The referees completely worked over Dwyer High School in what may be their biggest game of the year this Labor Day weekend.The varsity football team from the Palm Beach Gardens-based high school traveled to Ohio to play Cleveland Glenville, coached by Ted Ginn Sr. The game was hyped for months…
Animal rights activists from Broward and Palm Beach counties are hoping the photos they recently helped publicize will lead to nothing less than the complete closure of Primate Products, the research facility in Doral where the pictures were taken. The photos, which show several monkeys with severe head injuries (you…
A South Florida-based animal-rights advocacy group recently published photos it says are from inside Primate Products, a monkey research facility in Doral. The group has previously protested the facility and the home of Primate Products president, Donald Bradford. Smash HLS, founded by Boca Raton resident Gary Serignese, published 10 pictures…
The question central to a potential criminal case against Richard Lippner — the 38-year-old Fort Lauderdale man in whose apartment both Brianna Negron, 23, and Casey DiStefano, 20, died four months apart — will likely be whether he provided Casey the drugs that killed her.Casey moved to South Florida from…
In May, paramedics were called to Richard Lippner’s Fort Lauderdale condo, where they found a young woman, 20-year-old Casey DiStefano, unconscious on the floor. It was the second time this had happened in four months. She wasn’t breathing; her lips were blue. Lippner told police she had a history of…
It started with the most hilarious news story about an attempted rape ever. Then came the ultra-viral Auto-Tune remix, dubbed simply, “Bed Intruder Song.” (If you haven’t heard it, you need new friends, ones who show you such entertaining viral memes.)This week, the Internet lords brought us the next step…
In the print product this week, we have a music feature on Hank Williams III. In the story, Hank III discusses carrying a musical legacy, battling his label Curb Records, and his newly found desire to “stick it out for the long haul.”What couldn’t fit in that piece though, were…
Sometime about six years ago, Hank Williams III first felt a strain in his throat. Then in his early 30s, his attempts at belting out a twangy ballad about loneliness mustered only a raspy, huffing sound — not the yodeling crack his audiences had grown accustomed to. “It was the…
When David Gould, a 26-year-old Fort Lauderdale man, showed up at Oakland Park Boulevard and Federal Highway — the spot known to local tea partiers as “the corner” — he expected some sort of confrontation. He’s pretty liberal, and this is, after all, the location of the self-proclaimed “longest-running tea…
Several local police departments are bringing in extra money by auctioning off the goods left in their evidence rooms. Police auctions have long been a great place to “steal back” some nice loot cheap (plus there’s always a chance it has cocaine hidden inside), but a new website, PropertyRoom.com, now…
When America’s newest folk hero, Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater, quit his job in one of the great workplace exit scenes in modern history, people had mixed feelings. Some smiled, fantasizing about how they might one day make a similar over-the-top departure. Others wondered what could have caused a…
Before the first episode of his current reality show, The Vanilla Ice Project, has even hit the air, Wellington resident Rob Van Winkle — known to the world as Vanilla Ice — has met with television programing executives to discuss the possibility of a spin-off show of sorts with a…
Last year, we brought you the story of three Boynton Beach men charged with operating a large-scale, Michael Vick-esque dogfighting ring. Paul Green, Ricky Norfus, and Samuel Denson were arrested in September 2007 and went to trial on felony charges, each facing up to 15 years in prison.But the first…
One of the world’s most famous skeptics was the keynote speaker at this weekend’s Singularity Summit at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco.The annual event draws curious minds from around the globe to discuss a number of topics related to technological singularity, the theoretical moment in the future when a…
Richard Lippner, the Fort Lauderdale socialite who dated both Brianna Negron and Casey DiStefano before they died, was seeing both women at the same time.Lippner, a regular at several nightclubs in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, dated Brianna on and off for several years. She moved out of Lippner’s Fort Lauderdale…
The friends and families of two young women are still pondering the mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths.Brianna Negron, 23, a lifelong resident of South Florida, passed away in January. Casey DiStefano, 20, who moved to Miami from Union, New Jersey, after graduating high school, died in May. Both women were…
If you’re a follower of hardcore porn, HBO’s show Entourage, or pubic hair-related internet phenomena, you already know who Sasha Grey is. You probably didn’t see her in last year’s Steven Soderbergh independent flick The Girlfriend Experience. But last year, before she was deep into her “crossover” into pop culture,…
Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams has a lot of life experience and a lot of wisdom to bestow. On top of teaching yoga classes and studying to be a doctor, Williams – who has said this will be his last year, but has also said he’s reconsidering – generally…
Guess Where I’m Peeing is toilet humor, plain and simple, set in the scenic restrooms of South Florida. We post ’em, you name ’em.In previous editions of GWIP, we’ve given you Irish Eyes, a beautiful beach scene, and a large vagina. This time is truly special, though: We have guest…
For the past two years, Doris Sutton, a 90-year-old poet living in California, has dedicated herself to getting a father out of a Florida prison. In 2004, Antonio Balta, then 27, left his 9-month-old daughter alone in the car outside the Gulfstream racetrack in Hallandale Beach. The baby died, and…
Even before Florida’s new, expanded gambling laws took effect last month, more and more bettors in the Sunshine State were taking their cash to poker tables, and not to the wager windows at dog racing tracks, according to new statistics released by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation…
Above is a clip from the show that just aired. Vanilla Ice (Wellington’s Rob Van Winkle) was the first guest of the night. As an interesting contrast, the show closed with Street Sweeper Social Club playing a cover of M.I.A.’s Paper Planes…
