Coney Island

Here's Why Florida Seafood Restaurants Fill Menus With Foreign Fish

Russell's Blue Water Grill Super Bowl Battle: New England Versus New York

​Who's it gonna be -- New England, with its creamy chowders, lobster rolls, and clam bakes? Or New York, home to hot dogs, pizza, and wings?Oh, sorry. You thought we were talking about the Patriots and the Giants?  We're looking forward to the game, sure, but we gotta admit, it's all about th ... More >>

Major League Eating: Sonya Thomas Named First-Ever Women's Champion at 96th Annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest

By misscharo at Flickr.comSonya Thomas at the 96th Annual Nathan's 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest​Could you eat 40 hot dogs in 10 minutes? Would you want to?There is one woman who can. Competitive eater Sonya Thomas, aka the "Black Widow," chowed her way to victory today to win the first- ... More >>

Competitive Eating: Join This Great Sport at Friday's Krystal Slider Eating Contest

How many sliders can you eat?​ ​ ​There are almost three dozen competitive eating events on the International Federation of Competitive Eating website (yes, the IFOCE really exists), and hundreds of other food battles are fought each year at state fairs, colleges and charity events ... 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 >>

Viva Roadshow Freaks

​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 >>

Viva Roadshow Freaks

​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 >>

Supreme Court Has Stoner Conversation About Florida Beaches

Flickr: USA TODAY / H. Darr BeiserMaybe the Supreme Court needs to spend a day at the beach before they give their ruling.​These are the nation's most eminent legal minds? Read this article in today's New York Times, about the U.S. Supreme Court's debate over whether to allow the state to claim be ... More >>

Happy Halloween: Vaguely Spooky Luxury Liner Leaves for Lauderdale

That's homemade footage of the world's largest cruise ship, seen leaving it's birthplace of Turku, Finland, bound for Fort Lauderdale. Set to make its posh premiere December 1 out of Port Everglades, Royal Caribbean's $1.2 billion, 5,400-passenger Oasis of the Seas offers titanic luxury, minus lurk ... More >>

Halloween Street Scene

That's homemade footage of the world's largest cruise ship, seen leaving it's birthplace of Turku, Finland, bound for Fort Lauderdale. Set to make its posh premiere December 1 out of Port Everglades, Royal Caribbean's $1.2 billion, 5,400-passenger Oasis of the Seas offers titanic luxury, minus lurk ... More >>

Amid National Recession, There's Nothin' Like Titanic Luxury

Don't call it the Titanic, but there's a new history-making ship soon to make a posh premiere in Fort Lauderdale. On December 1, Royal Caribbean's $1.2 billion, 5,400 passenger Oasis of the Seas will cruise out of Port Everglades. Nearly four football fields long, boasting 18 decks, with a crew of 2 ... More >>

Soul Man

Paul Giamatti brings the wit, but the film lacks something deeper.

Proof That Love Blooms in Theme Parks and That Happily-Ever-After Is in Pembroke Pines

Photo: IcrazyaznlFor Pembroke Pines snowbirds love was born at the top of this ride 50 years ago.​No, I don't have evidence (yet) that this blog made a love connection between USF's star-crossed kicker and the dangerously distracting coed from Fort Lauderdale. But I have found real-world proof tha ... More >>

The Govind Burger

The barrage of burgers continues unabated. Two more Five Guys  are poised to proffer their patties to the public -- one in the old Dogma space at Washington Ave. and 15th Street in South Beach, the other in Aventura Mall. But a bigger burger banner headline is that Govind Armstrong and the folk ... More >>

A Beautiful Accident

Skeleton Key continues its joyous, frightening bang and clang

Haute Dogs

Skeleton Key continues its joyous, frightening bang and clang

Deck the Halls With Waste and Folly

Just don't ask too many questions about a sweetheart trash contract in Florida's most complacent city

Deck the Halls With Waste and Folly

Just don't ask too many questions about a sweetheart trash contract in Florida's most complacent city

Hot Dog Crime

You Regurgitate, You Lose

Eat It!

Pig out on some dogs

Street Fighters

The Warriors nicely complements the bloody cult classic that inspired it.

The Real O.C.

The Warriors nicely complements the bloody cult classic that inspired it.

Clash in the Creek

The Warriors nicely complements the bloody cult classic that inspired it.

Letters for April 28-May 4, 2005

The Warriors nicely complements the bloody cult classic that inspired it.

Sitcom Macabre

In Donald Margulies' vision of the American meltdown, comedy quickly becomes nightmare

In a Semitic Mood

Arlo Guthrie and the Klezmatics unearth Woody's Yiddish side

Don't Hide the G-r-r-r

Who You Gonna Call?

Hot Dog, Ho!

Hollywood's Joe LaRue has choked down strange stuff to become one of the world's elite eaters

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Hollywood's Joe LaRue has choked down strange stuff to become one of the world's elite eaters

Best Hot Dog

Costco Wholesale Inc.

Take Me to the River

Water, water everywhere

Boca Art

Boca's Museum of Art gets several new looks

Get Your Freak On

Exhibit evokes carny sideshows in a 'non threatening' but 'edgy' way

Tom Waits

Alice, Blood Money (Anti-)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

The loving and loathing of a poofy rhino informs Death to Smoochy

Foodstuff

Double Rainbow Dessert Cafe

Foodstuff

Coney Island Joe's Sabrett Hot Dogs & Gabila's Knishes

Life in the Pits

Aronofsky's follow-up to Pi is a brutal personal movie about the horrors of drug addiction

The Man of Ink

Creator of Wonder Boys and supermen, Michael Chabon is a literary hero

Beat Redux

"Revisiting the Beat Generation With David Plumb"

Best Erotic Art Gallery

Eros Loft at Adult Video Warehouse

Visually Stunning Chamber Music?

CORE Ensemble performs Houdini: Memories of a Conjurer

Man at the Top

CORE Ensemble performs Houdini: Memories of a Conjurer

Short Cuts

CORE Ensemble performs Houdini: Memories of a Conjurer

Night & Day

June 11 - 17, 1998

Game Theory

June 11 - 17, 1998