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"The Salt of Life" Follows a Man's Late-Life Quest for Physical Love

Paul Castronovo of "Paul and Young Ron Morning Show" and Castronovo Vineyards Fame: After Hours Eats

​Paul Castronovo, a noted South Florida radio personality ("The Paul and Young Ron Morning Show") and partner in the Italian winery Castronovo Vineyards, is a self-described food and wine guy who's had the opportunity to eat at a number of South Florida's top restaurants. After a recent talk with ... More >>

Paul Castronovo Dishes on the Growth of Castronovo Vineyards in Florida and Beyond

​Paul Castronovo is a talker. That's probably a given, considering he's made his living as a radio personality, known throughout South Florida as half of the "The Paul and Young Ron Morning Show." But this famous voice also loves to chat wine and food. His wine label, Castronovo Vineyards, is a fa ... More >>

Anticircumcision Activists Say Trimming a Bit Off the Top Is Too Much

​Paul Castronovo is a talker. That's probably a given, considering he's made his living as a radio personality, known throughout South Florida as half of the "The Paul and Young Ron Morning Show." But this famous voice also loves to chat wine and food. His wine label, Castronovo Vineyards, is a fa ... More >>

Cheap But Awesome Gifts From a Site Where Everything is $5 -- And We Mean Everything

​It happens every Christmas:  I look at my bank account. I cry. I decide that, instead of buying real presents, I will instead venture to Michael's Craft supplies, pick up some beads and glue sticks, and make something really special for people instead. Hence, the picture frames with glued-on ... More >>

Daisy Martinez Went From Prep Chef to Food Network to ... Cruise Ship?

​Between her Latin-fused Food Network show Viva Daisy! and book signings, Daisy Martinez is a busy woman.Just two weeks after graduating from the French Culinary Institute, she landed a gig with PBS' Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen as a prep-kitchen chef.A meeting with Rachel Ray and a cruise shi ... More >>

National Cappuccino Day: Celebrate With Free Cappuccino

It's national cappuccino day -- go out a have a cup.​Woooooooosshhhhhhh... That's the sound of a cappuccino machine frothing milk, as you anticipate getting the first sip of your tasty hot beverage.There's something about cappuccino that's so sophisticated. We can't have one without imagining sitt ... More >>

Griselda "The Godmother" Blanco's Lone Surviving Heir Ends Up Stumbling Into His Own Cocaine Arrest

It's national cappuccino day -- go out a have a cup.​Woooooooosshhhhhhh... That's the sound of a cappuccino machine frothing milk, as you anticipate getting the first sip of your tasty hot beverage.There's something about cappuccino that's so sophisticated. We can't have one without imagining sitt ... More >>

Florida's Death-Wish Jaywalkers: Now Interesting to the New York Times

The New York Times​The New York Times likes to discover things around the country, allowing hemmed-in Manhattanites to observe a little of the goings-on around our fair country without crossing the Hudson. So are born trend pieces on Portland's coffee, Chicago's restaurants, Pennsylvania's Dairy Q ... More >>

Florida Atlantic University's Student Newspaper Meets Hot Tub Time Machine

upressonline.com​In today's newsrooms, using Windows 95, connecting to AOL 3.0 with a 56k modem, and using Adobe PageMaker to complete a newspaper would sound like an absolute nightmare.Then there are the collegians at Florida Atlantic University who decided to make it even worse -- taking newspap ... More >>

Dolce de Palma Closes in West Palm Beach

Anthony de Palma​Chef Anthony de Palma has shut the doors to his namesake Italian, Dolce de Palma in West Palm Beach. He auctions off the equipment tomorrow. It came down to "issues with the landlord and the building," the chef said. "It was an uphill battle and I just didn't want to do it any mor ... More >>

Vow-Breaking Priest Spins Profit From Sin: Father Cutie on Tour

Lookit those eyes! If he didn't break vows, he was doomed to break hearts.​Father Albert Cutie: A superstar Catholic cleric known internationally for his best-selling book, his hit radio program, and, in 2009, for getting caught sunbathing with his paramour. Scandal ensued. Cutie was depriesticize ... More >>

Angry Catholics Denounce Editorial; Call Writer a Homosexual Bigot

Witch-hunting manual commissioned by Pope Innocent VIII.​On Monday, I published this rebuttal to an editorial by Archbishop Wenski of Miami, in which the Archbishop argued against the legalization of gay marriage.I didn't think my points were especially controversial. Archbishop Wenski suggested t ... More >>

