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It's Thursday: You Should Be Eating Pasta at Ristorante Sapori in Boca Raton

I've passed the Ristorante Sapori patio "garden" too many times to count, always admiring the variety of herbs, vegetables, and greens growing in a collection of pots of various sizes and materials. The Boca institution lies in a busy corridor that funnels foot traffic between the precarious Royal P ... More >>

Here's Why Florida Seafood Restaurants Fill Menus With Foreign Fish

I've passed the Ristorante Sapori patio "garden" too many times to count, always admiring the variety of herbs, vegetables, and greens growing in a collection of pots of various sizes and materials. The Boca institution lies in a busy corridor that funnels foot traffic between the precarious Royal P ... More >>

"Man on a Ledge" Goes Thud With Wrong-Man Thriller Schtick

I've passed the Ristorante Sapori patio "garden" too many times to count, always admiring the variety of herbs, vegetables, and greens growing in a collection of pots of various sizes and materials. The Boca institution lies in a busy corridor that funnels foot traffic between the precarious Royal P ... More >>

Wasted Away Again Online With Jimmy Buffett-Inspired Margaritaville Videogame

​Parrotheads! Your internet dreams have come true! Key West-obsessed singer Jimmy Buffett's most famous song, 1977's "Margaritaville," is being honored with a Facebook videogame. That's right, you're not just drunk, stoned, and sun-stroked; you actually read that correctly. THQ, a videogame publis ... More >>

RV Rapper Bleubird Finally Fires "Cannonball!!!," His U.S. Debut

​Parrotheads! Your internet dreams have come true! Key West-obsessed singer Jimmy Buffett's most famous song, 1977's "Margaritaville," is being honored with a Facebook videogame. That's right, you're not just drunk, stoned, and sun-stroked; you actually read that correctly. THQ, a videogame publis ... More >>

Climate Change to Sink South Florida; New Report Recommends Ways to Stay Afloat

​The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact released a lengthy draft plan intended to make sure South Florida doesn't become some real-life mashup of Mad Max and WaterWorld when sea levels start to rise courtesy of climate change.  The Compact -- a gang of county representatives from Brow ... More >>

Is Anyone Up? New Year's Celebration at Speakeasy Lounge

​Is Anyone Up? New Year's CelebrationHosted by Hunter MooreSpeakeasy Lounge, Lake WorthSaturday, December 31, 2011Better than: Sitting at home in front of a MacBook, we guess."You guys are awkward as fuck," Is Anyone Up? revenge porn site founder Hunter Moore said at one point from the stage as he ... More >>

The Mysterious Honeybell Gift Box

​Last Friday, the FedEx guy came by my house with a rather large box from Cushman's Fruit. As I signed for it, I noted that it was addressed to my husband, so I left it unopened.When he came home, I told him someone sent him fruit. We opened the box to find no gift card, no sender name (on box or ... More >>

Broward Crime Stories of the Year: From Dog Molestation to TSA Agents' Theft Habits

keywordy.net​Crime in Broward -- sometimes it's hilarious, sometimes it's depressing, and sometimes it's just downright freaky. From a guy getting busted while fingering a Chihuahua to a TSA agent getting caught stuffing a passenger's iPad down his pants, crimes in Broward were anything but ta ... More >>

Live: Matisyahu Evades Beard Questions at Kravis Center, December 29

Matisyahu With Adam Weinberg on acoustic guitar Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach Thursday, December 29, 2011 Check out the slideshow here. Better than: Hanging out at your university's Hillel on a chilly Thursday evening. It's easy to sum up last night's intimate Matisyahu s ... More >>

Southwest Ranches Prison Opponent Is Suing the Town for $1.25 Over Public Records

​Bill Di Scipio, a Southwest Ranches resident who is spearheading the campaign against a proposed ICE detention facility, has bombarded the town with public-records requests for months now. Some of his requests have been successful, yielding emails that provide a glimpse into the otherwise secreti ... More >>

CCA Robocall in Southwest Ranches (AUDIO)

​Yesterday we reported that Pembroke Pines and Southwest Ranches were getting phone calls from the Corrections Corporation of America asking whether they support a proposed immigrant jail detention center "processing center" that Southwest Ranches is gunning to build on a plot of land near the Eve ... More >>

Free Drinks at the New Times Happy Hour Mobile App Party This Friday

Beer equals happy!​Wait! You haven't downloaded the Broward/Palm Beach New Times Happy Hour Mobile App yet? We're not sure why not, because this free app, available for iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android phones, gives you the inside scoop on the best happy hours in South Florida. How else will you be ... More >>

Taco Bell Nachos Supreme: Drunk Food For Under a Buck

Taco Bell's Nachos Supreme - drunk food done right.​Sure when we're sober we turn our noses up at the thought of Taco Bell (eating it is neither good for our image as foodies nor good for fitting into our skinny jeans).But after a happy hour at Himmarshee Bar & Grille that turns into a late ni ... More >>

Taco Bell Nachos Supreme: Drunk Food For Under a Buck

Taco Bell's Nachos Supreme - drunk food done right.​Sure when we're sober we turn our noses up at the thought of Taco Bell (eating it is neither good for our image as foodies nor good for fitting into our skinny jeans).But after a happy hour at Himmarshee Bar & Grille that turns into a late ni ... More >>

Charles Harper, Judge's Troubled Ex-Foster Son, Allegedly Went on Home-Robbing Spree

PBSOCharles Harper​We have some more details about crimes allegedly committed last month by Charles Harper, the foster child turned stalker turned sex-abuse accuser whose life has been unfortunately entwined with that of Broward Circuit Judge John Bowman.According to incident reports from PBSO, on ... More >>

Angry Birds Cookbook: Angry Eggs (and Bacon)?

