Since it’s July 2015 opening, the scene at Louie Bossi’s Ristorante Bar and Pizzeria in Fort Lauderdale is fueled by intense energy. On any given evening, every inch of the main dining room is jammed like the Dolphin Expressway at rush hour. Except here, people seem perfectly agreeable with being elbow to elbow. From a […]
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The National Marine Fisheries Service has released a recovery plan for elkhorn and staghorn corals (which are mainly located near Florida and in the Caribbean) -- a last-ditch effort to save these species, which have declined by 97 percent in over the last few decades. The Fisheries Service has protected...
It has been five long years since reggae super-star Buju Banton was busted by law enforcement in a shady operation that resulted in a ten-year prison sentence. The Grammy winner -- born Mark Myrie -- has maintained his innocence, and as we documented in a 2012 feature, it appears Banton...
Ben & Jerry's, the Vermont-based ice cream known company for its celebrity-inspired flavors (remember Schweddy Balls?) has announced a new flavor named after late night's brightest star, Jimmy Fallon. The ice cream, aptly named the Tonight Dough, was introduced last week during the season-two premiere of Fallon's Tonight Show. Ben...
Though it's hard to believe in 2015, there was a time when fictional heroines didn't have to be role models, when a character's backbone could be more than just a row of vertebrae lined up into teachable moments. It's wonderful that modern readers love Jane Austen — we still warm...
Analiz Osceola, the step mother of deceased three-year-old Ahizya Osceola, stuffed the boy's body inside a box in her home's laundry room, say court documents. Osceola claims that she heard the boy making grunting sounds at 4:00 a.m. the night before he was reported missing. She said that when she...
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Blues legend Bessie Smith was arguably America's most powerful black woman during her heyday in the Twenties and Thirties. Her reign wasn't just based on being the highest-paid African-American entertainer of her generation, but, according to the new HBO movie Bessie, on the freedoms she allowed herself after breaking with...
This piece originally ran in New Times sister paper LA Weekly. Search local showings of Straight Outta Compton. Back in September, on the set of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, cameras rolled in the parking lot of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as actors playing prudish protesters hoisted signs...
Life is hard and everything sucks. Racial tension is escalating, murderous militant extremists are running rampant, our white politicians lie about what race they actually belong to, and we’ll stab each other in the neck over the color of that goddamn dress! Stress is pervasive in everything. Our lives have...
Black bears make the news in Florida often, mostly because our residential areas are built around where they live and garbage cans smell like food. Whether it be something funny like a bear taking a nap in someone's lanai or something not-so-funny, like a black bear attacking someone, the animals...
There's always going to be money in hawking supplements to gym-rats looking to fast-track their way to Schwarzenegger-style bods. But one Boca Raton-based supplement company has recently been hit with a lawsuit filed by a competitor. The legal action claims that Blackstone Labs is trying to pass off its products...
Despite some progress here and there, Florida has, for the most part, been pretty crappy about LGBT rights. Particularly in the workplace. But now, thanks to a new study from Equality Means Business, that discrimination has a dollar value. And it's pretty steep. According to the study, discrimination against LGBT employees...
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Donald Trump says the Palm Beach International Airport is routing planes over his Mar-a-Lago club just to spite the millionaire mogul, so he's suing the county for a whopping $100 million. In the lawsuit, filed last week in Palm Beach County court, the toupee-rocking real estate caricature says the planes...
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President Barack Obama put a dent in America's ridiculous reputation for insanely long sentences for drug offenses by commuting 22 federal prisoners, eight of which were for life without parole, including Pompano Beach woman Theresa Brown, who has been in prison since 1993 for a crack cocaine offense. Because she...
On Friday nights, Arlene Goldberg and her late wife Carol Goldwasser loved to share home-cooked meals together in their Fort Myers home. Afterward they'd sit on the couch and watch TV, cuddling with their fluffy white dogs Toto and Lacey. If there was a Yankees game on, you can bet...
It's cold out here today. And it's about to get even colder than originally expected. The National Weather Service has issued a wind chill advisory for Broward and Palm Beach Counties for Thursday night, with temps expected to dip into the 30s and even 20s in some parts of South...
No show wears its love for language and land more proudly than FX's Justified, which ended its six-year run this week. Based on a novella by Elmore Leonard and starring squinty-eyed sex symbol Timothy Olyphant, the hillbilly noir never received the critical adulation or the audience one might expect for...
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Fort Lauderdale Police have arrested the father and step mother of three-year-old Ahizya Osceola, who was discovered dead and stuffed in trash bags in a box inside the woman's laundry room last week, According the Fort Lauderdale Police, Osceola is being charged with aggravated manslaughter, and child neglect. Osceola is...
There's something artistic cooking up in West Palm Beach. Here, EmKo, the new creative artists' enclave just south of downtown district, is melding food, drink, and art unlike any establishment north of the Miami-Dade line. Over the past few years, Palm Beach County denizens have waited patiently for the EmKo...
When was the last time you went to church? Whenever it was, we're going to guess psychedelic stagecraft wasn't a big part of the spiritual production. Maybe the church crowd isn't really your scene, but if you love great music, great vibes, and great spectacles, Shpongle live might be the...
Before the Fort Lauderdale Police Department held a news conference to address the video showing one of its own slapping a homeless man for no good reason, one newspaper wasn't allowed to attend: the Homeless Voice, Fort Lauderdale's long-running publication dedicated to homeless issues. Sean Cononie, executive director of the...