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 ...

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 ...

Inside the conference room of the Hallandale Beach headquarters of Empire Musicwerks, the order is given to kill the lights. Label honcho Paul Klein, a barrel-bodied man with the requisite open shirt, ...

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 ...

The Seminole Truck Stop, located at the far western part of Broward County at the edge of the Everglades, is “in the middle of nowhere,” as owner Juan “Chuchi” Daniel admits. But throughout the week, ...

Neither sleazy nor overly pretentious, Booby Trap is a club where ham-fisted security guards aren’t watching your every move. The atmosphere is more discotheque than roadhouse, and variety is the name ...

In this week’s cover story, “The Chef and the ‘Amigo,'” New Times goes behind the scenes at Palm Beach’s oldest country club. When Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan immigrant and dishwasher at the ...

You have to see OFSH at least once for the kitschy stuffed sharks in the bar, the downright ugly black ceiling tiles, the terrible ’60s-rental-unit carpeting worn through by walkers and wheelchairs, ...

A viral Miami burger joint is coming to Fort Lauderdale, marking its second Broward spot after its future Dania Beach opening.

In the summer of 2013, Dr. Stephen Haggerty stood in the humid Liberian jungle, frustrated at the lack of progress. The swampy ground didn’t allow for heavy machinery, so diamond exploration in these ...

With the complete release yesterday of statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau on same-sex couples, Wilton Manors is officially the second-gayest city in the country, and Fort Lauderdale is the gayest ...

Alexis, a tall exotic dancer from New Hampshire with golden blond hair that hangs seductively to the small of her back, sits at the bar of Spearmint Rhino Gentlemen’s Club on Federal Highway, a bottle ...