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  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Spirit Airlines to Charge $100 For Carry-On Bag, Here's How to Pack

    The penny pinchers at Spirit Airlines have come up with a new way to ruin your flying experience. Starting in early November, the Miramar-based discount carrier will charge up to $100 for a carry-on bag. The fee only applies if, like us, you procrastinate packing, sprint through the airport, and end ... More >>

  • News

    December 29, 2011

    Mavericks High Schools Hope to Profit From Education – But at What Cost?

    The penny pinchers at Spirit Airlines have come up with a new way to ruin your flying experience. Starting in early November, the Miramar-based discount carrier will charge up to $100 for a carry-on bag. The fee only applies if, like us, you procrastinate packing, sprint through the airport, and end ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    UPDATED: Joe Biden's Brother Is President and "P.T. Barnum" for SoFla Charter School Chain

    UPDATE: The Palm Beach County School Board's vote on three new Mavericks schools has been postponed. Read more after the jump.When owners of a for-profit charter school chain go before the Palm Beach County School Board tomorrow night seeking approval for three new high schools, they'll have a celeb ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    Ave Maria: A Catholic University Experiment in the Everglades Gone Wrong

    UPDATE: The Palm Beach County School Board's vote on three new Mavericks schools has been postponed. Read more after the jump.When owners of a for-profit charter school chain go before the Palm Beach County School Board tomorrow night seeking approval for three new high schools, they'll have a celeb ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2011

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

    UPDATE: The Palm Beach County School Board's vote on three new Mavericks schools has been postponed. Read more after the jump.When owners of a for-profit charter school chain go before the Palm Beach County School Board tomorrow night seeking approval for three new high schools, they'll have a celeb ... More >>

  • News

    September 16, 2010

    Latin American Dictators Love South Florida

    UPDATE: The Palm Beach County School Board's vote on three new Mavericks schools has been postponed. Read more after the jump.When owners of a for-profit charter school chain go before the Palm Beach County School Board tomorrow night seeking approval for three new high schools, they'll have a celeb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    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 >>

  • Culture

    June 10, 2010

    Two Latin American Shows Take the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale Beyond King Tut

    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 >>

  • Film

    March 4, 2010

    Miami International Film Festival

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2010

    Animal Collective

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Morning Juice: Hollywood Finds a Beach Bum; Pythons 100,000 - Humans 39

    ​Let's see what's in the news this morning.All these political scandals lately and none involving Hollywood? Well, the City Commission wasn't going to stand for that! Yesterday commissioners fired Gil Martinez, director of their beach community redevelopment agency, after accumulating evidence he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Benefit for Burned Deerfield Beach Boy Tomorrow at Pompano Beach Italian Restaurant

    ​Danny Martinez never expected the outpouring of support he's received when he started the Michael Brewer Foundation."It's really been amazing. I don't have words to express our gratitude," says Martinez. "I've had people call me from all over the United States, from London, from Nicaragua; everyo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2009

    Latin Festival: Food, Music, and Blood Pressure

    ​Danny Martinez never expected the outpouring of support he's received when he started the Michael Brewer Foundation."It's really been amazing. I don't have words to express our gratitude," says Martinez. "I've had people call me from all over the United States, from London, from Nicaragua; everyo ... More >>

  • News

    August 6, 2009

    Che Guevara Ordered His Father's Death, So Gustavo Villoldo Promised Payback

    ​Danny Martinez never expected the outpouring of support he's received when he started the Michael Brewer Foundation."It's really been amazing. I don't have words to express our gratitude," says Martinez. "I've had people call me from all over the United States, from London, from Nicaragua; everyo ... More >>

  • News

    April 9, 2009

    R. Allen Stanford's story tells how one eccentric billionaire can help bring the global economy to its knees

    ​Danny Martinez never expected the outpouring of support he's received when he started the Michael Brewer Foundation."It's really been amazing. I don't have words to express our gratitude," says Martinez. "I've had people call me from all over the United States, from London, from Nicaragua; everyo ... More >>

  • News

    January 15, 2009

    With the help of Rainn Wilson, Aaron Jackson tries to cure a country.

