During his sophomore year in high school, Cody Beck finally got fed up with hearing homophobic cracks. If his classmates thought being gay was weird (Beck was openly bisexual), he had a confession ...

At her home in the tiny village of Palm Springs, just outside Lake Worth, Anna Mae Kiger started each morning the same way. After rising around 7, she walked down the driveway to pick up her newspaper ...

Swampgrass Willys offers more than 70 bottled beers and features live local music, karaoke, jukebox, a poker league, pool tables, air hockey, the latest Golden Tee, Wii games, Guitar Hero, televised ...

Ooh la la! What iz ze problem, my sweetie? Romance iz not dead; it’s alive! Le Cafe de Paris, Las Olas French fixture since 1962, is any hopeless romantic’s dream. The space is chic yet charming. With ...

At the head of a 20-foot table, the squat silver urn looks as if it should be under glass. It has been so meticulously polished that not a spot of tarnish can be found among the ornate ribbons and ...

He was 16 and scared. Jason was a newcomer at Growing Together, a boot camp-style drug treatment center for adolescents in downtown Lake Worth. During the day, he attended group therapy at the program ...

On Friday nights, the parking lot of an 18-unit apartment building in Pompano Beach fills with white plastic lawn chairs. The men who gather there seem, at first blush, to have nothing in common, ...

Eight years after it began, the dust is finally settling on the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme that rocked Fort Lauderdale. In December, TD Bank executive Frank Spinosa, the final defendant, was ...

With less than a month to go before Election Day in 2002, Buddy Dyer was trailing Charlie Crist in the race for Florida attorney general. Dyer, who was then a state senator and is now mayor of Orlando ...

New Times Broward-Palm Beach has become both the first and last stop of the day for anyone who wants to know what’s going on in South Florida. Find out what opportunities are available on our ...

Hollywood is home to an incredible array of delicious restaurants, and no, we’re not talking about that Hollywood. We’re talking about Hollywood down in sunny South Florida, which has its own lineup ...

Byron Maharrey knows what a Florida panther looks like. The former chairman of the board for the Florida Sportsmen’s Conservation Association had seen the elusive cats near Palatka and around his home ...