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New Times Happy Hour Mobile App Party at American Social Tomorrow

Need a drink? There's an app for that! Say what you will about it, social networking isn't going anywhere. For some, that's a cause for sorrow and others a cause for joy. For the naysayers, the physical distancing, the impersonal nature of high-tech communication is what gets them down. "What hap ... More >>

Nike LeBron X Elite Kicks to Be Released to the Masses Next Week

With the 2013 NBA playoffs a mere week away, it's time to see what LeBron James will be wearing as he prepares to obliterate defenders and defend his and the Heat's crown as Biggest Badasses in All the Land (or, as most would call it, NBA Finals Champions). With that, Nike has, of course, unveiled t ... More >>

El Gringo Returns: CBS4's Brian Andrews Has Been on Quite the Colombian Adventure

Newscaster Brian Andrews, Bogota's El Gringo, Nearly Kidnapped In Colombia

On a recent overcast day in downtown Fort Lauderdale, a cluster of reporters watched a tanned blond man sashay into the federal courthouse dressed like the Joker: orange pants, purple socks, red pocket square, and a Technicolored iPhone in his hand. Murmurs immediately. "Who's that?" one reporter ... More >>

Dive Bar Explorer: Andy's Lounge & Package in Davie

As far as dive bars go, some are much crazier than others. Some have crazy porn and topless bartenders. Others are just a good ole place to sit back, have a drink, a smoke, and an entertaining chat. Andy's Lounge and Package is the latter. For years we've heard rumors of the dodgy antics taking ... More >>

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Pollo Tropical Offering Free Food In Exchange For Your Old Cellphones

A new year is a great opportunity to practice the "out with the old, in with the new" mantra. If you're like most people "the old" includes piles of obsolete junk hidden in dark corners of the house or stuffed into impossible-to-open drawers. In every secreted-away collection of crap exists at least ... More >>

South Florida's Ten Most Romantic Restaurants

Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Broward-Palm Beach® 2012 online. Whether it's planning for an anniversary, plotting a proposal, or tryi ... More >>

The Ten Best Beer Selections in South Florida

Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Broward-Palm Beach® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com. Beer -- in all its barley and hops glory -- ... More >>

iPhone App Claims It Can Detect If Food Is Organic: A Local Organic Farmer Weighs In

Ever get the sneaking suspicion that corporations -- or hell, even the mango vendor at the local farmers' market -- are conspiring to use your fear of ingesting chemicals to get you to spend more money on food? Those who worry that they're being misled about the veracity of certain "organic" cl ... More >>

The Fooducate iPhone App Review

In the inaugural entry in Clean Plate Charlie's semi-regular series of iPhone app reviews, Charlie weighed in on the fun-to-use but not entirely indispensable Perfect Egg Timer app. This week's review looks at the buzz-killing but necessary Fooducate, one of Apple's top-rated nutrition apps of ... More >>

South Florida's Ten Best Diners

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Broward/Palm Beach® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.Piles of fluffy pancakes as far as the eye ... More >>

Best Ice Cream Food Trucks in Fort Lauderdale and Miami

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Broward-Palm Beach® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.Summer means sweating in mysterious places, ... More >>

Cuthill's Backyard in Boynton Beach: A New Taste of Old Florida

After four u-turns and failed iPhone directions, I finally spot the wooden sign with an arrow pointing to Cuthill's Backyard in Boynton Beach. As I round the corner, I can see it, a newly erected outdoor bar behind a new wooden fence. It seems a bit out of place, a beachy-looking bar tucked amo ... More >>

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Pat the Foodie and Other Kids' Books for Adults

​Pat the Foodie is making its way around the internet, a parody of Pat the Bunny in the same vein as Go the F**k to Sleep. Like its inspiration, readers can touch things, though it's along the lines of scratchy beards and chicken feathers. Daily Dish from the LA Times cites one of the pages: "'Jud ... 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 >>

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 >>

New Times Best Of App Gets Love From Wired and Apple

​Just a few years ago, the web presence of New Times was the digital equivalent of a kid in a bowler hat yelling out the news next to the haberdashery. Now, we've got a sweet new homepage, award-winning blogs, and apparently a smart phone app that rocks. Sure, that sounds like we're using this spa ... More >>

