Bahamas

Salt Life Food Shack: You've Seen the Bumper Stickers; Now Try the Restaurant

Gary Karp Heads to Bahamas for Clues to His Daughter's Unsolved Murder

Gary Karp again is taking over the reins. As he has countless times in the decade since his teenaged daughter, Marissa, was found dead in the Everglades, yesterday the Broward man held a news conference, reminding South Florida about the unsolved case. The recent occasion was Karp's trip this week t ... More >>

Salt Life Offers a Taste of The Ocean in a Multimillion Dollar "Shack"

You know those Salt Life stickers you see everywhere? The idea for them, and the multimillion-dollar company apparel company they created came from Jacksonville. Salt Life, the company, began in the early 2000s with a group of friends with a passion for fishing, surfing, diving and anything involvi ... More >>

D'Angelo Pizza Wine Bar Tapas To Open in Weston

Residents of Weston have a new pizza restaurant to look forward to. That may not sound like big news, but this is no slouch of a chain coming to town. D'Angelo Pizza Wine Bar and Tapas opens on January 21 in Country Isle Plaza (1370 Weston Road). If the name sounds familiar, it's because the man beh ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy Brings More Rain and Wind Today

As expected, Hurricane Sandy has left a big honking mess of things with wind and rain and rain and SO. MUCH. RAIN.Fortunately, there have been no widespread power outages or any serious emergencies caused by the storm Today's 8 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center says that she has weaken ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy Bringing Lots of Wind and Rain Today

If you've been outside yet, you've noticed a couple of things. It's raining. It's windy. It's a little chilly. And it's raining. Mostly, though, it's raining. Yes, the crappy weather this morning and pretty much throughout the rest of today is courtesy of Hurricane Sandy, who is right now plowing t ... More >>

Lionfish Opera: Invasive Fish, Like, Sings Verdi and New NOAA Guide

Lionfish are nothing new. The vibrant and venomous  invasive species has been screwing up local marine habitats since the first one was recorded in U.S. waters off our very own Dania Beach back in 1985. Their persistence prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio ... More >>

Another Boat From Bahamas Caught Smuggling Humans and Drugs Into Broward

See also "Bahamian Men Sink Boat While Smuggling Six People Into Florida, Including A Drug Dealer"Speeding through a manatee zone is no joke, especially if your boat is stuffed with weed and illegal aliens. At the end of August, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission stoppe ... More >>

Fresh Seafood Markets in Broward and Palm Beach

There's buying fish from a commercial chain grocery store, and then there's buying fish from a local fish market. If you've ever walked past your local supermarket fish department and gasped for air, you know exactly what I mean.Especially after recent concerns of area fish fraud and mislabeling, we ... More >>

International Business Times Exaggerates Opposition to GM Mosquitoes, Spreads Fear Not Fact

See also "Genetically Modified Bugs Glow Red and Self-Destruct, but Can They Keep Away Disease?" and "Petition Against GM Mosquitoes Has Nearly 100,000 Signatures"The International Business Times on Monday morning published an article about the potential release of genetically modified mosquitoes in ... More >>

Palm Beach Resident Sentenced for Illegally Importing 1,500 Pounds of Conch From Bahamas

It's a hard conch life for Robert Fortunato. Federal prosecutors announced that the 55-year-old Palm Beach County resident has been sentenced to a year of probation and will give up his 15-foot Mako boat for illegally importing 1,500 pounds of queen conch from the Bahamas. 

Should Ethics Be Put Aside When the Boss Asks for Chilean Sea Bass? Or, Worse, Foie Gras?

Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it's like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports.It's 8 p.m. Thursday night ... More >>

It Will Never Stop Raining: Five Florida Movies on Netflix

It was raining all weekend, the second half of the Fort Lauderdale Air Show was canceled, and the falling wet stuff isn't going away anytime soon. Rain in Florida isn't anything new, but weather reports indicate thunderstorms hitting the area every day for the next week. Womp.Weather.com puts next S ... More >>

Seaplane Produce Delivery Saves a Yachtie Chef From Frozen Veggies

Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it's like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports.The radio crackles to life ... More >>

A Yacht Chef's Life: Breakfast to Dinner to Late-Night Snacks, With Brownies Just in Case

Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it's like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports."It's not your turn. I'm s ... More >>

For Yacht Chefs, Finding Produce Down Island Means Braving Guns, Roosters, and Kaliks

Chef Sara Ventiera is on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it's like to work on a yacht, from pretrip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery. Click here for previous reports.We stepped out of the cab ... More >>

Farm-Raised Salmon? Not on This Yacht

Chef Sara Ventiera is setting off on a three-week trip to the Bahamas, manning the kitchen on a 91-foot yacht. She will file regular updates from the waters about what it's like to work on a yacht, from pre-trip provisioning to seaplane produce delivery.As soon I saw the "Norwegian Atlantic Salmon" ... More >>

