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Books and Literature

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Jose Baez on Why He Wrote a Book About the Casey Anthony Trial: Exclusive Interview

    This morning, I wrote a mean blog post about attorney Jose Baez's upcoming book, Presumed Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story, coming out in July. I called it a "'let's make some cash off Casey Anthony' book" and called Baez "the guy who sold bikinis on the internet before writing a bottom-feedi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 8, 2012

    A Talking Head, Talking

    This morning, I wrote a mean blog post about attorney Jose Baez's upcoming book, Presumed Guilty, Casey Anthony: The Inside Story, coming out in July. I called it a "'let's make some cash off Casey Anthony' book" and called Baez "the guy who sold bikinis on the internet before writing a bottom-feedi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    New Anonymous E-Book Takes Aim at Stacy Ritter, Promises More Dirt on BSO

    ​A new anonymous e-book that looks like it was penned by the same person (persons?) who published the e-book taking shots at the Broward Sheriff's Office last month.You can buy the book on Lulu.com for $12.50, a $2.51 price hike from the BSO book. It looks like the book was officially published on ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 2, 2012

    "Brooklyn Boy" From Parade Productions: A New Company Struggles With an Imperfect Play

    ​A new anonymous e-book that looks like it was penned by the same person (persons?) who published the e-book taking shots at the Broward Sheriff's Office last month.You can buy the book on Lulu.com for $12.50, a $2.51 price hike from the BSO book. It looks like the book was officially published on ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2012

    The Comedy of Larry King

    ​A new anonymous e-book that looks like it was penned by the same person (persons?) who published the e-book taking shots at the Broward Sheriff's Office last month.You can buy the book on Lulu.com for $12.50, a $2.51 price hike from the BSO book. It looks like the book was officially published on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Anonymous E-book Offers "A Look at Corruption Inside the Broward Sheriff's Office"

    ​It's $9.99 on Amazon; you can get it on your Kindle in seconds. What better way to read a self-published book about alleged corruption in the Broward Sheriff's Office, including manipulation by everybody's favorite Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein?A new anonymous e-book being hawked on the web retai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Anthony Bourdain's Literary Orgasm Talks Shop at Miami Book Fair

    ​Do people read in South Florida? Scan the Floridian before 10 a.m. and note the absence of someone reading a newspaper, a book, or a magazine -- even in digital form. Over at Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House, an employee made a comment while I was there a couple of weeks ago to the sole person ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Dos Caminos Executive Chef Ivy Stark Holds Reception, Book Signing

    Ivy Stark, executive chef of Dos Caminos, will hold a book signing on Friday.​Dos Caminos is celebrating executive chef Ivy Stark's cookbook Dos Caminos' Mexican Street Food: 120 Authentic Recipes to Make at Home on Friday, November 18. Stark's cookbook contains 120 recipes and profiles of real ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Culture of Cuisine: Chef Michael Bennett Writes a Workbook

    Michael BennettChef Michael Bennett writes a workbook ​Michael Bennett isn't content to just sit around on a rare day off from his executive chef job at Bimini Boatyard.  Instead of sunning or fishing, Bennett writes.  With two Caribbean-influenced cookbooks under his belt, In The Land o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2011

    Q&A With Anne Burrell on Her New Cook Book, Cook Like a Rock Star

    ​How do you make a chef a rock star? Take one part classically trained chef, add in host of the Food Network's Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, and a dash of cohost of Worst Cooks in America, and you have the perfect recipe. You also have Anne Burrell, a celebrity chef who certain ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    OMG! Cookbook Helps the Truly Helpless

    Amazon.comCan't even cook an egg? This book may be for you.​This past week, Food Network's Worst Cooks in America was searching for truly horrible cooks at a Miami open casting call. While there, Clean Plate Charlie encountered people who set fire to their houses, made their dogs sick and glued fo ... More >>

  • Music

    June 9, 2011

    Katy Perry's Tour Rider Is Totally Busted

    Amazon.comCan't even cook an egg? This book may be for you.​This past week, Food Network's Worst Cooks in America was searching for truly horrible cooks at a Miami open casting call. While there, Clean Plate Charlie encountered people who set fire to their houses, made their dogs sick and glued fo ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 5, 2011

    French Corner Bistro: Traditional French Fare in a Romantic Eight-Table Eatery

    Amazon.comCan't even cook an egg? This book may be for you.​This past week, Food Network's Worst Cooks in America was searching for truly horrible cooks at a Miami open casting call. While there, Clean Plate Charlie encountered people who set fire to their houses, made their dogs sick and glued fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos Slammed for Using Taxpayer Money to Write Useless Book

    ​It was fodder for Florida columnists all week. By Saturday, the hypocrisy and intellectual ineptitude of Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos was on national display via the New York Times' op-ed page. Last week, the AP reported that Haridopolos, a so-called fiscally conservative Republican, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Disgraced Politician Warren Newell Apparently Disliked Prison, Interview Reveals

    Warren Newell is misunderstood.​Stick someone in a box for two and a half years and their imaginations are liable to run away with them.Take Warren Newell, the disgraced Palm Beach commissioner who was recently released from federal prison. In an interview conducted over the weekend with Laurel Sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Fred Harvey: Taming the Wild West With Food

