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Through the Roots at Culture Room on May 19

The Last SunTrust Jazz Brunch of the Season is Today

In case you're not anticipating being utterly burned out on brunch with Mother's Day just a week away, head today to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Fort Lauderdale for the last SunTrust Jazz Brunch of the season. The event is 10:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. There's no cost to chill a ... More >>

Iggy Azalea at Liv May 9

In case you're not anticipating being utterly burned out on brunch with Mother's Day just a week away, head today to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Fort Lauderdale for the last SunTrust Jazz Brunch of the season. The event is 10:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. There's no cost to chill a ... More >>

"Darling Companion" Searches for a Lost Dog in a Forest Full of Sap

In case you're not anticipating being utterly burned out on brunch with Mother's Day just a week away, head today to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Fort Lauderdale for the last SunTrust Jazz Brunch of the season. The event is 10:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. There's no cost to chill a ... More >>

Like a Horse and Carriage

In case you're not anticipating being utterly burned out on brunch with Mother's Day just a week away, head today to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Fort Lauderdale for the last SunTrust Jazz Brunch of the season. The event is 10:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. There's no cost to chill a ... More >>

Give Mother Earth Some Sugar

In case you're not anticipating being utterly burned out on brunch with Mother's Day just a week away, head today to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Fort Lauderdale for the last SunTrust Jazz Brunch of the season. The event is 10:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. There's no cost to chill a ... More >>

Top of the World: A Look at Van Halen by the Numbers

In case you're not anticipating being utterly burned out on brunch with Mother's Day just a week away, head today to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Fort Lauderdale for the last SunTrust Jazz Brunch of the season. The event is 10:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. There's no cost to chill a ... More >>

Bill Clinton Dined at YOLO Tuesday Night -- Here's What He Ate

​It was far from business as usual at YOLO on Tuesday night, when Secret Service arrived on a packed evening to secure space for former President Bill Clinton. The group sat in a private dining room between 9 and 9:30 p.m, after Clinton spoke at Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Clinton's pe ... More >>

A New Lonely Hearts Club Band

​It was far from business as usual at YOLO on Tuesday night, when Secret Service arrived on a packed evening to secure space for former President Bill Clinton. The group sat in a private dining room between 9 and 9:30 p.m, after Clinton spoke at Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Clinton's pe ... More >>

Get Mooned

​It was far from business as usual at YOLO on Tuesday night, when Secret Service arrived on a packed evening to secure space for former President Bill Clinton. The group sat in a private dining room between 9 and 9:30 p.m, after Clinton spoke at Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Clinton's pe ... More >>

Normal Ducks Are Boring Anyway

​It was far from business as usual at YOLO on Tuesday night, when Secret Service arrived on a packed evening to secure space for former President Bill Clinton. The group sat in a private dining room between 9 and 9:30 p.m, after Clinton spoke at Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Clinton's pe ... More >>

Where Bill Clinton Should Eat This Week

​When Bill Clinton arrives to talk at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, we're more than looking forward to hearing him speak. We're wondering where he'll stop to eat.What's he doing here? The former President brings his "Embracing Our Common Humanity" tour to our neighborhood where he'll ... More >>

Foxy Brown on Broward Boulevard Is Now Open

​Just over a month after opening G&B Oyster Bar, Eliot Wolfe and company that helms Coconuts has transformed the interior of 723 E. Broward and painted the building brown, in accordance with a new name: Foxy Brown.The restaurant quietly opened for dinner last week, debuting a formula on Browar ... More >>

Spring: Bring It On With Anime Babes and Sake

​Just over a month after opening G&B Oyster Bar, Eliot Wolfe and company that helms Coconuts has transformed the interior of 723 E. Broward and painted the building brown, in accordance with a new name: Foxy Brown.The restaurant quietly opened for dinner last week, debuting a formula on Browar ... More >>

Past Times

​Just over a month after opening G&B Oyster Bar, Eliot Wolfe and company that helms Coconuts has transformed the interior of 723 E. Broward and painted the building brown, in accordance with a new name: Foxy Brown.The restaurant quietly opened for dinner last week, debuting a formula on Browar ... More >>

Bill Clinton Coming to Broward Center Next Week

​Former President Bill Clinton is taking his "Embracing Our Common Humanity" tour to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts next Tuesday, where he will "explore the challenges of globalization, our growing interdependence and ways toward a common future based on shared goals and values," accor ... More >>

"Queen of Dancehall" Lady Saw Is Still Bold, Now Stronger

​Former President Bill Clinton is taking his "Embracing Our Common Humanity" tour to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts next Tuesday, where he will "explore the challenges of globalization, our growing interdependence and ways toward a common future based on shared goals and values," accor ... More >>

Leno for President!

