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Give Art for Peace a Chance

A Pool With A View

Best Place To Ice-Skate

Incredible Ice

Presumed Guilty

Shoddy police work. A hyperbolic press corps. Overzealous prosecutors. All part of the ruined life of accused pedophile Tom Tornatore.

V-Day Planner: In Search of the Big O

Belinda Eaton, Girl with Oysters, from Belindaeaton.comPly her with aphrodisiacs all night, and you've got it made, right? This week in New Times, Robb Walsh dispenses pearls of wisdom on the world's favorite bivalve here. And below, a plan to spend your V-Day shelling out:Sage Bistro and Oyster B ... More >>

Food with a View

Belinda Eaton, Girl with Oysters, from Belindaeaton.comPly her with aphrodisiacs all night, and you've got it made, right? This week in New Times, Robb Walsh dispenses pearls of wisdom on the world's favorite bivalve here. And below, a plan to spend your V-Day shelling out:Sage Bistro and Oyster B ... More >>

In With the Old, Out With the New

Café Chardonnay holds steady in boom and bust

KISS Country

Café Chardonnay holds steady in boom and bust

Letters for September 27-October 3, 2007

Café Chardonnay holds steady in boom and bust

Subtropical Spin

Far From Gone (Self-released)

Bug Out

Who are you calling a lepidopteran?

Screen Scene

The PBGIFF keeps its film offerings short, sweet, and homegrown

No Blues for Ouzo Blue

Photo from ouzoblue.comThey're dancing on the tables in Palm Beach Gardens -- literally -- with the debut of Palm Beach County's second Ouzo Blue. The first Blue set up in Lake Worth in January, bringing Greek faves from dolmades and spanakopita to moussaka and lamb kebabs, plus lots of table dancin ... More >>

Hey, St. Jude

Photo from ouzoblue.comThey're dancing on the tables in Palm Beach Gardens -- literally -- with the debut of Palm Beach County's second Ouzo Blue. The first Blue set up in Lake Worth in January, bringing Greek faves from dolmades and spanakopita to moussaka and lamb kebabs, plus lots of table dancin ... More >>

Cue the 'Cue: The Gardens Hosts Pit Masters

Photo by Flickr user thebittenwordIf you've made the rounds of all the local barbecue joints and decided you'd rather eat dirt than one more rack of dry, smokeless ribs, desiccated chicken or tough, taste-free brisket, well, for two days at least, you're in luck.  No, it's not a dirt cook-off. ... More >>

Gimme Shelter: Is it a Bus Stop? Or is it Art? Palm Beach Gardens Decides.

"Ceci n'est pas une bus-stop."​ "All art is quite useless," Oscar Wilde once declared. But in Palm Beach Gardens, maybe not. The Palm Beach Gardens city council has $440,000 burning a hole in their pockets: They're planning to spend the money commissioning eight works of public art that will als ... More >>

Flavor Palm Beach Debuts Next Week

​Flavor Palm Beach, the county's month-long answer to Dine Out Fort Lauderdale and Miami Spice, will begin next Tuesday and run through the end of September. The premise is the same as its contemporaries: dine out at participating locations throughout the month and receive a three-course meal for ... More >>

Daybreak

Flickr: www.ImaniGivertz.com"Truth About Vegas" winners of last month's Battle of the Bands last month in Palm Beach Gardens.​

Foodie Events This Week

​Zon-te: That (not Zan-te or Exan-te or whatever) is how you pronounce Xante, a brand of Swedish cognac that's moving stateside with this utterly LOL-tastic ad campaign. Note the image to your right -- that was not Photoshopped, folks. This is what ad execs think makes you want to buy liquor. Anyw ... More >>

Activists Protest Scripps Plan for Briger Tonight in Palm Beach Gardens

Handfern: One of many species environmentalists hope to protect in the Briger Tract​Lake Worth environmental activist Panagioti Tsolkas was one of many locals who banded together five years ago to protest the Scripps Biotech development on Mecca Farms. Some of those same activists, including membe ... More >>

Top Chef Cooks for Haiti

​The 24-hour news cycle has long since moved on from the January earthquake that devastated Haiti and the agony of its aftermath, but for Haitian native and former Top Chef contestant Ron Duprat, forgetting is not that easy.  So he's teamed up with four South Florida Whole Foods Markets to ra ... More >>

Free Roll at RA Sushi Friday -- If You "Like" Them

​In honor of International Sushi Day this Friday, RA Sushi in Palm Beach Gardens and Pembroke Pines is offering anyone who "likes" them on Facebook a coupon for a free Tootsy Maki roll. It's kani kama crab mix, shrimp and cucumber, rolled in crunchy tempura bits, and drizzled with a sweetened ... More >>

Morning Juice: Dog Days, Dog Nights; Stick-Up Note F-Ups; Witness Removal Program

