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Funky Buddha Brewery: Now Open! Can It Anchor a Culinary District in Oakland Park?

Oakland Park Culinary Arts District Bets on the Funky Buddha

In a serious case of if-you-build-it-they-will-come, more than 4,000 people turned out Saturday for the grand opening of the Funky Buddha Brewery -- the first commercial craft brewery in Broward County. Not only did they come; they drank almost all the beer. As 6 p.m. neared, hundreds inched close ... More >>

2013 Fort Lauderdale Greek Festival Is This Weekend

Gyros, souvlaki, tyropita, fried cheese, dolmades, stuffed grape leaves. And ouzo -- how could we forget the ouzo! All that's left to say: Opa!This weekend, celebrate the 3rd annual Flavors of Greece, Fort Lauderdale's first Greek food and drink tasting event organized by St. Demetrios Church.  ... More >>

Former Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Tim Smith Meets a Black Male Hooker

Tim Smith"Here is a black male hooker working black hooker road tonight."​Tim Smith, the former city commissioner who once ran for mayor against Jim Naugle and is a frequent jogging buddy of Mayor Jack Seiler, runs a blog in which he sounds off on local issues. He blogged earlier this year about t ... More >>

Justin Bieber Life-Sized Cutout Stolen by 23-Year-Old Florida Man, Cops Say

Manatee County Sheriff's OfficeDavid Dowling​Apparently "Bieber Fever" can drive a person to steal a life-sized cutout of the pint-sized pop singer from a Manatee County mall.According to a police report from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, 23-year-old David Dowling and a friend took the cuto ... More >>

A Less Drunken Bus Loop

South Florida's Fidel Castros Find It Isn't Easy Sharing a Name With a Despot

Plantation Makes a Bitter Punchline in Article About Segregationist's Legacy

Flickr User: jennifer hThe Sears Willis Tower​Apparently, Chicago's black community is not keen on the name "Willis," which last month was affixed to what had always been the Sears Tower, the city's tallest building. And it's not because it has suspicions about Willis Group Holdings, the London-ba ... More >>

We Don't Need Another Gyro

Actually, yes, yes we do!

Spank the Monkey

Children's TV pioneer Alan Shalleck had a secret that killed him

DeGroot On The Rich Niche

Dahmer Did It

Why won't Hollywood police take seriously the best chance at solving Adam Walsh's murder?

It's A Small World After All

Flight of Fancy

Glossy combat epic offers a sanitized version of World War I.

All White!

Best Breakfast Special

Tropical Café

Entrapped

Hollywood police used a Bahamian Casanova to set up Valarie Curry

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Anarchy in a Briefcase

Radicals plan to flood Republicans with mice, locusts, and chicanery

Gamblin' Men

Big-ticket casino deals plus a messy internal power struggle equals even more legal woes for the Seminole tribe

Baby Doll

Sara Lee Creech of Belle Glade tells a long-forgotten chapter of civil rights history

El Béisbolista

No one has lived through more of South Florida's baseball past than Vicente Lopez

Call Me Now! ...And Pay Me Later

With all the millions Miss Cleo brings in, her Broward-based bosses have little trouble paying their way out of those pesky lawsuits

Undercurrents

If you think shopping at Publix can be harrowing, try working there

Best Mall

The Gardens of the Palm Beaches

Copping a Homophobic Attitude

Broward deputy Linda Ashby says she was fired because she's a lesbian. And because she had an affair with a male officer's girlfriend.

Two Colors of the Rainbow

Finian's Rainbow

Campus Life

Paul and Betty Sears live in a trailer behind South Plantation High. And you, dear taxpayer, are footing the bill.

Best Mall

Town Center at Boca Raton

The Straight Dope

Anything-but-Pleasant City

Efforts to revitalize this rundown West Palm Beach neighborhood have failed. Miserably.

The Straight Dope

America's Most Frustrating

Fifteen years after America's Most Heinous Murder, new evidence emerges, pointing to a suspect police had once dismissed