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Pain & Gain Star The Rock Lives in Broward County: 8 "Celebrities" Who Could Be Your Neighbors

Miami, Florida and Hollywood, California are known for the best places to spot celebrities. Oohh there's Jon Hamm. Ooh look, George Clooney! Pfft. Whatever. We all know the sexiest place on the planet is Broward friggin County. Know who else knows that?The Rock. He lives there. Other celebritie ... More >>

Broward County Name Change: Eight Options That Are Way Better

This week, Broward County commissioners will debate whether the county should change its name. Comissioner Chip LaMarca is behind the idea, and bothered that no one outside of Florida has heard of Broward (unless they accidentally Google: weather in hollywood, and our Hollywood popped up). We agr ... More >>

Rapper Drake Thinks He Owns the Term YOLO -- But Did He and Rick Ross Crib the Phrase from the Fort Lauderdale Restaurant?

YOLO: love it or hate it, it's the new 'in' acronym. It's become the catchphrase excuse for all things ridiculous: drunken sorority girl hook-ups, speeding, frat boy public urination, Darwin Award-like behavior, or any other insignificant experience deemed to be worthy of a hashtag by social media u ... More >>

South Florida's Best Hotel Restaurants

Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Broward-Palm Beach® 2012 online. Hotel restaurants; they're the bane of any food lover's existence, no? ... More >>

Another Burger Chain? Burger 21 Sniffing Out South Florida Market

Google the terms "burger" and "Fort Lauderdale" and more than four million results pop up. Even if you don't count the Big Three burger chains -- McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's -- there's still Five Guys, CG burgers, Energy Kitchen, BurgerFi, the soon-to-open Shula burger, Elevation burger in ... More >>

Vincent Colangelo Gets 20 Years in Massive Online Pill-Mill Operation

A 44-year-old Davie man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to selling more than 660,000 pain pills from seven South Florida clinics -- including one that shared parking with Broward General Hospital. Vincent Colangelo was also ordered to give up six properties worth mor ... More >>

Defense Department Flying Drones From Three South Florida Locales

The U.S. Department of Defense is conducting drone operations from at least four sites in Florida, and it plans to add three more sites in the future, according to data gathered and released by the nonprofit Public Intelligence. The group released this week an interactive Google map that shows ... More >>

Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis -- Who Else Did Christopher Chaney, Florida's Celebrity Hacker, Spy On?

​Earlier this week, a 35-year-old Jacksonville man, Christopher Chaney, pleaded guilty to charges that he hacked into celebrity email accounts and leaked nude photos of several of them, including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. He faces up to 60 years in prison, according to the Associated Pres ... More >>

Google Glasses Show Why It's Too Late to Ban Texting and Driving

​By the end of the year, Google is expected to start selling glasses that display up-to-date information about the nearby environment on a tiny screen embedded in the lens.  The glasses, according to the New York Times, "will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor ... More >>

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

Gary Johnson Schedules an Appearance in West Palm Beach Hosted by South Florida Tea Party

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson​After his polling numbers dropped this fall and he was no longer being invited to the debates with other GOP presidential candidates, the probability of former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson's running as the Libertarian Party candidate in 2012 looks a bit more lik ... More >>

Misfits Homebrew and Breckenridge Vanilla Porter Among New Times Beerfest Winners

Photo by Christina MendenhallClick here for a slide show of photos from Beerfest. ​Forget the drunk fest that the New Times Beerfest used to be, with the longest lines at the light beers that have a faint flavor of something brewed. This year, the crowds seemed to seek out the craft beers, with th ... More >>

East End Brasserie in Fort Lauderdale: First Look

Photos by Eric BartonThe sweet venison dish is like a primer for Thanksgiving. ​"Hello, bonsoir," said the manager as he breezed through the dining room of the East End Brasserie last night. His mix of English and French would seem appropriate for the 2-week-old restaurant. The menu is somewhat Fr ... More >>

