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"The Lucky One" Isn't Lucky Enough to Find Stars With Chemistry

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 >>

Chrome Dick's Raphael Alvarez on Absolutely Everything

​Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Chrome Dick.It goes without saying, but "Chrome Dick" is a jarring phrase, image, and idea. The sounds Raphael Al ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ted Deutch Are Sponsoring the Bill That's Upsetting the Internet

​If you go to Wikipedia's website today, you may cry after finding it's not giving out information today. The Google logo is also blacked out on that website, and Reddit and other sites are also blacking themselves out today.If you're looking for someone local to blame for any of your internet-rel ... More >>

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 >>

"The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider" at Florida Stage: A Stylistically Scattered Look at the Poetry of Politics

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 >>

Le Tub Saloon: We Demystify the Urban Legends

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 >>

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 >>

Chillounge Coming to Delray Again: February 5, 2011

Photo Courtesy of Google Images ​Just when you thought that the only people who hung out in parks at night were bums and hookers, the second annual Chillounge Night comes around and changes it all. On February 5th hundreds of daybeds and lounge chairs will be set-up on The Great Lawn at Old School ... More >>

The Twelve Freaky Gingerbread Houses of Christmas

​Construction permits on new gingerbread homes are not issued until the first week in December, after which the confectionary edifices spring up everywhere.  Gingerbread houses were first built in Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia, and popularized in the 17th and 18th centuries. Gingerbread me ... 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 >>

"Iron Man 2" Will Lead to "3" and Probably "4," but That Doesn't Mean It's Good

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 >>

Philly MC Amanda Blank Plays Two Shows on December 2

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Heat Gives Hawks First Road Playoff Win in 12 Years

The last time the Atlanta Hawks had won a playoff game on the road, Dwyane Wade was 15 years old. He hadn't thought about Marquette, the Final Four, the NBA Finals, MVPs, or STDs. But last night, Miami was about as intimidating as Jeff Goldblum was in the 1997 smash Jurassic Park 2 -- which is ... 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 >>

For Those Road-Tripping to Cayleestock

As anyone with cable news knows by now, there will be a public memorial for Caylee Anthony tomorrow in Orlando. Caylee's grandmother Cindy asked the Orlando Sentinel to publish this eulogy in advance of the funeral. Notice that Cindy Anthony specifically invites only "those with the purest of hearts ... 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 >>

Last Night: The Ritz-Carlton's Wine Room and Scotch Bar

New Times was graciously invited to an evening of pampering and boozing last night courtesy of the Ritz-Cartlon Fort Lauderdale's (semi) new and much improved wine bar. And it went.... well, how do you think it went? We were pampered. We were boozed. It was an all around lovely evening, and I would ... 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 >>

Crist's Wedding Dress, the GOP's KKK Problem, and the Dunkin' Badass

  Crist Buys Wedding Dress, Won't Be One Wearing It If you're the type of person who laughs at the sight of a beard-wedding dress combination, you'll appreciate the news that Charlie Crist's fiancee recently bought herself a wedding gown. I say this not because the accusations that Carole Rome ... More >>

Greenbacks and Greenmarkets

  Crist Buys Wedding Dress, Won't Be One Wearing It If you're the type of person who laughs at the sight of a beard-wedding dress combination, you'll appreciate the news that Charlie Crist's fiancee recently bought herself a wedding gown. I say this not because the accusations that Carole Rome ... More >>

Condo Hell, Lambiet 2.0, and UA-Gate Revisited

  Crist Buys Wedding Dress, Won't Be One Wearing It If you're the type of person who laughs at the sight of a beard-wedding dress combination, you'll appreciate the news that Charlie Crist's fiancee recently bought herself a wedding gown. I say this not because the accusations that Carole Rome ... More >>

United Airlines Error Not Sun-Sentinel's Fault

  Crist Buys Wedding Dress, Won't Be One Wearing It If you're the type of person who laughs at the sight of a beard-wedding dress combination, you'll appreciate the news that Charlie Crist's fiancee recently bought herself a wedding gown. I say this not because the accusations that Carole Rome ... More >>

Hitting The Links

  Crist Buys Wedding Dress, Won't Be One Wearing It If you're the type of person who laughs at the sight of a beard-wedding dress combination, you'll appreciate the news that Charlie Crist's fiancee recently bought herself a wedding gown. I say this not because the accusations that Carole Rome ... More >>

Too Much Music on the Brain

One day, every song ever recorded will fit into your pocket -- but will you listen to any of them?

Again With The Future of Journalism Stuff

One day, every song ever recorded will fit into your pocket -- but will you listen to any of them?

45 Second Reviews

One day, every song ever recorded will fit into your pocket -- but will you listen to any of them?

Letters for August 9-15, 2007

The Sameness of It All

Stomp the Worm

Saint Aaron to the rescue in Haiti

Letters for October 12-18, 2006

Saint Aaron to the rescue in Haiti

Hot or Not?

Zucca looks great until you get to know it.

They Edit Dave Barry Too

Zucca looks great until you get to know it.

You Got the Chops?

Jazziz Bistro plays in the key of safe.

Artbeat

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

War Is Hell

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Just One Hitch

Will Smith helps others find love, though probably not with this movie

Party Like It's 2999

Sci-fi convention beams down to Plantation

A Christmas Confession

Columnist repents, vows to stop killing Christian fundamentalists