Coral Springs

The Cast of Stomp to Perform at Whole Foods Wednesday -- Using Vegetables and Cans as Drums

Have you ever watched that Michael Bublé music video where the entire grocery store breaks out into a dance? Have you ever thought about organizing a supermarket choreographed dance on your own? It's okay, we have too. Unfortunately, on January 2, someone will be beating you to it.The cast of Stomp ... More >>

Coral Springs Pig Battle Rages On

Heather Ray Played CNN, The Daily News and More

The story had every ingredient for a viral web hit: an outraged mother, a boy with Down syndrome, some feckless city bureaucrats, and one extremely cute pygmy pig. So it's no surprise that after the Sun Sentinel broke the news, the media pounced. The City of Coral Springs wouldn't allow Heathe ... More >>

Jill Dahne, Love Psychic, Predicts New Anus Tattoo Trend (Video NSFW)

The 17th-annual South Florida Tattoo Expo was held at the Marriott Hotel, Golf Club & Convention Center at Heron Bay in Coral Springs over the weekend. The event featured hot music, hot cars, burlesque shows, and plenty of ink.Our video staff (led by our County Grind music blog editor, Liz Tracy ... More >>

Big Bear Brewing Co. Wins Medals in U.S. Open Beer Championship

After judging more than 1,650 beers in over 65 categories -- well, after that, the judges probably needed a day or two to sleep it off. But instead, the judges of the United States Open Beer Championship rallied and announced the winners. Local brewery and beer institution Big Bear Brewing Co. in Co ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: #7: Beer Muenster Cheese Soup

We're counting down our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, email them here.Since 1996 -- long before you could get a craft beer on almost any corner bar in the tri-county area -- Big Bear Brewing Co. has been serving up its microbrew ... More >>

Walmart Choice Steak Challenge Pits Two Local Chefs In a Fiery Battle

Two local South Florida chefs are competing in a fiery battle to see who has the best grill skills in the Walmart Choice competition. The grill-off, sponsored by Kingsford charcoal and Coca-Cola, will have the executive chef and sous chef of Miami's Red Fish Grill battle it out in a head-to-head com ... More >>

Broward's Foodie Heaven Isn't Las Olas Pretty but a Slew of Strip Malls on University Drive

​When my foodie friends arrive for a first visit to SoFla, I deceive them immediately. In my old Taurus wagon, I drive them north on I-95. We pass marinas and canals ("Venice of the Americas," I tell them), cruise onto Andrews Avenue and over the New River ("Have you ever seen a jail on such an aw ... More >>

Drink and Food Events This Week in Broward/Fort Lauderdale/Palm Beach

Wednesday night: Pucker up to dinner with the lovely ladies of Lips. ​With New Times Beerfest merely days away, it's understandable that you'd want to hunker down this week and save your energy and cash for the weekend. For those who can handle multiple days of fun in one week, there are a few opt ... More >>

Free Burgers Today at CG Burgers

Flickr/ Reynolds.James.E​In early June, we told you about CG Burgers planning a grand opening of its newest location in Coral Springs. (The others are in Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens.) Well, the big day has arrived, and you can get your

Newborn Appears at Coral Springs Fire Station, Umbilical Cord and Placenta Still Attached

loyalkng.com​A newborn girl was left at a Coral Springs fire station last night, umbilical cord and placenta included in the set.Firefighters say they heard the cries outside their fire station at 45th Street and Rock Island Road, whereupon they discovered the little girl."She was wrapped in some ... More >>

Should Coral Springs Have Searched the Principal's Bedroom?

Now we know that there was never any criminal complaint filed against Coral Park Elementary Principal Amanda Miles, who was charged with felony marijuana possession after police found three-quarters of an ounce of the stuff in her bedroom. Well, of course there wasn't -- who would complain abou ... More >>

[UPDATED] Get Your Brew On at Whole Foods' Beer-Off

​Update: Whole Foods has reached capacity for the beer-off. However a representative of the Coral Springs store said that people cancel frequent and to call back closer to the date to see if spots are available.To honor this year's ritual of very large, steroid-addled dump trucks beating the crap ... More >>

Restaurant News: Carmine's Big Plans, Nosh in Cooper City, Get Rummy at Reef Road

​•    First, Palm Beach Gardens. Then, the world. That seems to be the mantra of local restaurateur Carmine Giardini, who's planning a national expansion of his upscale burger joint, CG Burgers. First up will be CGs in the old Bice Bistro space in the Gardens, followed by two more ... More >>

Five Awesome Things to Have During a Hurricane (or Tropical Storm Warning)

Flickr: drinkstudio.comThis will make a hurricane more bearable.​South Florida was placed under a Tropical Storm warning earlier today in preparation for Tropical Storm Nicole. Heck, many of us Floridians are used to the pelting rain, gale-force winds, and loss of power. It's practically part of o ... More >>

Wine Cellar Sorbet Puts the Bottle in Your Bowl

​Want to drink your wine and eat it too? Check out Wine Cellar Sorbet, a gourmet sorbet I found this week shopping at health food store Tunie's in Coral Springs.The pint tubs of wine-flavored sorbet take the gourmet-ice-cream trend to another level. It comes in nine flavors, ranging from sangria t ... More >>

