The Dunkin’ Donuts off State Road 84 in Davie has a lot of perks for a 24-hour fast-food joint — two flat-screen computers, a couch, a leather recliner, conference rooms available for rent at $8 or $12 an hour. Its brightly-lit dining room full of patrons tapping away on laptops…
Photo by Tim Elfrink The world’s sweatiest Canadian TV reporter gets funky with the Saints.To the unitiated, Super Bowl Media Day must sound like some outrageous backstage fantasy. Media and players partying together! Celebrities around every corner! Free buffet lunch! Well not to worry, ignorant and uninvited masses. Riptide is…
Scott and Kim Rothstein’s million-dollar wedding at the Versace mansion. The public pronouncements about how nothing was more important to him than his wife. The countless photographs of the couple in society publications, playing the role of Broward royalty. Behind the Rothstein facade, behind the $6.5 million house, the millions in jewelry,…
Everything that makes South Florida the Vice capital of the country–the drugs, the sex, the gambling–is amplified during the week of the Super Bowl. But nothing ruins the perfect party week like someone dying or going to jail. So this week we’ll be presenting The Juice Vice Guide to South…
After the earthquake struck Haiti, there wasn’t time to decide exactly what role South Florida hospitals would play in treating victims. Nor was there time to figure out how those facilities would be paid in instances where the victims were Haitian citizens. But three weeks after the devastating quake, there’s…
As the weather slowly warms for the big game, let’s see what the local headlines have to say:Sun Life Stadium had a mighty scare last night when a stage collapsed during a Super Bowl rehearsal, injuring four people. Not exactly the publicity that the folks at Sun Life had in…
The Republican primary election for the seat in Congress vacated by Robert Wexler was too close to call last night, forcing a manual recount in Broward and Palm Beach elections offices. As of this moment, businessman Ed Lynch has 3,320 votes in a district that straddles the two counties. Joe…
Well, they did it. The Broward County Commission, that most august body, voted to overturn the will of their constituents to build a new courthouse for our shining criminal justice system, stalwart legal community, and of course the interests of downtown powerbrokers and developers. Hey we knew Broward County Mayor Ken Keechl liked to…
It’s tough to imagine how one goes from drinking and partying with friends to breaking into a neighbor’s house wielding a gun, but that is the path Palm Beach County sheriff’s detectives say Robert Rashard Tomlin, 22, followed the night before he was killed by former band teacher Heath Miller.Tomlin’s…
As the host of this year’s Super Bowl, some South Florida blog owes America the chance to see the commercials that were deemed too hot for the big game. Or to put it another way, these are commercials that were ditched in the same year that Tim Tebow and his…
NASCAR races aren’t known for their racial diversity. And the traditional good ol’ boy fan base isn’t known for voting for Democrats. But maybe it’s a place where an African American Democrat can score a few swing votes in Florida’s U.S. Senate race. Presumably, that’s the motive behind Congressman Kendrick…
That’s a video from Saturday of Damon Weaver, the Canal Point Elementary student who became world-famous during his 2008 quest to interview Barack Obama. The kid landed that interview this past summer. Judging by this more recent video at Fort Lauderdale’s Lockhart Stadium, Weaver has followed the traditional journalism career…
Spirit Air wants you to use your internet connection to check out some MUFF — that is, its “Many Unbelievably Fantastic Fares.” What other muffs are there?In fact, judging by the advertisement above, the Miramar-based airline encourages you to physically lunge for its low fares. To be a MUFF diver,…
Broward Health CEO Frank Nask’s job is safe, as is that of a friend who he hired and to whom he gave a generous raise. Commissioner Mike Fernandez has received legal assurances that his job with an ultrasound manufacturer is not a conflict of interest. And seven appointed board members…
Of all the things to steal and of all the times to steal it, Gerrell Hall made some poor choices. The 22-year-old has been arrested by Boynton Beach Police for having stolen a container full of cash designated for Haiti relief.Police relied on surveillance video in identifying Hall as the…
Once Kim Wendell moved into Scott Rothstein’s $2.7 milllion house in the summer of 2005, she began to realize just how much her independent and at times rambling life was about to change. This was a girl who was basically on her own at the age of 16, when she moved into the…
Let’s see what’s in the local news this morning.An internal affairs investigation found that Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley did not involve himself inappropriately in the car crash case of Moe Sohail, a close friend of both Adderley’s and disgraced Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein’s. [Sun-Sentinel]The 65-year-old black woman who…
Tell us who’s the best radio personality in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here for an archive of New Times articles about all things radio.And click here for a master list of all Readers’ Poll items…
Earlier today, we warned folks about the dangers of calling 911 from the freeway with a fabricated story of being in danger when the real motive is to get a ride to Miami. Another lesson for aspiring criminals: It’s hard to make a clean getaway when the Cadillac you stole…
Alexi Giannoulias is the favorite to win the Democratic nomination for Senate in Illinois, but first he’ll have to beat back some pesky questions about his time as a chief loan officer at Broadway Bank. Among them: a $12.9 million green light he gave to a South Florida businessman, Michael…