Food & Drink Events this Week in Broward/Palm Beach

Dogfish Head will take over some of these taps on Tuesday. See? Going back to work ain't all bad.​It's Monday, and yet, it's still the weekend - what a beautiful conundrum. Assuming you were given the day off and don't have a fancy pool party to crash, there are a few options about town with which ... 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 >>

Atlantis Space Shuttle Launch Photos From 36,000 Feet

via Twitter user ChadGraff​There might not be much sightseeing from the window seat of a commercial airplane between Baltimore and Fort Lauderdale, except for maybe a rocket going into space next to your plane.The Huffington Post reports these pictures of the space shuttle Atlantis launch were ... 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 >>

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 >>

Three (More) Free Foodie Apps for the iPhone

​In a small but concise priority listing of life, food is near the top. So is my iPhone. Thankfully, Apple combines the love I have for both. Earlier this month, I got an email from Apple with dozens of food application suggestions. While I gave you my top five free food apps for smartphones in De ... 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 >>

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

Where to Buy Girl Scout Cookies (Online Cookie Locator and iPhone App!)

Flickr​It happens every year. You hear everyone talking about them -- the delicious Tagalongs, the sinfully good Thin Mint cookies (which taste better in a milkshake, BTW), the little girls manipulating you into buying four boxes. But poor you -- your office is one of those desolate hells that doe ... More >>

Dy-no-mite Fridays

South Florida Happy Hours: Where Great Food and Booze Collide

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

Eric BartonLearn how to make a healthy version of the super perro in this week's recipe post.​This week on the blog:An outdoor nightclub goes live in Delray Beach.Big Bear hopes to serve some malt-fed calf during next year's Field of Beers.Iron Maiden is hitting the road, which means it's time for ... 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 >>

Drunken Bliss at Cantina Laredo

Riki Altman​Why we just had to get away during one of the busiest travel times of the year is anyone's guess, but somehow taking a road trip over Christmas seemed logical when we booked the hotel room in Orlando a few months ago. Granted, it was a fun getaway for a while, excepting the outlet mall ... 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 >>

Not Good Timing: Stabbing at Florida Memorial University Frat Party

Joel Castillo​We're beginning to feel sorry for the public relations department of Miami Gardens' Florida Memorial University. As this week's feature story on the violence-plagued school -- think shootings, carjackings, home invasions, and a near-riot -- went to print, the first reports of a ... More >>

Gym Rats: Broward a Training Ground for MMA Stars-to-Be

Flickr user: Joe Johnston PhotographyUFC light heavyweight champion fighter, Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell ​One of the few new industries to rise from the smoldering ashes of our crumbling modern economy is Mixed Martial Arts. It seems that men in touch with their inner cave man make voracious cons ... More >>

Not Sly's Brother, Technically, But He Might Have Cleaned Sly's Pool Once

Sylvester Stallone has only one brother, thank God, and that's the incomparable Frank Stallone, seen above in the video for that song he did for the John Travolta leotard movie.But this morning, the Juice received a media release about energy-saving pool technologies endorsed by some of the region ... More >>

South Florida Native Jim Jonsin Is the New Producer King

The Grammy Celebration Tour With Katy Perry and Wyclef Jean.

Real Men Drink Microbrews

Hold your fire, save your ammo, and belly up to the bar at the Lodge.

Wastin' Away at Hibi House

You could spend a lot of happy hours at this Key West-flavored hideaway.

Fall Out Boy to Play Mizner Park Amphitheatre, April 21

via www.livenation.comThe last time Fall Out Boy headlined in South Florida, it was for a gig with Gym Class Heroes and Plain White T's at the Fillmore Miami Beach, on Halloween 2007. That theater seemed like a smallish venue for them then, and thanks to both Pete Wentz' tabloid appearances, and an ... 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 >>

Booze Hound - BYOBooze

Marriage is Like Mushrooms

The Love Boat departs on the hour from Little Palm Island

Concert Review: Envy on the Coast at Culture Room

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As giant robots transform all around us (!), it´s good to know Michael Bay won´t ever change