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Florida Sues BP and Haliburton Over 2010 Oil Spill

Florida got the Earth Day festivities kicked off early with some good old fashioned litigation. Over the weekend, Florida joined Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana is suing BP and Halliburton over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The suit, filed by State Attorney General Pam Bondi in United S ... More >>

Jamaican Restaurants in West Broward: Hidden Gems Everywhere

For a slideshow of Auntie I's Jamaican Restaurant, click here.

Frankenfish Rejected From National Retailers: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and More

Frankenfish has been swimming its way closer to your dinner plate for quite some time now. While you were recovering from your post-holiday hangover or taking advantage of major savings on that flat-screen TV on December 26, the FDA concluded that Frankenfish -- i.e., AquaBounty Technologies' AquaAd ... More >>

How to Make a Wood-Fired Pizza: Osteria Acqua & Farina's Attilio Reale Explains

Attilio Reale has been making wood-fired pizzas for 25 years.Originally from Naples -- Italy, not Florida -- he grew up in northern Italy. And his pizza closely mimics his background."My pizza style is close to the Napoli style with an influence from the north," says Reale in his melodious Italian a ... More >>

It's Boat Show Time! Ten Places to Dock and Dine in South Florida

There's a reason Fort Lauderdale is host to one of the largest boat shows in the world. With over 300 miles of navigable inland waterways, Greater Fort Lauderdale is known as the Venice of America.A lot of the region's land space is taken up by multimillion dollar waterfront McMansions with 100-foot ... More >>

Tony Galeota: From Running Porky's, Miami's Most Notorious Strip Joint, to Rotting in a Panamanian Jail

Bill Nelson and Connie Mack Television Debate Is Set

The Bill Nelson-Connie Mack race is pretty much America's most closely watched Senate race. And now incumbent Nelson -- the Democrat -- and Mack -- the Republican -- have agreed to the only confirmed statewide televised debate on October 17. The showdown will take place at Nova Southeastern Univers ... More >>

Steve Southerland Swam With Skinny Dipping Congressmen in Sea of Galilee, According to Sources

According to multiple sources reporting to Politico, Republican Florida Rep. Steve Southerland, Panama City, went to Israel on a fact-finding mission last year with a bunch of GOP freshmen congressmen and then went swimming while others went skinny dipping at the place Jesus supposedly walked on wat ... More >>

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Faces Lawsuit For Not Protecting Ten Florida Species

Ten relatively obscure species found in the Sunshine State have landed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in a legal tussle.The black rail, the Georgia blind salamander, a siltsnail, and the purple skimmer are among the animals that Fish and Wildlife has failed to adequately protect, accor ... More >>

Contraband Review: Mark Wahlberg's One Last Job

Local Roaster Oceana Coffee Opens in Tequesta

​Oceana Coffee debuted last week in Tequesta, one of the only local roasters in the area. It's the brick-and-mortar result of three years of work for Amy and Scott Angelo, who spent time tasting beans, learning sourcing, experimenting with roasters, and building the cash to start the shop. The cou ... More >>

First Bite: Dapur in Fort Lauderdale

jumponmarkslist.com​The outside of Dapur is smoker-friendly. Retro-chrome and vinyl bar tables frame one side of the entrance, a fountain with greenery on the other. Papery chandeliers light the mood: all this before a diner even opens the door. Inside, speakers that would dwarf a child& ... More >>

Florida's Anti-Faces of Death Law May Hide How 18-Year-Old Died in State Hands

cinema-suicide.comFaces of Death: A crappy movie that makes videos of people dying very scary.​Thanks to the Florida lawmakers' successful bid to legislate morality in the state's public records law, we may never know how 18-year-old Eric Perez died in the hands of state workers.Perez died about a ... More >>

Rick Scott: Forget the Oil Spill -- Let's Go Fishing!

Florida Governor's OfficeSlick Rick catches his own BP Special.​On the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster that spilled 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Gov. Rick Scott celebrated by going fishing.Sounds strange, but Slick Rick didn't have much choice. He favors ... More >>

South Florida Lags Woefully Behind in Spring Break Dangers

​In a recent survey of the most dangerous spring break destinations in the country, Fort Lauderdale -- birthplace of the modern spring break -- didn't even crack the top ten. West Palm Beach ranked fifth and Miami was tenth. The survey, conducted by the website lawyer website avvo.com, looked at c ... More >>

Are You a Believer in Miracles?

