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When Jay Miscovich Found a Multimillion-Dollar Haul of Emeralds, Mel Fisher's Treasure-Hunting Family Attacked

Got a Camera for Christmas? Donate Your Old One to Women in India

In 2001, twentysomething Nicole Jaquis, who'd grown up down here in Wellington and then moved to Boston, left her job and joined some friends who were making a documentary in India about the Kumbh Mela -- one of the biggest gatherings on planet Earth, which you've probably never heard of. After ... More >>

Beats Antique at Culture Room on October 10

Survivalist: I Rejected Doomsday Preppers Because They Wanted Me to Eat an Iguana

See our cover story on South Florida preppers.Chris Petrovich has been prepping for more than a quarter-century. He has plenty of guns, plenty of single-malt scotch, and enough supplies hidden in an undisclosed storage locker somewhere, plus caches on roadways leading out of the state, to let him ri ... More >>

Sid Rosenberg Returns to South Florida Airwaves Today

If you've found yourself thinking lately that your life has been sorely lacking in obnoxious troglodytic sports talk radio, today is your lucky day! After being fired from 560 WQAM last April following a DUI arrest (broken by New Times) that apparently included weeping, curling up in a fetal positio ... More >>

Local Preppers Get Airtime on CBS News

As our recent cover story about local survivalists, or "preppers," was going to press, we learned that one of the main characters in the story, Hollywood-based agricultural consultant Chris Petrovich, had been interviewed by the CBS affiliate up in West Palm Beach.So treat yourself to the TV station ... More >>

Confessions of a Meat-Eating Vegetarian

I recently accepted an offer to judge a burger competition, as I do from time to time.  Recently, our food critic Melissa McCart asked me a question about the deep, dark secret I usually keep from Clean Plate Charlie readers, "you're a vegetarian. How are you going to judge burgers?"Allow me to ... More >>

Here's Why Florida Seafood Restaurants Fill Menus With Foreign Fish

Python Destruction of Everglades May Be Overhyped

​At the end of January, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study suggesting that Burmese pythons were decimating mammal populations in the Everglades. The numbers were shocking: a 99 percent decline in raccoon sightings, a 98 percent drop in opossum  ... More >>

Burmese Pythons Can Survive in Saltwater. Damn.

​As if snakes large enough to swallow -- or at least try to swallow -- alligators in the Everglades aren't frightening enough, U.S. Geological Survey researchers delivered a bit of unsettling news this week about Burmese pythons. These massive beasts can't be held back by saltwater. The resea ... More >>

Toubab Krewe on Jam Cruise, West Africa, and a New Album

​The talented members of Toubab Krewe play not only traditional rock instruments but also traditional African ones. These include noisemakers you've probably never seen in your life: the soku, kamelengoni, and kora. The band is composed of white dudes who marry West African sounds with Americ ... More >>

Food Ark: Seeds We Need to Survive

flckr/aftabHow well do you know your seeds? (These are coriander) No worries, only the future of civilization depends on it.​We're talking survivor. No, not the reality show! The real deal. This month, National Geographic examines the future food supply in a project called Food Ark. The article ta ... More >>

Vegalicious Recipe Scholarship Contest: Deadline Friday

​In junior high, my best friend accompanied me to a science fair where one student's experiment surrounded around what happens when you put a mouse and a snake in the same small glass case. I'll spare you the slow motion National Geographic details and just tell you that the snake eventu ... More >>

Interview with Chef Charles Coe - Part I

​Chef Charles Coe has over 20 years experience behind the burner. Coe graduated Valedictorian from Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island, was appointed Head Chef at Marrriott's Boston Copley Place. He has worked in various FLorida kitchens, most recently as Executive Chef a ... More >>

Five Suggestions for Your Severe Weather Awareness Week Posters

Flickr: dmguzMake sure to use a cool lightning graphic on your poster.​Florida's Division of Emergency Management and the American Red Cross want you to participate in the 2011 Severe Weather Awareness Week.They want you to make a poster for each day of the awareness week (January 31 to February 4 ... More >>

Loitering in the Library

Shaka, Brah!

Delray's KoffeeOkee to Be Setting for Addiction Documentary

Until lately, Dr. Harold Jonas didn't have a demand problem. He had attracted so much national interest for the counseling and training services he offered through Sober.com, the real problem was supplying those services to struggling addicts and aspiring recovery specialists who for financial reas ... More >>

The Hunt for Haleigh Cummings Could Bring Down a Badass Bounty Hunter

Sun-Sentinel: Corruption Is Suddenly ... Everywhere!

Jennifer Gollan had a nice little scoop about elected officials' travel that centered on mayors Richard Kaplan, Joy Cooper, and Frank Ortis billing hundreds of dollars to stay at a hotel for a convention in Miami -- all of about 30 miles away. Nothing earth-shattering, but a sweet daily&nb ... More >>

Hog Huntin'

A lost art or a horrible slaughter? It's all in the eye of the hunter.

Primate on the Rocks

In a Wilton Manors bar, the monkeys are cool and the Cocksuckers are creamy

More Punishment From Lee Abrams

Shark Huggers

Tourists can't wait to get next to them – even if they are eating machines

Cheat Sheet to Langerado

I Wonder Where That Fish Did Go?

In America, We Like Everything Big

Especially our movies

Sid Rosenberg, Miami's Imus Connection

Bulldozers Gone Wild

Bad, CRA! Bad, Bad CRA!

Letters for February 16, 2006

Shoot This

Bugs Are Beautiful

Even Wilma couldn't dim all the bright, kicky art at the Gateway

Don't Just Animate Me

Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Listings for the week of November 3-9,2005

Letters for July 21-27, 2005

Travel Bugs

Foto Confusion

Zillions of hotshot photographers storm into town

Now on Display

Now On Display

Now On Display

Now on Display

Woman Rediscovered

A well-known photograph resurfaces in Boca

Wet Dreams

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Existential Kitty

Mad Cat delves a little deeper when it explores a self-centered writer/director about town

Island Man

Chris Blackwell moves into the digi-web-world-global-video age

Subpar

Kathryn Bigelow's Widowmaker cruises in a mediocre sea

Who's Zaloomin' Who?

Paul Zaloom performs Velvetville

A Stroke of Computer Genius

The exhibition "Ernesto Rodriguez/Rick Novak"

Dem Bones

International Dinosaur Symposium

Night & Day

February 19-25, 1998