What Killed Brianna Negron and Casey DiStefano?

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…

Hank III’s Hellish Days at Curb Records are Nearly Over

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…

Fort Lauderdale Tea Party Declares Victory

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…

Five Reasons Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You

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…

James Randi Headlines Singularity Summit

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…

We Knew Sasha Grey Before She Joined the Entourage (NSFW)

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,…

Guess Where I’m Peeing: Featuring Elvis and Snoop

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…

90-Year-Old Poet in California Makes a Plea to Charlie Crist

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…