Maryland

First Look: RACKS Fish House and Oyster Bar Opens in Delray Beach

This week Delray Beach welcomed a newcomer to the Atlantic Ave. restaurant row: RACKS Fish House and Oyster Bar, which opened for business on Monday.Billed as a New England seafood house, the concept is an extension of owner and South Florida restaurateur Gary Rack's RACKS Downtown Eatery Mizner Par ... More >>

First Look: Bistro 241 Opens in Delray Beach's Pineapple Grove

Bistro 241 is the newest addition to downtown Delray Beach's quiet Pineapple Grove art district, located just a few blocks north of the bustling restaurant scene off Atlantic Ave.Owner Elie Boueri -- whose father was among the first to bring food to the charming area with Joseph's Wine Bar and Cafe ... More >>

Powerball Fever Spreads Across Florida

In case you didn't know, tonight is the big, huge, very gigantic Florida Powerball drawing. And even though the odds of getting hit in the face by a bolt of lightning are far better than winning the Powerball, people in Florida are still apparently buying tickets for it in droves. According to the ... More >>

Paladar Latin Kitchen & Rum Bar: Opening Tonight at Gulfstream Park

If there is anything Florida has down pat, it's Latin food and rum. With our demographics, that most certainly makes sense. This week brings south Florida's newest Latin-inspired restaurant: Paladar Latin Kitchen & Rum Bar.See Also:- Food Network Kitchen Opens at Fort Lauderdale International Ai ... More >>

Marco Rubio Making Robocalls For Anti-Gay Group

Marco Rubio hates The Gays. He hates them so much, he voted against aLGBT-inclusive reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. He hates them so much, he doesn't even agree with Mittington Romney, who hates The Gays too, but at least supports a Federal Marriage Amendment (allegedly!) And ... More >>

Gay Athletes Go Public

"Forever R&B" With Dru Hill, Kelly Price, and Others at BankUnited Center on September 22

Palm Beach Doctor Trying to Prevent Young Athletes From Spontaneously Dying

​A 1997 study found that one in 255 high-school athletes had a "serious or potentially serious" heart defect that had the potential to preclude them from athletic participation. While awareness of the issue has grown over the years, there are no mandatory tests for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, whi ... More >>

Florida Backs Away From Shark Fin Ban

​While researching for this week's review, I found resources at Oceana.org, a non-profit international organization that strives to help protect the ocean and its creatures. On its blog, I found this piece, following a Fort Lauderdale event:On a more serious note, the evening focused on sharks an ... More >>

Rare Spirits: Where Can We Find Pappy Van Winkle?

​The Washington City Paper wrote last week on how difficult it is to keep Pappy Van Winkle in stock. The bourbon from Old Rip Van Winkle distillery has a cult following for its 15-, 20-, or 23-year-aged booze and has been a thing for quite a while now."The strategy of scarcity" builds a following ... More >>

RV Rapper Bleubird Finally Fires "Cannonball!!!," His U.S. Debut

Howard Finster, Mose Tolliver, and More Outsider Artists at the Boca Museum of Art

Jesse Leese Got a Warning From a Traffic Stop, Until Cops Say They Found Six Types of Drugs

Monroe County Sheriff's OfficeMCSO Deputies Jon Barry Huff (left) and Bradford Colen look happy with their find.​Maryland resident Jesse Leese almost got away with just a warning from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office for not driving in his lane, not having current insurance, and the open bottle ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Nuts Coming to Protest Soldier's Funeral Tonight

How to identify the creeps that will be showing up in Fort Pierce tonight​The Kansas crazies are coming.Westboro Baptist "Church" Pastor Fred Phelps tells New Times that the church's minions are coming to Fort Pierce tonight to protest the funeral of 24-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Jordan Christopher S ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Creeps Planning Florida Funeral Protest in Response to Proposed Bill

thegatewaypundit.comWestboro Baptist weirdos.​It looks like the Westboro Baptist "Church" is interpreting State Rep. Pat Rooney's military funeral buffer-zone bill as an invitation.The Kansas crazies haven't placed it on their public schedule yet, but the Palm Beach Post reports the "Thank God for ... More >>

State Rep. Rooney Files Bill to Keep Westboro Baptist Bozos at Bay

towleroad.com​State Rep. Pat Rooney isn't too happy about the "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "God Hates Fags" sign-wielding lunatics from the Westboro Baptist "Church" in Kansas parading around funerals extolling their hate under the protection of the First Amendment.For the second straight leg ... More >>

