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March 26, 2007Recycled Finger Food
July 15, 2008Palm Beach Bargain Basements
July 14, 2008Bernstein at the Omphoy?
November 7, 2008Top Chefs Throw Pity Party, Dec. 8th
Sandy Skoglund, "The Cocktail Party" Got 100 people coming for a holiday shindig? Stupidest idea you EVER had, right? Believe it, we've been there. But four of Palm Beach's top chefs are taking pity this season and throwing a bash at Cafe Boulud that might help prevent us from totally screwing up our next cocktail party if we listen carefully, pay attention, and follow instructions. If you're sick of rolling hundreds of little piggies into blankets or can't stand the thought of one more vat o
November 17, 2008Slow Foods Glades to Coast Dinner at Cafe Boulud
(sturgeon: It's what's for dinner)The Slow Foods Glades to Coast Chapter, which covers roughly the Palm Beach and Broward areas, is hosting a 5-course Growers' Discovery gourmet dinner at Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach this Thursday, December 11, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. The dinner, overseen by chef Zach Bell, is pricey at $125 per person (that includes wine pairings, tax and tip), but the menu sounds intriguing. In keeping with the locavore bent of Slow Food, Bell has sourced sturgeon from the Mote Marin
December 5, 2008Ferguson: Lesbian Scene Is Hot in Delray
We're very well aware that Broward and Palm Beach counties do not draw high-voltage celebrities in the same way as L.A. or New York. (And if we forget, we always have Donald Trump to remind us.) Yet we do sometimes marvel at the bizarre mix of notables that rumble through town. We've got Rush Limbaugh, Vanilla Ice, and the Williams sisters as residents. Bruce Springsteen stops by to watch his daughter ride horses in Wellington; Dennis Rodman pops up at local clubs in drag; and who co
December 18, 2008Tag Team Beatdown: Time and Newsweek Pummel Palm Beach
See if you can find a silver lining for South Florida in these two reports in major national news magazines about Palm Beach. Newsweek's Daniel Gross writes about how Bernard Madoff fleeced Palm Beach high society and Time declares the county to be The New Capital of Florida Corruption. Give up?It means that the Old Capital of Florida Corruption, Broward County, gets a breather. At least until old Alex Acosta gets around to assigning federal prosecutors to take a closer look at the pay-to-play c
January 13, 2009Weakened at Bernie's: PETA Gets the Ponzi Treatment, Too
She will not be streaking at the inauguration.You probably thought today's inauguration ceremonies would provide a day's relief from the death march of victims of area reprobate Bernard Madoff. Well, sorry. Turns out the Palm Beach financial wizard made special-access inauguration tickets disappear for the People's Ethical Treatment of Animals. Now PETA will be unable to get close to spraypaint an anti-fur message on the president-elect, or streak past the podium mid-speech.
January 20, 2009Snitches Turn in Kids Who TP'd Madoff's Place, Bogus Purses Go Unmatched With Shoes
The mystery of who toiled papered Bernie Madoff's Palm Beach home has been solved. Two teenagers from Michigan have been fingered as the TP culprits. The kids apparently bragged to their friends after they got back from vacation, which then tipped off the Palm Beach police, according to this story in the Detroit News.Now I'm all for witnesses going to the cops in the unlikely event of a shooting, stabbing, or an airplane landing at sea. But ratting on your buddies for toilet papering the home of
January 30, 2009Condo Vultures: "Bad Times Are Still Ahead"
Bal Harbour-based real estate consultancy Condo Vultures has crunched the numbers on 2008 sales of distressed housing stock in South Florida and -- surprise, surprise -- the picture is ugly. The average homeowner in the tri-county area had to slash their sale price by 43%, or $323,784, to unload a property. Here's the lowdown for Broward and Palm Beach counties: The Broward neighborhood with the steepest discounts was Oakland Park, where sellers cut prices by 45.9% The
January 30, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Performance Artist
They've proven their chops by performing in our clubs, museums, and on our streets, and now honor them by telling us who's the best performance artist in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Add your winner to the comments field below.
