Oprah Winfrey

Ten Best Burgers in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

Some food items elicit intense reactions. New Yorkers smear any pizza anywhere outside of their dear city limits. Chicagoans eschew hot dogs without their traditional toppings. Kansas City residents scoff at any other barbecue. While each city tends to have its own special dish, good burgers can be ... More >>

Tom Cruise Can Still Be Great -- Why Aren't His Movies?

LeBron James Refuses to Stop Being Awesome

Thirty points and 60 percent shooting. In six straight games. That's all LeBron's been up to lately. No one else has ever done that in the history of the NBA. And so, LeBron James is in the record books. Again. Because it's important to have his face-melting, carnage-inducing, soul-cru ... More >>

Whitney Houston, Actress: Surveying the Great Diva's Checkered Film Career

South Florida's Best Food-Serving Dive Bars

Five Reasons Why Today's Generation Should Listen to Sir Elton John

​Elton John is the owner of six Grammy awards, has a net worth of $320 million, and despite his extensive history with drug abuse and his unabashed honesty when it comes to pop culture, he remains an inspirational figure in music.The legend transgressed from a young man, yearning for a simple song ... More >>

South Florida's Best Burgers

​ Regardless of whether a burger is from a fast food place or a gastropub, they inspire fierce loyalty and love. Indeed, some folks dedicate their lives to the pursuit of the perfect burger. Just ask The Burger Beast, whose third annual Burgie Awards are coming up this Saturday. In the meanti ... More >>

Ellen DeGeneres And Portia de Rossi To Open Vegan Restaurant

ABCEllen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi plan to open a vegan restaurant in California​Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have plans to open a vegan restaurant on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, reports The Hollywood Reporter.Other investors include rocker Chrissy Hynde and entre ... More >>

East End Eats on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale: New Spot for Breakfast and Lunch

Melissa McCart​Though the weather may be sultry, the lobster bisque (served very hot) at East End Eats -- which opened 11 days ago -- is worth a detour. Stocked with loads of Maine lobster claw, the soup is so decadent that Vice President Joe Biden asked for quarts to take home. East End Eats' own ... More >>

Le Tub Saloon: We Demystify the Urban Legends

Chef Allen Susser Talks Burger Battle And The Future, Part Two

Jade Mountain Chef Allen Susser at Jade Mountain resort​Yesterday, we presented part one of our interview with Chef Allen Susser. If you missed it, you can read it here. We now continue with part two. Clean Plate Charlie: You recently closed Chef Allen's after 25 years in business. What ar ... More >>

A Near-Buddhist Reflection on a Photographer in "Bill Cunningham New York"

Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger's "Restrepo" Memorialized a Local Soldier; Now the Soldier's Mom Has Her Own Fight

Local Legend James Randi Announces Winners of This Year's Pigasus Awards

Courtesy, Time Magazine & the James Randi Educational FoundationRandi​Yesterday, on April 1st, my friend and ex-employer James Randi unveiled the recipients of this year's Pigasus Awards. This isn't the kind of award one wants to receive, necessarily. Randi, a local legend and internationally ... More >>

Three New Alcohol-Infused Foods (and One Food-Infused Alcohol)

Photobucket​Tired of your Friday-night outings consisting of dull vodka and sodas or lame syrup-drenched martinis? The irony of the situation is that you waited 21 years to get here. Now that you're an adult, you find yourself making secret pit stops to McDonald's just so you can order a lar ... More >>

Local Tea Partiers Diversify, but Black Preacher Has Radical Anti-Female Views

It's been hard for tea partiers to diversify their ranks, adding to the perception that they're all white people who aren't just mad about taxes; they're mad about being taxed by a black president for social programs that benefit the black community.Nothing if not image-conscious, the tea partiers ... More >>

Puppy Protest Gets Personal in Hollywood

Tara Nieuwesteeg​Over the past couple of months, the protests and counterprotests in front of Puppy Palace in Hollywood have been increasingly heated. In addition to signs and chanting, there have been fake dead dogs, people wearing dog suits, a death toll, sarcastic welcome signs, an impromptu pe ... More >>

The Humane Society's Battle With Farmers Began Right Here in Florida

Boca Blogger Rips Into Palm Beach Trousers

​We've been getting weekly updates from Boca Raton blogger Robert Feeley for some time now: Feeley's news parody, SPN (for StuPidassNews), is at least as ripe as The Onion, only it's completely homegrown. In SPN-land, Boca is "Beaver Falls," and Feeley's august news outlet is "The Only News Sourc ... More >>

Behind the Line: An Interview with Latitudes' Executive Chef and Top Chef Contestant Ron Duprat

Chef Ron Duprat poses with Michelle Bernstein.​These past few days have probably been tough for Ron Duprat, executive chef at Hollywood Beach Marriott's Latitudes Beach Cafe, former Top Chef contestant, and Black Culinarian Alliance chairperson, now that his homeland is a mess of rubble. But image ... More >>

TechSqueeze: How to Sue Celebrities on Twitter for Fun and Profit

Courtney LoveIf you haven't seen the recent headlines, rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel for something she said about someone on Twitter. She is the first official celebrity to get sued over something she tweeted. And you thought Courtney would never be in the record books.This isn't the ... More >>

Precious Locates the Heart and Hell of Its Heroine's Struggle

The Complete Calendar to Broward and Palm Beach Arts for 2009-2010

A Women's Lib Discussion With Porn Star Sasha Grey

Magnolia Pictures Sasha Grey plays an escort in the new Steven Soderbergh movie. About the time the economy began to completely unravel last fall, I wrote a story about the life of a few local prostitutes. The story was prophetically titled "The Real Girlfriend Experience." I say prophetic ... More >>

Morning Juice: Weathermen Issue Stupid Alert, Priests Face Trial for Something Else

It's officially the Year of Hope, and South Florida weather forecasters already have something they hoped for: slightly different weather. That's right, we've got something of a cold front, and that means our weathermen have broken out not the exaggerated phrases but the crazy-stupid exaggerated phr ... More >>

Barack Obama Wins Over Pageant Queen and Reggae Prince at Rally in Sunrise

Men Will Be Boys

With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay, and company still don't wanna grow up. Thank God for that.

Shaken, Not Rocked

Rachel Goodrich shakes, rattles, and rolls on down her own road

You are Just That Into Him

Pupu in Paradise

I got crabs at Nick's and loved it

DeFede Was Hours From Death

The House Always Wins

Ocean´s Thirteen is a washed-up threequel. How much you wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

Stomp the Worm

Saint Aaron to the rescue in Haiti

Race Card

That gotcha moment at Florida Stage somehow gets away. So does the story.

Season to Share

Hey, man, quit Bogarting those baked clams

Gantt Rants Against Leonard Pitts

Osama! Osama!

Damn right, Mexican soccer fans out-insult pansies from el Norte.

Oh Grow Up

Failure is McConaughey's perfect movie — and a pretty good one for us

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Scream On

Grab your guns, and get in the pit

Tailpipe

We Really Helped

Whatever Happened to Lady Jane?

Fonda's humiliation is only one reason this Monster is such a dog

The Edge

Bridget Jones is betrayed by a dumb, dull sequel

Bebel Gilberto

Sweat It Out

Secret P.E. Club can rock an innocent ice cream social or a seedy hotel bar

The Whitest Greens

Augusta refugees will find everything they want -- and everyone they don't -- at many of South Florida's private clubs

Wayne Worldwide

The song-and-dance man from Whose Line Is It Anyway? takes it on the road

New Rules

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Best Comedy Club

Uncle Funny's Comedy Club

Got to Get Him Into Her Life