New Year's

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2013 Oshogatsu Festival at Morikami Musuem: Eat Up for Japanese New Year

It's official: the Gregorian calendar New Year has come and gone. Actually, so has the Japanese New Year celebration in most Japanese cities--Oshogatsu generally runs from December 31 to January 4. Eh, minor details.The Morikami Museum and Gardens is fashionably late, holding its 35th annual Oshogat ... More >>

2013 Riverwalk Stone Crab and Seafood Festival Is This Weekend

Being that Florida is one massive peninsula, seafood is kind of a big thing. If you can't eat it or chose not to, we feel sorry for you. For seafood aficionados, or  anyone who likes a festival, we have an event for you: the Riverwalk Stone Crab and Seafood Festival.The family-friendly event is ... More >>

RA Sushi Featuring New Year's Resolution-Friendly "Skinny Pairing" Menu

Here's the thing about New Year's resolutions: Hanging a new Twilight calendar on the wall doesn't give one any special powers to quit smoking or stop dropping F-bombs with the kids in the car. But even if you're the sort who'd never vocalize a resolution, there's a good chance that come January, yo ... More >>

Five South Florida Food- and Drink-Related Events This Weekend: Swank Table Lunch, Food Trucks, and More

So, you survived the holiday season madness and are ready to reclaim your weekends as your own. Clean Plate Charlie has gathered up a few food- and drink-related events going down this weekend in Broward and Palm Beach counties. After the jump, find a few ways to keep busy and entertain the palate - ... More >>

Bark-B-Que: Tri-County Humane Society Hosts Shindig For You and Your Dog

If your New Year's resolution is to spend more time with your four-legged friend (or to find a new furry love in your life), we suggest heading over to the Tri-County Humane's Bark-B-Que and Adopt-A-Thon tomorrow afternoon.On Saturday, January 6 from noon - 3 p.m., take your furry friend to the Tri- ... More >>

Miami Herald Will Charge You Money to Read an Article It Copied and Pasted From the CBS4 Website

The folks at the Miami Herald recently erected a paywall to charge people to read their stuff. They call it the Miami Herald Plus . (We're not sure if that should read Miami Herald Plus Plus or not, but we digress.) And what do you get for forking over your cash to be able to read the Plus Plus Pl ... More >>

The Ultimate Hangover Menu: Rawsome Eats Chef Nina Kauder Tells Us How to Get Rid of a NYE Hangover

Is everything too loud this morning? If you partied so hard on New Year's Eve that your hair hurts, you need to act fast to ensure New Year's Day isn't spent shriveled in a ball on the couch. Clean Plate Charlie has been searching high and low this week to find as many tips and tricks as possible to ... More >>

South Florida Food and Drink Events This Week: New Year's Eve and More

How will you spend the last day of 2012 and the first week of 2013? Clean Plate Charlie has rounded up a few food- and drink-related options to consider this week, most of which center around New Year festivities (go figure). Find some celebratory options after the jump. See Also: - Chef Meghan O' ... More >>

The Ten Weirdest New Year's Eve Ball Drops: Pickles, Peeps, and Fish

Tonight, millions of people around the world will gather around their televisions to see a big lighted ball drop from One Times Square in New York City at midnight. Since 1907, the New Year's Eve ball has dropped at 11:59 p.m., traveling 77 feet in 60 seconds to signify the start of another year. &n ... More >>

Want a Better 2013? Five Good Luck Foods for New Year's

Hopefully, 2012 was an awesome and successful year. If not, that kind of sucks. On the bright side, there are some good luck remedies you can conjure up for the New Year. Do they work? Heck if we know, but trying never hurts.We present to you five foods to help you get lucky in 2013.See Also:- Cirqu ... More >>

New Year's Day Hangover Cures: Let's Get Scientific

Happy New Year! The over-priced parties, the drunk drivers, the immense pressure on the midnight kiss forever dividing the happily coupled from the desperately single... We hope it will be magical. But New Year's Day will remind you that you're 365 days older and less able to handle your liquor.Your ... More >>

Five Crazy New Year's Hangover Cures From Across the World

Every man and his dog has some kind of at home hangover remedy: greasy food, bananas, coffee, ceviche, aspirin, whatever. Some actually help. Others ease the pain. The rest do nothing.Whatever the case, we've decided to look up some of the weirder options. Hopefully, you won't have to test them out. ... More >>

