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Kentucky Derby

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Derby Day at Tap 42, Cinco de Mayo, and Other Food Events This Week in South Florida

    The food and drink event calendar in South Florida is pretty quiet this week, and with the weather taking a dive, it's a good time to hunker down with your couch and streaming Netflix (try this list of five Florida-based movies). By the weekend, it will be time to party down for Cinco de Mayo and th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Kentucky Derby Party at Tap 42: Hats, Horses, and Bourbon

    If you can't make it to Churchill Downs on May 5 for the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby, take your giant-hat-wearing self over to Tap 42 for the biggest Derby celebration outside of Kentucky.Starting at 2 p.m., enjoy Tap 42's inaugural Derby Day with $5 Wild Turkey mint juleps. From 4 until the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Celebrate Your Right to Drink on Repeal Day

    ​Today is the 78th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, that dark era from January 1919 to December 5, 1933 when teetotalers banned the sale of booze via the Eighteenth Amendment. The law was created in an effort to end drunkenness, mental illness, crime, and poverty, lobbied for by folks who sy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2011

    Try This! Two New Variations on the Classic Mint Julep

    Photo: Flickr/thp365​Now that your liver has had a day to recuperate from Cinco de Mayo it's time to get back on the horse and get your drink on once again! Dust off your best Great Gatsby inspired seersucker outfit because it's time for the Kentucky Derby! You don't have to be an equestrian enthu ... More >>

  • News

    July 8, 2010

    Will a Multimillionaire Polo Mogul Be Punished for a Fatal Drunken Accident?

    Photo: Flickr/thp365​Now that your liver has had a day to recuperate from Cinco de Mayo it's time to get back on the horse and get your drink on once again! Dust off your best Great Gatsby inspired seersucker outfit because it's time for the Kentucky Derby! You don't have to be an equestrian enthu ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    The C-9 Basin Serves as a Last Bastion of Lawless South Florida

    Photo: Flickr/thp365​Now that your liver has had a day to recuperate from Cinco de Mayo it's time to get back on the horse and get your drink on once again! Dust off your best Great Gatsby inspired seersucker outfit because it's time for the Kentucky Derby! You don't have to be an equestrian enthu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2010

    Jockeys and Juleps

    Photo: Flickr/thp365​Now that your liver has had a day to recuperate from Cinco de Mayo it's time to get back on the horse and get your drink on once again! Dust off your best Great Gatsby inspired seersucker outfit because it's time for the Kentucky Derby! You don't have to be an equestrian enthu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    Morning Juice: Marijuana, Equestrian Racing Events May Cloud Judgment

    What isn't South Florida smoking on this Tuesday morning?​A deep-pocketed Israeli businessmen is vowing revenge against the Broward Sheriff's deputies who he said beat him up and hurled anti-Semitic slurs during a traffic stop for marijuana DUI in June. The Sun-Sentinel's Jon Burstein has quotes f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Barbaro Youth-enized

    Barabaro's brother, Nicanor (above), will make his racing debut tomorrow at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, exactly two years after the death of the horse that won the hearts of a nation. Or at least the sentimental half.It's a good thing horses can't understand the pressure of expectations... Can th ... More >>

  • Music

    June 19, 2008

    The Horse Be With You

    Luck blows in on a rain cloud

  • News

    May 1, 2008

    Big Brown Machine

    Luck blows in on a rain cloud

  • News

    April 10, 2008

    New Dogs, Old Tricks

    The future of dog racing clouds a classic race

  • Dining

    November 8, 2007

    Pupu in Paradise

    I got crabs at Nick's and loved it

  • News

    September 27, 2007

    Justice Severed

    Maharaj went from the high life to a life sentence — 20 years so far for a crime he may not have committed

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2007

    Miami Herald Wins Appeal

    Maharaj went from the high life to a life sentence — 20 years so far for a crime he may not have committed

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2007

    Coronating Pope

    Maharaj went from the high life to a life sentence — 20 years so far for a crime he may not have committed

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    The Divine Wager

    Dante at Gulfstream

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Dante at Gulfstream

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    Enter the Dragon Man

    Dante at Gulfstream

  • Subtropical Life

    May 13, 2004
  • Calendar

    April 29, 2004

    Rock 'em, Sock 'em

    Jane Kreimer

  • News

    February 19, 2004

    TAILPIPE

    Jane Kreimer

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2004

    La La Land

    Can the Lakers stand the Heat?

  • News

    June 12, 2003
  • News

    June 5, 2003
  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Horsing Around

    How the Miami Herald screwed up its Kentucky Derby coverage

  • Calendar

    May 1, 2003

    Dog and Pony Show

    The Derby on the telly, greyhounds on the track

  • News

    March 28, 2002

    A Horse Race

    Trainer Ken McPeek won the Sunshine State's biggest competition. That is, after he woke up.

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    No Exit

    In South Florida the new killing fields are filled with sick, depressed senior citizens who make self-inflicted death their final ally

  • Culture

    July 22, 1999

    Garden-Variety History

    Twilight at Monticello: An Evening With Thomas Jefferson

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