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Publix's New Digital Coupon Service Coming in March

Obsessed with saving money using coupons but aren't into the paper cuts from clipping or squinting at tiny ads on your smartphone? Lakeland-based Publix in March plans to roll out a new digital coupon service that will allow shoppers to preselect discounts on the company's website before heading to ... More >>

Man Arrested for Allegedly Throwing Pizza Slice at Ex-Wife

Pizza is the great divider that will bring our nation down, apparently. A Davie man was arrested for throwing a slice of pizza at his ex-wife. Police say they arrested 54-year-old Jerry Najman Monday and charged him with battery after a fight with his ex, Sasha Najman, ended with his throwing a sl ... More >>

Miami Dolphins vs. Atlanta Falcons: Five Things To Look For

With two pre-season games left to play, the Dolphins still have a lot of unanswered questions lingering like a drunk old man who won't leave the bar. Ryan Tannehill wonders who he'll be throwing to. Joe Philbin wonders if any of the bubble players will step up and earn a job. Jeff Ireland wonders i ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Week: Summer Hop Fest and More

Hoppy beers, spicy balls, and drink-slinging firefighters; all in all, not a bad week for dining and drinking in South Florida. After the jump, find a roundup of food and drink events -- including a lot of beer-oriented happenings -- in Broward and Palm Beach counties this week. 

Bongiovi Pasta Sauce: Eat It Before Jon Bon Jovi's First Solo Show at Hard Rock

Jon Bon Jovi is coming to the Hard Rock Live tonight for his first-ever solo show with the Kings of Suburbia, and we thought it would be an opportune time to show gratuitous pictures of him inform you that his brother and dad have teamed up to bring "Great Grandma Bongiovi's" pasta sauce to the worl ... More >>

Publix in West Palm Beach To Be Torn Down, Rebuilt

The Publix at Village Commons in West Palm Beach is getting much more than a facelift. The 40,000 square foot supermarket is slated to be torn down completely, with a larger market to be built in its place.Woolbright Development, owners of the 23 year-old multi-use shopping center, is awaiting final ... More >>

Texas Hold 'Em BBQ Coming Back to Downtown Fort Lauderdale

Texas Hold 'Em BBQ now operates a high-visibility restaurant and bar at Federal Highway and Sunrise Boulevard, but a smaller outpost in downtown Lauderdale that won some New Times honors didn't fare so well.The tiny location on SE 7th Street, behind the Andrews Avenue Publix near the Broward courtho ... More >>

Learn to Cook With Beer This Friday at Publix Apron's Cooking School in Boca Raton

​With St. Patrick's Day knocking on the door and the New Times "Original" Beerfest 2012 mere weeks away, we've got beer on the brain. Which is why the "Cooking With Beer" demonstration this Friday night at Publix Apron's Cooking School in Boca Raton sounds so enticing. For $45, you'll get to learn ... More >>

Forest Trace Asks: Who Has The Best (Matzah) Balls?

​Forest Trace at Inverrary seems like the kind of place we want to retire to. The 30-acre retirement community offers entertainment, dining, a lake -- and a contest to see who has the best balls!For the third year in a row, the community is seeking out the best matzah (or matzo, or matzoh) ball fo ... More >>

Enter Your Pie or Cake in the Great American Bake Off This Weekend

​Is your pie to die for? Do people quake for your cakes? If your treats are better than our rhyming abilities, enter them in the Great American Bake Off this Saturday, January 21, at the Boynton Beach Civic Center.The bake-off is part of Boynton Beach's second-annual Craft and Treasure Sale, which ... More >>

What Makes a Good Butcher? Sharp Knives and Good Customers

​My grandfather ran a company in which he made sausages for Italian, Polish, and German immigrants throughout Boston. My father worked there in summers between college. My uncle worked there for decades. I remember my grandfather telling stories about his craft and his customers, scenarios that cu ... More >>

Drink & Food Events This Week in Broward/Palm Beach Counties

Steve Parker via Flickr Creative CommonsGet lost in a beer or two at M Bar. ​It's something of a quiet week in Broward and Palm Beach Counties, presumably because South Florida residents will be girding their loins -- and leaving time to pick up the lederhosen and dirndl from the dry cleaners -- f ... More >>

