West Africa

If the End of the World Is Nigh, These South Florida "Preppers" Are Ready

Donuts Are The Cause of America's Problems

​It is true that America is home to the Luther Burger. It is true that America invented greasy fast food, and continues to love its Burgerdonalds and McKings with heart-stirring (and -stopping) patriotic ardor. It is true that our prolonged prosperity in the 20th century, our early adoption of ref ... More >>

Toubab Krewe on Jam Cruise, West Africa, and a New Album

​The talented members of Toubab Krewe play not only traditional rock instruments but also traditional African ones. These include noisemakers you've probably never seen in your life: the soku, kamelengoni, and kora. The band is composed of white dudes who marry West African sounds with Americ ... More >>

Misfits Homebrew and Breckenridge Vanilla Porter Among New Times Beerfest Winners

Photo by Christina MendenhallClick here for a slide show of photos from Beerfest. ​Forget the drunk fest that the New Times Beerfest used to be, with the longest lines at the light beers that have a faint flavor of something brewed. This year, the crowds seemed to seek out the craft beers, with th ... More >>

The Norton Museum's "Recent Photography Acquisitions" Really Just an Appetizer

Photo by Christina MendenhallClick here for a slide show of photos from Beerfest. ​Forget the drunk fest that the New Times Beerfest used to be, with the longest lines at the light beers that have a faint flavor of something brewed. This year, the crowds seemed to seek out the craft beers, with th ... More >>

No Reservations: Anthony Bourdain in the California Desert

Travel ChannelGirls, girls..there's no reason to lose your heads over Anthony Bourdain. He's married.​No Reservations has had Anthony Bourdain travel to some interesting places like Cuba, Ghana, Liberia and Cambodia. Imagine our surprise when last evening Tony was seen driving a vintage Thunderbir ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Man Caught Allegedly Running International Fraud in Vancouver

collegebasketballtalk.comSanta's toy bag for the Vancouver cops.​Vancouver cops apparently thought it was a bit suspicious when they pulled over a guy with a bag full of mail. They were apparently right, after they discovered that the Fort Lauderdale resident was allegedly running an international ... More >>

Do the Brew

collegebasketballtalk.comSanta's toy bag for the Vancouver cops.​Vancouver cops apparently thought it was a bit suspicious when they pulled over a guy with a bag full of mail. They were apparently right, after they discovered that the Fort Lauderdale resident was allegedly running an international ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 38 -- Crab-Avocado Strato From Cielo

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. 38: Crab-Avocado Strato From Cielo

"Biutiful" More Bloated Than Babel, Even with Bardem

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. 38: Crab-Avocado Strato From Cielo

Get Paid to Lose Weight? That's the Idea at Paid2Lose.com

The Consumerist via Flickr​We're solidly into the new year, so perhaps you've already tossed aside those overreaching resolutions that were made after a month (months?) of booze-fueled dessert debauchery and nights on the town charged to a credit card with a billion percent interest rate. But ... More >>

Walmart's "Love, Earth" Jewelry Line Doesn't Live Up to Green Promises

The Consumerist via Flickr​We're solidly into the new year, so perhaps you've already tossed aside those overreaching resolutions that were made after a month (months?) of booze-fueled dessert debauchery and nights on the town charged to a credit card with a billion percent interest rate. But ... More >>

Carlos Charlie Perez's Directing Career Is in Sharp Focus

The Consumerist via Flickr​We're solidly into the new year, so perhaps you've already tossed aside those overreaching resolutions that were made after a month (months?) of booze-fueled dessert debauchery and nights on the town charged to a credit card with a billion percent interest rate. But ... More >>

David Eller, Jeb Bush Pal, Gets $7 Million Stimulus Contract Despite Katrina Controversy

Photo courtesy of MWI Corp.David Eller (seated) is a major GOP donor.​David Eller, former Jeb Bush business partner and longtime GOP donor, rarely has trouble snagging government work for his family's Deerfield Beach manufacturing company, Moving Water Industries (MWI).But the $7 million federal s ... More >>

Robert Plant and Band of Joy to Perform at Bayfront Park

Photo courtesy of MWI Corp.David Eller (seated) is a major GOP donor.​David Eller, former Jeb Bush business partner and longtime GOP donor, rarely has trouble snagging government work for his family's Deerfield Beach manufacturing company, Moving Water Industries (MWI).But the $7 million federal s ... More >>

Corrupt Contractor KBR Under Fire in Palm Beach County; Anyone Surprised?

