The Port Everglades water distribution system supplies the cruise ships, Broward County Convention Center, and Harbor Shops (a plaza with a Publix, handful of eateries, and a gym for mothers and their babies). Now the Port is warning its users about their drinking water. The City of Fort Lauderdale once...
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A new European-based restaurant is headed for South Florida in Summer 2017. Che, an established concept with a total of 15 locations in Spain, is headed for Palm Beach County this summer with spacious waterfront location formerly occupied by Hudson at Waterway East. According to brother-and-sister co-founders Martin and Daniela...
After another monkey death was reported by Hendry County's Primate Products Inc., a national watchdog group is calling on the feds to revoke the animal dealer's license. Stop Animal Exploitation Now! says the latest death is a part of a pattern of negligence and abuse. "There are over 100 animal research facilities...
It's beginning to look increasingly likely that Hurricane Matthew will hit Florida. Government agencies have been giving out typical advice: Have an emergency evacuation plan, stock up on non-perishable food and water, make sure you have extra flashlights and batteries, and so on. All good advice, but we figured some...
Friday It's hard to imagine a time when the vampire mythos wasn't baked (or staked) into our national consciousness. This century has witnessed the vampire as bullied adolescent, lovesick teenager, and bayou sex fiend. When they're not being slaughtered by Abraham Lincoln, today's fang-bearers are usually misunderstood outcasts pining for...
Carmella Gardner has many fond memories of Liberia, the Hollywood neighborhood she grew up. From family get-togethers during the holidays to watching her children play in the same streets she once did. However, this summer the 45-year-old African American grandmother says she has quietly suffered because she lives on...
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It's rare for a franchise, especially in the horror genre, to actually get better as it progresses — doubly so if the final part of said progression is a TV series. Yet in six-part miniseries form, currently airing on the you-didn't-know-you-had-it Pop network following a broadcast in Australia earlier this...
Valentino Cucina Italiana chef-owner Giovanni Rocchio and his partner, Elke Quintana, have opened their long-awaited global tapas concept One Door East. The restaurant, located adjacent to Rocchio's Fort Lauderdale Italian eatery, opened Monday, August 8 after a brief soft opening. The former oil-changing station space has been completely renovated to...
Tension and release is the driving principle of a tearjerker, where every good fortune is countered by something worse. And as dismissive as critics often are of the genre, it’s actually quite difficult for a director to make people cry en masse and genuinely feel things. Derek Cianfrance’s foreboding melodrama...
Dr. Rebecca Lent, the executive director of the Marine Mammal Commission (MMC), sent shockwaves across the internet when she deemed the tank of orca Lolita's at the Miami Seaquarium substandard due to a five-foot-thick concrete island at the center. Though officials at the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service...
One day in June, Shantell McNair headed to the Broward Juvenile Detention Center in Fort Lauderdale to visit her 13-year-old son. Then she was turned away without explanation. For weeks, McNair, who is age 28 and lives in Pompano Beach, tried calling the center to ask why she hadn’t been...
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Looking back at this dismal summer of superhero adaptations, I am reminded of something Chris Rock said during the 77th Academy Awards: “There are only four real stars, and the rest are just popular people.” This was February 2005, mind you — a few months before Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins...
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The day after Gregory Frazier was fatally shot in his Pompano Beach backyard, his blood was still on the chair where he’d been sitting, along with a chicken wing that he’d dropped when officers arrived. Flies were buzzing around the styrofoam container of food that he’d been eating. “Can I...
Do we call Anthropoid a thriller? Sean Ellis' earnest, day-ruining WWII bullet-a-thon is rooted in fact but comes on like pulp fiction in its first reels, hitting secret-mission story beats old enough to have served in the big war. As freedom fighters Josef (Jamie Dornan) and Jan (Cillian Murphy) skulk...
As part of the city’s effort to clean up one of the most troubled sections of downtown, cops seized all of Jennifer Shoop’s belongings—including vital blood pressure medication in Stranahan Park last Thursday. In doing so, Shoop's life is in danger. “I’ve been trying to stay out of the sun...
Dog paternity is a contentious issue at animal shelters. Often times, pets are taken in with little knowledge of their ancestry, leaving staff to assume a pet’s breed on its looks. Mary Steffen, director of the Humane Society of Broward County, explains that this guesswork can lead to problems since...
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Have you ever had a Zombie? No, not those syrupy sweet buckets of booze you'll get from just about any beachside bar. A real Zombie, one of the first tiki libations created by Don the Beachcomber (born Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt) who opened what is considered to be the world's...
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With a confident grin, Mark Gold strides into a Broward County courtroom and waltzes up to a podium. Dressed in a dark suit and silver striped tie, the five-foot-five attorney tells Chief Magistrate Brenda Di Ioia that his client, a man caught speeding in his mother's 1995 Saturn, will not...