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  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Seven Sins, Village Voice Media True-Crime Anthology, Hits the E-Shelves

    An early-morning message from Village Voice Media:Every week, writers for New Times Broward-Palm Beach and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories.Now VVM has collected some of its be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Casey Anthony's Lawyer Writing Tell-All Book; You Can Pre-Order It

    Texas-based BenBella Books announced yesterday that Jose Baez, the South Florida attorney who successfully defended Casey Anthony on murder charges, will be releasing a book in July that "exposes shocking, never-before-revealed, exclusive information from the trial of the century."Although the annou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Anonymous E-book Offers "A Look at Corruption Inside the Broward Sheriff's Office"

    ​It's $9.99 on Amazon; you can get it on your Kindle in seconds. What better way to read a self-published book about alleged corruption in the Broward Sheriff's Office, including manipulation by everybody's favorite Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein?A new anonymous e-book being hawked on the web retai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2011

    Vintage Cookbooks, Magic Thermometers, and Other Gifts for Foodies

    This vintage number looks Picasso inspired. ​The holidays are here. It's time to impress your friends with your thoughtful taste in gifts. To show your foodie friends how much you "get them," here are some of my favorite food finds in the world of cooking, grilling, and being a culinary nerd.

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    The Beltones' Bill McFadden: I Miss the Ocean and Publix Subs

    ​ The Beltones Cheap Trinkets (TKO Records) beltones.com Last year in September, we had the opportunity to revisit one of my favorite local platters from the '90s, the Beltones' Lock and Load seven-inch on the sorely missed Far Out Records. It was, as it usually is within these pages, a great t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Emeril Lagasse Sizzling Skillets: A Cookbook For Busy People

    William Morrow/Harper CollinsEmeril's Sizzling Skillets - one pot recipes for busy or lazy people.​Emeril Lagasse and his signature "Bam!" was the likely catalyst that sparked the celebrity chef revolution.Lagasse changed the television cooking show from the video instructional manuals of Julia Ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Mario Batali, David Chang, and The Recipe Project's 'Brains and Eggs' Song

    I'm currently in mad love with The Recipe Project, the Brooklyn band One Ring Zero's collection of famous chef's recipes set to tunes. The book project started like this:Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, co-founders of the band One Ring Zero, decided to turn Chris Cosentino's recipe for Brains and Egg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Humiliate Your Dog For Halloween: Ten Terrible Food Costumes For Fido

    Costumesfordogs.com​Your dog gives you unconditional love every day of his life. Seriously! Has a human ever greeted you with such fierce devotion?  Sure, he peed on the carpet and he licks his butt, but if you want to punish your dog, take away his favorite chew toy. But in the name of all t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    The Ten Dumbest Halloween Food Costumes Ever

    Endlesssimmer.com​Halloween is around the corner and every year you run into the same problem - do you wear the sexy or funny costume?  Our answer is, as always - it depends on whether or not you want to get laid...ever.Here are a collection of Halloween costumes that are truly terrifying..an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    OMG! Cookbook Helps the Truly Helpless

    Amazon.comCan't even cook an egg? This book may be for you.​This past week, Food Network's Worst Cooks in America was searching for truly horrible cooks at a Miami open casting call. While there, Clean Plate Charlie encountered people who set fire to their houses, made their dogs sick and glued fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    On Feeling Bad for Jacqueline Howett

    ​I'm a little late chiming in on this, but man, I kind of feel bad for Jacqueline Howett.If you don't know Jacqueline Howett yet: Hi! Welcome to the internet age! Howett is a British-born author and poetess who publishes her own books for the same reason I eat my own cooking: No less blinkered sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos Slammed for Using Taxpayer Money to Write Useless Book

    ​It was fodder for Florida columnists all week. By Saturday, the hypocrisy and intellectual ineptitude of Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos was on national display via the New York Times' op-ed page. Last week, the AP reported that Haridopolos, a so-called fiscally conservative Republican, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Healthy Sloppy Marios: A Recipe From Top Chef's Fabio Viviani

    NBC Universal Top Chef's Fabio Viviani​This week we featured a two-part interview with Top Chef contestant and chef Fabio Viviani, who's e-book "Did I Really Make Breakfast?" is available on Amazon.com. Check out the other parts here and here. Here is Fabio's take on the classic Sloppy Joe. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Interview with Chef and Top Chef Cheftestant Fabio Viviani - Part II

    NBC Universal Fabio Viviani Dishes For Us​We're continuing our interview with Top Chef contestant and chef, Fabio Viviani. Part one of the interview can be seen here.

