The K.C. Wright Building in downtown Fort Lauderdale will play home to a lot of angry teachers tonight.Broward Teachers Union communications director John Ristow tells New Times that tonight's protest -- geared toward teacher layoffs and alleged budget mismanagement by the Broward School Board -- could be one of the...
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Now for Gov. Rick Scott's charade of the day -- making up a scientific study on drug use by welfare recipients on a nationally televised CNN interview.As you know, the governor signed H.B. 353 into law last week, requires Floridians on welfare to pass a drug test before they get...
elebrity chef, host of the upcoming travel and foodie show Fire and Spice, or winner of Fox's Hell's Kitchen season seven, Holli Ugalde is plenty of sugar and spice and everything nice. After all, that's what little girls -- and former pastry chefs -- are made of, right?Ugalde truly has a...
Five goombahs sweep into a closet-like suburban pharmacy in Plantation. One locks the door. Two others snag the arms of Jason Villano, a skinny, gap-toothed 29-year-old. The capo, Bobby, a stocky career criminal, starts. "I know everything about you. I know about your parents living down here. I know you...
As I write this, Floridian women in the second and third trimesters of a pregnancy must submit to a sonogram before procuring an abortion. In Tallahassee on April 20, Rep. Liz Porter of Lake City stumped for a bill that would extend the requirement to women in the first trimester.As...
A night on Fort Lauderdale's Bus Loop is like casual sex, you get in, sweat your ass off, and get off as quickly as possible.Although the event officially started around 6 p.m., I decided it was best to wait until the sun went down to get the party started. I...
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Update, June 12, 2012: A year later, the PBA has a couple hundred fewer Republicans in its ranks, thanks to this event. Read an update here.Next month the Broward County Police Benevolent Association is holding a "Party to Leave the Party" -- an event coordinated with the Supervisor of Elections...
Over the past five years, the Glitch Mob has grown from a West Coast club sensation to an electronic music titan. The Los Angeles-based trio of Josh "Ooah" Mayer, Ed "edIT" Ma, and Justin "Boreta" Boreta were each already established names as solo artists and DJs known for tweaking cutting-edge...
[jump] Just once, it would be grand to read a news item about food safety in the United States that didn't amount to, "And of course, we're all eating poison." This item, is unfortunately, not that piece. Today's "Everything is Covered in Feces" report comes to us courtesy of Michael...
As ye sow, so shall ye reap, the Bible tells us. Of course, it also says, If thine eye offend thee, yank the motherfucker out, so it's probably a good idea not to take this biblical stuff too literally. Still, when it comes to sowing and reaping and Dennis Max,...
One sunny afternoon in summer 2008, Miami computer consultant Shawn Darling was summoned to the 64,000-square-foot Orlando palace of his boss, basketball star Shaquille O'Neal. When Darling arrived at the mansion, he recalls, the 36-year-old, seven-foot-one, 330-pound colossus was dropping big beads of panicky sweat. With his wife and kids...
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The uncontested loser of Wednesday's American Idol was Beyonce, who debuted the video to a single entitled "Run The World (Girls)" which has no melody, chorus, or hook. It is the closest thing to atonality I've ever heard in a pop single, and it's going to impact the charts about...
UPDATE: In early March, 2014, despite mountains of evidence in favor of Elroy Phillips' innocence, a Miami-Dade judge upheld his 24-year prison sentence. Both Phillips' attorney, Marc Seitles, and the prosecution were in favor of having his 2002 conviction vacated. Seitles vows to continue fighting for his client's freedom. Fernando...
Do a little research on actual ley-lines and you'll find out they're geometric alignments that run across and connect landscapes, spiritually attaching both natural (bodies of water) and man-made (ancient, historically significant monuments) spaces together. Whether they're real is up for debate. The Leylines, who took their name from these...
The Sun-Sentinel attempted to profile David J. Stern (The Man Behind The Crumbling Foreclosure Empire), and the resulting article is more of a report about trying to profile the man than about the man himself. On the surface, it's remarkably uninformative, but deep down, it shows that the head honcho...
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If you were to mix the arena-style, hard-rock riffage of AC/DC with the drumming of Rush's Neil Peart, throw in some Man Is the Bastard-style crusty sludge and a teaspoon of Black Sabbath, and garnish it with a cup of minced Thin Lizzy, the music would sound like Big Business,...
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The Coasters were part of that era that prefigured the rock revolution of the '60s. Rock 'n' roll was still in its infancy, and harmonies were more potent than a full instrumental arsenal. So when Carl Gardner, lead vocalist of the Coasters -- and more recently, a resident of Port...
AT&T, a company that was broken up in 1984 because of a federal antitrust suit, is once again sparking fears that consumers and competition will get hurt as a result of its deal to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion. The deal would shrink the market of major wireless carriers from...
Back by popular demand, we present a second installment of Diplo's best production work over the past decade. With calls for revoking our "cool" privileges help from some commenters and a bit more research, another worthy baker's dozen to follow up Diplo's 13 Most Bangin' Beats is here.Note: Not all...
t's a steamy summer evening, and with an exhausting week at its end, you're positively yearning for a drink, right? And preferably something cool and refreshing.While an ice-cold brewski or chilled cocktail will do, why not try a glass of the quintessential summer drink: sangria.Even if you don't have a...