Last August, when the presidential race was a toss-up and the the stock market was not yet gyrating, Barack Obama’s campaign released this paper, which promised that as president he would create five million “green jobs.”Not many, it seemed, would be in the recycling industry. The word “recycle” doesn’t even…
Last night the National Hockey League staged its All-Star Game in Montreal, and by tomorrow everyone will have forgotten that East beat West — or was it the other way around? All-Star games are remembered by individual performances, not final scores. A big winner: Florida Panthers defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, who…
This weekend’s New York Times Magazine has a lengthy article that dangles a tantalizing reward: The answer to the question, What Do Women Want?Sexually.Sorry, fellow straight guys. After 7,381 words, the writer and a slew of “sexologists” give a collective shrug. One thing researchers do know is that women are…
Yep, while nobody (except maybe the unsleeping eye of Anthony Man) was watching, Dr. Marion Thorpe announced that he would be proud to serve Florida in the U.S. Senate. That declaration didn’t make much of a splash. Hell, the Quinniapac poll released last week didn’t even bother factoring Thorpe, the…
Rep. Anitere Flores should be grateful that only dorks like me watch Issues, the Sunday political program on our local public television station WPBT. I can’t imagine she’d have wanted her constituents in Kendall / University Park / Westwood Lakes to watch her appearance this past Sunday.Here’s a link to…
No television cameras bore witness to President Barack Obama’s second oath of office — just a single photographer who snapped the shot above, of two people who vaguely resemble Obama and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, their right hands raised and looking all oath-y. Or… it really happened. Yes,…
Does this kid look like an assassin to you? Damon Weaver, the Canal Point Elementary fifth-grader who trekked to Washington, D.C., in hopes of getting some inauguration day face time with the new pres, got stuck at a security checkpoint and didn’t even get to see Barack Obama’s historic speech.Well,…
Including this one, courtesy of Jarret Johnson of Anderson University in Indiana:…
…Is this one, from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Maureen Ebel is a 60-year-old retired nurse whose physician husband died when he was 53 and whose life savings were part of a $7.3 million retirement fund entrusted entirely to Bernard Madoff. Ebel’s selling most everything of value, though the Palm Beach County…
Since it was built in the 1960s, Floyd Hull Stadium, on SW Eighth Avenue just off State Road 84 behind the National Guard Armory, has been operated by volunteer members of the Federal Little League, a local nonprofit organization. During that period, it has enjoyed a harmonious relationship with Fort…
McCollum (left) and Crist are the frontrunners.The Quinniapac University Bobcats cannot wait for us Floridians to pick our own U.S. Senator in 2010. Besides, Florida will probably have its votes stripped by Howard Dean again, anyway. So Quinniapac staged the election for us and… hello, U.S. Senator Bill McCollum?Among possible…
For decades Hollywood Beach has been the only one in South Florida that could offer tourists an array of small, independent hotels at low nightly rates. That gave the neighborhood a distinct slow-tempo style, and it gave the South Florida’s hospitality industry a bit of variety.But the small Hollywood hotels…
Like we told you earlier, PETA’s inauguration day high jinks were hampered by Bernard Madoff, and judging by the photos Deirdra’s sending from D.C., the animal rights group had to resort to this old gag.More photos from our correspondent’s day in D.C., after the jump…
This may come as a disappointment to all those Wag the Dog conspiracy theorists, but the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States was not a CGI stunt; it really happened, reports Juice Capitol Correspondent Deirdra Funcheon. She witnessed the ceremony firsthand, over the heads…
“But I thought he liked downers?” asks Miche Ratto, New Times associate art director. Sadly, he’s right. Maybe the Palm Beach blowhard is just mad that Rev. Rick Warren did not touch Dick Cheney with his healing hand so that the latter could karate-kick Joe Biden. Be grateful, conservative cherub…
I just got off the phone with the Juice Washington Bureau Chief Deirdra Funcheon. “The riff raff” — a group that includes Funcheon, despite her prestigious title — “have to stay far away. I’ve had to walk about ten or 15 blocks just to end up behind the Capitol. Every…
She will not be streaking at the inauguration.You probably thought today’s inauguration ceremonies would provide a day’s relief from the death march of victims of area reprobate Bernard Madoff. Well, sorry. Turns out the Palm Beach financial wizard made special-access inauguration tickets disappear for the People’s Ethical Treatment of Animals…
Considering Fort Lauderdale mayoral candidate Jack Seiler was a state legislator until this year (when he termed out), he seems like the most likely among the four contenders to know how a big Democratic city like this one can wring a few extra bucks out of those tight-fisted Republicans who…
Since it was built in the Sixties, Floyd Hull Stadium, on Southwest 8th Avenue just off State Road 84, behind the National Guard Armory, has been operated by volunteer members of the Federal Little League, a local nonprofit organization. During that period it has enjoyed a harmonious relationship with Fort…
It’s high time we size up Fort Lauderdale’s mayoral field. With so much ground to cover, we’ll have to go one by one. Batting leadoff…Dean Trantalis is a real estate attorney who became Fort Lauderdale’s first openly gay commissioner in 2003, defeating Jon Albee, a insurance and real estate agent,…
I’m not sure why I feel the urge to communicate this. I didn’t think I had particularly strong feelings about Davie Commons. One minute, I’m picking up my mail, which contained this lovely flyer from the Broward County Property Appraiser, and the next thing you know I’m running down the…
Humor being the last refuge of the damned, one has to chuckle at the irony in this particular item. It’s surreal, but yes, our Republican legislature refused to close its enormous budget gap by raising taxes on cigarettes, while at the same it decided to raid the rainy day fund…
