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Florida Man Blows Fingers Off With Homemade Bomb

James Minyard, 41, of Tampa never finished school, and wanted to start and finish a difficult job just to prove that he could. So, instead of learning how to play the guitar or taking up scuba diving, like most people would, he took up building homemade bombs. And then he proceeded to blow off parts ... More >>

What's In My Beer? Learn What Goes In To Making Your Brew

Florida Agriculture Literacy Day was this week and, if you're like us, everything we read about makes us think of beer. So what better time to learn a little bit about it? After all, it's made of things you grow in nature, and possibly your backyard. Bill Manley, of Sierra Nevada brewing, lays it o ... More >>

Burger 21 Plans to Expand to South Florida

Burger 21, the Tampa-based fast-casual burger and shake joint that features 21 different hand-crafted burgers made from 100% certified Angus beef, is expanding to south Florida. The restaurant chain, founded by the owners of The Melting Pot, has just announced the signing of two multi-franchise agre ... More >>

Robert Platshorn Asks TV Audiences: "Should Grandma Smoke Pot?"

Next time you swing by grandma's for some of her world-class oatmeal raisin, the cookies might not be the only thing that's freshly baked. South Florida's all-powerful Social Security set has possibly had increased exposure to the wonders of medical marijuana thanks to a new informercial. Since No ... More >>

Cigar City Brewing at South Florida Beer Week: CCB's Phil Palmisano Explains Why Cans Are Better and More

Florida's homegrown beer scene has come a long way in recent years, what with Funky Buddha on the verge of opening a shiny new facility in Oakland Park, Holy Mackerel's recent tap room opening, and Due South Brewing blowing the lid off the local scene with less than a year in production. One of th ... More >>

Hulk Hogan Opens Hogan's Beach Restaurant in Tampa (For Real)

No, really. We're completely serious here. The Hulkster is opening a restaurant in Tampa and if you've got no New Year's eve plans you could start driving now and be able to celebrate at the New Year's Eve grand opening tonight (which is selling out quickly).The 20,000 square-foot Hogan's Beach, loc ... More >>

Mayan Calendar Predictions Versus Reality

Burgie Awards Coming to Fort Lauderdale

The fourth Annual Burger Beast Burgie Awards has moved north to Fort Lauderdale, bringing with it a meaty good time for all.The combination burger celebration/food truck roundup/awards ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, February 2 from 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. at Huizenga Plaza in Fort Lauderdale.The event ... More >>

Barack Obama at Krispy Kreme: The Math and Doughnut Connection

President Barack Obama flew in to Tampa early yesterday morning for yet another round of campaign appearances. The President, who slept during his overnight flight from Las Vegas, was scheduled to pay a visit to Tampa's Fire Station 14. But, like any good guest, he had to bring a hostess gift.Read a ... More >>

Bill Nelson and Connie Mack Television Debate Is Set

The Bill Nelson-Connie Mack race is pretty much America's most closely watched Senate race. And now incumbent Nelson -- the Democrat -- and Mack -- the Republican -- have agreed to the only confirmed statewide televised debate on October 17. The showdown will take place at Nova Southeastern Univers ... More >>

DEA Storms Synthetic Pot Distribution Centers Across Florida

See also "Synthetic Marijuana Ban Seems Like a Good Idea, Probably Won't Do Much" and "Broward Commission Moves to Ban Bath Salts, Fake Weed"The war on synthetic drugs has gone federal, and in a big way.Officers with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office on Wedne ... More >>

Republican Presidential Candidates Owe Floridians More Than $230,000

Newt Gingrich's campaign for the Republican presidential campaign is over. Done-zo. Finished. The guy is walking around his home state wearing a Mitt Romney sticker.But the former speaker of the House isn't even close to concluding the dealings surrounding his campaign, as documents filed over the w ... More >>

Warren Buffett Buys 63 Newspapers From Media Company, Says It Can Keep the Florida Ones

A U.S. media company announced today that they would be selling 63 newspapers to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway holding company for $142 million, according to the Associated Press. Berkshire Hathaway will also be loaning the company, Media General, $400 million to pay off other debts.Buffett's ... More >>

Precious Red and Pink Corals Need Protection Under CITES

In last week's cover story, we looked at why reef-building corals are being plundered from the South Pacific and sent to the shores of Florida. But the curio trade isn't the only industry fueling the death of coral. For centuries, jewelry makers have harvested precious red a ... More >>

Barry "Bear" Silverman Is a Fake Navy SEAL, Says Lawyer Representing Real Navy SEAL

Assuming you, like most of our dear readers, are a lily-livered sissy who has never made it through a "Hell Night" or advanced Navy SEAL training, here are a couple of things you may not know.1. There are former Navy SEALs who teach classes on how to be like a Navy SEAL, like this guy:2. There are o ... More >>

NBC News/Tampa Bay Times GOP Debate: Live Blog

​Tonight at 9, the remaining four contenders for the GOP presidential nomination take the stage in Tampa to talk about the issues -- and, usually, the nonissues.Either way, Florida's primary election next week is a winner-take-all contest for the state's 50 delegates, and the contest between forme ... More >>

Occupy Fort Lauderdale: The Pool Party (BYOB)

destination360.comIf Occupy does it right, what its party could look like next weekend.​Now there's a cause your average Fort Lauderdale resident can get behind -- a pool party.What seems to be the inaugural Occupy Fort Lauderdale pool party is scheduled for January 28, which could actually be the ... More >>

