Where is the line between cyberbullying and free speech? If one exists, it's wide, gray, and quite cloudy, and Katherine Evans walked it for two years as she sued her former Pembroke Pines Charter High School principal for his decision to suspend her for three days for her actions on...
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On Tuesday, Rick Scott, the guy who sent his mom to replace him in a debate, got the green light to grab Floridians by their purse strings. Scott won by a small margin over Alex Sink, who conceded before the final results were in.Well, it seems that even thedailybeast.com has...
Music video director and South Florida native Carlos Charlie Perez welcomed County Grind into his New York workspace in September for the filming of Los Angeles synth artist Glasser's "Mirrorage" video. The results color a profile of Perez featured in this week's music section. This represents his 15th project --...
Business partners Tony Angotti and Armin Mihandoust are no strangers to the restaurant industry. In fact, both worked together as teenagers in Angotti's family's pizzeria. Angotti has been making pizza since age 12, and Mihandoust started at 15. Eventually the two found themselves in separate careers and lost contact with...
A Haitian-American family is suing the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office over a fight between family members and cops that resulted from a pair of sagging pants. Frantz Leger, then 20, had previously been banned from the Wellington Green Mall because his pants were hanging too low. When he returned...
Arguing with friends over who will be the designated driver on New Year's Eve? Well, if you live in the City of Palm Beach, here's your backup plan. Police will drive you home without arresting you -- that is, unless you act like an idiot when they arrive to pick...
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Airily disregarding the Hemingway "unadaptability principle," this quaintly racy version of Papa's most hated novel has a few bullets in its barrel: Dynasty scion Jack Huston, as the Hem avatar, is dull but physically a perfect fit, the Mediterranean tourist porn is addictive, and the story is thick with sex...
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock 'n' roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: The haunted hoarder. This column requires that I clean out the cobwebs of my memory, as well as the dust that's gathered on the albums, photos...
Last week, we told you about the Florida Society of Pain Management Providers, the largest pain-clinic-supported lobbying organization in the state, harshly criticizing the Palm Beach Post over the paper's coverage of pain clinic legislation. Paul Sloan, president of the Pain Society, called Post writer Michael LaForgia's work "simply reprehensible."In...
I am hearing new information regarding Broward Sheriff's Lt. Rick Reilly, and it's not good. I won't get into details, but suffice it to say that Reilly's late wife, attorney Caryl Boies, may have a lot in common with Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of onetime presidential contender John Edwards who also died with cancer...
County Grind is counting down the best local albums in South Florida. Monitor our progress here.It's been an interesting year for South Florida thunder-slinging pop metalheads Torche. The group got their gear stolen while on tour with Coheed and Cambria (stolen loot included passports so they couldn't follow C&C into...
Sources tell me the U.S. Attorney's Office will announce the arrest of a Broward County public official as soon as tomorrow. Thomas Correa, a longtime Broward Sheriff's Office sergeant and a former administrator at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is expected to be indicted on fraud charges, according to sources. Correa was terminated from his position...
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At the dawn of 2011, Jimmy Eat World is one of the few rock bands to blow the hell up out of the early-'90s indie-rock (even, perhaps, the proto-emo) scene without later getting bashed for selling out. The group's longevity — nearly 18 continuous years as a band, with new...
Ilene Lieberman, after months of no-shows and call-ins to Broward County Commission meetings, has finally returned to public service. She's on the dais now -- after fellow Commissioner Chip LaMarca made it an issue last week and more heat came from the media. UPDATED 10:58 AM: Almost an hour in and Lieberman has spoken only one...
When we first see bi computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the final adaptation of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" trilogy, she is being transported to a hospital in Gothenburg, bloodied almost beyond recognition, the result of a bullet put in her brain by...
Although Broward County election results saw a dead split between Marco Rubio and party-line pushover Kendrick Meek in the three-way race for U.S. Senator, statewide Rubio swept 49% of the vote, leaving Meek and Gov. Charlie Crist with less than 30% each. Rubio's strongest showing was in northern counties like...
After the holidays - especially New Year's Eve - you may hear people throw around the idea of a "cleanse." The word alone brings to mind seven days of self-induced suffering with purge-worthy concoctions and ingredients like chili powder and maple syrup. So you know you want to do something good...
So, this is kind of weird. After publicly lambasting each other on County Grind's tawdry pages, Miami pop-rock intimidators Pretty Please's Juan Oña (his unhappy comments here) and Bianca Brite (her lengthy reply here) have decided to put aside their differences. This, of course, was revealed via another few comments...
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If you wander off the street into "Frances Trombly: Paintings," one of two heady new shows on view at Girls' Club in downtown Fort Lauderdale, you may well think you've stumbled into an exhibition that is still being assembled. Several canvases lean against the walls as if waiting to be...
County Grind is counting down the best local albums in South Florida. Monitor our progress here.Miami hip-hop powerhouse Mayday first tasted crossover success a few years back thanks to "Groundhog Day," a collabo track with Cee Lo Green and DJ Craze whose bouncy sing-song raps dovetailed nicely with the era...
A group of five Palm Beach firefighter/paramedics took home the first-place team title at the Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge world championship in Myrtle Beach yesterday. Their win marks the first time in the history of the sport for a team to win both nationals and worlds in the same year, Palm...
You've surely heard of "The Cookie Diet" as a way to lose weight by eating several specialized, high-protein cookies a day. Well this isn't it -- kind of.This gluten-free cookie diet is actually a product of "The Cookie Diet" inventor's breakup with his businessman, Dr. Sasson Moulavi, thus resulting in the...