Noah Bierman | (TNS) Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — When a group of 50 Democrats of Caribbean descent gathered to watch the presidential debate in a South Florida suburb this week, the room filled with stunned laughs as former President Trump repeated a baseless rumor that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were stealing dogs and cats so they could eat them. “How can this person be a candidate to be president?” asked Guithele Ruiz-Nicolas, past president of... Read More
Expert: Ukraine’s Ban on Russian Orthodox Church Is Compatible with Religious Freedom
During Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump of a fondness for dictators, alleging that he supported a negotiated settlement with Vladimir Putin following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Trump, declining to affirm that a Ukrainian victory would serve US interests, replied that if he were still in the Oval Office, the war would never have happened, and he claimed that he could bring it to an end even as president-elect. Both candidates failed to address the... Read More
Restaurant spars with Deerfield Beach over popular beachfront spot. Here’s the latest.
A dispute has broken out between the city of Deerfield Beach and a beachfront restaurant, raising the question of whether the eatery will be required to move out of one of the city’s most prominent beachside locations. Originally Published: September 13, 2024 at 12:07 p.m. ... Read More
Ohio Haitians Feel Panic, Local Christians Try to Repair Divides
On Thursday, Viles Dorsainvil, a former pastor in Haiti and the leader of Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, was getting phone call after phone call from local immigrants feeling “panic” over their safety. The 60,000-person city has felt the strain and culture clash of welcoming 15,000 Haitians over the past four years, most of whom have temporary legal status in the US due to violence in their home country. Those tensions escalated this week as false rumors... Read More
Woah (hair toss)! Tickets now on sale for Broadway’s ‘The Cher Show’ at Broward Center
If you try to do a Venn diagram of Cher fans and Broadway fans, you’re likely to end up with just a circle. But we’ll see when tickets for the Broadway national tour of “The Cher Show” at Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center for the Performing Arts go on sale starting at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 13. The Great White Way production, which visits Fort Lauderdale from Nov. 19 to 24, has three actors playing the superstar at different stages of her glittery life: the role is nicknamed Babe... Read More
A funky new FAT Village? From neighborhood of old chop shops, Thrive Art District rises in Fort Lauderdale
Is Thrive Art District, which bills itself as a successor to the FAT Village Arts District, a thriving artist enclave or just streaks of white paint on low-slung warehouses? Some FAT Village artists have migrated to Thrive. Even developer Doug McCraw, who founded FAT Village and is steering its facelift, admits its creative movers and shakers have decamped across the tracks to Progresso. Originally Published: September 13, 2024 at 9:22 a.m. ... Read More
Ticket alert: Larry David bringing a show about ‘nothing’ to Hard Rock Live
The charming genius behind “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” says his South Florida show will be “a total waste of your time.” Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: September 13, 2024 at 8:42 a.m. ... Read More
Ex-FDIC chair pans likely Fed rate cut, but cautious homebuyers may find courage to shop
Sheila Bair, the former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., told a South Florida conference of financial professionals that the Federal Reserve should continue its focus on fighting inflation and should consider “standing pat” with interest rates. ... Read More
A Pastor’s Wife Was Murdered. God Had Prepared Him for It.
When disaster strikes, it’s easy to comfort ourselves with empty phrases like “It was a freak accident” or “That’s so unlikely to happen.” Much easier, certainly, than acknowledging that none of us are immune to tragedy. We soothe ourselves with statistics of survival, but inside we know the path of our lives has already been determined. Data is no weapon against God’s sovereignty. Those unlikely, catastrophic events do happen—as they did to Davey and Amanda Blackburn.... Read More
Taste and See If the Show is Good
Of this year’s Emmy-nominated television shows, my husband and I have watched all of The Crown, a fair bit of Abbott Elementary, and a couple episodes of Only Murders in the Building. We used to have a Hulu subscription, so we watched the first season of The Bear and several seasons of What We Do in the Shadows. (We’ve since canceled our subscription, so regrettably, no Reservation Dogs.) Ask me what I liked or disliked about any of these shows, and I can tell you: the dialogue, the sets,... Read More