Macy's Inc.

Macy's Security Guards Tackled, Strip-Searched, And Wrongfully Apprehended Black Man Wearing Hoodie, Lawsuit Alleges

A 22-year-old black man wearing a hooded sweatshirt was leaving Macy's in Aventura Mall when five Macy's security guards tackled him to the floor and later stripped him down to his underwear. The problem was? He didn't have anything on him. Duddeley Petigny, who had an afro and was scruffy, filed ... More >>

South Florida Dining and Drinking Events This Week: Cigar City Night and More

Lots to eat and drink (mostly drink) this week in South Florida, so let's get right to it. After the jump, find a roundup of food- and drink-related events happening this week in Broward and Palm Beach counties. See Also: - Plantation to Get a New Weekly Food Truck Rally Beginning in October - Ame ... More >>

Suck it, Drake! YOLO Has Been Trademarked -- and Not By You

Earlier this week, Canadian rapper Drake uploaded some instagram pictures of clothing bearing the acronym "YOLO" at a Walgreens and a Macy's suggesting the businesses pay up for using "his" catchphrase. Clean Plate Charlie spoke to restauranteur Tim Petrillo, co-owner of YOLO in Fort Lauderdale ... More >>

Rapper Drake Thinks He Owns the Term YOLO -- But Did He and Rick Ross Crib the Phrase from the Fort Lauderdale Restaurant?

YOLO: love it or hate it, it's the new 'in' acronym. It's become the catchphrase excuse for all things ridiculous: drunken sorority girl hook-ups, speeding, frat boy public urination, Darwin Award-like behavior, or any other insignificant experience deemed to be worthy of a hashtag by social media u ... More >>

Macy's Being Urged to Dump Donald Trump

Apparently people are just now noticing that Donald Trump is a racist birther dipshit and have petitioned Macy's to drop him, his clothing line, his fragrance, and him altogether from those annoying commercials in which famous people are getting ready for the holidays. An online petition from SignO ... More >>

Federal Tax Loopholes: They're Like a Mafia Protection Scheme Where Big Corporations Profit

Frank Entertainment to Open Two Mega Entertainment Complexes in the Fall

Two new entertainment complexes are slated to open in Palm Beach county this fall containing bowling, live music, movies, food, games, and drink. Revolutions Bowling Bar & Grille is scheduled to open this fall at 700 S. Rosemary Avenue, taking up several spaces including the former Macy's locati ... More >>

Taste History Culinary Tours in Palm Beach County July 21 and 28

As Lori Durante leads a small, sweating pack of culinary tourists east on Atlantic Avenue on a recent Saturday afternoon, she breaks her swift stride momentarily to point across the street, toward Johnnie Brown's, a burger and barbecue joint in Delray Beach."Johnnie Brown's was named for Addison Miz ... More >>

Measure Up, Fight Cancer

Sedaris Does Santa

Villegas Video, Awarding Incompetence, and Judge Lazarus' Latest Stupid Email

UPDATED: My colleague Lisa Rab obtained this video of Debra Villegas speaking with Plantation police officers about the Melissa Britt Lewis murder. It was taken in December 2009, after the Rothstein Ponzi scheme and the RRA law firm imploded. Make sure and read Rab's post. Villegas d ... More >>

Respectable Street Celebrates 23rd Anniversary With Block Party Saturday

Happy Hour at City Oyster, Chef Demos at Macy's, Mondays at Tarpon Bend

​• Saturday and Sunday are decidedly happier days than any ol' weekday. So why is it happy hour is restricted to M-F? It's not at City Oyster and Sushi Bar in Delray Beach, where happy hour runs all week round. From 4 to 7 p.m., folks can get 2-4-1 on all drinks including top shelf liquor, wine, ... More >>

Food Events on the Radar

​• The old phrase, "Take me out to the ball game" is going to have to be changed to "Take me out of the ball game" after Sunday's Marlins vs. Mets game. That's the Marlins are offering discounted "All You Can Eat Seats" for the throw down. This Club Level section of seats will offer fans complet ... More >>

Ten Other Florida Stereotypes That Would Make Good Dolls

Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken​If you haven't seen Mattel's newest addition to the Adult Barbie Collector line, it's an appalling creation they're calling "Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken." This week brought news that the doll is, in fact, a real product the company is really selling to real adult collecto ... More >>

Feeding Faces

Todd English Moving into Seminole Hard Rock?