National Ice Cream Month: Top 5 Ways to Enjoy The Treat... Without Eating It

Flickr: WonderlaneHello, sweetness.​If there was an official dessert of South Florida, it would be ice cream. Rich or light, thick or creamy, gummy-bear topped or sprinkle-spotted, the cold concoction has seen all of us through some fiercely hot days. In the 1980s, Reagan declared July "National I ... More >>

Morning Juice: Feds Bust Seminoles for Spending Habits; Band Teacher Acquitted of Molestation Charges

​A look at what's happening this morning in South Florida:The National Indian Gaming Commission has found that the Seminole Tribe violated gaming laws in giving six tribal members more than their appropriate share of casino proceeds. Money that was supposed to be spent for constructive community p ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

John Linn"Grown-up" tater tots from The Office in Delray Beach are topped with bacon crumbles and creme fraiche. Read our first impressions of the joint here.​This week on the blog:We show you how to recreate La Cigale's char-grilled artichokes.Patty Canedo gets physical with a box of lobsters in ... More >>

The Vine Bar in Coral Springs Offers Wine Flight Challenge

Photo by Flickr user Olga Melhiser​The Vine Bar has a little problem: It needs to get rid of some wine to make way for new arrivals. So tonight, the Coral Springs bar is hoping a discount on its wine flights will make sure the older wines get drained. The deal: Buy a flight of four one-ounce pours ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

Hair metal sure makes me hungry.​Let's do the numbers:Regulate this: Antinori's Neprica is a blend for the ages.Vietnamese grub has arrived in Coral SpringsBash Wine Cafe gets the review treatment this week, and comes out strong with economical comfort food.Lots of new arrivals this season: Atlant ... More >>

Morning Juice: Coral Springs Teens Perish in Mysterious Car Crash; Pig Out in Southwest Ranches

​A peek at the local stories people are talking about on this Monday:Three Coral Springs teenagers are dead following a strange accident early Sunday  morning, which started with a fender bender. For some reason, the car accelerated away from the scene, then flipped into the canal. [WPLG]Bob ... More >>

Green Papaya Vietnamese Cuisine in Coral Springs

John LinnThe "BBQ" pork chop dinner at Green Papaya in Coral Springs.​For a fun, casual take on Vietnamese, Green Papaya Vietnamese Cuisine in Coral Springs is a great deal. The above dinner is called a Hau Giang "barbecue pork chop," but is actually a breaded piece of pork loin that's been seared ... More >>

Cure Your Recession Blues With a Bailout Board Game

Sitting at home in Coral Springs last fall, trying to explain the intricacies of the federal bank bailout to their 9-year-old and 11-year-old kids, Shari and Jordy Sopourn hit on the perfect, Jon Stewart-style solution: ridicule.They devised a board game that's reminiscent of Monopoly, except the p ... More >>

Crown Offers Up Wine Tasting and Munchies for 15 Bucks

Photo by Flickr user WTL photosHow does it sound to taste more than 50 wines from around the planet, nibble on munchies, get as much as a 20 percent discount on anything you buy, and walk away with a spiffy German wine glass, all for only $15?  Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, ... More >>

Boobs and Benefits

Throwing Shade

We’ll Be Summering in the Springs

Call to Action

Spend International Women’s Day meditating on mobilization!

The Beer Bowl

The Lost Season

Timb and Andrew Bayuk Tonight at Atmosphere Lounge

Tonight there's a going to be a good set of music going on over at Atmosphere Lounge in Fort Lauderdale. Coral Springs-based folks singer Andrew Bayuk will be on hand singing songs of love, of protest, of peace, and of passion. He's been grinding away in South Florida's indie music scene for years ... More >>

Butta Verses Video--"If I Die"

Coral Springs-based hip-hop artist, Butta Verses, is still riding the buzz of his critically acclaimed new disc, Reality BV, which was released this past September. National hip-hop blogs have been giving the record overwhelmingly positive reviews and it's all deserving since Butta definitely brou ... More >>

Kerala Killer

Letters for February 21-27, 2008

Java D'Lites

2528 University Dr., Coral Springs, 954-340-2326

Twice in a Blue Moon

Chefs Skorish and Statham are into something new

Gettin’ Iggy With it

Your pretty face is going to Dada

Letters for February 24-March 2, 2005

A Freestanding Fight

A hospital exec takes on the health care mafia and an ER deal involving an accused thief and a couple of insiders

Best Kids' Thrill

Twisty the Clown (Gary Cardonick)

Best Mexican Restaurant

Eduardo de San Angel

Best Art Gallery

Schacknow Museum of Fine Art

Gravy Train

Taxpayers foot the bill for Rover's ramblin'

Letters to the Editor

Letters for March 8, 2001

Good Moon Rising

In an already crowded Thai-food field, Moon Thai & Japanese rises above the competition

Best Punk Band

A New Found Glory

NIGHT & DAY1998 DECEMBER 3-9

Roadside Attractions

Where There's Smoke, There's, um, Maybe a Fireman

The volunteer members of the Coral Springs Fire Department don't seem to grasp the concept of imminent danger