A helictopter rattled folks out of bed in Fort Lauderdale this morning at about 6:30 a.m. and hovered overhead for thirty minutes. Among those affected was Cal Deal, graphics designer and former newspaperman. Deal investigated and found that the copter was from WPLG-Channel 10 and was responding to a smash and grab burglary…
Divorcing Couples Forced to Live Together, Apparently Have No ‘Buddies’The economy is so bad that couples going through divorces are forced to live with each other because they can’t sell their houses. Here’s an excerpt from the Associated Press story that explains the problem and includes a couple from Boca,…
Jennifer Gollan had a nice little scoop about elected officials’ travel that centered on mayors Richard Kaplan, Joy Cooper, and Frank Ortis billing hundreds of dollars to stay at a hotel for a convention in Miami — all of about 30 miles away. Nothing earth-shattering, but a sweet daily story. Then on the…
Fort Lauderdale developer Sean Michaels is implicated in a corruption scandal in sleepy southern Levy County, Florida that has already led to several indictments, including W.S. “Sammy” Yearty, the dean of the county commission. A federal indictment shows that Michaels, who managed a Broward County company called Gideon Development at the palindromic address of 15751 Sheridan Street, was involved…
Eli Kavon is an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University who lectures on Jewish history and is a frequent contributor to The Jerusalem Post. I spoke with Kavon recently to get his perspective on the conflict that’s erupted between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and which shows no…
On a day people in other parts of the world were paying ransom to pirates, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department was cold bustin’ em. Just ask 20-year-old Latesha Raines, of Miami, and 37-year-old Alora Berrian, of Lauderhill, who were arrested yesterday by FLPD at at a house allegedly stocked with more…
I bet on Florida (-3) in the national championship game. That’s right, I actually sort of like the Gators now that Spurrier long gone, and I’ve always been partial to the SEC. It was just a friendly wager with a friend, though, and by the middle of the game I…
For an encore, Tim Tebow will rescue a kitten from the top floor of a burning skyscraper.Judging by the large number of blue and orange-adorned ticket holders puking in the parking lot, it was great to be a Gator last night. The Super Bowl of college football featured jets and…
An excited fan of the Fort Lauderdale Ninja Thieves!Orioles May Leave, Opening Door for Thieves Team officials for the Orioles snuck out of Broward County yesterday for a secretive meeting with Lee County leaders. Over lunch at a Perkins, they discussed the possibility of the Orioles moving to Fort Myers…
As any blog reader knows, live blogs are the current way of the future. And any journalist who wants to keep his job embraces the latest way of the future. So…welcome to the first ever LIVE BLOG in Juice history. I secured my spot in the press booth months ago, when it looked like…
If you happen to have an extra grand or so to blow on a football game, you probably won’t need to come here for my bitter blog posts, live from the BCS Championship. But if you live in the same country as the rest of us non-yacht owners, you can…
Despite generating a bunch of Oscar buzz immediately before its release, Frost/Nixon is not a good movie. It is not even a good Ron Howard movie, which is saying something. As the critics figured out pretty quick, “The Nixon Interviews” were a journalistic, not an historic, event, and not even…
Not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but wouldn’t it have been great if Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade had inked a $75,000 check for the J.P. Taravella High School Marching Trojans? “Absolutely,” says Debbie Rabinowitz, the band president and mother of a trombone-playing sophomore named Brian. Still, she…
Michael Bienes, the fabulously wealthy Fort Lauderdale benefactor, abruptly resigned from the Performing Arts Center Authority board Wednesday with a one-sentence letter, according to a center spokeswoman. “We received the letter yesterday which said he was resigning, effective immediately,” said Broward Center of The Arts spokeswoman Jan Goodheart. There’s very…
Last night, Real World: Brooklyn made queer TV history, thanks to the first ever transgender cast member, a South Florida male-to-female named Katelyn Cusanelli. The introspective, self-proclaimed computer geek, who went to McPhatter Technical School in Davie and Palm Beach Community College talked to Riptide yesterday about hormone therapy, “escaping”…
Florida sports history was made Saturday night, and you probably missed it. The state’s first-ever professional lacrosse game was played at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, between the Toronto Rock and the New York Titans. Rock star (heh) Blaine Manning won the game in dramatic fashion, breaking a 14-14 tie with…
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Weston Democrat (not to be confused with the Westin Diplomat), has been named the vice chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which is a long way of saying she’s in a better position to get us more stuff. In…
On the New Times newsroom’s Wall o’ Deviance, beneath photographs of long-gone staffers cavorting with strippers, you will find the red-white-and-blue 2008 calendar of Rudy Giuliani, which he modestly called “Countdown to Victory.” The calendar warns of a slow march toward a dystopian American future in which 9/11 replaces Christmas…
You good folks spurred me in the post on Becky Blackwood to look into the licensing of Broward County School Board Chief Building Official Ronald Morgan. Or should I say the lack of licensing of Chief Building Official Ronald Morgan. Morgan, who makes in excess of $100,000 a year, is in charge of enforcing code…
Wake up, kids, you got a C!Florida Schools Just Good Enough to Advance to Next GradeFlorida has the tenth-best schools in the country, according to this study by Education Week. Now I’m no expert in cross-state rivalries, but I’d guess this might be the first time Florida has fallen behind…
On November 29, 2004, Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan and her ex-husband, Mahmoud Seif, checked into Le Meridien Hotel in Vienna, Austria. The following morning, Gholikhan used Seif’s cell phone to call the man they had flown there to meet. “Alex,” a weapons dealer from Fort Lauderdale, told the couple to come…
I was told this morning that Miami Herald veteran Terry Jackson had died of cancer, and worked a bit on a post about it. What I wrote consisted of paragraphs like this: “Jackson, married to the Herald’s Marjie Lambert, came to Florida from California — where he worked for the Sacramento Bee –…
