[jump] I met my new friend Dill (a nom de guerre he requested, after an alias Seth Rogen’s character uses in the movie) outside the theater for a 1:25 show. Though he says technically he isn’t a “mall cop,” he does work security at a big-box store attached to what he…
What, Hollywood? You think that America is captivated only by old-timey pirates? Poppycock! On the contrary, the nation is riveted by the story of Richard Phillips, the captain of some barge that was hijacked by Somali pirates off the horn of Africa this week. To those pirates, Phillips is the…
There’s a bona fide baseball bromance brewing between two Dominican baseball stars: home team hero Hanley Ramirez and his shortstop colleague on the New York Mets, Jose Reyes. Newsday reports that the happy couple recently shared a meal at Ramirez’s Fort Lauderdale home — though to be precise, H.R. lives…
I’m not talking about actual Panthers, but yeah, that too. I’m talking about the best Florida Panther hockey player — defenseman Jay Bouwmeester. Last night, after the team’s playoff hopes collapsed for the eighth, nearly record-setting year in a row, it brought into focus exactly how a franchise manages a…
Embedded video from CNN Video Call Flo Rida. I did. And texted him. You know, just to say “hi, from The Juice.” Flo Rida (real name Tramar Dillard) gave his number out during a CNN interview, saying of his fans: “If they can go out and buy my albums,…
Someone ought to give these Jeb Bush education ideas a try. Check it out: accountability for school districts by punishing and humiliating the low-scoring ones, school choice to put more pressure on public schools because they need more of that, and a statistics-based apples-to-apples comparison between schools — even when…
It seemed an awfully big coincidence: Richard Poplawski, who harbored suspicion toward a government he believed to be controlled by Jews and intent on snatching his guns, moved from his hometown Pittsburgh to Wellington in 2006, not far from the West Palm Beach home base of Stormfront.org, the white nationalist…
[jump] Calls to the supervisor at the Hollywood Clerk of Courts office were not returned. So I called Jeff Sutton, chief financial officer for the Broward Clerk of Courts. “This is news to me,” Sutton says of Michael’s claims that the cashier wouldn’t accept cash. He directed me to Orfelia Mayor,…
— U.S. District Judge Alan Gold ordering us to pay $600,000 to a pain pill-pushing doctor is a small outrage. If the prosecutors did wrong in this case with the secret recordings, sanction the U.S. Attorney’s Office, not the taxpayers. Suspend the prosecutors and their supervisors, or, if it’s warranted, fire them…
This post is an official request to you, the U.S. taxpayer, for a government bailout for The Juice Blog. Like a pretentious menu, I won’t be asking for a specific amount, only that it should have many zeros and come with no restrictions so that we can use it for…
While we spent the week cubicle-dwelling and and driving up and down I-95, some young people from Fort Lauderdale’s Honey Project were meeting with the president — of Ghana. The Honey Project is an international program that teaches entrepreneurial skills. Honey farmers in Ghana sell their product to urban kids…
If you’ve got somethin’ to say about the fragrant prickly-apple or the pygmy fringe-tree, now is your time. The Fish and Wildlife Service is doing a five-year status review of these endangered species, as well as the Brooksville bellflower, snakeroot, Cooley’s water-willow, scrub blazingstar, Britton’s beargrass, Key tree-cactus, Lewton’s polygala,…
With Passover beginning with last evening’s sunset, South Florida’s Jewish population is gettin’ all kosher — and for the real hardcore the rules apply even to their pets. “Sales definitely go up around the holidays and the Sabbath,” says Barbara Ratner, of Holistic Pet Cuisine in Boca Raton, which has…
Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida wants Obama to fire Nancy Nord, chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. agency that he says ought to have been monitoring the quality of drywall being shipped here from China, the same drywall presently destroying the value of a slew of South…
It’s terrific that seemingly every level of government has been infected with vigilance toward waste, but you can have too much of a good thing. Prudence with trimming budgets can quickly turn to hysteria, especially when politics is involved. There’s a risk of being penny-wise and pound-foolish.Consider a scene from…
In March 1998, months before he was supposed to graduate high school and head off to Florida State University, then-18-year-old Eric Brody was driving home from his job at Sports Authority in the Sawgrass Mills Mall. Around the same time, a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy named Christopher Thieman left his…
It’s a bright September afternoon in 2002 inside the towering Miami Center on Biscayne Boulevard. From his 21st-floor office, Charles Hazlett has a clear view of Biscayne Bay’s sailboat-speckled water, the massive cruise ships docked at the port, and Bayfront Park’s emerald lawn. The six-foot-four South Florida native — a…
The Other Side of Sidelines I recently read the “Night Watch” feature column (“Sports Bar Score”) written by Tara Nieuwesteeg that appeared in the March 26, 2009, issue of New Times. As director of marketing for Sidelines Sports Bar, I must first thank you and Nieuwesteeg for the great deal…
Starting in 1997, Fort Lauderdale construction magnate Bob Moss decided to build stronger bridges with Florida politicians. Moss told employees to give money to campaigns “as a means of relationship building.” At the end of each year, employees would hand Moss copies of checks they’d sent to candidates, and Moss…
Now that Lake Worth has a transgendered city manager and an anarchist commissioner, it deserves its place among the state’s most progressive, open-minded cities. A hell of a good thing to be known for. But why stop there? Why not go for the most mind-blowingly diverse city government in all…
Of all the violent episodes that have occurred in Broward County in the past few weeks, the one that most defied explanation was the Dania Beach murder of Matthew Lennon, of Miami, by his friend Joseph Blanco, who then committed suicide.Last we heard, the incident started when another friend had…
South Florida papers refer to John Patrick Fravel (pictured) as a “Coral Springs man,” while to upstate New York papers, he’s a “Salina man.” In fact, the real Fravel appears to be a modern version of the carpetbagger: According to police, he finds a mark, fleeces him, then leaves town…