​Former President Bill Clinton is taking his "Embracing Our Common Humanity" tour to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts next Tuesday, where he will "explore the challenges of globalization, our growing interdependence and ways toward a common future based on shared goals and values," accor ... More >>

The Oscar Office Pool: How to Succeed Without Really Trying

​Former President Bill Clinton is taking his "Embracing Our Common Humanity" tour to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts next Tuesday, where he will "explore the challenges of globalization, our growing interdependence and ways toward a common future based on shared goals and values," accor ... More >>

Feminists, Unite!

​Former President Bill Clinton is taking his "Embracing Our Common Humanity" tour to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts next Tuesday, where he will "explore the challenges of globalization, our growing interdependence and ways toward a common future based on shared goals and values," accor ... More >>

Bret Michaels on the Foo Fighters, Being the Susan Lucci of Rock and Roll, and Drealism

​"I'm a self-proclaimed drealist. I may have invented this word, I'm not sure," says Bret Michaels, "But I'm a dreamer and a realist. I'm the kind of guy that I dream stuff up big and then I try to go for it." Though many artists do too much dreaming and other people too much pragmatic thinking, ... More >>

Six Misses and Unpleasant Surprises During Last Night's Grammy Broadcast

​Last night's Grammys broadcast offered poignant and thrilling moments galore. Despite the obvious usual lip-synching complaints, there were glimmers of hope aplenty that true, from-the-heart performance survives. This was Adele's night after all, she of the soulful, unretouched belting and refusa ... More >>

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards Live Blog

​Ladies and gentleman, it's Grammy night. Here on County Grind, we're doing something a little extra special for it. That's right, we're live blogging all the shenanigans. Are you an Adeleophile? Or are you totally over her? Are you just as confused as we are about this "Dance/Electronica" segment ... More >>

Backstage in South Florida: The Anti-Valentine's Day List With Terry Radigan

​Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: a publicist's pitch gets my attention... Being a writer and reviewer, I get all kinds of pitches from publicists and record label representatives, most of them clamoring ... More >>

Hip-Hop Finds Salvation: Five Fresh Rappers to Watch in 2012

​Hip-hop has been changing the world of music since the Last Poets dropped their debut album in 1970. By nature, the peripheral evolution is a signal sent from the depths of the underground, representing a heartbeat that drives the creative genius behind the genre. The wavelengths, at their p ... More >>

Reggae Great Buju Banton Is Locked Up on Drug Charges. Was He Entrapped?

​Hip-hop has been changing the world of music since the Last Poets dropped their debut album in 1970. By nature, the peripheral evolution is a signal sent from the depths of the underground, representing a heartbeat that drives the creative genius behind the genre. The wavelengths, at their p ... More >>

Millionaire Makes Fun of Poor People; Poor People Like It

​Hip-hop has been changing the world of music since the Last Poets dropped their debut album in 1970. By nature, the peripheral evolution is a signal sent from the depths of the underground, representing a heartbeat that drives the creative genius behind the genre. The wavelengths, at their p ... More >>

Celebrating the Life and Death of the Genius Jay Dee: J Dilla on His Birthday

One of the biggest blows to the musical community (hip-hop in particular), was the tragic passing of J Dilla back on February 10th, 2006. Cardiac arrest stemming from his lifelong battle with the rare blood disease thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) also known as Moschcowitz Syndrome and lupu ... More >>

Celebrating Garth Brooks' Birthday With His Seven Most Awkward Moments

​Born February 7, 1962, Garth Brooks has achieved the distinction of being one of the best-selling artists of the past 20 years. This is true not only in the realm of country, which he clearly dominated, but in the pop world overall. Indeed, while country music provides the predominant thread ... More >>

Twilight Notes' "Dialect" Event Moves to Museum of Art

​For close to three years, Brew Urban Cafe has been regularly transformed into something of an art-crowd clown car, with art-loving folks packed in and spilling out of its doors and into the street to enjoy a night of art, music, and hanging out put on by the DJ collective Twilight Notes. The wi ... More >>

Warm Up for the Super Bowl Halftime Show With Five Shocking Madonna Moments

​Under the bright stadium lights, plenty of incredible things have happened during Super Bowl halftime shows. Who could forget the King of Pop's epic 1993 performance or his sis' nipple slip in 2004? This year's act is equally grand: the timeless, shameless Madonna. Though she promised "for s ... More >>

It’s a Secret

​Under the bright stadium lights, plenty of incredible things have happened during Super Bowl halftime shows. Who could forget the King of Pop's epic 1993 performance or his sis' nipple slip in 2004? This year's act is equally grand: the timeless, shameless Madonna. Though she promised "for s ... More >>

Happy Birthday... and RIP, Rick James!