Angry Birds is becoming a cookbook.​Chances are you're as addicted to playing Angry Birds as we are. Who doesn't like catapulting fat, mean little birds into obstacles in order to squash them? Rovio, the creators of these pesky little avian kamikazes, is cashing in on the success of Angry B ... More >>

Rock of Ages No-Trespassing Signs Prohibit Photography, Citing the Wrong Ordinance

Don't photograph this man: it's illegal because we say so!​Hey look, it's Tom Cruise! He and a bevy of other stars are lurking around Fort Lauderdale's Himmarshee Village filming the jukebox musical Rock of Ages, and you might just be tempted to whip out your camera for some celebrity shots as you ... More >>

"The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider" at Florida Stage: A Stylistically Scattered Look at the Poetry of Politics

Don't photograph this man: it's illegal because we say so!​Hey look, it's Tom Cruise! He and a bevy of other stars are lurking around Fort Lauderdale's Himmarshee Village filming the jukebox musical Rock of Ages, and you might just be tempted to whip out your camera for some celebrity shots as you ... More >>

Drunk Cinco de Mayo Reveler Tries to Record Cop on iPhone, Goes to Jail

PBSOJoshua Mandel​Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Boynton Beach apparently got pretty crazy -- an officer states in the report below that "my working of the detail emphasized the bar area in which approximately 400 people were celebrating the Cinco de Mayo holiday and to which every officer in the c ... More >>

Eggsellent Easter Egg Art: Rock Stars, Celebrities, Assorted Eggheads

John Lamouranne Bacon do I go well with....​A lot of people color Easter eggs for the holidays. Some cultures have elborate techniques to paint their eggs, but New Orleans artist John Lamouranne goes one step further to turn eggs into celebrities. The artist, known as the Egg Man, fetche ... More >>

AT&T Tightening Its Grip On South Florida In $39 Billion T-Mobile Deal

​AT&T, a company that was broken up in 1984 because of a federal antitrust suit, is once again sparking fears that consumers and competition will get hurt as a result of its deal to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion. The deal would shrink the market of major wireless carriers from four to three, el ... More >>

Review: Florida's Pointless, Boring New Smartphone App

The future is here -- to bore you.​The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation has just released the first-ever mobile app created by a state agency in the U. S. of A. As with anything bearing the mark of DBPR, the app is relentlessly exciting; a thrill-a-minute, knuckle-white ... More >>

"I Am Number Four" Steals a Million Little Pieces From Other, Better Superhero Flicks

The future is here -- to bore you.​The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation has just released the first-ever mobile app created by a state agency in the U. S. of A. As with anything bearing the mark of DBPR, the app is relentlessly exciting; a thrill-a-minute, knuckle-white ... More >>

Mother and Child Reunion in Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture"

The future is here -- to bore you.​The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation has just released the first-ever mobile app created by a state agency in the U. S. of A. As with anything bearing the mark of DBPR, the app is relentlessly exciting; a thrill-a-minute, knuckle-white ... More >>

A Graffiti Crew Mourns the Loss of One of Its Own

The future is here -- to bore you.​The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation has just released the first-ever mobile app created by a state agency in the U. S. of A. As with anything bearing the mark of DBPR, the app is relentlessly exciting; a thrill-a-minute, knuckle-white ... More >>

"Stop Kiss" at Sol Theatre Is a Luminous Lesbian Love Story

The future is here -- to bore you.​The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation has just released the first-ever mobile app created by a state agency in the U. S. of A. As with anything bearing the mark of DBPR, the app is relentlessly exciting; a thrill-a-minute, knuckle-white ... More >>

Debra Villegas, Melissa Lewis, and the Round Up Connection

Debra Villegas (left) liked to party at Round Up.​On the night her best friend was murdered in March 2008, Debra Villegas was partying with friends at the Round Up Country Western Club in Davie.This wasn't unusual for Debra, the former chief operating officer at the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law ... More >>

TopSpot USA Showcase Punks Up the Talent Farm

Debra Villegas (left) liked to party at Round Up.​On the night her best friend was murdered in March 2008, Debra Villegas was partying with friends at the Round Up Country Western Club in Davie.This wasn't unusual for Debra, the former chief operating officer at the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law ... More >>

Amber Alerts, Myah, and Your Mobile Phone

​Last Friday afternoon, Myah Knighton-Black went missing from Riviera Beach. On Sunday, police reached out to local media to say that the missing 14-year-old could be in Miami-Dade County. As of this writing the girl has not yet been found.  Still, the case provides an example for how the Amb ... More >>

