Archive for the Class of 2007

Air & Sea Show Sends Out Class of 2007 With One Last Beach Weekend

For the second day in a row, A1A north of Las Olas Boulevard belonged to the Air & Sea Show. The 13th annual McDonald's-sponsored event closed Sunday afternoon with a final Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration, capping a weekend that drew h…

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Thunderbirds Headline 2007 Air & Sea Show Over Fort Lauderdale Beach

Six U.S. Air Force F-16s in red, white and blue paint pulled up over the Atlantic shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday, locked into a tight delta formation, and rolled east across the demonstration box just offshore from Fort Lauderdale Beach.

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Spider-Man 3 Smashes Opening-Day Records to Kick Off Summer Movie Season

"Spider-Man 3" opened in U.S. theaters Friday morning and immediately set a new single-day box-office record, with Sony Pictures reporting an opening-day take in the neighborhood of $59 million across more than 4,200 theaters.

Los Angeles

Heat Open Title Defense at Home Against the Bulls

A year after closing out the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, the Miami Heat begin their championship defense Saturday afternoon at AmericanAirlines Arena, opening a first-round series against the Chicago Bulls as the fourth se…

Miami

Red Hot Chili Peppers Bring Stadium Arcadium Tour to BankAtlantic Center

The Red Hot Chili Peppers played BankAtlantic Center on Monday night, the South Florida stop on the second North American leg of the band's Stadium Arcadium World Tour.

Sunrise, FL

Nickelback Brings All the Right Reasons Tour to Sunrise

Nickelback rolled into BankAtlantic Center on Friday night for the South Florida stop on the band's All the Right Reasons Tour, the final North American leg of a touring cycle that has been on the road in one form or another since the album…

Sunrise, FL

Justin Timberlake and P!nk Bring FutureSex/LoveShow to Sunrise

Justin Timberlake walked out from a metallic riser to the synth pulse of "FutureSex/LoveSound" shortly after 9 p.m.

Sunrise, FL

Manning, Colts Beat Bears in a Rain-Soaked Super Bowl XLI in Miami

Peyton Manning won his first Super Bowl ring Sunday night at Dolphin Stadium, leading the Indianapolis Colts to a 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in a Super Bowl XLI played through steady rain from the opening kickoff to the final whis…

Miami Gardens, Fla.

Sawgrass Mills Keeps Pulling Shoppers as Graduation Season Nears

Spring is still a few weeks away, but Sawgrass Mills is already settling into one of its busiest student seasons.

Sunrise, FL

Apple Reinvents the Phone: Jobs Unveils iPhone at Macworld

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs spent the better part of his Macworld Expo keynote Tuesday morning telling the same joke three different ways.

San Francisco

Nintendo Launches the Wii With Midnight Lines and a $249 Price Tag

Nintendo's next home console, the Wii, went on sale in the United States at midnight Sunday morning, with launch events at the Nintendo World Store at Rockefeller Plaza in New York and at retailers from Best Buy to Toys "R" Us across the co…

New York

Streisand Closes Two-Night Sunrise Run

Barbra Streisand returned to the BankAtlantic Center stage Sunday night for the second and final performance of her Sunrise engagement, closing one of the highest-profile concert weekends Broward County has seen this year.

Sunrise, FL

Streisand Opens Two-Night Stand at BankAtlantic Center

Barbra Streisand walked out from behind the curtain at BankAtlantic Center shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday night to a standing ovation that lasted long enough for her to wave it off twice.

Sunrise, FL

Tampa Bay Visits Sunrise for Early-Season Panthers Matchup

The Panthers kept their early home schedule moving Friday with the in-state opponent that always adds a little extra charge.

Sunrise, FL

Sunrise Arena Traffic Becomes Part of Game-Night Routine

The easiest way to know something is happening at the BankAtlantic Center is to look at the roads around Sawgrass Mills.

Sunrise, FL

Facebook Drops the College Wall, Opens Sign-Ups to Everyone

Facebook, the social network founded two and a half years ago in a Harvard dorm room and limited until now to users with a valid college email address, opened its sign-up page Tuesday to anyone with any working email address.

Palo Alto, Calif.