February 5, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll: Best Theater Company
They've got the shows you love and the actors you love to see, so now give them some love by nominating the best theater company in Broward and Palm Beach counties.Need some suggestions? Click here for an archive of articles by New Times theater critic Brandon K. Thorp.Add your winner to the comments field below.
February 3, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Boutique
Amid all the chain stores in South Florida, there are merchants who painstakingly select items to sell in their small boutiques. Tell us which boutique in Broward or Palm Beach counties you simply couldn't live without. Nominate a winner in the comment field below.
February 8, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Album Store
Record stores are an endangered species, what with all the digital downloads available these days. But a few shops are still stocking vinyl and CDs for the deejays and collectors among us. Tell us which Broward or Palm Beach record store is your favorite in the comment section.
February 9, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Hair Stylist
Whether you go for a weave, dye, or a mere trim, you're entrusting your image to a stylist who (hopefully) makes you look and feel fabulous. Tell us in the comment section below which stylist in Broward or Palm Beach counties is simply the best.
February 9, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll: Best Pizza
No single foodstuff has been fought over with the fervor of of the simple tomato pie. Everybody's got an opinion, and our guess is you're no exception. Whether you like the fat, doughy Chicago pie, the New York-style thin crust (soft enough to fold in the middle), one of the new brick-oven flatbreads topped with rock shrimp and pancetta, or the way they do it in old Italy: with a cracker crunchy crust -- tell us where you get the BEST PIZZA in Broward and Palm Beach counties by writing your vote
February 12, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Park
South Florida is the best place in the country to be outdoors. We've got beaches, pines, wetlands, and acres of open green fields. Honor your favorite outdoorsy spot in Broward and Palm Beach counties by voting on the best park. Add your winner to the comments field below.
February 11, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Band
If you're the type to give directions by referencing Respectable Street, City Limits, and the Culture Room, then you'll have a band that deserves this honor. Vote in the comments field below for the best band in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
February 9, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Local Hip-Hop Artist
It's hard to disagree that the past year was the year of hip-hop, and a lot of the good stuff came from South Florida. So in the comments field below, write in your winner for best hip-hop artist in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
February 5, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Local Club DJ
That master of the turntable who's made you shake your pants in Broward and Palm Beach counties deserves some respect. Pay it by voting for the best local club DJ in the comments field below.
February 1, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Dance Club
Vote in the comments section below for your favorite dance club in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
February 10, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Politician in Palm Beach
With at least five local commissioners heading to the federal pen in the last few years, Palm Beach rivals Zimbabwe as the corruption capital of the world. Amid the hubbub, some politicians are actually out there doing good work ... right? Vote for the best politician in Palm Beach in the comments field below.
February 7, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Pizza
No single foodstuff has been fought over with the fervor of of the simple tomato pie. Everybody's got an opinion, and our guess is you're no exception. Whether you like the fat, doughy Chicago pie, the New York-style thin crust (soft enough to fold in the middle), one of the new brick-oven flatbreads topped with rock shrimp and pancetta, or the way they do it in old Italy: with a cracker crunchy crust -- tell us where you get the BEST PIZZA in Broward and Palm Beach counties by writing your vote
February 9, 2009Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Hamburger
It seems simple: a patty of meat slapped in a bun. But that quintessential American sandwich has become perhaps the most tinkered-with of dishes, dressed and doused, marinated and grilled in mesquite. Tell us where to find the best hamburger in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below.Need some suggestions? Click here for an archive of articles by New Times food writers Gail Shepherd and John Linn.
February 6, 2009Can Rich Kids Rock?