Q&A With Jay Berkowitz, South Florida Techrepreneur

​The Boca Raton-based TenGoldenRules.com specializes in business to business (B2B) internet marketing between small, medium, and large businesses.Jay Berkowitz, its founder and CEO, is a true entrepreneur in the internet marketing field. He's promoted such companies as McDonald's and Coca-Cola. In ... More >>

Restaurant News: Bellini's Opens on Federal, Pollo Tropical Lends a Hand, Jackson Tasting in Oakland Park

•    The coal-fired pizza craze continues to be hotter than a. . . coal-fired oven. The latest example is Bellini's Coal-Fired Pizza, now dishing up those crisp-crusted pies on North Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale. The menu goes beyond the usual pizzeria suspects with dishes lik ... More >>

Social Commerce and Online Porn: What They Can Learn From Each Other

​Social media and websites such as Facebook and YouTube are now the leading activity on the Internet for most of the U.S. and Europe. What's interesting is that while the social networking sites are growing exponentially, the commerce that attempts to take advantage of them doesn't seem to be near ... More >>

TechSqueeze: The Techie Zodiac -- What's Your Fortune?

​Recently, I've been thinking about the people I know and the tech experts I've talked to over the years. My thoughts drifted toward how different many of these people have been, despite all being in the same basic field with similar careers.  I also realized that although these differences a ... More >>

Will the Internet Be Full Next Year?

​If you haven't gotten an iPhone, registered your preferred web address, or otherwise secured your location on the internet, you might want to do so now.  According to the European Commission in a recent survey of organizations, most have not upgraded to the new IPv6 internet protocols and ar ... More >>

TechSqueeze: How to Sue Celebrities on Twitter for Fun and Profit

Courtney LoveIf you haven't seen the recent headlines, rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel for something she said about someone on Twitter. She is the first official celebrity to get sued over something she tweeted. And you thought Courtney would never be in the record books.This isn't the ... More >>

TechSqueeze: Al Gore Speaks in Boca Raton, Gets Pwnd

Al Gore Please Save Me!​Saturday night, the President of the World was in Boca Raton to give a speech on climate change at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. Crowds lined up to buy tickets to listen to Al Gore speak or to protest, boo and hiss from outside during the event. I'll be right up front and t ... More >>

Psystar, a Rebel South Florida Company, Takes On Apple

Al Gore Please Save Me!​Saturday night, the President of the World was in Boca Raton to give a speech on climate change at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. Crowds lined up to buy tickets to listen to Al Gore speak or to protest, boo and hiss from outside during the event. I'll be right up front and t ... More >>

The Hunt for Haleigh Cummings Could Bring Down a Badass Bounty Hunter

Al Gore Please Save Me!​Saturday night, the President of the World was in Boca Raton to give a speech on climate change at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. Crowds lined up to buy tickets to listen to Al Gore speak or to protest, boo and hiss from outside during the event. I'll be right up front and t ... More >>

Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade allies with a dubious business partner

Al Gore Please Save Me!​Saturday night, the President of the World was in Boca Raton to give a speech on climate change at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. Crowds lined up to buy tickets to listen to Al Gore speak or to protest, boo and hiss from outside during the event. I'll be right up front and t ... More >>

The Grammy Celebration Tour With Katy Perry and Wyclef Jean.

Al Gore Please Save Me!​Saturday night, the President of the World was in Boca Raton to give a speech on climate change at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. Crowds lined up to buy tickets to listen to Al Gore speak or to protest, boo and hiss from outside during the event. I'll be right up front and t ... More >>

Last Night: Adult Swim Presents Tim and Eric Live, at Revolution

Ian WitlenTim and Eric backstage at Revolution Sunday night. Click here to view the full slideshow.It takes an, um, special sensibility to really get into the Cartoon Network's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, which airs on the network's Adult Swim block of late-night programming. Pretty much t ... More >>

Prunk TV: Featuring Marilyn Manson

via www.marilynmansonartworkonline.com'When I Get Old,' by Marilyn MansonMarilyn Manson's paintings are much better than his music. Just kidding; we love ya, Marilyn! His solo show, Trismegistus, debuted this past December during Art Basel Miami Beach. But if you missed the super-VIP opening, don't ... More >>

All They Want For Christmas: Gift Ideas for MCR, Musiq, Silverchair and More

Silverchair's Daniel Johns wants an inflatable sheep. No, really. It's after the jump.We've been having trouble figuring out what to buy our friends and family for Christmas this year. To help out on the idea front, we decided to draw inspiration from some of our favorite musical artists' Christmas ... More >>

Marriage is Like Mushrooms

The Love Boat departs on the hour from Little Palm Island

Concert Review: Envy on the Coast at Culture Room

The Love Boat departs on the hour from Little Palm Island

Green Eggs and Dolphin Ham

The Love Boat departs on the hour from Little Palm Island

Last Night: Macy Gray at Hard Rock Live

The Love Boat departs on the hour from Little Palm Island

Rock Out, Baby!

2006 Year-End Music Wrap-Up