Broward Schools Release Official 2006-07 Student Count

Broward County Public Schools published its 2006-07 benchmark-day enrollment count this month, the formal statistical snapshot used to set funding allocations, staffing levels and capital-planning baselines for the new school year.

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Broward Schools Track Critically Overcrowded Campuses for 2006-07

Broward County Public Schools released its 2006-07 benchmark-day enrollment report this fall, including the updated list of campuses formally classified as critically overcrowded under the district's capacity-tracking methodology.

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Piper Seniors Enter Final Year in One of America’s Largest School Districts

The School Board of Broward County adopted the district's 2006-07 operating and capital budgets earlier this year, and the budget book published online through the district's investor-relations page lays out the financial framework for the…

Sunrise, FL

Mary J. Blige Brings the Breakthrough Tour to BankAtlantic Center

Mary J. Blige plays BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise on Saturday night, the South Florida stop on the Breakthrough Experience Tour built around her 2005 album "The Breakthrough." The album, released last December, has spent multiple weeks at…

Sunrise, FL

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Dominates the Box Office

Captain Jack Sparrow did not just return to theaters. He took over the weekend. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest opened Friday and immediately turned into the movie event of the summer.

Miami Heat Win First NBA Championship

The Miami Heat are NBA champions for the first time. Miami beat the Dallas Mavericks 95-92 Tuesday night in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, completing a four-game comeback and giving South Florida a title that looked unlikely when the series beg…

South Florida

Dwyane Wade’s Finals Run Turns Into Broward Lunchroom Debate

Dwyane Wade has given South Florida the argument of the summer. The Heat guard closed the NBA Finals as the series MVP, and the numbers are large enough to follow him into every basketball conversation in Broward.

South Florida

Frank Sinatra Jr. Performs at BankAtlantic Center

Frank Sinatra Jr. brings his tribute to the Great American Songbook to the BankAtlantic Center on this Saturday night in May, offering Broward County audiences an evening of classic pop standards that contrasts with the arena's usual rock a…

Sunrise, FL

Air & Sea Show Returns to Fort Lauderdale Beach for 12th Year

The 12th annual McDonald's Air & Sea Show is back along Fort Lauderdale Beach this weekend, two days of military demonstrations along several miles of A1A that have, over the past decade, become one of the largest free public events in Sout…

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Blue Angels Headline a Packed Fort Lauderdale Beach

Four cobalt-and-gold F/A-18 Hornets came in low over the surf line shortly after noon Saturday, pulled into a tight diamond, and brought what felt like every set of eyes between the Sunrise Boulevard pier and the Bahia Mar marina up toward…

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Twitter Launches as a Strange New 140-Character Service

A short message from Jack Dorsey may not look like much, but it could point to a new kind of internet conversation.

Rolling Stones Bring A Bigger Bang Tour to Sunrise

The Rolling Stones bring their A Bigger Bang Tour to the BankAtlantic Center on this Sunday night in March, filling the Sunrise arena with the classic-rock energy that has defined the band's career for more than four decades.

Sunrise, FL

Broward Mall and Sawgrass Mills Keep Teen Weekends Indoors

West Broward teenagers do not need perfect weather to have weekend plans. Between Broward Mall in Plantation and Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise, students have two familiar indoor destinations that can absorb a Saturday afternoon without much pl…

Broward County, FL

Steelers Win Super Bowl XL

The Pittsburgh Steelers are champions again. Pittsburgh beat the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 Sunday night in Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit, giving the franchise its fifth Super Bowl title and matching the mark held by the San Francisco…

High School Musical Premieres on the Disney Channel

Disney Channel has a new original movie tonight, and it is aiming straight at the school hallway. High School Musical premieres at 8 p.m., bringing a story about a basketball player, an academic standout and a school musical to one of cabl…

Gwen Stefani Concert Brings Ciara to BankAtlantic Center Stage

Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers Tour arrives at the BankAtlantic Center on this Wednesday night just before Christmas, bringing opening act Ciara along for a double-header of mid-2000s pop and R&B.

Sunrise, FL

Y100 Jingle Ball Brings Pop Radio Energy to Sunrise

Y100's annual Jingle Ball turns the BankAtlantic Center into a holiday-season pop extravaganza on this Saturday night in December, packing the Sunrise arena with a multi-artist lineup that mirrors the station's year-end radio playlist.

