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Good Works: Brady Corbet Explains How a Nice Guy Became Simon Killer

Top Ten Mexican Restaurants in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

Let's face it: with South Florida's heavy colorful Latin population, finding good latin cuisine isn't exactly challenging. But finding a good Mexican restaurant? Now, that's another story. While lots of restaurants in the area produce a decent variation of authentic Mexican fare, true Tex-Mex or a ... More >>

Dilbert Coreas, Alleged MS-13 Gangbanger, Worked Kids' Parties, Gave Pony Rides and Operated Bounce Houses

If you ordered up a bounce house for Junior's birthday or celebrated a quince with a pony ride in South Florida over the past few months, you might want to listen up. According to police, a suspected gangbanger with some nasty associations may have been splitting his time between law breakin' and a ... More >>

Florida Sues BP and Haliburton Over 2010 Oil Spill

Florida got the Earth Day festivities kicked off early with some good old fashioned litigation. Over the weekend, Florida joined Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana is suing BP and Halliburton over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The suit, filed by State Attorney General Pam Bondi in United S ... More >>

Jamaican Restaurants in West Broward: Hidden Gems Everywhere

For a slideshow of Auntie I's Jamaican Restaurant, click here.

Good Works: Brady Corbet Explains How a Nice Guy Became Simon Killer

Puerto Rico's Wave of Drugs and Brazen Murders Reverberates to Florida

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Frankenfish Rejected From National Retailers: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and More

Frankenfish has been swimming its way closer to your dinner plate for quite some time now. While you were recovering from your post-holiday hangover or taking advantage of major savings on that flat-screen TV on December 26, the FDA concluded that Frankenfish -- i.e., AquaBounty Technologies' AquaAd ... More >>

Marissa Karp Murder: A Decade of Investigation Pays Off

David Horowitz Has Made Taunting College Students a Spectator Sport

Paladar Latin Kitchen & Rum Bar: Opening Tonight at Gulfstream Park

If there is anything Florida has down pat, it's Latin food and rum. With our demographics, that most certainly makes sense. This week brings south Florida's newest Latin-inspired restaurant: Paladar Latin Kitchen & Rum Bar.See Also:- Food Network Kitchen Opens at Fort Lauderdale International Ai ... More >>

ICE Halts Deportation of Man Who Was Detained in Broward After Being Beaten With Hammer

Back in August, an undocumented immigrant named Oscar Silvan was beaten with a hammer, his skull cracked like an egg. He ended up in the intensive-care unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital for a week and underwent extensive surgery. But according to a recent complaint filed by the National Immigrant Yo ... More >>

How to Make a Wood-Fired Pizza: Osteria Acqua & Farina's Attilio Reale Explains

Attilio Reale has been making wood-fired pizzas for 25 years.Originally from Naples -- Italy, not Florida -- he grew up in northern Italy. And his pizza closely mimics his background."My pizza style is close to the Napoli style with an influence from the north," says Reale in his melodious Italian a ... More >>

Bill Nelson and Connie Mack Television Debate Is Set

The Bill Nelson-Connie Mack race is pretty much America's most closely watched Senate race. And now incumbent Nelson -- the Democrat -- and Mack -- the Republican -- have agreed to the only confirmed statewide televised debate on October 17. The showdown will take place at Nova Southeastern Univers ... More >>

Allen West Officially Not the Number-One Target of the Communist/Progressive/Democrat Party

Whenever anyone reports on Congressman Allen West saying something ridiculous, he likes to declare that it makes him "the number-one target of the Democrat Party of the United States of America" because they hate freedom, Abraham Lincoln, and people who tell the truth.But a Politico story& ... More >>

South Florida Dining Dished Up in Our Food Issue

Contraband Review: Mark Wahlberg's One Last Job

Allen West: Iran Could Threaten South Florida With "21st Century Cuban Missile Crisis"

Rep. Allen Bernard West​There are two things Rep. Allen West is trying to sell this week -- war, and war propaganda.West did yesterday what he typically does -- take to Newsmax or Fox News to call people names and speak without any hint of fact, this time claiming President Obama's "incompeten ... More >>

“The Sitter” Review: Jonah Hill As a Charming, Self-Aware Loafer

UPDATED: Joe Biden's Brother Is President and "P.T. Barnum" for SoFla Charter School Chain

UPDATE: The Palm Beach County School Board's vote on three new Mavericks schools has been postponed. Read more after the jump.When owners of a for-profit charter school chain go before the Palm Beach County School Board tomorrow night seeking approval for three new high schools, they'll have a celeb ... More >>

