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Sick Puppies: Boca Improv Troupe Heals Through Comedy

Celebrate Christmas Eve at The Matzo Ball in Delray

It's Christmas Eve and everywhere around you, families are getting together with some cocoa or eggnog to celebrate both the birth of our savior and the imminent arrival of Santa Claus. However, for us Jewish people, Christmas eve was known as "the night when everything closes". The only places open ... More >>

Madonna at the American Airlines Arena November 19 and 20

It Will Never Stop Raining: Five Florida Movies on Netflix

It was raining all weekend, the second half of the Fort Lauderdale Air Show was canceled, and the falling wet stuff isn't going away anytime soon. Rain in Florida isn't anything new, but weather reports indicate thunderstorms hitting the area every day for the next week. Womp.Weather.com puts next S ... More >>

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards Live Blog

​Ladies and gentleman, it's Grammy night. Here on County Grind, we're doing something a little extra special for it. That's right, we're live blogging all the shenanigans. Are you an Adeleophile? Or are you totally over her? Are you just as confused as we are about this "Dance/Electronica" segment ... More >>

Warm Up for the Super Bowl Halftime Show With Five Shocking Madonna Moments

​Under the bright stadium lights, plenty of incredible things have happened during Super Bowl halftime shows. Who could forget the King of Pop's epic 1993 performance or his sis' nipple slip in 2004? This year's act is equally grand: the timeless, shameless Madonna. Though she promised "for s ... More >>

Elton John, Fort Lauderdale's Melanie Amauro Star in Pepsi Superbowl Ad

PepsiElton John is king of the sodas.​Superbowl Sunday is in a few days, and we're getting ready for the spectacle.  We've got the snacks, the beer... and the Pepsi! Pepsi? Hey -- if it's good enough for Sir Elton John, that's what we're drinking too.One of the commercials scheduled to air on ... More >>

Ten Burgers for Under $7

​"Where can I get a $5 lunch burger that's not fast food?" Today's question has me stumped. To accommodate a range of burger deals, I've bumped the ceiling to $7, $3 less than the restaurant average of $10 a burger. Here are the findings.10. $4 burger, fries, and a Pepsi at Hard Rock Cafe A ... More >>

Hard Rock Cafe's Forty Year Four Buck Burger Deal

The Hard Rock Cafe is 40 years old. We know it sounds crazy and we hardly believe it ourselves. It seems like only yesterday that we waited in line for over an hour to get a burger with a little flag on it and look at guitars hanging from the ceilings. OMG - is that Gene Simmons jock strap is in a g ... More >>

Let It Bleed: Hard at Work on His Eighth Novel, "Deadwood" Author Pete Dexter Still Packs a Punch

Santa Prefers Pepsi While on Vacation

Santa's quite the party animal. Must be the caffeine.​In this new Pepsi commercial, Santa's on vacation with Mrs. Claus and some elves in what looks to be a Club Med-like resort. While dancing to "This Is How We Do It" with Mrs. Claus (who looks pretty good for her age), Santa takes a ... More >>

Chef Joey Giannuzzi Talks About DIG and Being Clean and Green, Part 2

​Yesterday, we shared part 1 of our interview with chef Joey Gianuzzi of The Green Gourmet and DIG. If you missed it, you can read it here. We now continue with part 2. Clean Plate Charlie: How do you cook food that's tasty while still being healthful? Chef Joey Giannuzzi: You just use bigge ... More >>

Deals of the week: Ruby Tuesday's and Arby's

flickr/yummyinthetummyblogAmerican franchises are in this week. At Ruby Tuesday's, that Prime Burger does not have to prime in price.

New Pepsi Vending Machine Lets You "Text" a Soda to Friends, Strangers

Texting and tweeting are everywhere. You can text vote on your favorite show, tweet a celebrity, heck you can even get fired via text like Charlie Sheen did from Two and a Half Men. But you could never send a friend an icy cold beverage - until now. PepsiCo Pepsi's new social vending machine ... More >>

Reason Number 102 for Why Women Prefer Cucumbers to Men

Photo Courtesy of Jeff Kaplan​Click here for the first 101 cheesy, sexual innuendo jokes.Schoolyard humor aside, a micro-bottler from Pompano Beach wants you to enjoy his Mr. Q. Cumber -- a 90-calorie soda, flavored with cucumber extract. Owner of Global Beverage Enterprises, Jeff Kaplan, asks: Wh ... More >>

Did NPR Uncover the Secret Coke Formula? [The Secret Recipe]

Coca-Cola: all your recipes belong to us!​One of American culture's biggest mysteries is the Coca-Cola formula. Well it might not be a mystery any more.According to Yahoo, NPR's "This American Life" recently found a 1979 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution which contained an article about ... More >>