Food & Drink Events this Week in Broward/Palm Beach

Dogfish Head will take over some of these taps on Tuesday. See? Going back to work ain't all bad.​It's Monday, and yet, it's still the weekend - what a beautiful conundrum. Assuming you were given the day off and don't have a fancy pool party to crash, there are a few options about town with which ... More >>

BoGo Deal at Quarterdeck, Free Gas at Publix, $10 off Buca de Beppo

Buy one entree, get one free at Quarterdeck.​We know money is tight these days. Sure, you can skip taking a vacation or cancel HBO on your cable service, but there are two things that you absolutely have to do no matter what - feed yourself and feed your car. With that in mind, we found some deals ... More >>

Lucca Ristorante in Fort Lauderdale: Lasagna So Good, It Takes Three Days to Make

Chicken Wings From Publix Maim Broward Man, Lawsuit Claims

Instant death? ​A Broward man is probably taking a second look at vegetarianism after a bad fried chicken wing almost killed him, according to a recent court filing.

Liberal Media Taste-Tests Rush Limbaugh's Iced Tea

Don't Rush to Get Limbaugh's Tea​Under normal circumstances, you should probably avoid putting anything Rush Limbaugh related in your mouth. But the conservative firebrand did recently release a Paul Revere-themed beverage, Two If By Tea, so Clean Plate Charlie decided to risk life, limb, and sani ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 48 -- Falafel Sandwich from Falafel Bistro

Photo: Misha Grosvenor​As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 48: Falafel Sandwich from Falafel Bistro It's no ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 50 -- Bizcoche de Maiz from Maracas

 Photo:Misha Grosvenor​As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com. No. 50: Bizcoche de Maiz from Maracas Where do ... More >>

"Red & White" Wine and Culinary Event to Benefit United Way of Broward This Friday

Flickr/C. Carl Stead Enjoy wine for a good cause​Enjoy an evening of delicious food and wine at the 10th Annual "Red & White - Wine and Culinary Delight" to benefit The United Way of Broward this Friday from 7 to 9pm in The Crystal Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six. Sample ... More >>

Q&A with John and Lisa Ciulla, Owners of West Palm's Bahama Mama's

Nicole DannaJohn and Lisa Ciulla, owners of Bahama Mama's in West Palm Beach​A trip to the islands may only be an hour or two boat ride from the coast of West Palm Beach, but if that's still too far away, Charlie's got an idea for you:Head on over to Bahama Mama's, the new Caribbean-style restaur ... More >>

Instead of Resolving to Lose Weight This Year...

flickr.com; alancleaver_2000​We here at Charlie enjoy a snarky blog here and there, and we like to poke fun at the South Florida dining scene. Joking aside, there is a growing epidemic resulting from unhealthy relationships with food. 2011 has just begun, and many of us are making resolutions to l ... More >>

Jerk Festival This Weekend at Markham Park in Sunrise

​On Sunday, November 14, head over to Markham Park in Sunrise for the ninth-annual Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival. Find everything from Caribbean music and cultural performances to chef competitions, sporting events, kids activities, and, of course, jerk food. The festivities at what is reportedly t ... More >>

Top Ten Pick-Me-Up Snacks From Chef Jennifer Reed

JayneanddSO much better than hospital food!​Jennifer Reed is a South Florida pastry chef and proprietor of the Sugar Monkey. Each week, she shares her thoughts about life, food, and the people who make it. Stranded in my house for a weekend after surgery seemed like a real bummer. Could I turn tha ... More >>

Meatless: The Movie

​Shane Close is a Miami-based surfer (past chairman of the local Surfrider chapter), high-end web developer, and, now, indie filmmaker. After he read the Omnivore's Dilemma and became a dad, his wife turned to him and asked the question no barbecue addict wants to hear: "Could you go meatless?"

