It looks like Texas Gov. Rick Perry is last week's news to Florida Republicans -- pizza man Herman Cain leads the latest poll of the state's GOP voters with a six-point buffer over the second-place former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, in the chase for the party's presidential nomination.No other...
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NextEra Energy -- which owns Florida Power & Light Co. -- ain't too happy about being placed on a list of "corporate tax dodgers," which we wrote about earlier today.A group that calls itself Citizens for Tax Justice issued the report evaluating 280 companies nationwide and named 78 of them...
White Denim's D provides a lot to chew on but is easy to digest. Released in May by Downtown Records, the fourth LP from the Austin quartet gleefully cribs inspiration from all over the place, throwing bits and pieces of progressive rock, garage rock, Afropop, and other genres together into...
Rep. Allen West isn't too happy about the State Department's decision -- or as West says, "Campaigner-in-Chief" Obama's decision -- to delay the Keystone XL Pipeline project, which means it's time for another rhetoric-loaded statement from the congressman.According to the State Department, a more thorough analysis of some of the...
I'm currently in mad love with the Recipe Project, the Brooklyn band One Ring Zero's collection of famous chef's recipes set to tunes. The book project started like this:Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, co-founders of the band One Ring Zero, decided to turn Chris Cosentino's recipe for Brains and Eggs...
One of the great challenges and pleasures of covering South Florida music for New Times is getting to know an artist well enough that he will trust you to write about him with more depth than just what he does in the studio and onstage. Fort Lauderdale rapper Protoman, AKA...
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Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early '60s and published, under Johnny Depp's auspices, more than three decades later. A first-person account of the drinking life on a tropical isle in the late 1950s, its protagonists are mainly...
After President Obama made a comment about the United States being "lazy" about attracting foreign investments for the past couple of decades while he was at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit over the weekend, Gov. Rick Scott -- who apparently thinks the president was talking about him -- has issued...
It's mid morning in America's heartland, and once again, Delta Spirit is on yet another endless highway, this one midway between Dallas and Houston, Texas. No matter, though; they've spent the better part of the last two years spreading their nuanced country-tinged rock, and they couldn't be more pleased. "In...
Grilled cheese pizza was the winner of the Pizza Inn's in-house contest across the chain to come up with new types of pizza for its national menu. Though a variant abomination is portrayed on This Is Why You're Fat -- with quarters jutting from a single crust -- the Pizza...
Old news: Floridians think Gov. Rick Scott sucks. New news: Nearly half of Florida thinks Republicans are intentionally sabotaging the economy to prevent the reelection of President Obama.It's not just those damned liberals either -- 24 percent of Republicans agree, according to the latest poll of Florida voters released last...
In a few days, South Florida takes off its dunce cap, trades its oversized reflector shades for a pair of sturdy bifocals, and flees the thumping club beats for the quietest stall at the library. It's that great time of year when the Miami Book Fair brings the world's literary...
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At a packed bar that opened recently, eight bartenders cleared glasses, delivered checks, scanned the room, and chatted with customers. Half the customers had full beers. A handful waited next to empties. Among a crowd of maybe 50 people, I counted fewer than five menus. I was starving at 9 p.m.,...
This past summer-between May 31st and yesterday- the area's readers have been more interested in the opening of burger joints-or really, just about any joint- than porn filmed at a pizzeria. Read on for the season's most read local restaurant news of the summer. The results may surprise you...
Rapist/triple murderer Oba Chandler is scheduled to be executed at the Florida State Prison at 4 p.m. today, and he's already submitted the request for his last meal.According to Florida Department of Corrections spokesman Jo Ellyn Rackleff, Chandler, 65, opted for two salami sandwiches on white bread, one peanut butter...
UPDATE: The Palm Beach County School Board's vote on three new Mavericks schools has been postponed. Read more after the jump.When owners of a for-profit charter school chain go before the Palm Beach County School Board tomorrow night seeking approval for three new high schools, they'll have a celebrity spokesman...
With this afternoon's release of Public Policy Polling's survey of Florida Republican voters, Florida became the first Southern state polled by the firm that didn't select Texas Gov. Rick Perry as its front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.Instead, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the Florida field, based on the...
Here's a fun way to defend a racist restriction on voting rights: First, claim the new rule is colorblind. Then, when black legislators get angry, plead ignorance. Say you had no idea the rule was draconian compared to policies in most of the country.This is Gov. Rick Scott's strategy when...
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The first gay person I ever knew had just served me pasta in his home. He hadn't bought a dining room table yet for his new apartment, so we were sitting on his living room floor with plates in our hands. He had made a simple sauce with crushed tomatoes,...
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights and updates relating to South Florida's musical environs. This week, cool conversation, part two. In our last Backstage in South Florida column, I reflected on some of the more notable interviews I conducted over the past 12 months. As...
Our complete Kiss Kruise coverage is here.The KISS Kruise pajama party late Thursday evening was feisty. First of all, it turned out to be more like a sleepwear slugfest. With only 500 sets of pink, black, or white fleecy goodness available to many more KISS fans, the lines set up...
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...