Surprise! It's Todd English!​Jazziz Bistro, the swank supper club in the Seminole Hard Rock and sister "venue" to Jazziz magazine, closed in April of this year. Since then, the site has remained empty, with a lot of speculation as to what is going in there. Now the rumor mill is brewing, and some ... More >>

For Local 6th Grader, Victory Tastes Like... Arsenic?

Flickr: Southworth SailorCould Prajwal Chummar be the next Anurag Kashyap? (He's a former champion, but you knew that.)​By correctly spelling "arsenic" Prajwal Chummar, a 6th grader this fall at Silver Trail Middle School in Southwest Ranches, clinched a berth in the national spelling bee Septembe ... More >>

Stealing from the Restaurant: Anthony's Meatball and Ricotta Pizza

I'm a sucker for Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza's meatball and ricotta pie. The combination of the thin, crisp, slightly charred, and bubbled crust with a simple tomato sauce, a little mozzarella, tiny meatballs, and blobs of rich ricotta is hard to resist when the urge for takeout pizza strikes.  ... More >>

A Tale of Two Pseudo Cities

Spitting Distance: 321 North and City of OzAh, South Florida: Where the women are strong, the men are pretty, and all the foreclosures are "friendly." Developers of mixed-use, work-live-playgrounds might take a moment to contemplate, as they plan their latest forays into the market for pseudo cities ... More >>

Running Down a Dream

Daniel Boulud's Palm Beach restaurant finally hits its stride

What Was Swiped On Black Friday in Boca Town Center?

horny sales associate

You're Busted, Fashion Felon

Fashion Cop Issues Citations

We love our flip-flops, cleavage, and mini-skirts here in South Florida. Our dress code may be flawed, but it's ours, goddamnit!Well, excuses mean nothing to Clinton Kelly, the style guru from TLC's hit TV show What Not to Wear. Don't tell this handsome fella that your sweatpants and clogs are comfo ... More >>

Chick Fight! Bogdanoff Vs. Ritter

Miami Spice Cooking Demos

Carlos Santana

Last Night: Macy Gray at the Florida Room

The Song Does Not Remain the Same

At Respecs, all things must pass. Even nightlife columnists.

Last Night: Macy Gray at Hard Rock Live

Junior Mints

Bacon Bits

There's no fakin' the Bacon

Hollywood is Burning

Local drag queens fire up the ballroom scene

Let Them Eat Clams

Artist Wyland sees the big picture

Lucky in Love

The Cooler, somewhat unbelievably, asks us to swallow a Las Vegas fairy tale

A tribute to Y-100's Jingle Ball

Sing along with Julio, bebito!

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Departures

Two demises -- one real, one metaphorical -- have made this a tough month in the music scene

Grandma's Pot of Gold

Fay Fiess never expected to be rich, and she isn't living like it either

City Displaced

A new West Palm shopping mecca is attracting some folks downtown. Others will have to leave.

MoCA Raises Dada

"Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism From the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection" and "Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman" and "Matthew Ritchie: Incomplete Projects 01: The Fast Set"

Best Mall

The Gardens of the Palm Beaches

Best Place to Find What You Never Thought You Could

Gooding's Goodies

The Wolfgang Factory

Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe

Invasion of the Cheap Seats

Ever since advertisers began plastering their names on bus benches, Broward County has been overrun by unwanted places to sit

Growing Pains

Shop Till You Chomp

Mellow Fellows