Ireland

American Social Celebrates American Craft Beer Week: Breckenridge Tap Takeover Tonight

It's American Craft Beer Week's hump day, so where are you going after work to celebrate? How about a place that boasts nearly 50 different beers on draft, some good eats...and lets you play bartender? We're talking American Social's tap wall and tap tables. It's kind of like those frozen yogurt pl ... More >>

Irish For A Day

"Albert Nobbs" Suffers From Glenn Close's Unmoving Prosthetics

Trend Alert: Beer Blends

​​When I spent a semester in England for grad school, I found myself craving a Black and Tan at my local. I placed an order with the old man bartender, who poured me two full pints --one of Guinness and a second of New Castle. "Do it yourself," he said. Stupid American ordering Irish drinks ( th ... More >>

President Obama Turns 50 Today; Let's Recount His Most Magical Moments

via Photobucket user bluejessamine​President Barack Obama turns 50 years old today -- according to both his "Kenyan" birth certificate and the real one -- and policy decisions aside, it's been a magical ride.That's right, magical. The president has managed to invent a few new states, made fun of N ... More >>

Eclipse of a Lifetime

How To Make Really Easy Irish Soda Bread

flickr/asphaltbuffetEat me, I'm Irish!​If you want to make something authentically Irish this St. Patrick's Day, try soda bread. It's so easy and literally mixed in minutes (no kneading!). Try this recipe. Seriously. It comes straight from Ireland's Ballymaloe Cookery School  which is run by ... More >>

Q&A With James Gregory, Manager of Maguires Hill 16

Plenty of bars in South Florida want to lay claim to being "authentically Irish." Charlie has been in and out of these places, some of them blaring Top 40 music and flashing lights, others covered in wall-to-wall green. Authentic? Hardly. Maguires Hill 16 is the real deal.  Charlie spoke with ... More >>

Little Men, Big Beers

When in Roam

Drinking Vacation With Ruth Berman and Mike Arra's Beer Bon Voyage

Nicole Danna​Ruth Berman and Mike Arra love beer. So much so that the two busy Boynton Beach-based chiropractors decided to make a second living out of it.How? By organizing beer vacations, of course.

Tim Finnegan's in Delray Beach Is a Real Irish Pub; Duffy's in Deerfield Is a Corporate Wonderworld

The Swell Season, Oscar Winners for "Once," Play the Fillmore Miami Beach

Pissed About the Oil Spill? Ride Your Bike -- Naked.

Following the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizion oil rig and subsequent spill, there were scattered protests around the country, a bunch of huffing and puffing on Capitol Hill, and a general sense of heartbreak as TV news viewers watched the first tar balls reach land in Alabama. But al ... More >>

Saint Patrick Days: Day One

South Florida's Black-Market Cigarette King and Terror Financier Likely to Plead Guilty

A few weeks ago, New Times brought you the story of our own black-market cigarette king, Roman Vidal. The feds accused the gray-haired Cutler Bay resident of funneling millions of illegal smokes through the Port of Miami to England and Ireland. Worse, investigators say that Vidal's profits went ... More >>

South Florida Cigarette Smuggling Funds Terrorism

The Case of the West Palm Stripper With Killer Shoes

Flickr User: elevelineBehold the power of a stripper's heels.It's been a rough few weeks for working women. First Sasha Grey came to town and started blabbing about feminism. Then hooker ads got kicked off Craigslist. Now a local stripper is being sued for kicking a customer in the face. Micha ... More >>

Hyatt Launches New Burger Joint, I Swear

Customers love the Hyatt's new hamburgers.I'm not hallucinating, I promise. As if we hadn't said quite enough about hamburgers on this blog, I just got word that the Hyatt Bonaventure in Weston is introducing a new Burgers and Brews menu at their Banyan Restaurant, where they've put together a lineu ... More >>

Every Day Is Green

No, a leprechaun didn't explode. It's just always St. Paddy's Day at Holloway's.

Drown Your Troubles in Tullamore

Is there a cure in Biddy Early's mysterious bottles?

Spain Does Reggaeton at Eurovision.... Sort Of

With a Little Luck o’ the Irish,

You'll sing on key!

Priestin' Ain't Easy

For a couple of Delray padres, the high life allegedly got in the way of their priestly duties

The Way He Lives Now

As his fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies' most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness

Have a Shot of Laughs.

Oh Hell, Make it a Double.

Such Charming Brutality

Joe Adler murders kittens and makes you like it

Celtic Crooner

Tony Kenny

Irish Eyes are Smiling, Compadre

Mexicans and Irish proclaim our columnist the patron saint of leprecanos.

The Last Honest Joint at the Beach

A glimpse of the future through Windows at Ireland's.

Erin Go, Brah

DJ Ed Whitty is gonna make Lauderdale safe for house again

Tailpipe

Pink Elephant?

Turning Over a New Leaf

Jimmy LaValle's mellow mood is cool as Iceland

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Shooting o' the Green

A busy cast -- all two of them -- somehow steps all over a play about making movies in Ireland

God Bless America

This semiautobiographical film is as emotionally truthful as it is satisfying

Habitat for Inhumanity

The "asylums" depicted in The Magdalene Sisters undermine both the Catholic Church and the popular image of Ireland

Irish Sting

Siobhan Browne talks about President Clinton's lies, love lost, and the beauty salon

Bandwidth

Next thing you know, those meddling kids will be eating ice cream in the streets!

In Our Travels

Peanut Island Bunker, Saint Pierre Botanica Shop and Spiritual Store, Mai-Kai Restaurant and Lounge

Empire's End

The Last September

Pluck of the Irish

Agnes Browne

Irish Setting

Biddy Early's

The Emerald Ire

A former probation officer once saw the IRA as killers and the FBI as heroes. All that's changed now, as he investigates the Irish gun-smuggling case.

Best Beer Selection in a Restaurant

Big City Tavern

Never Mind the Troubles

Log on, Bet Big

Ay, There's the Pub

A Portrait of the Artist

In Joyce's Wake