South Florida

Mug-Shot Friday: Hotel Bandits, A Chimneysweep, and a Trip Down a Chute

​Welcome to this week's post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week's most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida's tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times' Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade edition.

South Florida's Best Bars to Take Out-of-Towners

​Here in South Florida, we're pretty damned good at drinking -- particularly in bars. When someone visits from out of town, it's only right to share some of this talent with your guest. Given that our region is home to some pretty out-of-the-ordinary drinking destinations, you've got extra motivat ... More >>

South Florida's Best Cold Treat on a Hot Summer Day

​With a summer that lasts a good chunk of the year, the people of South Florida need -- make that deserve -- lots of options for cool, refreshing treats. While an ice cold beer does the trick nicely, sometimes you crave the innocence and nostalgia of an icy sweet treat. Here are five of the best c ... More >>

South Florida Dining Dished Up in Our Food Issue

Mug-Shot Friday: Naptime, a Ruined Luau, and the Truth About Relationships

​Welcome to this week's post of the Broward-Palm Beach edition of Mug-Shot Friday, a long-standing franchise focusing on the week's most eye-catching mug shots from South Florida's tat heads, tough guys, and femmes fatale. Check out Miami New Times' Riptide blog for the Miami-Dade editio ... More >>

Gluten-Free Food Expo This Saturday at South Florida Fairgrounds

​Pasta and bread are some of the foods that are universally liked in the world.  Almost every culture has a noodle dish or makes some rustic farm bread. But people with gluten intolerance can't enjoy products like wheat, barley, and rye, which contain gluten and related proteins. This has sta ... More >>

Backstage in South Florida ... and Backstage in Knoxville, Too!

​Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions and observations about the local scene. This week: Two very different backstage scenarios... Considering the fact that this column is called Backstage in South Florida, I found it interesting to note the differences in a p ... More >>

South Florida Fair, Winter Series of Beer, and Other Food Events in South Florida this Week

kthypryn via Flickr Creative CommonsThis is your South Florida Fair food, on drugs. ​Options this week for food centered fun in South Florida range from the highbrow (swanky fundraising tastings) to the not-so-highbrow (deep-fried butter and the Tilt-a-Whirl) and choices in between.Assuming you've ... More >>

Genres You Need To Follow In South Florida in 2012

​If you're reading this you've found yourself in South Florida for yet another year. Although it may not be your heart's desire, you can't let it go to waste. Rejoice! Because you're in an area flocked with the oddest assortment of musical varieties that one state can handle. To be best prepa ... More >>

SoFla Flow: Local Reggae Bands Join Inner Circle's New "Reggae Wave" Movement

​SoFla Flow pays tribute to South Florida's wonderful jam-band, reggae, and related activity -- both the homegrown, heady, local stuff and national acts passing through.​One year ago, the legendary reggae group Inner Circle, alongside local promoter and scene elder Lance-O of Kulcha Shok, called ... More >>

Farm for the Day

Snooze Theatre Raided by Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office

​Essential local DIY live-music venue the Snooze Theatre had its Monday-evening entertainment cut short by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office this week. The Lake Park venue, which was previously a blues club called the Orange Door, has been open for a little more than half a year. This is repo ... More >>

The Buzz 103.1 Is Dead -- Long Live Sexist Radio Formats?

Longboards Hosts 'Tweets for Tots' Tonight, Drinks Provided

​Tonight, South Florida social media types will leave the safety of their respective bedrooms, cubicles, and Starbucks tabletop offices to take part in an interactive tweet-up with the third-annual holiday social and toy drive Tweets for Tots at Longboards in West Palm Beach.File this one under #t ... More >>

South Florida Earns a Spot on the List of "Judicial Hellholes" for the Ninth Year in a Row

​Another year has just about gone by, which means it's time for South Florida to appear once again on the American Tort Reform Association's list of "judicial hellholes."Now every year since 2003 -- when they actually just picked Miami-Dade County -- South Florida has maintained its spot among ... More >>

Oversexed in South Florida: The Full Results of Our Sex Survey (NSFW)

​If you've given a read to this week's cover story in New Times, you know we South Floridians like our kinks. OK, maybe you knew that already. But the results from our first sex survey give credence to what we already knew about our heated-up libidos. The full results, culled from the 479 entries, ... 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 >>

Herman Cain Welcome Sign: "Got Grope?"

Lisa RabA warm South Florida welcome to the pizza king.​Herman Cain is stumping in South Florida today, attempting to revive his sputtering presidential campaign with a $999-a-head fundraiser at the home of Palm Beach Council President David Rosow and a public rally at the Palm Beach County Conven ... More >>

Dean Max of 3030 Ocean and Paula DaSilva of 1500 Degrees at Eden Roc: Talking Shop

​As a food nerd, I like to research how celebrity chefs train cooks up the line and out the door to open their own places that complement and enrich the dining scene in cities around the country.Take Charlie Palmer and Bryan Voltaggio, the high-end steak-house restaurateur and the chef w ... More >>

FAU Study: Coping With Climate Change in Florida May Cost as Much as $1 Billion

randompixels.blogspot.comThat's not exactly a transportation "plan."​Not long after the Broward County Natural Resources Planning and Management Division released its report detailing how rising sea levels could cause major flooding across Fort Lauderdale, Florida Atlantic University has released ... More >>

Village of a Million Corpses

South Florida Cultural Consortium 2011 Comes to Hollywood

Naked! Dance! Party!

Bombin’ in Broward

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry During American Craft Beer Week in South Florida

​(Queue the Professor Farnsworth voice) Great news, everyone! It's American Craft Beer Week!What's American Craft Beer Week? It's nationwide celebration of all things craft beer, running from May 16 to the 22. And it's going on right now at restaurants and bars all across South Florida.Gettin ... More >>

South Florida Needs a SlutWalk!

