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  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Earth Day in South Florida: Food and Drink Activities for Tree Huggers

    Earth Day is Sunday, and according to Groupon, the planet will be celebrating its 400th birthday. After contemplating that failure in math and/or marketing humor, consider using this weekend to get out into the community and learn about ways to make an impact locally and globally, particularly when ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 19, 2012

    Skip the Doc; Bomb Some Seeds

    Earth Day is Sunday, and according to Groupon, the planet will be celebrating its 400th birthday. After contemplating that failure in math and/or marketing humor, consider using this weekend to get out into the community and learn about ways to make an impact locally and globally, particularly when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2012

    Pride, Envy, and Other Sins in the Community Garden

    ​On a recent weekday afternoon, I crouched in a modified yoga squat, neck and chin thrust forward as I inspected the sparse leaves on the only remaining tomato plant in my plot at the Boca Raton Community Garden. I'd started with five plants at the beginning of the garden's inaugural planting seas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Roaches Found at Three Broward Restaurants

    ​Last week, three local Broward restaurants were issued emergency closure orders by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation during routine inspections.  All three restaurants were found to have roaches.  On March 5, 2012 Joe's Coffee Shop, located at 2 NE 3rd Str ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Boynton Beach Police Follow Trail of Weed Crumbs to "Bubba" and 39 Other Pot Plants

    Boynton Beach PoliceA few of the pot plants allegedly belonging to amateur horticulturist Jesse Duncans.​If you happen to have 40 pot plants growing in your apartment, you're probably going to get caught if you leave a trail of cannabis crumbs inside your place for the cops to follow.According to ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2011

    Interiors... Designed

    Boynton Beach PoliceA few of the pot plants allegedly belonging to amateur horticulturist Jesse Duncans.​If you happen to have 40 pot plants growing in your apartment, you're probably going to get caught if you leave a trail of cannabis crumbs inside your place for the cops to follow.According to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Federal Court Upholds Florida's Bizarre Interior Designer Licensing Law

    ​An interior designer is not a medical doctor. An interior designer is not a lawyer, or a pharmacist, or a school teacher, or someone who transports hazardous chemicals that could kill large swaths of society.Interior designers help you decide which colors look good in a bedroom or office and wher ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Two Restaurants Closed Over Roaches, Possible Food Contamination

    ​We hear it everywhere - from the news, cooking shows and our mother - don't let raw chicken and meat play with your vegetables and for God's sake WASH YOUR HANDS! These food prep rules are so basic, any five year old who's ever helped mom in the kitchen knows them. Unfortunately for two loc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Grow Your Own Food: Classes at The Urban Farmer

    Southern Foodways Alliance ​South Florida isn't exactly a locavore's paradise-- "locally grown" around here usually means mangoes filched from your neighbor's tree in the dead of night (at least for me). But maybe that's beginning to change, or at least we're finally starting to get some credib ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Crepemaker Closed Over Roach Infestation

    ​It's a fact of living in Florida: Roaches are everywhere. But none of us really wants to know about it. Especially not when it comes to where we eat. Well, last week, roaches struck a little closer to home -- at the Coconut Creek Promenade, to be exact. Chain restaurant Crepemaker, located b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Health Inspectors Crack Down on Unlicensed Restaurants

    ​Better check yourself before you wreck yourself, eateries. Inspectors seem to be cracking down more and more on what they deem unlicensed activity, which could be as simple as not properly displaying licenses to serving food without one at all. Two local digs were shut down last week for that rea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Health Inspectors Fry KFC for Sewage Leaks

    ​Health inspectors have been busy little bees over the past month, tracking down kitchen nightmares like Gordon Ramsay on a coke binge. Their latest haul: a KFC location in Oakland Park that found itself in deep water -- literally. Want to check out restaurant records for yourself? Search the Flor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Three Party-Planning Tips I Learned From Drag Queens

    Twat LaRouge ​Throwing a party can be, for some people, a real drag. They create for themselves a whirl of faux stress, brought on by popping open a can of Pringles and procuring a five-pound bag of ice from 7-Eleven. Whew, exhausting! But it is the guests who suffer most. We've all been invi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Health Inspectors Nail Three Broward Eateries This Week

    ​As a food blog, we're supposed to be an appetizing read. But there's nothing appetizing about the three Broward eateries shut down over the past week by the Florida Department of Business and Regulation. Health Inspectors deemed the following three restaurants so unsafe for consumers that th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    Health Inspectors Shut Down 15 Fort Lauderdale/Miami Restaurants

    ​How would you like to eat at a restaurant where the kitchen is crawling with rodents and bugs, where the walk-ins are filthy, and the line hasn't been cleaned in months? Not to scare you, but it happens, and more often than you think. Florida inspectors have been hitting the motherlode of filthy ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    A Street With a View

    ​How would you like to eat at a restaurant where the kitchen is crawling with rodents and bugs, where the walk-ins are filthy, and the line hasn't been cleaned in months? Not to scare you, but it happens, and more often than you think. Florida inspectors have been hitting the motherlode of filthy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Lauderdale Bedbug Lawyer Says Tourists Should Check Registry

    Cimex Lectularius, coming soon to an Airport Hilton near you.​The Airport Hilton, Palm Beach. The Marriott Key Largo. The Clevelander Miami Beach. The Ocean Manor Resort Fort Lauderdale. The Embassy Suites in Boca. These are only a few of the South Florida hotels and guest houses riddled with bedb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    2009 Restaurant Roll Call - Openings

    ​We all know 2009 was sort of a strange year for restaurants. On one hand, there were dozens of significant openings, places that really added to our overall scene. On the other, there was more attrition than a super-long game of Risk. Here's a comprehensive run down, from A to Z of what opened in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Bova Cucina Hosts Thanksgiving for "Underprivileged" -- Do Rothstein Investors Qualify?

