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Top Ten Mexican Craft Brews for Cinco de Mayo

The history of craft beer in Mexico traces its history to before the Spanish conquest when the natives brewed fermented beverages with ingredients ranging from corn, cocoa beans to agave. One of them is a drink called izquiate or tesgüino, which is brewed with corn. Then the Conquistadors introduc ... More >>

Miami Heat Wrecks Celtic Ass as It Earns Record 23rd-Straight Win

The Miami Heat walked into the all-consuming ocean of douche and insufferableness that is Boston's TD Garden Monday night and laid its record-setting 22-game winning streak on the line. The Celtics were ready from the GO and came at the Heat with a furious effort that spawned a career night for Jef ... More >>

FAU Students Stage Protest Over GEO Naming Rights (UPDATED)

Last week, we told you about how Florida Atlantic University sold the naming rights for its football stadium to the GEO Group -- a company that not only happens to be one of the world's largest for-profit operators of detention centers, prisons, and correctional facilities but also has a long trail ... More >>

FAU Is a $6 Million Whore

Heads should be rolling in the offices of FAU's Board of Trustees, as the affront to decency of the school's climbing into bed with notorious private prison octopus GEO Group turns into a well-deserved public relations disaster. The Board doesn't surrender the pink on the cheap, at least. They score ... More >>

Heat Versus Thunder for NBA Finals: Let the Oklahoma City Trash Talk Begin

Anyone with a passing interest in sports is about to be inundated with talk of King James versus Prince Durant, Oklahoma City versus Miami, a wholesome young crop of basketball players versus the most hated/worshiped trio in the NBA. Sports rivalries are fun, especially the kind that are gratuitousl ... More >>

Death on Coconut Drive: Insecticide in a Bottle of Gin, and Other Things We Learned

The bulk of the background information for this week's feature story about the murder of Ron Vinci came from evidence released by the prosecutor's office at the end of last year, during an initial media inquiry. At the time, media outlets had been reporting that Vinci's body had been found wrapped i ... More >>

Marlins Outfielder Mike Stanton No Longer Mike Stanton

​The man in right field for the Miami Marlins has "Stanton" written on the back of his jersey, but the name on his baseball cards will be changing, according to the Associated Press.The Home Run Artist Formerly Known as Mike Stanton would like it to be known that he wishes to be called Giancarlo S ... More >>

The Oscar Office Pool: How to Succeed Without Really Trying

Celebrate Singles Awareness Day At These Places

​Yeah, yeah...we know February 14th is Valentine's day. The card aisle at CVS reminded us of this fact as we were on our way to buy some cold medication.But did you know that in a fit of irony, it's also Singles Awareness Day?  If Wikipedia says it, we know it's the gospel truth.  That's ... More >>

Christopher Hitchens to Be Commemorated (No Prayers, Please) at Florida Atheist Convention

WikimediaChristopher Hitchens​Last night, Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, died at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He was 62. To the bitter end, he refused the taunts of god-fearing critics that he should convert and pray before the fi ... More >>

Miami Heat Star Udonis Haslem Opposes Southwest Ranches ICE Detention Facility

WikipediaUdonis Haslem​Udonis Haslem, a power forward for the Miami Heat who bought a $3.2 million home in Southwest Ranches in 2007, has come forward in opposition to a planned detention facility that would place at least 1,400 incarcerated immigrants near his home, according to local activists.H ... More >>

Occupy Fort Lauderdale: Will It Float? (Or, When the 1% Makes You Become a Pirate)

Wikimedia CommonsThe future of "Occupy?"​Some organizers with Occupy Fort Lauderdale are debating whether to hold a demonstration at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show next weekend, possibly by banding together a flotilla of small boats and kayaks and peacefully floating by the marina.But a few days ag ... More >>

Gulfstream Airlines Unfairly Fired Employee for Reporting Safety Concern, Jury Rules

Wikimedia Commons​A former Gulfstream International Airlines pilot won his whistleblower lawsuit today after a jury decided he had been unfairly fired for complaining about a fellow pilot flying a 19-seater with his knees.The jury spent about two days deliberating, but in the end, they ruled in fa ... More >>

