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Logan Morrison Serves as the Wild Child for the Already Loony Miami Marlins

What Happens to Processed Food After You Eat It

​Science: Two test subjects swallow pill-sized cameras -- "M2A capsules," they're called, for "mouth to anus." One subject then eats a meal of "processed" foods, and the other eats a meal of "natural" food. (I put those words in scare quotes because all food is both processed and natural. But ... More >>

A1A Marathon and Half Marathon: Taste Testing The Swag Bag

​The A1A Marathon and Half Marathon is this Sunday, February 19.  A marathon is much more than an endurance run. There's an entire weekend of activity surrounding the race, including the pre-race carbo-load pasta dinner, the post-race brunch with beer (must replenish carbs), race strategies ( ... More >>

Backstage in South Florida ... and Backstage in Knoxville, Too!

​Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions and observations about the local scene. This week: Two very different backstage scenarios... Considering the fact that this column is called Backstage in South Florida, I found it interesting to note the differences in a p ... More >>

Have You Ever Picklebacked?

​On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Rachel Maddow introduced him to a new discovery of hers -- the pickleback. Maddow explained that the drink -- part whiskey, part pickle juice -- is a shot that cures what ails ya. She's not crazy -- she's got a point! As an ultra marathon runner and past running ... More >>

Hangovers are For Amateurs. Or Are They? Five Liquid Cures

​It's countdown to the 4th Annual New Times Pairings, where 40 plates and 40 pairings inevitably  will lead to what other cultures call a "tomcat", a "hairache", or "the howling of kittens." Though some of you take comfort in late night pizzas, greasy breakfasts, or any solid food item a ... More >>

Cops: Jupiter Mom Arrested for Not Letting Kids Pee -- Unless It Helped Her Pass Drug Tests

PBSOAngela Henderson, toilet Nazi​Keep drinking, kids. Mommy needs to pass her drug test.That's the essence of what the cops say 35-year-old Angela D. Henderson was arrested on child abuse and drug charges for.Jupiter cops say Henderson's kids were texting their father, informing them that their m ... More >>

Recovering From Cinco de Mayo? Five International Hangover Cures

Photo: Flickr/ChiRanchRough Night?​Did you start off the day curled up in the fetal position on the floor of your friend's bathroom? Perhaps you stumbled into your living room  this morning and discovered that yesterday, someone used your key to break into your house then proceeded to spill s ... More >>

Q&A With Jeremy Hanlon of My Fresh Chef

OK, his story starts out simple enough -- Jeremy Hanlon was a finance major in college, then landed a Wall Street job after graduating. However, less than a year into his job, Hanlon knew cubicle life wasn't for him. He ditched it to cook. He went from watching the Food Network to appearing on it. H ... More >>

Bust of Deputy Keith McPhee Serves as a "What Not to Do" for Crooked Jail Guards

Please pass the paper-thin garlic.​There's a great jail scene in Goodfellas that shows the mobsters living it up in the can, eating an Italian feast brought in by the guards in cases. The narrator explains how they managed to smoke cigars and eat lobsters: "We lived alone. We owned the joint. Even ... More >>

Rick Scott Does Something Good. Yeah, I Said It

Model Citizen Scott deserves a hand today. ​Rick Scott's move to force government employees to contribute to their pensions (like everyone else) and drop the horrid DROP triple-dipping program is flat-out wonderful. It's high time someone derailed the gravy train that government ... More >>

Five Ways to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

Flickr/Pink Sherbert Photography Cheers!New Year's resolutions - nearly everyone makes them and hardly anyone keeps them.  Sure, it's a great idea, after six vodka and cranberries at the New Year's Eve party's open bar, to say you're going to lose those ten extra pounds on your ass or f ... More >>

Smart for Life Cookie Diet: Does It Work?