Flickr user: The U.S. ArmySoldiers in Iraq know KBR's sordid history.​A front-page story in today's Palm Beach Post blasts the Houston-based engineering and construction firm Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) for not hiring enough local workers on its $200 million solid waste project in western Palm ... More >>

"Predators" Hits Most of the Notes in Pitting Badasses vs. Aliens

Flickr user: The U.S. ArmySoldiers in Iraq know KBR's sordid history.​A front-page story in today's Palm Beach Post blasts the Houston-based engineering and construction firm Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) for not hiring enough local workers on its $200 million solid waste project in western Palm ... More >>

2010 FIFA World Cup: USA vs. Ghana

Flickr user: The U.S. ArmySoldiers in Iraq know KBR's sordid history.​A front-page story in today's Palm Beach Post blasts the Houston-based engineering and construction firm Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) for not hiring enough local workers on its $200 million solid waste project in western Palm ... More >>

Morning Juice: Feds Turn Tables on Nigerian Scammer; Tropical Storm Brewing Near Bermuda

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach this morning:A nonprofit environmental firm says that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf is similar to the one that occurred over 30 years ago in Mexico's Bay of Cempeche. Those experts have faith that advances in technology will make it ... More >>

Spiritual Omar Sosa Visits Davie With Afreecanos Quartet

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach this morning:A nonprofit environmental firm says that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf is similar to the one that occurred over 30 years ago in Mexico's Bay of Cempeche. Those experts have faith that advances in technology will make it ... More >>

The Stripper Mobile Rolled In to South Florida on Super Bowl Weekend, and No One Noticed

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach this morning:A nonprofit environmental firm says that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf is similar to the one that occurred over 30 years ago in Mexico's Bay of Cempeche. Those experts have faith that advances in technology will make it ... More >>

Harvey Oyer, the Lawyer Who Inked Deals That Put a Politician in Prison, Still Walks Free

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach this morning:A nonprofit environmental firm says that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf is similar to the one that occurred over 30 years ago in Mexico's Bay of Cempeche. Those experts have faith that advances in technology will make it ... More >>

Two-fer Tuesday

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach this morning:A nonprofit environmental firm says that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf is similar to the one that occurred over 30 years ago in Mexico's Bay of Cempeche. Those experts have faith that advances in technology will make it ... More >>

"Yahoo Boys" Crow about Scamming in New Video

This week's New Times feature details my foray into the world of scambaiting -- the practice of turning the tables on email scammers by playing along as a gullible victim -- with advice from a worldwide scambaiting site called 419Eater whose main administrator lives in Broward County.In Nigeria, the ... More >>

Ripley's Believes in Local Horticulturist

wiki-commons Miracle Fruit ​The folks who bring you museums of the random, odd, eccentric, and generally unbelievable, also have a book. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Seeing Is Believing! (You know it's good if it has two exclamation points in the title.) And the latest edition of th ... More >>

South Florida Hip-Hop: We Global

Rappers from this region stepped up their game exponentially, and the entire country responded

Grass Restaurant Hosts Miracle Fruit Party for Dems - Have Faith, and Ye Shall Taste!

Rappers from this region stepped up their game exponentially, and the entire country responded

Northern Lights

Looking for fresh new jazz? Try Scandinavia.

Manee Nanny

Coddle the Cows

Neo Griots

North Carolina's Toubab Krewe takes world fusion to new levels

Steve Reid Ensemble

Daxaar (Domino)

Voodoo Man

A voodoo ceremony in the 'burbs? Who'da thunk it?

Parlez-vous American?

At Spontané, two Yanks make peace with France.

Africa Unite

For 40 years, Hugh Masekela has brought African music around the world.

Les Anti-Miserables

For 40 years, Hugh Masekela has brought African music around the world.

Frame It!

For 40 years, Hugh Masekela has brought African music around the world.

Back in Black

For 40 years, Hugh Masekela has brought African music around the world.

Rich Dish

For 40 years, Hugh Masekela has brought African music around the world.

Various Artists

World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing (Luaka Bop)

Out of Africa

Ndakhte Ndiaye is one mysterious bird

The Facts of the Vagina

Ensler offers wisdom from below the waist

Refuse and Resist

Bigger-than-thou Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra is bulletproof too

Mali Music

Mali Music (Astralwerks)

Various Artists

Africa Raps: Senegal, Mali, and the Gambia (Trikont)

Papa Noel & Papi Oviedo

Bana Congo (Tumi Music)

Secrets Kept

Exploring the rhythms of Africa and the Caribbean at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida

It's a Jungle in There

Take a photographic trek through the hollow islands of Thailand and beyond

Little Black Samba

Take a photographic trek through the hollow islands of Thailand and beyond

Night & Day

September 10 - 16, 1998

Night & Day

April 9 - 15, 1998