Dr. Paul Perito has responded to our story which detailed another lawsuit stemming from allegedly destroying a patient's penis, the second time he's been hit with such a suit. We also chronicled past criminal charges against the urologist in which he was accused of selling counterfeit pills out of a...
This week's feature story, "Down on the Farm," chronicles an increasingly heated national battle over "factory-farmed" food. On one side: a phalanx of corporation- and family-owned farms across the country. On the other: the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States.Caught in the middle: independent farmers and voters.Voters? Indeed...
Frances Nash Mmmmmm In a post from her http://f-i-n.diaryland.com/index.html">Sunshine State blog aptly titled"strawberry fields forever," Frances Nash writes about a recent tour of Homestead U-Pick Knaus Berry Farm, where "the air smells sticky and sweet, like the strawberries boiled by the sun." Her photos and prose ("their strawberry shakes taste...
In an ongoing endeavor to develop, understand, and communicate "art," our definitions are constantly morphing. At the speed that we identify and recognize, we deny and re-create, each time pushing the walls of the "white box" to a point of distension. Since the advent of modernity -- when artists decided...
The good news is that Oliver Saucy and Darrel Broek are not putting Café Maxx and East City Bistro up for sale, despite rumors to the contrary. The better news is that the duo finally has found a site for East City Grill, their successful Fort Lauderdale venture that was...
Read “The Assassin Next Door, Part 1” The man who has just finished eating a plain yogurt at his black metal desk is so steadfastly intent on obliterating his past that when someone with those years in mind leans toward him and asks in a low voice, “Excuse me, are...
A pile of 34 shoes sits just inside the front door of Stephen Bonnell's comfortable South Miami home. They came off the feet of the seventeen people kneeling or sitting in Bonnell's living room, chanting in unison while facing a small cabinet, the butsudan, hung chest-high on the opposite wall...
In their classic soul ballad, the Persuaders persuaded pop fans that "there's a thin line between love and hate." In their fine cover of that classic soul ballad, Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders pretended to agree. But the truth of the matter is that there's a wide gulf between love...
