Subject: Wellington

• Every Damn Time

  February 13, 2007

• draftdraft

  May 3, 2006

• Sun-Sentinel's Failed Palm Beach Surge?

  December 7, 2007

• Vanilla Ice: This Ain't No Whorehouse

  April 11, 2008

• Escape the Financial Apocalypse - on Craig's List

  We thought the category "Housing Swap" on Craig's List used to be for people looking to swap spaces over holiday breaks. Thanks to this awful housing market, however, swapping has become a permanent solution for folks who need to move but can't sell. For instance, some dude in Minneapolis wants to move here and send you there.  Another needs a home in Wellington and is willing to trade for 5 acres in Colorado.  An apartment in NYC, however, costs at least two Lantana condos. I couldn'

  December 18, 2008

• Ferguson: Lesbian Scene Is Hot in Delray

  We're very well aware that Broward and Palm Beach counties do not draw high-voltage celebrities in the same way as L.A. or New York. (And if we forget, we always have Donald Trump to remind us.)  Yet we do sometimes marvel at the bizarre mix of notables that rumble through town.  We've got Rush Limbaugh, Vanilla Ice, and the Williams sisters as residents. Bruce Springsteen stops by to watch his daughter ride horses in Wellington; Dennis Rodman pops up at local clubs in drag; and who co

  December 18, 2008

• Foodstuff

  January 29, 1998

• Best Polo Tailgating Picnic

  March 11, 1999

• Best Mall in Broward

  May 13, 2004

• Best Alternative to Starbucks

  May 13, 2004

• Beatcomber

  April 28, 2005

• Ask the Critic: How to Grill Fish?

  The only good pompano is an incinerated pompanoDear Insufferable Know-It-Alls:Grilling fresh local fish outside on the old Weber is my own private Waterloo, except unlike Napoleon's humiliating defeat by Wellington and the Prussians, mine keeps happening over and over like a recurring nightmare -- the only thing that changes are which guests are witnessing the battle and having to pretend to swallow the resulting cinders. I have tried grilling many types of seafood of many different cuts (pompan

  June 5, 2009

• A Good Chef Is Hard to Find

  It's election season: Stephen Asprinio needs your vote

  November 6, 2008

• The People's Polo

  The sport's militaristic roots are fading. This is Wellington, old chap.

  July 10, 2008

• Treat Your Special Lady Nice

  May 8, 2008

• La Cosa Emo

  August 23, 2007

• Be to Not or Be To

  Coming at the Bard from the butt end really cuts the crap

  June 7, 2007

• Letters for , 2001

  December 1, 2005

• Come Sail Away

  On the MS Zuiderdam, we are what we eat

  October 13, 2005

• Mold Your Horses

  September 15, 2005

• An' Jushtiss f'r All!

  The Luckiest Perps

  September 8, 2005

• We'll Always Have Paris

  Whether we like it or not...

  August 11, 2005

• Reefin'

  June 9, 2005

• Subtropical Spin

  Sound of Adrenaline (EC Records)

  May 12, 2005

• Dover Sole for Dummies

  April 14, 2005

• Cane-o-rama

  Spring game gives fans something to cheer about

  April 7, 2005

• Smart Art

  November 25, 2004

• Cabana Fever

  September 9, 2004

• Out of Touch

  You press the screen. The machine tells you that your vote has been counted. But how can you be sure?

  April 24, 2003

• Giddyap!

  Expect big prizes and nail-biters at daylong equestrian competition

  March 6, 2003

• Behind the Hedge

  At the nation's premier polo grounds, a row of ficus separates rich from poor

  February 13, 2003

• Tea-ing Off

  Talula's Cafe & Tea Room isn't just for tea-time anymore

  June 20, 2002

• Deep Roots

  The wide and welcoming branches of the baobab beckon our humble scribe

  December 21, 2000

• Cultural Makeup

  Multicultural doll-making workshops

  August 19, 1999

• The Day the World Came to Wellington

  John SotoGuarding the entrance to the Lechuza Caracas estate in Wellington is a gate at least eight feet high, topped with iron spikes and emblazoned with the golden emblem of an owl. An electronic keypad out front is the only way to make the doors swing open, but for now they remain firmly shut. That's where sympathizers have left a small pile of offerings -- bouquets of roses, tulips, a card saying "Best Wishes." Twenty-one horses fed, watered, and coddled on this estate died mysteriously Sund

  April 21, 2009

• Revenge Is Sweet

  April 30, 2009

• ESPN Gets Inside Wellington Polo Horse Deaths

  "It was like a plane crash, but with horses instead of people." That's the first quote in the fantastic E:60 segment on the polo horse deaths in Wellington last month. It started with two mares sick at the barn. Soon there were dead horses all over the place.  The Palm Beach Post has been nailing this story since the day it happened. Even Lisa Rab, our fearless PB correspondent, got in on the action. Rachel Nichols reports here. There are still questions on exactly who messed up, but the r

  May 7, 2009

• Uruguay's National Sandwich Makes its Way to, uh, Wellington?

  A sandwich is a sandwich is a sandwich. Unless it's a chivito. The chivito, for those of you unlucky enough not to have wrapped your gums around one, is the national sandwich of Uruguay, a sort of Latin-esque breakfast-slash-lunch McManwich for the kind of guy or gal who'd jump Ronald McDonald in a parking lot, steal his ratty wig and beat him to death with one of his stupid, over-sized boots.   Your typical chivito is jammed with thin slices of beef, crispy bacon, mozzarella, lettuce,

  May 14, 2009

• In Wellington, a Streak Ends (With a Bus)

  Flickr User: nimitiminStreaking: hilarious at sporting events; near major roadways, not so muchOn a day when sister cities are in the news, a cautionary tale comes to us from Wellington. Not the city in Palm Beach County, mind you, but the one in New Zealand.It's a short story, but vivid. A man was streaking. Until he was hit by a bus. To the great credit of New Zealand's Wellington population, the first few reader comments deal with the high-minded subject of what constitutes sufficient signage

  June 11, 2009

• Will It Ever Stop? Yo, I Hope So.

