One hot Sunday during spring break of 1983, high school junior Jeff Ryan bought a fake ID and snuck into Bahia Cabana, a 70-room hotel, restaurant and tiki bar at the southern tip of Bahia Mar Marina ...

Just as snowbirds fly south for the winter, spring breakers head here when it’s cold. This species of Fort Lauderdale tourist mostly originates in Midwestern universities. Each March, they travel in ...

Since Halloween 2012, Boyd Corbin has not kept quiet. On that evening two years ago, the Wilton Manors resident donned an ironic KKK costume, grabbed a tiki torch, and went to the epic Georgie’s Alibi ...

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 ...

This Friday and Saturday night, the Button South will hold its fifth-annual class reunion. Former customers, employees, and bands will all gather at Revolution Live to celebrate and reminisce about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes, when I am feeling suicidal, I go to Sweat Records and stare at the fish tank. I once read some Harvard study where they hypothesized that watching fish in a fish tank lowers you blood ...