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Palm Beach Former Teacher Pens Children's Book about Finding Life's Purpose

    via amazon.com​This is the tale of Benny, a fluffy little dog who has a lot to overcome. "He barked and he barked and he barked too much!" to the chagrin of his owner, Mrs. Crow. He was proud to protect his home, but as a small wide-eyed Pomeranian, he had to accept that he would never be a big br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Bimini Boatyard Chef Dishes Up a Pair of Cookbooks

    If you're not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here's a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. Put the eclectic flavors of South Florida -- the "New American Riviera" -- on your own kitchen table with pair of new coo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    ACORN Update: Faux Hooker is FIU Student with "Bulldog Attitude"

    The turd doesn't fall far from the dog​Stories in the New York Post and today's Palm Beach Post confirm that the tan, leggy hooker in the ACORN Hoax videos is in fact an FIU student. Hannah Giles, one of two college kids who traveled around the country on a $1300 budget shooting videos of ACORN wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    The South Florida Book That Will Test Courage at the Barnes & Noble Counter

    Flickr: uk_stenson1​Much to the chagrin of local authors, we do not do book reviews here at New Times, but on this blog, we do like to give some free pub to those who pick the most provocative subjects and titles.So this one goes out to you, Art Greenwald, the local author of Anal Probe: A Penetra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Be Your Own Taqueria

    Photo by Bill CitaraAll hail the humble taco, a perfect marriage of starch, protein, fruit, vegetable, and appetite, a triumph of down-home Mexican gastronomy, a thing of rare culinary beauty.  Of course, that's a taco made with fresh, quality ingredients by someone who knows and loves authenti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell on "Free" Media

    flickr.com Malcolm Gladwell at a lecture in Chicago. If you have a major problem with free media, please send cash or check before reading the rest of this post. In the beginning of Malcolm Gladwell's piece in the current New Yorker, he sounds as if he might be mocking Jim Moroney, p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    Dude Ditches Boca Conference and Gets a Book Deal Out of It

    Sorry, folks in the South Florida convention-recruitment and -staging biz. Didn't mean to let the secret out that people who come for these conferences don't actually go to these conferences. For most, it's little more than a chance to get shitfaced in a new state, on the company dime.And then you'v ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 26, 2009

    Capitol Crime

    Sorry, folks in the South Florida convention-recruitment and -staging biz. Didn't mean to let the secret out that people who come for these conferences don't actually go to these conferences. For most, it's little more than a chance to get shitfaced in a new state, on the company dime.And then you'v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Charlie Pickett Gets His Due

    About 20-some-odd years after the fact, Dania Beach alt.country.punk.roots pioneer, Charlie Pickett, is finally getting some of the props in mainstream media that he deserves. South Florida natives and music nerds that are in the know have been clocking this guy's career since the late 1970s when he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    An Interview With Ted Allen

    C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also fea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    Classic South Florida Album Commanding Big Bucks

    C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also fea ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 10, 2008

    Oi, Oi, We’re the Brews!

    C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also fea ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 6, 2008

    Move Over, Miley

    C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also fea ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 31, 2008

    Capitol Crime

    C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also fea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2008

    Jacki-O: Rapper, Label Head, and now... Author?

    C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also fea ... More >>

  • News

    January 24, 2008

    Is This the Las Puertas Concert?

    Mexican music lovers aren't biased

  • Culture

    January 24, 2008

    Surrender, But Save Your Cash

    Michael McKeever's latest comedy is an inessential giggle

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2007

    CD Review: Ministry - 'The Last Sucker'

    Michael McKeever's latest comedy is an inessential giggle

  • News

    April 26, 2007

    By the Book

    All your questions answered

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2006

    Florida Pulp Hits Store

    All your questions answered

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2006

    Promote Thyself

    All your questions answered

  • News

    September 28, 2006

    A Broward Whodunit

    It's never too late to dish on the locals.

  • News

    September 7, 2006

    Judy, Judy, Judy

    It's about time, Ms. Regan, that you did something about your misleading book, Miami Psychic.

  • Music

    August 10, 2006

    Brian Posehn

    Live In: Nerd Rage (Relapse)

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2006

    Reinhard's Bad Hair Day

    Live In: Nerd Rage (Relapse)

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2006

    This Shit Won't Stop

    Live In: Nerd Rage (Relapse)

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2006

    Florida Pulp Gets Slimed!

    Live In: Nerd Rage (Relapse)

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2006

    Yvonne Carey Speaks

    Live In: Nerd Rage (Relapse)

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2006

    The Upside of Book Burning

    Live In: Nerd Rage (Relapse)

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2006
  • Film

    September 2, 2004

    Reese's Piece

    Mira Nair's Victorian England bursts with sensuality -- but not impact

  • Goods and Services

    May 13, 2004

    Best Record/CD Store

    Uncle Sam's Music

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2004

    Skrrreeek!!!

    Uncle Sam's Music

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    A Christmas Confession

    Columnist repents, vows to stop killing Christian fundamentalists

  • Music

    February 6, 2003

    Sour Notes?

    Don't panic; Blue Note Records isn't goin' anywhere

  • Culture

    July 20, 2000

    Dream Weaver

    Sandman author Neil Gaiman finds magic in the damnedest place

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