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First Look: Sweet Banana's Grill Brings Cuban Cuisine North of the County Line

When it comes to good Cuban food, Miami has it covered. Outside the island itself, it's hands-down the best place in the country -- never mind Florida -- to find authentic Cuban fare. But in Broward and Palm Beach County? It's not as easy as you might think. Luckily, that's changed with the recent o ... More >>

Game of Thrones Ale: Seize the Iron Throne Here

Game of Thrones, the HBO series that puts Dungeons and Dragons to shame, is back for its third season and what better way to celebrate than with beer?Ommegang Brewery in Cooperstown, New York has released its Iron Throne ale in cooperation with HBO. This is the first in a series of Game of Thrones-i ... More >>

Slow Foods Week Starts Saturday: Event Schedule

The Slow Food movement has been gathering steam for quite some time now. With 80,000 members divided into 140 local chapters in 50 countries, it's kind of a big deal.Starting Saturday, Slow Foods Glades to Coast is sponsoring a week of events for Eat Slow - Eat Local. Check out the schedule after th ... More >>

Got a Camera for Christmas? Donate Your Old One to Women in India

In 2001, twentysomething Nicole Jaquis, who'd grown up down here in Wellington and then moved to Boston, left her job and joined some friends who were making a documentary in India about the Kumbh Mela -- one of the biggest gatherings on planet Earth, which you've probably never heard of. After ... More >>

Weekly Wellington Food Truck Roundup Starts Tonight

Starting tonight, Wellington will have a new Thursday evening family dinner spot when Food Truck Invasion hosts a weekly gourmet roundup.The event, which starts Thursday, November 9, encourages picnickers, friends, and families to bring blankets, lawn chairs, and an appetite to  Wellington Amph ... More >>

Delivery Dudes: Delivering Pizza, Popcorn, DVDs, and Your Grandma's Groceries

Jayson Koss might only be 26 years old but he already runs a successful business. Though to hear him tell it, the Delray Delivery Dudes kind of happened all on its own."It was pretty easy. It was really just a matter of sitting on the couch wishing someone else would deliver whatever we wanted, and ... More >>

Palm Beach Is Flooded, and There's More Rain on the Way

Palm Beach residents went to bed Sunday night thinking everything was hunky dory. Then they woke up Monday to find rainwater up their faces. Isaac came and went, but not without dumping buckets of rain and leaving widespread flooding that has left Palm Beach with inundated roads, school closings fo ... More >>

South Florida Planned Parenthood Offering Free Cervical Cancer Screenings

Good news, all you women who don't want to die! Several lovely things are happening to help you stay alive this month: If you have insurance, as of today (or soon, depending on your plan), you'll no longer face copays for numerous reproductive health screenings, contraceptives, breastfeeding supplie ... More >>

Tupac Shakur and Other Rich Felons Who Bonded Out While Appealing Convictions (UPDATED)

UPDATE 5/18: Goodman was released from jail this morning and is now home in Wellington.5/17: When polo mogul John Goodman goes home to Wellington to serve house arrest while appealing his conviction for DUI manslaughter, he will join a prestigious group of felons who had a similar luxury. As we note ... More >>

Marco? Polo! (And Schwinn)

Planned Parenthood Opens New Palm Beach County Clinic, Aims to Help Florida Teens Get a Clue

Time to start dusting off those protest signs -- Planned Parenthood opened new digs in Wellington on Monday, and they want to bring your kids -- gasp! -- sexual education.Palm Beach County will have a total of three Planned Parenthood facilities after one in Lake Worth closes this summer, according ... More >>

PBSO Deputy Patrick Burt Stalked His Ex With GPS, Police Say, and You Can Too

Palm Beach Sheriff's Deputy Patrick Burt was arrested Monday and accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend by putting a GPS tracker on her car and hanging up signs at her workplace that call her current beau a "home wrecker and a cheater," according to the Sun-Sentinel.Police say he was on duty in Welli ... More >>

Jury Expected to Begin Deliberating in John Goodman DUI Trial Today

​The jury has just received instructions for deliberating the fate of John Goodman, the Wellington polo mogul charged with vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter in the car accident that killed Scott Wilson two years ago. Closing arguments will take place this afternoon, and the jury will begin d ... More >>

Today Is Free Scoop Day at Häagen-Dazs

Haagen Dazs Get a free cone tomorrow afternoon at Häagen-Dazs.​Now that we've finished with Cinco de Mayo and Mother's Day, we have one more food-related holiday coming up -- Free Scoop Day at Häagen-Dazs! Today, May 10, from 4 to 8 p.m., just walk into any participating Häage ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 40 -- Chivito From Cilantro's

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 40: Chivito From Cilantro'sCalling the chivito a mere sandwich is like ca ... More >>

Polo Club President Arrested for Throwing Wine in Wife's Face

PBSOThis is going to be bad for brunch gossip on Sunday.​John Wash, president of operations for the International Polo Club in Wellington, was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly throwing wine in his wife's face.Wash, 50,  "was being very uncooperative and refusing to talk" when Palm Beach ... More >>

