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Pain & Gain Star The Rock Lives in Broward County: 8 "Celebrities" Who Could Be Your Neighbors

Miami, Florida and Hollywood, California are known for the best places to spot celebrities. Oohh there's Jon Hamm. Ooh look, George Clooney! Pfft. Whatever. We all know the sexiest place on the planet is Broward friggin County. Know who else knows that?The Rock. He lives there. Other celebritie ... More >>

Florida Woman Used Dead Dog's Prescriptions to Score Drugs

A Wilton Manors woman found a new and innovative way to get her hands on some drugs. She used her dog's prescriptions from the Floresta Animal Hospital in Boynton Beach to get her hands on 240 hydrocodone and acetaminophen pills between July and November 2012. Her dog didn't seem to mind. Because ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival: Five Reasons To Schlep to Miami

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival comes to Miami Beach in one week and if you didn't get your tickets, better hop to it. The festival, which turns the white sand of South Beach red with vino, may be expensive and a bit of a drive, but if you're into food, wine, and chefs-turned-celebrities it ... More >>

Broward Cops Searching for One-Gloved Bandit

Cops are on the lookout for a crafty Walgreens robber who very nearly foiled their search. Since police have highly scientific ways in which to track a thief down by means of obtaining fingerprints left at the scene of the crime, this robber thought ahead and brought himself a glove to put on so he ... More >>

Suck it, Drake! YOLO Has Been Trademarked -- and Not By You

Earlier this week, Canadian rapper Drake uploaded some instagram pictures of clothing bearing the acronym "YOLO" at a Walgreens and a Macy's suggesting the businesses pay up for using "his" catchphrase. Clean Plate Charlie spoke to restauranteur Tim Petrillo, co-owner of YOLO in Fort Lauderdale ... More >>

Rapper Drake Thinks He Owns the Term YOLO -- But Did He and Rick Ross Crib the Phrase from the Fort Lauderdale Restaurant?

YOLO: love it or hate it, it's the new 'in' acronym. It's become the catchphrase excuse for all things ridiculous: drunken sorority girl hook-ups, speeding, frat boy public urination, Darwin Award-like behavior, or any other insignificant experience deemed to be worthy of a hashtag by social media u ... More >>

Celebrate Christmas Eve at The Matzo Ball in Delray

It's Christmas Eve and everywhere around you, families are getting together with some cocoa or eggnog to celebrate both the birth of our savior and the imminent arrival of Santa Claus. However, for us Jewish people, Christmas eve was known as "the night when everything closes". The only places open ... More >>

Police Release Info on Strong-Arm Robbery at Fort Lauderdale Hustler Store

Fort Lauderdale police are looking for a white male shown in surveillance footage from a Hustler store in connection with a May 20 strong-arm robbery.The man waited outside the store at 1500 E. Sunrise Blvd., talking on his phone around 11:15 p.m. -- he stood near the door and robbed the first perso ... More >>

Stealing Entire ATMs Is a Terrible Idea, but Stores Are Asking for It

If the decrepit, fictionalized methheads on Breaking Bad have taught us anything, it's that stealing an entire ATM is a fruitless venture that will result in your skull getting crushed. In the wee hours of Monday morning, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrived at a Loxahatchee Walg ... More >>

A Fat Guy Is Stealing Purses in Pompano Beach (VIDEO)

The Broward Sheriff's Office is looking for a man they say is connected to two muggings at the end of March -- they want you to know that he's six feet tall, gets around in an old, gold-colored Nissan, and is... fat.In an announcement headlined "Big Boy Wants a Purse," the BSO describes a "corpulant ... More >>

Last Minute Thanksgiving: What Grocery Stores Are Open?

Start again? Some stores are open on Thanksgiving.​So it's Thanksgiving, the turkey's in the oven, and you're about to start the sides when you realize you're out of cream and you totally forgot the cranberries!  Don't panic. Though most stores are closed, we've compiled a list of stores that ... More >>

Seminole Hard Rock Wine and Food Festival Features More Than 300 Wines

Yo! Steve Martorano's gonna make you a meatball at the Seminole Hard Rock this weekend!​This Sunday, we all gain an hour of sleep when daylight-saving time ends and we set our clocks back one hour. Which means, technically, we can start drinking at the Seminole Hard Rock Wine and Food Festival ear ... More >>

Captain Morgan Statue Recovered From College Dorm Room

squidoo.com​The Monroe County Sheriff's Office got a hot tip yesterday on where the missing Captain Morgan statue was -- he was "wherever the party was taking place."Someone stole a statue of fictional rum salesman Captain Morgan from outside a Key West Walgreens store last week, and sheriff's dep ... More >>

Captain Morgan Statue Stolen From Key West Walgreens

A statue of this smug rum dealer is MIA.​Missing: Five-foot-tall statue of a drunken pirate with one foot on a rum barrel.Someone stole a statue of fictional rum salesman Captain Morgan from outside a Key West Walgreens store last week, and it's still missing, according to a Key West Police Depart ... More >>

Jason Villano: Pill Mill Crackdown's Unjust Victim

Got Leftover Peeps? Five Peeps Recipes

Photo by: Robyn Lee (seriouseats.com)Peepshi!​Warning: Peeps were harmed during the making of this blog entry! (Sorry, PETA.)While strolling down the candy aisle at your local Walgreens store, you may have been lured in by all of the mesmerizing, pastel-colored holiday candy on display. Some of th ... More >>