Where Are the New Year's Eve DUI Checkpoints in Broward and Palm Beach

Right out of the gate, let's set the obvious into stone: Don't drink and drive. At all. Ever. Especially tonight. It's not only dumb but expensive. Worse, all your friends will find out. They'll laugh at you. But let's say you have a friend. This friend has a big New Year's Eve date scheduled for th ... More >>

Five South Florida Food- and Drink-Related Events This Weekend: Northwood Village Art & Wine Promenade

Post-holiday stupor (and bank balance) put you in the market for something mellow this weekend? Perfect, because things are prettttty quiet in the pre-New Year's Eve buildup. Clean Plate Charlie has rounded up a handful of food- and drink-related activities this weekend in Broward and Palm Beach cou ... More >>

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Cirque-A-Licious Offers a High-Flying New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is one of those nights that can be highly overrated. You get dressed up, pay four times the normal price for a buffet dinner, party hat, and champagne, and listen to either a wedding band or DJ as the clock strikes midnight.   This year, we're thinking of celebrating with ci ... More >>

Rick Scott: State Workers to Get Christmas Eve Off

Apparently nobody trolls Rick Scott quite like... Rick Scott.After the governor insisted he would reject any and all of Obama's health-care laws that come his way, he then turned around and changed his mind. Then, after suppressing the vote in November before the elections, he vowed that voting pro ... More >>

Florida to Be First State With 1 Million Concealed Weapon Licenses

We told you yesterday about how a review of Florida "stand your ground" cases revealed many of the people getting away with homicide had (several) previous arrests, and we told you before that about the Tampa Bay Times study that found the law, which allowed Floridians to kill people they are scared ... More >>

Download: Scott H. Biram's "I Want My Mojo Back," Propaganda Show February 6

​Somewhere between country, folk, blues, punk, and even metal exists Texas bad boy Scott H. Biram. A cult figure for years, perhaps Biram may start benefiting from mainstream America's revived interest in Americana via far less salty acts like Mumford and Sons and the like. Where rock radio's new ... More >>

Sonic Beach: Free Breakfast Burrito for the New Year

​If you're tapped out after spending all your money on the big New Year's Eve blowout party (not to mention the dozen or so boxes of Alka-Seltzer that you bought and consumed New Year's Day), then head over to Sonic Beach in Fort Lauderdale for your free breakfast burrito.

Off-Duty BSO Deputy Dies in New Year's Day Motorcycle Crash

BSOBroward Sheriff's Deputy John Blackwelder.​Broward Sheriff's Deputy John Blackwelder died in a motorcycle crash shortly after noon on New Year's Day, according to the BSO.The sheriff's office says Blackwelder, 45, was riding his 2010 Honda motorcycle west on East Commercial Boulevard when a ... More >>

Out to Pasture on New Year's Day

New Year's Eve Remix Sunday Night at RA Sushi in Palm Beach Gardens

​No doubt at this point you've got a handle on what you're doing for New Year's Eve. Right? Right?! Slackers can find more than 100 ideas for NYE in the handy Broward-Palm Beach New Times calendar.But what about if you're one of the peeps in the service industry who will be working hard to ensure ... More >>

New Year's Eve at Home? Here's What You Need

​2011 is dying fast, and we say good riddance. We're looking forward to a 2012 and a year full of promise. There's only one giant roadblock standing in the way of us and the shiny baby new year -- New Year's Eve.Look, it's not that we hate New Year's Eve; it's just that after maxing out our credit ... More >>

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Ismael Ambrosio Arrested for the Third Time, Despite New "Fuck the Police" Face Tattoo

Pinellas County Sheriff's OfficeIsmael Ambrosio​After being arrested twice in January 2010, 24-year-old Ismael Ambrosio decided to show his distaste for law enforcement by getting "Fuck the Police" tattooed across the middle of his face.Ambrosio managed to avoid jail for more than a year and a hal ... More >>

Five-Point Spring Break Survival Guide (Wooo!)

via www.floridausaimages.com​Yes, the Fort Lauderdale gets progressively more upscale every season, and  yes, the classy set tries to downplay the annually resurfacing celebration of Fort Liquordale's past, but it seems that as long as there are fraternities and the Elbo Room, there will be s ... More >>

