Editor’s note: To protect living members of Max Mermelstein’s family, his alias and certain names have been changed. Aspiring filmmaker Brett Tabor tops a medium popcorn with jalapeños, as is his custom, and sits down in the air-conditioned darkness in a Delray Beach movie house to watch a 7 o’clock…
The lanky 20-something white kid crouches behind some shrubs outside an office building. He wears chest-length black dreads stuffed under a striped “Alcatraz” hat and appears to be playing soldier on a sunny January afternoon in downtown Fort Lauderdale. “This is how we do,” whispers the rapper, who calls himself…
So I watched the end of last night’s Sunrise Commission meeting and thought it was pretty interesting drama. So I asked Chaz Stevens to jimmy up a synopsis vid, and here’s what he put together (I could have had it done but would have had to go through a guy in Kansas…
The 14th Dalai Lama, the highest holy man in Tibetan Buddhism, now has a Twitter account with 109,049 followers after 13 tweets.With about 8,388 followers per tweet, the Dalai Lama seems to be in touch with how 21st-century technology can spread his message. Which, according to his speech today at…
Chrissy Benoit refuses to be pushed around. The owner of Havana Hideout, in Lake Worth, Benoit says the Palm Beach county tax collector’s office has essentially been shaking her down for an “entertainment fee” because the bar occasionally pays musicians to play live. Benoit says the tax is explicitly meant…
Some say a $10,000 annual membership at the Everglades Club buys you the most expensive parking spot on Palm Beach’s main drag, Worth Avenue. But what if you work at the club?Sorry, you’ll have to park somewhere else.That’s the message the exclusive country club’s managers announced this January in a…
A year after his death, many unanswered questions remain about the night Robert Rashard Tomlin broke into band teacher Heath Miller’s Wellington home, wielding a .40-caliber gun.Miller said he defended himself by firing a .38-caliber revolver at the masked intruder. A Palm Beach County sheriff’s incident report says Miller, 35,…
Last week, Andrea Huerfano was looking for some friends interested in a road trip to Tallahassee. This week, she’ll be in the state capital, campaigning for the DREAM Act, telling the story of how her family came to this country seeking asylum. A piece of federal legislation that has been…
It’s been six weeks since a deadly earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince, but that doesn’t mean things are getting any easier for the tens of thousands of people who have fled the city to find food and shelter in rural areas. Fred Chalker, a Lake Worth antiques dealer who founded Living Water…
On one side, you have the politically connected Bill Scherer and his law firm, and on the other, you have Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler, former state Sen. Skip Campbell, and Florida Bar President-Elect Scott Hawkins. Welcome to the civil suit involving former Judge Larry Seidlin, who became a national…
Mae Frances Feagin, president of Arlington Park Family in 2007, when the nonprofit accepted a $30,000 grant from the City of Deerfield Beach, declined to discuss how that money was spent during a brief phone call Tuesday evening.Juice had been trying to reach Feagin for the past week after having…
Tell us the best actor in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here for an archive of articles about local thesbians.And click here for a master list of all Readers’ Poll items…
Today’s a day off for me, but before a signoff, a look at the local headlines for you workin’ stiffs:Bad sign for the Broward County School District, which realized that its probe of the transportation department was just “too big” to be handled internally. Officials have handed it over to…
In 1991, Leroy McGee went to prison for an armed robbery. A year after his release in 1994, his name was cleared in court, confirming what he had been telling people all along — he was innocent. McGee is now making headlines 15 years after his name was cleared for…
UPDATED [After the jump, an update from what promises to be a wild Sunrise city hall meeting, which is already packed with people]: Well, I got former Scott Rothstein partner Stuart Rosenfeldt on the phone this afternoon. Rosenfeldt, who is now the subject of a $9 million-plus clawback lawsuit filed…
Where’s a sex offender to live in South Florida? Well, judging by the restrictive policies in Broward cities, they should live somewhere else. They just didn’t plan on a GPS-wielding sleuth like Randy Young, a former sex offender who places his fellow convicts in local housing — the legal kind.Young,…
Chief Financial Officer Dawn Javersack is the latest member of the Broward Health executive staff to tender her resignation, following last month’s power shift on the hospital district’s board. On Friday, Javersack gave a one-month notice. She will be joining Boca Community Hospital, according to an email announcement by CEO…
It looks like the murder trial of Jose Alfaro, charged with the premeditated, first-degree murder of his friend Steve Febonio, is gearing up to be a cliff-hanger. This month, state prosecutors told West Palm Beach Judge Amy Smith that they are seeking the death penalty for Alfaro, accused of murdering…
Former Politico reporter Jonathan Allen heard all the predictable “liberal media” howls late this past year after he left to join a committee for West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. All that grief only to leave the Wasserman Schultz office after a mere 40 days — and go back to…
It hardly seems fair for the Broward Sheriff’s Office to be chasing speeders using a car like the one above: the Dodge “Ghost” Challenger R/T, which looks merely like some spoiled teenager’s hot rod, until the flashing lights come on.Fortunately for leadfoots, there’s only one Ghost Challenger patrolling Broward roads…
Here’s what’s happening this Tuesday morning in Broward and Palm Beach:John Goodman, the Wellington polo patron who ran a stop sign earlier this month and killed another driver, had a cocaine habit, according to the divorce filings by his former wife. [Palm Beach Post]Narcy Novack, widow of slain Fontainebleau heir…
