Ocean currents only seem to behave randomly; researchers have detected a method to their movements. They’re coordinated in fashion similar to the way a muscle moves around a “skeleton.” By recognizing that system, researchers may be able to predict it, in the same way as meteorologists predict the weather. And…
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell arrives in Boca Raton this weekend, the site of the original inspiration of the book that became the movie. What are the critics saying about the magnum opus of Tucker Max, our local frat boy made good?Let’s start with our own Village Voice…
In a plot that might have been cooked up by Cheech and Chong, a Hialeah man and his uncle have been arrested for taking a road trip from Texas to South Florida in a semi truck packed with 230 pounds of hash. The drive ended just short of its goal,…
Toyota announced today a recall of 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles, including all Priuses made from 2005 to 2010, because it says the cars have floor mats that can catch the accelerator and cause a crash. It’s the largest recall from Toyota and the first real knock from the…
Below, New Times offers up a glimpse of the upcoming arts season with previews from our reviewers. “Off the Needle”Now through October 10 at the Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery, 4566 N. University Drive, Lauderhill. Call 954-748-0181, or visit tatescomics.com.You’ve spent hours in the chair listening to the buzz…
So you know that Broward School Board Member Phyllis Hope was on the clandestine FBI boat, as well as Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman. But there was a third elected official there as well, a fact that Hope this morning revealed to reporters. Sunrise Commissioner and Broward prosecutor Sheila Alu. But…
Since May, this blog has turned up allegations of ethical misconduct by five of the seven commissioners who rule the North Broward Hospital District. That leaves just two — Dan Gordon and Rhonda Calhoun. And at last Wednesday’s meeting, when nary a member of the South Florida media was there…
Less than a year after he was escorted from Fire Rock Pizza in downtown West Palm Beach in handcuffs by Federal Marshals, 36-year-old Thanos Papalexis has been handed a life sentence today for murder by a British court. A London jury dealt Paplexis a guilty verdict on September 4 for…
Broward County School Board Chairwoman Maureen Dinnen and Superintendent James Notter sent an email to all district employees regarding the stunning federal investigation and arrest of Beverly Gallagher. And what they said can boiled down to two words: “Rah rah.” Here’s the text of the email: Dear District Employees, Reporters…
Well, another Pulp exclusive has come to fruition: Hollywood ophthalmologist, Republican Party money man and former Charlie Crist advisor Alan Mendelsohn was federally charged today with fraud in connection to the Mutual Benefits case. You read about Mendelsohn’s involvement here for the first time in March and it seems that he the…
Programming Note: This shall be the inaugural edition of Panning for Gold: a Juice special report on the culture of the Florida Panhandle, where all the laws of this great state are made.In the Panhandle, folks learn by doing, which is why R. Scott Whitehead may be the state’s most…
Residents and businesses on the island of Palm Beach got a harsh green lesson this week when they were invited to the first of three water conservation “workshops” on Monday, to discuss a dirty little secret that many have known but few have talked of openly: the town is guzzling…
I was a little cagey yesterday, so I might as well spill. Phyllis Hope was at the FBI “party” on December 10, which was floating on the Intracoastal in a regal yacht. She was invited by Beverly Gallagher after undercover agents asked her to invite “influential persons” for the extravagant…
A tour of what’s in the local news this morning:In Pembroke Pines, an 18-year-old awaiting trial on theft charges in being questioned in the shooting of his father and stepmother. [Miami Herald]Parents in Palm Beach County vented at school district official Jeffrey Hernandez over curriculum changes that require more regimented…
So last night I put up my favorite Bob Dylan song of the moment. Here’s my favorite of all time. I don’t think he knew he was writing about Broward County. It’s an amazing live version from the Rolling Thunder Revue in Fort Collins in 1976, a year that, for absurd contrast, the…
This evening, Divers from the Boynton Beach Police Department pulled a passenger from a submerged vehicle at a lake near Miner Road, near Congress Avenue. The man, who has not been identified was transported to JFK, but according to the police statement, he has since died. It appears he was…
Quick! Someone find Milagros Serrano! This article says she voted in upstate New York — even though she’s lived in Hollywood the last two years.The signature attributed to Serrano on the ballot looks nothing like her signature from a voter registration card filed several years ago at the Board of…
Not all white-coated doctor-y looking guys agree with the one in the video above as to the merits of the HairMax Lasercomb hair loss technology based in Boca Raton. In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal:”I think it is an expensive tool for very little difference,” says Amy McMichael, an associate professor…
In the federal complaint filed last week against Broward County School Board Member Beverly Gallagher, there’s an interesting note about a “party” held by undercover FBI agents this past December 10. The agents asked Gallagher to invite “influential persons” who could assist the undercover agents’ client in securing school board…
It’s been almost 20 years since the notorious “Bangkok Six” incident, when investigators at a Thailand airport intercepted a crate marked “live birds,” only to find that it contained six tightly-packed endangered orangutans destined for Russia from Indonesia. Only two of the orangutans survived. A Miami primate dealer named Matthew…
They started in Texas and Louisiana, but now authorities say that the two men behind string of WalMart robberies have made it all the way to the East Coast, striking last night at the store in Boynton Beach.The duo has an affinity for the garden center and the automobile center,…
