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Boys Noize "Curious" About How His First Live U.S. Tour Will Go

How to Speak Republican: Leaked Document Reveals the Secrets of the GOP's Coded Language

Sid Rosenberg DUI Arrest: Charges Filed; Arraignment Set for End of Month

Charges for DUI and driving with a suspended license have been filed against former WQAM-AM (560) sports radio host Sid Rosenberg, who was arrested April 5 after police say they found him crying and vomiting in the middle of the road.His arraignment has been scheduled for April 30 at 9 a.m ... More >>

Mercius Dorvilus, Pompano Beach Pirate Radio Operator, Fined $10,000

​A 31-year-old DJ who ran a Haitian, reggae, and rap station out of a room in a Pompano Beach home must pay the Federal Communications Commission $10,000 by the end of next month or face a suit from the Department of Justice, according to federal documents.FCC enforcement agents raided a home wher ... More >>

How to Increase Your Chances of Eating Locally Caught Seafood

​National Public Radio reported today that fish and spices are most often the culprits that make people sick. "It's not that imported foods are any nastier than homegrown, according to a presentation today from researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's that we're ea ... More >>

American Fine Wine Competition Hosts Wine Carnival at Bogart's

​What's better than a carnival with its games of chance, prizes, bright lights, and crazed toothless carnies?  How about a carnival where the games are wine centric and everyone practices good dental hygiene?The American Fine Wine Competition is hosting a Consumer Challenge Wine Carnival this ... More >>

Politics, Pandering, and Punch Lines

CAIR: Broward GOP Treats Muslims Worse Than Other Republicans Do

Thanks to West, South Florida Republicans have a bad rap.​U.S. Rep. Allen West has already tried to end federal funding for National Public Radio. But if he needed another reason to hate NPR, yesterday's "All Things Considered" segment should do the trick. The story explored West's view of Is ... More >>

Allen West: Obama's a Marxist, and "I Need a Bucket" to Describe Debbie Wasserman Schultz

​It seems like it's been a while, but Rep. Allen West is back on the media circuit, this time declaring President Obama a "Marxist" and saying he'd "need a bucket" when Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's name was brought up.Yesterday, West was a guest of the Michael Berry Show on a Houston AM radio s ... More >>

UPDATED: Palm Beach Gets 24/7 NPR Station: Finally, More Ira Glass, Less Beethoven

Flickr user: tvolMore Ira Glass!​UPDATE: Yes, the new 101.9 FM signal is weak and not available everywhere in Palm Beach County. Unfortunately, there's not much the station can do about it. Read more after the jump.Sept.14-- Static, fuzz, then the sweet sound of a geeky story about teenaged drivin ... More >>

Joyce Kaufman-Induced Broward Schools Lockdown Lands Woman Two Years in Prison

BSOEllisa Martinez​The woman who caused an FBI investigation after sending threats to right-wing radio host Joyce Kaufman -- leading to the lockdown of more than 300 Broward County schools -- was sentenced today to two years in prison.Ellisa Martinez was arrested in November after emailing and cal ... More >>

Nicole Sandler Won't Be Prosecuted For Doing Allen West's Bidding

​Nicole Sandler won't admit it, but she and Allen West are simpatico.I know it sounds silly. She was once a host on the lefty radio network Air America, and she still hosts a pleasingly pink internet radio show called Radio Or Not, which you may listen to here.And yes, it's true: The cops dragged ... More >>

Rick Scott's Plutocratic Plans For Public Hospitals

​Gov. Rick Scott fired a warning shot yesterday and ignited what seems like just one Floridian battle in the in the national war on public institutions. Whether it's congressmen feuding over federal funds for National Public Radio and Planned Parenthood, or state leaders stripping unions of collec ... More >>

Allen West On Keith Olbermann: Vengeance Is His

I'm digging up what one source called "game changer" in the continuing Scott Rothstein saga today, so in the meantime I'll give you the Reader's Digest version of this weekend's Allen West speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday. West hit a lot of ... More >>

Jared Lee Loughner: Patriot?

Just doing what he's told.​When Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabrielle "Gabbie" Giffords through the head and murdered six other people outright, it really was because he was "insane" and "deranged," as Bob Norman put it in his heartfelt open letter to Joyce Kaufman. Loughner's most coher ... More >>

The Tucson Shooting: An Open Letter To Joyce Kaufman

The following is an open letter to WFTL-850 FM radio host Joyce Kaufman, whose incendiary political rhetoric included a Tea Party rally remark that, "If ballots don't work, bullets will": Dear Joyce, How does it feel when you hear about the horrific shootings in Tucso ... More >>

Happy Holidays With Delicioso's Ingrid Hoffmann

​There are few breaks in the house of Chef Ingrid Hoffmann. If she's not recording one of her shows, she's making appearances on others. When that stops, she has meetings to discuss her cookware, books, the future of her mobile application, and a spices line. This Friday, she gets one of those f ... More >>