  Now that MC Hammer has his own reality show, you just knew the Vanilla Ice cameo was soon to follow. The Wellington white boy man makes his appearance on this Sunday's third episode for a "huge concert" in the only state white enough to fill a stadium for the show: Utah.But hey, this act works better for Vanilla Ice then last year's stab at the thug life. And it's nice that these two were able to settle their differences. The world can't handle another hip-hop beef. The show was so hot, apparent

  June 17, 2009

• Man and Beast: Temps Rise, Tempers Flare

  Kitten terrorizes Wellington teensThe heat index climbed over 110 last month and we've had more rain than you could shake a wet cat at -- two factors likely to get everybody feeling ornery. Judging from the number of weird animal incidents this week, that includes our furry, feathered, and scaled friends around the state. This week we've seen a 8.5-foot Burmese python "pet" strangle a toddler in Oxford, a rabid kitten terrorizing teenagers in Wellington, a rash of rattlesnake bites in Pierson,

  July 2, 2009

• South Florida Skunked on Best Towns List

  Flickr User: steve_barryThe sugar stacks skyline in Belle Glade did not impress Money Mag list-makers.Someone please tell Money Magazine that South Florida has not been swallowed by the ocean (yet). How else could the editors not name a single town in this region to its list of the best towns to live in America? In fact, the nation's fourth-largest state doesn't get a single winner until the allegedly Utopian Lake Mary arrives at No. 96. Oviedo sneaks in at No. 100. Ah, but if you check out the

  July 14, 2009

• Soul Food for Potential Soul Mate at Tom Jenkins' Bar-B-Q

  Photo by Flickr user Marshall Astor Food PornographerBarbecue: the perfect date tester.When it comes to both dating and dining, I generally try to keep an open mind. But there are some tenets I stick to like paper on a slightly melted Blow Pop.With regards to dating, I stay away from guys still married, separated, or recently divorced, and if a man makes a dry-heaving sound when raw food of any sort arrives at the table, I kick him to the curb.Dining is just as intimate a matter, and most of the

  July 15, 2009

• In Muslim Drag, Wellington Man Makes Escape From Dubai

  Flickr: gmdhHerve Jaubert (middle) was once the toast of Dubai's high society.​Sometimes you have to abandon questions of guilt and innocence and just admire the sheer audacity of a criminal suspect. Herve Jaubert is one of those cases.We told you about Jaubert, a resident of Wellington, a few weeks ago, but the former French spy wanted by the United Arab Emirates for alleged financial crimes has been on a media junket and recently offered new details about exactly how he managed to escape Dub

  August 25, 2009

• Night Vision

  Flickr: Apryl WieseA local photographer shoots her granddaughter competing at an equestrian event in Wellington.​

  September 9, 2009

• Virtual Reality Bites: SEC Files Suit Against Palm Beach County Company

  If you think about it, the investment scam is the ultimate virtual reality game: It gives its customers the extremely life-like sensation of getting rich, albeit at considerable cost. So why not offer virtual reality itself as an investment scam? Too late. Someone's already thought of it.The SEC is suing the Palm Beach County-based creators of 3001 A.D., a virtual reality game that purported to have deals with Microsoft and Apple, attracting some $20 million in investment capital. The company wa

  October 1, 2009

• Wellington Man Predicts Windfall That Will Save His Investors -- and Himself -- From Ruin

  photo: rondavisfilmmaker.comZada on the cover of Riches to Rags, a documentary by Ron Davis, who claims to be a victim.​Joe Zada, the alleged fraudster who owned a home in Wellington and a patron of that town's equestrian scene, told a Detroit newspaper that he expects to receive an enormous payment that will allow him to resolve outstanding debts to such investors as hockey star Sergei Federov.From an article in this weekend's Detroit Free Press that isn't available on the paper's website:Dep

  October 6, 2009

• Morning Juice: Cancer Cluster Claims Pet Lives; Foreclosures Mire the Courts

  ​On a chilly Monday morning, here's what's in the news in South Florida:A family that lives in The Acreage, where experts have been seeking to explain a cancer cluster, report that three different pets died of the same kind of cancer, hemangiosarcoma. [Palm Beach Post]Homicide detectives are investigating a dead body found in a pick-up truck near Weston. [CBS4]Massive amounts of foreclosures have swamped South Florida civil courts, creating a bottleneck that's amplified the misery of strugglin

  October 19, 2009

• Madonna: Wellington's Neighbor From Hell?

  PhotobucketThe Material Girl strikes a pose​The Material Girl's Manhattan neighbors are none too pleased about the singer using her posh NYC pad as a stomping ground for dance rehearsals.Madonna's upstairs neighbor, Karen George, has filed a lawsuit, saying she was forced to move out of her West 64th Street apartment because of the "intrusive and excessive noise," coupled with constant stomping that shakes walls for hours on end, sending "pounding noise and vibrations" into the floor above.If

  October 20, 2009

• Pro Football Player From Pompano Beach Weathers Hardship in Home

  Flickr: hbs34Tyrone Carter, celebrating the Steelers' 2009 Super Bowl victory over the Arizona Cardinals​Where do you start with the Tyrone Carter story? Probably in Pompano Beach, where he was one of five children in a three-bedroom home, raised by his grandmother because his parents had drug problems. A child of his own by his junior year in high school, then another by another woman after he followed a football scholarship offer to the University of Minnesota. And during that same time as

  October 28, 2009