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Florida Man Arrested While Protesting Red Light Cameras

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...
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Rush: An Action Movie Worth Seeing on the Big Screen

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...
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South Floridians Suspend to Find Enlightenment

Eric Madrid is a 32-year-old shaman with a cropped beard, a protruding lower lip, and dark curls grown long in the back. Although he typically wears an all-black uniform, from flat-brimmed cap to high-top skate shoes, he's barefoot and stripped to his skinny jeans this January night. He lies prostrate...
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Maximo Caminero’s Million-Dollar Attack on the Miami Art World

On February 16, a middle-aged man with hazel eyes and a crown of salt-and-pepper hair walked into Pérez Art Museum Miami. The heavy wooden doors on the new $220 million public building swung open with a whisper. Smooth jazz murmured from speakers hidden somewhere in the Dorothy and Aaron Podhurst...
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Florida Education Commissioner to Resign UPDATED

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...
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Broward, Palm Beach School Grades Decline, Hit D’s and F’s

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...
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Hollow Leg: “Florida Is Home. It Is the Swamp. It Is the Abyss.”

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...
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BangBros Accused of Underage Porn

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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The Hunt an Allegory About a Man Falsely Accused of Pedophilia

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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Florida High School Bans Backpacks After Supposed Bomb Threat

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

They'll tell you they weren't scared. They were just sick of the stories, sick of the escalating pressure, sick of the dark cloud that hung over the school and seemed to be growing by the day. But calm and collected people don't abruptly pack their belongings and hitch rides to...
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Biogenesis: When Will Bosch Get His Due?

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...
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Why Would Five Teens Gang-Rape a Friend? Check Facebook

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...