Free Breakfast Coupons From Einstein Brothers and Waffle House

Flickr/Rustytanton Waffle House Sign​Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It's also the only time most people will generally eat only carbs and sugar and call it a meal (come on, unless you're a stoner you probably don't eat donuts or pancakes for dinner).  Enjoy ... More >>

Instead of Resolving to Lose Weight This Year...

flickr.com; alancleaver_2000​We here at Charlie enjoy a snarky blog here and there, and we like to poke fun at the South Florida dining scene. Joking aside, there is a growing epidemic resulting from unhealthy relationships with food. 2011 has just begun, and many of us are making resolutions to l ... More >>

Vegan Cooking Class at Sublime Wednesday, January 19

​Because woman cannot live on reheated Amy's Organics breakfast burritos alone (would if I could, believe me), this month seems ripe for a revamp on home cooking options. Whether it's sticking to that New Year's resolution to only eat foods with ingredients you could actually spell in a spelling b ... More >>

Five Ways to Blow Your New Year's Resolutions

Laine Doss The Devil made me do it!​New Year's resolutions usually come out of a drunken night of feeling sorry for yourself - I'm too fat, I'm going to get cancer from smoking, I'm dating an asshole....blah, blah. blah....Look - whatever New Year's resolution you make, you're probably g ... More >>

New Year's Resolutions Destined to Fail -- Because Sinister Restaurants Move in Next Door to the Gym (A Photo/ Video Tour)

dumb.comHow many points are in 31 flavors?​Call me paranoid, but there are a few conspiracy theories I ascribe to. I believe that Elvis is alive, Oswald didn't act alone, and those shiny satellites up in the sky must be the dirty government trying to hijack our minds. It's a scary, deceiving worl ... More >>

New Year's Eve Trick: Saber the Champagne Bottle

Saber a bottle of Champagne for New Year's - anyone can do it.

Black-Eyed Peas for New Year's Luck: A Southern Tradition With No Fergalicious

Flickr: d0602lstric​The black-eyed pea--more of a legume, really--has a lonnng history of good luck, starting with the bible (i.e. Jewish New Year), then migrating to Africa and then to the U.S. in the 1600s with the slave trade. This staple crop of the south hit the big time during the Civil War, ... More >>

Four Reasons Your Fitness Instructor Hates You

beachbootcamp.netJust work your ass off and everyone will be happy.​South Florida is full of the Bocahontas types -- skinny, Botoxed, and willing to do anything to stay that way.That's where Lt. Col. Bob Weinstein, who explained the healthiest fast-food options, comes in. He makes his living shapi ... More >>

Concert Review: Phish's Four-Night Stand at American Airlines Arena

New Year's Resolutions for South Florida Tech Geeks

​So whether you're a Geekus of a Suavicorn, you've likely made some New Year's Resolutions already. Well, dump 'em because this is a much better and more fitting list."Lose weight?" "Eat better?" "Give more to charity?" Blah, those are so cliche. You're a damn tech nerd, for cripes sake. Act like ... More >>

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Restaurant News: B.B. King's Opens, Cabana Re-Opens, Roxy's Auctions New Year's Booths

•    The entertainment scene at CityPlace just got a whole lot more interesting with the opening earlier this month of B.B. King's Blues Club. Taking over the spaces once home to Legal Sea Foods and Bar Louie, this sixth club in the B.B. King mini-empire boasts four bars, stages for ... More >>

Celebrate New Year's Eve at These South Florida Restaurants

​I don't know about you, but I want to ring in the New Year in style, guzzling champagne and slurping down caviar like a 19th century robber baron. Preferably wearing a top hat and monocle. And riding a pony. And eating something endangered, like a mountain lion. (Just kidding about that last part ... More >>

Dog Racing Done in Wisconsin; What This Means for Florida

Thomas Francis​It wasn't so long ago that Wisconsin had five dog tracks, second only to Florida in terms of total live-racing facilities. This week, the operators of the Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha announced that the track will end racing on New Year's Eve. This will mark the end of greyh ... More >>

I'm Starvin'

John Pinette lays down some low-cal comedy at Palm Beach Improv

New Year's, Take Two

Wipe your slate clean at Oshogatsu

New Year's on the Beach

Daube Days

Shall We Dance?

If you've got the time, Argentango Grill has the beef

A Brighter Yesterday

Moonraker on the Water

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