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Enlightened Aquaponics at Marando Farms: Truly Sustainable Farm Raised Fish (Photos)

These days, everyone is all local this, sustainable that. While it's great that the world is waking up to the benefits of a local, sustainable food system, it still has a long way to go. Yeah, we're buying fruit and veg from farmer's markets as much as possible. We're trying to buy locally caught ... More >>

Cocktails and Canines at Posh: Help Save Desperate Dogs

Anytime you go out on a Saturday night, you know you're going to blow through some money. Unfortunately, all you're going to get in return is a deflated bank account and some possible drunken remorse. If, for once, you would actually like to get drunk for a good cause, Posh is hosting a fundrai ... More >>

A Holiday Gift for the Steak Lover on Your List: Prime in Delray Offering Gift Card Deal

If you're in the market for a Christmas gift for your teenage niece who recently took up arms in PETA's war against the meat industry, keep on browsing. But in case you've got a hard-to-shop-for carnivore on that ever-growing list of people you forgot you have to buy for, Prime in Delray Beach is of ... More >>

Five of SeaWorld's Sordid Scandals: Whale Slaves, a "Surgically Opened" Scrotum, and More!

Yesterday we told you about Jillian Thomas, the 8-year-old girl who was feeding dolphins at SeaWorld when one of the animals bit her arm. Don't worry; she was left with three dime-sized puncture wounds and an unbelievably cool anecdote for the rest of her life. While a dolphin biting an 8-year- ... More >>

World Vegetarian Day is Monday, October 1: Five Sexy Celebrity Vegetarians

Bacon's domination of the internet may lead one to believe otherwise, but there are folks in this world who don't dig on the swine. Or the beef, chicken, turkey, and fish, for that matter. For these non-meat-eaters, World Vegetarian Day, October 1, is the time to shine. The date -- which happens to ... More >>

Run Away With the Circus

PETA Names Pembroke Pines Resident Finalist in Sexiest Vegetarian Contest

Animal rights organization PETA has named the finalists in their annual "Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door" contest -- and one of the sexiest men is from Pembroke Pines!Malik Kalonji is a 46-year-old yoga instructor, massage therapist, and winner of several martial arts competitions. The healthy hottie h ... 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 >>

Michele Lazarow, Friend of the Puppies, on Hallandale Beach Puppy-Store Ordinance

After Wednesday night's dramatic meeting about puppy stores in Hallandale Beach, we caught up with Michele Lazarow, who has been the strongest voice behind getting a puppy-store ban passed in that small city.Lazarow -- who says she doesn't want to call herself an "activist" because that would make p ... More >>

Wednesday, March 14, is Pi Day - Four Places to Get Your Pie in South Florida

​ Wednesday, March 14, is Pi Day. Get it? Pi is 3.14 (plus a bunch more numbers) and March 14 is equal to 3/14 and, hey - an excuse to eat pie! Anyhow, you don't have to be a geometry aficionado to participate in Pi- and pie-related fun. If you're the do-it-yourself type, try your hand at a Pi rec ... More >>

Ten Stories From McDonald's Twitter Fail

​You might think twice before hitting up the drive-through for this morning's McMuffin.The New York Observer, Huffington Post, and others reported how a McDonald's twitter marketing ploy has gone awry. Two dipshit tweets from McDonald's with the hashtag #McDStories -- "When you make something ... More >>

Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde Closes Her Ohio Restaurant, Citing Bad Economy

​Chrissie Hynde closed her vegan restaurant on Sunday, citing a bad economy.  The Akron, Ohio, restaurant was open four years and was voted one of the top five vegan restaurants in America by Business Week.The Vegiterranean served vegan dishes with an Italian-Mediterranean flair. On the resta ... More >>

"Project Nim": Nature, Nurture, and the Awful Tale of a Chimp Named Nim

Urban Homesteading Teaches Suburban Warriors to Be One With Nature

Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living, by Rachel Kaplan with K. Ruby Blume.​As urban sprawl pushes farther and farther into formerly wild and rural areas, the comforts of modern living are beginning to stress our natural resources. Despite the welcome rains of the past week, a ... More >>

Sefa Mediterranean Grill in Delray Beach: The Atmosphere Dazzles, and the Food's Awesome Too

Got Leftover Peeps? Five Peeps Recipes

Photo by: Robyn Lee (seriouseats.com)Peepshi!​Warning: Peeps were harmed during the making of this blog entry! (Sorry, PETA.)While strolling down the candy aisle at your local Walgreens store, you may have been lured in by all of the mesmerizing, pastel-colored holiday candy on display. Some of th ... More >>

