“You will eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.”Clean Plate Charlie wanted to get right to The Point last night, so hopped on Flagler Drive and drove straight to number 777,…
Clean Plate Charlie, who has been around the block a few times, has been hearing about Ambrosia’s fantastic pizza for something like 30 years now. Whenever this dazzling dish reminisces about growing up in West Palm Beach, it seems Ambrosia is always lurking around the fuzzy boundaries of recollection, a…
Thank you, kind waiter, for offering to give the table a tour of the Uncle Julio’s menu. What did you say your name was? Oh, yeah, that’s right. It’s so ungodly loud in your restaurant that Clean Plate Charlie has no idea what you’re saying.What’s that you say about the…
What your holiday gift list doesn’t need is a robotic vacuum cleaner. Or an overpriced Walkman with an “i” in front of it. What you need, and what you should be giving to everybody you know, is baby-faced U2. And a bit of crooning reggae. Mixed with a drug-soaked freak…
Not surprisingly, Broward and Palm Beach counties had more than their share of backroom deals, slimy alliances, ego trips, and moral shilly-shallying this year. So many scoundrels, so many liars, so many wimps and turncoats. So many bums stalking our backyards in 2008, in fact, that New Times considered expanding…
Finally, we’re not the laughingstock of the nation. First came 2000, when the world blamed us for W. Then came ’04, when the nation wondered why South Florida can’t seem to run an election better than, say, Iraq. But now the votes have been counted, and aside from a few…
