Lauderhill

Susan Kim of Gabose Would Vote Meatballs Off the Island

Thanks to Susan Kim, you wouldn't be out of line if you called Lauderhill, Florida's Little Korea. Though the west Broward enclave isn't quite as dense with Korean business as Little Korea in Los Angeles, Kim and her Korean (barbecue) restaurant Gabose have paved the way for the slew of Korean eater ... More >>

Check Please! Returns: Paul Castronovo to Cohost First Episode

Check Please, the South Florida restaurant review show hosted by Michelle Bernstein, is set to return to WPBT2 on Monday, May 20, at 7:30 p.m. The new season will feature a host of South Florida restaurants, most of them in Broward County. Joining Bernstein in the premiere episode are Paul Castrono ... More >>

Nine Men Arrested for Gambling on Pee Wee Football Games

Nine men have been arrested for gambling on pee wee football games, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. The Lauderhill and Fort Lauderdale police departments, as well as the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and the United States Marshals Service, all joined forces in an 18-month-long inves ... More >>

Michelle Obama To Visit Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday

On Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Fort Lauderdale to rile up the masses and push the campaign's newly minted "It Takes One" voter registration strategy. She's slated to speak at the War Memorial Museum on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. It's a free event, but you'll need to ge ... More >>

Cricket, Anyone?

James Ayers, Accused of Killing Juliana Mensch, to Be Arraigned April 30

Lauderhill 32-year-old James Ayers has been officially charged with first-degree murder in the March death of 19-year-old Juliana Mensch, according to court documents. He will be arraigned at 8 a.m. April 30 in room 5780 of the Broward County Courthouse.Police say Ayers used a stolen car to visit a ... More >>

Strikers Soccer Team Pairs With Food Trucks for Home Games

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers soccer team has scored a partnership with five food trucks to offer eats this season. Arepabox, B.C. Tacos, Che Grill, Dog Eat Dog, and Dolci Peccati Gelato will park at every home game in the northwest corner of Lockhart Stadium from 5 p.m. until kickoff at 7:30 p. ... More >>

Strax Rejuvenation CEO Jeffry Davis Has Criminal Record

​The CEO of the high-volume plastic surgery center in Lauderhill where a patient died last month is an ex-felon. Jeffry Davis was convicted of financial crimes related to his former company, which made replicas of vintage cars.Long before he became head of Strax Rejuvenation and Aesthetics Institu ... More >>

Golden Matzah Bowl Names The Best Balls In South Florida

​The third annual Forest Trace Golden Matzah Bowl was held yesterday March 22. Over 100 people turned out at the upscale resort retirement community to watch both local restaurants and individuals compete for the coveted golden matzah bowl prize. Also at stake were cash donations to the winners' c ... More >>

Sunrise Commission Votes Tonight on Whether to Keep Bars Open Later

​The Sunrise City Commission will vote tonight on whether to allow bar owners to obtain late-night permits. The meeting will be held at the Sunrise City Commission Chambers at 6:30 p.m. Amendment  C12032 is the last item on tonight's meeting agenda. The agenda has already had an initial go ... More >>

South Florida's Best Food-Serving Dive Bars

Broward Brady List Includes 137 Current and Former Cops, 57 of Them BSO Deputies

​The Broward Bulldog's Dan Christensen obtained Broward's "Brady list" -- a laundry list of cops who are being investigated for any number of reasons, ultimately to be used by defense attorneys to question the veracity of a cop's testimony.The list is the result of a 1963 Supreme Court case involv ... More >>

Five Food Shows We'd Love to See in 2012

​I'll admit I'm totally obsessed with shows on the Food Network, Travel Channel, and Cooking Channel. In fact, I recently upgraded my cable service (and bill) in order to get the Cooking Channel when the free trial period ended -- just so I could watch Emeril tour the USA and Nadia G. vamp her way ... More >>

An Eclectic Asian Oasis in Lauderhill

​"We can shoot guns after dinner," I said to my friend JJ in the parking lot of Oakland Shopping Center, the strip mall that houses Silver Pond in Lauderhill, the subject of this week's review. In the window, a man gearing up for target practice wore a long sleeved shirt with Mickey Mouse on the b ... More >>

Saigon City: A Banh Mi That Does The Trick

​There's a sizeable Vietnamese population in DC where I had moved from, so it's easy to find decent pho and a respectable banh mi. Here? Tougher to find either: It appears South Florida isn't having the same banh mi love affair as elsewhere, which seems about right, since Vietnamese immigrants don ... More >>

Seven People Charged in Tax Fraud Case Based on Secret Bank-Account Conspiracy Theory

ambienceofmedia.com​Get this: The government creates a secret bank account for every person issued a birth certificate in the United States -- and has been doing so since the enactment of the 1936 Social Security Act -- that holds $630,000. Through a series of IRS filings, people can become entitl ... More >>

