Fort Lauderdale’s WFTL-AM (850) talk-radio host Joyce Kaufman is smelling conspiracy everywhere lately. She has hooked up with those zany folks over at the Florida Security Council and believes that there’s a radical Muslim hiding under every rock. “I am obsessed with exposing radical Islam,” Kaufman told us by phone…
Twenty-year-old White Apron Catering has accumulated a pretty impressive list of clients: Chanel, Cartier, the Harvard Alumnae Club, Hermes, J.P. Morgan, and Yours Truly. And you can take it from the latter: The $6,000 we spent on a party for a couple of family newlyweds last weekend was worth every…
Big Love for our hometown this week. Not only did Sherman’s Travel name Fort Liquordale one of the top 10 most underrated cities in the nation last week, second only to, well, to Baltimumble, but Carmen Electra has announced to the world that she was just simply taken aback by…
Miles Brannan and his wife are feeling the crunch just like everybody else. The Brannans are both South Florida realtors, and when their income dipped with the economy they put their $3 million Fort Lauderdale waterfront house on the market, only to watch it sit there idling. The Brannans had…
Used to be the big celebrities sold mink. Then it was milk. Now it’s perfume. Parlux Fragrances of Fort Lauderdale, whose corporate offices are on North Andrews Avenue, had revenues of $153 million in 2008. The company has fashioned itself into one of the fragrance market’s top contenders, churning out…
Ever since West Palm Beach was designated the second most “technologically advanced” city of its size in the U.S. by a Digital Communities survey last year, we’ve been waiting to see if Mayor Lois Frankel was going to start jetting around to commission meetings in a flying saucer. It didn’t…
The permitting system also got a little easier for Florida’s gopher tortoises this week. Lauderdale-based AAJ Technologies has invented an on-line permit system for Florida Fish and Wildlife which allows developers to certify the site as either a short-term or long-term protected site and apply for faster approvals to move…
Delray Beach City Commissioners took an heroic stance Tuesday when they voted into law a packet of ordinances designed to curb nuisance rentals in single family neighborhoods. Or not. “They’re basically political cowards pandering to the bigoted, stereotypical sentiments of certain vocal constituents,” West Palm attorney Jim Green said of…
It’s getting so the best gauge of a new restaurant’s success is how many years the proprietors have already been in the business. The team that opened Wild Ginger in CityPlace a couple of months ago certainly has the creds: Lirim Jacobi owns Taverna Opa and City Pizza; his partner…
The 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…
So. United Way has posted the “first ever web-based census and needs assessment” of Broward’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ‘and questioning’ community.” They put a poll up at www.lgbtcensus.com on June 21 that they say takes about 15 minutes to answer, but I’ve completed the survey and I can tell…
Teri Gevinson thinks money grows on trees. That’s why she’s planted 9,500 jatropha trees in Delay Beach, on land where pepper and tomato farmers had long since packed up their hoes and gone home in disgust. The jatropha is the next big thing in agrofuel (switchgrass is so last year),…
Ah, South Florida: Where the women are strong, the men are pretty, and all the foreclosures are “friendly.” Developers of mixed-use, work-live-playgrounds might take a moment to contemplate, as they plan their latest forays into the market for pseudo cities, the fate of the unsellable CityPlace South Tower in West…
A bunch of Palm Beach County employees may be slated to become antiquated relics: Palm Beach County commissioners voted to eliminate the jobs of 141 county workers Monday, hoping what they save on salaries will help offset $133 million in lost property-tax revenue. One of those jobs belonged to “County…
“The real judges of your character aren’t your neighbors, your relatives, or even the people you play bridge with. The folks who really know you are waiters, waitresses, and clerks.” — attributed to Katherine Piper…
Dear Insufferable Know-It-Alls:My husband and I agree that we’ll give up just about anything — new Wii games, Stella McCartney frocks, our children’s dental checkups — if we’re forced to cut back on our spending. But the one thing we’re stubbornly refusing to budge on is our once-a-week restaurant meal…
There’s a certain kind of man who never fails to impress me, a guy who does things (apart from the obvious) that I could never do. Vacationing in Cape Cod last week, I met one of them: the contractor who was renovating the upstairs loft in my sister’s new house…
“Zee cabbage does not run away from zee corn-beef!” — Pepe Le Pew…
The well-heeled boomers who live in the swank Mizner mansions behind the new Joy Noodles & Rice are already steering their Benzes and Beemers into Joy’s cramped parking lot for carry-out cartons of Thai noodle soups and Philippine egg rolls; and they probably don’t demand a whole lot in the…
Obama is speaking in Cairo, even quoting verses from the Qur’an, glad-handing Arab leaders, and no doubt settling down for intimate talks with King Abdullah II over a pot of Turkish coffee and some sticky pastries loaded with pistachios. And here’s Hillary Clinton, touring the Middle East wearing a headscarf…
At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d’Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. “Will you accept a slice?” the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; “you see it has come from the right factory.” — “It is really very…
Slow Foods Glades to Coast, our local chapter of the global organization dedicated to spreading the word and supporting food grown in our own backyards, is planning yet another of its scrumptious dinners at Lola’s in Hollywood. If you haven’t attended these events, foodies, you are really missing the slow…