​If you haven't heard, so-called "SlutWalks" are all the rage among feminists and the otherwise forward thinking types who not only oppose rape, but also find reprehensible the idea that a rape victim might at any point be asked what she (or he) was wearing or doing at the time.The first SlutWalk ... More >>

Radio Triptych Art Show at Propaganda 4/15

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 83 -- Fagottini al Tartufo Bianco e Nero From Apicius Ristorante e Enoteca

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 83. Fagottini al Tartufo Bianco e Nero from Apicius Ristorante e Enot ... More >>

Where We Were Eating: Primanti Bros.

Dori Zinn​It could quite possibly be a South Florida landmark just like it is in the state of Pennsylvania, but yesterday's GWWE mystery is solved.

100 Favorite Dishes: Sauteed Gator Tail From Rosey Baby

​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. 99: Sauteed Gator Tail From Rosey BabyRosey Baby is one of South Fl ... More >>

Brazilians in South Florida Spend Millions, but They Aren't the Only Foreigners to Thank

farm3.static from Flickr.com​Shop till you drop has a whole new meaning. At least for Brazilians, that is. With a strong currency and booming economy, they've been flocking to Florida for lengthy shopping sprees, buying everything from designer jeans and handbags, to cheap shoes and cosmetics ... More >>

Street Sign Holders In South Florida, Who's Your Favorite?

signevent.com​South Florida, with its delightful blend of warm weather and economic woe, has sprouted a new class of underpaid, overworked laborer. Drive up and down Federal Highway or in any direction off the interstate and you'll see them: Sign holders. They're also called sign waivers, sign wal ... More >>

Spring Break for Wall Street to Descend on South Florida

​Looks like South Florida's spring break this year isn't going to be just where the boys are. Fort Lauderdale will also be the locale for some bonds gone wild with the top guns of Wall Street. LDV Capital Management will party with its own series of weeklong celebrations at its fourth G ... More >>

Five Valentine's Day Gifts for Foodies

Flickr/Chrishermmerly Set off fireworks this V-Day​Valentine's Day is coming and you've yet to get a gift for your favorite foodie. You could buy some flowers at the drug store - if you never want them to speak to you again. Fortunately, there are a lot of great and interesting gift options ... More >>

America, Land of the Fried Food

What Can You Do with a Pickle? Check Out the South Florida Fair's Food and Baking Competitions

Flickr/Natalie Maynor Peace Pie​ ​ ​ ​ ​If you've ever watched Food Network's Cupcake Wars and thought that your tangelo-basil cupcake with wilted spinach and bacon buttercream frosting could kick serious butt, put your money where your pie-hole is, dust off your rolling pin, and e ... More >>

Put on the Heat

FAU Christens Living Room Theater With Impressive Indie Lineup

Six Ways to Cook Iguana

​Now that the temperature has finally taken a dip, watch for dead iguanas falling out of trees!  (See photo, taken in Oakland Park last January.) South Florida's plague of big green lawn lizards was culled somewhat last winter by a cold snap that killed legions of the critters. The canal bank ... More >>

Bringing the Blues Back

A Heartfelt Goodbye

I thought pretty hard for the past few weeks about what to write as my farewell blog post on Clean Plate Charlie. I've been writing for this thing for more than two years now and working at New Times for four. And at the end of this month, I'll be hitting the road (literally), leaving the paper beh ... More >>

Q&A: Greg Rice, Grand Wine Meister For The Lake Worth Food and Wine Experience (Part 1)

Greg Rice is one of South Florida's most recognizable personalities. The self-made millionaire and his twin brother John overcame tremendous adversity in their lives, and in the process, became Palm Beach County legends. Though best known as the pint-sized pitchman for Hulett Environmental Service ... More >>

Spate of SoFla Bank Robberies is Dramatic, but Not Unusual

​This past week saw a series of headline-friendly bank robberies in South Florida. Two of them involved bomb threats scribbled on notes, in which the offenders were arrested within minutes of the attempted robberies. The most recent, at the BankAtlantic branch on Fairway Drive in Deerfield, was mo ... More >>

Village of a Million Corpses

Date Set for South Florida Gluten-Free Expo

​Many celiacs dream of a day when all gluten-free foods will be in one place, set up for hours of perusal and snacking. The Celiac Disease Foundation of South Florida heard your call again this year.The date for the South Florida Gluten-Free Food Expo has been set for February 19, 2011.Things will ... More >>

Footwork4Self Showcases Fresh Additions to Hip-Hop Roster at Propaganda

On Best Ofs, Burgers, and Gilbert's 17th St. Grill, Part 1

Note to the editors: Maybe we should start calling them the "Best-er Ofs"?​I have to admit, I'm completely over "Best" lists. The raging -- sometimes infuriating -- argument over who makes the best burger, tacos, pizza, French fries, or fried bologna sandwiches is a hopelessly futile one to me. Wh ... More >>

A Complete Guide to Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami Food Trucks - UPDATED

​We've updated the thread this week with some menu images, external links and reviews, and new trucks. Check it out. There's nothing as tasty as nabbing a taco from a converted laundry truck at two in the morning, splashing it with fiery red salsa, and popping the whole thing in your mouth wi ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

To quote Don Draper, "It's like eating a mermaid."​South Florida's hot chefs, including Talay Thai's Charlie Soo, get the calendar treatment. Oysters that clock in at eight inches long? We're gonna need a bigger boat.Food trucks are back. Here's a comprehensive list of South Florida's kitchens on ... More >>