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Madness in Boston: One Bomb Suspect Dead, Other Hunted

While much of the nation was asleep, Boston experienced madness as police identified and chased two of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. The suspects are said to be 19- and 20-something-year-old brothers who seem to have been living near Boston for at least a year based on internet clues ... More >>

Allen West Spent Almost a Million Dollars on Mail This Year

Yesterday, we brought you the details of Allen West's 2012 campaign contributions -- how he's pulled in more than $1.8 million between January and the end of March, with more than half of contributions from donors giving over $200 coming from outside the state.He has $3,334,632 left in his war chest ... More >>

Of Course the Doctor Giving Feeding Tubes to Brides-to-Be Is in Florida

It sounds like South Florida from the very first paragraph.It's a story from ABC News about a new medical procedure in which women, many of whom are preparing to squeeze into a wedding dress, get a feeding tube stuck up their noses and then walk around with it for ten days, not actually eating anyth ... More >>

State, Federal Agencies to Investigate Killing of Trayvon Martin

​Twenty-two days after 17-year-old Miami Gardens boy Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice announced late Monday night that they will be investigating his death at the hands of 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, according to t ... More >>

Broward/Palm Beach County Noteworthy Chefs of 2011

chef Angelo Elia of Casa 'd Angelo​Being a chef has never been a glamorous job as anyone who's made it her life work will tell you. The rise of cooking shows and the fetishizing of food has ushered the profession in the limelight. As restaurants garner attention, it's natural to become more aware ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's Literary Orgasm Talks Shop at Miami Book Fair

​Do people read in South Florida? Scan the Floridian before 10 a.m. and note the absence of someone reading a newspaper, a book, or a magazine -- even in digital form. Over at Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House, an employee made a comment while I was there a couple of weeks ago to the sole person ... More >>

Sibling Rivarly

Local Muslims May Support Terrorists or Strive for Peace -- Depending on Whom You Ask

Prosecutors say the six men supported the Taliban in Pakistan.​If you believe the feds, the group of local Muslims arrested across South Florida this past weekend were supporters of terrorism and worked to fund those who would kill and kidnap in the name of Islam. The four-count indictment claims ... More >>

Osama bin Laden Is Dead: Some Links

​Osama bin Laden is dead and you want to know the whole story? The compound in Attobad​-- U.S. forces shot bin Laden in the head during a raid at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. One of the al Qaeda leader's sons was also killed, as were two other men and a women being used as a human ... More >>

The Fix, a New Website About Addiction and Recovery Profiles Florida

​On Monday, the same day that the New York Times shocked the world and erected a paywall on their website, Maer Roshan, founder of the failed Radar Magazine, launched TheFix.com, "addiction and recovery, straight up." With everyone so indignant about paying for the Times, the free website went up ... More >>

Oprah Winfrey: Vegan Ally

Alan Light / flickrOprah is a friend to veggies everywhere.​​Whether it was going to court to face the beef industry in the late '90s, dedicating episodes of her talk show to behind-the-scenes looks at factory farms, or taking viewers on a grocery-store run for dairy-free junk food with Alicia S ... More >>

Ann Coulter Watch: "Like a Condom, The First Amendment Can't Always Protect You."

​This week, our favorite local virgin published her most vapid screed yet at Human Events, her "editorial home." Wondering why our nation's top "legal eagles" have yet to make a compelling case for the criminal prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, she draws on her lawyerly training to ... More >>

Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere

Got an interesting post or bit of news to share? Email it to Charlie and we'll include it in Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere.Jan Norris grabs some tips from Art Ginsberg, AKA Mr. Food, on how to make a great brisket. South Florida Beer Blog hips us to the Beer Snob Pub Crawl, a beerventure conducted ... More >>

"My Cold Beer" for a Long, Hot Summer

​Toby Cecchini has discovered that it's hot in New York in the summer.  Stop the presses!  Writing last week in the New York Times, he weighed in on the heat-soothing aspects of the chelada and michelada, beer-based Mexican cocktails that include, in varying number and proportion, tomato ... More >>

New Cancer Order

As Gen. McChrystal's Head Rolls, a Dearth of Rolling Stones

Flickr: gnotalexLocals have to wait another day to see McChrystal's interview hari kari.​Morbid curiosity is surely the most powerful kind -- and it's particularly strong in Juice readers. So we empathize with the frustrations of one reader, Jeff, who today found himself in a mood to witness someo ... More >>

The Humane Society's Battle With Farmers Began Right Here in Florida

Already Bribe County, Supreme Court Ruling Opens Pandora's Wallet in Broward

Flickr: maurice flowersFor obliging politicians, one size fits all.​The shirt you'll need to stay on the City Commission dais. ​It's a good week to be corrupt. And I'm not talking about the corrupt health care industry, which managed to blast a gaping hole in an already listing ship trying to br ... More >>

Morning Juice: Aid to Haiti Trickles in; FPL Rate Hike Denied

​The catastrophe in Haiti dominates the headlines in South Florida and around the world:The Port Au Prince airport is now taking chartered flights and aid has arrived -- just nearly enough to meet the dire need for water and fuel. [New York Times]Lynn University in Boca Raton learned late last nig ... More >>

Six Things the Customer Should Always Do

​If you've ever wondered why restaurant workers sometimes want to gouge their own eyes out or shave off all their body hair and stow away on a tramp steamer bound for Guatamala, New York restaurateur Bruce Buschel's pair of blog posts that ran recently in the New York Times (part one is here, part ... More >>

Kahn Job: Lauderdale Woman Is Key Witness in Major Insider Trading Case

A 51-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman named Roomy Khan is prepared to testify against her former boss at Galleon, a $3 billion hedge fund ensnared in one of the nation's largest-ever insider trading cases.But Khan will be taking quite a bit of baggage to the witness stand.