Sunrise, FL

Xbox 360 Launches as the New Console Standard

The next console generation starts today, and Microsoft wants the Xbox 360 to own the living room before anyone else gets there.

Hurricane Wilma Crosses Florida; Broward Wakes Up to Widespread Damage

Hurricane Wilma made landfall near Cape Romano on Florida's southwest coast at roughly 6:30 a.m. Monday as a Category 3 hurricane and tracked across the state in less than five hours, exiting near Jupiter on the Atlantic coast as a Category…

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Panthers Return to the Ice After NHL Lockout Season

Hockey is back in Sunrise after a year without an NHL season. The Panthers opened the 2005-06 season in October, returning professional hockey to west Broward after the league lost the entire 2004-05 season to the lockout.

Sunrise, FL

Foo Fighters Bring In Your Honor Tour to BankAtlantic Center

The Foo Fighters bring their In Your Honor tour to the newly renamed BankAtlantic Center on this Saturday night in September, marking one of the first major concerts at the Sunrise arena under its fresh corporate identity.

Sunrise, FL

Apple Replaces the iPod Mini With the iPod Nano

Apple made the iPod smaller today, and the change is big enough to retire one of its most recognizable models.

Office Depot Center Becomes BankAtlantic Center

The Office Depot Center has a new name, and west Broward will have to get used to saying it. The Sunrise arena that houses the Florida Panthers is now the BankAtlantic Center, beginning a new naming-rights era for the building at 1 Panther…

Sunrise, FL

WKPX Keeps Sunrise’s Student-Radio Reputation Alive

WKPX-FM 88.5 returned to its fall schedule this month as Piper High School in Sunrise opened the 2005-06 school year, continuing a campus broadcast operation that has run continuously since February 1983 under a license held by the School B…

Sunrise, FL

Green Day's American Idiot Tour Hits Office Depot Center

Green Day brings its American Idiot World Tour to the Office Depot Center on this Friday night in late August, packing the Sunrise arena with the politically charged punk-rock energy that has defined the band's recent resurgence.

Sunrise, FL

Half-Blood Prince Sends Harry Potter Fans Back to the Bookstore

Harry Potter readers have their summer back, and many of them did not wait until morning. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released today, sending fans into bookstores for the sixth and next-to-last novel in J.K.

Hurricane Dennis Tracks Past Florida Keys; Broward Watches the Storm Pull North

Hurricane Dennis passed west of the Florida Keys overnight Friday into Saturday as a major hurricane, churning northwest through the Gulf of Mexico on a track aimed at the Florida Panhandle and putting the eastern half of the state on the e…

Fort Lauderdale, FL

YouTube Founded in a California Garage Era

A new video site has appeared online with a simple promise: let people share clips on the web without needing a television network, a production studio or much technical patience.

Cher Farewell Tour Stops at Sunrise Arena

Cher brings her Living Proof: The Farewell Tour to the Office Depot Center on this Saturday night in December, marking what the singer promises will be her final concert trek.

Sunrise, FL

Halo 2 Launches and Lights Up Living Rooms

Master Chief is back, and Xbox owners are treating the launch like a holiday. Halo 2 releases today for Xbox in North America, giving Microsoft and Bungie one of the biggest video-game events of the year.

Broward’s Enrollment Reports Put Overcrowding Back in the Spotlight

Broward County Public Schools published the 2004-05 benchmark-day enrollment report this month, including the district's formal list of campuses designated as critically overcrowded.

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Broward Schools Count More Than 272,000 Students in Official Fall Report

Broward County Public Schools enrolled 272,691 students for the 2004-05 school year, according to the district's 20-day count released this week.

