Travel Destinations

Passengers Aboard Royal Caribbean Report Having Diarrhea; Ship Cuts Cruise Short

The Vision of the Seas had to turn back from its 11-day cruise after passengers basically started puking all over the place. The Royal Caribbean ship docked at Port Everglades on Friday morning after a number of passengers as well as crew members showed symptoms of what the company is calling a spr ... More >>

Super Bowl Cocktails: Make These Baltimore and San Francisco-Inspired Drinks

The "Big Game" is tomorrow and you've got plenty of watching options. You can have a house party, head over to one of the many bars and restaurants holding watch parties. If you've got vacation days coming to you, you can hop a flight to New Orleans -- or you could sail away on a Carnival ship for a ... More >>

Everglades Airboaters' Nasty Battle Over Big Bucks

Mayan Beach Club Condo Complex Destroys Sand Dune in Fort Lauderdale Beach

The Mayan Beach Club has obliterated a 176-foot-long sand dune on Fort Lauderdale's beach that helped prevent beach erosion and provided a nesting place for endangered green sea turtles, because the it blocked the view of the ocean. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection apparently made ... More >>

Bus Down to Art Basel With Fellow Art Geeks

Rock the Presidential Debate

S3 on Fort Lauderdale Beach: New Beach Restaurant Coming from Owners of YOLO and Tarpon Bend

The Restaurant People, the company known for some of downtown Fort Lauderdale's busiest establishments--Tarpon Bend, Yolo, Vibe-- are expanding their empire. Their next plan? A restaurant and bar at the base of the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort. S3--short for sun, surf, sand or steak, seafood, ... More >>

Baja Beach Club, Birthplace of the Body Shot: Over 600 People Showed Up for Job Fair

Baja Beach Club, the 1990s Fort Lauderdale haunt best known for the classic spring-break style parties -- you know the type, scantily-clad bartenders serving up body shots to grinding, barely legal patrons -- is getting ready for more action. The club was first launched in Chicago in 1987; eventuall ... More >>

Bike to the Everglades! An Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Not Dying

Our brethren in Miami showed how you can kayak to Marlins Park or take the Metrorail to nowhere. But what if you just want a nice leisurely, relaxed, death-defying 17-mile bike ride from Fort Lauderdale to the Everglades and back? YOU'RE IN LUCK! We'll show you how! On the way, you'll see shitty inf ... More >>

Baja Beach Club Brings Jobs and Beach-Related Fun To Boca

Clean Plate Charlie remembers Baja Beach Club as the party palace where we fondly did whipped cream body shots off extremely tan shirtless bartenders back in the late 1990's. We say break out the tequila and the Reddi-Whip, because the club that brings the beach indoors with body shots, beer tub gir ... More >>

Five Ways Fort Lauderdale Could Spend the $14 Million It Found Lying Around

The Fort Lauderdale city commissioners must be patting themselves on the back right now for hiring Lee Feldman as city manager: Turns out he's a master at rooting around the couch cushions of city budgets for money that's gone missing.Bucking the trend of cities like Lauderdale Lakes and Hollywood t ... More >>

Find Out What’s Biting You, Will Ya?

South Florida Lags Woefully Behind in Spring Break Dangers

​In a recent survey of the most dangerous spring break destinations in the country, Fort Lauderdale -- birthplace of the modern spring break -- didn't even crack the top ten. West Palm Beach ranked fifth and Miami was tenth. The survey, conducted by the website lawyer website avvo.com, looked at c ... More >>

Passenger on Allure of the Seas Gay Cruise Charged With Selling Drugs

A previous Atlantis cruise​It's been a rough few days for Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas. Last weekend, a crew member on the Port Everglades-based megaship was murdered on a beach in Cozumel by a Mexican bartender; now a passenger has been charged with dealing drugs on board.Steven Krumholz, ... More >>

Allure of the Seas Crew Member Murdered on Stopover in Mexico

​In mid-November, the world's largest cruise ship arrived at its new home in Port Everglades to throngs of cheering fans. Soon it embarked on its maiden voyage, a cruise of the Caribbean -- including a stop at Labadee, Haiti, an isolated hamlet just miles from the cholera and destruction of Port-a ... More >>

Drinking Vacation With Ruth Berman and Mike Arra's Beer Bon Voyage

Nicole Danna​Ruth Berman and Mike Arra love beer. So much so that the two busy Boynton Beach-based chiropractors decided to make a second living out of it.How? By organizing beer vacations, of course.