"Hanna" a Crisp Thriller With Virtuoso Filmmaking and Retro Politics

Litigious Activist Jack Thompson Files State Complaint Against John Bowman

Jack Thompson​In more than two months since they took a statement from Charles Harper, 18, alleging past sexual abuse by Broward Circuit Judge John Bowman, the Plantation Police Department has been conducting an investigation and has been mum about its status or eventual completion.Many of the ano ... More >>

Celebrate International Waffle Day on Friday, March 25

Tamorian via Wikimedia CommonsBreakfast food porn.​Waffles: the breakfast cake so nice, we get to celebrate it twice. Lightly fried sugar dough covered in various incarnations of sugar? This sort of start-of-the-day confection deserves to be honored at every opportunity, starting with Internationa ... More >>

Carlos'n Charlie's Coming to CityPlace

​A chain of loud, casual, moderately priced Mexican restaurants--not exactly a rarity in South Florida--is planning to open its second U.S. eatery in CityPlace.  Carlos'n Charlie's, part of the Mexico-based Grupo Anderson chain (which includes, among other eateries, Senor Frog's), is expected ... More >>

Daft Punk Partners With Coca-Cola

Bonsaichop via Wikimedia CommonsHarder, Better, Faster, Stronger Coca-Cola​In this week's head scratching celebrity/corporate moment of "synergy" Rolling Stone (via Hype Beast) is reporting that French duo Daft Punk is hooking up with Coca-Cola to launch a special edition release of Daft Punk-insp ... More >>

12 Songs About Booze

​There's no shortage of drinking songs -- here's a list of 360 of 'em -- but not all that many about specific liquors or cocktails. That's sort of odd, considering how alcohol and live music go hand in hand. According to musicologists, drinking songs can be Irish (like Ween's "The Blarney Sto ... More >>

Broward Is Turning Into Miami-Dade, Says the Census. Here's How to Embrace It

Wikimedia Commons​Nobody takes more sectarian pride in county lines than Florida -- where you would normally find city rivalries and geographic landmarks, we have a patchwork quilt of little sovereign empires dividing up the swamps. Heck, we even named our paper after some counties.So when the lat ... More >>

Lee County Taxi Drivers Facing Background Checks

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia CommonsDo you know who's driving your family around?​Last week, we brought you the story of taxi drivers who must wear socks. This week is a little bit different.According to NaplesNews.com, Lee County is considering giving cabdrivers background checks.Wait... what?!

Silver Alert: The Amber Alert for Old People

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia CommonsHi, Mom!​Florida has the nickname "Heaven's Waiting Room" for a reason. Many snowbirds end up making the final trek to our sandy shores to live the rest of their lives in luxury. During that time, many fall sick with various illnesses -- including dementia.Back i ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Beach Legend Mickey Clean Really Was a Famous Punk Rocker

Five Better Things for LeBron James to Bump Into

Photo Courtesy of Wikipedia CommonsLeBron in Hulk mode​LeBron James caused a ruckus last week during the Heat's November 27 game against the Dallas Mavericks. A video surfaced shortly after showing LeBron bumping into Head Coach Erik Spoelstra -- perhaps on purpose.C'mon, LeBron, violence isn't th ... More >>

I'm Eating What?! Adjika

Photo by Riki AltmanWhat are those Russians hiding?​Continuing on with our theme of Russian foods we don't recognize but are willing to try for the sake of science, we dug into a jar of what we later discovered was adjika, something that looked like it belonged between the categories of "dip" and ... More >>

Updated: Write a Poem for WLRN Miami Herald to Commemorate LeBron's Arrival

Wikipedia CommonsOh LeBron, you inspire our inner poet.Update: The Miami Heat has decided it wants no part in the judging and therefore neither does LeBron James. This decision came because the event was coordinated without the team's input.Want LeBron James to check you out? You may only need to wr ... More >>

Deefield Beach Employee in Deep Shit Following Theft of Sewer Device

From WikipediaThis diagram shows how a backflow valve is supposed to take waste out of your home.​A backflow valve / preventer occupies a valuable, straightforward function in the treatment of sewage. Namely, it ensures that water pressure sends waste out of a toilet toward a treatment facility. T ... More >>

Burger King's Whopper-Sized Remake: Five Ways to Save Fast Food's Ugly Stepchild

This is not what's for breakfast.​Last week, an investment firm bought South Florida-based Burger King Holdings, and hopefully the move signals an improvement in what has always been the fast-food industry's ugly burger stepchild.So where does the new owner take Burger King now? Here are five idea ... More >>

