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Where's the Best Cuban Walk-Up Window?

​Before the holidays, I focused on trying as many Cuban restaurants as I could north of Miami. I wanted to be literate in the area's offerings, but I also wanted to get a sense of two things. The first is why we're seeing a mini Cuban restaurant boom in the 'burbs, with the opening of two Havana's ... More >>

Martorano's Masters Meatball Eating Championship: One Meaty Challenge

Yo! Steve Martorano is hosting a meatball eating competition.​If you've always wanted to see grown men and women scarf down copious amounts of meat for a cash prize,  then the Martorano's Masters Meatball Eating championship at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is your opportunity to ... More >>

$10 Off a $20 or More Purchase at Davie's Buca di Beppo

flickr/vampirefanI would not know where to start.​A meal that serves three for $17? Count me in!At Buca di Beppo, there are no individual meals, unless you eat for three. Meals come in two portions: The small serves three, and the large serves six. Unlike frozen dinners, these meals really feed th ... More >>

Boca's Wild Olives to Become English Pub

​They're putting a little English on Wild Olives in the tony Shops at Boca Center, where celeb chef Todd English's posh but under-achieving restaurant has already closed and next month is slated to move next door and become a nouveau pub called The English Tap & Beer Garden.   Not a ... More >>

Michelle Bernstein Food Network Recap: Meat!

flckr/ewormMouthwatering meat... sizzle, sizzle.​ Calling all carnivores! Take note of a local meat dish gaining national attention. Last night, South Florida's chef Michelle Bernstein discussed meat on the Food Network show Meat and Potatoes. Host Rahm Fama focused on "meat on the bone" at three ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Season Three Recap: Meet The Masters

NBC Universal​It's time to meet our cheftestants, host and judges for season Three of Top Chef Masters. The host is Cutie Mc Cute, Curtis Stone. The judges are James Oseland and Ruth Reichl (ouch for the cheftestants is all I can say). Speaking of cheftestants, they are: John Rivera Sedlar ... More >>

First Florida World Series of Poker Event at Palm Beach Kennel Club

dupo-x-y from Flickr.com​Get your game face ready, South Florida. And your unemployment checks. And your mortgage payment. And your kid's lunch money.You might need it all if you plan on buying-in at the $1,600 main event during the World Series of Poker first-ever Florida circuit event. ... More >>

Happy Hour: B.B. King's Restaurant & Blues Club in West Palm Beach

Photo by Erica K. Landau​The Place: B.B. King's Restaurant & Blues Club, 550 Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach. Call 561-420-8600. The Hours: 3 to 7 p.m. every day. The Deal: Half-off drinks and appetizers. The Digs: With locations already in the two music capitals of Memphis and Nashville and ... More >>

Samba Room Employees Say Restaurant Was Doomed to Fail

​When Jose Martinez and his fellow chefs showed up for work on Friday morning at the Samba Room, they were shocked to find the doors closed.Instead of walking into the kitchen to prep for service, the employees were confronted by a representative from E-Brands, corporate owner of the Samba Room, w ... More >>

High Stakes Poker Comes to South Florida

flickr.com​Six years ago, if you wanted to play poker in a casino in Florida, you were playing small-stakes limit poker. Each bet was $2 to $4, and unless you only had a few bucks left, you never said the words "all in." Then the state adopted no-limit Texas Hold 'Em, the kind they play in big tou ... More >>

Lady Antebellum Balances Country and Pop

flickr.com​Six years ago, if you wanted to play poker in a casino in Florida, you were playing small-stakes limit poker. Each bet was $2 to $4, and unless you only had a few bucks left, you never said the words "all in." Then the state adopted no-limit Texas Hold 'Em, the kind they play in big tou ... More >>

New Times' Special Super Bowl Guide to Sex, Drugs, Gambling, and Living Large in South Florida

flickr.com​Six years ago, if you wanted to play poker in a casino in Florida, you were playing small-stakes limit poker. Each bet was $2 to $4, and unless you only had a few bucks left, you never said the words "all in." Then the state adopted no-limit Texas Hold 'Em, the kind they play in big tou ... More >>

Satoro in Hollywood Is Loud, Confusing, and Just Plain Wrong

flickr.com​Six years ago, if you wanted to play poker in a casino in Florida, you were playing small-stakes limit poker. Each bet was $2 to $4, and unless you only had a few bucks left, you never said the words "all in." Then the state adopted no-limit Texas Hold 'Em, the kind they play in big tou ... More >>

“Shaken, Not Stirred.”

flickr.com​Six years ago, if you wanted to play poker in a casino in Florida, you were playing small-stakes limit poker. Each bet was $2 to $4, and unless you only had a few bucks left, you never said the words "all in." Then the state adopted no-limit Texas Hold 'Em, the kind they play in big tou ... More >>

The Killers

With Chairlift.