While Some Couples Leave Florida for Surrogacy, It's a Choice Destination for Others

Michael McElroy for New TimesAndy and Todd Bludworth-McNeill, the subjects of this week's feature article.​This week's cover story features a South Florida same-sex couple who traveled to Panama to start a family through surrogacy. They chose Central America because Florida surrogacy laws require ... More >>

Surrogacy, From a Bioethics Perspective

via knowabouthealth.com​This week's cover story about a gay couple who had twins through surrogacy in Panama raises ethical questions inherent to the surrogacy process. Though the couple in the New Times feature took every precaution imaginable to ensure that agreements with their egg donor and su ... More >>

Gaybies: Gay Couples in Florida Turn to Foreign Surrogacy

Bay City Miracle: The School Board Shooting Video

This is the video from the school board shooting in Panama City. It's chilling to the bone, but one question stands out: Why didn't security guards knock this homicidal idiot off before he got off so many shots? (Gimmesamore in the comments says the guard is a hero and for the record ... More >>

Gays Still Can't Marry in Florida, but Straights Sure Can Divorce

flickr.com​Though certain Florida politicians would have you believe they are dutifully "protecting" marriage with laws preventing gay people from legally marrying, a new list of America's 50 Divorce Capitals has more cities from the Sunshine State than anywhere else.The website, The Daily Beast, ... More >>

Greyhound at Palm Beach Kennel Club Tested Positive For Cocaine

flickr.com​A greyhound that raced frequently at the Palm Beach Kennel Club over the last two years tested positive for cocaine at least once while racing in South Florida.The dog, a 70-pound black male named Tempo Super Stud, raced in 12 races in Palm Beach between August 2008 and September 2009, ... More >>

Pop and Indie Figure High in This Year's Best Latin Releases

Lake Worth Mayoral Candidate Rene Varela Responds to Dolphin Trafficking Allegations

Dr. Rene Varela ​Two days ago, we posted this story about how protesters in Lake Worth targeted mayoral candidate Rene Varela, shining light on his work with Ocean Embassy, an Orlando company (formed by ex-SeaWorld employees) that has plans to build a resort in Panama featuring marine animal attr ... More >>

Is Lake Worth Mayoral Candidate a Dolphin Trafficker?

Protestors at last night's forum ​It's not unusual for politicians to want to hide controversial details of their lives: adulterous affairs, DUI arrests, bankruptcies.  Leave to the reliably kooky city of Lake Worth to have this week's most interesting political scandal: rivals of mayoral can ... More >>

Take That, Jimmy Buffett!

Skip Key West and the Caribbean; fruity drinks and shirtless sunbathers are right here at Rehab Sundays.

Taurus Steakhouse in Tamarac Puts the Peru in Parrillada

South Florida Cigarette Smuggling Funds Terrorism

Keeping Dance Kosher

Throwback Tuesdays: Manu Chao "Desaparecido"

When Manu Chao released his landmark album, Clandestino, in 1998, it was regarded as an instant classic by most people who heard it. The 16-track disc was a funky underground pop album aimed right at the cultural left (and bourgeois right) of Spain, France, South America and Mexico all at once. Bet ... More >>

Drink Coffee, not Elephant Urine

Just Say Uncle

The DEA's "Twin Oceans" hooked a big fish, but can they reel it in?

Last Night: Van Halen at the BankAtlantic Center

Start With a Nucho

In Guillermo Trujillo's paintings, there's magic at work, merging the land and the people who inhabit it

Think Big

Buy the Farm

Your Fish Is My Command

Want it? McCormick & Schmick's can get it.

Venue Verses

If only They Might Be Giants would do a tune about South Florida

Beatcomber

Roo'd Awakening

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Golden Boy

Saeed Younan shakes off the Ibiza sound and stakes out his own ground

A Fruity Inebriate

U.S.A-holes

Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

Grinders

With bigger pots at stake in the track poker rooms, the workaday pros are lining up to get in

Boxed In

Warriors Boxing continues to bash heads in SoFla

Around the World in 180 Days

Kids explore the continents without leaving their neighborhoods

Magic Realism No Mas?

MoA's Central American show leaves you hungry for more

Best Cheap Beer Selection

Super Saver Supermarket

Croaked on Arrival

"Frogs! (The Un-Toad Story)" is on view at the South Florida Science Museum

Board Silly

The NRG 2000 East Coast Summer Tour