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Michelle Braun: Notorious L.A. Madam's South Florida Adventure

Michelle Braun, Hollywood Madam to the Stars, Crashes and Burns Out In Boca Raton

In the waning afternoon light, the five-foot-nine blond with Tina Turner lips and Pamela Anderson breasts opened the doorway of her cramped apartment on Boca Place Drive and began to scream. Standing there beneath the palm trees in the sprawling parking lot was a darkly handsome man with thick, mea ... More >>

Bartender Q&A: Valentino's Cucina Italiana's Iliya Dimitrov on $500 Cocktails and the Dangers of Showing Off

A lot of people like to eat food just to fill their stomachs. And a lot people drink cocktails just to get drunk. And hey--we've all done both. There really is little difference between making good cocktails and good food; both require a certain level of intuition and training. A bit too much of th ... More >>

Scary Movie V Will Murder Your Capacity to Feel Joy

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George LeMieux Camp Says Maybe Connie Mack's Water Bill Is So Low Because He Drinks Tiger Blood

While it's not clear if a Republican can beat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in November, the fight for the Republican nomination has no shortage of interesting rhetorical maneuverings.The most recent spat between George LeMieux and Rep. Connie Mack started over a web ad the LeMieux campaign released t ... More >>

How to Sneak Guns and Razor Blades Straight Through TSA Body Scanners, According to Some Guy

​An anti-TSA blogger from Miami Beach announced yesterday that he'd defeated the Transportation Security Administration's controversial "nude body scanners" by simply sewing a pocket onto the side of his shirt -- and that he tested his terror-pocket at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airpo ... More >>

Philippe Chow in Boca Holding Victory Party

​Chow vs. Chow pitted restaurant chain Philippe Chow against Mr. Chow in one confusing lawsuit that had attorneys arguing everything from name rights to recipe theft.  Who won?  Depends on who you talk to.  Stratis Morfogen, CEO of Philippe Chow has been claiming victory all we ... More >>

FAU Now the Worst Team in College Football; ESPN Uses a Sixteen Candles Reference on Owls

​The Florida Atlantic University Owls are now the worst team in college football, as FAU remains the only team without a win in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision.The New Mexico Lobos were consistently rated as worse than FAU, but after a 21-14 win over UNLV on Saturday, FAU takes over the top spo ... More >>

FAU Rated as Second-Worst Team in College Football; ESPN Likens Owls to Charlie Sheen

achtungtshirt.wordpress.comFAU's new playbook.​Despite the fact that just over half of our readers predicted the Florida Atlantic University Owls would win a game this year before the Miami Dolphins, the nearly 27 percent who thought both teams would go without a win this year may be on the right ... More >>

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Dirty Martini in Palm Beach Gardens

Michelle Braun, Former Madam to the Stars, Charged in Boiler-Room Bust

Braun's BSO mug shot: A tad less glamorous than her madam days.​A former madam to the stars who supplied porn actresses and Playboy models to Tiger Woods for threesomes was arrested in South Florida this week. Michelle Braun, 33, is suspected of running a Fort Lauderdale-based boiler-room operatio ... More >>

Tonight: First Ladies' Night at Dirty Martini in Palm Beach Gardens with American Idol's Taylor Hicks Live

Nicole DannaThe Charlie Sheen, a "very dirty" martini ​​The perfect dirty martini isn't just shaken, not stirred. It's also not too strong or too sweet -- and definitely not too weak. No, the perfect dirty martini is made to your precise specifications -- which is exactly how you'll get it ... More >>

New Pepsi Vending Machine Lets You "Text" a Soda to Friends, Strangers

Texting and tweeting are everywhere. You can text vote on your favorite show, tweet a celebrity, heck you can even get fired via text like Charlie Sheen did from Two and a Half Men. But you could never send a friend an icy cold beverage - until now. PepsiCo Pepsi's new social vending machine ... More >>

Charlie Sheen: Donald Trump Gave Me Fake Cuff Links

​ Just before the end of his show in Sunrise on Saturday, Charlie Sheen told his audience that he would not be voting for Donald Trump anytime soon. Then he told the crowd a story about a dinner he was supposed to have with "The Donald" a few years ago, back when Sheen was still married to Brooke ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 40 -- Chivito From Cilantro's

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 40: Chivito From Cilantro'sCalling the chivito a mere sandwich is like ca ... More >>

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Ten Ways to Ruin Easter Dinner

Tricia WoolfendenThis lumpen bunny cake mess is a great start to ruining Easter Dinner for everyone!​Have you been saddled with hosting Easter dinner when you'd much rather spend the day kicking back your misanthropic heels and hiding from the family? Below are ten ways that can all but guarantee ... More >>

The Coolest Online Food Videos You've Never Seen

Vlogging's cool and YouTube has made anyone with camera skills and spare time famous online, if only for 15 minutes. Sometimes, these viral videos are amazing, but sometimes they just suck. At Clean Plate Charlie, we know everything there is to know about being cool and have seeped through endless v ... More >>

Epic Meal Time's Breakfast of Booze: This is Breakfast For Winners!