Inside the Smart for Life Baking Facility

Photo by Devin DesjarlaisDr. Sasson Moulavi​​Ever wonder what it smells like standing outside of a diet-food-product facility? Right, neither did I. Until I was invited to take a tour of one. I figured it would probably smell a lot like plastic with a bit of money scent and a whiff of sadness. A ... More >>

Restaurant News: Total Wine To Open in Wellington, Marcello's La Sirena Reopens, Tokyo Blue Does Dinner Deal

​•    The 15th Total Wine & More in Florida should debut sometime late this year or early next in the space soon to be vacated by World Market in Wellington's Shoppes at Isla Verde. The gigabooze warehouse joins brethren in Palm Beach Gardens, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Fort L ... More >>

Polo Mogul John Goodman, in Happier Times

This week's New Times feature story is an in-depth look at John Goodman, the multimillionaire polo mogul accused of causing the fatal car accident that killed 23-year-old Wellington native Scott Wilson.

Wine and Cheese Tastings at Whole Foods (Some Free!)

​Man does not live by barbecue and beer alone, even in the summer. Sometimes he needs wine and cheese.  Man -- that would be you, bunky -- is therefore in luck, as over the next several weeks, five local Whole Foods Markets will be pouring their top ten summer wines, each paired to a differen ... More >>

UPDATED: Polo Club Founder Arrested, Charged With DUI

Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office​John Goodman, the multimillionaire founder of the International Polo Club in Wellington, was booked into the Palm Beach County jail early this morning, charged with DUI and vehicular homicide.His arrest comes three months after Goodman allegedly plowed his Bentle ... More >>

Morning Juice: John Goodman Jailed; West Palm Stripper Busted for Armed Robbery

​Here's what's news this morning in Broward and Palm Beach:Wellington polo mogul John Goodman is in a Palm Beach County jail this morning, charged with vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter in connection with the February crash that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson. [Palm Beach Post]Construction ... More >>

Morning Juice: Perp Walk Coming for Rothstein Cohorts; Heat Playoff Run Gone in a Flash

​Let's see what's in the headlines this morning in South Florida:Six weeks after she was beaten nearly to death at a Deerfield Beach school bus stop, 15-year-old Josie Lou Ratley has been released from the hospital. She now heads to a rehabilitation facility to get physical therapy and speech ther ... More >>

Morning Juice: Wellington Man Tells Murderous Tale; Cell Phone Records Point to Ryan LeVin as Porsche Driver

​New Times blogs pounced on Monday's two big stories. Scroll down to check out Juice coverage of the break in the Porsche hit-and-run case. And check out Pulp, where Bob Norman got the scoop on Scott Rothstein's role as an informant in a federal investigation of the Mafia. In other local news:In a ... More >>

Morning Juice: Mysterious Backpack in the Novack Murder Case; Trash Clash Tonight in Sunrise

​Here's what's happening this Tuesday morning in Broward and Palm Beach:John Goodman, the Wellington polo patron who ran a stop sign earlier this month and killed another driver, had a cocaine habit, according to the divorce filings by his former wife. [Palm Beach Post]Narcy Novack, widow of slain ... More >>

Morning Juice: Teen Stabs Mother's Boyfriend in Delray; Broward Schools Pay Millions to Ditch Building Contracts

​The rundown of local news on this Thursday morning:A 16-year-old girl is in jail for stabbing to death her mother's boyfriend, Gilardo Ramos Paz, in the parking lot of a Winn Dixie in Delray Beach. The girl, Berenice Juarez, confessed to police, telling them she didn't approve of the man's relati ... More >>

Morning Juice: Senseless Deaths in Both Counties; Colts Star Carries Haitian Flag

​A look at what happened over the weekend in South Florida;Neal Jacobson, the Wellington man who on Saturday admitted to murdering his wife and two sons, was still hospitalized Sunday, either from the complications of swallowing a bunch of pills or from the car crash that occurred after the murder ... More >>

Wellington Man Dies in Van Accident on Day Before 21st Birthday

The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office has just released the name of the man who was killed this morning in a one-vehicle accident on Perimeter Road in West Palm Beach. His name is Kyle Reese Chiet, a 20-year-old from Wellington who would have turned 21 tomorrow.According to the incident report, Chiet was ... More >>

Wellington Man Dies in Car Accident, One Day Before 21st Birthday

The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office has just released the name of the man who was killed this morning in a one-vehicle accident on Perimeter Road in West Palm Beach. His name is Kyle Reese Chiet, a 20-year-old from Wellington who would have turned 21 tomorrow.According to the incident report, Chiet was ... More >>

Now Making Salsa: West Palm Mayors

Vanilla Ice Jumps a Monster Truck On a Motorcycle

Yesterday morning, in a dirt lot off Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach, I witnessed Vanilla Ice (real name Rob Van Winkle) jump over a jacked-up Monster Truck with about 10 people in the bed. Ice, who lives in Wellington and has ridden professionally, was on a buddy's dirtbike.This is not foo ... More >>

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 pr ... More >>

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 inves ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Night Vision

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

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 wee ... More >>

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 liv ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 bette ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 m ... More >>

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