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

Airline Employee Claims He Was Fired for Complaining About Pilot Steering With Knees

Wikimedia CommonsSomeone steered this with their knee?!​In 2006, Captain Patrick Hart was deadheading (flying in uniform, but not at the helm) on a Gulfstream International Airlines flight from Orlando to Miami when things got a little bumpy.He said from where he sat in the back of the 19-seater h ... More >>

Carnival's Bruise Cruise Lets Loose 400 Garage Rock Fans Onto a Cruise Ship

Top Chef Recap: Cooking For The King

NBC Universal ​Wer'e in the finals in the Bahamas. The cheftestants walk into a fort where they meet the winners of their seasons and Eric Ripert. Quickfire Challenge Tom Colicchio says they're going to go head to head against the winner of their particular season. The winner ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: All In The Family

NBC Universal​Last week on Top Chef Dale gets kicked off for a lousy Amberjack and the cheftestants were shocked, especially Richard. It's up to the final five. One step away from the final four. Pressure is on. Padma comes into the cheftestants' condo unannounced. Richard says this i ... More >>

Why Must My Dim Sum Go on Summer Vacation?

by Lisa Rab​It was 12:30 p.m. last Saturday, and I was starving. I'd just finished an extremely sweaty yoga class and was eagerly speeding off to Sunrise to meet some friends for dim sum. Toa Toa, the highly acclaimed Chinese-food institution in a strip mall, would surely be worth the half-hour sc ... More >>

Morning Juice: Rain Washes Out Holiday Weekend; D-Wade Fadeaway Jumper?

​Welcome back from the Fourth of July weekend. Here's what's in the local news:Clouds and persistent record-setting rain dampened Independence Day plans. Flooded streets in Hollywood and Miramar, which accumulated more than five inches of rain Monday. [Sun-Sentinel]A Florida Atlantic University re ... More >>

CityPlace Now a Venue For Protesters; Let's Protest CityPlace

Flickr: livingonimpulseCityPlace: Where they deliver lattes to the picket line​Do you have an issue close to your heart, but don't want to go anywhere scary to protest it? Do you define "scary" as any place without valet parking? Then have we got news for you! For the low, low fee of permanent yup ... More >>

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Isn’t It Swell?

Wild Iguana Catchers/Eaters Welcome in Florida

Alexander Rust and Vanessa Palm should have vacationed in South Florida instead of the Bahamas. The pair of 20-something Midwesterners were arrested over the weekend for catching, then grilling and consuming, an endangered iguana in the Exuma Cays. Here in Florida, tho ... More >>

Morning Juice: Pills Can't Cure Boca, New Kids on the Block Hits Lauderdale Poop Deck

Boca Pills Can't Cure What Ails Most of UsBoca Raton-based South Florida Nutrition is getting into some deep shit for promising that its acai berry supplements are pretty much a magic cure-all. The company's website promises the pills promote sound sleep, improve digestion, fights cancerous cells, c ... More >>

Weston Congresswoman Lands Promotion; Will Help Us Get More Stuff

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Weston Democrat (not to be confused with the Westin Diplomat), has been named the vice chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which is a long way of saying she's in a better position to get us more stuf ... More >>

Just When Dunkin' Suspect Couldn't Get More Loathsome...

They've been known as the Dunkin' Bandits, and Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti tried to cast them as cold-blooded thugs, but maybe the Dunkin No-Nuts would be the most appropriate name for this band of spineless poseurs who got their rocks off shooting random, unarmed people.Turns out these are not even ... More >>

Curse of the Dead

Anna Nicole's ghost could go home at last — if some trial hotshots get their way

High Seas

Lots of drugs, drinks, and titty fights, but the Climax Cruise ends in clammy anticlimax

Artvolution

Various artists

Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay (Numero)

New American Nostalgic

11 Maple's not perfect, but it's thoroughly ours

Who Crowned Michael Brown?

Laws? The Riviera Beach mayor doesn't need laws.

Come Sail Away

On the MS Zuiderdam, we are what we eat

Finding Gary, Part 2

A rogue FBI agent, tons of smuggled drugs, a wife in search of her husband's corpse

Finding Gary, Part 1

After 21 years, Donna Weaver seems to finally be zeroing in on her lost husband

Passing Gas

Planned pipelines threaten fragile coral formations

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Hotel Biba

Barnacled Bargains

Come sift through the salvage at the Dania Marine Flea Market

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Super Saver Supermarket

Undercurrents

A nightclub in the fast lane, a newspaper in the slow one, and a Brazilian with his thumb out

Into Thin Air

When Gary Weaver disappeared under mysterious circumstances, the authorities eventually gave up.
His wife didn't.

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Young Professionals For Covenant House

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