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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nothing says “Vietnam flashback” like a Creedence Clearwater Revival song. Four guys from California were able to capture the rustic South like no other band before or since. As years went on, their ...

Detectives squinted at the abandoned station wagon they found in a remote patch of the Everglades. It had been shot up from both inside and out. Blood was splattered all over the doors. But there was ...

June Clarkson went to Ernie’s Bar-B-Q in Fort Lauderdale to have lunch with her supervisor, Bob Julian; and some coworkers. It was a Friday in May 2011, the end of a hectic workweek at the local ...

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 ...

Before the songs, chanting, and heartfelt tears, the ceremony next door to a Palm Springs strip mall begins with speeches. A thin, deeply tanned man in a pin-striped suit is among the first to take ...

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 ...

When I told my brother I’d help him move out of his house in Gainesville, I planned to pay tribute to Tom Petty’s place of origin by visiting sites that were important to him as a young man.

David Lee Edwards, the ex-felon from Kentucky who won the $27 million Powerball in 2001, has died broke, and in hospice, reports the Daily Mail. As reported by New Times in 2007, Edwards had managed ...

Editor’s note: To protect living members of Max Mermelstein’s family, his alias and certain names have been changed. Aspiring filmmaker Brett Tabor tops a medium popcorn with jalapeños, as is his ...