Rick Scott "Gets to Work" by Playing "DJ Govvy Gov" (Video)

YouTube"DJ Govvy Gov" and his crew.​Gov. Rick Scott may not think Florida needs more anthropologists, but cruise-ship DJs -- that's a different story.The governor held another one of his borrowed "Let's Get to Work" days this Friday at the Port of Miami, and among his duties, the governor's office ... More >>

Florida's Anti-Faces of Death Law May Hide How 18-Year-Old Died in State Hands

cinema-suicide.comFaces of Death: A crappy movie that makes videos of people dying very scary.​Thanks to the Florida lawmakers' successful bid to legislate morality in the state's public records law, we may never know how 18-year-old Eric Perez died in the hands of state workers.Perez died about a ... More >>

How Those Darlins Balance Bros and Shows

Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade Is Dead Wrong About Rick Scott's Approval Ratings

At least they got his office right this time.​Four days after he took credit for solving the federal budget crisis, Gov. Rick Scott insisted that his proposed state budget provided a blueprint for President Obama to follow. During an infomercial interview about tax policy on Friday, Scott "absolut ... More >>

South Florida Lags Woefully Behind in Spring Break Dangers

​In a recent survey of the most dangerous spring break destinations in the country, Fort Lauderdale -- birthplace of the modern spring break -- didn't even crack the top ten. West Palm Beach ranked fifth and Miami was tenth. The survey, conducted by the website lawyer website avvo.com, looked at c ... More >>

While Some Couples Leave Florida for Surrogacy, It's a Choice Destination for Others

Michael McElroy for New TimesAndy and Todd Bludworth-McNeill, the subjects of this week's feature article.​This week's cover story features a South Florida same-sex couple who traveled to Panama to start a family through surrogacy. They chose Central America because Florida surrogacy laws require ... More >>

Surrogacy, From a Bioethics Perspective

via knowabouthealth.com​This week's cover story about a gay couple who had twins through surrogacy in Panama raises ethical questions inherent to the surrogacy process. Though the couple in the New Times feature took every precaution imaginable to ensure that agreements with their egg donor and su ... More >>

Immigration Raid Included Eight Broward Residents, But Details Are Hard to Come By

ICE​"Criminal Alien." That's the phrase that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses for anyone who has come into the country illegally and committed a crime, be it a DUI or aggravated murder. ICE makes it a top priority to remove "those who come to the United States to prey upon o ... More >>

A Quesadilla is Not a Quesadilla at El Guanaco

A Salvadoran quesadilla isn't a tortilla filled with cheese; it's like a pancake.​Every time I eat at tiny Salvadoran restaurant El Guanaco Taqueria y Antojitos, I learn something about the country's native cuisine. Like yesterday: I took a seat at the counter facing the kitchen, and saw a basket ... More >>

No License, No Food: Inspectors Shut Down Three Unlicensed Eateries

​The State of Florida requires that every food-service operation be registered and licensed with the Florida Department of Business and Regulation. But that hasn't stopped a handful of local eateries from skirting state practices and operating entirely off the grid. But don't worry, intrepid eater ... More >>

Two Latin American Shows Take the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale Beyond King Tut

Miami International Film Festival

Animal Collective

A Woman's Right to Change Her Mind: Stanton Stands Up Lake Worth Neighbors

Stanton: A "Rules" Girl?​Transgendered Lake Worth City Manager Susan Stanton seems to be adapting to her new dual roles as a female and as a city employee very well indeed. A group of citizens from the Tropical Ridge Neighborhood Association had spent months pestering Stanton to meet with them for ... More >>

Taurus Steakhouse in Tamarac Puts the Peru in Parrillada

Guatemala Típico

Two miles, two wonderful meals

349 Movies to Go

Preparing for the onslaught that is the Toronto Film Festival.

349 Movies To Go

Preparing for the onslaught that is the Toronto Film Festival .

Photographer Exiled From Cuba

Tortilla Flat

El Tamarindo's a long way from Monsanto

Off the Leash

In the exotic pet universe, it's all about whose is weirder than whose.

Artbeat

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Subtropical Spin

Five Worldwide (FNOM Recordings)

River Runs Deep

Smooth sailing for a Lauderdale classic

Speaking in Tongues

Ceremonia Inconclusa (Unfinished Ceremony)

Web Design

"Spiders!"

The Abbreviated Tour

The Abbreviated Tour

Night & Day

June 25 - July 1, 1998

Sound Check