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Illinois

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    It's A Good Week To Skip the Spicy Tuna Roll

    Over 140 people in 20 states have been stricken with salmonella traced to yellowfin tuna meat scraped from bones and organs. One person in Florida has been sick, with the bulk of illnesses clustered in New York (28), Maryland (14), Wisconsin (14), and Illinois (13). The Centers for Disease Control p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Florida Public Corruption Ranks Fourth in U.S.

    ​It turns out Florida is pretty damned good at letting the easily corruptible get into positions of power. Since 1976, the state's federal courts have handed out nearly 1,800 public corruption convictions, the fourth highest in the country. That's an average of 49 public corruption conviction ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Energy Kitchen in Fort Lauderdale Opens Friday

    ​Attention, health fiends and Meatless Mondayites: Energy Kitchen, a health-conscious concept in which no menu item is more than 500 calories, opens Friday. Does under 500 calories mean healthy? Peruse a McDonald's menu and a slew of items fits that bill: a hamburger (250), cheeseburger (300), dou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Florida Worst State in Study of Long-Term Unemployment

    ​More than 53 percent of Florida's unemployed residents went six months or more without work last year -- the highest rate in the country, according to a study from the Hamilton Project, run by the Brookings Institute, a D.C. think tank.To compare, the average unemployed worker between 2004 and 20 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Newt Gingrich Quoting Abraham Lincoln in Broward Leads Us to the Facts (and Some Dirt)

    ​After Rep. Allen West attributed one of Ronald Reagan's anti-abortion quotes to Abraham Lincoln earlier this week, you'll have to excuse us for being a bit skeptical when another politico comes to town attempting to channel Honest Abe.That said, we went straight to the experts at the Abraham Linc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2011

    Energy Kitchen's November Opening Pushed to April

    ​Why come up with a creative, health-conscious concept when what we really want are burgers and fries that don't kill us? This appears to be strategy behind Energy Kitchen, whose recent signage highlights ostensibly healthy burgers and fries under 500 calories.Energy Kitchen touts grass-fed b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Rape Charge Against Steven Feagin Dropped Due to Alleged Victim's Credibility

    Broward Sheriff's OfficeSteven Feagin​Sexual assault charges against Steven Feagin -- the former Deerfield Beach High School football standout who went on to play running back at the University of Illinois -- were dropped due to the credibility of the alleged victim, according to a closeout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Ryan LeVin Gets Eight Months in Illinois Prison

    Ryan LeVin​Briton-killing douchebag Ryan LeVin will spend the next eight months up the river, according to the Chicago Tribune.When LeVin decided to go to Florida to face charges related to killing two men in Fort Lauderdale with his Porsche 911 Turbo, he didn't tell authorities in Illinois that h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Ryan LeVin Headed to the Slammer

    Ryan LeVin​Brit-killing dunce Ryan LeVin is headed up the river for a bit, although unrelated to making roadkill out of two men with his Porsche.LeVin is scheduled to turn himself over to the cops in Chicago this morning due to a parole violation related to pummeling three other people with his ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Illinois Department of Corrections Wants Ryan LeVin To Serve Prison Time

    Ryan LeVin​Amid the accusations of Ryan LeVin's escape from prison time as an example of "checkbook justice," he'll get another shot at the slammer.According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Cara Smith -- the chief of staff for the Illinois Department of Corrections -- gave a call down to Broward Cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    School Grading System Ignores one Problem: Florida Is Still Dumber Than South Dakota

    He's smiling because he thinks he's going to learn something.​Good news: According to our new grading system, Florida's public schools are doing better than ever! "D" schools are "B" schools! "C" schools are "A" schools! Florida is an educational dynamo!Bad news: Our high school seniors are totall ... More >>

  • News

    September 2, 2010

    Huge Dogfighting Bust Went Down Only After Cops Brought Their Pit Bulls to the Fight

    He's smiling because he thinks he's going to learn something.​Good news: According to our new grading system, Florida's public schools are doing better than ever! "D" schools are "B" schools! "C" schools are "A" schools! Florida is an educational dynamo!Bad news: Our high school seniors are totall ... More >>