Dos Caminos at Sheraton Ft. Lauderdale Beach Hotel Scheduled to Open January 27

Dos Caminos at The Sheraton Ft. Lauderdale Beach Hotel​The popular Dos Caminos restaurant chain opens its sixth restaurant this week at the newly refurbished Sheraton Ft. Lauderdale Beach Hotel. Dos Caminos Corporate Executive Chef and Mod Mex author Scott Linquist has blended Dos Caminos& ... More >>

Mark Militello Resurfaces Again in Deerfield at Cabo Blue

Militello​Chef Mark Militello, most recently of Trina in the Atlantic Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, is steering an upscale "authentic" Mexican (his descript) in Deerfield Beach.He'll open Cabo Blue: a Grill and Tequila Bar within the next few weeks. It's on the property of the new Wyndham Deerfield Be ... More >>

Southern Monster Smash Brings the Jam to Pompano

Butcher’s Eye View

Birds of a Feather, Art Together

Tour de Home

Massages for the Masses

Off the Basel-Beaten Path

Daybreak

Flickr: Kevin B PhotoKayaking in the Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Jupiter​

Happy Halloween: Vaguely Spooky Luxury Liner Leaves for Lauderdale

That's homemade footage of the world's largest cruise ship, seen leaving it's birthplace of Turku, Finland, bound for Fort Lauderdale. Set to make its posh premiere December 1 out of Port Everglades, Royal Caribbean's $1.2 billion, 5,400-passenger Oasis of the Seas offers titanic luxury, minus lurk ... More >>

Amid National Recession, There's Nothin' Like Titanic Luxury

Don't call it the Titanic, but there's a new history-making ship soon to make a posh premiere in Fort Lauderdale. On December 1, Royal Caribbean's $1.2 billion, 5,400 passenger Oasis of the Seas will cruise out of Port Everglades. Nearly four football fields long, boasting 18 decks, with a crew of 2 ... More >>

Cheap Thrill: Kayaking in MacArthur Beach State Park

Photo courtesy of John D. MacArthur Beach State Park​Nothing feels better than donating to a good cause, especially when such altruism rewards you with free stuff. That's why you should become a friend of John D. MacArthur Beach State Park. Over the years, New Times has shown a lot of love to this ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ J Felix

An omnipresent club fixture from Fort Lauderdale to South Beach.

Kottonmouth Kings

Hot Ceviche Confuses Top Chef's Jeff McInnis

"I don't understand, ya'll!"ZOMG, ya'll! Did you watch last night's Super Bowl edition of Top Chef? Poor Jeff McInnis got the boot. We feel for him. The chef from the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach couldn't wrap his head around why the judges preferred season 2's Josie Smith-Malav ... More >>

Into the Great Wide Open

Bernstein at the Omphoy?

$50 Rubdowns

Get worked over during Spa Week

Preliminary WMC Schedule Posted (the Actual Conference!)

Hush, Money

Nobody's talking about the Hollywood Beach Resort, but campaign contributions scream Next Big Thing

Restaurant Comings and Goings

Best Farmers Market in Broward

Josh's Organic Garden

Adios, Abortionist

Joyce Tarnow is history

Ghost Hunter

It's Halloween. Get thee to a cemetery.

Best Club Night

In the Biz Night at the Blue Martini

Best Hotel

The Colony

Best Weekend Getaway

Eden House

Best Beach in Palm Beach

A1A and Atlantic Avenue

Best Bar in Broward

The Poor House

Million-Dollar Meals

Sopra puts Delray Beach on the culinary map, but at what cost?

Best Pedicure

Serenity Aveda Day Spa

Best Hotel

Riverside Hotel

Best Strip Joint

Cheetah III

Night & Day

June 11 - 17, 1998