​It seems there was a certain inevitability that doomed James Ambrose Johnson Jr., AKA Rick James, from the start. Despite his phenomenal success in the late '70s and early '80s, including no fewer than four number-one hits on the R&B charts (among them, "Super Freak," "Mary Jane," and "You an ... More >>

Bob Marley's Birthday Tribute Show With Fourth Dimension Tonight

​People who can't appreciate the music or legacy of Bob Marley are likely very angry, listened to Legend a few too many times a their dorm room, or are overly sober. Marley is so much more than just a singer of reggae music. He brought Jamaican music and Rastafarian philosophy to the world. Around ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Etta James... and RIP! January 25

​Suffice it to say, the world lost one of its great voices when Etta James died last week, only a few days prior to her 74th birthday. Born Etta Jamesetta Hawkins on January 25, 1938, she became one of the most influential female performers of all time, a daring diva who was able to transcend R&am ... More >>

Five Reasons Why Today's Generation Should Listen to Sir Elton John

​Elton John is the owner of six Grammy awards, has a net worth of $320 million, and despite his extensive history with drug abuse and his unabashed honesty when it comes to pop culture, he remains an inspirational figure in music.The legend transgressed from a young man, yearning for a simple song ... More >>

Cannibal Corpse at Culture Room, January 22

​Elton John is the owner of six Grammy awards, has a net worth of $320 million, and despite his extensive history with drug abuse and his unabashed honesty when it comes to pop culture, he remains an inspirational figure in music.The legend transgressed from a young man, yearning for a simple song ... More >>

"American Treasures" at the Boca Museum Presents a Smattering of American Greats

​Elton John is the owner of six Grammy awards, has a net worth of $320 million, and despite his extensive history with drug abuse and his unabashed honesty when it comes to pop culture, he remains an inspirational figure in music.The legend transgressed from a young man, yearning for a simple song ... More >>

SoFla Flow: Local Reggae Bands Join Inner Circle's New "Reggae Wave" Movement

​SoFla Flow pays tribute to South Florida's wonderful jam-band, reggae, and related activity -- both the homegrown, heady, local stuff and national acts passing through.​One year ago, the legendary reggae group Inner Circle, alongside local promoter and scene elder Lance-O of Kulcha Shok, called ... More >>

Black Violin at Miramar Cultural Center, January 14

​SoFla Flow pays tribute to South Florida's wonderful jam-band, reggae, and related activity -- both the homegrown, heady, local stuff and national acts passing through.​One year ago, the legendary reggae group Inner Circle, alongside local promoter and scene elder Lance-O of Kulcha Shok, called ... More >>

Broward GOP and Joe Kaufman Get Clowned by the Daily Show

​Remember when Nezar Hamze -- a Muslim and executive director of Florida's Council on American-Islamic Relations -- got shut out of the Broward Republican Executive Committee?That whole situation got a well-deserved clowning from the Daily Show With Jon Stewart.The show even landed a hilarious int ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Michael Stipe!

​Michael Stipe helped define the sound of college radio's first big star, the now-retired R.E.M., with a vocal approach that was often all but incomprehensible and decidedly detached. Although he turns 51 today (January 4) and later refined his style somewhat as his lyrics became more socially and ... 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 >>

New Coke at Snooze Theatre, January 2

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 >>

Cobra Skulls and Dead to Me to Enter 2012 Fearlessly at Propaganda

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 >>

Steve Lawler at Wall Lounge, December 28

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 >>

Toulouse-Lautrec and His Mentors at the Coral Springs Museum of Art

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 >>

Candyland 2011 at Revolution, December 23

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 >>

Rap Producer Numonics Has Five Albums (and South Florida Domination) Scheduled for 2012

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 >>

America on Canvas

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 >>