    ​Danny Martinez never expected the outpouring of support he's received when he started the Michael Brewer Foundation."It's really been amazing. I don't have words to express our gratitude," says Martinez. "I've had people call me from all over the United States, from London, from Nicaragua; everyo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Throwback Tuesdays: Manu Chao "Desaparecido"

    When Manu Chao released his landmark album, Clandestino, in 1998, it was regarded as an instant classic by most people who heard it. The 16-track disc was a funky underground pop album aimed right at the cultural left (and bourgeois right) of Spain, France, South America and Mexico all at once. Bet ... More >>

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Residents of a Davie trailer park think their contaminated water made them sick

    When Manu Chao released his landmark album, Clandestino, in 1998, it was regarded as an instant classic by most people who heard it. The 16-track disc was a funky underground pop album aimed right at the cultural left (and bourgeois right) of Spain, France, South America and Mexico all at once. Bet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 1

    A view of Volcan Arenal from a hiking trail that traverses old lava flow from its 1992 eruption. Arenal is the third most active volcano in the world. We hiked through rainforests and gasped at volcanoes, lounged on white sand beaches and wound our way around perilous mountain passes. Oh yes, we al ... More >>

  • News

    April 24, 2008

    Judging Ana

    Broward Judge Gardiner's alleged relationships with defense lawyers and prosecutors raises troubling questions

  • News

    November 29, 2007

    Washed Up

    101 Haitian refugees sailed north full of hope. They got screwed.

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2007

    Miami Foods to be Thankful For: Nacatamale Season

    101 Haitian refugees sailed north full of hope. They got screwed.

  • News

    September 13, 2007

    High Seas

    Lots of drugs, drinks, and titty fights, but the Climax Cruise ends in clammy anticlimax

  • News

    May 3, 2007

    Camilo's Retreat

    He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2007

    New Times, New Editor

    He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    Matchhead

    Carlos Arredondo did the unthinkable with gasoline, a Marine van, and a propane torch. Two years later, he still burns.

  • Calendar

    September 15, 2005

    Las Movies

    The Latinbeat film festival invades South Florida

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    ELVIS LIVES!

    And South Florida's Tabloid Valley vanishes.

  • Culture

    September 30, 2004

    Just Like the Rest of Us

    "Hispanic heritage" is hard to find at ArtServe and Gallery Six By Michael Mills

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    Rock 'n' Nole

    A casino's comin' to Hollywood. It's a big gamble.

  • News

    March 25, 2004

    West Palm Madness

    A battle for a basketball court displays differences

  • News

    May 1, 2003

    Political Therapy

    Talking war with dissident Jim Mullins is good for a battle-scarred psyche

  • Culture

    February 27, 2003

    Magic Realism No Mas?

    MoA's Central American show leaves you hungry for more

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Bobbing for War

    Florida's senator should get out before he gets in

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Gamblin' Men

    Big-ticket casino deals plus a messy internal power struggle equals even more legal woes for the Seminole tribe

  • News

    December 5, 2002

    Indian War

    A Hollywood man has spent the past decade trying to pry open the Seminoles' accounting books -- without much success

  • Culture

    July 4, 2002

    Best of the Fest

    At the Hispanic Theatre Festival, all the Spanish-speaking world was a stage

  • Culture

    May 30, 2002

    A Movable Feast

    The local International Hispanic Theatre Festival is one of the biggest and best of its kind -- when will South Florida discover it?

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    El Béisbolista

    No one has lived through more of South Florida's baseball past than Vicente Lopez

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Waiting For Otto

    Why would a man sullied by Iran-contra and illegal propaganda campaigns be a Bush nominee? Good question.

  • News

    October 18, 2001

    The Hate Man

    Lloyd Shank is a poster boy for free speech. The Jews are to blame.

  • Goods and Services

    May 17, 2001

    Best Cigar Shop

    Cigarros Del Mundo

  • Culture

    August 10, 2000

    All the World's a Dance

    The genre of dance theater is taking over local stages

  • Calendar

    June 8, 2000

    Croaked on Arrival

    "Frogs! (The Un-Toad Story)" is on view at the South Florida Science Museum

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    The Fast Life and Near Death of Nica

    Revered by followers, feared by rivals, and targeted by police, the gang leader known as Nica is alive today because of a brush with death

  • Calendar

    April 23, 1998

    Night & Day

    April 23 - 29, 1998

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