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General Mills Buys Annie’s for $820 Million

General Mills - large corporation General Mills - has just put in a $820 million check for that most savory and ethical of supermarket choices, Annie's Homegrown. Hippies, anti-GMOers, and other health-minded folks everywhere set to wailing and weeping at the news. Annie's Homegrown already screwed the pooch by putting...
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Respectable Street Hosts Valentine’s Tattoo Contest for the Ladies

Attention all you inked folks who have woman parts or identify as female: Screw chocolates and roses. We heard about a better way than sniffing flowers and shoveling sweets in your face to spend Valentine's Day. Respectable Street is holding their very first event "Inked Ladies: A Valentine's Day Tattoo...
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Five Restaurants With Live Music on New Years Eve

Driving around town on New Years is not just a pain-in-the-ass, but it's dangerous; we don't even want to know how many DUIs will be handed out. With all the crazies running around (it's one of the few days in which everyone heads out of the house) it's best to...
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Dada Craft Bazaar

If you really want to narrow down the three most pleasurable activities in life, they would probably be eating, drinking, and shopping -- hey, you might have four, whatever. If you’re looking to have an evening of pure indulgence -- eating, drinking, and shopping, again -- on Thursday, October 10,...
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Two Salvadoran Generals Ordered Deported for Civil War Torture

The memories are etched in Melecia del Carmen Casco's face. They show in the deep, thin lines that run across her caramel-colored forehead and in the prominent half-star patterns that surround her small brown eyes. Casco wears a turquoise cotton shirt with matching earrings. Her silver hair is pulled into...
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Boy Scouts Not Allowing Obese Kids to Take Part in National Jamboree

The Boy Scouts of America is currently holding its 2013 National Jamboree, where scouts from all over the country converge in West Virginia to whitewater raft, climb mountains, zip lines, mountain bike, and participate in other Boy Scouty things. But, apparently the scouts' body mass index criteria to take part...
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South Florida Police Departments Now Hiring

The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display...
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South Florida Police Departments Are Hiring; New Times Tried Out

The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display...
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Great American Beach Party

In South Florida, we are lucky enough to experience summer weather throughout the year. So it’s a good thing the City of Fort Lauderdale is providing us with a truly epic reminder that the king of all seasons is finally on its way. It is doing it bigger than big...
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Locavore Index 2013: How Does Florida Stack Up?

Since the Alice Waters and Chez Panisse came into the scene in Berkeley in the 1960's, there has been a huge movement to localize our food systems. Obviously, some areas caught on a bit quicker than others. Some areas do make it easier. Iowa, for example, is pretty much one...
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Naughty Time Travel

In terms of fashion, the ’80s were kind of, like, the best decade ever. We don’t care what anyone says; leg warmers, frizzy side ponytails, and those little circular plastic things used to scrunch up the sides of T-shirts are still hot. The only way to make it even hotter:...
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ABBA Lives!

Saturday Night Fever melds into Sunday afternoon at Lynn University this week as Abbacadabra, touted as the ultimate ABBA tribute band, performs in all their shiny hot-pants glory for Boca Raton audiences. Under the dazzle of the glittering mirrored ball, Abbacadabra delivers all the Swedish pop group's infectious hits --...
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Minimum Wage in Florida to Go Up 12 Cents

According to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, people who earn minimum wage in the Sunshine State will see a whole 12 cent increase in their paychecks starting this week. And with the whole fiscal cliff thing not happening now, it's double good news for low wage earners today. Hooray!!...
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Minor League Ball: A Journey

Cheap beer, affordable tickets, swanky surroundings — what's not to like about minor and independent league baseball parks? If you've experienced a minor league baseball game in the past 20 years, it's hard to believe there was a time when it was viewed and treated as a virtual throwaway by...