I wish I could say that today’s appointment of Kerry Collins as Brett Favre’s replacement in the NFL Pro Bowl was the fatal blow to this game’s credibility. But that credibility left long ago. So let’s just call this a signal that the powers that be don’t believe that Chad…
We first heard of Fort Lauderdale artist Ryan Paul Simmons in the fall, when he made a real cool painting of Barack Obama and offered it up to help the campaign in whatever way he could. He ended up participating in a Miami event where actors Matt Damon and Alicia…
It’s officially the Year of Hope, and South Florida weather forecasters already have something they hoped for: slightly different weather. That’s right, we’ve got something of a cold front, and that means our weathermen have broken out not the exaggerated phrases but the crazy-stupid exaggerated phrases normally used only for…
When it comes to $50 billion swindler Bernie Madoff’s cronies in Broward County, we know about Michael Bienes and Frank Avellino. Now we can add the name Michael D. Sullivan to the list. Sullivan for years has been running a feeder fund for Madoff in his office on Federal Highway…
Like we told you earlier, PETA’s inauguration day high jinks were hampered by Bernard Madoff, and judging by the photos Deirdra’s sending from D.C., the animal rights group had to resort to this old gag.More photos from our correspondent’s day in D.C., after the jump…
This may come as a disappointment to all those Wag the Dog conspiracy theorists, but the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States was not a CGI stunt; it really happened, reports Juice Capitol Correspondent Deirdra Funcheon. She witnessed the ceremony firsthand, over the heads…
In a press release just sent out over the wires, the Miami Dolphins announced that Stephen M. Ross now owns 95 percent of the franchise and Dolphin Stadium. Combined with the 50 percent of the team Ross purchased last February, Ross and Wayne Huizenga officially sealed the deal on an additional…
“But I thought he liked downers?” asks Miche Ratto, New Times associate art director. Sadly, he’s right. Maybe the Palm Beach blowhard is just mad that Rev. Rick Warren did not touch Dick Cheney with his healing hand so that the latter could karate-kick Joe Biden. Be grateful, conservative cherub…
I just got off the phone with the Juice Washington Bureau Chief Deirdra Funcheon. “The riff raff” — a group that includes Funcheon, despite her prestigious title — “have to stay far away. I’ve had to walk about ten or 15 blocks just to end up behind the Capitol. Every…
Well, my friends, I had hoped to provide you with a dispatch about the Washington, D.C., performance of painter Michael Israel, an awe-inspiring, mulleted dude who was booked to speed-paint a portrait of Barack Obama at an inaugural ball called the Virginia Black Tie and Blue Dominion Ball. Virginia Gov…
She will not be streaking at the inauguration.You probably thought today’s inauguration ceremonies would provide a day’s relief from the death march of victims of area reprobate Bernard Madoff. Well, sorry. Turns out the Palm Beach financial wizard made special-access inauguration tickets disappear for the People’s Ethical Treatment of Animals…
We know today isn’t a national holiday, but it sure feels like one. So just in case you are stuck at work, rather than freezing your ass off in Washington D.C., Hulu is streaming the presidential inauguration live. So sit back, relax and press play. Just make sure to turn…
On Monday, Democratic Congresspersons Robert Wexler, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Ron Klein held a “dessert reception” to welcome folks to the inauguration. They walked from their offices in the Capitol: directly across the lawn to the Library of Congress: where attendees had to wait in line to go through a…
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian is the new pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. And before you say, “Why do I care because all I pray to is the religion of Obama-style hope,” consider the fact that this church is essentially the size of the state of Alabama. Ok, that’s not…
The church that D. James Kennedy built is waving the white flag in the culture war — just in time for Barack Obama’s inauguration. By hiring 36-year-old Tullian Tchividjian — Billy Graham’s grandson — Coral Ridge Presbyterian has all but surrendered its right-wing, homophobic agenda. Oh sure, it’ll still flare up from time to time, but…
It is hard to overstate how crowded it was on the National Mall Sunday. I’ve been to New York City. I’ve been to Disney World. I’ve been to Phish concerts. But to be one amongst nearly a million human bodies is oddly disconcerting. Especially because it seemed like a good…
A middle-aged Fort Lauderdale brunette named “Janet” laid out her finances on television Saturday for CNBC financial advice maven Suze Orman. And it was kinda sad, in a rich people tumbling into the middle class way. Janet and her significantly older husband had entrusted Madoff with $5 million. On the bright…
Aaron Jackson, the laid back, scruffy local saint, who just so happens to be the cover boy in this week’s print product, has a lot of fans. Among them: Larry King, Rainn Wilson, Charlie Crist, and rock stars and actors all over Hollywood, California. But none of those famous admirers…
This is James Martin, but “they call me the mayor of Union Station,” he says. Since retiring from the Bureau of Engraving, Martin has held various jobs at DC’s historic train station. Martin was catching a lot of people’s eyes because he was in a city of Obama-lovers wearing a…
The view from my train, bound for the center of the political universeAfter trekking 21+ hours by Amtrak from West Palm Beach to Washington DC. — along with 140 kids from a high school marching band and conductors who swore they had graduated from “Choo Choo U.” — the first…
We all know what a sad state journalism is in these days, but some reporters still perform actual fact-checking. On Friday afternoon at the AMC Theatres Coral Ridge 10, I “fact-checked” Paul Blart: Mall Cop — released nationwide this weekend — by inviting a real mall security officer from Fort…
Bienes Knighted By Catholic Church Well, the Sun-Sentinel, apparently in a panic over the New York Times beating it to the story, finally reported on the connection between Fort Lauderdale philanthropist Michael Bienes and his partner, Frank Avellino, to Bernie Madoff, the $50 billion Ponzi schemer. I’ve rarely seen one newspaper so…
