Sometimes the news isn’t serious; it’s silly. Some of that’s floating around today. And this story is what experts call a “so what?” story.A reporter was actually assigned, and wrote, an article about ice cream sales spiking in the summer. Stop the presses, fellas. Hold on there, hoss — you…
“And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on like a madman.” — The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde It was as if he were two people. Most of the time,…
On a hot Tuesday night in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, New York, in a storefront next to a Rent-a-Center on Roosevelt Avenue, a meeting room fills rapidly. Over the din of the elevated 7 train, the large hall buzzes with Spanish dialects from various Latin American countries. The…
If it weren’t so obvious, it might be shocking. We learned today in a federal court hearing that Narcy Novack is suspected to have had a hand in killing not only her husband, Ben Novack, but his mother, Bernice, the former queen of the Fountainbleu Hotel. Finally, we get a…
Sean Healy’s “Riviera Manor” in the Weston Hills Country Club was a veritable Ponzi playground, a seven-bedroom mansion that both headquartered the scam and hosted its trappings. The court turned the property over to Melanie Damian’s Miami receivership on December 4, but it wasn’t until this June that the property…
Or “clean off” as they wrote in The Sun over there in England, where they didn’t come out and say what everyone in the world must be thinking: This Timothy Delano, who lost his left hand to an alligator last Sunday, does not sound like he resembles an intelligent individual…
A front-page story in today’s Palm Beach Post blasts the Houston-based engineering and construction firm Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) for not hiring enough local workers on its $200 million solid waste project in western Palm Beach County. One small detail is missing: KBR’s sordid track record of hurting workers…
“I would be in Congress, and I would be black.”
West Davie Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale is one of the most culturally diverse, fascinatingly real, and interesting parts of the city, where you can grab some egg-drop soup at a Chinese buffet, a baleada at a Honduran eatery, or a papusa at a Salvadoran joint. But would you really want…
Let’s see, the Broward County School Board construction department has been horribly mismanaged, has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars, and was at the heart of a federal criminal case that recently sent one elected official to prison. Make no mistake: The School Board is a monumental mess, and there is…
We live in South Florida, one of the warmest climates in the country. And on top of that, this one of the hottest summers we’ve had in years. So why would anyone ever need a fur coat down here?That’s what the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida was thinking when members…
Sometimes bad news strikes, occasionally it creeps up from behind, sometimes it smothers, and every once in a while, it bites, like it seems to have done down in Key West and could start happening up here as well.One thing no one wants to wake up to is dengue fever,…
A Michigan woman sentenced to spend nine to 30 years in prison for having sex with her son shares some similarities to the story of Bruce McMahan, the Fisher Island millionaire who married his daughter. New Times broke the McMahan story in the September 2006 cover story titled “Daddy’s Girl.”Like…
Though it sounded like a good idea a month ago, the City of Sunrise does not appear poised to stage a benefit concert to raise money for residents in foreclosure.”There has been no discussion of a benefit concert, nor has the board ever voted for a benefit concert,” says commissioner…
Hear that — the pitter-patter of bare feet? They belong to Colton Harris-Moore, AKA “The Barefoot Bandit,” the boy who launched 75,000 Facebook friends with his illegal exploits. He’s on his way.The closest U.S. federal courthouse to the Bahamas (where Harris-Moore finally fell into the long, loving arms of the…
The latest PR splash for the South Florida Tea Party pairs the conservative activists with a strange bedfellow, the New York Times. Even weirder, the much-ridiculed protest group appears to have chosen a worthy cause. Tomorrow, the activists plan to protest Charlie Crist’s $536 million proposal to help…
This thing about politicians naming things after themselves got me to thinking about some things that desperately need to have their titles changed. Naming things after terrible-terrible politicians demeans the entire county. We need to name things after people who actually made a positive change or at least had a…
When the Juice gets a call about the horrible standards set by the competition, we usually turn a deaf ear, since complainers and haters roam unchecked, like backyard iguanas. Plus, most reporters we know are too busy trying to dodge a pink slip to fall afoul of ethics. But the…
If you live in Coral Springs, Coconut Creek, or Wellington, start bending your elbow and reaching for those shoulder blades, because it’s time to pat yourself on the back: Money magazine named the cities 44th, 48th, and 72nd, respectively, on its annual “Best Places to Live” list. The three cities…
As soon as we heard about the death of George Steinbrenner, we couldn’t help but think about his Fort Lauderdale connection. After all, the Yankees did spend 33 spring-training years down here. Not all of those were good years, if memory serves, since more than once did ol’ George pull…
Women from all over the state descended upon Davie for the annual Miss Florida USA pageant this weekend. And because the Fur Information Council of America is one of the official pageant sponsors (and gives away fur coats as totally appropriate “prizes” for South Florida) animal activists were out in…
