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"Live Más" at Taco Bell -- After Super Bowl Commercial, Free Churro With Any Purchase

Don't just live más. Celebrate Live Más Monday at Taco Bell Feb. 4 and get a free churro with any purchase.We're pretty sure you've already seen Taco Bell's Super Bowl "Viva Young" video commercial, which the fast food restaurant chain released on Facebook and YouTube early last week. The video pl ... More >>

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Right-to-Lifer Randall Terry Goes Ghetto for Romney

We weren't really sure about writing about anti-abortion fanatic militant Randall Terry until we came across the photo, below, taken from his debate last December with Vermin Supreme. ( Randall's the one without a boot on his head.) After that, we had no choice. Vermin, you may not know, is running ... More >>

Study Finds Just Thinking About Alcohol Can Make You More Racist

​​Everybody's trying to ride the Trayvon Martin case's publicity coattails -- politicians are making statements about it left and right, a column in the Huffington Post tried to connect an FAU student's freakout to racial anger, and now, the University of Missouri is trying to tie a psychology s ... More >>

Florida Family Association: TLC Trying to Help Muslims Take Over America

frontpagemag.comCrappy TV show, or a vehicle for Muslims to take over America?​Lowe's Home Improvement is making headlines this week after it publicly responded to a Florida Family Association petition asking for it not to advertise during the show All-American Muslim on TLC.According to the Flori ... More >>

Palm Beach Post Selling Headline Space To Advertisers?

​This has gotta be some kind of nadir.The Palm Beach Post, usually the most respectable of our local dailies, has now secreted an advertisement in its very own headline marquee. There, taking up space ordinarily occupied by an honest-to-goodness news headline, are the words: Lose 30 Lbs Overnight? ... More >>

The Bad Girl's Guide to the Super Bowl

Flickr user: seantoyerYou'll be seeing a lot of this Sunday.​I know it's not politically correct to say girls don't like football. Plenty of smart, sophisticated women -- some of my best friends! -- love to guzzle Yuengling and scream at Ben Roethlisberger on a Sunday afternoon.But the Super Bowl ... More >>

Before Allegedly Shooting Escort, Jimmy Dac Ho Had Backpage Run-in With Fraudsters

"Stephanie," in an ad for her escort services​Jimmy Dac Ho lived a troubled life with a gun on his belt, first as a Lauderhill police officer and, until yesterday afternoon, as a member of the Florida Atlantic University police force. From 2002 to 2004, he worked for the Broward Sheriff's Office b ... More >>

Dailies Discover PIP Fraud but Let 411-PAIN Off the Hook

Facebook.com411-PAIN escaped scutiny by the dailies.​A month after New Times published an exposé on 1-800-411-PAIN, a local referral service that seeks clients who have been in car accidents, South Florida's daily newspapers have woken up to the problem of personal injury protection (PIP) fraud ... More >>

411-PAIN Commercials: Cop, Ambulance Driver, "Stay in Yo' Lane"

This week's New Times cover story is an investigation of 1-800-411-PAIN Referral Service, a Broward company that calls itself a "medical and legal referral service" for people who have been injured in car accidents. Call the hotline and you'll be sent to a chiropractor and/or lawyer in a network tha ... More >>

How High Can Method Man and Redman Get Revolution?

Rascal Flatts Brings Unstoppable Country Force to Cruzan

Campaign Consultants a Luxury Only Incumbents Can Afford; Can They Score a Win for Ken Keechl?

Keechl​At a time when cynicism toward Broward politics is at an all-time high, incumbents on the Broward County Commission have turned to high-priced political consultants to ensure they don't get toppled by a challenger.Today's news of Commissioner Ilene Lieberman allegedly directing developers t ... More >>

K-os Brings Melodic Rhymes to Revolution

The Joy of Punking

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!

