Brooklyn (New York City)

Bedlam Lorenz Assembly Upgrades Young at Art

Assault Rifles Are Big Business in Florida as Federal Ban Looms

Brooklyn Water Pizza & Pasta Co. and Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. Open in Palm Beach Gardens

Snow birder New Yorkers may get to avoid the snow and slush by setting up shop in South Florida for the winter, but to hear talk of it, the transplantation comes with a price. Said price being they have to put up with subpar bagels, pizza, and sundry foodstuffs for the duration of the visit. In ca ... More >>

Not Your Average Art Class

Gerald Wiseberg, Old Guy From Boca, Accused of Running Baltimore Pill Mill

Pill mills might be a South Florida trademark, but a 78-year-old Boca Raton man is accused of taking the trade to points north.Gerald Wiseberg posted bond Friday after being arrested on charges that he ran a narcotics operation outside of Baltimore, Maryland, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Tasting Menu Talk: Why Eat a Dozen Courses?

Multicourse meals in which the diner signs on for a food journey determined by the chef, tasting menus are less prevalent here in the casual burbs, where dining out often means elevated bar food or soaking up booze with food as fuel. Yet they can be found if you look: predominantly in fancied-up hot ... More >>

Giant Rats Invade Florida: Five Things to Know About the Disgusting Vermin

​Watch out, Burmese pythons. A more disgusting invasive critter is looking to steal your thunder. About 20 Gambian pouched rats have been trapped in the past year out on Grassy Key. Wildlife authorities say the huge rodents, which can weigh up to nine pounds, have been in the area since 1999. ... More >>

Why Local Fish Costs As Much As It Does

​I'd been hearing about Sushi Bon since the week I moved here as worth the trek an hour north of where I live for fresh, local sushi. I was told to skip the hard copy of the menu and look to the board by the sushi bar. I finally visited several times to see for myself.I had also heard chef Ebi Han ... More >>

Celebrate New Beer's Eve at Tap 42

​New Year's Eve is one jacked up holiday. Long known as amateur night, it's basically one of two evenings each year (the other being Valentine's Day, but don't get us started on that one) in which people gladly pay $200 for some surf and turf and a glass of lukewarm Champagne that's lost it's fizz ... More >>

December Openings and Closings

facebookBreathe Restaurant and Ultra Lounge​Despite the holiday rush, December saw no abatement in restaurant openings. Nice weather, tourism and delayed fall debuts were the incentives. Most new restaurants fill a niche: The Wine Dive, Havana's, Le Macaron, or Brooklyn Water Bagel, for example.Ja ... More >>

What Makes a Good Butcher? Sharp Knives and Good Customers

​My grandfather ran a company in which he made sausages for Italian, Polish, and German immigrants throughout Boston. My father worked there in summers between college. My uncle worked there for decades. I remember my grandfather telling stories about his craft and his customers, scenarios that cu ... More >>

Thanksgiving: What Should I Bring?

​Today's Thanksgiving post is inspired by this flow chart over on Chow.com, which directs according to these questions: "Are you a responsible adult?" and "Is Thanksgiving going to be a bomb-cratered war zone?" As much as I'd entertain myself by bringing potato buds to the house where I'll end up, ... More >>

South Florida's Ten Best Pizzas

Behold, pizza lovers. It's the list you've been waiting for: the best places for pizza in South Florida. And though we're all passionate about our pizza, chances are, what each of us labels as "best" has been shaped by where we're from, be it New Haven, New York, or Naples. Read on for a list that, ... More >>

Mario Batali, David Chang, and The Recipe Project's 'Brains and Eggs' Song

I'm currently in mad love with The Recipe Project, the Brooklyn band One Ring Zero's collection of famous chef's recipes set to tunes. The book project started like this:Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, co-founders of the band One Ring Zero, decided to turn Chris Cosentino's recipe for Brains and Egg ... More >>

Where Chefs Eat After Hours: Four Picks From Brandon Whitestone of PL8

​After his first minivacation since PL8 opened in September, executive chef Brandon Whitestone of PL8 returns to the kitchen this week with a newly hired sous chef, Logan Street, and renewed vitality after downtime and opportunities to eat outside his own kitchen. His favorite spots display his ca ... More >>

