Pompano Beach

Five Food-Related Activities in South Florida This Weekend: Champagne, Brew at the Zoo, Food Festivals, and More

We obviously write about a ton of events over here. For the most part, they tend to be fairly spread out. Well, not this weekend. South Florida foodies need to get ready this week: no matter your location or culinary preferences, there are food-related events galore. The five best, after the jump. ... More >>

See-Food Diet

Broward County Declares Cold Weather Emergency

In case you haven't noticed, the weather's been kinda nutty lately. It's hot, it's cold, it's hot, it's cold again. OMG Florida is going through menopause! Well, it was a bit brisk this morning, and yes, you had your fun taunting your Northeastern friends with the fact that you find 50 degrees cold ... More >>

Chic Bar -- Vega Lounge -- Opens in Pompano Beach

Upscale, chi-chi bars with red carpets and the VIP treatment are certainly nothing new on the South Florida landscape. They are a regular staple in Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach. So, the most remarkable thing about the opening of the latest high-class establishment is its location ... More >>

Let's Get Brutal

FWC Says Giant Eyeball Belonged to a Swordfish

Bigeye thresher shark? Nope. Squid? Nope. Paul Ryan? Most definitely not. The freakishly beautiful giant eyeball found on Pompano Beach last week belongs to a swordfish, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. See also-Giant "Mystery" Eyeball Discovere ... More >>

Giant "Mystery" Eyeball Discovered in Pompano Beach; FWC Investigates

What in the hell is going in Broward County these days? First a guy dies from eating too many bugs, then this thing washes up in Pompano Beach.The above picture is of a giant eyeball that a Pompano Beach resident discovered and turned over to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Man Drives Car Into a House While Avoiding Gunfire

Nothing like being woken up in the middle of the night by random gunfire and then having a car slam into your house. That's what happened in Pompano Beach on Tuesday morning, when a car was being shot at. The vehicle swerved to avoid the bullets and crashed into a house in the 100 block of NE 35th ... More >>

Fishing Finally Becomes a Sport

A Fat Guy and Two Skinny Guys Walk Into A Radio Shack ... And Allegedly Rob It

According to BSO officials, a fat guy and his two skinny buddies walked into the Radio Shack located at 167 S. Pompano Parkway in Pompano Beach last Thursday at 11 a.m. and robbed the joint. The whole thing was caught on camera.Surveillance cameras caught their white Enterprise Rent-A-Car van pullin ... More >>

Woman Dies After Falling 200 Feet In Parasailing Accident

A Connecticut woman was parasailing tandem with her husband in Pompano Beach yesterday afternoon when the unthinkable happened. Her safety harness broke and she fell approximately 200 feet.The victim, identified as 28-year old Kathleen Miskell, was taken to Broward Health North, where attempts to sa ... More >>

Chasing Down Your Lunch

The Pompano Beach Seafood Festival is this Weekend

Learn how many crab legs and lobster claws you can chow down on while dancing to live music and balancing a cocktail this weekend at the Pompano Beach Seafood Festival. The three-day event has migrated this year to the Pompano Beach Pier to allow for an easier-to-navigate layout and better beach acc ... More >>

Las Olas Wine and Food Festival, Old School Beerfest, and other Food and Drink Events this Week in South Florida

With wine competitions, wine festivals, beer festivals, and all manner of pairings on the docket, this is a busy week for food and drink fans in South Florida. In addition to the typical end-of-season flood of events, there are a few special observances this week. Tax day is Tuesday and if you need ... More >>

A Fat Guy Is Stealing Purses in Pompano Beach (VIDEO)

The Broward Sheriff's Office is looking for a man they say is connected to two muggings at the end of March -- they want you to know that he's six feet tall, gets around in an old, gold-colored Nissan, and is... fat.In an announcement headlined "Big Boy Wants a Purse," the BSO describes a "corpulant ... More >>

A Lovely Experience in an Unlikely Place

Broward County Tallies Four Drownings in Five Days

Water mishaps aren't anything new for our special sweat-year-round corner of the country, but it's not every week four people die in the course of five days.The latest victim is 7-year-old Damien Tubbs, who died Sunday in an Oakland Park pool after it appears he wandered into the deep end and sank, ... More >>

Man Like Meat!

