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Hands Across the Sand: Enviros Against Offshore Oil, For Clean Energy, Hit the Beach Saturday

It started out in Florida in 2010, born out of revulsion at the prospect of oil rigs in the near offshore. That February, more than 10,000 concerned citizens just said "no," linking hands on dozens of beaches across the state, drawing a literal line in the sand. Mere months later, in the aftermath o ... More >>

Clean Plate Charlie Pranked The New York Times!

Every year, when April Fool's Day rolls around, Clean Plate Charlie is faced with the same dilemma: Do we write a prank blog post? The answer, of course, is yes.The best April Fool's posts are the ones that could possibly be true as you read. Then, a few nuggets of information that are so outrag ... More >>

Everglades Python Hunt: Can We Officially Call This One Giant Publicity Stunt? We Can

For the heat and hyperbole, who knew it was going to be this bad? But it is. The Great Python Hunt of 2013 may have been the greatest publicity stunt in the history of the Everglades. When the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission sent us its first python news release months ago, we wrote an intro ... More >>

New Times' Biogenesis Story: Extraordinary Attention and Denials

A story broken yesterday in New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Miami New Times has received astounding national and international attention.The piece, which employed hundreds of pages of handwritten notes to show that major sports stars had received performance-enhancing drugs from a Coral Gables clin ... More >>

The Sky Keeps Falling! A Short History of an Art Form's Long Passing

Did Mitt Romney Kill Leola Anderson in 1968 Car Crash? We Examine the Conspiracy Theories (PHOTOS)

Did you hear about that fatal car crash Mitt Romney was in? The incident happened in France in June 1968, when Romney was serving as a Mormon missionary. It made the U.S. papers in 2007, but considering that the man is running for president, it's surprising that the story has been discussed so littl ... More >>

Connie Mack's Dad Cosponsored 1994 Bill Including Individual Mandate

See also Connie Mack Continues Stupid Health Care Posturing. We've seen plenty of posturing already from Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack -- now a candidate for Senate -- about the Affordable Care Act -- even last week, he was slamming his opponent, Bill Nelson, for supporting it.This came into part ... More >>

New Times Seeks Marquee Name to Helm Restaurant Coverage

When Anthony Bourdain was asked last year what advice he'd give to the New York Times during the paper's search for a restaurant critic, he answered: "I think the best you can hope for in a subjective enterprise like food criticism is for an honest broker of opinion."Truthfulness might seem like an ... More >>

What to Expect From the Sun-Sentinel Paywall

The Sun-Sentinel announced last week that their website would soon have a shiny new feature -- a paywall, erected around the main daily paper serving Broward County.The paper will start "offering memberships" on Monday, though details have been in a letter to readers from publisher Howard Greenberg ... More >>

Broward Chefs at South Beach Wine and Food Festival 2012

​South Beach Wine and Food Festival 2012 is a few weeks away: the Nascar of foodie weekends. Though hot tickets are sold out, there's a slew of events with tickets available. Perhaps a local chef's attendance might convince you to splurge. Have a weigh-in on South Beach Wine and Food weekend? Shar ... More >>

Gilt City Miami Tests Safe Fare at East End Brasserie in Fort Lauderdale

Bacon to the Rescue: Thanksgiving Inspiration, Round Two

browneyedbaker​This past weekend, we round up some links to help out home cooks with Thanksgiving menu planning and wine selection. Now we're reminding you of the simple solution: Just add bacon. Behold: some ideas for how to make any dish better -- from appetizers to sides to the big bird itself. ... More >>

Five Bars to Get Your Morning Swerve On

Sometimes you're in the mood to skip the weekend's amateur hours and pony up with the professionals. Morning bars are just the spots. Here's a list of places to tie one on just a coupla hours past sunup.​1. The Hut. Though the bar reads "package store," the place attracts more than drunks. When I ... More >>

Allen West Interview: Florida Tea Party Favorite Talks About Islam and Donald Trump (Part 1)

Photo by Michael McElroy​The light is dim and smoky inside the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8182 in Pompano Beach. Red, white, and blue slogans brighten the low walls and ceilings, urging patrons to "Thank a Vet" and to remember "Freedom Is Not Free." At the far end of the small, bunker-sized roo ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden is Dead! (Dead Body PHOTO?)

​If you haven't yet heard, Osama bin Laden is dead!  President Obama just spoke and confirmed that his body

Republican Rep: I Didn't Say The Girl Deserved To Be Raped! (Because The New York Times Said It First.)

Passidomo: I didn't mean what I said, I didn't say what I said, and anyway we should blame the New York Times.​A lot of people are now officially pissed off about State Rep. Kathleen Passidomo's statement from last Tuesday, defending Florida's "sagging pants bill." (Which is a mostly fine bill, by ... More >>

Morning Juice: Positive Prognosis for Deerfield Girl; Corruption Trial Begins for Salesman

​Let's see what's happening this week in South Florida:Doctors are sounding an optimistic tone about the condition of Josie Lou Riley, the 15-year-old girl who was beaten nearly to death last week by a classmate at Deerfield Beach Middle School. [Miami Herald]Fitzroy Salesman goes to trial for wha ... More >>

Restaurant News: Heart Stoppers Clogs Arteries in Delray, Wine, Spirits and All That Jazz in Davie, Super Bowl Goes Kosher

