Republicans like Newt Gingrich are pretty sure that Sonia Sotomayor is racist against white men, but just to make sure, the U.S. Senate’s only Hispanic Republican, Mel Martinez, went in for a closer look. As you can see in the video above, the Florida senator exchanged some awkward Spanish with…
Flickr.com Like air guitar, but with different fake instruments. But no air sex–that’s the worst of all. And right now South Florida is effectively air-sex celebate. (Don’t get me started on the air-religious groups.) What is this “air sex,” you ask? “It’s a lot like air guitar, but replacing the…
Here’s a quandary: What do you do if you announce your candidacy for higher office, but nobody reports it? (Or at least nobody besides Juice?) If you’re Bob Smith, former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire now semi-retired in Sarasota, you sorta pretend you never made the first announcement, then… make…
So far, the problems with Chinese drywall in South Florida appear to have been confined to single-family homes. Sure, some entire developments, like Heron Bay in Parkland, might turn out to have been built with the defective drywall. But the reports of Chinese drywall in South Florida have so far…
For people like Stephan Cleveland who are trying sublet a condo, the weekend is prime time for prospective tenants to come calling. Which is why he was mighty peeved when on Friday afternoon, he discovered a pile of busted car parts on the grassy swale in front of his condo…
I said I’d dig a little deeper on the case of perv cop Charles Grady, and I did. There has been a lot of speculation that one reason the former BSO deputy was let off easy for his on-duty sex-related crimes against women was because he was politically connected. I learned that Grady did…
Last week we introduced you to the saga of the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Fort Lauderdale. Buyers have filed lawsuits alleging they were misled to believe that Donald Trump was a developer of the building — or, at the very least, that the tower would bear his name…
Photographer Gary Braasch used a series of pictures around the world to get his point across in his new book, Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World. He’s got an ice sheet melting away in Antarctica, an Alaskan polar bear walking on barren ground that used to…
You’ll have to pardon Florida’s Democratic voters if they’re not as eager about the attorney general’s race as Dan Gelber is. The state senator from Miami Beach announced his candidacy for attorney general yesterday. It followed the announced candidacy of another up-and-coming Democrat, Dave Aronberg, the state senator from Greenacres…
On the right, that’s Corrine Brown, the Democratic congresswoman from Jacksonville considering a bid for U.S. Senate against Kendrick Meek. Here at Juice, we’re worried she’s going to realize it’s an absurd idea, then disappear again. So for now, we’re going to bask in her relevance. Above, a funny video…
The Sun-Sentinel has a story today about developer Bruce Chait reneging on on his promise to build some affordable housing at his planned 728-unit development in Tamarac. Chait, owner of Prestige Homes, had thousands of residents angry about his plan to develop the Monterey and Sable Palms golf courses. The commission voted 5-2…
So it looks like our serial cat-killer is probably not human after all. Nor is it the alien Chupacabra. Rather, it’s most likely a roving pack of bloodthirsty murderous dogs. Is this supposed to make us feel better?Juice reported last month that Broward’s Animal Care and Regulation Department has been…
This just in from a good source: The SS’s Weston office is closing and the 6 reporters and 2 editors out there are all gonna move on Friday to Tamarac. That means instead of just one reporter in Tamarac (Lisa J. Huriash) there will be 7. Unless things change, so I…
No true political wonk goes 24 hours without checking fivethirtyeight.com, except maybe the people in Congressman Kendrick Meek’s senatorial campaign, because seriously, campaigns run on hope.Last week, the site’s wunderkind blogger, Nate Silver, devised a new metric (always with the metrics, this one) for analyzing a governor’s popularity. Silver took…
Photo by Tara Nieuwesteeg There were people dressed up like characters from videogames, horror movies, animes, and all sorts of other things. They came from as far away Europe to worship at the altar of all things videogame, meet B-movie legend Bruce Campbell, and compete in this year’s cosplay contest. And the…
With Gossip Girl star Blake Lively attending its grand opening party Thursday night, the W Hotel of Fort Lauderdale looked to make a big splash on the celebrity headline circuit. But it seems the luxurious scene was stolen by a single paparazzo who mistook Lively for a cud-chewing beast of…
With fears of federal investigations swirling, rumors are flying around the Broward County commissioner like vultures on a desert highway. The subject of one of them is Commissioner Lois Wexler. It goes like this: Wexler took a spa weekend in Sedona, Arizona, shortly after her election to the commission on the tab of…
Even a White House trying to stave off a Great Depression and a nuclear war in the Middle East has found time to talk about whether Conan will sink or swim as the new host of The Tonight Show. So we may as well tackle this issue on Juice with…
Despite what you might have read in recent blog reports, it looks like we won’t get any official word on the candidates to be the region’s top prosecutor till next week. So say a couple of sources in the loop on this process.Here’s a document that lays out the rules…
What kind of criminal preys on parents waiting in line to pick up their kids from preschool? Four times in the past few weeks, unknown suspects have smashed windows and snatched purses from the cars of parents headed to pick up their kids at preschools and day-care centers in the…
Everyone knows the condo bust in South Florida is a financial disaster. But now that Donald Trump is involved, it’s a celebrity disaster. A federal class action lawsuit has been filed against the developers of the Trump International Hotel & Tower, alleging that buyers were misled to believe they were…