Snoop Dogg Demonstrates His Favorite Super Bowl Recipes

Flickr/Arlen MAC Would you eat this man's dip?​You know you wish you were invited to watch the Super Bowl with Snoop Dogg. Picture his party... beautiful girls clad in short skirts and pastel wigs, rap stars and sports figures hanging out watching the game while eating chips and drinking P ... More >>

In the Biz Interview With Cat Petro, Bartender at Poor House in Fort Lauderdale

For as long as we can recall, Charlie has been maneuvering past the throngs of slickly dressed Himmarshee clubgoers to our favorite spot near the end of the street, the Poor House. Here, we can show up in our beat-up Tool T-shirt and well-worn Chuck Taylors to unpretentiously gulp down delicious cr ... More >>

Happy Cheeseburger Day! Five Memorable Moments in Cheeseburger History

emerson12Is your mouth watering yet?​Saturday, September 18, is a national holiday -- National Cheeseburger Day. The perfect time for lactose-tolerant carnivores to salute the gussied-up sibling of the humdrum hamburger, to celebrate the harmonious marriage between burger and cheese.The invention ... More >>

St. Lucia Chairman's Reserve Rum: A Liquor Preview for Pairings

​Most folks probably think of rum as the liquor you shoot on a dock while eating cracked conch, pour into vats with fruit juice, or watch getting mixed at one of those bars with the spinning daiquiri machines. And then there's a rum like St. Lucia Distillers Chairman's Reserve Rum. First off, we s ... More >>

Orange Juice Squeezed by Manatees?

Leonid MamchenkovMmmm....​A good way to start your day: with a glass of orange juice and a dose of happy news. This morning, word came across the transom that Fort Pierce company Natalie's Orchid Island Juice scored a win "In the David versus Goliath battle for dominance over America's breakfast ... More >>

Soul Power Puts on Quite a Show Documenting an Epic Concert in Zaire

They came, they drank, they spelled.

Nicaraguan Pot Endorses This Post, The Donald Is a Downer, Big Ball Cuts Corners

After watching last night's Pepsi Cola-Bud Light Super Bowl, it became clear to me that everything needs an official sponsor. So today's Morning Juice is brought to you by the Nicaraguan Tourism and Marijuana Growers Cooperative. It's good timing to land that sponsor too, because they just picked up ... More >>

Tonight: Spam All-Stars at Mansion, Common at Louis

'Tis the season, ya'll! And the Opium Group wants you to open your wallets, er, for charity of course! It goes without saying, we are all hurting a bit financially this season, but there still are a lot people worse off than you. So if aren't aware already of all the toy drives going on this weeken ... More >>

Last Night: Madonna at Dolphin Stadium

MadonnaWednesday, November 26, 2008Dolphin Stadium, Miami GardensI am writing this to you at 2 a.m. exactly, which is the time you get home if you live in Wilton Manors and go to Madonna concerts in Miami. Madonna does awful things to the Golden Glades Exchange. Madonna makes "lanes" meaningless an ... More >>

Kick the Bottle

As the containers and costs mount, in South Florida and beyond, plastic is played out

DJ Irie

Riding the Wave of Nostalgia

Cheap Eats: La Estancia Argentina

Lord Have Mercy

Jesus Camp pitches its tent in the other America.

Cool & Cocky

Detroit's Electric Six toe the line between rock and mock.

All the President's Men

Future Looks So Bright

Mike Jones gets set for the jet set

NYE Guide 2006

Saving Face

Yes, girls are going blue. But hold the Hollywood ending, please.

Best Desserts

Johnny V

The Buzz Cooks Up a Mixed Batch

And burns a few as well

Army of Old

A former Kiss Army soldier recalls his torturous tour of duty

A Dog Day

A movie for mutts

Dead to Rights

Stripped of pretentious excess, Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in 28 Days Later

Fear Factor Three

Marauders can conquer without uttering a single word

This Week's day by Day Picks

Letters for May 23, 2002

The cat in the habit...

The Wheel Deal

When it comes to serving great Vietnamese cuisine, Red Cyclo puts the pedal to the metal

Stage Fright

Musicians of the Florida Philharmonic were none too pleased by the settlement of this fall's strike

Pretty Is as Pretty Does

Sally Field turns director for Beautiful, with reasonable (is that good enough?) results

The Real Sugar Bowl

That would be Glades Central versus Pahokee, a fierce high-school rivalry that's become a bigtime game

Undercurrents

The Politics of Pop

Pepsi pays Jeff Koons big bucks to lobby for its causes. And the West Palm Beach city commissioner is worth every cent.