Lionfish are nothing new. The vibrant and venomous invasive species has been screwing up local marine habitats since the first one was recorded in U.S. waters off our very own Dania Beach back in 1985. Their persistence prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to release a new reports on best practices for controlling...
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A stacked-deck theological inquiry filtered through a Titanic-by-way-of-Slumdog Millionaire narrative, Life of Pi manages occasional spiritual wonder through its 3-D visuals but otherwise sinks like a stone. It's no shock that Ang Lee brings to his high-seas adventure graceful and refined aesthetics devoid of any unique signature or pressing emotion,...
"There's hardly a bass player alive that doesn't owe gratitude to Jaco for how he changed the role of the bass. Moreover, Jaco left an indelible mark on the music world as an uncompromising artist and composer. The music Jaco created during his brief lifetime sounds just as fresh and...
Let's face it, most of our food fun is for adults only, but when Halloween rolls around, we all get to act like kids for a change -- even if some older trick-or-treaters take dressing up a little too far. Or course, there's no harm in staying in and letting...
Ah, the holiday season, a time for holiday parties and tons of food. While the holidays are always a great excuse to pig out on all those home-cooked goodies, it's also a great reason to get slogged off festive cocktails and martinis with your extended family and friends. This year, celebrate...
How's this for conceptual art? Invite more than a dozen artists — some working individually, some as teams — to create interactive installations, each inspired by a hole of miniature golf. Devote a museum's prime display space to the results and call it art. Sit back and watch as people...
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The Bourne films have more than just overstayed their welcome and outlasted the Ludlum books — they've been Van Halenized, with an abrupt change of frontman and a resulting dip in personality. The only big-ass popcorn franchise of the past decade to have not been spawned on computers, the series...
The results are in: Broward County just didn't have a single crap to give when it came to the primary elections last night.According to the Florida Division of Elections website, Broward posted 10.69 percent turnout, which is pretty darned low, even for Broward's traditional meh stance on primary election nights,...
As Suleiman Yousef fires a sleek black AR-15-style rifle, orange and blue muzzle bursts flash inside the Trail Glades Gun Range in West Miami-Dade. The rapid-fire rounds ping off a metal target 100 yards away. His thick arms hold steady against the explosive recoil. Then Yousef, a 31-year-old South Miami...
For everyone who has missed Martha Stewart since she signed-off on her last Martha show in May, we give you reason to rejoice with this month's debut of her new TV series, Martha Stewart's Cooking School, inspired by her 2008 cookbook of the same title. Unlike her daily eponymous-titled show, which was...
I really hate battles of the bands. I mean, besides the fact that my bands never won, it's just a reminder that we're all doing this shit for selfish reasons, despite what anyone says. Yet for some reason I always ended up competing. I just wish my final performance wasn't...
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In 1962, an artist named Andy Warhol created a series of portraits of his favorite food. The result? The now iconic Campbell's Soup screen prints were the catalyst of the pop art movement and changed our views on fine art forever. These cans, by the way, last sold for $9,042,500...
Federal officials are poised to deport a diabetic man this afternoon, despite a doctor's insistence that he get a surgical procedure so he doesn't go blind, local immigration activists say. The case concerns an Ecuadorian man named Miguel Castillo-Santos, who was detained this past January at the Broward Transitional Center. His lawyer claims...
Bet you can't even count how many times you've screamed out at the TV, the DJ, the person in the passenger seat next to you, in response to the words A1A, "Beachfront Avenue!"In 1989, Vanilla Ice, AKA Robert Matthew Van Winkle, made it big time with his debut album, Hooked...
Ted Nugent is a musical hero that has no equal.Put any other guitar warrior in a life or death scenario -- the end result would be death. If Eddie Van Halen was fighting crocodiles in the Everglades, his only defense would be finger-tapping up and down the croc's bumpy spine...
See also "Fort Lauderdale Proposes 2013 Budget; City Hall's $300,000 Paint Job"Fort Lauderdale released its 2013-17 Community Investment Plan, a hulking document chock-full of expensive proposals. There are some noble and seemingly necessary ideas that could improve life in the city and give a much-needed boost to antiquated infrastructure. Then there are the...
We weren't really sure about writing about anti-abortion fanatic militant Randall Terry until we came across the photo, below, taken from his debate last December with Vermin Supreme. (Randall's the one without a boot on his head.) After that, we had no choice. Vermin, you may not know, is running...
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Back in March, the non-profit watchdog group Integrity Florida put out a study that said Florida was number one in terms of being the most corrupt state in the U.S. Their study found that a whopping 1,762 of Florida's public officials have been convicted of public corruption since 1976. From...
Looks like the scrutiny and tales of abuse were too much for Youth Services International's Thompson Academy, a private boys' jail under contract with Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice. After a New Times cover story, the departure of an embattled administrator, and an unprecedented review by a judicial panel, the DJJ...
At 1 p.m today, Allen West fans outside the St.Lucie County courthouse were parading with signs and chanting, "What do we want?" and "When do we want it?" Answer one was "Recount!" Answer two was "Now!"At 3 p.m., Circuit Judge Dan Vaughn told them "No" on both points. But by...
In Thinking Cap Theatre's The Drawer Boy, Scott Douglas Wilson is the picture of a citified dork in the early 1970s. He plays Miles, a playwright in a Canadian theater company who has descended upon a rural farmhouse to study its residents' lives for a play about farming. To the...