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Official Count Places Piper High Enrollment Above 2,400 Students

Piper High School in Sunrise reported 2,428 students enrolled for the 2004-05 school year in the official 20-day count released this week by Broward County Public Schools, putting the central Sunrise campus among the larger comprehensive hi…

Sunrise, FL

Piper Student Body Reflects Broward’s Changing Suburban Demographics

Broward County Public Schools released the 2004-05 demographic breakdown for Piper High School this month as part of the district's standard enrollment reporting cycle, showing a student body that splits across Black, Hispanic, white, Asian…

Sunrise, FL

Boundary Book Lists Piper Among Broward’s High School Attendance Areas

Broward County Public Schools published its 2004-05 attendance-area boundary book this fall, the annual reference document that defines which neighborhoods feed into each of the district's elementary, middle and high school campuses.

Broward County, FL

Hurricane Charley Veers North; Broward Spared the Worst

Hurricane Charley made landfall on Florida's southwest coast Friday afternoon as a Category 4 hurricane, devastating the Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte areas with sustained winds estimated at 150 miles per hour.

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Athens Hosts the 2004 Summer Olympics

The Olympics are back where the modern Games began. Athens is hosting the 2004 Summer Olympics from Aug. 13 through Aug.

Madonna Adds a Second Night at Office Depot Center

A second consecutive night of Madonna's Re-Invention Tour fills the Office Depot Center on this Thursday, proving that Sunrise can support back-to-back sold-out shows from one of pop music's biggest names.

Sunrise, FL

Madonna Opens Sunrise Stop on Re-Invention Tour

Madonna brings her Re-Invention World Tour to the Office Depot Center on this Wednesday night in late July, turning the Sunrise arena into a sold-out spectacle of choreography, costume changes, and career-spanning pop.

Sunrise, FL

Heat Land Shaquille O'Neal in Blockbuster Trade With the Lakers

The Miami Heat acquired Shaquille O'Neal from the Los Angeles Lakers Wednesday in a four-player trade that immediately reshapes the NBA's Eastern Conference and gives South Florida the most decorated big man in the league.

Miami

Seminole Hard Rock Opens in Hollywood, Reshaping Broward Entertainment

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino opened to the public Wednesday on the Seminole Tribe of Florida's reservation along State Road 7 in unincorporated Broward County, just outside Hollywood.

Hollywood, FL

Aerosmith Brings Tour to Sunrise and Films Live DVD Footage

Aerosmith turns the Office Depot Center into a live recording studio this Saturday, with camera crews capturing the Sunrise concert for what will become the band's You Gotta Move DVD.

Sunrise, FL

Broward Mall Reopens Center Court After Multi-Phase Renovation

Broward Mall reopened its renovated center court to the public this week, completing the most visible phase of an interior renovation project the mall's management has been working through over the past year.

Plantation, FL

Return of the King Sweeps the Oscars With 11 Wins

Hollywood gave Middle-earth the ending its fans wanted. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King swept the 76th Academy Awards on Sunday night, winning 11 Oscars and turning the ceremony at the Kodak Theatre into a victory lap for Pet…

WKPX 88.5 Marks 21 Years on the Air at Piper High

WKPX-FM 88.5, the noncommercial educational radio station licensed to the School Board of Broward County and operated from a studio at Piper High School, marks the 21st anniversary of its sign-on Saturday.

Sunrise, FL

Panthers’ Sunrise Arena Keeps NHL Identity in Broward

The Florida Panthers may not own the South Florida sports conversation every week, but their Sunrise home keeps Broward County on the NHL map.

Sunrise, FL

Return of the King Closes Out the Lord of the Rings on the Big Screen

The final march into Middle-earth begins today. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King opens in U.S.

Marlins Upset Yankees to Win the 2003 World Series

The Florida Marlins went into Yankee Stadium and came out with the World Series trophy. Florida beat the New York Yankees 2-0 Saturday night in Game 6, finishing the series four games to two and giving South Florida its second baseball cha…

South Florida

Josh Beckett’s World Series Gem Becomes South Florida Sports Talk

Josh Beckett did not leave the Yankees much to discuss. The Marlins right-hander owned the final night of the 2003 World Series, leading Florida to a 2-0 win over New York in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium.

South Florida

Tax-Free Weekend Packs Sawgrass Mills for Broward Back-to-School Rush

Sawgrass Mills opened its doors at 9 a.m. Saturday into a parking field that was already filling, the first day of Florida's annual back-to-school sales-tax holiday and the busiest day of the year so far at the Sunrise outlet center.

Sunrise, FL