At Gatsby's in Boca Raton, Prohibition Is Sooo 20th Century

With Chairlift.

Restaurant News: Top Chef, Bad Karma, Fire & Ice Cream

Photo by Flickr user Dots Treats CupcakesJust don't order the toasted coconut.​• Fire and ice cream is not a happy marriage, as the folks at Palm Beach's Sprinkles ice cream shop found out last weekend. A kitchen fire gutted the shop, which not only dishes everyone's favorite hot-weather treat b ... More >>

Gambling So Good

Photo by Flickr user Dots Treats CupcakesJust don't order the toasted coconut.​• Fire and ice cream is not a happy marriage, as the folks at Palm Beach's Sprinkles ice cream shop found out last weekend. A kitchen fire gutted the shop, which not only dishes everyone's favorite hot-weather treat b ... More >>

Stimulated Yet? Tiny Boca Airport Gets Millions From Feds

Flickr user: youngwarriorBoca's corporate jets will get a runway upgrade.​Millions of dollars for police officers, schools, roads, bridges -- no one's going to argue with most of these federally funded stimulus projects. In tough times, people want cops, teachers, and construction crews to stay on ... More >>

Delicious, Delicious Sexism

Flickr user: youngwarriorBoca's corporate jets will get a runway upgrade.​Millions of dollars for police officers, schools, roads, bridges -- no one's going to argue with most of these federally funded stimulus projects. In tough times, people want cops, teachers, and construction crews to stay on ... More >>

Vegas, Babies

Peter Pans head for the Strip in Todd Phillips' The Hangover.

The Sopranos Sort-of Reunion

Peter Pans head for the Strip in Todd Phillips' The Hangover.

He’s a Magic Man, Momma

Peter Pans head for the Strip in Todd Phillips' The Hangover.

Black Tide Announces Winter 2009 Tour with Escape the Fate, at Culture Room Feb. 15

Black Tide (photo via www.blacktidemusic.com)Here's some good news for the kids who tried to see Escape the Fate's almost-debut headlining performance in Miami, in fall of 2007 at the now-defunct Studio A. The band never made it due to van troubles, and the rest of the show went on without them. The ... More >>

Why Didn't Q-Tip Do This in Fort Lauderdale?

Anybody that was at the Q-Tip concert in Fort Lauderdale the night before Thanksgiving was treated to one hell of a show! The music was great, the openers were good, and even P. Diddy was in the building buggin' out having a good time. I can't complain about Q-Tip's set one bit. Well, I wish Phif ... More >>

Beyond Gonzo

Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will — a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance

A Dose of Feelgood

Vince Neil and friends bring back that old feeling to West Palm

In The News

Vince Neil and friends bring back that old feeling to West Palm

Star-Cross Me No More

I Choose Freely, Knucklehead

A Loungy Kind of Love

A date with romance has us turning Far Eastward

Legal Aid

Local attorney serves more than subpoenas at the Jib Room

Various artists

The Rough Guide to Bollywood Gold (World Music Network)

The Killers Will Kill You

A writer sets out to trace the success of Las Vegas' premier rock group

Alimony Forever

Shack Up and Collect Moolah From Your Ex? Not So Fast.

Stardust of Yesterday

Country journeyman Sonny Scott ain't ready to hang up his hat just yet.

Don't Panic!

Panic! At the Disco

Letters for September 22-28, 2005

Panic! At the Disco

Artbeat

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Killing Time

The Killers move forward into the past

Hey, Mr. Spacemen

Music writer Leah Gliniewicz was abducted by the aliens known to Earthlings as the techno group Spacemen. She was able to beam this report back to New Times.

Best Women's Clothing

Jimmy Star Flagship

Dispiriting Service

Scary service puts a steak through the heart of Bones & Spirits

Ocean's Eleven, give or take

Soderbergh and Clooney knock over Vegas without much to show for it

Petty Woman

For a price Molly Parker takes Peter Sarsgaard to The Center of the World

Paying the Price

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Channeling Jesus

Bring together a TV-production mogul and the charismatic leader of Calvary Chapel, and you get Cross TV all religion, all the time

Sound Check

Bring together a TV-production mogul and the charismatic leader of Calvary Chapel, and you get Cross TV all religion, all the time

Pretty Vacant

Bring together a TV-production mogul and the charismatic leader of Calvary Chapel, and you get Cross TV all religion, all the time

Human Engineering

Bring together a TV-production mogul and the charismatic leader of Calvary Chapel, and you get Cross TV all religion, all the time