It’s official: The Dolphins are at least mediocre. In this, the season of giving thanks, fans owe much to Chad Pennington. He’s the reason that in one year, a very bad team has become, well, a team that beats very bad teams. And in a conference where Peyton Manning wears…
Soon after winning the Olympic gold medal in men’s basketball, Dwyane Wade — the golden son and high scorer on the U.S. Olympic “Redeem Team” — was supposed to be welcomed by one and all at Nikki Marina on A1A in Hollywood. By 11 p.m. that Saturday, SoFla’s beautiful people…
A white boat about the size of a Cadillac labors out of the shadows beneath the 17th Street Causeway just south of Fort Lauderdale. The tiny vessel — flying the French national flag — crawls across the Intracoastal toward a small cement pier. As the craft coasts in, the man…
At a poker table, perhaps nothing is more disturbing than a well-tanned man. This is a man of luxury. He has the time in his schedule to lie beneath the sun so that it may color him. Or worse, he has the time and money to lie in a tanning…
The Miami Dolphins traded franchise player Jason Taylor last week to the Washington Redskins for two picks in next year’s draft. Taylor and former teammates have been cordial in public remarks, but an e-mail conversation uncovered by New Times shows that parting was more than just sweet sorrow. On July…
A smiling, stubbled man known simply as “Toast” lines up Styrofoam cups, uncorks the Patron tequila, and begins dishing out shots. One for the executive producer, Steve “Branzig.” One for show stuntman “OMG Mike.” One for the studio guest, Christian Finnegan. One for the reporter. One for himself (Toast is…
Pompano Beach residents have the filthiest fucking mouths in the whole state of Florida. Well, maybe not mouths, but fingers. That’s confirmed by Google Trends, a search tool that allows users to see which countries, states, and cities are typing in certain terms. And North Broward web users have been…
Sports Against the Tide A veteran Olympic swimmer aims to beat the skeptics. By Brantley Hargrove Dara Torres is an imposing sight, with the striated deltoids common to champion swimmers and a back whose muscles stretch like bas relief on a sculpture. It’s the kind of physique a woman needs…
Part of him wanted to lay her down on the bed and hold her and make passionate love to her the way they do in romantic movies. Part of him wanted to get his clothes on and get out of there as fast as possible. And never look back. And…
Camera flashes reflect off of her skin-tight red and black rubber corset. Shiny electrical tape covers her nipples. Wearing sleek fishnet stockings and gigantic, lethal high heels, she produces a two-and-a-half-foot black metal strap-on dildo. She buckles it across the latex on her flat stomach. Then the lean, busty 27-year-old…
It’s May 21, and residents of the Sunrise Lakes condos are getting a lesson in the virtue of punctuality. Though it’s three hours before Hillary Clinton will arrive at her scheduled campaign stop, theelderly crowd is being diverted to an overflow room. Some turn back toward home. They may be…
A woman is giving away her $1.25-million mansion in Ocala. The house, replete with two 50-foot porches, three crystal chandeliers, and a hot tub, sits on two acres lush with oak trees, orange trees, azaleas, and gardenias. She will give it — mortgage-free — to the winner of a “pet…
News Toke It Easy Snap out of it, 4/20 revelers: Florida legislators want to stomp on your buzz. By Francisco Alvarado The good people who run the State of Florida are celebrating the cannabis culture’s favorite day, April 20, by ruining it for weed lovers. In Tallahassee, an enthusiastic majority…
Grass doesn’t get any greener than on the fields of Major League Baseball spring training, when vivacious, young hopefuls play catch with millionaire all-stars. That was the scene on a February morning at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, where the Florida Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals limbered up for the…
TV Guise Filed under: News For quite some time, Miami city Commissioner Marc Sarnoff has represented himself as the grandson of the late commercial radio and television pioneer “General” David Sarnoff. The Russian-American media executive rose through the ranks of the Radio Corporation of America, holding the title of chairman…
If you’re watching a football game and start complaining about one of the referees’ calls and the petite woman sitting next to you at the bar says you’re wrong, simmer down. If she’s Erin Meehan, you probably are wrong. When it comes to the finer details of football — say,…
He came into the bookstore huffing loudly into his cell phone, ignoring turned heads and annoyed glares. His voice shot across the room, a harsh, grating sound, like broken glass in a blender. It jolted our hero as he thumbed through a Cormac McCarthy novel about soulless, murderous heathens. “Oh,…