Jared Cano, Tampa High School Bomb Plot Suspect: I Just "Did the Dumbest Thing Ever"

Jared Cano's FacebookThe cops say Jared Cano planned to set off explosive devices at a Tampa high school.​Tampa police arrested 17-year-old Jared Michael Cano yesterday in an alleged plot to set off some explosive devices at Freedom High School.Aside from his criminal history, which includes a rec ... More >>

West Palm Beach: Second-Most-Organized Sock Drawers in the Nation

notallthere.netIf you have an organized drawer of sock puppets, you should probably sign up for a dating website.​We have no idea how they compiled this "information," but the dating website Chemistry.com claims people from West Palm Beach have the second-most-organized sock drawers in the country ... More >>

Rick Scott's Vacation to Canada Nets a Grand Total of 110 Eventual Jobs

facebook.comRick Scott's selling point to the mayor of Toronto was his boots.​Gov. Rick Scott has shown us he can kill 4,500 jobs with the stroke of a pen, but sending him to Canada for a week on a "trade mission" to bring jobs back to Florida didn't go so hot.Scott's camp says he and his delegati ... More >>

Sexting Suicides: A Modest Proposal

Not obscene.​Hope Witsell was a 13-year-old Tampa girl who, in 2009, made the terrible mistake of "sexting" seminude pictures of herself to a boy in her class. The boy passed the pics around, as teenaged boys are wont to do, after which Witsell was ceaselessly ridiculed by her classmates. Then she ... More >>

Florida's Loss: Rick Scott's High-Speed Rail Shoot-Down

Art Seitz Wild Art: Congressman Allen West joins a motley collection of local politicians (including fellow Republican Chip LaMarca, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler, Charlotte Rodstrom, and Romney Rogers) in Fort Lauderdale for yesterday's St. Patrick's Day festivities. (Photo by Art  ... More >>

Broward County Ditches One-Bite Doggy Death Row, Freeing Mercedes the Pit Bull

pwcorgigirl from Flickr.com​One deadly bite was all it took to put Mercedes, a pit bull from Fort Lauderdale charged with killing her neighbor's cat, on death row.But Mercedes is no longer contemplating her last bowl of kibble. She was released from county kennel custody earlier this week after Br ... More >>

Gutter Queens Lead Christmas Lineup at Monterey Club

Beer of the Week: Cigar City Humidor Series IPA

​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 featured ... More >>

World of Beer Opens Today at the Promenade

​Ever see that episode of the Simpsons when Homer goes to the Land of Chocolate? That's about how imagine myself reacting to the World of Beer's official opening today at 2 p.m.: Running around like a school-age girl, shrieking at display cases of frosty craft beers, admiring the glassware. What e ... More >>

Deicide Brings Unholy Metal to Revolution

Trump Towers Plan Down the Tubes

PhotobucketThe Donald, in legal hot water​With mega swindlers like Madoff and Rothstein running rampant, a rapacious capitalist like Donald Trump is almost a sweetheart in comparison. But he does not come without flaws. The Donald faces litigation in Tampa and Fort Lauderdale for allegedly falsify ... More >>

Hollywood Man to Compete for Best American Truck Driver

That's a trailer from a UPS-sponsored documentary about last year's Truck Driving Championships. This year, Hollywood is sending Florida's finest big rig pilot: Patrick Condon, who prevailed in the recent statewide competition in Tampa .Sadly, these championships are sanctioned by the American Tru ... More >>

Throwing You to the Sharks

Super Fans

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Road to Super Bowl Goes Thru Lauderdale?

See you in Fort Lauderdale, hot stuff.I've been seeing an awfully lot of Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals paraphernalia in the Fort Lauderdale area. Two possible explanations:The locals are jumping on the bandwagon now that these teams are Super Bowl-bound.Steelers and Cardinals fans are fl ... More >>

The Swimsuit Competition: Tampa Bay Loses

Quit flaunting your chin, harlot. You're in Greater Tampa.Let's not get too demoralized over the national media ridiculing our corruption, which is rampant, pervasive, ubiquitous and all-encompassing. It could be worse. We could be in Pinellas County, where county officials are scrambling to cover t ... More >>

Throwback Tuesdays: Yo Majesty--"Club Action"

There's something about the early music of Yo Majesty that will always have a soft spot in my heart. Back when this Tampa-based duo used to be a trio, Shunda K, Jwl B, and Shon B, were my favorite female MCs of 2007. They were butch, black, badass rappers who were sort of like a 2007 version of ... More >>

Chaos is just part of the voting process in SoFla

The 39 steps

After a controversial loss to Chad Dawson, Glen Johnson is still old

Poe Moves to Palm Beach

Crush Hot Pants Party

Return of the Booty Patrol

The Tim Version

Rabbit in the Moon

The Bad News Bulldogs

A quest for (Special) Olympic gold, starring one burned-out journalist turned coach and a volleyball team that couldn't spike straight.

Letters for November 9, 2006

It's the Magic Number

DJ Three

Laptop Pimpin'

The SoFla sex industry is being taken over by grandfatherly procurers and Internet-surfing hos

Rise Up for Recess

Cooped-up kids, unite! You have nothing to lose but your desks.

Cajun Again

Nobody celebrates Cajun more than SoFla... well, except Cajuns

The Haunted Library

Moonlight Tales, Jazz and Java

Pride (In the Name of Film)

Best Local Radio Program

Zeta Goes Local

The Straight Dope