Meet The Hurricanes. The pint-sized rockers from Palm Beach, ages 11 and 12, have the most lopsided industry advantage of any band since The Strokes. To wit: They practice next door to the Mar-a-Lago, a former Trump property. The drummer's daddy owns a 10,000 foot, $6.5 million house on the Island. Here they are in action, courtesy Palm Beach Daily News.
February 17, 2009Atlantic Writer Discovers Post-Apocalyptic Peninsula With Nice Weather
Scripps in Jupiter: a zombie-free zone?South Florida has recently welcomed a visitor from a more advanced civilization: the American Northeast. Mind you, this one wasn't captured by one of our tribes and dragged here for interrogation. His spaceship did not crash-land here. Rather, William Haseltine, a "scientist, businessman and philanthropist," came to South Florida of his own volition to help the biotech firm Scripps cut the ribbon on its new research facility in Jupiter, seen here. Haseltine
March 4, 2009The Juice Approves This Message... Whatever It May Be
Hey, Democratic donors of Florida! Guess how your political party has decided to spend some of your hard-earned donations? If you guessed "Buy a Florida billboard with which to cast aspersions at Rush Limbaugh," then you are psychic, or merely a reader of Wonkette.Here is the Democratic Party web page where you are invited to unleash a Tourette's-ic flurry at the rotund pill-popper who has recently become the double-chinned face of the Republican Party.One fly in the ointment: Seems the Democrat
March 5, 2009Barely Known Florida Marlins Leave State to Become Little Havana Marlins
The Little Havana Marlins begin the big move.The Marlins finally got the new stadium the team has sought for a decade, meaning the team will now depart the State of Florida for Little Havana. The team will leave Dolphin Stadium, with its proximity to Broward and Palm Beach counties, in 2012. And with the stadium approval, the team agreed to change its name to the Miami Marlins, forever forgetting about the Broward and Palm Beach fans who used to sometimes go to games. Team owner Jeffrey Loria ga
March 24, 2009Cats in the Cradle Have the Silver Spoon
Flickr user: Deneb SumbulSouth Florida's most exclusive real estate is crawling with feral cats who have -- in a fashion that the children of a wealthy divorced couple might appreciate -- been playing one of their benefactors against the other. It's "PB Cats" versus "Island Cats of Palm Beach," both of whom would be the sole provider of sustenance to the cats. PB Cats won the first round, convincing the town council to give it sanction and make it illegal for Island Cats to feed the feline
April 15, 2009Texts From Last Night, Broward vs Palm Beach
Flickr User: Gabriel DanielFriends don't let friends drink without textingThis website posts actual text messages from people who share an area code -- your area code. Which means we can finally settle the argument over whether Broward or Palm Beach has more freaks. Whatcha got, Broward?(954): Dude, I don't think I'll ever be able to find a girl for me... (1-954): Is this the gay conversation? Supportive friends -- a theme we'll explore later. Here's a lady who gets points for mystery:(954): Yo
May 19, 2009Heart of Darkness
Great white hunters get jungle fever at the Leopard Lounge
June 21, 2007The Dirty Dozen of 2006
They're all graced with an ineffable South Florida quality
December 28, 2006Cheap Eats on the Island?
Yes, it seems even Palm Beach can't escape the iron clutch of impending economic doom. Fortunes strip-mined by Bernie Madoff, trendy uber-boutiques slinking off Worth Avenue like mangy dogs, billionaires reduced to poverty-stricken multimillionaires. And now an affordable restaurant is heading for the streets-paved-with-18-carat gold island.Oh, the horror. . . Actually, it's Da Francesco at 251 Palm Beach, a casual, moderately priced Italian eatery that's partnered up with 251, the newly debuted
April 15, 2009Enter Your Zagat Vote for BPB's Best Restaurants
Don't get disenfranchisedThanks to The Chowfather for the reminder that the Zagat Guide is now soliciting votes for the best restaurants in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Log on here to vote; you have to register first but it doesn't cost anything. You can vote on as many restaurants as you have time for in the categories of food, decor, and service -- and then add a short paragraph of your impressions (which may appear in the final guide -- there are even $100 Visa gift awards for being extra
May 8, 2009Tell Us Who's Best in South Florida
Earlier this year, we asked you to tell us your favorite things about Broward and Palm Beach counties in our Best Of 2009 Readers' Poll. Below is a random sampling of the projected winners so far. Some categories have yet to be voted on, like Best Politician (we're still optimistic there is such a thing), and others are being bitterly debated. Say what and who you think makes South Florida great by voting by May 18 in the following categories: Best Sex Toy Shop: Currenlty it's between E-twiddle.
