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Costa Rica

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Strikers Soccer Team Pairs With Food Trucks for Home Games

    The Fort Lauderdale Strikers soccer team has scored a partnership with five food trucks to offer eats this season. Arepabox, B.C. Tacos, Che Grill, Dog Eat Dog, and Dolci Peccati Gelato will park at every home game in the northwest corner of Lockhart Stadium from 5 p.m. until kickoff at 7:30 p. ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 8, 2012

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

    The Fort Lauderdale Strikers soccer team has scored a partnership with five food trucks to offer eats this season. Arepabox, B.C. Tacos, Che Grill, Dog Eat Dog, and Dolci Peccati Gelato will park at every home game in the northwest corner of Lockhart Stadium from 5 p.m. until kickoff at 7:30 p. ... More >>

  • News

    March 1, 2012

    Online Poker Faces Assault From the Feds

    The Fort Lauderdale Strikers soccer team has scored a partnership with five food trucks to offer eats this season. Arepabox, B.C. Tacos, Che Grill, Dog Eat Dog, and Dolci Peccati Gelato will park at every home game in the northwest corner of Lockhart Stadium from 5 p.m. until kickoff at 7:30 p. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    South Florida's Best Coffee Shops

    ​ People are particular about coffee, whether they take it light and sweet, black, or muddy. Then there are the matters of beans: how recently they were roasted, whether they're fair trade, or whether any of it matters once they're in the cup, brewed by a Krups machine, a French press, or drip fun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Mitchell Olin Sentenced to Prison for Using Clients' Money for Costa Rican Casino Venture

    zazzle.com​Mitchell Olin -- the former Broward attorney who jacked more than $380,000 from his clients -- was sentenced to eight years in the slammer yesterday.As a real estate and insurance claims lawyer for seven families, Olin took the money from a trust account belonging to the families and de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Pura Vida Makes West Palm Debut

    ​If you're "full of life" (or something) and are looking to tie one on, then get your full-of-it, party-hearty self over to CityPlace, where the new Pura Vida Lounge & Nightclub (700 S. Rosemary Ave.; 888-561-0232) is bringing a little bit of Costa Rica (AKA "the happiest place on Earth") to W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Farewell, Gradnite.

    The Magic Kingdom at night.​Last week, the Sun Sentinel ran a sad little story about the death of Grad Nite. Do you know about Grad Nite? If not, you're probably not from around here.Grad Nite was an event instituted at Walt Disney World shortly after the park opened, in imitation of a similar eve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Subway Beats McDonald's for Title of Largest Fast-Food Chain

    ​Subway is beating the crap out of McDonald's to win the title of largest fast-food restaurant chain. According to the Wall Street Journal, at the end of 2010, Subway had 33,749 restaurants worldwide, compared to 32,737 for McDonald's. The number of McDonald's stores was disclosed in an ... More >>

  • News

    July 1, 2010

    An Immigrant's Heart

    To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big heart. But not this big.

  • Culture

    June 10, 2010

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

    To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big heart. But not this big.

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    A Complete Idiot's Guide to: Gallo Pinto

    John Linn​The Costa Rican specialty gallo pinto was one of my favorite parts of visiting the Central American country. I ate the stir-fried rice and beans just about every morning in Costa Rica, often accompanied by eggs, fruit, cheese, fresh tortillas, and sour cream. There's nothing like enjoyin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Orange Juice Squeezed by Manatees?

    Leonid MamchenkovMmmm....​A good way to start your day: with a glass of orange juice and a dose of happy news. This morning, word came across the transom that Fort Pierce company Natalie's Orchid Island Juice scored a win "In the David versus Goliath battle for dominance over America's breakfast ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Indictment against Alfaro Reveals Bizarre Details in Febonio Murder

    At least three dogs were involved in the Febonio murder saga.​ "You can't make this shit up," Palm Beach County Sheriff's Detective Sean Oliver must have muttered to himself at least once during the course of his two-year investigation into the murder of Stephen Febonio.Discovery documents made a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2009

    Swell Films

    At least three dogs were involved in the Febonio murder saga.​ "You can't make this shit up," Palm Beach County Sheriff's Detective Sean Oliver must have muttered to himself at least once during the course of his two-year investigation into the murder of Stephen Febonio.Discovery documents made a ... More >>

  • Dining

    October 22, 2009

    Bamboo Fire Café in Delray Beach Is Worth the Wait

    At least three dogs were involved in the Febonio murder saga.​ "You can't make this shit up," Palm Beach County Sheriff's Detective Sean Oliver must have muttered to himself at least once during the course of his two-year investigation into the murder of Stephen Febonio.Discovery documents made a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Pride of Boca, Jozy Altidore Helps U.S. to Win of Draw in World Cup Qualifying Match

    That's Boca Raton native and American soccer star Jozy Altidore in an interview he gave late last night to ESPN after the U.S. earned a 2-2 tie against Costa Rica. In doing so, the Americans won the draw, after having qualified earlier for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.The match came after Alt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    On NBC Prime Time, Fort Lauderdale Cast as the Poor Man's Thailand