    After you pay $57 million to get access to funds awarded in a phony court judgment, like Ed Morse did, you're liable to worry about whether you can round up the money to pay for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner -- you know, with the caviar, the Kobe steak, and the cast of celebrity guests. It's the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Florida Interior Designers Free at Last

    flickr.com Interior design by any other name... Free at last. Free at last. An injunction gives sunshine state interior designers the freedom to advertise their services with controversial, explosive words like..."interior design". That's right, yesterday Federal District Judge Robe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Post: No Holiday Party Or Raises for $65,000-plus employees

    In what might be called a progressive move, the Palm Beach Post is giving employees at the company who make $65,000 and less a 2 percent raise this year. Those making more than that are out of luck; they'll see no increase. Also on the chopping block: Holiday parties, which will get no funding this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2008

    Top Chefs Throw Pity Party, Dec. 8th

    Sandy Skoglund, "The Cocktail Party" Got 100 people coming for a holiday shindig? Stupidest idea you EVER had, right? Believe it, we've been there. But four of Palm Beach's top chefs are taking pity this season and throwing a bash at Cafe Boulud that might help prevent us from totally screwing up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2008

    Palm Beach Bargain Basements

    Sandy Skoglund, "The Cocktail Party" Got 100 people coming for a holiday shindig? Stupidest idea you EVER had, right? Believe it, we've been there. But four of Palm Beach's top chefs are taking pity this season and throwing a bash at Cafe Boulud that might help prevent us from totally screwing up ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 13, 2008

    Don’t Just Nibble at Your Books: Feast!

    Sandy Skoglund, "The Cocktail Party" Got 100 people coming for a holiday shindig? Stupidest idea you EVER had, right? Believe it, we've been there. But four of Palm Beach's top chefs are taking pity this season and throwing a bash at Cafe Boulud that might help prevent us from totally screwing up ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 29, 2007

    Ming’s Modern-Day Makeover

    Sandy Skoglund, "The Cocktail Party" Got 100 people coming for a holiday shindig? Stupidest idea you EVER had, right? Believe it, we've been there. But four of Palm Beach's top chefs are taking pity this season and throwing a bash at Cafe Boulud that might help prevent us from totally screwing up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2007

    The New Traditional Labor Day Menu

    Sandy Skoglund, "The Cocktail Party" Got 100 people coming for a holiday shindig? Stupidest idea you EVER had, right? Believe it, we've been there. But four of Palm Beach's top chefs are taking pity this season and throwing a bash at Cafe Boulud that might help prevent us from totally screwing up ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 2, 2007

    Would You Mind Pollinating Me?

    Sandy Skoglund, "The Cocktail Party" Got 100 people coming for a holiday shindig? Stupidest idea you EVER had, right? Believe it, we've been there. But four of Palm Beach's top chefs are taking pity this season and throwing a bash at Cafe Boulud that might help prevent us from totally screwing up ... More >>

  • News

    July 19, 2007

    Inglés Just Got Here

    Spanish roots go deep

  • Culture

    April 19, 2007

    Cleaning House

    The Caldwell catches a play hot off its premiere in New York — and nails it

  • Home Entertainment

    January 18, 2007

    Paper Tigers

    Viva Piñata is adorable -- and misleading.

  • Goods and Services

    May 12, 2005

    Best Pet Store

    Wild Cargo Pets & Supplies

  • Subtropical Life

    May 12, 2005

    Best Charity

    Chief Sitting Bull Organic Garden

  • Foodstuffs

    May 13, 2004

    Best Place to Buy Beer

    Case & Keg Beer World

  • Goods and Services

    May 13, 2004

    Best Rusty Anchors

    Culpepper & Co.

  • Calendar

    April 10, 2003

    It's Unbelievable

    Wet Dreams of the Garden Variety

  • Calendar

    March 6, 2003

    Events for March 6-12, 2003

    Wet Dreams of the Garden Variety

  • Music

    July 11, 2002

    Kodo

    Mondo Head (Red Ink)

  • Calendar

    May 30, 2002

    Daze in the Life

    DCOTA throws open its doors to those of us who can't afford interior decorators

  • Foodstuffs

    May 16, 2002

    Best Homemade Pasta

    Arturo's Ristorante

  • Goods and Services

    May 16, 2002

    Best Men's Clothing

    Twickenham Custom Clothiers

  • Film

    September 13, 2001

    Dirty Work

    A tale of prison gardeners is this summer's sweetest feel-good comedy

  • News

    April 12, 2001

    Painting and Parking

    A father and son paint the town not just red but green, blue, and more

  • Calendar

    July 20, 2000

    Mango Madness

    The Second Annual Northwood Hills Mango Festival

  • Goods and Services

    May 11, 2000
  • Best of BPB

    May 11, 2000

    Best Rich and Famous House Tour

    Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club

  • Goods and Services

    May 11, 2000
  • Calendar

    July 16, 1999

    Chintz Rules!

    Gooding's Goodies

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    July 15, 1999

    Ernest Appraisals

    Gooding's Goodies

  • Culture

    March 25, 1999

    Blinded by the Light

    Gooding's Goodies

  • Dining

    March 19, 1998
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