May 13, 2009What to Do for Dinner? Vote for Your Favorite Dining Spots
Le Tub: in the lead in our Readers' Poll.When we search Broward and Palm Beach counties for winners for our Best Of edition, we eat and drink all in the name of our readers. Even with all our hard work, though, we can't know it all. So every year, we invite our readers to submit their favorites in our Best Of Readers' Poll. Below are the restaurants currently in the lead for winning our Readers' Poll. Click on the links to vote, but do so before May 18.Best Sports Bar: Wowies Sports GrillBest Ba
May 13, 2009Broward and Palm Beach Banks Slightly Better Prepared for Apocalypse Than Rest in Florida
Flickr User: jbenson2Geithner will spare us locals from his bank spreeWhen you fill out a deposit slip these days, it's hard to know whether you'll get the money back or if you're throwing it into a bottomless pit. So it should come as an enormous relief that a bank-rating firm, Bauer Financial, has given passing grades to banks and credit unions based in Broward and Palm Beach counties.The ratings are based on reports the banks provide to the federal regulators about their fitness to weather a
June 22, 2009To Fellow Inmates, Madoff's So Bad, He's Good
Schadenfreude-starved followers of the Palm Beach pirate may be delighted to hear this, from an inmate at Madoff's prison in Butner, North Carolina, courtesy the New York Post:"Some of the guys were talking about smacking him around a little, just to get the notoriety of it."But don't get your hopes up, haters. Remember that a prison is full of villains, a demographic that forms its opinion of newcomers based on how they treated other villains. By this perverse standard, Madoff deserves the Nobe
July 22, 2009"Let Them Win": Tales of Life Inside the Everglades Club
The Florida Center for Instructional TechnologyNo t-shirts allowed in the hallowed dining halls of the Everglades Club. Aside from the racial and religious discrimination discussed in this week's New Times cover story about the Everglades Club, there are some more eccentricities worth noting about life at the exclusive Palm Beach country club.First, there's a significant portion of gray hair on the Worth Avenue campus. The average member is in his 60s, one member noted, and 34 people died l
July 23, 2009Palm Beach Rebs Threaten Secession
Rebellion, Palm Beach-styleNothing secedes like excess. We here at the Juice thinks it makes sense: Palm Beach town councilman William Diamond urged his fellow confederates at yesterday's council meeting to consider seceding from Palm Beach County and forming a new county of its very own. Diamond argued that the playground of the rich and famous was paying out something like $51 million a year in property taxes. And for what? A few paltry public parks? And those full of little bro
August 12, 2009As Region Suffers, Football Stars Shine Bright
Flickr: elevenwarriorsLed by Brandon Linder, arguably the state's best prospect, St. Thomas Aquinas at a practice prior to a nationally televised game.If you had to pick the county in America with the best high school football players, it would probably be Los Angeles -- but that's not fair: With 10 million people, L.A. County's the biggest county in the nation. Now if you picked the best tri-county area, per capita, for high school football, you'd simply have to go with Miami-Dade, Broward
September 15, 2009Spring Fashion Trend: Fraudster Chic
Flickr: bobsorosThe modern Ponzi wears his hat low and his collar high.In what may be the most tone-deaf, irresponsible men fashion trend since Marky Mark's sagging pantaloons, Brooks Brothers is now encouraging us to dress like Ponzi schemers and multi-millionaire welfare queens.Of course, that's not quite the phrasing with which the company announced its spring line -- instead, the article in the men's section of Women's Wear Daily put it thus:The Hamptons, the coast of Maine and the sand a
September 15, 2009Fore! Bailed-Out Big Shots Exiled to Palm Beach Golf Course
Flickr: AndreJenny.comExecutives whose blunders had to be bailed out by taxpayers must console themselves at golf courses like this one, at the Breakers.Much was made of the cold shoulder turned by Palm Beach high society against the Jaffe family and others linked to Bernard Madoff, whose locker at the Palm Beach Country Club was unceremoniously stripped after the scandal broke. Yet other villains of high finance, whose recklessness may have had an even more destructive impact on American inv
September 16, 2009Buyer Snatches Up Madoff Home in Montauk; Bidding War for Palm Beach Digs?
