My intention when I sit down at Big City is usually to order one of their excellent salads. What I get instead is usually something with a whole lot more carbs and fat: a simple-yet-perfect open-faced tuna melt piled onto English muffins and covered in melted cheese. The $11.50 dish…
They say it’s the year of change. But the change you’re not seeing from the bailout-giving government is the kind that jingles in your pocket. That’s where we come in. New Times Best Of Broward-Palm Beach 2009 is filled with more than 200 ways to live large on little –…
Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti held a news conference yesterday to show off his department’s newest and trendiest purchase: four tiny Smart cars that will zip around Fort Lauderdale International Airport and Port Everglades. TV stations and the Sun-Sentinel followed the announcement with stories about BSO’s new “European minicars” that…
It’s something of a cliché by now to think of Florida developers as the bad guys. But as homeowners start blaming them for the defective Chinese drywall rotting their homes, it is literally the stench that has led them to contractors.Not the developer’s stench, technically, but the rotten eggs smell…
I’m in line at Gamestop the other day, breaking down and finally buying the much-hated NCAA Football ’09, when I hear the clerk ask the guy in front of me for his fingerprints. He’s returning a game, and the clerk breaks out some kind of form. He swipes his thumb…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this story about homeowners who are searching for who’s to blame for the Chinese drywall that’s wrecking their homes. In the article, I referenced this deal being offered by South Florida-based Lennar home builder, which has agreed to fix homes if homeowners won’t…
Accused Boca Raton madam Michelle Braun is pictured with celebrities including Paris Hilton, Mickey Rourke, and Terrence Howard in photos obtained by the Juice Blog. Braun has agreed to plead guilty to charges of money laundering and transporting a prostitute. She agreed to help the feds in its investigation of…
These days, Charlie Crist is surely wanting headlines to mention his Senate bid, not talk about his ex-boyfriends. But all that surfaces on the new movie Outrage, which opens locally tomorrow at Gateway in Fort Lauderdale.Outrage chronicles the many closeted gay Republicans who have surfaced over the years. It details…
The Christian Science Monitor is the latest in a long, distinguished line of national media outlets that have come to South Florida to report on our very busted housing bubble. This story reports on day laborers, who are just about nonexistent at the places where contractors, who are out of…
By now, you’ve probably heard the story about how Craig Newmark started Craigslist.org with a simple email chain between friends. And so by now you probably know that Newmark’s dream has grown largely to be known for ads like this one from Tia in Fort Lauderdale, who describes herself as…
Former Fort Lauderdale resident Henry Lee Jones was convicted this week of a double murder in Memphis. Now the question remains whether Jones will be sent back to Florida to face murder charges in Broward County.Police have said they’re considering whether Jones might be responsible for the unsolved murder of…
Somehow, an alleged madam to the stars has turned up in Boca, and the national media has largely ignored it. Michelle Braun is accused of running an online prostitution site that sold the services of porn stars and fashion models. Sounds like a story for Nancy Grace, right?Well, if you…
Dear national voter,You’ve probably heard a bit about our governor down here in Florida, you know, the one who was lucky enough not to be picked to go down with the John McCain ship. But you’re about to hear a lot more about Charlie Crist, because our boy is running…
It was February 22, and Lawrence Riesz finally had an idea about how to diagnose all the mysterious problems in his home. Since he and his wife bought the place in Parkland two years ago, the refrigerator had quit inexplicably. Then the dryer. Then the intercom. And three TVs had…
It’s never a good sign when the studios won’t show us a movie in time for the print edition. That’s what happened with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. So with no review in the print edition of New Times this week, below is a late and very disappointing review.Without fail, the dullest…
Gov. Charlie Crist came to South Florida yesterday to tout his plan to take a $1.1 billion loan from the Seminole tribe, a move that officially sells the state’s future to the fine folks who use slot machines to take your grandmother’s Social Security checks. The plan initially sounded confusing…
If there’s one thing the Florida zoophilia movement needed, it’s a celebrity endorsement, and they got it Wednesday when Billy the Marlin came out publicly. In an ad printed Wednesday in the Sun-Sentinel, Billy is seen, well, hell, I can’t describe it, and you’ve probably stopped reading this sentence anyway…
Round two of the Hard Rock’s battle pits Leading the Heroes, Stained Angel, Tri Funk Point, and Tritan Clopet & the Juice. The winner goes on to face last week’s victor, Ghost of Gloria, on April 30. Ghost of Gloria and Thursday night’s winner will be videotaped at next week’s…
via www.myspace.com/tristanthemusicTristan ClopetRound two of the Hard Rock’s battle pits Leading the Heroes, Stained Angel, Tri Funk Point, and Tristan Clopet & the Juice. The winner goes on to face last week’s victor, Ghost of Gloria, on April 30. Ghost of Gloria and Thursday night’s winner will be videotaped at…
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. Hurricane Wilma took a pretty good swipe at Fort Lauderdale’s own Polynesian village – the Mai-Kai. So much so…
Don’t tell the boys from Ghost of Gloria that South Florida isn’t a rock market. The Fort Lauderdale band’s co-manager, Brandon Young, says the foursome committed last year to making being in a band their day job in the hopes of making it big within three years. “The hope is…
In the Hollywood-produced movie about the Chinese drywall controversy, I’m guessing the story will be broken wide open by Zac Efron as ace reporter Carl Bernstein Jr. That would be supercool for me and all the other Efron fans. But in real life, a lawyer in Boca broke the story,…