Allen West's No-B.S. Weekend: Disses Bush, Palin

This has been a bullshit-busting kind of weekend for Allen West.First, he showed up in Fox News Sunday, talking smack about his own party's recent history. He was debating Donna Edwards, the Democrat congresswoman from Maryland, when host Chris Wallace asked:Congressman West, Republicans offered a p ... More >>

Free Fries at Boca's New Boardwalk Burgers Today

​Need a fry fix? Get 'em free, in a grand-opening offer, at the new Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries in Boca Raton - a Maryland chain dropping into Florida.What started as a french fry chain (Boardwalk Fries) became in 2007 Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries, a chain with six other units in a ... More >>

Allen West Rewrites Two Millennia of Muslim Versus Christian History

Maryland radio station WCBM 680 posted a brief video this week of Congressman-elect Allen West that is 50 percent history lesson, 50 percent political polemic, and 100 percent classic Allen West. West, as it turns out, believes that the United States has been at war with Islam for a very, very long ... More >>

Beverly Jacobs, Chef/Owner of Bamboo Fire Cafe, Dishes on the Six Best Things She Ever Ate

Jacobs feasts on a breakfast of red snapper with tostones in Nicaragua. ​Beverly Jacobs is well known among South Florida chow hounders as the chef/owner of Bamboo Fire Cafe, a cozy, home-style Caribbean restaurant in downtown Delray Beach. In addition to cooking up some of the finest, made-to-ord ... More >>

The Top Chef Interview With Kenny Gilbert, Bravo Star and New Executive Chef at PGA National Resort

Chef Kenny Gilbert, star of Bravo's Top Chef and new executive chef at PGA National Resort and Spa.​Watch any of this season's episodes of Top Chef and it's clear that the level of competition has been raised higher than ever. There have been furious quickfires with crab parts exploding across the ... More >>

LOLA in Delray Beach Is Entertaining, but the Menu's Also for Real

Plant an ACORN, Grow a Political Nightmare

​Oh Woe is ACORN. The U.S. Senate has just voted today, 83-7, to cut housing funds to an organization which has long been the darling of the far Left -- and which is now so utterly disgraced it has nowhere to go but down. The vote would make ACORN ineligible for Housing and Urban Development funds ... More >>

Brazen Young Panther Killed a Long Way From Home

Flickr user: doncon402You lookin' for me?​Males. When they're young and brash, trying to mark their territory and impress girls, there's no telling what they'll do. Run off to Georgia, even, and get themselves killed.That's apparently what happened to a Florida panther who was shot and killed by a ... More >>

City Fish Market Rides the Fresh Fish Wave in Boca

Madoff's House Gets TP'd, Young Criminals Learn About Dressing Up for Crime

Teenagers toilet papered Bernie Madoff's Palm Beach house this weekend and then called the newspaper to take credit. They said the prank was sanctioned by their parents because Madoff had lost their trust funds. Madoff is confined to his Manhattan condo, so he didn't see the TP himself. Nor did he r ... More >>

Last Night: Toxic Holocaust, Kingdom of Sorrow, and GWAR at Revolution

On the Booty Prowl

Where are the lesbian break dancers?

Letters for November 22-28, 2007

Carl Hiaasen Has Left The Area

Letters for December 14-20, 2006

Campaign Noir

A guy named Macilwain pounds Palm Beach's mean streets, in search of lost Beers.

The Last Honest Joint at the Beach

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

Belly Laughin'

Clothes Off

Scandal! Intrigue! Poetry!

Passion of the Fruit

Letters for September 23-28, 2004

Bronx Cheer for Boston's

The grub here will launch you toward the House that Ruth Built

Letters for June 5, 2003

They're off!

Won't You Be My Buddy?

Meet the man who puts the De La in Delray

BT

10 Years in the Life (Reprise)

Small Is Beautiful

This little West Palm Beach theater packs a big punch

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

Beatific

Brian Transeau rips trance a new one

A Thorough Grilling

Jake's Seafood Grille

The Sex Empire Strikes Back

Adult businesses in Broward put the heat on the heat by investigating local vice cops, but their evidence is slim

The Sex Empire Strikes Back

Adult businesses in Broward put the heat on the heat by investigating local vice cops, but their evidence is slim

High-Volume Eating

Little Country, Big Output