Death at Weston MedSpa May Bring National Reforms

Flickr: Romance is alive.At this rate, what next? Do-It-Yourself home liposuction kits?​I know this may come as bad news to the middle-class folks with a jones for cosmetic surgery, but the days of bargain Botox may soon be over. This is the kind of article that politicians tend to clip out, then ... More >>

Night of the Living Word

What Do You Think About Sam Sifton's Critical Debut at the New York Times?

​In one of the most talked about moves in food journalism since... well, as long as I can remember, Frank Bruni hung up his silverware at the New York Times in August, leaving a gaping chasm for his successor, the Times own Sam Sifton, to wedge into. Sifton's very first column -- on Daniel Boulud' ... More >>

Hey, Laser Geeks: Stop Playing Star Wars at the Palm Beach Airport

Flckr user: pedrosimoes7Keep your lasers out of my eyes!​More than 20 times in the past year, pranksters have shone a green laser beam into the cockpits of planes landing at Palm Beach International Airport, attempting to blind the pilots. No planes have crashed, but at least one pilot was injured ... More >>

Raffa Prize

Scientific Breakthrough May Mean Immortality for Disgraced Broward Pols

Gallagher: A model of self-destruction.​The New York Times is reporting that the human body's ability to cannibalize its own cells is a major factor in maintaining human health. In short:Increasing our body's ability to self-destruct may, paradoxically, let us live longer.And no local bodies self- ... More >>

Search for Airline More Spartan Than Spirit Ends in Ireland

Quick, someone block the New York Times website on the computer of Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza. The head of the Miramar-based discount carrier will be devastated if he learns that there's another airline that is more ruthless about achieving low fares (a Baldanza obsession) and more willing to ... More >>

For Local Officials, Skin Condition Means Less-Informed Electorate

 Even when you're in the newspaper business, it's jarring to see someone you know on the front page of the New York Times website. (It's been updated since then, but you can see the screen grab from earlier today.) As a cub reporter ten years ago, I covered politics for a daily newspaper in nor ... More >>

Beaten by a Perfectly Groomed Handlebar Mustache

Flickr.com Clay Zavada in the minors, before the handlebars. It's the worst kind of brutality: swift, unforgiving, and ushered in by a waxed, turned, well-spun piece of man hair. If you didn't see it last night, the Marlins lost to the Diamondbacks 4-3. And the winning pitcher only appeared i ... More >>

America is Watching Riviera Beach's Ass, Laws

There was a fantastic piece in The New York Times yesterday from former New Times managing editor Edmund Newton about a Riviera Beach law banning droopy drawers. The ordinance, passed last year with over 70% voter support, makes it illegal to wear pants low enough to reveal skin o ... More >>

Kids Are Taking All the Health Care Jobs

Let's pop a thermometer into the Florida health care industry, shall we? For starters, here's a recent study that finds that nearly half of the Floridians surveyed admitted to at least one recession-related health care cutback. The most common: putting off a health care visit, skipping medical trea ... More >>

Post Holiday Depression Diet

If you're like me after the holidays, a person who routinely has trouble pushing herself away from the table**, you're feeling fat and broke. So I looked up some traditional Depression Era recipes, hearkening back to the days when everybody was skinny because they ate so much cabbage, noodles, beans ... More >>

Return of the Ball Jar: Middle Class Anxiety Files

The Ball jar: Preserving our Illusions.The New York Times reported last week that sales of Ball jars are up 92 percent from the same month last year. That's because the upper middle class is getting jittery about the economy, and when we get jittery, you know what we do? Just to take myself as an e ... More >>

Aniston Naked (And Other News Items)

-- The Sun-Sentinel, which never misses an excuse to link seemingly random pictures of half-naked women on its home page, hit a new low on that score over the weekend. The newspaper put up the headline: Aniston Naked. Under it was, yes, Jennifer Aniston from the latest GQ cover (it's ... More >>

Illinois Most Corrupt State? Nah, Florida's Still Got It.

The New York Times' Bill Marsh found the statistics. When it comes to corruption, Florida crushes Illinois in terms of raw number of convicted officials. We're No. 1, with New York a rather distant second. Chicago's state falls all the way down the list to the seventh spot. Yeah. That's what I thou ... More >>

Former NTer In China's Earthquake Zone

"Suspicious Nonsense": Miami Herald Plagiarized by NYT

Caviar Dreams

Are the latest boastful rappers billionaires or boobs?

Big Wind in Boca

The Party Was Over Before It Began

Sushi Advisory

The Year in Music

Our 2007 listening party with Vanilla Ice, Davy Jones, and Al Franken

A Modern Holocaust (With Popcorn)

Gray Lady's Glass Chin

Books! Books!

Night & Day

Best Newsstand

Clematis Street News Stand

Best Dinner and a Movie

Carefree Theater and Gemini Cafe

A Movable Feast

The local International Hispanic Theatre Festival is one of the biggest and best of its kind -- when will South Florida discover it?

Undercurrents

Uncounted Presidential Ballots