    Flickr User: jojo_is_cuteRyan from The Office dazzled by Fort LauderdaleHalfway through this past week's episode of NBC's The Office, while the Michael Scott Paper Co.'s three employees sit on the floor of their closet turned headquarters, swapping stories of personal failure, the character Ryan off ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Introducing Meghan "The Forager" Tanner, Organics Dealer

    Meghan "The Forager" Tanner is a South Florida organics dealer. She provides the freshest produce and ingredients, local, exotic and otherwise, to forward thinking, quality-minded chefs. She's an Allapattah-market mainstay, a Homestead hustler, a Redland raider, a South Dade trafficker pushing heav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Wild Iguana Catchers/Eaters Welcome in Florida

    Alexander Rust and Vanessa Palm should have vacationed in South Florida instead of the Bahamas. The pair of 20-something Midwesterners were arrested over the weekend for catching, then grilling and consuming, an endangered iguana in the Exuma Cays. Here in Florida, tho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Throwback Tuesdays: Manu Chao "Desaparecido"

    When Manu Chao released his landmark album, Clandestino, in 1998, it was regarded as an instant classic by most people who heard it. The 16-track disc was a funky underground pop album aimed right at the cultural left (and bourgeois right) of Spain, France, South America and Mexico all at once. Bet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 3

    I'm going to wrap up this short little porthole into Costa Rican cuisine talking a little bit about everything -- probably in a very rambling, tangential sort of way. Just a fair warning. Native fruit is definitely one of the more unique aspects of eating in Costa Rica. You've got your average tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 2

    One of Costa Rica's many beach-side sodas, shaded from the hot coastal sun by an umbrella of tall trees. Yesterday I talked a little bit about Costa Rica's plato tipical, casado - and more specifically, rice and beans. Now, when you're producing rice and beans in such quantities as to make it the c ... More >>

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Watch Out, Red Baron

    The 'Pipe breaks loose

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 1

    A view of Volcan Arenal from a hiking trail that traverses old lava flow from its 1992 eruption. Arenal is the third most active volcano in the world. We hiked through rainforests and gasped at volcanoes, lounged on white sand beaches and wound our way around perilous mountain passes. Oh yes, we al ... More >>

  • News

    February 21, 2008

    Just Say Uncle

    The DEA's "Twin Oceans" hooked a big fish, but can they reel it in?

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2007

    Photographer Exiled From Cuba

    The DEA's "Twin Oceans" hooked a big fish, but can they reel it in?

  • News

    August 2, 2007

    Wingin' It

    Fledgling Guardian Angels get the call from gang-riddled Lake Worth

  • News

    May 3, 2007

    Camilo's Retreat

    He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

  • News

    January 18, 2007

    Letters for January 18-24, 2007

    He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

  • Dining

    December 14, 2006

    Your Fish Is My Command

    Want it? McCormick & Schmick's can get it.

  • Film

    November 9, 2006

    Sharkwater

    Want it? McCormick & Schmick's can get it.

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    Matchhead

    Carlos Arredondo did the unthinkable with gasoline, a Marine van, and a propane torch. Two years later, he still burns.

  • News

    April 13, 2006

    Big Breasts and Cold Champagne in the Penthouse

    The sheer massiveness of mammaries at Bova leaves us flummoxed.

  • News

    April 21, 2005

    Tailpipe

    Energizer Con Man

  • Culture

    April 14, 2005

    Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

    Energizer Con Man

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2005

    Last Call

    Beerfest goes down Saturday!

  • News

    November 11, 2004

    Tailpipe

    Nixon/Agnew '04

  • Culture

    September 30, 2004

    Just Like the Rest of Us

    "Hispanic heritage" is hard to find at ArtServe and Gallery Six By Michael Mills

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2004

    For Grown-ups Or-chids

    "Hispanic heritage" is hard to find at ArtServe and Gallery Six By Michael Mills

  • Music

    February 5, 2004

    Who the Cap Fit

    Has the Bob Marley Festival lost some of its spark?

  • News

    April 17, 2003

    Murdered in Havana

    After the Catholic Church banished him, Cuba welcomed him. But the vibrant new life George Zirwas created for himself soon ended in tragic death.

  • Dining

    March 7, 2002

    You Too Can Yucatan

    Fresh ingredients and friendly service add up to a satisfying (if not very authentic) trip to the Yucatán

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    The Art of the Deal

    Skot Foreman brings big-name art to an unexpected seaside town

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Love Behind Bars

    When Albert Tacher met Dina Mora, he knew it was love. The problem? She was a prisoner, and he was a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy.

  • Goods and Services

    May 11, 2000

    Best Nursery

    Living Color Garden Center

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    Undercurrents

    Living Color Garden Center

  • Dining

    July 23, 1998

    Here Today, Gone to Maui

    Living Color Garden Center

  • News

    July 9, 1998

    Cyber Stakes

    South Florida is at the heart of the internet gambling boom -- and of the war to stop it

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