Norman (Oklahoma)

Chefs and Cookbook Authors @ 2012 Miami Book Fair This Weekend

The Miami Book Fair International kicked off Sunday with what must have been an awkward conversation between famed author and journalist Tom Wolfe and former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz. People talk plenty of smack about South Florida, but we get one of the world's biggest book fairs one month and then t ... More >>

Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival 2012: LeCirque, Food Trucks, Celebrity Chefs

The Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival is still months away, but after a conversation with event organizer, David Sabin, we're looking forward to the day tickets go on sale.The festival, scheduled for December 7 to 11, is already attracting quite a list of celebrity chefs scheduled to appear at the ... More >>

Get Your Mojo and Pickled Pig's Head in Norman Van Aken's Weekly Column

​Norman Van Aken -- one of the Mango Gang, along with Douglas Rodriguez, Allen Susser, and Mark Militello -- has started a weekly column, Word on Food, over on the national food site Food Republic -- teasers, perhaps, for his upcoming cookbook, My Key West Kitchen.Currently he helms Norm ... More >>

Tuesday Morning Bytes

It just keeps happening to Gov Rick Scott. He makes a decision from his evil alien gut -- you know, like slashing funding for the developmentally disabled -- and then when masses of bona fide Earth-born human beings rise up to oppose it, he reverses course. Model Citizen​(Rick Scott is h ... More >>

Get a Jackhammer to City Hall

​Above, you can see former Tamarac Mayor Joe Schreiber at City Hall pointing out the "two bums" honored with pavers in the walkway. One is Marc Sultanof, the former vice mayor charged last week with bribery and other crimes for allegedly taking car payments and cash from dirty developers Bruce ... More >>

Morning Juice: Rothstein Crawls Back; Broward School Officials Try Blame Game

​It's Wednesday. Here's the local news:A bruising campaign for mayor of Lake Worth will go a few more rounds as Rene Varela didn't quite win enough votes to avoid a runoff with Laurence McNamara. In the Commission races, conservative Scott Maxwell beat Ron Exline and Jo-Ann Golden won reelection. ... More >>

Butterworth Looking for "Root Cause" of School Board Corruption: Maybe It's the Media?

At about the 2:40 mark of this Sun-Sentinel video, you'll hear Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler complain about the lack of positive media coverage of the Broward County School Board. Then former Attorney General Bob Butterworth plays editor, questioning why the dailies didn't give more coverage to ... More >>

Morning Juice: A Family Name in a Familiar Fix; a Widower Smokes Big Tobbaco

Flickr: chadborneGas masks: They cost less than nurses do​Just one more day of bearing the stress that comes with being a South Florida news consumer. Be strong!"How could Evan Jenne earn $60,000 last year from a company that didn't exist until January of this year?" asks Amy Sherman in the Miami ... More >>

Morning Juice: Psychic on Lam Totally Called It, Florida Stays Flaccid, Gay Chorus Twinkles

Psychic on the Lam Totally Called ItThe Broward Sheriff's Office is on the hunt for Gina Marie Marks, a psychic who they say ripped off her clients by promising to cleanse their souls. First off, the last time I went to Gina Marie Marks for a soul cleansing, she totally called this! I mean, she didn ... More >>

Update

Authorities charge mayor with a crime first reported in New Times

Whatever Happened To Coral Gables?

It wasn't that long ago that serious diners in these parts pointed to Coral Gables as the go-to spot for eating out. Palme d'Or, Pascals, Ortanique, Christy's, Caffe Abracci, Francesco's, Norman's, Mundo, Chispa, Restaurant Brana, Max's Grille, The Palm Steakhouse...quite a roster. Mundo, Norman's, ... More >>

Royal Flushed

Becoming a pro poker player isn't as sweet as it sounds

Paradise Found

Chowhounds, Get Ready for Top Chef Finale

Local Food Chatter

Black Electeds, JAABlog Commenters, and SPJ Haters

Jim Naugle Is A Punk

Letters for March 29-April 4, 2007

"Driven to Dine " Offers a Haute Luck Dinner

Crystal Closes

A Real Post For Real People

Letters for June 8–14, 2006

Kevin Underwood. Voracious reader. Loved

Letters for March 16-23, 2006

Letters for February 9–15, 2006

Letters for June 16-22, 2005

Letters for June 2-8, 2005

Letters for April 14-20, 2005

One Man's Issues

Are another's source of laughter

Stagebeat

Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

Stagebeat

Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

Stagebeat

Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

A Sort of Sanctuary

No Robin Hood in these woods. Just big hearts, tough times, plenty of soul, and keep the Ice Light comin'

Gamblin' Whoa Man!

Veni, vidi, and lost her shirt at the Seminole Casino

Letters July 1-7. 2004

Help for Gay Islanders

Best Stage Actor

William Hayes

Puttin' on the Blitz

Palm Beach Dramaworks conjures up a World War II acting troupe under fire

Café Conspiracy

Take away the salt shakers and this place could be topnotch

Delray Takes a Holiday

"Art & Jazz on the Avenue" spruces up for Christmas

Cooking with Todd and Tony

Two are better than one. Really.

Buddhaful Dining

Glorious design...and fusion grub to match

Letters for February 6, 2003

Journalistic Ethics 101

Crime Always Plays

The other Shaffer's Murderer is no Equus, but it sure moves

Clock that Rocker

The South Florida version of The Chair

Letters for November 8, 2001

Cut the bureaucrats some slack

Letters to the Editor

Letters for July 12, 2001

Best Centenarian

Winifred Lancy

The Doctor's Dilemma

Sure, gay physicians deal with prejudice. But from mom and pop?

I See Dull People!

The only thing more boring than the surface of this Ford/Pfeiffer "thriller" is What Lies Beneath

Guess Who's Serving Dinner