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Ten Best Pizza Places in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

Pizza may be one of America's favorite foods, a food that has become more American than Italian, with slices in cities from east to west offering a different take on how to best combine three basic ingredients: dough, cheese and sauce. There's New York-style, Chicago and Sicilian. Some bake up a thi ... More >>

Top Ten Craft Beer Selections in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

American Craft Beer Week officially begins May 13 and runs through the 19; a whole seven days worth of events and special tappings to keep your taste buds excited and your liver in a state of confusion. This year marks the eighth consecutive week by the Brewer's Association. As they state, "Americ ... More >>

Ten Best Burgers in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

Some food items elicit intense reactions. New Yorkers smear any pizza anywhere outside of their dear city limits. Chicagoans eschew hot dogs without their traditional toppings. Kansas City residents scoff at any other barbecue. While each city tends to have its own special dish, good burgers can be ... More >>

Ten Best Happy Hours in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

Ahh. Happy hour. That wonderful time of day when a smiling bartender, cheap booze, and inexpensive food are intended to dissipate all of your workday's stress. Of course, you could go for a run or do something healthy to blow off some steam, but where's the fun in that? To help you out with your h ... More >>

Ten Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Palm Beach County

Blame it on the economy. Blame it on sky-high fuel costs, droughts, and that locally grown, organic craze. Really, blame it on whatever you like. No matter which way you slice it, food just isn't getting any cheaper. Especially in Palm Beach County, where only a small percentage of the populace has ... More >>

Ten Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Broward County

Eating out tends to have negative effects on the size of your wallet. And while cooking at home tends to have positive impacts on your cash flow -- and waistline -- it can eat away at your free time. If you're broke and too busy, lazy, or culinarily challenged to cook at home, we have a list of the ... More >>

Ten Best Irish Pubs & Restaurants in South Florida

It can be hard to relate to Ireland's rolling green hills and blustery (and often impossibly charming) cliffside villages, but if there's one thing South Florida understands, it's how to raise a glass and toast to a damned good time. Perhaps that's why this hot, flat state is home to so many Emerald ... More >>

The New Florida Lottery Logo is Nightmare Fuel

Amazing to think, but Floridians have been not winning the Florida Lottery for 25 years now. So, to commemorate a quarter of a century of billboards promising millions, and stops to the gas station for a few dozen quick picks purchases, the lottery is going all Miami Dolphins on us and adapting a b ... More >>

Rage Against the Machinima: As YouTube Becomes Increasingly Wealthy, Its Stars and the Networks Who Contract With Them Battle for Money and Creative Control

Sorry, the Allen West Vocational Night School is Only a Dream Now; Broward Schools No Longer Named After the Living

Yup, this means the Rick Scott Embalming Academy, Marco Rubio Junior High and the Chris Bosh Ballet and Tap School are all back on the shelf for the next couple of decades (hopefully) -- at least in Broward County. After some past missteps in the Thickheaded Public Policy Department, the Broward sch ... More >>

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Why Does City of Fort Lauderdale's Google Ranking Suck?

Today's morning post requires a bit of reader participation. Go to Google and type in "Fort Lauderdale." Results will vary based on browser, search history, location, and a host of other factors Google's all-knowing algorithm accounts for. But you'll most likely see that somehow, a long-ag ... More >>

Outlaw Octogenarians: Florida's Oldest Arrestees

​Welcome to this week's post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week's most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida's tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times' Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition.

Nicole Okrzesik Googled How to Kill Juliana Mensch, Police Say

Police say 19-year-old Juliana Mensch was strangled in a Fort Lauderdale home by two of her friends, James Ayers and his girlfriend, Nicole Okrzesik, who wanted to rob her for drug money. Ayers was arrested several days after the killing after reportedly telling a friend that he did it; Okrzesik was ... More >>

"Top Gun! The Musical" at Empire Stage: Offbeat Comedy Is Just Plane Bad

How a Rice Cooker Saved Me From a Lifetime of Prostitution

​Cooking is hard, or so I was brought up to believe. I wasn't told this but rather deduced it from two facts: My family was full of people who'd spent decades cooking for one another, and almost none of them seemed to be very good at it. So what was the point? If a lifetime spent grimly oozing swe ... More >>

Google Maps Now Covers the Inside of the Fort Lauderdale Airport -- Why?

​Why you would need a map from Google of the inside of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is beyond us, but it now exists.The airport is one of a handful of locations now mapped on the indoors for the Google Maps application for Android devices, and we're still trying to figure ou ... More >>

Facebook Is Going Out of Business, According to Overly Optimistic Pembroke Pines Woman

​A Pembroke Pines woman says she's going to "destroy Facebook's lead in the social networking universe" with her new social networking website that costs $45 a year.Good luck.Evelyn Castillo-Bach says her website, UmeNow, is everything Facebook isn't -- as far as advertising and privacy are concer ... More >>

South Florida's Best Cocktails: We Travel Between Beaches and Barstools to Find the Best of What's Shaken and Stirred

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Internet Illiterate

Wasserman Schultz: Are your algorithms... magic?​There are 7 billion people in the world. A little more than a quarter of them are connected to the internet. Of those, most could slap together a simple website if they really wanted to. Many have.Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the comely congresswoman f ... More >>

