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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

​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 >>

Indian Culture 101

​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 >>

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

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 >>

Hukilau: Like Hawaii but Not

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 >>

Santa Clauses Are Taking Over Town

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 >>

The Tiki Mecca

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 >>

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 >>

Celebrate New Year's Eve at These South Florida Restaurants

​I don't know about you, but I want to ring in the New Year in style, guzzling champagne and slurping down caviar like a 19th century robber baron. Preferably wearing a top hat and monocle. And riding a pony. And eating something endangered, like a mountain lion. (Just kidding about that last part ... 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

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 >>

Party Polynesian

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 >>

Research on a Parrothead

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 >>

Fetching Floaters

The world’s largest boat show is back

Make it a Tiki Weekie!

The world’s largest boat show is back

Trust in Caetano

Brazil's longtime king of tropicalia outlasts the opposition

A Schooner is a Sailboat, Stupidhead

Brazil's longtime king of tropicalia outlasts the opposition

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

All the world's a turntable for Gilles Peterson

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

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

Meat Market

The beef's as hot as the bootie at Brazilian Tropicana

How A-boat It?

The beef's as hot as the bootie at Brazilian Tropicana

Banjos Invade

The beef's as hot as the bootie at Brazilian Tropicana

I Know Why

The Cajun bird sings

Howells Else

The Cajun bird sings

Caetano Veloso

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

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

Slow Burn

The Heat prepares to play it fast and loose

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

Fish Bites Man

A hefty judgment has an injured local fisherman shouting, "Wahoo!"

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

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

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.