"If a Tree Falls" Is the Story of the Earth Liberation Front

BurgerFi: A Beachside Shake Shack for the Modern Age

Blank Dogs to Headline Record Store Day at Radio-Active Records

The Coolest Food Magazines You're Not Reading

With the advent of advancement in technology, the Internet and Kindles, physical magazines, newspapers and books have gone out the backdoor, eek. But admit it, every once in awhile, it actually feels nice to hold one in your hands. Feels nostalgic to get black ink all over your white pants. At Cle ... More >>

"The Adjustment Bureau" Is Too Talky but Still Has Pleasures

Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party at Grand Central, February 24

Miami Music Festival Ready to Make a Huge Impact

A Place to Bury Strangers' Decibel-Defying Thrust Could Explode Moonfest 2010

"It's Kind of a Funny Story" Imagines the Nuthouse as a Hipster's Paradise

Yeasayer Expands Art-Rock Stylings at Fillmore Miami Beach

Chow 13 Most Influential Food Personas Gives Props to Twitter

​Last year it was a craft beer guru, Slow Food USA's voice, and a pastry chef. This year it's a wine punk, a Brooklyn butcher, and a made-up Twitter persona that's one part Ruth Reichl and one part Tony Bourdain.The Chow 13, the baker's dozen of influential foodistas, is back for 2010, bringing wi ... More >>

Gordash Beer Sampling, NFL Sausage Sunday, and More This Week at World of Beer

​World of Beer is blowing up this week. There's tons going on at the always-busy Coconut Creek watering hole, enough to keep you occupied almost every day of the week. The happenings start tonight at 7 when local brewer Bob Gordash, owner of Gordash Beer Co., will stop in to sample his latest beer ... More >>

Corelino's Pizza Opens in Lantana

​It's the hottest thing to hit the pizza world since Wolfgang Puck smeared a crust with crème fraiche and topped it with smoked salmon and caviar.  That would be the coal-fired oven, both figuratively and literally the hottest, as it can crank up to a fearsome 800 to 900 degrees, cooking and ... More >>

Details on Larry King's New Job at Brooklyn Water Bagel Co.

"Larry tasted the product and he made a decision."

Thrice Leads Eclectic Rock Bill at Revolution

Do You Party?

Growing Up Fey

IFC's Food Party and Dinner With the Band Put New Spin on Cooking Shows

​Plenty of people are excited about the debut of Cooking Channel and that fact that it might change the standard cooking-show formula. But IFC -- that's the Independent Film Channel -- already has two slightly zany cooking shows that definitely break out of the usual formula. Food Party, airing on ... More >>

As Tall as Lions, Bear Hands, and Rachel Goodrich Roar Into Culture Room

Blues, Brews, and BBQ Wrapped Up

​The third annual Blues, Brews, and BBQ rocked the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek this Saturday, dropping over 100 beers, plenty of great tunes, and lots and lots of smoked pig on the sizable crowd. With live music sets from Bonerama and the Radiators, the sectioned off tent outside of the casino w ... More >>

Mona Lisa in Deerfield Crafts Its Pizza With More Than 80 Years of Experience

Order Up: Mona Lisa Coal Oven Pizza

​This week in Dish, we take a look at Mona Lisa Coal Oven Pizza in Deerfield Beach. Here's a quick glimpse of the review before it appears tomorrow:At Mona Lisa - the South Florida leg of an 80-year-old bakery from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn - the cannolis are worth offing someone for. The shells are m ... More >>

Alexi Delano and Camea

Top Beers of the Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival

​The Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival went down this weekend, and again it turned out to be one heck of a beer event, drawing more than 3,000 fans of craft beer to Roger Dean Stadium near Abacoa Town Center. The four-and-a-half-hour event featured more than 50 beer booths, and each of those had at l ... More >>

Victims Identified in Boynton Shooting

Benton Lineau is the name of the man who was driving a gold Lincoln Navigator last night, when he was shot in the chest, say Boynton Beach Police. The 23-year-old, who crashed into a home on the 2000 block of Northeast 3rd Street, died later at Delray Trauma Center.Police were investigating that sho ... More >>

Garage Rock A-Go Go!

King of the Universe

...Joker of Nursery Rhymes

The New “Mean” Joe Green

People of the Comic Book

Lecture series charts the rise of the Jewish graphic novel

Family: Making you Cringe Since (Your Birthday Here)

Papa Don’t Preach

Strange Brew!

Where do I sign up?

Dynasty of Dub

The descendants of King Tubby still prime the digital dub pump

La Isla Bonita

Trust the Islamorada name -- if you're in Islamorada, that is