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Ten Best Tiki Bars in South Florida

Over the past few years there has been a profusion of interest in mid-century tiki culture. And hey, it works for us. With our abundance of palm trees, beaches, and mid-century, South Pacific-themed spots, the trend definitely helps South Florida's tourism industry. With this weekend's grand tiki- ... More >>

Tortuga Music Festival This Weekend: Best Places to Hang Out in Fort Lauderdale

The Tortuga Music Festival is hitting Fort Lauderdale beach this weekend. And with it comes an eclectic mix of performers from country music stars like Kenny Chesney to modern hippes like Michael Franti & Spearhead and Ben Harper. So it should come as no surprise that concert goers with include a m ... More >>

South Florida Food-Related Events This Week: Food Truck Roundups, Holiday Beer Parties, and More

This week's calendar of events is nice and easy; just the way it should be in the countdown to holiday mayhem. If you need an excuse to shirk shopping and cleaning duties for an evening, check out one of the food- and drink-related events taking place this week in Broward and Palm Beach counties. ... More >>

Where to Host Your Company Holiday Party in South Florida (Hint: Booze Is a Must-Have)

Hanukkah is here, Christmas is less than two weeks from today, and New Years is a just a few sleeps away. Which is all good...unless you're a procrastinator. And not just any old procrastinator, but the procrastinator in charge of planning the company holiday party. Did that sentence just send a col ... More >>

The Six Largest Super Yachts You'll See At The Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show

The Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show runs through this weekend. And while the show exhibits all kinds of boats and water crafts, the main attraction are going to be the yachts. Ft. Lauderdale is the Yacht Capitol of the World, so it's only appropriate that the show carries not only yachts, bu ... More >>

Top Five Places to Pick Up Hot Foreigners During Boat Show

It's getting to be that time of year. The weather is slowly starting to cool down. Restaurant staff are anxiously awaiting the return of the long-lost 'season'. And locals with a hankering for accents are getting psyched as their long-lost objects of desire prepare to return. The Fort Lauderdale Int ... More >>

The Tiki Takeover

A1A Marathon and Half Marathon: Where to Carbo-Load Before The Big Race

A1A MarathonYou've gotta carb up if you want to win!​The A1A Marathon and Half Marathon is this Sunday, February 19, and thousands of runners will take to the streets on a 13.1- or 26.2-mile tour of the most beautiful parts of Fort Lauderdale. Starting at the Museum of Discovery and Science, the c ... More >>

South Florida's Best Dive Bars

​While eating at Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza, my second week in Florida, I met a yacht captain --a younger, thinner, clean-cut version of the John Goodman character in The Big Lebowski. We got to talking about dive bars. "I've got the perfect dive bar to take you to," he said. This being a Tuesday, ... More >>

3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale: Beautiful Food, Mindful Sourcing, Dated Dining Room

Indian Culture 101

Five Bars to Get Your Morning Swerve On

Sometimes you're in the mood to skip the weekend's amateur hours and pony up with the professionals. Morning bars are just the spots. Here's a list of places to tie one on just a coupla hours past sunup.​1. The Hut. Though the bar reads "package store," the place attracts more than drunks. When I ... More >>

Facing Your Past

Hukilau: Like Hawaii but Not

Santa Clauses Are Taking Over Town

The Tiki Mecca

Food Events on the Radar

​• The old phrase, "Take me out to the ball game" is going to have to be changed to "Take me out of the ball game" after Sunday's Marlins vs. Mets game. That's the Marlins are offering discounted "All You Can Eat Seats" for the throw down. This Club Level section of seats will offer fans complet ... More >>

Bike Fatality on A1A in Fort Lauderdale

Photo: Google MapsThe Fort Lauderdale intersection that was the site of a traffic fatality early this morning​A 59-year-old man was struck and killed by a car just after midnight today on A1A in Fort Lauderdale, according to a police department news release.Daniel Colotte was riding a bicycle nort ... More >>

Verse Versus Verse

Party Polynesian

Research on a Parrothead

Fetching Floaters

The world’s largest boat show is back

Make it a Tiki Weekie!

Trust in Caetano

Brazil's longtime king of tropicalia outlasts the opposition

A Schooner is a Sailboat, Stupidhead

Disaster-Nots

Getting freaky with tiki at the Hukilau

Worldwidest

All the world's a turntable for Gilles Peterson

Selected Events for the Week of October 27, 2005

Playin' Huki

Kitsch is culture for tikiphiles, and Fort Lauderdale is paradise

Carrying the Torch

Uke can do it! Join tiki fanatics at the hukilau!

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

How A-boat It?

Banjos Invade

I Know Why

The Cajun bird sings

Wild and Dirty

Hemmed in, polluted, under police guard, the New River is still as untamed as it gets in Fort Lauderdale

Bustin' a Lung

A guide to fine dining and internal barbecue

Best Bar on the Water

Bahia Cabana

Best Outdoor Dining

Florida Tap Room Dockside Restaurant & Bar Readers' Choice: Dada

Peddling the Park

You can beat City Hall. Just make friends with the mayor.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Mercury Rising

Move over, Charo

Gilberto Gil

Kaya N'Gan Daya (Warner International)

Living Legend

Caetano Veloso tells the tropical truth

Best Place to See a Kid Poke an Iguana with a Stick

The Jungle Queen Island

Fort Nowhere

In which New Times sets out to find the roots of a rootless burg

Best Local Landmark

Slip F-18

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

The Huizenga Hair Club For Litigants

Fired from a posh Boca beach club for her buzz cut, champion lifeguard Christine Leduc-McCrady is suing the owner, Huizenga Holdings

Undercurrents

Travis McGee, Fictional Castaway

The detective's houseboat was once Fort Lauderdale's best-known literary landmark. That was before Huizenga took over Bahia Mar.