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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 >>

LOLZ! ROFL! ACLU! Lawsuit Defends Student's Bitchy Facebook Page

Hey kids, good news! If you want to create a Facebook page that declares some teacher "the worst teacher in, like, the world," and then you are suspended for that, the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida will sue the damn school to protect your First Amendment rights, as ... More >>

Local Strippers Must Do More Stripping To Afford County Fee (For Stripping)

I realize it's tough to scrounge up money in this economy, Palm Beach County, but must you really take it out of the g-strings of our courageous strippers? Those hard-bodied girls and guys need that money to pay for college! To put food on the table for the cute little tyke whose daddy skedaddled! A ... 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 >>

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 >>

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Old Florida Seafood House

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Old Florida Seafood House

Looking for Lucifer

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

Two Tales From the Trail

Pols being pols: Rodstrom cleans house, Gallagher goes missing

Dirty Type

Pols being pols: Rodstrom cleans house, Gallagher goes missing

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

Rock 'em, Sock 'em

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

Go Cork Yourself

A cool new website launched this week helps readers identify local restaurants that operate with a BYOB policy, and also provides the establishments' wine policy and corkage information. Southeast Florida is one of ten metropolitan areas covered by GoBYO.com. The free online service also provides di ... 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 >>

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 >>

Stings So Good! But How Will We Con Criminals Next Time?

Flickr: quickcuffed"Welcome to Al's! Let me show you to your cell. Can I tell you about our special on bologna sandwiches?"​Operation Show Me the Money was a big hit for the Fort Lauderdale Police, who invited people with outstanding warrants to collect stimulus checks only to be arrested. In this ... More >>

No Waiting Room to See Dr. Google

Flickr: van_thanh2910And no, you can't sue it for malpractice.​While we're on the subject of desperate times calling for desperate health-care measures, recent studies have shown that Americans are increasingly relying on the internet to diagnose and treat their medical conditions. What's more, 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 >>

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 >>

Unemployed? Beware the Work-From-Home Scam

Courtesy of walletpop.com​This week's feature follows one kind of internet scam: 419 fraud, usually originating in Africa or Asia, and the people fighting the scammers at 419Eater.com. But one of the fastest growing scams in tough economic times is the "work from home" fake employment scam, and ma ... More >>

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 >>

Student-Teacher Shenanigans

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Gluten-Free Halloween Candy

Reese's are safe for Celiacs!As we've written in previous posts, people who can't eat gluten (AKA celiacs) are forced to carefully read every label to make sure to avoid gluten -- which seems to be in just about everything.Reading labels can make it difficult for gluten-free children come candy time ... 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 >>

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 >>

Underground Dining Groups: Q&A With Beth Persons of Algonquin

Can you believe we're already on Week 3 of South Florida's Underground Dining Groups mini-series? The next group may not even need an introduction or a mention, as they're the oldest and largest of the bunch rounding out at about 1000 members. Not to forget, that they're the chicest too. Ladies and ... 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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

Reverse-Mortgage Fraud Suspects Worked at Firm in Boca and Fort Lauderdale

U.S. Attorney Wilfredo Ferrer brings the charges.​The three Florida men charged with reverse-mortgage fraud on Wednesday were Palm Beach County residents who worked for 1st Continental Mortgage, with offices in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. A reverse mortgage allows a bank to purchase the homes ... 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 >>

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

GoogleNavigating the Fort Lauderdale airport. For some reason, there's an app for that.​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 indoo ... More >>

How A Rice Cooker Saved Me From A Lifetime Of Prostitution

Elsewhere in the world, rice cookers are sexy. ​Cooking is hard, or so I was brought up to believe. I wasn't told this, but rather deduced it from two facts: 1) My family was full of people who'd spent decades cooking for each other, and 2) almost none of them seemed to be very good at it. So -- w ... More >>

The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax: Indianapolis Mobilizes for an Epic Battle With an Urban Legend

Elsewhere in the world, rice cookers are sexy. ​Cooking is hard, or so I was brought up to believe. I wasn't told this, but rather deduced it from two facts: 1) My family was full of people who'd spent decades cooking for each other, and 2) almost none of them seemed to be very good at it. So -- w ... More >>