In what amounts to a gross violation of the public trust, the Broward School Board's auditor has determined that the giant environmental services firm AshBritt Inc. overbilled and, at times, double-billed the School Board $765,000 during emergency work done in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma, according to a 48-page report obtained...
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Tom Daley, the 14-year-old Olympic diver from the UK, has been bullied at school in his native Plymouth, a city on the country's western peninsula. As a result, his father says the family is considering moving... somewhere. Nowhere in that article does it say the bullying has been related to...
Embedded video from CNN Video The big story of the day is this afternoon's shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., that claimed the life of a security guard and left the shooter, who had ties to the white supremacist movement, wounded.South Florida has its own Holocaust...
This is video of Glen Johnson after losing by decision to Chad Dawson last April. Note the cheers from the crowd as Johnson begins to speak. It's hard to find anyone who watched the fight and thinks Dawson deserved to win. New Times profiled South Florida-based Johnson in a cover story...
Yellowmanwith Spred the DubRespectable Street Cafe, West Palm BeachSaturday, June 27, 2009Better Than: Discovering sticky hydroponically grown sensimilla in your backyard.The Review:Deep rub-a-dubbing reggae in legendary West Palm Beach rock haunt Respectable Street? Why not? After all, "King" Yellowman's explicitly sexual dancehall verses pushed the envelope back in the early...
The Peruvian street food anticuchos is a dish with magnetic properties — you're either instantly attracted to or completely repelled by it. The grilled chunks of meat are actually beef hearts. But if they're rendered properly — like the ones at Taurus Steakhouse in Tamarac — they taste more like...
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The Endorsement: Toasted Corn
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Palm Beach Post Publisher Alex Taylor explains what customer care is all about in an email sent out today staffwide. My favorite part is reminiscent of Taylor's "elevator speech" memo: If someone says to you "I hear things down at the Post are tough. How are you doing?" You could say, "Yeah it...
Below, New Times offers up a glimpse of the upcoming arts season with previews from our reviewers. "Off the Needle"Now through October 10 at the Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery, 4566 N. University Drive, Lauderhill. Call 954-748-0181, or visit tatescomics.com.You've spent hours in the chair listening to the buzz...
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Cucina Verite: Babette’s Feast
On the warm, humid afternoon of June 22, 2007, Liz Roehrich, a petite woman in her 40s, turned left into a predominantly black, middle-class neighborhood and parked her animal control truck in front of a gray house with a well-manicured lawn. Visible on a gate leading to the backyard was...
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Florida? Yeah! A New Start, Boise Bob and His Backyard Band, Fleez, and The BikesThe PoorhouseSaturday, June 27, 2009 Better Than: Anything going on in any other bar in downtown Fort Lauderdale The Review: For at least 10 years, Garo Gallo has worked zealously to keep the fabric of Fort...
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For some employees, Gulfstream Park was a hell of a place to work, full of cocaine and free gambling. When the scheme was finally discovered in 2007, hundreds of thousands of dollars had been stolen from the casino and taxpayers, and now the "family friendly" racetrack is left with a potential public-relations...
Last year, I wrote a feature story about three little boys who had been horribly abused in the state foster care system. They were eventually placed with an adoptive family -- but the Department of Children and Families hid the boys' case files and backgrounds from the adoptive parents. As...
Flickr.com Don't call it "interior design" until you see the paperwork. Do you know what it takes to become an "interior designer" in this state? Being able to match a bedspread and drapes should do it, right? Wrong. "Decorators" may be able to walk off the street and charge you...
Jose Carrera perfected his art in jail. "I made my first tattoo gun using a Bic lighter and a small motor I stripped from an old Walkman cassette player," he says. "I used the spring inside as the needle and would burn styrofoam cups to collect the black smoke and...
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Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Navy spokesman, has written a letter to Herald Editor Anders Gyllenhaal accusing Rosenberg, pictured left, of hurling abusive and sexually charged comments. Gordon went so far as to tell the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz, "I've been abused worse than detainees have been abused." In the...
Opinionated About Dining (OAD) released results of its second annual survey of dining establishments in the United States and Canada. The ratings cover over 900 restaurants ranging from fine dining to inexpensive. The only South Florida restaurants to make the grade were, perhaps to no surprise, the M & M...
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Best Of Ballot Stuffing I appreciate Living Room being selected as Best New Bar. Although, as a designer who has created 13 nightclubs, the idea that Living Room is referred to as a bar is questionable. I have never designed a bar. I do, however, appreciate the editorial that followed...