Flickr: edmondsundressedMadoff's home in Palm BeachThis month, when Bernie Madoff's three homes went on the market, it was anyone's guess as to whether their link to the convicted swindler would be regarded as a curse or whether it would add to the home's mystique. Folks with $10 million to spend on a home can afford to be choosy.But now we've learned that Madoff's Montauk home has sold for more than the $8.75 million listed price, suggesting there was a bidding war. There could be another on
September 18, 2009Welcome to Palm Beach: You'll Like it Better if You Don't Live Here
Flickr user: thewentworths1At least the snowbirds love it here.Poor Palm Beach County. First West Palm was named one of the most depressing places in America. Now a new Gallup poll of West Palm, Boca, and Boynton Beach residents has revealed that those most emotionally attached to the area are older snowbirds. In other words, the biggest fans of Palm Beach don't actually live here. They visit for six blessedly balmy months of the year, develop a nostalgic
October 2, 2009Legal Sea Food Offers Cheap Lust
If you're not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here's a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. If food is the new pornography, oysters are the new Viagra. So if you're lusting for the sweet-salty caress of a cool, slippery bivalve sliding down your throat or are burning with desire for the pale, golden skin and creamy-dreamy flesh of a crisp-fried love nugget, get in on Legal Sea Food's Oyster Festival before
October 7, 2009Florida Lawyer Ruffles Feathers in High Society With His Pesky Subpoenas
Flickr: cassaccinoPalm Beach dining: Now serving subpoenas, with a caviar side.God knows the island of Palm Beach doesn't hold grudges against greedy attorneys, but Brad Edwards, you're pushing your luck. The attorney from Fort Lauderdale's Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler represents a gaggle of Jane Does who say they were solicited and/or fondled by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, a Palm Beach resident. The gall! And now Edwards is sending his subpoenas to high-society dames like Ghislaine Maxwell. F
October 13, 2009Morning Juice: Pleas in Mafia Case; Crist Asks for Corruption Inquiry
As we continue to watch for candidates in the race to replace Congressman Robert Wexler, let's see what else is brewing in Broward and Palm Beach.Prosecutors have scored guilty pleas from six men accused of racketeering for the Bonanno crime family, but the alleged ringleader is still holding out for a trial. [Miami Herald]Charlie Crist wants a statewide grand jury to examine corruption rampant in South Florida. But will it be free to go digging in your backyard, Governor? [Sun-Sentinel]In La
October 15, 2009Morning Juice: Vigilante Justice in Coconut Creek; Saints Light Up the Fins
Nothing like a server crash to start your week! Here's an abbreviated edition of MJ:Madoff associate Jeffry Picower dead after being found at the bottom of the pool in his Palm Beach home. Gatsby-esque, isn't it? [Palm Beach Post] A Davie man is in jail for beating the hell out of a man who he believed molested his son. [Sun-Sentinel]An apparent love triangle turned deadly in Coconut Creek, where a man stabbed his girlfriend, who escaped to phone police. Another man stayed in the home to
October 26, 2009
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