Joyce Kaufman Stays In Florida to be "Your Biggest Nightmare"

Flickr: ValentinaLWeisKaufman: Still talking.​"I would have been some quiet little chief-of-staff," Joyce Kaufman told listeners on her WFTL-AM (850) radio show. "It's gonna be your biggest nightmare that I didn't go quietly off to Washington." Ah, yes. The woman who urged "bullets" over ballots w ... More >>

UPDATE: Radio Host Meg McLain's Hellish Experience With the Body Scanners At Fort Lauderdale Airport Security

This could be you.​If you're not a fan of powerful, liberty-stomping bureaucratic assclowns walking all over basic civil rights, this story might bother you.Now, the new full-body scanners used by airports have already caused quite a bit of controversy. But Meg McLain, New Hampshire-based marijuan ... More >>

Report: Threat Linked To Joyce Kaufman's Call To Arms

Channel 7 is reporting that the man who allegedly threatened to shoot up a Pembroke Pines school was prompted somehow by Joyce Kaufman, the acidic right-wing radio show host who was named yesterday newly elected Congressman Allan West's chief of staff. This whole thing is still murky, but  ... More >>

"Michael The Black Man" Buys Sentinel Ad For West, Rubio

I guess it was only a matter of time before "Michael the Black Man" made his mark on this election season. On page 9B of the Sun-Sentinel is a sixth-page advertisement headed: "GOOD BLACK PEOPLE SUPPORT GOOD CANDIDATES LIKE: Allen West ..." ​The ad -- which has no disclaimer --als ... More >>

Interview With Paul Castronovo: Paul & Young Ron Radio Star Now a Wine Guru Too

Paul Castronovo at his vineyard in Italy.​Radio personality Paul Castronovo has a new baby -- a wine label from his own Italian vineyard producing the wine varietal Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. Castronovo's gut-busting radio program, The Paul and Young Ron Morning Show, may have brought you much-need ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Asks for Intimate Time in Palm Beach Mansion With a Young Lady

Flickr: vistagrandeLooks a little like a young Ann Coulter, doesn't she? (No offense, Ann -- or Kathryn.)​She's half Rush Limbaugh's age, but don't worry, she's still plenty legal. He's 59. And this weekend, the nation's most notorious blowhard will marry Kathryn Rogers, 33, at his Palm Beach mans ... More >>

49 States Green With Envy Over Florida's Environmental Progress

Radio Green Earth: Making the world safer for tree frogs​Bet you thought South Florida was a lot more likely to win accolades for "best strip malls" or "extra egregious decimation of natural wildlife" than for anything much greener than development dollars. But it turns out Florida is among the to ... More >>

Timb's Krueller

Fort Lauderdale "Tea Party" Protest on Tax Day

Tania GailBesides gnashing one's teeth or making fun of Timothy Geithner's dweebiness, there is little frustrated taxpayers can do about the spiraling-out-of-control federal deficit. To channel their rage, fed-up conservatives have been organizing "tea parties" around the country, mimicking the Bost ... More >>

Palm Beach's Limbaugh to Head Failed GOP Party; Pride Fest Teases Right Wing

Limbaugh, from his Auschwitz days.The White House has anointed Palm Beach resident Rush Limbaugh as head of the failed political organization called the Republican Party, which is now made up of abortion protesters, religious zealots, and aging prison guards from Auschwitz. The administration's knig ... More >>

It's the Rub!

Talking with the masters of mashups.

Sebastien Leger Hits Mansion This Saturday

This prolific French producer and DJ has been making waves in Europe for nearly a decade, and his original and eclectic forays into progressive-yet-funky tech house are gaining more and more worldwide praise. He's remixed the likes of Daft Punk, Justin Timberlake, and Duran Duran, and delivered outs ... More >>

Make Me Laugh, Funny Man

McCain Picks Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Last Night: Nada Surf at Studio A

Roaring Silence

America phones in, and the emptiness is deafening

Jack and Diana

Swimmer Diana Nyad says coach Jack Nelson molested her 40 years ago. Now Nelson´s returning fire.

Imus Kills New Jersey Governor!

DeGroot, Vonnegut, and The Sun-Sentinel

Letters for January 4, 2007

Hardballed

Best Strip Joint

Bada Bing

Jamaica Yes Problem

Far from their homophobic homeland, expatriate Jamaican gays are haunted by the same old ghosts

Foot Farewell

New name, same tasty wings

Pure Phaser

Phaser treats musical heartbreak with alcohol, cigarettes, and rain

Best Club Night

In the Biz Night at the Blue Martini

Best Radio Station

Anything not owned by Clear Channel

Best Radio Program

Sunday Blues with Dar

Best Radio Station to Disappear in the Past 12 Months

Classical WTMI-FM (93.1)

Room with a Vue

Vue offers a more kinetic take on neoglam than... that other band

Best Dry Cleaner

Pride French Cleaners

Short Cuts

Powerman 5000, Macy Gray

Foodstuff