It's not even November yet, and a record number of manatees has died this year. The total of 769 is more than has perished in any year since record keeping began, according to the Save the Manatee Club. More than 100 of them were babies. Almost 300 of them died...
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Chanel Farrell Phillips, the Jupiter woman who was missing since Saturday and was found with her car submerged in a Abacoa pond, died of drowning, the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner determined. The medical examiner also said that foul play is not suspected. Meanwhile, investigators are waiting on toxicology results,...
In an effort to quell the negative backlash from Blackfish, last Friday SeaWorld took out a full-page ad in major U.S. papers, including the Orlando Sentinel, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, in an all-out PR campaign designed to combat the allegations brought on it by the...
Though many would have you think that there are as many beverage options for Thanksgiving as sides, the best possible beer to pair with turkey would have to be Funky Buddha's Sweet Potato Casserole. The Oakland Park brewery starts with a light brown ale base, then adds the makings of...
A Republican state senator from Lakeland, Sen. Kelli Stargel, and a Democratic state rep from here in Plantation, Katie Edwards, cosponsored legislation Wednesday that would try to keep sex offenders who are on probation from accessing pornography. Edwards says her bill was the result of a Sun Sentinel article about...
Yesterday, Washington State voters struck down initiative 522 that would have mandated adding warning labels to genetically modified foods. While there might be a few people who think GMO's are bad and consumers have a right to know exactly what's inside the foods they eat -- Stephen Colbert is not...
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No matter what else he does, director Sam Raimi has two unassailable fan favorites under his belt: 1987's Evil Dead 2, and the 1992 trilogy-capper Army of Darkness. (His first film, 1981's The Evil Dead, is more "respected" than "loved" by the fans.) Released between those two films, Raimi's 1990...
Though a guitarist by trade, when the then-unnamed South Florida punk band Lose the Rookie held their first practice in the latter half of 1998, Paul Chase sat behind a drum kit doing his best to keep up. By all accounts, he was dreadfully bad. Joined by guitarist Tim Rohde,...
Whoever's flashing a green laser light in the dark near Palm Beach International Airport, knock it off. It's messing with flights, multiple pilots report. And it's a felony to aim a laser pointer at anyone driving a car, vessel, or aircraft. Authorities are trying to track down the flasher(s), according...
Some of the short-finned pilot whales that had stranded themselves in Florida's Everglades National Park earlier this week may have swam into deeper waters, according to the Coast Guard. About 20 or so whales of the 40 that had stranded themselves were missing on Friday morning, leading officials to believe...
When Kung Fu played last year at Bear Creek Music Festival at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park, it was almost too good. The band presented a rapid-fire assault of aggressive, hard-hitting, EDM-influenced funk; the results enraptured fully. There was nothing to do but dance your ass off and bounce...
Back at the end of 2011 and beginning of 2012, when Avicii's "Le7els" was pumping out of any device with a speaker attached, I couldn't get enough. I cherish pop sensibility as much as chops or technical prowess. Baby-faced Swedish producer, Tim Bergling, does not exactly conjure the most complicated...
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What becomes a legend most? After prolonged incubation, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom offers the biopic's usual reply: legend itself. Bigger, louder, more expensive legend, brought to bear by the best talents and technologies of the day. The name Nelson Mandela has long been shorthand for the things Mandela shows...
When Kung Fu played last year at Bear Creek Music Festival at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park, it was almost too good. The band presented a rapid-fire assault of aggressive, hard-hitting, EDM-influenced funk; the results enraptured fully. There was nothing to do but dance your ass off and bounce...
It seems everything these days is in danger of being rendered useless by the internet. The mighty blue Blockbuster fell to Netflix. Bookstores were chewed up and spit out by Amazon. And now the U.S. Postal Service's only job is to make sure Chris Christie never runs out of Oreos...
Looks like the city of Pompano Beach has had enough of Club Cinema and is looking to have the dance club shut down. Known for its raves, the club has kept law enforcement busy. Located on Federal Highway just south of Sample Road, it has had many a run-in with...
We've all witnessed the meteoric rise of indie-rock starlets and West Palm natives Surfer Blood. Starting out like most local bands do, they spent time begging promoters for a shot and hustling for gigs, but this quartet rode a lightning bolt of success that ultimately landed them on Universal Records...
Now here's something you don't see every day -- especially here in South Florida. A bubble tea bar. The Wellington Green mall is home to the Black Pearl Boba Tea bar, a sort of coffee house that specializes in Japanese milk tea, otherwise known as tapioca milk tea, pearl tea...
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National Geographic made an interactive map recently to show what exactly would happen to the earth if all the ice melted. And good news, everybody, we'd all drown! Other big cities, like New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, and London would also be screwed. But only partially. Florida, on the...
There's a new Kickstarter in town, and coffee lovers, you'll want to listen up. A South Florida-based entrepreneur has developed a new way to brew java using several methods in-one to create what he terms the "perfect cup of coffee." A sort of serial inventor, West Palm Beach's Chic Kelty...
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: South Florida's first festival and a memorable moment with Jimi Hendrix. In May 1968, South Florida had very little to boast about when it came to placing its imprint on...
The poker player's white Nikes had just hit the concrete outside New York's John F. Kennedy Airport the night before Thanksgiving. The sky was bruising over with twilight. Terminal 5 was a hectic holiday beehive of passengers hustling for last-minute JetBlue hops. And there was Eric Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years...