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Review: Borgore Cuts Hip-Hop With Throbbing, Wobbling Beats

How does someone over the age of 21 survive a Borgore concert? Pre-game. Hard. Last night at Club Cinema in Fort Lauderdale, Israeli dubstep/gorestep DJ Borgore played to a full house of half-naked teenagers. While his demographic does normally extend into the college age range, this particular concert was 16...
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Broward Schools Denied Food, Bathroom to Autistic Child, Lawsuit Claims

Broward County Public Schools has, since 2014, received a torrent of criticism for the way it handles students with disabilities. In May of that year, a district-commissioned report found that special-needs students often endure gruelingly long bus rides, sit in classes that are far too large, and are managed by...
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Meeting Tomorrow on Fracking in Big Cypress

You might think that a national preserve would be used to, y'know, preserve some natural land and protected species. Naw, you crazy! Parks and preserves are used for extracting resources, silly!  Tomorrow night is an important meeting to determine the fate of oil exploration in the Big Cypress National Preserve. ...
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Rep. Alcee Hastings Moves to Stop Chinese Imports of Dog-Leather Goods

Congressman Alcee Hastings, is asking the Customs and Border Protection asking them to take steps to make sure that the U.S. stops the importation of gloves made from dogs into the country.  Hastings, who reps the 20 congressional district, which includes Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, wrote a formal...
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Little Feat’s Paul and Fred Strip Down (Their Sound)

It's generally assumed that when a musician ventures out on his own and takes a hiatus from his band, chances are it has to do with some combination of money and ego. But ask Paul Barrere why he and fellow guitarist Fred Tackett opted to take leave from their longtime...
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#Justice4Corey: Drummer Corey Jones Shot by Plainclothes Cop in Unmarked Car

Circumstances surrounding the Sunday morning shooting death of 31-year-old local drummer Corey Jones by a Palm Beach Gardens police officer remain unclear as friend and family come together to express their sadness, confusion, frustration, and anger. Jones, a well-known South Florida musician who played at various local venues and churches,...
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Jeb Bush Gaining on Donald Trump in Florida, According to New Poll

Donald Trump continues to lead the GOP in Florida, but a new poll recently released shows Jeb Bush making a sudden and strong comeback, vaulting into second and gaining on The Donald. According to the latest Jacksonville University poll, Trump gets 24 percent of the vote in Florida, with Jeb...
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Maybe Flakka Should Just Be Legalized

Jim Hall is an epidemiologist at Nova Southeastern University, and Broward County’s most prominent expert on synthetic drugs. He says flakka, the drug that law enforcement experts say has ravaged Broward County in the last year, is changing. Typically, flakka was made from a chemical called a-PVP, which was mostly...
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LOL: Rick Scott Honored for Conservation

On Saturday, November 14, Governor Rick Scott is being honored for his excellent work in conservation. No really, we're serious. I'm sorry you had to find out this way. Yes, an award for the guy whose response to climate change is "I'm not a scientist," yet whose administration instructed scientists...
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Judge Hearing Arguments to Stop Florida Black Bear Hunt

Arguments are being made before a judge in an emergency hearing to stop the Florida bear hunt that is set to begin later this month. The environmental group Speak Up Wekiva has filed a lawsuit against the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission seeking to stop the hunt. If the...
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Activists to Protest at Home of Monkey Importer UPDATED

Animal rights activists are gearing up for their latest call to arms: a protest outside the home of Matthew Block. Block is the founder of South Florida-based Worldwide Primates, a company that imports and sells monkeys across the world for scientific research experiments. Activists claim that the company tortures animals. ...
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Amid Art Basel 2015, Erick Lyle’s Streetopia Offers Another Angle

Mr. Entertainment is a South Florida musician and herald of the local scene since the 19-somethings and serves as the unofficial Musical Mayor of Hollywood. I have just finished reading the newly released Streetopia, published by Brooklyn Imprint. It's a photographic and verbal documentary of a massive anti-gentrification art festival that took...