Gastronomy Gentrified

Pompano Beach Planned on Giving Away a House; Then City Commissioners Found Out

thepoliticalcarnival.net​It looks like the folks in Pompano Beach are being ersatzgivers over their house giveaway.The city bought an $83,000 house that had gone into foreclosure in the Leisureville retirement community that it planned to hold a drawing for to give away to an income- and age-quali ... More >>

Broward Sheriff's Office Searching for "Rooftop Burglar"

​Just as a heads-up, if someone drops into your Pompano Beach business in the middle of the night through a vent or chimney, it probably isn't Santa Claus -- it's more likely to be the "Rooftop Burglar" the Broward Sheriff's Office is looking for.BSO spokeswoman Keyla Concepción tells New Times t ... More >>

Calypso Restaurant & Raw Bar: A Pompano Beach Mainstay for Fresh Seafood and Caribbean Flavors

Calypso Restaurant & Raw Bar

Pompano Beach Seafood Festival Is Friday Through Sunday

​There's something comforting about being able to see -- and smell and touch -- the Atlantic when you're stuffing your face with something purporting to be the freshest catch of the day. Perhaps that explains much of the appeal of the Pompano Beach Seafood Festival, celebrating its 27th year this ... More >>

Art Hearts Japan

Little Men, Big Beers

On the Eve of the Florida Bong Ban, Local Head Shops Hang Loose

flickr.com​After months of public debate, legislation, a law suit, and the outgoing governor's stamp of approval, the Florida ban on bong sales takes effect tomorrow. So you'd guess every head shop in the state would be having huge blow out sales today, right?Not so much. It seems the smoke hasn't ... More >>

Arrest Made in 2004 Murder

A Pompano Beach man has been arrested in connection with the shooting and killing of a tree-trimmer in 2004. The suspect, Michael Ange-Silien, is 22 years old, meaning that he had only recently turned 17 when, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office Ange-Silien murdered  his neighbor, 44-year ... More >>

Food Events on the Radar

Joe WoolfTaverna Opa's gone wild...​• Lirim Jacobi's chain of raucous Greek eateries, Taverna Opa, is debuting its newest location tonight at the Dolphin Mall in Miami (11401 NW 12th St.). With it comes belly dancers, napkin tossing, and a sound-system that would make any MIA nightclub jealous. ... More >>

Daybreak

Flickr: Chad BrackeenPompano Beach; the photographer swears that the figure at the end of the pier isn't a setup.​

Bons Temps to Roll Into Pompano With French Quarter Bar & Grill

​The bons temps will roll into Pompano Beach come Monday, Dec. 7, with the opening of The French Quarter Bar & Grill, a moderately priced N'awlins-style eatery from former Tarpon Bend general manager Gene Beach and local chef about town Michael Buterbaugh.  The Quarter adds to Broward's m ... More >>

In Overhaul of U.S. Immigration Facilities, More Will Resemble Broward's Facility

Photo: geogroupinc.comThe Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach​The Obama administration has plans for kinder, gentler immigration holding centers to be located in nursing homes and hotels. This new generation of facilities will be less like a prisons, more like the immigration facility in ... More >>

Crowe Feast

Band Number 12

Latin Conga!

Paradise in Pompano

Times Article From Weekend About "Affordable Fun" in South Florida Already Outdated

flickruser:hollyblablaThanks to the New York Times for nudging those suddenly budget-conscious East Coast and Midwest staycationers out of their stupor and toward South Florida. This weekend, the Gray Lady recommended a trip to the less celebrated tourist nooks of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Deerfield Be ... More >>

Photo of the Week: Pompano Beach

Photo by Flickr user Prince David of the South; shot on March 29, 2009 Photographer's Flickr stream can be found here.

Firebug on the Loose. May Dance Like James Brown.

It seems an odd target of a violent crime, but a Pompano Beach party supply company called Rides, Slides, and Games was set ablaze by five arsonists -- or as the Broward Sheriff's office calls them, "firebugs" -- on Sunday night. Five males, all with their faces covered, poured gasoline over a bunch ... More >>

O.A.R. Show Moved to Pompano Beach Amphitheatre

Nonpoint Announces U.S. Headlining Tour, But Skips South Florida

Gore Hounds Unite!

Dr. Philgoods

Miami Herald Wrongly Reports Girl's Death -- UPDATED

Dred Scott!

Reggae Entrepreneur

The Deep End

Dance From Above

Samba by the Slice

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Ideal Automotive & Truck Accessories

The South Wyll Ryse Agyn

Lynyrd Skynyrd