The Fort Lauderdale chapter of the food-sharing network Food Not Bombs gathered on Friday afternoon, as it has done most weeks for years, to serve free vegetarian food with a side of anarchist literature, guitar-strumming, and antiestablishment conversation. We covered them in a feature story a while back and returned…
A local radio station whose name was once synonymous with rock ‘n roll to many Miamians is coming back — in a lighter, slightly less rockin’ format.WSHE was known in the 90s by its tagline, “SHE’s Only Rock ‘N Roll,” before it changed to a series of other stations (most…
Every Friday for the past few years, Food Not Bombs has been gathering at Stranahan Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale to pass out food to the homeless, hungry, or just plain bored. Our cover story on the group last year found the local chapter bracing for a local crackdown on…
The Fort Lauderdale city commissioners must be patting themselves on the back right now for hiring Lee Feldman as city manager: Turns out he’s a master at rooting around the couch cushions of city budgets for money that’s gone missing.Bucking the trend of cities like Lauderdale Lakes and Hollywood that…
Less than two weeks to hurricane season, amateur preppers: not so much time to study up on your Mormon theology or survival medicine before the ol’ cones start showing up and the TV weathermen experience the only exciting time of their year. As you’ve surely learned from us by now,…
There’s a small psychic shop on SW Fourth Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, just south of the bridge. If you drove by on Sunday, you may have seen a banner across the front door, reading:ATTENTIONPersons who have given this psychic money, before March 2012, you have been defrauded. Would you like…
While we were reporting our cover story on the murder of high-flying multimillionaire Ron Vinci and the impending trial of his girlfriend, Catherine Pileggi, New Times went to court to fight for the release of evidence and statements collected during the police investigation. The judge granted us access to everything…
The U.S. Supreme Court has taken on some of the most compelling debates in history: the struggle for civil rights, the power of corporations to influence political campaigns, a woman’s right to get an abortion. Now, thanks to a South Florida activist, they’ll be taking on another subject for our…
We’re less than a month away from the official opening of hurricane season. After reading our recent cover story about modern-day survivalists, you may feel compelled to make better preparations this year than the usual ritual of hoarding toilet paper, bottled water, and Chef Boyardee from Publix at 10 p.m.After…
As our recent cover story about local survivalists, or “preppers,” was going to press, we learned that one of the main characters in the story, Hollywood-based agricultural consultant Chris Petrovich, had been interviewed by the CBS affiliate up in West Palm Beach.So treat yourself to the TV station’s three-minute CliffsNotes…
After hearing Zev Auerbach a few times on the radio — introducing himself as an Aventura city commissioner and promising to reveal the wonders of Kabbalah in “29 amazing minutes” — I was curious. I had no idea what Kabbalah was, except for something about Jews and Madonna. I called…
Are you a desperate musician looking for a gig for your obscure band? Look no further than downtown Hollywood, where proposed city laws are likely to send restaurant and bar owners scurrying to fill live-music slots.Mayor Peter Bober has decided that he wants to make downtown a music destination. “If…
James Talmage Stevens lives up on a mountain somewhere in Texas, where he has a few years’ worth of food, a well he can pump by hand, sturdy walls, and gardens for food. He’s prepared for just about anything.Stevens goes by the moniker “Dr. Prepper” on his weekly preparedness radio…
Check out part two of our exploration of the connection between prepping, spirituality, and the Mormon church.In this week’s cover story about survivalists, I speak with a man who identifies himself only as “Bowreeguard,” who hails from hard-granite New Hampshire and says that prepping was a way of life for…
This week’s cover story is about modern survivalists.August 23, 1992, was an exceptionally shitty day in America. Hurricane Andrew was gathering strength over the Caribbean, and by nightfall, it would plow over South Florida with category-five winds, ripping whole neighborhoods to pieces, knocking out power, and claiming dozens of lives…
For members of the public (including the news media), getting court files from the Broward County Clerk of Courts has been a somewhat arduous process in recent years. The clerk’s offices are crowded and short-staffed, and members of the public need to awkwardly sign in on a clipboard while an…
Neal Wiseman can see his entire shop from where he stands, behind the glass display case at Dixie Guns and Ammo, but he can’t see the future. Not yet. That doesn’t mean he isn’t going to try. Wiseman is in his 30s, with a soldier’s buzzcut and the friendly forward…
Grilled cheese sits in our memories, quietly searing on the back griddle, ready to be served up with a spatula on a rainy day. Most of the time, we aren’t even aware of the grilled cheese sandwich until we need one and the time is just right. The alchemical taste…
…that had been torn down after a day. Which is a shame, because the originals are painfully misguided and strange. …
There’s been a bunch of news about the proposed immigration detention center in Southwest Ranches over the past week or so, but none of it has been substantive information about, say, whether the contract is actually going through after ICE’s weird about-face last month.As a reminder, that’s when ICE officials…
There’s a no-panhandling zone in downtown Miami, and Fort Lauderdale currently prohibits asking for change along the beach. But the Fort Lauderdale City Commission is considering some tough new regulations that would effectively ban panhandling in the entire downtown area. That’s in addition to a proposed $26,000 campaign to tell…
Barbara Britton, making a rare appearance outside the home where she has been on house arrest since 2010, was in court yesterday to plead guilty as an “accessory after the fact” to the murder of David Jackson, the father of her son, in June 1988.When Judge Raag Singhal declared her…