    Culinary innovator Fred Harvey at his finest.​The name Fred Harvey might not hold the same weight these days as say, Rachael Ray or even Bob Evans. But during the late 1800s, Harvey's name was synonymous with culinary excellence. Operator of the first chain of restaurants to service the burgeoning ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    [UPDATED] Bomb Threat at Winn-Dixie in Boynton

    A news release that sounds like the opening scene from a movie inspired by a Marvel Comics series, from Boynton Beach Police:Police have responded to a bomb threat at Winn Dixie at 1620 S. Federal Highway. A man called the store to say he was going to blow up the store and they should get everyone o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 17, 2009

    Mercy Mercy Me

    A news release that sounds like the opening scene from a movie inspired by a Marvel Comics series, from Boynton Beach Police:Police have responded to a bomb threat at Winn Dixie at 1620 S. Federal Highway. A man called the store to say he was going to blow up the store and they should get everyone o ... More >>

  • Film

    November 26, 2009

    Neither Horrific nor Disasterrific, The Road Takes the Middle of the Road

    A news release that sounds like the opening scene from a movie inspired by a Marvel Comics series, from Boynton Beach Police:Police have responded to a bomb threat at Winn Dixie at 1620 S. Federal Highway. A man called the store to say he was going to blow up the store and they should get everyone o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Why PETA's Dan Mathews Oughta Be Committed

    Mathews: Make em laugh​"We'd love it if the world turned vegan tomorrow," Dan Mathews says breathlessly. Mathews is senior vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the controversial animal rights group founded by Ingrid Newkirk in 1980. When I spoke to Mathews by phone ... More >>

  • Film

    August 27, 2009

    Ruining Woodstock

    Who knew three days of peace and music would oppress us for 40 years? (Plus: this movie)

  • Music

    August 20, 2009

    Twice Is Nice

    With retro cool, the Postmarks' sophomore album swift-kicks the slump cliché.

  • Calendar

    August 13, 2009

    You Won’t Find These on iTunes

    With retro cool, the Postmarks' sophomore album swift-kicks the slump cliché.

  • Calendar

    June 25, 2009

    Dive In

    With retro cool, the Postmarks' sophomore album swift-kicks the slump cliché.

  • Music

    April 23, 2009

    Hard Rock Ambassadors of Rock Battle of the Bands

    With retro cool, the Postmarks' sophomore album swift-kicks the slump cliché.

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    War of Words

    With retro cool, the Postmarks' sophomore album swift-kicks the slump cliché.

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    We've Been Dancing With Mrs. Poundstone

    With retro cool, the Postmarks' sophomore album swift-kicks the slump cliché.

  • Calendar

    October 9, 2008

    Cleveland Rocks

    With retro cool, the Postmarks' sophomore album swift-kicks the slump cliché.

  • Calendar

    May 1, 2008

    Today You're the Superhero!

    And Free Comic Book Day is your reward

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2008

    What Happens in the Swamp, Stays in the Swamp.

    And Free Comic Book Day is your reward

  • Calendar

    February 21, 2008

    Bringing the Gifts that my Ancestors Gave…

    And Free Comic Book Day is your reward

  • Calendar

    February 14, 2008

    Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

    And Free Comic Book Day is your reward

  • Calendar

    August 16, 2007

    Less James Dean, More John Cusack

    And Free Comic Book Day is your reward

  • Film

    December 15, 2005

    Asia Minor

    Memoirs of a Geisha views Japan through Western eyes

  • Music

    December 15, 2005

    Santana

    All That I Am (Arista)

  • Culture

    December 15, 2005

    The 'Toon Age, Embalmed

    Try to skip the footnotes at the Art and Culture Center show and look at the pictures

  • Nightlife

    May 12, 2005

    Best Place to Meet Intelligent Women

    Florida Center for the Book

  • Music

    August 26, 2004

    Hush

    Florida Center for the Book

  • Calendar

    May 15, 2003

    Events for May 15-21, 2003

    Florida Center for the Book

  • Goods and Services

    May 16, 2002

    Best Service

    Borders Books and Music

  • Best of BPB

    May 17, 2001
  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Nitpicking Flowers

    Just try writing a book about orchid thieves in South Florida and unwittingly including some errors. Then watch the critics bloom.

  • Calendar

    May 20, 1999

    Night & Day

    May 20 - 26, 1999

  • Goods and Services

    March 11, 1999

    Best Used-Book Store

    Robert A. Hittel Bookseller

  • Dining

    March 4, 1999

    Foodstuff

    Robert A. Hittel Bookseller

  • Calendar

    August 20, 1998

    The Bold and the Bashful

    Robert A. Hittel Bookseller

  • Calendar

    February 26, 1998

    Blue Collar Hero

    Robert A. Hittel Bookseller

  • Culture

    January 22, 1998

    A Portrait of the Artist

    Robert A. Hittel Bookseller

  • Calendar

    January 1, 1998

    In Joyce's Wake

    Robert A. Hittel Bookseller

  • Film

    November 27, 1997

    Garden Variety

    Robert A. Hittel Bookseller

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