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The Hot Waitress Economic Index: A Primer

I was looking up some financial terms on Investopedia the other day when I came across an interesting item: the Hot Waitress Economic Index, which posits that the worse the economy, the hotter the wait staff at your favorite restaurant will be.The theory is that in good economic times, hot...
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BSO Deputies Beat Up Partiers for Throwing an Orange, Lawsuit Claims

Pro tip: if you're hosting a party, avoid chucking oranges at the neighbors after they complain about how much noise you're making. You might end up with BSO deputies screaming and throwing you into the ficus hedge.That's what Eric Spalding of Cooper City says happened, in a lawsuit filed in...
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Allen West Blames Obama for Results of 2007 Housing Crash

​Welcome to another post in our Allen West Fact Party series, in which we take claims made by the District 22 Republican and attempt to figure out whether they have a basis in reality. In case you were wondering, they usually don't.President Obama came to South Florida on Tuesday, giving...
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West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale Make Cut of Most Overpriced City

If you need affirmation that West Palm Beach is too rich rich for your blood, Forbes has you covered. Using a semiscientific method that accounted for things like housing affordability, the cost-of-living index, and median salaries for college grads, the magazine produced a list of the most overpriced cities in the U.S. The Sunshine...
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South Florida at the Bottom of New Job Creation Rankings

​More than one in five South Florida residents said their employers were firing workers in 2011, according a Gallup poll released this morning.In a Gallup ranking of the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas, the "Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach" area ranked 44th out of 50 for job creation last year -- the worst...
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Hukilau’s Tahitian Thursday at Five Points Lounge

Polynesian culture is an easy fit for Fort Lauderdale. It's a city long associated with leisure that came into its own around the same time as the newfound middle class found fascination in the late '50s and early '60s with tiki idols, puffer fish, and the natives of the Pacific...
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By the Numbers: 2011 Restaurant Roll Call

Happy 2012! Inspired by Harper's Index, here reads our restaurant trends for the past year. Restaurants to open in Fort Lauderdale: 23Burger restaurants to open in Broward/Palm Beach: 6Restaurants to open in Boca Raton: 10Taco shops to open in Broward /Palm Beach, not counting Chipotle: 4Restaurants to open in Palm...
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Anticircumcision Activists Say Trimming a Bit Off the Top Is Too Much

Dr. Helen Salsbury, who performs about five circumcisions per month in her Pembroke Pines obstetrics office, lays down week-old Baby Emilio in the gingerbread-man-shaped indent of a white plastic board called a Circumstraint Newborn Immobilizer. Using its wide Velcro straps, she secures his wrists and knees so Emilio cannot move...
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Village Voice Media Asks for Your Support of Senate Bill 596

If there is not a tsunami of underaged prostitutes in America, that is not to say that there are no children trapped in this world. Of course there are. Yet, as we have pointed out in numerous articles, few resources have been devoted to sheltering the victims. If you want...
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Nine Disco Songs That Don’t Suck

Even though disco gets a bad rap for its index-finger-pointing moves and white polyester three-piece-suit fashion sense, the world of ever-trendy dubstep, techno, and house would be nowhere without its four-on-the-floor beat devotion and decadent party-till-sunrise excess. Disco was actually a hip underground scene, prevalent in gay and black nightclubs,...