The U.S. Court of Appeals voted down an appeal by SeaWorld over a ruling by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration following the death of orca trainer Dawn Brancheau, the SeaWorld animal trainer who was killed by an orca bull named Tilikum following a show at the park in 2010...
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Soccer or, rather, football is the greatest sport in the world. Those who know me know that the beautiful game is all that plagues my mind. I am an avid follower of numerous leagues and players across the world. And thanks to the internet, I am able to watch my...
A couple of storm forecasters from Colorado have brought some seemingly bad news for those of us who love to take days off and listen to 24-hour local news stations tell us how we're all gonna die when a hurricane is on its way. Phil Klotzbach and William Gray of...
Steve Drain, a University of South Florida alumnus, might be taking over Westboro Baptist Church. Drain, who used to be an atheist and once set out to expose the hate-mongering church, became enamored with Westboro and became one of Fred Phelps Sr.'s closest disciples. Drain went so far as to...
Anyone who has ever been in the same room as a lobster boiling knows the distinctive sound of its scream as it's cooked alive. The sound is not actually a scream -- lobsters do not have vocal cords -- but for many, the question about whether they feel pain remained...
The following is an excerpt from the book Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era, published by the Penguin Group and released this week. The story began in Miami New Times. Frankie Ratcliff's phone buzzed just before 7:30 p.m. September 10, 2010. The text...
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Yesterday, rumors and speculation flooded the internet regarding the future of AC/DC -- also known as one of the greatest, (mostly) unmolested treasures in rock 'n' roll. It was reported by a well-respected Australian music journalist that the band is preparing to call it quits due to complications surrounding founding...
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Saving Dumbo
Music cruises provide a great experience on the high seas, but they can also offer some significant life lessons as well. Take for example, the Moody Blues Cruise, which jump-started April with a fantastic onboard lineup that included not only the cruise's namesake but also special guest Roger Daltrey, Carl...
Every nationality is known for a different specialty: Italians makes perfect pastas; Japanese can work magic with raw fish; Argentineans consume copious amounts of beef; the French can make something delicious from any imaginable animal part. And when it comes to signature cuisines across the world it's all over the...
While nutritionists and your mom stress eating a healthy breakfast (usually consisting of fruit, Greek yogurt, and something with fiber in it that tastes like either warm gruel or cardboard with soy milk), we crave warm doughnuts fresh from the oven, served with a piping hot cup of Joe. Krispy...
It's been a busy weekend for brewers in Florida: the start of Tampa Bay Beer Week with the Florida Brewers Guild Festival and the judged awards of the Best Florida Beer's Brewer's Ball. This past Sunday, March 2, brewers from all over the state descended on Tampa to find out...
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It's #FloridaBeerFriday. Every Friday, we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft beer movement of Florida. This week we're popping up north to one of the area's long standing microbreweries, Tequesta Brewing Company, all the way up in Tequesta, naturally...
Tribute bands sometimes find themselves stifled by having to hew to the music made by those they're emulating. In many cases, they're little more than cover bands with a singular focus. But with Crazy Fingers, a Grateful Dead tribute band, that's never been the case. They not only emulate the...
While "coming out of the closet" is associated with the LGBT community, everyone — gay or straight — has secrets. And the energy needed to keep a secret can take its toll. Bottling up the truth can be like a personal prison — a madness that's hard to escape. A...
United for Care campaign manager Ben Pollara is expressing outrage after a Florida woman was abruptly visited by Florida Child Protective Services last week on an anonymous tip that she had been administering marijuana to her son, who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy. Turns out, Renee Petro was...
The measure that could lead the way to virtually ending greyhound racing in Florida hit an abrupt snag earlier this week, putting a damper on some serious momentum gained by proponents in the past several months. While state senators approved a bill on Tuesday that would require racetracks to report...
South Florida prison reform and immigrant rights activists are mounting a vigil this evening at the Boca Raton home of GEO Group CEO George Zoley, in support of hunger strikers at the global private prison company's Tacoma and Houston-area immigrant detention centers. See also: - GEO Group Earns Over $600,000...
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Fort Lauderdale used to be the spring break capital of the world and still draws a hearty crowd, and Miami has Winter Music Conference coming up in two weeks, but if you're a college kid making Palm Beach County your destination, ain't no shame in it. Partiers have grown a...
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The 2013 Village Voice Film Poll
Inside a conference room at Major League Baseball's modernist Manhattan headquarters, Rob Manfred stared down Alex Rodriguez. The fate of both men -- the future commissioner of baseball and the era's greatest slugger -- hung in the balance. Rodriguez was furiously fighting a record suspension for buying steroids from a...
Imagine if your first claim to fame was being featured in an article as the "top partier" at the top party school, Florida State University. It'd be kind of a crazy thing right? Now imagine Oliver Stone read that article and bought the rights to make a movie about your...