Presenting This Year's Banned Super Bowl Commercials

As the host of this year's Super Bowl, some South Florida blog owes America the chance to see the commercials that were deemed too hot for the big game. Or to put it another way, these are commercials that were ditched in the same year that Tim Tebow and his mom were given permission to make a bunch ... More >>

Unemployed? Beware the Work-From-Home Scam

Courtesy of walletpop.com​This week's feature follows one kind of internet scam: 419 fraud, usually originating in Africa or Asia, and the people fighting the scammers at 419Eater.com. But one of the fastest growing scams in tough economic times is the "work from home" fake employment scam, and ma ... More >>

When Oprah Attacks: Daytime Host Sues Hollywood Nutrition Supplement Maker

Flickr: ask curlyOprah's getting angry!​In the same week that the New York Times named FWM Laboratories of Hollywood among nutrition supplement firms that ran misleading internet ads, daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey named the company as lead defendant in a suit she filed against some 500 webs ... More >>

Cheap Wine, er ... Beer That Doesn't Suck: Arrogant Bastard Ale

Photo by Bill Citara​"This is an aggressive beer. You probably won't like it. It is quite doubtful that you have the taste or sophistication to be able to appreciate an ale of this quality and depth. We would suggest that you stick to safer and more familiar territory -- maybe something with a mul ... More >>

Search for Airline More Spartan Than Spirit Ends in Ireland

Quick, someone block the New York Times website on the computer of Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza. The head of the Miramar-based discount carrier will be devastated if he learns that there's another airline that is more ruthless about achieving low fares (a Baldanza obsession) and more willing to ... More >>

Local Prostitute Talks About Craigslist Woes

It's hard out here for the pimped. Last week, Craigslist announced the site would eliminate its "Erotic Services" section and replace it with an "Adult Services" category, which employees are said to monitor for illegal activity. The change comes after national media attention on Philip Ma ... More >>

"Craigslist Killer" headlines threaten to overshadow Craig Newmark’s memorial speech for victim

UPDATE: 'The Our Town News' Source is a Paper Employee

The "resident" quoted as "Merle Lynn" in this week's "The Our Town News" story about how residents and commissioners want homeless people out of Coral Springs is an employee of that community newspaper. Her name is Merle Rosenberg and she works in classified advertising. Her quote about the homeless ... More >>

If Anything Newspaper Need To Give Away MORE For Free

It's all the rage these days: Newspapers just need to charge people for their online content -- that would solve our problems! Everybody loves talking that smack, the latest being the Miami Herald's James Burnett. But it's all quite silly. In fact the opposite is true -- newspapers have to ... More >>

Miami Herald Publisher: More Layoffs Coming To Newspaper

Miami Herald Publisher David Landsberg informed all Herald employees this morning in an e-mail that newspaper would be laying off more employees in the coming weeks. "Unfortunately, it is already apparent there is no way to avoid the elimination of staff positions. We are exploring several alt ... More >>

PETA's Super Bowl Advert is Banned, Legions of Sports Fans Indifferent

Just how irrelevant has PETA become? The one-time-animal-rights-organization-turned-ludicrous-marketing-machine long ago gave up trying to reach people with reasoned arguments about the sanctity of all life or the wastefulness of our meat-happy culture. Instead they've adopted a fairly standard mark ... More >>

Video: DJ Laz Talkin' Shit at the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009

Check out this official exclusive video footage of DJ Laz backstage of the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009 before he hits the stage to perform, hangin' out with Reality Kings Media (Miami reality porn originators), talking about doing commercials for lawyers, and makin' "Jewish money."

How Low Can You Go DJ Laz?

Seriously DJ Laz, are you that hard up for cash that you're resorting to doing awful local commercials for personal injury lawyers based on popular courtroom shows and Jerry Springer? There is a reason radio personalities go into the unseen medium. "Pimp with the Limp," stay off my TV screen and in ... More >>

Publisher: Palm Beach Post Will Be "Smaller"

Carlos Santana

Dionne Warwick

Again With The Future of Journalism Stuff

Cuban Sets The Record Straight

Super Market

Hating On Aunt Betty

Oh, Henrys

A Black Journalism Institute on Sistrunk doesn't sound bad — until you know who's behind it.

Jel

Soft Money (Anticon)

Best Car Wash

Flamingo Joe's Auto Spa

Velvet Revolver

Contraband (RCA)

Best Mechanic in Broward

Sample Tire

Back Side of the Dial

AM radio can help cure your aching back

Keep on Slicin' and Dicin'

Edison and Bell are alive and well on the direct marketing gadgetry circuit

Best Gourmet Market

Mediterranean Market

Best Gym

Downtown Gym and Fitness Club

Best One-Act Play

Iphigenia in Orem

Best Place to People-Watch

Broward County Courthouse

Undercurrents

Business Must Be Slow

Porn To Sell

Product placement comes to adult videos...hey, watch where you put that thing!

Best Flea Market

Festival Flea Market Mall