​We've felt some of the hottest temperatures of the year during this past week -- some pure meteorological brutality. Conversely, we've been rewarded (punished?) with some of the coldest air conditioning imaginable. Lucky for us, the local dailies keep dishing plenty of entertaining stories, most ... More >>

Mailboxes Are a Voodoo Doll for Cowards

Flickr: niko-ruThe Postmaster General's gonna be mighty pissed...​Heads up, local prosecutors: If you insist upon trying criminals in South Florida, your mailboxes will feel the wrath of the accused. Seriously, what kind of chicken-shit defendant thought he could intimidate an assistant U.S. attor ... More >>

Restaurant News: 'Top Chef' Gilbert Leaves PGA, Ice King Comes to Wellington, Williams-Sonoma Offers Classes

​•    It's "pack your knives and go" time for former Top Chef contestant Kenny Gilbert again. This time, though, it's by his own choice. It seems that less than two months after he signed on as chef at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, he's signed off to move to Jacksonville and ... More >>

Michael Blum Debuts Holy Smoke's in PBG

​After a controversial stint in Hollywood and a less-than-satisfying one in Sunny Isles with a pair of Michael's Kitchens, local top toque Michael Blum has landed in Palm Beach Gardens, where he's heading up the kitchen of the new Holy Smoke's American Bistro & Bar (2650 PGA Blvd., 561-624-742 ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

Homemade arepas in just a few, easy steps.​Corelino's Pizza opens in Lantana beach.A great milkshake is only a few steps away with these pictorial instructions.We go behind the line with a homeless chef. Here's the inside scoop on the closure of Soma Center's West Palm location.Our review thi ... More >>

Restaurant News: Carmine's Big Plans, Nosh in Cooper City, Get Rummy at Reef Road

​•    First, Palm Beach Gardens. Then, the world. That seems to be the mantra of local restaurateur Carmine Giardini, who's planning a national expansion of his upscale burger joint, CG Burgers. First up will be CGs in the old Bice Bistro space in the Gardens, followed by two more ... More >>

New Palm Beach Gardens Burger Joint to Serve Free Burgers

​The only thing better than a burger at a new burger joint is a free burger at a new burger joint. That's the deal at the new CG Burgers Coal-Fired Pizza (2000 PGA Blvd., 561-275-2185) in Palm Beach Gardens. On Monday, Jan. 10, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., the latest burger emporium from local resta ... More >>

Farm-to-Table Verdea Opens in PBG Embassy Suites

​Road warrior staple Embassy Suites isn't usually in the forefront of culinary trends, but the Palm Beach Gardens hotel is going for it with the debut of its fine dining restaurant, Verdea (4350 PGA Blvd.; 561-691-3130), which touts itself as a farm-to-table eatery that promises "ingredients that ... More >>

Restaurant Roll Call for January 2011

​Despite its reputation as a nothing town at the northern edge of nowhere, when it comes to restaurant openings this month, Palm Beach Gardens is where it's at.   Whether you want thick, juicy, blood-rare burgers or gastronomically correct vegan fare, nouveau Asian cuisine and sushi or c ... More >>

Talay Thai's Chef Charlie Soo: Interview, Part II

My Hot Chefs Chef Charlie Soo​We're continuing our interview with Talay Thai Chef Charlie Soo. Part I of the interview can be found here. Clean Plate Charlie: You've worked in a lot of different cities -- why did you open Talay Thai in Palm Beach Gardens? Chef Charlie Soo: Miami may have ... More >>

Restaurant News: Harold's Coffee Lounge Debuts, Christopher's Now Has Beer and Wine, Hollywood to Get Margaritaville

​• Suck my beans, Starbucks. West Palm Beach's latest ode to caffeinated beverages is anything but another corporate purveyor of designer coffee. Harold's Coffee Lounge (514 Northwood Road; 561-833-6366) pours a nice cuppa amid local art, occasional live music, free WiFi, and pastries from the e ... More >>

Farm Fresh Eggs From Farriss Farm

Robert Farriss​When was the last time an omelet or frittata or a simple hard-boiled egg was something special?  Easier question: When was the first time?  If your omelet, frittata, HBE, whatever are nothing special, it's probably because your eggs are nothing special. Lucky for you, the ... More >>

Tree-Sitting Protesters Arrested; Activists Mourn Fallen Foliage

Courtesy of scrapscripps.infoBefore the arrests, they had been sitting in trees for a month.​In South Florida, defending green space from a developer's bulldozer is akin to protesting oil rigs in Texas. Yesterday, the activists attempting to block the construction of a new Scripps Research Institu ... More >>

West Palm Beach Grandmother Gives 8-Year-Old's Teacher a Loaded Gun -- As a Gift

flickriver.comProbably not the teacher's pet​Apparently elementary school teachers don't like getting loaded guns as presents from their 8-year-old students or their grandmothers.Regardless, that's what Palm Beach County School District officials are saying happened at the Allamanda Elementary ... More >>

RA Sushi Offers Free Tootsy Maki Rolls For International Sushi Day

Celebrate International Sushi Day with free sushi rolls from RA!​Get out the party hats and the soy sauce because International Sushi Day is this Saturday, June 18th and RA Sushi wants to give all their "friends" a certificate for a free Tootsy Maki Roll.

