At just 21 years old, Q has already started carving out his own lane in the alternative R&B space. The Broward native doesn’t complicate his sound with excess noise. Neither does he get caught up in overcompensating for his identity in either the
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The Shave Experiment] means something to me, but it also feels like I was going with the flow,” he says of his debut EP release on Columbia Records.
On a serene Saturday afternoon, he maintains his relaxed mien during an interview with
New Times. Throughout the conversation, his candor reflects the type of emancipation conveyed in his music. He’s OK not having all of the answers.
When Kareem Spahi bought a puppy from Forever Love Puppies in Broward County, he was told his dog was perfectly healthy. But only a day later, he found out that his goldendoodle had pneumonia. Within two months, the pup showed signs of a congenital disorder that made it difficult for him to eat.
Now, Spahi is battling the pet store in court and learning that he s not the only one who s had problems with Forever Love Puppies.
Forever Love Puppies and Grooming LLC is a pet dealer with locations in Pembroke Pines, Aventura, and Miami that sells purebred puppies for upward of $2,000 per animal.
funktastic.
Last fall, the Fort Lauderdale-based brewer partnered with Miami-based creative agency the Community to develop a marketing campaign for its new line of hard seltzer. The 30-second commercial premiered statewide on January 31 and will air through February, including in a spot during the third quarter of the Super contest between the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs and the first-ever Super Bowl home team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The marketing campaign, launched on the verge of the company s expansion into ten southeastern states, shows viewers how to funky the ordinary and unleash their own funky face with a sip of Funky Buddha hard seltzer. This year, the cost of a half-minute spot during Super Bowl LV is estimated at $5.6 million about the same as last year.
Although Florida has a history of being slow on the draw when it comes to legalizing drug use (see: the failed effort to legalize recreational marijuana), a Florida lawmaker is hoping the state will take the leap into psychedelics and legalize medical mushrooms as early as 2022.
A recent bill introduced by Florida House Rep. Michael Grieco aims to legalize the use of psilocybin, a hallucinogenic substance found in certain types of so-called magic mushrooms, to treat mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.
The Florida Psilocybin Mental Health Care Act would create state-sponsored clinics where patients suffering from mental-health disorders could be administered microdoses of psilocybin by a licensed medical professional. The patient would go through the experience, or trip, with the professional present and then be offered a post-trip counseling session.
One city worker who s not staying home?
Mayor Dean Trantalis.
Despite the fact that Trantalis and his chief of staff were among the city workers who d been exposed, the mayor who is up for reelection has been out on the campaign trail this week, defying the quarantine orders suggested by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Kevin Cochrane, a four-year resident of Fort Lauderdale, tells
New Times he was startled to see the mayor out and about. I actually ran into the mayor when he wasn t wearing a mask, and then, right when I got home, [I] went on Facebook and saw that he had actually been at a campaign event the day before, where he also was seen breaking quarantine, being clustered around two dozen kids who may or may not even know if he was exposed or not, Cochrane says.