There's an unavoidable flaw in the one-woman show Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, and that's the fact that it's not written by Ivins herself. The liberal Texas firebrand, whose syndicated columns had run in 400 newspapers by the time she lost her battle with breast cancer...
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The endless love in question unfolds in that universe where shy, bookish teenage girls are always catalog-model beautiful, not a pimple in sight or a pound overweight, not a garment from Hot Topic darkening their closets. The movie tells us that 17-year-old Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde) is “awkward” and has...
Critics of oil company plans to drill in the Everglades saw some of their worst fears realized late last week when the Florida Department of Environmental Protection revealed it had sanctioned Texas-based Dan A. Hughes Co. for unauthorized fracking in Collier County in an area surrounded by the Corkscrew Swamp...
Since the 1970s, rock bands have feverishly plundered the reggae springing out of the islands of the Caribbean and the West Indian neighborhoods of London and New York. Clapton, Blondie, and Led Zeppelin all either covered or lovingly entwined their own sound with the bass-heavy grooves of everything from dub...
Most of the time, we prefer our holidays to be separate -- more reason to keep the celebration going throughout the year. But as long as the commingling of festivities doesn't result in a less food or fewer gifts, we can deal with it. This year the first night of...
Suburbs don't get much tidier than Coral Springs. The boxy patch of West Broward is made up of neighborhoods of modest ranch homes planted evenly on shady, manicured lawns. It's Mayberry 2.0, a David Lynch movie before shit goes bad. Behind the front door of one such modest suburban house...
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Suburbs don't get much tidier than Coral Springs. The boxy patch of West Broward is made up of neighborhoods of modest ranch homes planted evenly on shady, manicured lawns. It's Mayberry 2.0, a David Lynch movie before shit goes bad. Behind the front door of one such modest suburban house...
If you count forward from Jim Henson's mid-1960s TV appearances with a fringy pup named Rowlf and the lizard, made from an old winter coat, who would later become Kermit the Frog, the Muppets have outlived most of their early puppet peers by more than two generations: You don't see...
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida's musical environs. This week, Lee's weirder encounters...
In the world of music journalism, an otherwise run-of-the mill meeting with a rock star can suddenly become awkward. Take these scenarios as examples... Those old...
The voices coming from the television in room 108 of the Grand Hotel in Dania Beach told Carlos Cadavid to murder his girlfriend. That's what Cadavid, 23, told homicide detectives after he fessed up to shooting to death his girlfriend of four days on Valentine's Day. After he shot and...
Congratulations, Colorado. Not only are you one of the most beautiful places in the United States in which to visit, you're now the first state where the sale of recreational marijuana is legal to anyone age 21 or older. That means that everyone in the rest of the country is...
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Nothing quite kicked a hole in the social fabric of South Florida than the pill mil craze of the early aughts. Back during the boom, it seemed like every strip mall in the tri-county area packed a pain clinic where you could scoop up weapons-grade pharmaceuticals. Now, after a crack...
The night before I met Jason Handelsman at the Sports Grill on the Green (the one at the Palmetto Golf Course off U.S. 1), I was pacing in my bathroom and brushing my teeth when, out of nowhere, I felt like Jason and I were communicating somehow -- both of...
Earlier in the year, Google and Visit Florida recruited four men to walk 825 miles of Florida's coastline, with the goal of photographing Florida's beaches, then posting the results on Google Street View for all to see. The journey for the four men consisted of lugging around 45 -pound backpacks...
The 2014 Winter Olympics are about to begin in the 'resort' town of Sochi on the Black Sea in Russia. As you may know, scandal after scandal has hit the administration of president Vladimir Putin, including the Olympic site not being finished and the numerous human rights issues aimed at...
Alexander Bradley has some pretty awful luck when it comes to getting shot. Or maybe he just needs to stay away from hanging out at clubs to the wee hours of the night. The man who was once allegedly shot in the face by Aaron Hernandez at a local strip...
This Saturday night, locals'll get a rare opportunity to witness Hollywood's own trebled-out surf rockers Beach Day in their own element. The trio will be performing in their hometown at the ArtsPark in Downtown Hollywood, the first time the band has taken the stage at this unique venue, according to...
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Lavola is back, and in a big way. County Grind received word last week that one of Palm Beach County's fiercest sonic forces had just completed its next album titled This Book Is My Cowardice. Through the social media webs, we heard a smidgen of Lavola frontman Julian Cires' next...
They were coming for him. At first, Nicholas Cutter could only see their shadows flitting behind buildings in the distance. Then he could feel their bullets thwacking into the walls around him. Finally, he could see them — men with AKs and rocket-propelled grenades. Dozens of them. Descending like locusts...
Sadly, Florida has seen a lot of pilot whales wash ashore or beach themselves in the past couple of months. Last Sunday, 25 pilot whales were found dead off the shores of Kice Island, in the southwest part of the state. On Friday, a team of biologists began performing necropsies...
Twenty-two-year-old Alayna Lakatos admits that the backyard of her house on Seventh Avenue in Delray Beach needs landscaping. There's hardly any grass. She moved in last month with two roommates, but on Saturday, January 25, her roommate's dog, Otis, a German Shepherd-Lab mix, was outside working in the yard. When...