  • Music

    July 29, 2010

    Lee DeWyze Leads "American Idol Live!" Tour at BankAtlantic

    He's smiling because he thinks he's going to learn something.​Good news: According to our new grading system, Florida's public schools are doing better than ever! "D" schools are "B" schools! "C" schools are "A" schools! Florida is an educational dynamo!Bad news: Our high school seniors are totall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Choose the Glam for Your Hamburger

    The Cheesecake Factory's Memphis, Monterey and blue cheese BLT "Glamburgers"​Unleash your inner Jeffrey Steingarden and decide whose hamburger, er. . . Glamburger will reign supreme (but you don't have to be a dick about it) in The Cheesecake Factory's "Great Glamburger Challenge." For six weeks i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    Morning Juice: Dissention in the BSO Ranks; Boca Inventor Wins $3 Million Judgment

    ​Let's see what's happening in South Florida this Tuesday morning:After financial struggles led to the closing of Westgate Tabernacle's homeless shelter last week, Palm Beach County commissioners are wrestling with the question of how to care for the region's transients. [Palm Beach Post]Scott Rot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Florida Capital Ranks Second "Most Stoned" City in Daily Beast Poll

    Honorary FSU alumni?​In honor of 4/20, now "universally known as the annual date of celebration for those with pot smoking countercultural pride," the Daily Beast has ranked the top 40 most toked-up cities across America. And it comes as only a mild surprise that our state capital, Tallahassee, sc ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 4, 2010

    The Wings at Roosters in Margate Lose Something in Transition

    Honorary FSU alumni?​In honor of 4/20, now "universally known as the annual date of celebration for those with pot smoking countercultural pride," the Daily Beast has ranked the top 40 most toked-up cities across America. And it comes as only a mild surprise that our state capital, Tallahassee, sc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Vice Guide: Scoring Coke Like a Local

    Everything that makes South Florida the Vice capital of the country--the drugs, the sex, the gambling--is amplified during the week of the Super Bowl. But nothing ruins the perfect party week like someone dying or going to jail. So this week we'll be presenting The Juice Vice Guide to South Florida. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Cooper City Woman Convicted in Sex Abuse of Illinois Relative

    Mateo​Ana Mateo, a 29-year-old woman from Cooper City charged with sex abuse based on a Facebook dialogue she had with a 15-year-old relative in Illinois in 2007, has been convicted by a Will County, Illinois, jury. The Facebook posts were discovered by the boy's mother in June 2008. The victim to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    Basketball Star's Mother Trusts New Coach With Son's Hoop Dreams

    Flickr: Nick Carlson​Back in May, Juice did a two-part series on Deon Thomas, the former high school phenom and University of Illinois star who after a lengthy career playing pro ball had retired to Pembroke Pines where he had been coaching a junior varsity team and running clinics on the weekend. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Midwest Hoops Legend Leaving South Florida

    C. StilesThomas, pictured with his two daughters and their friends from their Pembrokes Pines neighborhoodDeon Thomas, the former University of Illinois basketball star who had retired in South Florida and who started a new career coaching junior varsity at The University School in Fort Lauderdale, ... More >>

  • Music

    June 25, 2009

    One Cool Cat

    Fresh-faced Boca chanteuse Cat Shell expands her reach.

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Vontae, You're Gonna Love Your New Home

    Flickr User: dakinderThe Champaign, Illinois, Daily Illini newspaper has a report on the Fins' first-round round pick:Former Illini football player Vontae Davis was arrested (Or was he? See update below.) on June 9 in Champaign for unnecessary vehicular noise and driving without a valid license.Ther ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    For This Deon, Prime Time Is Overdue

    Deon Thomas was a Chicago hoops legend. He would become one of the University of Illinois' all-time basketball greats. And for the last decade-plus, he was a globe-trotting, championship-winning professional basketball star. Now he's a JV coach in the Broward 'burbs.Specifically, Thomas is the absur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Did Sun-Sentinel Blow the Cops' Case in Porsche Hit-and-Run?

