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South Florida Easter Brunch and Dinner Guide

Got a craving for carved meats and piles of fluffy scrambled eggs? Easter is this Sunday, which means only one thing: Brunch. Get out of the kitchen and let a restaurant handle the holiday meal, whether that means an egg-filled brunch or a lamb-chop-rich dinner. After the jump, find a list of restau ... More >>

Five Ways to Score South Florida-Grown Produce

For more on South Florida's food scene, check out New Times' Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. The idea of eating locally grown produce is all well and good, but when it boils down to a busy day, a rumbling stomach, and an empty fridge, it can be tough to make educated, respons ... More >>

Grow Your Own Sprouts: Hippocrates Greenhouse Manager Brian Hetrich Shows Us How

Want to incorporate healthier foods into your diet but don't have the budget to be splurging on expensive organic eats? That's OK. We feel you. Instead of buying expensive food, we suggest growing your own. Even if you weren't blessed with a green thumb and don't have an inch of outdoor space to spa ... More >>

The Urban Farmer in Pompano: Local Food in Broward County

If you are even remotely into food, you know that the locavore movement has been making some serious progress. In cities like Chicago, urban farms are so prolific that 65 acres of city space has been utilized to produce food. Like most things, in South Florida, the movement has taken some time to ca ... More >>

Attention, Power Lunchers: DCOTA Cay Opening Monday; New Restaurant Inside Design Center of the Americas

Unless you want to deck out the interior of your megayacht, redesign your multimillion-dollar condominium on South Beach, or create some custom-built furniture for your new waterfront estate, there's probably never been a reason for you to visit the Design Center of the Americas (DCOTA) in Fort Laud ... More >>

Edward Archbold Dies After Eating Dozens of Roaches and Worms in Deerfield Reptile Shop

If you're a queasy reader who's going to be turned off by a gut vomiting up a crap ton of bugs and then dying, turn away now.Broward Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of Edward Archbold, a 32-year-old West Palm Beach resident who died after "he had consumed dozens of ro ... More >>

Say Cheese: Giant Rodent Spotted in Wilton Manors Restaurant

We're not sure whether that's a giant rat, a squirrel, or a really weird-looking kitten. We just know it should not be hanging out in a Wilton Manors restaurant.

Gardening Grows Up(ward)

Today's Your Last Chance! Ellenville Farmers' Market Goes on Seven-Week Hiatus

Every Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m., the Ellenville Garden Center transforms into the Ellenville Farmers' Market -- also known as the Moonlit Farmers Market. There's food and wine and café tables. There's usually a live band to provide the music, and local farmers to provide the company. In fact, Farme ... More >>

How to Start Farming: Q&A With Farmer Jay McCobb

Interest in farming and gardening is on the rise. In line with the national trend, community gardens and school garden projects are starting to pop up all over South Florida. Just last week, Fort Lauderdale city commissioners approved a code designed to bring back urban agriculture.Given these circu ... More >>

Fresh Herbs in Everything: The Summer's Least Annoying Food Trend

Food writers (and the food obsessed) tend to get exasperated with food trends more quickly than the general public. After logging hours tasting, salivating over, and deconstructing the happenings in the culinary world, it's only logical that this segment of the population (and its brethren ... More >>

Learn How to Grow Your Own Veggies Thursday, April 26, in Fort Lauderdale

Sick of hearing about all of the disgusting things that wind up in your food? Broward County residents who want more control over what goes on their dinner plate can attend an interactive gardening demo from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The event will be led by ... More >>

Organic Gardening "How To" Featuring Farmer Jay: Saturday at Whole Foods in Boca Raton

​Farmer Jay -- civilian name: Jason McCobb -- will lead a one-hour workshop for budding organic gardeners at Whole Foods Market in Boca Raton from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday. The informal workshop will cover basics such as soil amendments and other fundamentals of organic gardening. 

"Side Effects" at Mosaic: When a Diseased Marriage Goes Unmedicated

Urban Homesteading Teaches Suburban Warriors to Be One With Nature

Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living, by Rachel Kaplan with K. Ruby Blume.​As urban sprawl pushes farther and farther into formerly wild and rural areas, the comforts of modern living are beginning to stress our natural resources. Despite the welcome rains of the past week, a ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Tuna Ceviche With Tomatillo Broth From Cabo Flats

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 10: Tuna Ceviche With Tomatillo Broth From Cabo Flats Have you notic ... More >>

Rick Scott Sure Gets You Riled Up (Misleading Supreme Court Judges Doesn't Hurt)

​It would appear that when a suspected fraudster gets elected governor and then uses questionable methods to achieve goals that he won't explain to anyone -- the man even refuses to use email so we won't know what he's thinking -- the public actually still cares. When Rick Scott does something fun ... More >>

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 >>

Fruitful Field/Parkway-Tedder Community Garden Up and Running in Pompano (PHOTOS)

​​                         I've heard about urban garden projects sprouting up throughout the South Florida community, but I've never had the chance to see one. A few months ago, a friend told me about a community garden that was ... More >>

Southern Monster Smash Brings the Jam to Pompano

D.R.I. Carries Punk Work Ethic to Culture Room

Brett Dennen

Don’t Just Nibble at Your Books: Feast!

Ming’s Modern-Day Makeover

Rent to Moan

The condos at Dadeland Place are selling, but dwellers feel dissed

Bros and Cons

A too-hip tree trimmer is the major contributor in a bizarre mayor's race

Anatomically Correct

From the belly to the canvas

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Best Bakery

EuroBread & Cafe

Best Source of Gardening Advice

Master Gardener

Broward or Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service

Panthers Declawed

Another hockey season ends with a whimper

Stick These in Your Craw

We don't need no stinkin' stone crabs

Kodo

Mondo Head (Red Ink)

Daze in the Life

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

Room with a Vue

Vue offers a more kinetic take on neoglam than... that other band

What's So Funny?

The Dinner Party has a hard time deciding whether it's farce or tragedy

Best Hike

Quiet Waters Park

Best French Restaurant

Bistro Provence

Best Chili

Le Tub

Best Plant Nursery

NU-turf Garden Center

State of the Garden

A plot of land at Nova Southeastern offers remedial answers to what ails you

Branch Managers

Hacking trees in the subtropics is ecologically ugly. It's also illegal.

Best Place to Buy Antiques

Antique Alley

Best Place to Find What You Never Thought You Could

Gooding's Goodies

Foodstuff

De Nuestra Mesa

Impressions a la Mode

Best Place To Take Out-of-Towners

North and South Ocean Boulevard

The Forest and the Trees

Revolving Ribaldry