JB Smoove took time away from his Lollygagging Comedy Tour to speak with the New Times ahead of his gig at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center on Friday, October 11.
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Driving or walking around Fort Lauderdale, you'll inevitably encounter electric scooters. Last fall, the dock-less vehicles began popping up all over downtown. On every street corner, a Lime, Bird, or Bolt scooter usually awaits its next rider.
In theory, Florida's Constitutional Revision Commission is a useful body: The group convenes every 20 years and considers amendments to the state constitution. But in practice, the CRC lately has been gamed by lawmakers. It's bundled disparate concepts to produce absolutely weird results: an amendment put up for public vote...
With the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Boca Museum opens "Carol Prusa: Dark Light," honoring women astronomers.
Everyone is mad that the Miami Dolphins are bad. The fans are mad. The players are mad. And the national media, most flamboyantly, is mad.
Federal immigration agents used limited parking outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Miramar as a pretext to racially profile drivers earlier today, activists say.
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February 14, 2018 was meant to be a Valentine's Day like any other for the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Instead, a day that's meant to celebrate love in all its iterations became forever entwined with scenes of horror.
Now that the band itself is well past its 1990s heyday and its members are entering middle age, Pryor is still using other people's relationships as musical inspiration.
Elwood Curtis watches the news coming out of Florida from his adopted home of New York City. As articles in Tampa Bay, Miami, and even international newspapers are reporting that dozens of skeletons are being unearthed on the grounds of a boys’ ostensible “reform” school, Curtis remembers. He is one of the "Nickel Boys," those who survived inhumane conditions and continued their route to an adulthood haunted by harrowing memories.
Scientists are testing cyanobacteria in the Caloosahatchee River to better understand how harmful algar blooms develop and why.
After his arrest in the stabbing death of his roommate Brooke Preston, Randy Herman Jr. had a bizarre defense.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and the NAACP of Fort Lauderdale demanded prosecutors charget BSO officers who were caught on cellphone video brutally slamming a black J.P. Taravella High School student's head to the ground back on April 18.
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Writer/director Lulu Wang is having a 100% Fresh moment on Rotten Tomatoes. The Farewell marks only the second film by the New World School of the Arts alum, who grew up in Miami after emigrating from Beijing with her family when she was 6. She now lives in Los Angeles but recently returned to her former hometown to work the hype for the followup to her 2015 debut feature, Posthumous.
Another black teen has come forward accusing a different BSO cop of slamming him to the ground. The mother of 17-year-old Jordan Bennett went public Monday with a video showing a deputy holding the teen to the floor of the cafeteria at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach.
American Craft Aleworks — an atmospheric gastropub, brewery, and full bar that pays homage to the Prohibition and speakeasy era — debuted last week at the site of the former Bar Louie on the intersection of Narcissus Avenue and Clematis Street.
The morning of June 20, Michael Morell woke up as he did every weekday, when his alarm clock rang at 6. The 34-year-old father of two sat up and reached over to his bedside table to hit snooze. But when he attempted to lie back down, his muscles became rigid, leaving him frozen in a sitting position.
State Attorney Mike Satz has been the top prosecutor in Broward County since 1976. He's somehow won every single reelection bid, every four years, for the past 43 years. In that time, the criminal-justice world has changed around him.
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At his sentencing for the 1983 murder of a West Palm Beach college student, Ronald Henry Stewart said he was pleading no contest because it was in his best interest. His attorney pointed out a slew of flaws in the case — a potentially faulty eyewitnesses, the use of jailhouse snitches, and fingerprint evidence that didn't match Stewart's prints. But Stewart had previously been convicted of multiple rapes, and he feared being executed if a jury convicted him of killing 20-year-old Regina Harrison.
Nestled between Miami and Fort Lauderdale is Florida's Hollywood, a beachfront community where the entertainment is based on a hometown atmosphere and Old Florida appeal. Founded by developer Joseph Young in 1925, Hollywood is known for its laid-back vibe, unique beach boardwalk, artsy downtown, and a thriving culinary scene. There...
Burger King is testing a meat-free Whopper. First off, this is not an April Fool's joke, and, second, the Miami-based fast-food giant is not going vegan, so those of you who crave beef have nothing to worry about. Beginning today, the Impossible Whopper is being tested in 59 Burger King restaurants in St. Louis, Missouri.
Pompano Beach's food scene bursts with multicultural talent at long-running mainstays such as Cafe Maxx, with its unique fusion of global fare, and newcomers such as Le Vie Lebanese, where guests feel like they're breaking bread in the Arabian desert.