E. Howard Hunt was a key political figure during the 1950s and 60s. He graduated from Brown University, served in WWII, and joined the CIA in 1949. Stationed in Mexico City, he supervised conservative ...

Two Florida institutions associated with boozing and boobs are getting lifts. A liquor mecca since 1938, Elbo Room shuttered its street level in late October for a two month job to bring the bar up to ...

In Spike Jonze’s new sci-fi romance, Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays a divorcée who rebounds by falling in love with his smartphone. On a recent Wednesday, however, he’s a delinquent boyfriend, leaving his ...

Though it hardly seems likely from the look of the South Florida music scene these days, we were once a breeding ground for folkies that went on to change the direction of modern music. David Crosby ...

Fat people are nothing new. When Dr. Sanford Siegal began practicing medicine in 1957, he had so many overweight patients that he started treating for obesity exclusively. Exercise is all well and ...

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 ...

Seven years ago, Louis James Vestal and Robert Lineberry interrupted their friend Bryan Loudermilk performing one of the most extraordinary sex acts to occur on Florida soil. Lineberry, a drifter, had ...

The single life. It can be a tumultuous time, particularly when you’re young. By design, it usually involves awkward “plenty of fish” conversations, uncomfortable first dates, barely satisfying one ...

Did you know the word “karaoke” is a combination of two Japanese words which translate in English to “empty orchestra”? Yes, the Japanese must have a different interpretation of the purpose and aim of ...

Say your industry’s biggest image problem used to be the notion that all of your customers were newlyweds and nearly deads hoping to find themselves in a buffet line with Kathie Lee Gifford. Today, ...

After a Gulfstream II jet carrying four tons of cocaine went down in Mexico, suspicion fell on Fort Lauderdale aviator Clyde O’Connor, who had bought the $2 million aircraft just two weeks before. But ...

A decade ago, a family feud forced Wellington polo mogul John Goodman to step down as overseer of a trust fund meant to benefit his nieces and nephews. The legal spat provides a rare window into the ...