenty-three year-old Adam Jakowitz was watching the 8:30 p.m. showing of Devil’s Due at AMC Aventura 24 Saturday night with a friend. He says they were sitting in their seats right before the movie was about to begin when a girl came running into the theatre screaming, “There’s someone with…
In the height of the holiday season, two young men shoved hundreds of pairs of panties into large shopping bags at Victoria’s Secret in Sawgrass Mills Mall, then rolled their loot out of the store in a shopping cart. On November 23, the pair got away with 300 Dream Angel…
