In social settings, having celiac disease is kind of like being Edward Snowden -- your options are limited (not to mention crappy), and no one knows what the hell to do with you. Telling your host at a party or your coworkers during happy hour that you can't drink beer...
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Political progressives from all across Florida are gathering tomorrow for a day-long conference in West Palm Beach under the banner "Agenda 2014 - Policy Positions for Progress." The group will focus on issues rather than candidates, though according to the meeting's mission statement: "The conference will serve as a launching...
A Central Florida man named Mark Schmidter is being celebrated among libertarians after he was arrested September 14 while protesting red light cameras at an intersection in Apopka. According to a police report Schmidter posted online, officer Robert Campbell saw him in the intersection. The officer claims Schmidter was walking...
It's 1976, a year when all the groovy girls are traipsing around in tiny suede skirts and all the cool guys have Badfinger hair. One of those guys was English racing driver James Hunt, the charismatic rapscallion who won that year's Formula One World Championship — the embroidered badge on...
A follow-up from an old story: Collette O' Neill (formerly Spears) claimed that in December 2009, Riviera Beach Police officers knocked on her door while she was in bed and said they wanted her to let them her house and into her backyard. A single woman, she said they could...
The last thing the director did before shouting "action" was serve Amber a slice of pizza. She understands now that it was a ploy: one final nod to normalcy before upending her life forever. But back then, at age 15, she was too distracted by the party and the promise...
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UPDATE: Bennett has officially resigned. See his press conference statement below Tony Bennett, Florida's Education Commissioner, will resign after allegations of his changing a charter school's grade in Indiana to benefit a big money bags Republican donor cropped up earlier this week. The news of his resignation comes a day...
If you live in western Palm Beach County, you may want to be concerned about possible radioactive contamination in the area, the law firm of Searcy, Denney Scarola Barnhart and Shipley warned late Friday. In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control confirmed there had been a cluster of children living...
Bred in Massachusetts and tempered in Florida's sun, Hollow Leg started off as a duo with original members Brent and Tim. When reviewing their first full-length effort, Instinct, I once wrote: "There is nothing imaginary about where these two dudes store their energy. Nah, the hollow leg here refers to...
School grades were released on Friday for elementary and middle schools in Broward and Palm Beach and -- whoa, nelly -- it doesn't look good. The number of failing schools is up, while there's a serious decline in overall grades for both districts, with A-rated schools falling from 48 percent...
Holopaw is named after a Central Florida town not very far from the Gainesville band's main stomping ground. Wikipedia claims the name "derives from Indian term for 'place where something is hauled'," But if the Seminole word for haul is "hol" or something, we'll eat a shoe. Either way, there's...
Opens Friday at Cinema Paradiso, 503 SE Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale; 954-525-3456; fliff.com. Also at Living Room Theaters, FAU Main Campus, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton; 561-549-2600; fau.livingroomtheaters.com.A Danish allegory about a man falsely accused of pedophilia (the dashing, quietly charismatic Mads Mikkelsen) and the town that turns against him,...
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A bathroom wall at Wellington High School had a message scrawled on it which warned that a student or students would "blow up the school" this Friday. As a result, school administrators have banned backpacks and large purses from school grounds for the remainder of the school year. Police, meanwhile,...
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The Cult of Lloyd Irvin
Evan Rowe has been a part of Fort Lauderdale's music scene for over a decade now. If you're a newcomer or a young-ish millennial following music around these parts, you probably know him as the often-tutued half of the cross-dressing outfit Travalonia, a band name that mashes the moniker of...
Late in the evening on a hot November night, a blue Dodge Challenger rolled to a stop outside a two-bedroom yellow house in Hollywood. A 16-year-old girl with wavy hair and brown, sad eyes sat in the passenger seat. A Samsung Galaxy glowed in her hands. Watching her send text...
Right now, people pretty skeptical about big ag, specifically Monsanto. As a result of the failure of California's Prop. 37 last November--the state's GMO mandatory labeling initiative -- and the passage of the 'Monsanto Protection Act' -- i.e. the Farmer's Assurance Provision, a part of the Continuing Resolution Act--a large...
The FAU faculty senate's academic freedom committee has released its first report on the school's "Step on Jesus" controversy of last spring. Meticulous and detailed, its conclusions are a blistering indictment of the administration of former school President Mary Jane Saunders. See also: - In Defense of FAU Instructor Deandre...
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Britni Hiatt, the FAU student protest leader who was clipped by then-FAU President Mary Jane Saunders' 2011 Lexus GS as Saunders was leaving a meeting, claims that she has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the accident. Since the accident, Hiatt has been attending psychotherapeutic...
The headlines landed last Monday from Boston to Copenhagen to New York to London. Thirteen Major League Baseball players had been suspended, including the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, who was hit with a massive 211-game beatdown. It had all started with a January Miami New Times investigation into a tiny Coral...
The Miami Dolphins head into EverBank Field in Jacksonville tonight to take on the Jaguars for their second pre-season hoedown of 2013. Last week, against the Cowboys, the Fins looked as bad as a team that calls itself a professional football team could look. And while we know watching this...
Cold fluorescent light bounces off the slick white floors of the hallway. Doors slam; girls scream in the distance. A half dozen police officers march across the tile. Staffers wrapped in blue hospital scrubs trot behind. Outside, 20 cop cruisers and two ambulances paint the parking lot with their reds...