This month’s edition of Muscle & Fitness magazine tells the story of a man so devoted to his weightlifting regimen that he leaves his home in Davie and braves the 60-mile round trip to the University of Miami’s gym. It’s Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, wrestler turned actor. Here’s the video…
For those who live in Fort Lauderdale, the best tour guide is a person who doesn’t live in Fort Lauderdale. Like the San Francisco Chronicle’s travel editor, who must not have ventured far from his extravagant perch at the new W Hotel.No mention of how the city’s housing market was…
Jack Seiler is having it out with Chaz Stevens after the mayor found the blogger in his law firm’s parking lot Sunday morning. Seiler chased Stevens off his property and said he called the cops to investigate, starting an exchange of heated words today from both of them.It began last…
Col. Allen West, candidate for Congress in Ron Klein’s coastal South Florida district, has another YouTube clip for his trophy case. This one comes from last month’s “Reclaim American Liberty” conference in New York City. West gave a blunt answer to a question about why Islamic jihadists hate us nice…
Above is a video taken at Bova Prime last week of the still-existing cigar lockers of Scott Rothstein and his closest compatriots. You’ll have to watch the short vid to see the names, but, as Kim Rothstein might say, it’s the usual suspects (including a high-ranking BSO officer). Also, we’ll be keeping up with…
Your local headlines:More than a month after the earthquake struck Haiti, the body of 19-year-old Britney Gengel was recovered from the debris of the Hotel Montana. She is the last of the four missing students from Boca’s Lynn University. [Palm Beach Post]In Palm Beach County, there are more than 90…
Here’s what we covered this past week on Juice:A fresh batch of controversy this week for Judge John “Jay” Hurley, who for months has been receiving anonymous, spam-style praise in the comment threads of New Times blogs. Eric Barton traced a number of those messages to an IP address in…
The man credited with saving polo in Palm Beach killed a man Thursday night. John Goodman, heir to a giant air-conditioning fortune and founder of the International Polo Club, blew through a stop sign and slammed his black Bentley (sound familiar?) into a Hyundai driven by Scott Wilson, a 23-year-old recent college graduate. The impact of the high-speed crash sent…
The Miami Dolphins just announced the release of pass-rushing specialist Joey Porter. Signed in March 2007 to a five-year, $32-million contract, Porter played in 14 games last year, posting 41 tackles and nine sacks. But after a disappointing Dolphin debut, followed by a sterling all-pro season in 2008, those 2009…
It all started when owners of a French restaurant decided the noise from a bar next door was causing customer indigestion.They politely — well, as politely as the French can — asked their neighbors to turn it down during the dinner hour. The open-air bar told the French to go…
OK, I’ve got a lot of stuff brewing. More from Bob Scandiffio is coming, specifically about what it was like driving Scott Rothstein around for a year and change. Let’s put it this way: In a lot of ways, Scandiffio’s account confirms Kim Rothstein’s self-portrayal as a neglected wife in ways even I found a little…
Scott Rothstein neighbor, cartoon cameo-maker, and victim of midget violence Scottie Pippen is close to earning induction into the Hall of Fame for that other thing he did: play basketball.According to an ESPN report, Pip is one of 19 finalists for the Naismith Hall of Fame — a group that…
A 36-year-old man from Boynton Beach was charged today with forcing a 14-year-old girl to have sex.The incest allegations against the man, Martin Baugh, suggest that he was related to the victim, though the probable cause affidavit redacts that information to protect the victim’s identity.The affidavit says that Baugh confessed…
In their investigation of the fatal shooting of Robert Rashard Tomlin last year, Palm Beach County sheriff’s detectives made a clear distinction from the start. Yes, this was a homicide. Tomlin, 22, was shot by Heath Miller, a former band teacher at H.L. Watkins Middle School.But because Tomlin died after…
With Valentine’s Day in the offing, let’s take a moment to reflect upon our region’s latest, greatest romantic catastrophe. Maestro, please?Page2Live’s Jose Lambiet found a salacious lawsuit that was filed this week against Palm Beach Pops’ conductor Bob Lappin. In the complaint, Lappin is accused of subjecting Pops general manager…
A bus that belonged to X-Centric Club in Deerfield Beach was robbed on January 2 — and Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are still looking for the thief, who made off with $20,000 in cash and three handguns.The incident occurred around 10:30 a.m., while the bus was parked at the Wal-Mart…
No gliding into office for Dennis Beach. In just the second month since he was hired, the Pompano Beach city manager has a started a wrestling match with one of South Florida’s political behemoths: the Broward Sheriff’s Office, which is desperate to hold on to its $38.5 million contract to…
When Antonio Balta saw his 9-month-old daughter, Veronika, her eyes were rolled back in her head. Her body was limp. When he lifted her up, a thick, milky substance seeped from the baby’s mouth.Balta had been inside Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, waiting for his girlfriend to get off work…
This week’s New Times cover contains a haunting image of a human hand reaching out of the rubble of Port-au-Prince. Inside, we’ve rendered a photo essay by Michael McElroy, who also described what he saw during the week he spent in Haiti.At $375, the raffle tickets at Abracadabra run a…
Here’s what’s happening in Broward and Palm Beach:It appears that yet another group of public employees walked right into a federal sting. This time, the suits were back in Palm Beach County, where the U.S. Attorney’s Office revealed that state corrections officers in Belle Glade agreed to transport kilos of…
So what did former Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne actually do for Scott Rothstein after he went to work at his law firm one week after leaving prison in fall 2008? Well, among other projects, it turns out that Jenne was overseeing the Fort Lauderdale police detail, trying to develop an…