The Electronic Talking Rosary

I can haz batteries?​It ain't easy being Catholic. You gotta give things up for Lent, remember the holidays of approximately 10,000 saints, listen to the moralization of child molesters' accomplices every Sunday. You've gotta forget about extra-coital orgasms, oral sex, wanking, sodomy, abortion, ... More >>

"The Rite" Review: Demons Are No Scarier Than Nasty Old Sisters

I can haz batteries?​It ain't easy being Catholic. You gotta give things up for Lent, remember the holidays of approximately 10,000 saints, listen to the moralization of child molesters' accomplices every Sunday. You've gotta forget about extra-coital orgasms, oral sex, wanking, sodomy, abortion, ... More >>

Westworld, Part II: A New Year's Appraisal of Good, God, and Evil In Allen West's America

In Part I of this article, I discussed two telling statements made by Congressman-elect Allen West during his campaign to represent Florida's 22nd District. The first revealed West's troubling inability to differentiate friendly, charitably minded American Muslims from jihadists; the second revealed ... More >>

Villegas Video, Awarding Incompetence, and Judge Lazarus' Latest Stupid Email

UPDATED: My colleague Lisa Rab obtained this video of Debra Villegas speaking with Plantation police officers about the Melissa Britt Lewis murder. It was taken in December 2009, after the Rothstein Ponzi scheme and the RRA law firm imploded. Make sure and read Rab's post. Villegas d ... More >>

Sublime With Rome Keeps Legacy Alive at Sunset Cove

UPDATED: My colleague Lisa Rab obtained this video of Debra Villegas speaking with Plantation police officers about the Melissa Britt Lewis murder. It was taken in December 2009, after the Rothstein Ponzi scheme and the RRA law firm imploded. Make sure and read Rab's post. Villegas d ... More >>

"Mid-August Lunch" Remains Fatally Slight

UPDATED: My colleague Lisa Rab obtained this video of Debra Villegas speaking with Plantation police officers about the Melissa Britt Lewis murder. It was taken in December 2009, after the Rothstein Ponzi scheme and the RRA law firm imploded. Make sure and read Rab's post. Villegas d ... More >>

The Boca Raton Museum of Art Offers an Ambitious Retrospective of M.C. Escher

UPDATED: My colleague Lisa Rab obtained this video of Debra Villegas speaking with Plantation police officers about the Melissa Britt Lewis murder. It was taken in December 2009, after the Rothstein Ponzi scheme and the RRA law firm imploded. Make sure and read Rab's post. Villegas d ... More >>

ACLU Defends Artist's Right to Paint at CityPlace

Bates, expressing himself​When is a city not a city? When it's a shopping center disguised as something "reminiscent of an Italian town center." Note that word reminiscent. As West Palm artist Bruce Kevin Bates found out, you may be able to set up your easel at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli or next ... More >>

When in Rome…

Bates, expressing himself​When is a city not a city? When it's a shopping center disguised as something "reminiscent of an Italian town center." Note that word reminiscent. As West Palm artist Bruce Kevin Bates found out, you may be able to set up your easel at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli or next ... More >>

Epic Foods

Bates, expressing himself​When is a city not a city? When it's a shopping center disguised as something "reminiscent of an Italian town center." Note that word reminiscent. As West Palm artist Bruce Kevin Bates found out, you may be able to set up your easel at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli or next ... More >>

This Is Amore

Bates, expressing himself​When is a city not a city? When it's a shopping center disguised as something "reminiscent of an Italian town center." Note that word reminiscent. As West Palm artist Bruce Kevin Bates found out, you may be able to set up your easel at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli or next ... More >>

Look Back in Hunger

Relax, have a glass of organic plonk: It's time to assess the year

Carolina's on My Mind

There's more than one way to skin a recession: Coal Pizza

Chopsticks Say: Ka-ching!

China Grill brings the show to Lauderdale

Give Ben Stein Money

China Grill brings the show to Lauderdale

In the Mind of Madness

China Grill brings the show to Lauderdale

Pizz-Off, Manhattan!

Our coal-fired pies should stifle all squawking snowbirds.

Honk If You Love Foie Gras

Duck and Cover

Columbus Day Unplugged

We skip the parade and head for the fettuccini

True to Their Word

A Tuscan couple mean it when they say "Saporissimo!"

A Crowded Piazza

If Houston's ever opens a branch in Rome, it will likely resemble La Piazza Pasta Cafe

Festivals R Us

For South Florida foodies, 2003 looks to be a very happy new year indeed

Cuckoo for CocoLoco's

CocoLoco's brings great Colombian food and loud, family-friendly fun to Davie