We’re not under attack — those fighter jets you heard making all that racket yesterday in the skies above Fort Lauderdale are F-16s from the Air Force’s Thunderbirds demonstration team, and I’m sorry if the noise woke up your infant or whatever, but this is the coolest thing ever, and…
The ugliness has started. Sort of.Until now, Congressman Allen West has remained almost silent when it came to actually having an opponent in the race for the District 19 congressional seat — though Democrat Patrick Murphy followed him up there after West bailed on District 22 for friendlier demographics.But late…
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 bicycle geeks, a well-executed manual is a thing of beauty. While a typical wheelie involves yanking up the front wheel and pedaling like a madman, a manual demands a thrust of the hips and flick of the wrists to get the bike coasting — no pedaling once the front…
Jimmy “Boo Boo” Clemons is into some shady business, and it may have gotten his mother and aunt killed.The 17-year-old Boynton Beach man was arrested yesterday evening in connection with the March 16 killing of 22-year-old Valley Alexandre, whom a witness said Clemons targeted because he believed Alexandre to be…
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…
Renegade Fox News employee Joe Muto got a lot of attention when he joined Gawker and started writing dispatches from the inside of the Murdoch empire. He got only one post in before he was found out and fired from Fox, with a follow-up letter from the legal folks being…
This is not a satirical piece. It is real. No foolin’, folks.In a Facebook message posted Tuesday, Congressman Allen Bernard West continued his proud and stupid tradition of calling people names instead of proposing actual solutions. While the message is only 77 words long, not a single word of it…
You’ve got the chance to save a boatload of money on your electric bill, and the electric company wants to help you do it.Florida Power & Light announced earlier this week that it would be offering more than $3 million in rebates to customers who install solar equipment in their…
This week, Army Pfc. Michael Metcalf, a 22-year-old soldier from Boynton Beach, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. I read the headline in the the Palm Beach Post yesterday morning and, in the evening, met a friend at Cinemark Boynton Beach to watch The Hunger Games.Now, I…
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…
Republican Congressman and Professional Commie Hunter Allen West has a column in today’s edition of D.C. newspaper The Hill, and, if you haven’t yet been fortunate enough to receive its rhetorical wet willie, here’s a breakdown of the otter-in-a-moonbounce-level silliness of what West tries to pass off as an actual…
In case you aren’t one of the ridiculously cultured sirs who read Gentleman’s Quarterly, let this be a heads-up to you that the latest issue has a feature on Christopher Chaney, the Jacksonville man who used Google and the “I forgot my password” button to hack into the email accounts…
Former Republican Florida Congressman Mark Foley received his last campaign contribution ever on September 28, 2006 — a $2,100 check from a Palm City physician. The next day, Foley resigned from Congress, disgraced by a scandal over sexually explicit messages the (sort-of) secretly gay congressman had sent to teenaged boys…
Lauderhill 32-year-old James Ayers has been officially charged with first-degree murder in the March death of 19-year-old Juliana Mensch, according to court documents. He will be arraigned at 8 a.m. April 30 in room 5780 of the Broward County Courthouse.Police say Ayers used a stolen car to visit a friend…
Two young women throw punches and tear at each others’ hair while a crowd of onlookers shouts around them. Teenagers hold cell phones to record the fight as the women tumble to the ground. In the center of the video frame is a man wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo…
Man’s struggle to find the G spot has been the subject of many a punch line, but a new study shows that it’s quite small and not exactly easy to get to. This week, Adam Ostrzenski, a St. Petersburg doctor, published a paper that confirms the “anatomic existence of the G-spot”…
On a Tuesday at the end of February, two Pittsburgh detectives were driving down the road around 3:45 p.m. when they saw an armored car parked on the road. Two men wearing Garda Security badges were standing in front of it. The detectives, it seems, thought this weird and pulled…
Public Policy Polling decided to pick Florida’s collective brain last week, and results released yesterday shed light on some very interesting trends. The most interesting: 26 percent of Floridians polled said George Zimmerman is innocent of the second-degree murder charges filed in the February killing of Trayvon Martin, but only…
A strong message was sent late last week to Florida judges who think it’s OK to habitually show up late to court proceedings for no reason: Meh, it’s cool.Ocala Circuit Judge William Singbush has been the subject of an investigation by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission, which was looking into…
…that had been torn down after a day. Which is a shame, because the originals are painfully misguided and strange. …
Care about the health of local waters? Got a beef with how the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is being managed? Don’t want to see the Atlantic turned into a barren, polluted wasteland?If so, then pay attention to what the Nature Conservancy and the Surfrider Foundation are doing this week. …