​•    Clogging strong arteries 12 ways is the heart-stopping menu at the new Heart Stoppers Sports Grill in Delray Beach. Have your "nurse" (yes, server hotties really do wear lab coats and carry stethescopes) bring you an order of Chili Chest Pain Fries or Flatliner hot wings or ... More >>

Surfer Blood Is Palm Beach County's Great Indie-Rock Hope

Rothstein's Whale Was Father of the Bride for Extravagant NYC Wedding

iacbuilding.com​Just because Daddy's hedge fund got swallowed by a Ponzi schemer, doesn't mean his little girl can't have a wedding fit for royalty. This past weekend, Stephanie Sara Levin, daughter of George Levin, dubbed "Rothstein's whale" by Pulp, married Joseph Thomas Kraeutler in the lobby o ... More >>

A Moment on the Lips; a Lifetime in the...

Flickr: jannahstratKirstie Alley, post-op​...Tits? That article in the New York Times is the reason you're liable to see droves of chubby women lining up outside plastic surgeon offices. Yes, cosmetic scientists are making progress in lipo-suctioning fat out of one undesirable location in a woman' ... More >>

West Palm Pro Golfer Still Aiming for Comeback -- Minus Right Leg

That's Ken Green, a golfer in West Palm Beach, who lost his lower right leg, his brother, his girlfriend and his dog in a car accident in Mississippi last June. His quest to return to the PGA Tour was the subject of a feature story in Sunday's New York Times.Green battled depression and financial pr ... More >>

Group Slaughter is Group Therapy For Some Carnivores

"You wouldn't gather to see me offed, would you?"​One of the arguments for vegetarianism often comes in the form of a challenge. It goes something like, "If you are able to slaughter an animal yourself, you can feel justified being a meat eater." Little did vegetarians know that carnivores acr ... More >>

Will Marlins Hat Capsize an Industry?

Flickr: askmikeeSure, he looks innocent. But he's ruthless when it comes to thread count in his headwear.​Who to blame for the sudden crisis that has gripped the baseball hat industry, whose condition is mourned in the New York Times? Could it be the performance enhancing drugs that have cut a wid ... More >>

Hollywood Drug Maker Scorned Nationally, Advertising Locally

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/A screen grab from the Broward edition of this morning's Miami Herald.​A month after a national magazine named Resveratrol Ultra among the drug supplements that profit from what appear to be misleading advertisements and in the week following its being menti ... More >>

Health Care Demonstrators in Boca Eerily Calm

Yesterday in Boca Raton, demonstrating for health care reform. Now there's a thought! Also, interesting strategy not to mob a town hall meeting and chant about how we should deprive immigrants of health care.  Now compare that political participation with the style that health care opponents p ... More >>

Just Look at the House Republicans Inaction!

When House Republicans caucus, I'll bet it looks something like this: Star Wars-Imperial March - Click here for more amazing videosAmid all the other state budget crises, it's not getting nearly enough attention, but the Florida Legislature is on the brink of giving the heave-ho to $444 million in f ... More >>

Lake Worth to Debate the Birds and the Bees Tonight

Chicks and ducks and bees better scurry: Tonight at 8 p.m. the Lake Worth City Commission is set to discuss an ordinance to allow up to seven chickens and ducks and "a limited number of bees" to be raised within city limits. The "chicken on every plot" movement has taken off around the country, as ... More >>

Corporate Cash Is Flying Outta Federal Court in Fort Lauderdale

By now, everybody knows about the $8 million Revenge of the Smoker's Widow. But Philip Morris wasn't the only international heavyweight to have a costly day at the U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale. Today's New York Times leads with a story about the $780 million settlement struck between Swiss ... More >>

For the Woman Who Has Everything, Buy Monkey Porn

This weekend's New York Times Magazine has a lengthy article that dangles a tantalizing reward: The answer to the question, What Do Women Want?Sexually.Sorry, fellow straight guys. After 7,381 words, the writer and a slew of "sexologists" give a collective shrug. One thing researchers do know is tha ... More >>

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NY Times: Miami Herald Up For Sale

Bidders welcome The debt-ridden McClatchy Company is trying to unload the Miami Herald, reports the New York Times. So far, it hasn't found any buyers, though. This is huge news, but its not being reported on the Herald home page (or the Sun-Sentinel's -- though it had a brief in this morning's ... More >>

RIP Michael Strauss

Blogged To Death

Again With The Future of Journalism Stuff

Naugle Makes New York Times

New York Times Sometimes Bites

Let's Chill On The Use of the Term "Gay Bashing"

Drugs In Space

Spreading the Plame

It's time more journalists were called on the carpet for bad judgment

Down with the Sound

Shake it at the M3 Summit

How Much Does Credibility Cost?

Boca Raton video producer Mark Kielar signed Cronkite, Brown, and Safer to host thinly veiled advertisements -- until the deal fell apart

Blast from the Past

A decade of change in black and white

Dirty Work

A tale of prison gardeners is this summer's sweetest feel-good comedy

Letters to the Editor

Letters for February 8, 2001

Seafood With a Splash

City Oyster

Undercurrents

So-called experts

Best Place To Beat The Heat

Riverside Hotel

Undercurrents

A Little Help From His Friend