If your ex-con boyfriend slaps you around when you ask why he emptied out your bank account and then you take him back, everyone knows you've given him permission to rob and hurt you again. That's the message voters gave Republican Rick Scott yesterday when they elected a man to...
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The yellow light. That's a main point on which the DUI manslaughter trial of former Yankee, Jim Leyritz, rests today. "The critical decision for jurors is whether or not Letritz ran a red light or had yellow before the crash, meaning [Fredia Ann] Veitch [the victim] would have run the...
The many faces of Vincent Colangelo, the convicted heroin and cocaine trafficker who decided he could make more money in the pill mill business, where authorities say he unloaded some 770,000 high-powered pain pills in a single year. Fort Lauderdale activist Cal Deal put together the montage. Deal saw his neighborhood sullied by...
The usually silver-tongued Eliot Spitzer stammers and hesitates when asked to explain the psychosexual motivations behind his spectacular flameout in Alex Gibney's gripping Client 9 — or, if you prefer, Inside Blow Job. Spitzer, whose tireless efforts to redeem himself led to his cooperation in this doc, receives an entirely...
If you like a good mystery and need a fix, look no further than the Broward Sheriff's Office website -- your skin will crawl. Found & Forgotten is a database started just shy of two years ago to publicize cases in which someone lost their life in Broward County but...
I had two reactions looking over Roy Villacrusis' menu at his new Kubo Asiatic Cuisine. "Oh, wow!" And "Oh, shit!" "Oh, wow!" because just reading the thing ("Green tea-cured salmon with longan, fried basil and yuzu kosho jelly," "Lao-grilled beef, somen noodles, romaine hearts and nouc nam") was like taking...
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Bruce and Shawn Chait paid off a who's who of Broward County public officials to get government approvals for their controversial housing development on two golf courses in Tamarac. The father-and-son team bought since-imprisoned Broward County Commissioner Joe Eggelletion a golf club membership and gave him cash totaling $25,000 before Eggelletion voted...
Miss 1992? Godsmack singer Sully Erna sure does, and he wants you to revisit it with him. Not old enough to intentionally listen to music in 1992? That's all right; Erna doesn't require studying up on his influences to rock along with him — just have a love for loud,...
All I have to say is, boy, am I thirsty.Update: Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought the Blue Moon commercials were ridiculous.Brew Masters, a new television show starring Dogfish Head Beer owner Sam Calagione, debuted last night on Discovery Channel. And it was everything I hoped it would...
This week, our favorite local virgin published her most vapid screed yet at Human Events, her "editorial home." Wondering why our nation's top "legal eagles" have yet to make a compelling case for the criminal prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, she draws on her lawyerly training to make the...
Blain and Robert Aymond, the middle-aged duck killers of Palm Beach Gardens, have taken their place in history.A judge on Tuesday declared the couple guilty of misdemeanor ducknapping after they hired a trapper last year to round up a gaggle of neighborhood ducks and ship them to a local animal...
The Rising Action Theatre has moved to a new venue, the Sunshine Cathedral, but left its essential character as a gay hothouse unchanged. And things don’t get much gayer than in its latest play, Fit to Be Tied, about a rich guy, Arloc, with mother issues; his kidnapped and hogtied...
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Tonight, Miami hip-hop duo Ghost Arm comes out of the shadows for only its second official performance as part of Flaunt Thursday at Respectable Street.With rhyming schemes this varied, absurdist, and somnambulant, it's hard not to get a full-on Definitive Jux flashback churning. FIU students and roommates Robert "Rolodex" Hodgkins...
After all the drama and controversy surrounding conservative talk-show host Joyce Kaufman last week -- her accepting, then turning down, incoming Congressman Allen West's invitation to be his chief of staff, then a terrorist threat against Broward schools citing Kaufman -- local Tea Partiers held a rally supporting her this...
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For most diners, selecting a restaurant boils down to food and ambiance. The menu is created by the chef, but the real stars may be interior designers, who touch all your senses and keep you in your seat. With Art Basel just finished, it's appropriate to showcase Karen Hanlon, an...
The Palm Beach Lakes High School gym was packed. About 1,200 shouting fans crammed in to watch the game against rival Dwyer High. The air was dense with the smell of sweat and rubber as the basketball thwacked against the varnished floor. Riviera Beach Vice Agent John Toombs sat in...
Stuart Michelson, husband of investigated Broward County Commissioner Ilene Lieberman, is expected to leave his controversial job as city attorney for the City of Sunrise. After criticism here and elsewhere regarding his no-bid appointment to the job -- which has paid him more than half a million dollars in the...
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Flickr: spookyriggsIt's the land of Bernie Madoff, Scott Rothstein, prescription drug overdoses, concealed carry, extortion, Mob money, gang violence, and more... but Florida sheriffs have a new menace on their hands. The case of the sagging pants."It's a fashion thing," the Fort Pierce Tribune quotes 27-year-old Antwuane Goodman as saying...
A tipster sent us word that Lauderdale Lakes has a very thin wallet these days -- so thin that the city hasn't paid the Broward County Sheriff's Office in months, leaving the police no choice but to reduce services. It turns out our tipster is right: Lauderdale Lakes is in...
Is there a Floridian more fun, more frisky, more flagrantly insane than Ann Coulter? Maybe! But if so, we don't know about it -- because that person, whoever s/he may be, doesn't do us the profound service of sharing his or her thoughts each week in a public forum.Coulter does...
How the hell did South Florida's most troubled theater land Michael Leeds? Usually, the only time Tony nominees visit South Florida in any official capacity is to host the Carbonell Awards. Somehow, Leeds, the Tony-nominated director and composer of Swinging on a Star, has found himself directing at the nonequity...