Is Pork the New Lobster? Looks Like It's Destiny

mealsonabudget.blogspot.com​In 2010, we saw a rise in the price of bacon. For 2011 and beyond, it's the whole hog.In the past two months, the price of pork shoulder Crumbaker gets from Grand Western and other national suppliers has risen from a wholesale price of 89 cents to 1.40 a pound: a 40% pr ... More >>

Empire Strikes Back

Deaths at One of South Florida's Most Popular Plastic Surgery Centers Raise Questions About the Safety of Cheaper Nips and Tucks

Health Inspectors Find Flies, Roaches and Other Critters In Three Restaurants

​The Florida Department of Business and Regulation seems to have had a quiet week. Though Health Inspectors didn't shut down any restaurants for violations, that doesn't mean that we didn't uncover some pretty disgusting findings like live flies, small flying insects, live roaches and even tr ... More >>

Broward Is Turning Into Miami-Dade, Says the Census. Here's How to Embrace It

Wikimedia Commons​Nobody takes more sectarian pride in county lines than Florida -- where you would normally find city rivalries and geographic landmarks, we have a patchwork quilt of little sovereign empires dividing up the swamps. Heck, we even named our paper after some counties.So when the lat ... More >>

Health Inspectors Fry KFC for Sewage Leaks

​Health inspectors have been busy little bees over the past month, tracking down kitchen nightmares like Gordon Ramsay on a coke binge. Their latest haul: a KFC location in Oakland Park that found itself in deep water -- literally. Want to check out restaurant records for yourself? Search the Flor ... More >>

Morning Juice: Another Investigation Blooms in Goodman Case; Inferno in Oakland Park

​Your Wednesday local news roundup:A Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue medic somehow failed to find 23-year-old Scott Wilson after a crew arrived at the site of the February crash with polo mogul John Goodman. The medic is said to have been looking in the driver's seat but didn't find him there. And y ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Daeji Bulgogi From Gabose Korean Restaurant

​As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 44: Daeji Bulgogi from Gabose Korean RestaurantThe fiery, thin-sliced pork kno ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Coco Bread From Charlie's Pastries

​ As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 45: Coco Bread from Charlie's PastriesIt doesn't make much sense to wrap a pi ... More >>

Morning Juice: Community Shocked by Predictable Youth Minister Plotline; Gay Adoption Case on Collision Course With Supreme Court

​It's Thanksgiving week. Let's check the headlines:Take a wild guess why a "youth minister" is in the news. (It's the only reason they're ever in the news.) [Sun-Sentinel]As classmates mourn the deaths of the three Coral Springs teens killed last weekend after their car plunged into the canal, pol ... More >>

The Long Arm of Calvin, Giordano in South Florida

Flickr user: doncon402Can you find a city where Calvin, Giordano is not working?​The private, Fort Lauderdale-base consulting firm Calvin, Giordano & Associates plays a big role in providing essential government services in Broward County. As the Juice has reported, the firm has a monopoly in ... More >>

Abducted Woman Killed in Hollywood

Photo: Fort Lauderdale PDDominique Duval​Dominique Duval, the 23-year-old woman from Lauderhill who was allegedly abducted in Fort Lauderdale yesterday evening, was found shot late last night. She later died of a gunshot wound to the neck. From the release by Hollywood PD: On Wednesday, August 26, ... More >>

Palm City Mom Rocks Supercon

Photo by Tara Nieuwesteeg There were people dressed up like characters from videogames, horror movies, animes, and all sorts of other things. They came from as far away Europe to worship at the altar of all things videogame, meet B-movie legend Bruce Campbell, and compete in this y ... More >>

Crossing Artistic Borders

While We're Talking Cajun...

Speaking of Nawlins-style grub, Rosey Baby is offering a special through Friday night on their famous garlic blue crabs and crawfish boil. While the little buggers last, if you purchase a dozen Cajun-boiled blue crabs or garlic crabs, the Babe will throw in a pound of fresh-daily Cajun-boiled crawd ... More >>

Cricket Music

Letters for August 9-15, 2007

The Sameness of It All

Letters for May 10, 2007

Lauderhill Cries Uncle

Uncle Sam's has some lofty ideas about live music.

Letters for October 20-26, 2005

Letters for February 10-16, 2005

Midway Madness

Be Very Afraid

Broward's elections office has been hijacked by Republican activists. Blame local Democrats.

Letters for December 25, 2003

Pipe Bomb

Strictly Speaking

Positive vibrations detected in Miramar

Local CD Roundup?

Mmm-hmm

Drive, He Said

Fundamental philosophy from righteous Rastaman Screwdriver

Best Record/CD Store

Uncle Sam's Music

Letters to the Editor

Letters for November 30, 2000

Letters to the Editor

Letters for August 31, 2000

Toys R Worth Bucks

The 4th Annual MondoPop 2000 Collectible Show

God Save the Pub

The Raw and the Cooked