Indus Indian Herbal Cuisine in West Palm Beach: The Lamb Is Delicious, but God, the Veggies Are Exquisite

Fitness and Nutrition Tips from a Super Hot Guy (Mike Fitch, Finalist in Wilhelmina Models "Hottest Bodies in America" Contest)

courtesy Mike Fitch​I must confess, in another life, I used to be a fitness-person bigot. They all seemed to be these Disney-cheery, spandex-wrapped people who lived on alien-looking, blue-green smoothies and who felt like a bunch of jiggly rocks when they, usually for no good reason, hugged me ... More >>

Palm Beach Fur Retailers, Beware: This Man Is Coming for You

In this video, made last Friday on what activists deemed "Fur Free Friday," a local animal rights crusader named Josh Durden takes a camera into several high-end clothing stores to ask the employees selling fur what they think of the disgusting animal-skinning processes used to procure most fur.He v ... More >>

Eat Your Way Through the Recession: A Poor Man's Guide to Snagging Free Food

alancleaver2000​Times, they are tough. Unemployment is a national plague, and my piggy bank -- yes, I have one -- hasn't seen this much action in years. Like a lot of folks these days, I find myself standing in a grocery aisle, staring zombie-like at the shelves, balancing the importance of squeez ... More >>

Five Reasons Why Sleepy Sun Anticipates Visiting Florida

Meatless: The Movie

​Shane Close is a Miami-based surfer (past chairman of the local Surfrider chapter), high-end web developer, and, now, indie filmmaker. After he read the Omnivore's Dilemma and became a dad, his wife turned to him and asked the question no barbecue addict wants to hear: "Could you go meatless?"

Otep Brings Goth Metal to Culture Room

How to Convert a Vegetarian by Hiding the Meat in "Authentic" Dishes

Photo by Flicker user JadydangelHide your meat in baked ziti.​It's no secret that I'll eat pretty much anything made from, made with, or made in the same room as a meat or meat byproduct. Oddly, not everyone feels the same way. Occasionally, someone around here whom I won't name because she knows ... More >>

Five Questions With Cuci Amador of Afrobeta

Animal Collective

The Decade in Meat: From the McRib Comeback to a President Obama Meat Blunder

Photo from Flickr user Cap'n SurlyThe decade brought us many great meat products, like the Bacon Explosion.​Growing up, I was always a fan of those ubiquitous "best of the year" stories that news outlets put together every December, so I thought it fitting that I give a little something back this ... More >>

Pit Bulls Banned in Miami Find Refuge in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

Petland Faces Puppy Mill Lawsuit; Dog From Davie Store Raised by Rat Bastard

From Nebraska, to Davie, to the arms of Anthony from Petland.The Humane Society of the United States has filed this class-action lawsuit against Petland, which has several local stores, claiming Petland buys dogs from puppy mills. This actually comes as some good news to my landlord, because now I a ... More >>

When Animal Activists Attack

Bitten on the set of a Rick Ross video, Mark McCarthy now squares off against animal activists.

Morrissey at Mizner Park Ampitheatre

A Gourmet in Party Central

Chef Hammi gets fresh at Himmarshee

Coming of Age

The Warped Tour approaches its teen years.

Letters for May 11-17, 2006

Pretty Girls Make Saves

As videogames go indie, Outtakes imagines a few likely pairings.

Lecture Alert: Red!

Ridge gives us the terror talk

Hold the Turkey

What does a Seminole "living village" mean?

Puppy Love

Nintendogs' charm will win over the most jaded of gamers

Mellow Fever

ALO

Red Dirt Woman

Cattle Decapitation

Bronco Girls

Bucking the System

The Stunted

Against all odds -- and several plot implausibilities -- director William Friedkin stages a comeback

Gale Farce

Kevin isn't the only thing Spacey in this overlong death-penalty drama

Boston

Corporate America (Artemis)

Dr. Strange

Grant Morrison's the best writer in comics--and maybe the oddest

So Fra, So Good

A liberal hand with the liquor means culinary magic at this Italian eatery

Don’t Get Holidazed!

Holiday Gift Guide 2001

Same Ol' Soyka

The Soyka magic comes to Las Olas with satisfying if unremarkable results

Calibrations

Spawn of Jerry Lee Lewis and Courtney Love