Novack Case the Stuff of Classic Film Noir

Photo: WikipediaWas Narcy Novack a fan of film noir, by any chance? Because if what federal prosecutors say is true, then she's a real-life femme fatale with murder schemes and diabolical motives nearly identical to those of Barbara Stanwyck's character in the classic film noir Double Indemnity.If y ... More >>

Neighborhood Sports Bar & Grill Opens in Boca Raton

Wikipedia Commons​If you want to catch a game on TV, drink a few beers, grab a burger or a pizza or some wings, you head to your neighborhood sports bar, right?  Or you can head to Boca to the new Neighborhood Sports Bar & Grill, which staged its grand opening party yesterday. New owner M ... More >>

R&B Star Monica Performed in Atlanta on Day She Was "Booked" for Mango Festival

Photo: Wikipedia CommonsMonica performing in Houston.​Monica, one of the major R&B acts advertised for Saturday's Mango Festival, was not planning to perform on that day. Rather, she was booked to play at a birthday bash for an Atlanta radio station that same Saturday. Photos from that perform ... More >>

Did New Times Cover Inspire Rock Album Art?

​See for yourself. On the right, that's the cover of the story I wrote in August 2009 about zoophiles -- people who love and have sexual intercourse with animals. Now compare it with the image below, which goes with a single, "Round and Round," by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, a Los Angeles psych ... More >>

Justice Stevens Chooses Fort Lauderdale Home Over Supreme Court Bench

Photo: WikipediaJustice John Paul Stevens​Make room in Broward for one more bowtie-wearing senior. Justice John Paul Stevens announced this morning his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, just 11 days shy of his 90th birthday.As Juice reported in October, Stevens is a snowbird, migrating every ... More >>

Lauderdale Bedbug Lawyer Says Tourists Should Check Registry

Cimex Lectularius, coming soon to an Airport Hilton near you.​The Airport Hilton, Palm Beach. The Marriott Key Largo. The Clevelander Miami Beach. The Ocean Manor Resort Fort Lauderdale. The Embassy Suites in Boca. These are only a few of the South Florida hotels and guest houses riddled with bedb ... More >>

An Interview with Martin Thorborg, Serial Entrepreneur in Delray Beach

Beach or Danish snow? I'll take the beach.​Martin Thorborg is one of those unusual success stories because he's one of those businessmen who broke most of the rules and became a success. Martin is Danish and is a serial entrepreneur who's now living in Delray Beach.His first venture was the Danish ... More >>

Will Former Coral Ridge Presbyterian Members Enlist With Radical Media Group?

Sure looks like the folks behind Coral Ridge Ministries are courting the defectors of Fort Lauderdale's Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. The Coral Ridge Ministries, originally founded as a media arm for the church's icon, Rev. James Kennedy, is now a separate entity. In a series of Youtube clips th ... More >>

According to Mark Philippoussis, Being Mark Philippoussis Not What It Used to Be

Flickr: ask curlyIn 2007 Philippoussis was still a tall, rich, handsome athlete. These days he figures two-outta-four ain't bad.​Maybe that wasn't the housing bubble that burst in South Florida. The real supernova may have been Mark Philippoussis, the tennis star whose South Florida debauchery wa ... More >>

Miami Herald Takes Big Circulation Hit

Well, the new circulation numbers are out and the Miami Herald took it on the chin in a rather stunning way. While the average circulation at the nation's daily newspapers (with 50,000-plus subscribers) was down an average of 7 percent, the Miami Herald more than doubled that decline ... More >>

Biggie, Small

Notorious B.I.G., made B.L.A.N.D.

Lee Abrams Don't Know Chinese

Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams begins his latest think piece, titled "Cutting Through Crisis," this way: "When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters: On represents danger, the other opportunity. I'm not sure if that's the literal translation, but prett ... More >>

Impressive

You’re not famous until Frank Caliendo impersonates you.

DeGroot: Say Hello To President McCain

Cabaret at the Colony

Lulz for Monday: Some of the Best of the Worst Music Videos

Maxi Priest to join UB40?

Big Wind in Boca

The Party Was Over Before It Began

K-Dur?

Otep's Next Step

Singer says the new album will be released "as soon as corporately possible"

Another Miami Herald Morning

Guitar Goddess

Teri Catlin -- Shreds and Dreads at Calliope Fest