    LeVinA source close to the Porsche hit-and-run investigation suggests that a Sun-Sentinel story may have hindered police efforts to make an arrest in the case.Locals were shocked when two British businessmen were killed in the early-morning hours of February 13. Craig Elford, 39, and Kenneth Watkins ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Murder Victim's Infiniti Missing

    The Broward Sheriff's Office is hoping that the public will help solve a murder. Last night, friends of 68-year-old Larry Ellison wondered why he didn't show up for a planned dinner. They stopped by his townhouse on NE 19th Street in Wilton Manors only to make a terrifying discovery -- his body.&nbs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Morning Juice: DCF Protects Children with Racists, State Beats Legion of Doom for Most Corrupt

    The children of DCF.DCF Managers Use Racial Slurs That You'll Need to Look UpEmployees at the Department of Children and Families office in Tallahassee apparently like to throw around racial insults. An internal DCF audit found that six employees, even supervisors, were throwing around words, like " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    Illinois Most Corrupt State? Nah, Florida's Still Got It.

    The New York Times' Bill Marsh found the statistics. When it comes to corruption, Florida crushes Illinois in terms of raw number of convicted officials. We're No. 1, with New York a rather distant second. Chicago's state falls all the way down the list to the seventh spot. Yeah. That's what I thou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    Restaurant Preview 2

    Michelle Bernstein's Sra. Martinez will be debuting this Monday in the  Design District. On Tuesday the Wynwood hood, which has been quiet as an empty canvas concerning food, will finally have a restaurant: Joey's, a contemporary Italian café at 2506 N.W. 2nd Avenue. Developer Joey Goldman and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2008

    Former Football Star Charged With Rapes

    Michelle Bernstein's Sra. Martinez will be debuting this Monday in the  Design District. On Tuesday the Wynwood hood, which has been quiet as an empty canvas concerning food, will finally have a restaurant: Joey's, a contemporary Italian café at 2506 N.W. 2nd Avenue. Developer Joey Goldman and ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    Heimlich Maneuvering

    Thousands of South Florida schoolkids were taught a faulty lifesaving technique

  • Music

    April 10, 2008

    One Cool Cat

    Boca's Cat Shell channels a classic sound with soul and savvy

  • Music

    July 12, 2007

    Julie Black

    Boca's Cat Shell channels a classic sound with soul and savvy

  • Music

    August 24, 2006

    Four Flavors of Emo

    Helping a young genre grow up.

  • Music

    July 14, 2005

    Sufjan Stevens

    Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2004

    Celebs Hold Court

    Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    Third Man

    Fort Lauderdale's John B. Anderson ran for president in 1980 and paved the way for spoiler candidates

  • Music

    March 25, 2004

    Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!

    Volcano, I'm Still Excited!! (Polyvinyl)

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Letters for December 18, 2003

    Four-wheeled cops

  • Calendar

    December 4, 2003

    Sweatin' to the Oldies

    The Joggers race toward perfect harmony

  • Calendar

    September 11, 2003

    Beware of Falling Rock

    Them Midwest boys really knock you out

  • Music

    December 26, 2002

    Cheap Shots

    Rick Nielsen is not content to pull his old hat tricks anymore

  • Dining

    June 21, 2001

    Meals Behind the Wheel

    Broward County's drive-thru joints are diverse both in ethnicity and quality

  • News

    January 14, 1999

    The Straight Dope

    Broward County's drive-thru joints are diverse both in ethnicity and quality

  • News

    November 5, 1998

    The Straight Dope

    Broward County's drive-thru joints are diverse both in ethnicity and quality

  • Music

    September 3, 1998

    Short Cuts

    Broward County's drive-thru joints are diverse both in ethnicity and quality

  • News

    June 25, 1998

    The Straight Dope

    Broward County's drive-thru joints are diverse both in ethnicity and quality

  • News

    May 28, 1998

    The Straight Dope

    Broward County's drive-thru joints are diverse both in ethnicity and quality

  • News

    January 29, 1998

    The Straight Dope

    Broward County's drive-thru joints are diverse both in ethnicity and quality

  • News

    December 4, 1997

    The Straight Dope

    Broward County's drive-thru joints are diverse both in ethnicity and quality

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