New Times Beerfest Judges: Nine Expert Drinkers, Including These Two Lucky Readers

New Times Beerfest is better than this one. ​Greg Heller, a financial analyist and major beer fiend, and Stevette Hay, a former brewpub employee and local chef, are our two readers who will join an esteemed panel to help judge the New Times Beerfest 2011 awards. Heller and Hay provided two detaile ... 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 >>

Marco Rubio and Allen West on Bin Laden

​American fellow-feeling has been going down the shittah since mid-2009 or so, and for those few remaining true believers in the power of rational discourse and basic human decency, it's been a bum ride. Everything is political lately, it seems, and in the worst way. Left and right America agree o ... 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 >>

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 >>

Boca's Soccer Star in ESPN Commercial

That's Jozy Altidore, the U.S. striker whose Haitian-born parents brought him up in Boca Raton. Of course, this ad's a way for ESPN to show it's hip to this summer's World Cup. Altidore is one of the sports leading American ambassadors. Let's hope that this video is Google-friendly enough to help t ... More >>

Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck: Domaine de la Chauviniere Muscadet

​South Florida is blessed with an abundance of fresh fish and shellfish, yet one of the world's great seafood wines is about as well-known here as Bashar al-Asaad.  That would be Muscadet, a white wine from France's Loire region that's as crisp as a freshly minted dollar bill and as fine a co ... More >>

Be Careful Investing in Oil Wells; Boca Firm Attracts Suspicion From Regulators

FlickrWhen dealing with oil traders, caveat emptor.​To be clear: Just because Boca Raton-based Seisma Oil Research and its associated companies were hit with a cease-trade order in Saskatchewan doesn't mean that it's a scam. It just means that the company's executives may not have registered with ... More >>

Did South Florida Invent the Foam Finger?

flickr.com​If you watched much of the Vikings-Cardinals game last night (it wasn't much of a game), you probably saw this week's installment of Toyota's "Great Moments in Tailgating History." The topic: the origin of the giant foam finger.The legend, according to the entertaining reenactment, is t ... More >>

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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 >>

Virtual Reality Bites: SEC Files Suit Against Palm Beach County Company

If you think about it, the investment scam is the ultimate virtual reality game: It gives its customers the extremely life-like sensation of getting rich, albeit at considerable cost. So why not offer virtual reality itself as an investment scam? Too late. Someone's already thought of it.The SEC is ... 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 >>

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 >>

Canadian Regulators Get Wise to Boca Firm

Flickr: allison chaseCanadians: Beware of faxes from Boca.​You won't find any articles in South Florida -- or even the U.S. -- about Global Petroleum Strategies, which is based in Boca Raton. Nor will you find any complaints against it with the Florida Better Business Bureau. But over the past yea ... More >>

With Regret, Hollywood Drug Retailer Making Bucks Off Dishonest Advertisement

​The researcher who discovered the possible life-extending powers of resveratrol sold his company for $780 million, which probably means he doesn't need to sell his endorsement to a company called FWM Laboratories that operates out of a shabby industrial neighborhood near I-95 between Stirling and ... More >>

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 >>

Impressions of the Delray Beach Garlic Festival

I decided to spend Valentine's Day - at least the day part of it - at the Delray Beach Garlic Festival, a weekend-long ode to the clove going down at Old School Square. The fest had a lot going on: there were vendors aplenty, hocking garlic-based sauces, dips, spreads, and salsas. There was a garlic ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Mayoral Candidate Is One of Those Humans Turned On by "Sex"

Imagine a poster like this hanging in Jim Naugle's old office.Here at New Times, we're porn-positive. (I mean, have you seen what lurks in our back pages?) In this Age of Tolerance, it's high time that a big, Democratic city like Fort Lauderdale have a candidate who's open and unashamed of his pruri ... More >>

Top Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic ... 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 >>

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 >>

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