Orange juice — who doesn’t love it? Cold glass in the morning, with a fifth of vodka in the evening. Nature’s nectar. Well, can you imagine a world without it? Without oranges at all? Cue the sad music, because that just might be where we’re heading, with oranges inching closer…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
Welcome to Dania Beach, the best little burg in all of Broward. All those other straight-laced towns up and down the coast, they have their “attractions,” their “travel” “destinations,” their “points” “of “interest.” But over in Dania, they get down and dirty with a special twist. This city was unique…
It was me this time, but it just as easily could’ve been you. The week had been an emotional bruiser. Deadlines, bosses, landlords, bank tellers, traffic, lady friend — each had their go, catching me with one unexpected kaboom after another until my nerves were breached and my patience was…
Broward, you big beautiful beer-bloated lush, what would the rest of South Florida do without you? Of all the beer joints, gin saloons, watering holes and dives across the lower portion of the state, you probably have the finest. I think I can confidently say that. It’s science. Last month,…
Florida’s legislators are back on the job now that 2014 is rolling along, and one of the first pieces of business on the agenda is a big one: red light cameras. I know they’re a pain, you know they’re a pain, and — surprisingly — some lawmakers actually have our…
Whew, all right. You’re awake. Well, congrats; you made it through the night. Soon, the other survivors will be gathering in the light of day, swapping stories of the previous night’s struggle. This was a close one, South Florida, but we made it through. A lot of you SoFla natives…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
We all have our special ways of ringing in the new year. Some of us huddle up with family and friends, drinking bubbly and toasting new endeavors. Some of us gargle bourbon alone in our studio apartments while listening to Sade. According to police, Paul David Culbreth — a registered…
The old tale is Wall Street sharks screwing over us, the little people. But sometimes the deep-pocketed cannibalize themselves. Case in point, Argyll Equities Inc., a San Diego-based outfit that had a unique way of screwing clients out of their money. And according to federal prosecutors, the guy who teed…
It was a news story that was just dripping with SoFlo weirdness. On Sunday, a middle-aged patron at the Tiki Waterfront Sea Grill tossed his car keys to another patron, announced there was a bomb in his Chevy Avalanche in the parking lot, and booked it on a water taxi…
You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale. While you were squeezing into your best houndstooth sweater and wiping the eggnog off…
Manatees — those lovable dopey floaters bobbing in the waters around South Florida — had a really bad 2013. For the first time since scientists began tallying the number of the animals killed in the wild, the body count broke the 800 mark. Yeah, read that line one more time…
Few journeyman NBA ballers have come to the league packing as much braggadocio as Damon Jones. The Houston native played on 11 teams in as many years, earning a reputation as a deep three man… who came through occasionally (.407 lifetime field goal percentage). But meh stats can always be…
Zach Flamberg’s prognosis is not good. Since 2009, the 57-year-old has been locked in a bloody cage match with large b-cell lymphoma, and his time is running out. “My fate is sealed, the doctors have told me,” he says. “With me now, it’s a day-to-day thing.” But since losing his…
Few journeyman NBA ballers have come to the league packing as much braggadocio as Damon Jones. The Houston native played on 11 teams in as many years, earning a reputation as a deep three man… who came through occasionally (.407 lifetime field goal percentage). But meh stats can always be…
You spoke; we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Monday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale…
You’re screwed. Yup, no question. It might not be your fault. It’s been a busy couple of weeks, what with work, family, friends. But here it is the weekend before Christmas, and you haven’t bought any gifts yet. Santa’s sleigh is empty. The malls this weekend are going to be…
The poker player’s white Nikes had just hit the concrete outside New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport the night before Thanksgiving. The sky was bruising over with twilight. Terminal 5 was a hectic holiday beehive of passengers hustling for last-minute JetBlue hops. And there was Eric Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years…
Yesterday, the interwebs went all haywire once again thanks to some George Zimmerman-related news. This time, however, it didn’t involve domestic violence. Turns out, this racist asshole wannabe tough guy person has found a way to deal with being the least liked person in the Republic: making terrible art. “Shitty…
The poker player’s white Nikes had just hit the concrete outside New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport the night before Thanksgiving. The sky was bruising over with twilight. Terminal 5 was a hectic holiday beehive of passengers hustling for last-minute JetBlue hops. And there was Eric Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years…
On November 11 — Veteran’s Day — 59-year-old Sunrise man Fredy Gutierrez climbed onto an overpass with a rifle as morning rush-hour traffic flowed below on I-595. Police scrambled to the scene. Miles of traffic stalled. For the next few hours, as Gutierrez drank a beer, put a noose around…
