The buses are back, but this fleet of bright-yellow vehicles isn’t here to shuttle the kiddies back to school after a long summer break. This band of party buses — or trolleys, as the case may be — represents the Fort Lauderdale Bus Loop, which hits the streets Saturday night…
There are two ways you can get high at tonight’s fourth-annual Dancing in the Sky. The event’s home in Carmen’s at the Top of the Bridge Restaurant in the upper level of the Bridge Hotel in Boca Raton takes care of the physical aspect. An emotional high — if you’re…
When a Florida city — or hell, the entire state — gets a top spot on a national list or earns a designator of “Most (Fill-in-the-Blank),” the results usually aren’t pretty. Not convinced? Click here, here, and here for examples to prove the point. So it was a pleasant change of…
In the inaugural entry in Clean Plate Charlie’s semi-regular series of iPhone app reviews, Charlie weighed in on the fun-to-use but not entirely indispensable Perfect Egg Timer app. This week’s review looks at the buzz-killing but necessary Fooducate, one of Apple’s top-rated nutrition apps of 2011. (It’s also available for the…
Sad (but not surprising) to say, tonight’s beer and cheese pairing at Funky Buddha Lounge is sold out. But there are still plenty of other barley-soaked happenings, plus other food and drink events, this week in Broward and Palm Beach counties. After the jump, find a list of dining events…
Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don’t forget to check out the full Best of Broward-Palm Beach® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com. Parents get royally shafted in the dining out department. Choices…
A great weekend in food and drink should offer a chance to go from high- (wine dinners with renowned chefs) to low-brow (food truck rallies and eating competitions) without breaking a sweat. After the jump, find a list of five genre-spanning dining events going down this weekend in Broward and…
In his final days, Elvis Presley, arguably one of the greatest pop-culture figures of all time, was strung out on a potent mix of pharmaceuticals and fried peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. Not exactly how fans of “The King” want to remember their rock god. Elvis acolytes can revisit happier…
Fire can be a force of creation or destruction, and the ever-popular Bon Festival at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens explores both sides of the element. Though the multifaceted event includes a range of activities — like taiko drumming, Japanese folk dancing, a beer garden, food vendors, and a small…
Does anyone really need a reason to hunt down a herd of gourmet food trucks, aside from an insatiable craving for hand-dipped gelato pops or overstuffed fish tacos? In case you’re the sort who needs extra motivation, it may help to know that Saturday’s Festival Flea Market Food Truck Rally…
Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of venerable chef, TV personality, and all-around kick-ass woman Julia Child. No snark here: There’s too much to admire about the Francophile gourmand, from her passion for life and excellent food to her prolific career and refusal to let rejection ever…
Earlier this month, Clean Plate Charlie revealed that chef Steven Zobel was leaving East End Brasserie in Atlantic Resort & Spa (read the blog post about his departure here). This week, we’ve got details on the chef’s new project in Fort Lauderdale.Zobel will be the executive chef at D.B.A. restaurant, located…
Hoppy beers, spicy balls, and drink-slinging firefighters; all in all, not a bad week for dining and drinking in South Florida. After the jump, find a roundup of food and drink events — including a lot of beer-oriented happenings — in Broward and Palm Beach counties this week…
Delray Beach wrapped its Tastemakers event last week, and now it’s Boca’s turn to give its similarly-themed event a whirl. Tastemakers at Mizner Park is set for Tuesday, September 18, and Wednesday, September 19…
You’ve been glued to the Olympics coverage for weeks, watching stories unfold of strangers on the other side of the world triumphing in the face of adversity. Well, here’s a local story that you can literally sink your teeth into. For months, Clean Plate Charlie has been tracking the progress of…
There are some big changes to announce for the fifth-annual New Times Pairings (aside from the list of participating vendors, which grows each week as the event approaches). The who, what, when, and why of the event remain the same, but to keep things interesting, the where has been switched…
Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don’t forget to check out the full Best of Broward-Palm Beach® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.The clock is counting down to kickoff;…
It’s the calm before the storm of season; a relatively quiet weekend in the South Florida dining scene. But if your appetite for entertainment won’t be satiated by sitting home and watching the 2012 Olympics (Still with that?) there are a few reasons to head out the door. After the…
In her former life — before she became The Edible Gardening Gal and an urban garden guru — Karin Fields was a professional singer. The career left her with a lot of free-time during the daylight hours and that’s when she got hooked on gardening. The passion was so deep…
Yoga can make your body — and if you’re lucky, your mind — all nice and bendy. Unfortunately, attending classes at some fancy-ass studio can squeeze your budget long before you’ve mastered the downward-facing dog. Tonight’s hatha yoga class at Sunview Park in Fort Lauderdale is priced for the common…
In debauched South Florida, you couldn’t blame someone for jumping to kinky conclusions at the prospect of a weekly swing club. Yeah, there will likely be some partner-swapping at tonight’s Swing Night at Pavilion Grille, but the weekly dance session is a mostly chaste affair. Every Monday, Swing Out South…
You’ve heard of the North Atlantic Garbage Patch? It’s essentially a miles-wide swath of plastic crap swirling in the Atlantic Ocean gyre, possibly for eternity. Depressing, right? Today’s Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project cleanup at Carlin Beach aims to beautify the sands, but it also helps to keep at least…
