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 ...

Sift through some trashy fine art today at “Greener…,” an exhibition of innovative sculptures, collages, photographs and more, some made from objects the uninspired would deem garbage: auto parts, ...

From May 13 to 15, across the state, a slew of “body rub” businesses was busted by the Department of Health for operating without proper massage licenses. Operation Trigger Point lasted only three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kris Thomas was raised in the birthplace of rock n roll, Memphis, Tennessee. The music flowing through that city — from the churches to Stax Music Academy — helped Thomas build a personal vocal ...

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 ...

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 ...

A camcorder lens zooms in on a patch of tall, dry grass and palm trees in a bushy field and finds a pair of discarded nylon bags used for animal feed. Flies swarm the camera. A rooster crows in 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 ...

Byron Maharrey knows what a Florida panther looks like. The former chairman of the board for the Florida Sportsmen’s Conservation Association had seen the elusive cats near Palatka and around his home ...