Revised 'Pill Mill' Bill Approved By House Committee

​So much for the governor's pill mill "strike force." Florida just may get a prescription drug-monitoring program after all.  Today, the House Appropriations Committee approved a revised bill, (HB 7095), that scraps Gov. Rick Scott's proposal to repeal the drug tracking system, which also rec ... More >>

James Randi Encourages Skeptics to "Overdose" on Homeopathic Medicines

James Randi, the grandfather of modern skepticism and founder of the Fort Lauderdale-based James Randi Educational Foundation, has for decades offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can successfully demonstrate any paranormal ability in a laboratory setting. Now he's extending the offer to manufa ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Tips His Hat to Walgreen's Big Flats Beer

Comedy Central Colbert drinks cheap beer and loves it​In a hilarious segment on his show, Stephen Colbert tips his hat to Big Flats beer, Walgreens' private label beer selling for $2.99 a six pack.  Colbert said that this beer is a great idea because since people can't afford prescrip ... More >>

Walgreens Beer: Worth $3 a Six-Pack?

​Sure. If your debit card's been stolen, and you're left with a troika of crumpled one-dollar bills plus a few coins and fuzzballs in your pocket, this'll work.Big Flats, 1901? Sounds like the site of a fictional railroad accident, implying not refreshment but derailed coal cars oozing steam ... More >>

BSO Jail Guard Romanced Suspected Cop Killer

We all know that three Broward Sheriff's Office deputies were arrested earlier this month and charged with supplying contraband to inmates and having sex with them.    Deitrick Johnson and Dep. Kiara Walker (inset)​The shocking part, though, is the identity of  ... More >>

Cookie Diet Doctor Sanford Siegal on New Cookbook, Working With Snooki, and Why $50 Cookies Are a Bargain

Dr. Sanford Siegal and Matthew Siegal ​Over the years, we've kept in touch with South Florida doctor Sanford Siegal, inventor of the Cookie Diet phenomenon. When we heard he had released a new cookbook (with surprisingly yummy low-calorie recipes... including chocolate and cheesecake!), we had to ... More >>

Good Ol' Greasy Spoons: Five Reliable Diners in (and Around) Fort Lauderdale

​5. Joe's Cafe, 1913 Cordova Road, Fort Lauderdale; 954-760-5637. This is the second coming of the late, lamented Joe Bel-Aire's, a late-night haunt that used to be the first neon sign you'd see when you left Port Everglades. Almost a decade ago, the legendary structure was leveled to make wa ... More >>

Satisfied Customer Offers Step-by-Step Guide to American Pain Clinic

Stealth videographer Shirley Coffee caught this Lauderdale pain clinic image.​As we reported yesterday, a new pain clinic has opened in Lake Worth, a big white elephant of an unmarked two-story building on North Dixie Highway. Following the lead of other South Florida cities, Lake Worth City Commi ... More >>

Boynton Beach Man Accused of Beating 11-Month-Old Infant

Jean-Carlo Baptist told police that he was tired and trying to sleep after working a night job, when his 11-week-old daughter wouldn't stop crying. His wife was working at Walgreens at the time. Baptist had told paramedics that his daughter had fallen out of bed, but after questioning by Boynton Bea ... More >>

[Updated -- Again] In Boynton Beach, a 10-Year-Old Struck by a Car

The accident on Congress Avenue happened an hour ago. The 10-year-old, who wasn't named in the Boynton Beach Police Department release, has been taken to the trauma center in Delray Beach. It's not safe for adults to be pedestrians in Florida, much less kids.From police spokeswoman Stephanie Slater: ... More >>

West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel Took on Community Activists, and Dreams for Northwood Village Died

In the Dollhouse

Nothin’ Says “I Love You”

Like an argyle monster

Like, Totally

Hipster glitterati convene for the Annual ’80s Prom

Dueling Detectives: Private dick Dan Riemer says he solved the murder of Broward County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Chris Reyka — no thanks to the Sheriff's Department detectives

P.I. Says Sgt. Chris Reyka Murder Case Is Solved

Puttin’ Him on a Pedestal

Your Questions Answered

Why I'd never skewer La Brochette

Butts in Seats

The Song Does Not Remain the Same

At Respecs, all things must pass. Even nightlife columnists.

Another Deputy Down

It’s Official: Sushi as American as the Pre-Wrapped Bologna Sandwich

Flick Lauderdale

The Art of the SoFla Movie Deal

Haute Chocolate

Enrapture your Valentine with distinctive sweets

Besotted on a Budget

A hunt for low-cost liquor in Broward County

Hearing Voices

Terrors and Squelchers at Churchill's, oh my!

Best Neighborhood Activist

Carl Flick

Katie Barr

Katie was the owner of the Haitian Art Collection in Delray Beach

Leapin' Armadillos

Armadillo Cafe

Best Health-Food Store

Bread of Life

The Straight Dope

Foodstuff

Foodstuff

What Next, Limos?

Using private vans to transport Palm Beach's carless poor costs taxpayers a fortune. There is a solution -- it's called the bus.