East Coast BBQ Brings Modern 'Cue to Pompano Beach

John Linn​There's no shortage of good barbecue restaurants opening these days. With places like Sheila's Famous BBQ Conch and More in Lake Worth and the second installment of Texas Hold 'Em coming to the Gateway in Fort Lauderdale, there's good 'cue within reach of just about everyone. Now add Eas ... More >>

Winn-Dixie Versus Publix: The Real Story

"and in this corner, wearing a $2 apple."​Two supermarket chains, two marketing slogans, two vastly different directions. That's the ballad of Publix and Winn-Dixie. One's a clean, well-lighted place to shop, faces always smiling because "shopping is a pleasure." The other's a ... More >>

"My Cold Beer" for a Long, Hot Summer

​Toby Cecchini has discovered that it's hot in New York in the summer.  Stop the presses!  Writing last week in the New York Times, he weighed in on the heat-soothing aspects of the chelada and michelada, beer-based Mexican cocktails that include, in varying number and proportion, tomato ... More >>

National Ice Cream Month: Top 5 Ways to Enjoy The Treat... Without Eating It

Flickr: WonderlaneHello, sweetness.​If there was an official dessert of South Florida, it would be ice cream. Rich or light, thick or creamy, gummy-bear topped or sprinkle-spotted, the cold concoction has seen all of us through some fiercely hot days. In the 1980s, Reagan declared July "National I ... More >>

Beer of the Week: Southern Tier Hop Sun

John Linn​Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it's all about the love of the brew. If you have a beer you'd like ... More >>

It's Harvest Time in Lake Worth

​Farmers' markets are a wonderful thing: politically, ecologically, economically, and gastronomically correct. We love the idea of them; we love the quality product we can get at them.  What we don't do is shop a whole lot at them. After all, most farmers' markets are open only on weekends, u ... More >>

'Till Death Do Us Park

Courtesy of Google MapsTwo people have died in El Toro's parking lot.​It's snowbird season, the weather's chilly, and traffic is awful. As a public service, the Juice would like to remind our winter visitors that driving in South Florida is a health hazard, particularly since so few people here ar ... More >>

Dish Deconstructed: Baked Halibut

John Linn​This delicate fish is so simple, even the most inexperienced cooks can make it. Start with inch-thick fillets of the fleshy white fish -- fresh is best, though even the frozen packages available at Publix are of decent quality. Just be sure to defrost properly by placing the fillets in t ... More >>

I'm Eating What?! Breadfruit... in a Can

​This can of breadfruit has been sitting on my desk for nearly a month, and I'm sure it was on a shelf for 20 times longer than that. I haven't exactly been avoiding it; after all, how bad could it be? It's got fruit right in the name, the pictures on the can make it look like a combination of a G ... More >>

The Meatist Measures Up Supermarket Weenies

Photo by Flickr user Jay B SaucedaMy mother's storied Jeannie's Weenie Supremies guaranteed the hot dog a permanent place of honor in our fridge when I was growing up. The Supremies consisted of a hot dog, split and stuffed with cheddar cheese and wrapped in bacon. My father also had an unnatural lo ... More >>

How to Make Your iPhone Get Down and Dirty

Flickr user: jitterdougYour phone can help you find this man.So maybe it wasn't the best idea for a straight woman to experiment with Grindr, the new iPhone app that's supposed to help gay guys hook up. I had my roommate (the only tech savvy person in my household) download it on her phone, and was ... More >>

Critics Give Take on the Newest, Tallest Condo on Hollywood's Young Circle

Photo: City of HollywoodArtist's rendering of the condo that would occupy Block 55 in HollywoodNo city in Broward County has high stakes development decisions like Hollywood. It's why for the last decade it's become an emotionally charged issue. For all the fine points that fill the debate, the argu ... More >>

Block 55: Economy Be Damned, Hollywood Charges Forward With Condo Tower

hanneorlaA sculpture in Hollywood Arts Park. In the background the dreaded Townhouse apartments, which will be demolished for the new condo.Admittedly, it's one hell of a challenge: how to transform Hollywood's hardscrabble downtown into something architecturally iconic, timeless in its appeal and v ... More >>

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Heavenly Bodies

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Sun-Sentinel: Get the Hell Ready

Allah Drops In

The Christian right tries to muscle a Pompano Beach Islamic congregation.

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Doris Italian Market & Bakery

A Real Pickle

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