Free Burgers Today at CG Burgers

Flickr/ Reynolds.James.E​In early June, we told you about CG Burgers planning a grand opening of its newest location in Coral Springs. (The others are in Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens.) Well, the big day has arrived, and you can get your

South Florida's Top Four Prix Fixe Picks for Summer

​Before there were one-night pop-ups, followed food trucks, and celebrity-chef-preferred dives, the best way to get a taste of something unique and fleeting was a sampling of a restaurant's creative favorites culled to create a tasting menu.In France, it's referred to as a table d'hôte. In Japan, ... More >>

Field of Greens to Open in Palm Beach Gardens

​There may not be many gardens in Palm Beach Gardens (not many beaches, either). But there is a new Field of Greens (11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Dr., 561-340-1600), scheduled to open tomorrow in the resurgent Downtown at the Gardens mall.  The family-owned chainlet of local eateries (West Pal ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Top Ten Local Restaurant Stories of the Summer

​This past summer-between May 31st and yesterday- the area's readers have been more interested in the opening of burger joints-or really, just about any joint- than porn filmed at a pizzeria. Read on for the season's most read local restaurant news of the summer. The results may surprise you.

.xxx Domain Names Will Soon Be Available for That Porn Website You've Always Wanted

​You know that porn website you always wanted to start? Yes, the one with the 7-foot-tall women and the action figures. Well, you'll have to wait a bit longer to register for the .xxx domain on it, since the company is allowing only preexisting porn sites to register for now.ICM Registry, the Palm ... More >>

Win a Copy of Anne Burrell's Cookbook, Cook Like A Rock Star

​With holiday entertaining fast on the approach, perhaps you'd like to stretch your culinary cred by cooking up a show-stopper: braised short ribs, rack of lamb, or a whole fish, for example. Celebrity chef Ann Burrell walks aspiring home chefs through each recipe in her how-to book, Cook Like a R ... More >>

New Restaurants Need Staff: Kapow! Noodle Bar, The Water Bar, Las Olas Wine, East End Brasserie

​Today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Kapow! Noodle Bar is hosting an open house for  back of the house positions, including line cooks, prep cooks, and dishwashers. Click here for requirements, which include at least a year of experience. Sit tight bartenders and servers: they're hirin ... More >>

Orgy.xxx and Other Future Porn Websites Sold Yesterday at Fort Lauderdale Auction

sikworld.com​The future porn websites of American were sold at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Fort Lauderdale yesterday afternoon, with both normal ".com" suffixes and the newly released ".xxx" domain names up for auction.The company hosting the auction, TRAFFIC, had listed 120 domain names to be aucti ... More >>

Hiring All Positions: Chef Allen's Burger Bar, Caliente Kitchen, Tap 42, a New Organic Brewery, and a Butcher Shop-Restaurant Combo

​Chef Allen's Burger Bar in Palm Beach Gardens is hiring for all positions: line cooks, servers, hosts, and bartenders. Come by from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays to apply. For more information, check it out here. An organic brewery that's opening in Hollywood is looking for ba ... More >>

Calling All Servers, Line Cooks, Bartenders, and Hosts: Burger Bar, Steak 954, Old Calypso, and Sugarcane Need You

​Burger Bar by Chef Allen, slated to open November 15, seeks servers, bar backs, hostesses, runners, line cooks, and dishwashers. The space is across from Scripps, offering indoor and outdoor seating. It's the second of his burger restaurants, with the first located in the airport. Susser's custom ... More >>

Hit Up the Res

​Burger Bar by Chef Allen, slated to open November 15, seeks servers, bar backs, hostesses, runners, line cooks, and dishwashers. The space is across from Scripps, offering indoor and outdoor seating. It's the second of his burger restaurants, with the first located in the airport. Susser's custom ... More >>

Bold Organics Offers Gluten- and Dairy-Free Frozen Pizza Tastings

Bold Organics via FacebookGluten- and dairy-free pizzas? We're in.​The biggest pain for gluten- and lactose-intolerant people is trying to find quick food. Imagine the scenario -- you're on your way home from work. Exhausted from a long day, you're looking for something to just heat up. You hea ... More >>

Rocco's Tacos and Tequila Bar Grand Opening in Palm Beach Gardens, Super Bowl Sunday, and other Events in South Florida this Week

This man will finally reveal his Palm Beach Gardens restaurant. For months, there have been rumored and rescheduled opening dates, but at long last, Rocco's Tacos and Tequila Bar will open its Palm Beach Gardens restaurant. Get a peek this Wednesday with a grand opening celebration open to the publi ... More >>