Nerd Alert: Google Becomes Social, Gets a "Like" Button Called 1

via techcrunch.comGoogle is now more social.​Maybe Google's new feature is why Twitter is over capacity -- internet-folk be tweetin' the news to the far reaches of the universe (btw, did you see those pictures of Mercury? I'd 1 that). "The 1 button is shorthand for 'this is pretty cool' or 'you ... More >>

Movie Theater Coupons Good Through January

  Photo Courtesy of Google Images​Taking a trip to the movies used to be a nice, casual way to spend a Saturday evening, but now with the outrageous prices of tickets and concessions, a night at the movies has turned into a special occasion. It's easy to spend upward of $40 for two pe ... More >>

I'm Drinking What? Elf Piss

Photo by Riki AltmanFrom the North Pole with love​OK, it's really not elfin pee. It's tarragon soda. But we were swelled up with Christmas spirit and this drink we found at the Russian market was just so damn green that we couldn't pass it up. 'Tis the season for pine-colored items, right? It ... More >>

I'm Eating What?! Eigene Herstellung (AKA Star Cookies)

Photo by Riki AltmanLittle stars, how I wonder what you are...​Hmmm. The bag had only two words on it: eigene herstellung. And no ingredients, no expiration date, and no nutritional information. Was it worth trying?It was pretty obvious to the human eye that these were innocent little sugar-topped ... More >>

Mercifully, Website Logins Will Vanish in the Internet Future

Flickr​With the spread of cloud computing, social networking, and client-based technologies, fewer and fewer of our computing tasks are taking place on our personal computers. More of them are going online -- into the cloud. We have more usernames and passwords to manage than ever.The most reckles ... More >>

Q&A With Jay Berkowitz, South Florida Techrepreneur

​The Boca Raton-based TenGoldenRules.com specializes in business to business (B2B) internet marketing between small, medium, and large businesses.Jay Berkowitz, its founder and CEO, is a true entrepreneur in the internet marketing field. He's promoted such companies as McDonald's and Coca-Cola. In ... More >>

Student-Teacher Shenanigans

TechSqueeze: Fonts, Typography, and Sex

I got your cufon right here​Anyone who is in the web design, print, or graphic design industries knows all about fonts. The rest of us usually don't give them much thought, really. I know I hadn't until attending last Thursday's Refresh Fort Lauderdale.  The discussion that night was web font ... More >>

Lauderdale Airport's Newest Carrier Announces Special Service to Customers Who've Never Had Sex

Screen grab: PCMag.com​ Can't get laid? Well, maybe some free WiFi will cheer you up. Google is teaming up with the newest airline to serve Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport so that virgin travelers can have free internet.Oh wait, maybe that's Virgin travelers? Haha. This is just a ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch

via Good Is​Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you need to read every day, some people just can't get enough. And some people don't like to read at all. This post is for you! This week, we're highlighting food blogs which focus on pretty pictures.Fast Food Ads vs. Reality puts the ... More >>

Hollywood Drug Maker Scorned Nationally, Advertising Locally

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/A screen grab from the Broward edition of this morning's Miami Herald.​A month after a national magazine named Resveratrol Ultra among the drug supplements that profit from what appear to be misleading advertisements and in the week following its being menti ... More >>

On Hollywood Beach, Only City Stands a Chance of Making a Sale

Photo: Google mapsThe Mermaid on Pierce Street in Hollywood Beach.​Like so many in this market, Eileen Miller wants to sell. But the owner of two small hotels on Hollywood Beach -- the Swan and the Mermaid -- is up against a formidable adversary. The City of Hollywood, which is also a seller and w ... More >>

The Ritz Offers a Month of Gourmet Burgers

Celebrate the burger. Just don't eat it with a fork and knife.Let us all praise the humble disc of ground beef stuffed between two slices of bread this month of May 2009. May, you see, is National Hamburger Month. And after all, if you can have National Prune Breakfast Month (January) or National Pi ... More >>

Are You a Leg Man?

Just a reminder to mark your calendars: The Fellsmere Frog Legs Festival kicks off on January 15th and runs through the weekend to a grand finale at the Sunday Croaker Run. For my money Saturday the 17th looks like the best day to show if you're feeling competitive: three contests include Leap Frog, ... More >>

Food Stamp Nation - Florida Leads The Pack

The Miami Herald reports that "In the last two years, the number of Floridians on food stamps has increased more than 40 percent to 1.7 million. That increase is the highest in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture."The numbers read like this, 356,000 food stamp recipients li ... More >>

I Got Crabs in Everglades City

Wow, I am so ashamed of myself. I've lived in South Florida for 15 years, and until last weekend I'd never been to Everglades City, stone crab capital of the universe. This little one-horse town is a seafood-lover's wet dream, and it's barely two hours drive from the door of my Lake Worth shack to ... More >>

Art Basel Week: A.R.E. Weapons, J.D. Samson at O.H.W.O.W., Dec. 2

Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined by former punk rock types. The band's noisy assault of party-in-your-face found some near-mainstream ... More >>

Google Explains United Airlines Debacle

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Pols being pols: Rodstrom cleans house, Gallagher goes missing

Delicious Organics Delivers!

Reusable Chopsticks: Save A Rainforest

Dirty Type

Looking for Lucifer

Authorities use high-tech tactics to try to stop cyber critics bedeviling a city

Google Killing Newspapers?

Sun-Sentinel's "Transformative Change"

Archie Bunker Lives

Who Do I Have to Whack to Raise My Google Profile?

Radio right-winger Doug Goetzloe tries another political hit for Internet ratings.

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Old Florida Seafood House

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