Walt Disney World Resort

Rich Moms Hire "Disabled" Guides at Disney World So Their Kids Don't Have to Wait in Line

So, thanks to this report, we may have located the world's most entitled human persons ever. The report, published by the New York Post, says that some wealthy Manhattan moms visiting Disney World didn't want their precious pampered tykes to wait in long lines for rides like everyone else, so they ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Fraudsters Scammed Investors with Fake Colombian Disney World, SEC Says

E-Monee.com Inc - if you were writing a movie script and needed to cook up the name of a shady online outfit, that's probably a good candidate. Not surprisingly, the real life E-Monee.com is being charged with fraud by the feds. The two heads of the Fort Lauderdale company talked big about lucrative ... More >>

Disney's Be Our Guest Restaurant: Beastly Dining Fit For a Princess (Pictures,Video)

Confession: Every single time I watch Beauty and the Beast -- be it the movie, theatrical production, or the live mini-musical at Disney World, I bawl my eyes out. Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that my dog, Harry, looks exactly like Beast. Or...it could just have something to do wit ... More >>

ROK Brings Korean Barbecue Meat Without the Heat

Republic of Korea owner and chef Michael Kwon chose to open his first restaurant in Lauderhil for a pretty good reason. He hoped a cluster of places offering Korean barbecue and Asian-inspired tapas would create a sort of Little Korea in Broward County. Kwon was born in South Florida to immigrant p ... More >>

FEC Train Operator Plans New Privatized Rail Service Between South Florida and Orlando

​It is, of course, essential Rick Scott lore that our budget-cutting governor nixed a federally funded high-speed rail project because it used too much taxpayer money. As little sense as that move made, the governor has always been clear that he favors private enterprise over the government provid ... More >>

Sought-After Squirrel; Arsenic and Old Rice; Obesity Holds Weight at Disney

​A trio of strange headlines to send your way at the day's end. Behold, Monday's food news.The Economist reports that sales of squirrel meat have soared since it was introduced to North London grocery stores in 2010. Will the trend jump the pond? With few regulations regarding arsenic in food, ric ... More >>

Hard-Core Disney Fans Can't Be Corralled by the Corporate-Approved Fan Club, D23

Free Ice Cream Today at Cold Stone Creamery's Ice Cream Social

Coldstone CreameryFree ice cream this evening at Cold Stone Creamery.​Cold Stone Creamery is handing out free three-ounce "Sprinkled With Wishes" ice creams today to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation as part of its nationwide Ice Cream Social event.From 5 to 8 p.m., claim your free ice cream sund ... More >>

Children, Like Miniature Do-Overs

Beckett Gone Green

OUT Yourself

Farewell, Gradnite.

The Magic Kingdom at night.​Last week, the Sun Sentinel ran a sad little story about the death of Grad Nite. Do you know about Grad Nite? If not, you're probably not from around here.Grad Nite was an event instituted at Walt Disney World shortly after the park opened, in imitation of a similar eve ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Grand Tasting Village: Bring on the Celebrity Chefs

All photos by Laine Doss Anthony Bourdain brought the wheel of death.​Once a year, South Beach turns into the ultimate playground for adults. Filled with shows, food, and fun, it's basically Disney World for grownups. At the Grand Tasting Village, guests are given a Waterford Crystal glass ... More >>

10 Survival Tips For The South Beach Wine & Food Festival

Tony Bourdain will be at the SoBe Wine & Food Festival​This weekend South Beach turns into Disneyworld for foodies as The South Beach Wine & Food Festival Roars into town. The event is larger than life and brings together celebrity chefs and the people who worship them for one wine ... More >>

Four Places to Hide from Christmas in South Florida

alancleaver_2000I'd rather be doing karaoke!​Ahhh Christmas day...the smell of a Christmas tree in your house, opening presents, singing carols, sipping eggnog, laughing children....it's enough to make you want to lose your mind.  Christmas Eve is alright by me since it's usually a time to dr ... More >>

Villacrusis Wins Food & Wine Fest Throwdown

​In the first annual Grand Chef Throwdown at the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival last night, Roy Villacrusis's cuisine reigned supreme.  Villacrusis, chef-owner of the new (and terrific) Kubo Asiatic Cuisine in North Palm Beach, smacked down former Top Chef contestant Howie "Bulldog" Klei ... More >>

It's a Small World After All: Republicans Use Audit of Jim Greer to Sabotage Charlie Crist

​They say that in every crisis, there's an opportunity. So it is with the Republican Party of Florida, scandalized by the sybaritic ways of its former chairman, Jim Greer, who's now facing charges of money laundering and fraud, a case that prompted a forensic audit of the party's books. And those ... More >>

A Day at the Races

Isle Casino has a full-on bar scene to explore.

The Manor, a New Entertainment Complex, Opens in Wilton Manors

If you're not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here's a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. Photo by Flickr user wickenden​One of Broward's largest and most ambitious dining and entertainment complexes made its d ... More >>

Weirdos, Dicks and Iron Chefs

​Well, the Next Iron Chef is Jose Garces, proprietor of six restaurants in Philadelphia and Chicago and dubbed (insulted?) by some as "the Latin Emeril," who over the past weeks blew off nine other chefs from around the country and last night edged New York toque/pastry chef Jehangir Mehta to join ... More >>

You Can Always Go Downtown...

Morning Juice: Crist Taps a School Board Member; Heart Attack Killed Picower

​For fresh material on the breaking news item of the moment, the stabbings in Manalapan, scroll down. Here's what else is happening in Broward and Palm Beach:That's not the day's only stabbing story. A 15-year-old in Coral Springs stabbed his 14-year-old brother to death during a fight over the vo ... More >>

Superstar Drummer Josh Freese Sells Himself to Promote His New Album

Party Polynesian

My Inauguration Photo Album Full of Obama Droves, Celebrity Specks And Snipers

It is hard to overstate how crowded it was on the National Mall Sunday. I've been to New York City.  I've been to Disney World. I've been to Phish concerts. But to be one amongst nearly a million human bodies is oddly disconcerting. Especially because it seemed like a good thirty percent of tho ... More >>

Salacious, Satanist Sinners

Yo Ho Ho

Watch out, hip-hoppers: Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew are pillaging for beats

Breakup Bash

This was so much fun, we can't wait to get a divorce

Ye Old Nasty

Showing Some Backbone

A local music store books local, national — and intergalactic — bands.

Future Perfect

Mike Jones and the Jetsetter Lounge offer a revisionist history of the future.

A Fine Romance

Pay for Play

Best Park in Broward

Quiet Waters Park

One and Only

On playing with yourself

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Letters for November 13, 2003

Ballpark Ballyhoo

Letters for April 25, 2002

Attack of the cranky creationists

Don’t Get Holidazed!

Holiday Gift Guide 2001

James Randi

James was a stage magician and escape artist before becoming a full-time skeptic and debunker of psychic fakery and pseudoscience

High Mark's

Mark's CityPlace

Undercurrents

A nightclub in the fast lane, a newspaper in the slow one, and a Brazilian with his thumb out

Hyperreal Life

MoCA's latest collection of installations will literally bring you to your knees

Act-obatics

The DynamO Théâtre Company performs Mur-Mur (The Wall)

Best Place To Poll God

Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church

Malled!

Six shoppertainment malls, three eager mallrats, one day of shopping nirvana

Short Cuts

Night & Day

September 3 - 9, 1998