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Diplo’s 13 Most Bangin’ Beats, Part 2

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...
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Bestiality About to Be Outlawed in Florida

You can kill animals. You can eat animals. You can even torture animals -- and press charges against anybody who photographs you while you're at it. But you can't make sweet, sweet love to animals. Not anymore.This is a sad week for Florida's zoophiles, for as I write this, there...
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The Top Five Places to Get Sangria in Palm Beach County

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...
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Real Food Products That Only Sound Like a Joke

Snack foods that all but promise to send you to the emergency room. Fast-food items that invoke natural disasters and use meat in place of grains. Bacon dishes that require weaving skills. A hell of a lot of modern food products sound as if they were developed by a room...
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Practitioners of Quack Autism Treatment in Trouble With Governor

Two weeks ago, the Pulp published a small item about Mark and David Geier -- a father-son team of self-proclaimed autism experts who treat the condition with a powerful chemical castration agent called Lupron. They're from Maryland, but their interests run deep in Florida.They've got a clinic here, out in...
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SW 3rd Ave Music Festival Is Tonight; Vote for Your Favorite Act

One final reminder that tonight is the New Times-curated SW 3rd Ave Music Festival show at the Green Room in downtown Fort Lauderdale. With a packed lineup boasting John Ralston, the Dewars, Young Circles, Plains, the New, and Lavola -- plus an afterparty with Radio-Active Records' DJs -- this should...
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Mike Huckabee’s Nutty Floridian Adviser

Mike Huckabee's gonna go on air in exactly 50 minutes and make an important announcement re: his presidential candidacy. The smart money says he's not running, and until a few days ago, I hoped the smart money was wrong. No way should Huck be president, but he's a fun campaigner...
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Luigi’s Coal Fire Pizza Opens On Las Olas Boulevard

A couple months behind an anticipated March opening, Luigi's Coal Fire Pizza opened its doors for service Tuesday, May 17.Locals seemed eager to try Napolitan chef Luigi DiMeo's (previously of Rino's Tuscan Grill) fare at the new neighborhood pizzeria. By 8 p.m. Tuesday night, a line of hungry customers snaked...
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“Rock of Ages ” Starring Tom Cruise to Film at Revolution

Those paying close attention to the upcoming concert listings at Revolution, Fort Lauderdale's sizable downtown rock venue, will notice a sizable gap in programming for June. After May 28's Face to Face show, nothing follows on the calendar until a Dirty South DJ gig on July 1. This is not...
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Chris Brown Freaks Out On Good Morning America

Chris Brown has serious problems. And not serious-but-still-kind-of-funny problems like Charlie Sheen. No, Chris Brown's problems result in violence. And today has been a problematic day for the troubled young performer.He appeared on Good Morning America this morning to promote his new album, and not long after host Robin Roberts...
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Ann Coulter: Chernobyl Caused No Radiation Sickness

SoFla's sexiest pundit, Ann Coulter, published a singularly weird article this week, extolling the many health benefits which our friends in Japan may expect to derive from their exposure to excess radiation."With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan," she begins, "the only good news is that...
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Want a New Weed Research Unit? Federal Government Lists Unwanted Properties

Attention, geography nerds, real-estate speculators, and government haters (that includes everyone, doesn't it?): You may soon be able to pick up a federally owned property on the cheap thanks to a new online listing service from the U.S. government.Barack "I Killed Osama, Bitch" Obama is continuing his heroic odyssey with...
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Sheriff’s “Regret”: A Step in the Right Direction

Here's the full text of Sheriff Al Lamberti's statement in which he apologizes to Judge Ilona Holmes: "This past Sunday the Broward Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a home burglary in progress from a concerned citizen who provided incorrect information regarding the home address. On scene, the deputies continued...
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American Idol Wrap: Death to the Boring

I didn't intend to become an American Idol fan, and I certainly didn't intend to start writing about my fandom. But life is full of surprises.The first surprise came because I tuned in to Idol''s tenth season early this year to see if Steven Tyler could hack it as a...
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Anti-Abortion Measure a Waste of Paper

Do you know what your Senate was doing yesterday?Among other things, it passed HB 1127. This is an anti-abortion measure, I suppose, but it's so profoundly useless that it's hard to imagine it seriously offending even Florida's baby-hatingest abortionists. Here's the summary...
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Charlie Sheen’s Slo-Mo Suicide

Well, what the hell did you expect? Last night, Charlie Sheen kicked off his "Violent Torpedo of Truth: Defeat Is Not an Option" tour in Detroit, and the show bombed. Really bombed. In half a decade of professional criticism, I've never seen nastier reviews. Nor have I ever been less...
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Ann Coulter Misleads, Defends Torture

Ann Coulter is either cynical or crazy. I'm hoping for the latter, because I'd hate to think my home state contains anyone willing to dissemble as freely and viciously as she does in her latest column -- a hot mess of half-assertions and quarter-truths too sloppy to illuminate anything even...
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Gallup Poll: People in South Broward Are Really, Really Sad

Here's a depressing thought to kick off your week: Every year, a Gallup poll asks American adults about their quality of life, then sorts the results by geographic area. The queries include things like, "Did you experience feelings of happiness during a lot of the day yesterday?" and "Are you...
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Idol Elimination Recap: Durbin Out! Reinhart In!

Not that it wasn't deserved, but who on Earth thought Durbin would be the one packing his bags? Holy shit!I'm still proud of my predictions yesterday. Everybody, but everybody thought Haley was a goner. But I knew she wasn't. Every week, her fan base has grown in both size and...
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Harrison Snow Benefit at Coco Palm Beach Tonight

New Times has diligently followed the progress of our little "baby metalhead" Harrison Daum Snow. Readers might remember our prenatal celebrity who struck the most rocking pose known to ultrasound? Well since his premature birth in November 1, 2010, the little son of local musician Jeff Snow and his wife...