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 ...

Fred DeLuca, Fort Lauderdale resident and cofounder of Subway, has died, the company announced Tuesday. DeLuca had been diagnosed with leukemia in 2013. He was 67 years old. “DeLuca was an active ...

Long before he made headlines as the victim of his wife’s alleged plot to have him killed, Michael Dippolito had a scheme of his own. From a Boca Raton apartment, he ran a telemarketing business that ...

If Google autosuggests the word “arrested” after your name, you’ve probably ruled out running for public office by now. That is, unless you’re Boyd Corbin. Corbin is perhaps best known for the time he ...

The Irish have a long tradition of killing each other off. For the past century or so, it’s all been about religion and home rule, though that wasn’t always the case. Now, however, peace seems to have ...

Nice work, America. Our friends in tsunami-stricken Southeast Asia needed immediate relief, and we wasted no time opening our wallets, even if our president needed a little prodding (still want to cut ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alan Amron’s living room on Evernia Street in West Palm Beach is barely wider than the white sofa that dominates it. The kitchen is too small to eat in, so a tiny rectangular table is crammed into the ...

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, ...

Florida tends to remain on the receiving end of many a cruel joke, due to its comically unfortunate shape, its geographic positioning, the subtropical heat, and its weirdo populace. (Us!) Those of us ...