We're gonna need more bacon...​Harley Morenstein and his friends make the YouTube Epic Meal Time videos. In them, the guys basically make meals that would instantly kill anyone over 25 that ate them. But God looks after drunks, frat boys and Charlie Sheen, so the boys make epic meals ... More >>

The List: Five Places to Get Your Meatloaf Fix in South Florida

NBC.comMeatloaf goes H.A.M. on Gary Busey!​ Just when we thought no one could top Charlie Sheen's apocalyptic meltdown, singer and Apprentice contestant, Meatloaf, proved all of us wrong with a cataclysmic, F-bomb laced, rant of epic proportions on last Sunday's episode of The Apprentice. Poo ... More >>

What Business Does Lindsay Lohan's Father Have in Fort Lauderdale?

via www.hollywire.comMichael Lohan plans to launch rehab at sea.​Here's a clue: It has nothing to do with his early '90s insider trading snafu, and he's not going on tour with Charlie Sheen, even though he wrote him an open letter about addiction back in January. Reasonable guesses, though. South ... More >>

Top Chef All-Stars Reunion Show: The Top Ten Moments

NBC Universal​Bravo reunion shows are basically one and the same -- a schmaltzy way to pimp out yet one more cheap episode of the shows you love to say you don't ever watch. At least Top Chef is the most intelligent of mindless television (Hey -- at least it's not Real Housewives of Miami). ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's Slo-Mo Suicide

​Well, what the hell did you expect? Last night, Charlie Sheen kicked off his "Violent Torpedo of Truth: Defeat Is Not An Option" tour in Detroit, and the show bombed. Really bombed. In half a decade of professional criticism, I've never seen nastier reviews. Nor have I ever been less surprised to ... More >>

The Fix, a New Website About Addiction and Recovery Profiles Florida

​On Monday, the same day that the New York Times shocked the world and erected a paywall on their website, Maer Roshan, founder of the failed Radar Magazine, launched TheFix.com, "addiction and recovery, straight up." With everyone so indignant about paying for the Times, the free website went up ... More >>

Women's History Month: Five Female Celebrity Chefs That You Love or Love to Hate

sandralee.com​March is Women's History Month! As it winds down, what better way to celebrate than by sharpening our claws on the female celebrity chefs that we love? ... or love to hate. 

Jose Canseco's Pathetic Life Story Now Available In Taiwanese Animation

via Next Media Animation​You probably remember that ridiculous story yesterday, about Jose Canseco sending his twin brother Ozzie to fight in his place at a celebrity boxing match. Well, like the Tiger Woods scandal, Charlie Sheen's antics and many other ridiculous stories about American celebriti ... More >>

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Top Ten Campaign Slogans (Plus Posters!) for Donald Trump -- 2012 Presidential Candidate?

via Miche RattoClick to Enlarge.​For months, news that Donald Trump is considering a 2012 presidential bid has been swirling around the internet like a fruit fly in a wineglass. Snoop Dogg even noted it on Comedy Central's roast of Trump last night when he joked (we think), "Now Donald says he wan ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's "Winning Recipes" Video: Let's Cook "Tomato Winning Salad"

Funny or Die Sheen's new career - warlock chef ​Charlie Sheen wants to be the next Food Network star. In his "pilot" episode of Winning Recipes filmed for Funny or Die, Charlie shows us how to make Tomato "Winning" Salad and steak with cows that he killed with his own bare hands (winner ... More >>

Sentinel Rides Charlie Sheen's Media Train

The Charlie Sheen media machine just keeps running -- and it says a whole lot more about the media than it does Charlie Sheen. Answer to the Sun-Sentinel's question: None of the above. (He's a crackhead.)​​​When a rambling Hollywood drug addict can dominate national and, at times, local n ... More >>

Michele Bachmann to Speak About Something She Seems to Know Little About: The Constitution

Michele Bachmann can't be bothered with mere facts​After Charlie Sheen injected tiger blood and seven-gram rocks into the national discourse this week, you may be numb to subtly absurd political gaffes. But let's take a few minutes to look at the congresswoman currently visiting Florida, who is kn ... More >>

The List : Five Dishes to Celebrate Mardi Gras in South Florida

Photo by Misha Grosvenor"It's hand-grenade time!"​It's that time of year again when thousands of drunk college students, fratdults (grown up frat boys), and creepy mustachioed men with fists full of beads and a penchant for buxom drunk girls take to the streets of New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gr ... More >>

Dirtiest Campaign Season Ever?

Charlie Crist Facebook Wild Art: Democratic state Rep. Ari Porth pays homage to Charlie Crist at a campaign stop in Century Village/Pembroke Pines a couple of weeks ago.   Not by a long shot. Capri​Let's get the weekend started right with a little political parody from ... More >>

Fate Has Been Kind: People Who Should Be Dead (but Aren't)

​Assuming that Christians are right about life -- that we live because God has a "plan" for us -- then why did he construct miracles to preserve the lives of some of the most reckless and self-destructive people on the planet? Why are some people able to cheat death?God hasn't bothered to send an ... More >>

Accused Boca Madam Pictured with Celebrities

Terrance Howard and Braun, at right.Accused Boca Raton madam Michelle Braun is pictured with celebrities including Paris Hilton, Mickey Rourke, and Terrence Howard in photos obtained by The Juice Blog. Braun has agreed to plead guilty to charges of money laundering and transporting a prostitute. She ... More >>

Boca Madam So Far Escapes Media Horde

A photo from this Facebook page for a Michelle Braun.Somehow, an alleged madam to the stars has turned up in Boca, and the national media has largely ignored it. Michelle Braun is accused of running an online prostitution site that sold the services of porn stars and fashion models. Sounds like a st ... More >>

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