Those are Smart for Life's oatmeal raisin cookies​A cookie diet sounds delicious. Like everyone else, I imagined some gooey chocolate chip cookies, maybe some macadamia nut.The reality was much more spongy - although not bad.After writing about Smart for Life's new gluten-free cookie diet and lear ... More >>

The Killing of Calvin Williams: If You're Black and Gay in South Florida, Down-Low Sex Is a Deadly Gamble

Those are Smart for Life's oatmeal raisin cookies​A cookie diet sounds delicious. Like everyone else, I imagined some gooey chocolate chip cookies, maybe some macadamia nut.The reality was much more spongy - although not bad.After writing about Smart for Life's new gluten-free cookie diet and lear ... More >>

Top Ten Most Disturbing Competitive-Eating Records

Tara NieuwesteegPickle eating in Pompano​Several of the world's top competitive eaters descended upon the Isle of Capri in Pompano Beach last weekend to see who could eat the most sour dill pickles. Before the event, the record was 2.99 pounds of pickles in six minutes. At least six people bested ... More >>

Competitive Eaters Destroy Pickle-Eating World Record in Pompano

Tara NieuwesteegPat Bertoletti put down nearly six pounds of pickles for the win.​On Sunday morning, the world record for pickle eating was 2.99 pounds in six minutes. By about 11:30 a.m., that record had been demolished. Held at the Isle of Capri at Pompano Park, the event was part of the officia ... More >>

ILLEGAL From Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

I'm Eating What?! Dried Plums from an Asian Market

Photo by Riki Altman​Some people may be addicted to drugs, some to gambling, but I'm pretty sure there's no 12-step program to rid me of my addiction to dried sweet plums from Chinese markets. My first introduction to these tasty tidbits occurred years ago, innocently enough, when I interview ... More >>

TechSqueeze: SheBlogs Shows That Girls Have All the Fun

SheBlogs.org founder Julie Wohlberg.A new startup in West Palm Beach is hoping to combine the more traditional public relations sector with the new media niche of women who blog. There are a lot of them, and they are likely more active than most of their male counterparts, some studies might suggest ... More >>

Lifeguard Christina Swanson Is Boxing's Million Dollar Maybe

SheBlogs.org founder Julie Wohlberg.A new startup in West Palm Beach is hoping to combine the more traditional public relations sector with the new media niche of women who blog. There are a lot of them, and they are likely more active than most of their male counterparts, some studies might suggest ... More >>

Heartbreak at 45 mph

Scenes from the life of a racing greyhound.

Just Try to Avoid Getting Nailed During a Himmarshee Bar Tour

Scenes from the life of a racing greyhound.

Bar Love, Exposed

It wasn't a college bar after all, but Nippers still brought on some strong feelings.

Residents of a Davie trailer park think their contaminated water made them sick

It wasn't a college bar after all, but Nippers still brought on some strong feelings.

It's All in the Package

There are three straight bars in Wilton Manors, and only Red's has got the King

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

There are three straight bars in Wilton Manors, and only Red's has got the King

Even Better Than the Real Thing

There are three straight bars in Wilton Manors, and only Red's has got the King

Merman

Faster than a speeding dolphin, this Cuban rafter aims to be world champ

Have Wire, Will Travel

Anna the Medic, one of the FBI's top informants, has cut a wide swath through the antiwar and animal rights movements.

Lost Boys

You never get over your championship season

Love Hurts

You never get over your championship season

Gamblin' Whoa Man!

Veni, vidi, and lost her shirt at the Seminole Casino

Hot Dog, Ho!

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

Shadow Box

Daniel Santos, of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, via Pembroke Pines, is on his way to the top. Maybe.

Workin' for Doodle

For Bob Graham's troops, word that he was quitting the race came straight from Larry King

I Scream, You Scream...

...We all scream for chainsawed corpses!

Game Boys

What do you get when you mix guaraná, computers, assault rifles, and explosives? A fragger's paradise.

It's Unbelievable

Wet Dreams of the Garden Variety

Making the Saint

Once a drag queen, Willie Rios plans to enter the sacred world of Santería priesthood

Swamp Wars

Beset by feds and environmentalists, the good ol' boys of Big Cypress National Preserve circle the buggies

Anything For Film

The Independent Filmmaker Lecture Series

Malled!

Six shoppertainment malls, three eager mallrats, one day of shopping nirvana