A South Plantation High is supposed to be a mellow, half-indica, half-sativa buzz. Nothing too intense. Usually if you wake and bake, you’re almost straight by the time lunch rolls around. Unless you eat the weed. Then you’re way too crippled up for shop class. But Brian Hamacher and Todd Wright of…
If your debit card’s been stolen, and you’re left with a troika of crumpled one-dollar bills plus a few coins and fuzzballs in your pocket, this’ll work.Big Flats, 1901? Sounds like the site of a fictional railroad accident, implying not refreshment but derailed coal cars oozing steam and death…
Armony’s — the place with the sense and ambition to create the Breakfast Pizza — is our Deal of the Day. You’ve got about 8 hours to get in on the goodness.Of course, any excuse to trek out to Armony’s is a worthy one. While you’re still in a dead…
Has it been a tough week? Traffic and the usual cadre of idiots getting you down, yipping around your heels like a litter of Yorkshire terriers? Been there. Feel your pain.If you haven’t visited Rok:Brgr, the newest, baddest gastropub in the Himmarshee district, don’t delay. They’re serving some of the…
Every year, employees of global tech firm PerkinElmer team up and run lemonade stands for a day. They’re not just playing hooky. They’re raising awareness and money by teaming up with Alex’s Lemonade Stands, a 501(c)3 charity that helps kids with cancer.Back when she was only four years old, Alexandra…
Chef Dean Max, who’s already proven his ability to storm the beach with 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale, is preparing the same sort of culinary experience for the northern set.3800 Ocean at the Singer Island Marriott focuses on fresh seafood prepared under Max’s expert eye. Though the restaurant opened –…
‘Cause if you didn’t, you’re out of luck, bub.Up until yesterday, for about $265, you could order one on Amazon. They work great. Anyone can install one in seconds with a penknife and some packing tape.Actually, the kit contained a scalpel, a syringe, and some other medical-like doodads. And, apparently,…
Naked women. Steak. Acrobatics. What’s not to love? Strip clubs are pretty dark, so this sure ain’t no circus of the sun, but Cirque D’Solid Gold gives everyone a new excuse to go look at boobies.Ogle the aerialists all you want as they cavort in space, twisting their bodies in…
In Orlando, a pair of restaurant workers are suing their former employer, Hard Rock Cafe (the biggest one in the world, btw), alleging that the company ripped them off by taking their tips and divvying them up among the kitchen staff. That’s illegal, says their attorney, Sam J. Smith. In…
Chef Dean Max, a guy who’s tough to impress, swears by Jodi and Darrin Swank of Swank Farms and their hydroponic crops. “I’ve never seen anyone who can get that kind of flavor out of that kind of set-up,” he raves. “It’s a mom and pop operation all based on…
Zach Bell, chef at Cafe Boulud in the Brazilian Court hotel, is known for his culinary acumen. He’s top dog in Daniel Boulud’s kitchen and he’s been picked to chair the Taste of the Nation fundraising dinner in April at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach.Share Our Strength, an…
Who doesn’t love cupcakes? A wise man once said, “A cupcake a day keeps the wombats away,” and there are no wombats around, so it must be working.This vittle-centric blog and the Sweeter Days Bake Shop have teamed up to bring forth an incredible deal: $9 for a half-dozen instead…
Spin the bottle brings back preteen memories in a suburban basement when Cara DeBoest’s parents weren’t around. The Rustic Cellar has upgraded the setting considerably.This Thursday, the cozy Cellar will host Spin the Wine, a collision of spin the bottle and a regular tasting. Management has put the kibosh on…
In Honduras, the ubiquitous national snack/meal is a baleada. It’s a fresh, hand-made, thicker-than-normal flour tortilla smeared with refried beans, crumbly queso, and crema; folded over; and devoured.In big cities like Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, big baladea chains and tiny stands start serving them around 8 a.m., and the…
Last week, we told you about meat glue — what it is, what it does. Is there anything it can’t do?Even as scientific minds caution chefs about the unknown dangers of sticking a slice of smoked turkey on a sirloin, cooks across the country are going crazy trying to best…
Remember Timothy Treadwell? He loved grizzly bears so much, and was such a whack job, that he decided to live with them in the Alaskan wilderness. One summer, this one big-ass bear got a little, well, bear-y, and ate Treadwell and his girlfriend right up.Now, that’s probably not going to…
Eighty-two-year-old film director and marketing guru Herschell Gordon Lewis lives well. He’s made millions from his books (like Sales Letters That Sizzle) and enjoys unending notoriety from his movies (such as Wizards of Gore). He lives in a magnificent condo on Fort Lauderdale beach overlooking the Atlantic. A Beethoven lover and…
Yeah, you know — meat glue. Transglutaminase. No?Let’s start at the beginning. Ever picked up the wrong thing at the store by accident? Like, thinking you’d grabbed linguine but you come home with cupcake tins? Or you think it’s salt, but it was really ajinomoto?It sure looks like salt, but this…
Kicking off a rather flabby and blabby column, fashion expert and style columnist Simon Doonan announced in Slate this week that he spied some famous folks enjoying a holiday dinner at Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach. “A shocking and riveting tableau” he called it. Riveting, maybe. Shocking, no.Apparently publisher Conrad Black (he…
Yes, cocktails contain calories and if you’re downing a few of them, it adds up. Over the holidays, folks tend to imbibe more than usual and then, before they know it, they’re sitting on the tarmac with Kevin Smith, slimming down enough to fit in a seat.RA Sushi — with…
With all the fuss about the energy drink Four Loko going and getting itself banned (because it gave drinkers a speedy, caffeinated high that’s been likened to cocaine) it’s surprising we haven’t heard more outcry against the energy drink that’s actually called Cocaine. (Except for that little incident in Oklahoma.)Available…
Are your kids feeling restless and bored over the break? Do you want them out of the house and off the Xbox for a while? At 3 p.m. today, your kids (6 to 14 years of age) can have a chocolate-creativity session at Shakolad Chocolate Factory, 7740 Nova Drive in Davie…
