Hate flying? Lost your yacht in the recession? But sure as hell would love a decent rum runner and a handmade straw hat?If so, you are so in luck, because a new boat called the Bahamas Express Ferry is about to start high-speed service from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale…
It happens every Christmas: I look at my bank account. I cry. I decide that, instead of buying real presents, I will instead venture to Michael’s Craft supplies, pick up some beads and glue sticks, and make something really special for people instead. Hence, the picture frames with glued-on fortune-cookie…
According to a communique received from a protester with Occupy Fort Lauderdale, the group will be kicked off of City Hall property (100 N. Andrews Ave.) at 5 p.m. today. The Occupiers find it reprehensible that the city would do such a thing on Thanksgiving Eve, when most people are…
Even though the journalism industry has been pummeled the past few years, with tremendous layoffs and profit declines (and the shuttering of some of our favorite titles), that hasn’t stopped some foolish brave, optimistic people from wading into the new-media fray. If you crave your news with a Latin flair…
City Link, the weekly newspaper published by the Sun-Sentinel and its parent, Tribune Company, is expected to cease publication within the coming weeks, current and former employees tell New Times. The paper has been in steady decline for years. Hard news largely disappeared from its pages as they became filled…
Yesterday we told you about how local landmark Jaxson’s Ice Cream is turning 55 years old this Saturday — and having a hot-dog-eating contest to celebrate. Well, National Deli hot dogs is sponsoring the contest — the company is providing one-pound, 18-inch dogs for the contest, PLUS donating all the…
OK, so the Miami-Dade County Commission will not be thrilled with us about this one, but we’re giving away a bag of sour apple-flavored Potheads candy. (Thanks, To the Moon Marketplace, the special candy boutique — with 12,000 items from around the world — that donated it.)The treat, a gummy…
Well, looky here… What just landed in our lap but two free tickets to Rocktoberfest, the annual beer-drenched festival at Esplanade Park, over by the Museum of Discovery and Science in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The event is this Friday, from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. The tickets, which normally cost $20…
Your pal Clean Plate Charlie has two tickets to Fright Nights, the annual haunted house extravaganza at the South Florida Fairgrounds. These tickets would normally cost ya $15 apiece, but he’ll give them to you at the low, low price of absolutely free! The tickets give you access to the…
Following in the grand tradition of Sammy Hagar building a brand of tequila and Lil Jon endorsing Crunk Juice, Miami homeboy Enrique Iglesias is the latest celebrity to sign on to promote a line of spirits. The singer, who according to a news release …
Last week, Clean Plate Charlie stumbled into Riddlez Cafe, located in the shops below the parking garage at 100 SE First St. — near the main Broward County library (near the intersection of Andrews Avenue and Broward Boulevard). This is the former home of Bob & Wilson’s and, before that,…
And now, Clean Plate Charlie interrupts our regularly scheduled, totally serious food coverage to bring you a Big Ass Nigga on a Scooter Drinkin’ Capri Sun.We stumbled across the following video and recognized the landscape as distinctly South Florida, and yep — it’s Miramar. Why is this video fascinating the…
After going six-plus months without a food critic in-house, New Times has hired a gem: Melissa McCart, who will be leaving Washington, DC to join us. Her resume is nothing shabby. She began her career as a high school English teacher working in New York, Virginia, and even Berlin. Eventually…
Joe Biden keeps sending me e-mails. In fact, the Obama campaign never stopped sending e-mails to people who signed up for updates in 2008, thus ushering in a new era of perpetual campaigning. Anyway, Joe keeps telling me that…
A meal and a movie is the theme for the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino’s latest weekly happening. Every Thursday night, starting at 5:30 PM, a host of gourmet ethnic food trucks lines the perimeter of the easternmost surface parking lot, the one closest to the main entrance. There…
We’ve got a pair of hot tickets to the Rock N Roll Beer B Que and we want you to take them! Please – they are burning our hands! (Value is $70 — these babies are selling for $35 advance, $45 at the door.) This event, set for Sunday, July…
The food truck trend keeps on, well, truckin’, in South Florida, where the food-on-the-go options seem to grow by the week. Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood has thrown its hat in the circle, hosting a weekly film and food truck gathering every Thursday this summer. The Summer…
Tonight New Times is hosting a Tweet-Up at the Himmarshee Bar & Grill. Stop by between 6 and 8 p.m. for Gran Sierpe Pisco martinis and appetizers. We’ll also be giving away tickets to the Rock N Roll Beer-B-Que on July 3 as well as upcoming concerts at the Hard…
Say what you will about our neighbor Rush Limbaugh’s politics, his big mouth, or his criminal history — the guy knows how to shill product. So when he unveiled his line of iced teas last week — called Two if By Tea and designed to capitalize on Tea Party patriotism…
In early June, we told you about CG Burgers planning a grand opening of its newest location in Coral Springs. (The others are in Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens.) Well, the big day has arrived, and you can get your…
This year, you want to pregame for Fourth of July by hitting up the Seminole Hard Rock all day on Sunday, July 3 — for the Rock N’ Roll Beer-B-Que. Today, tickets are being offered at 57 percent off — $15 as opposed to $35 face value — through our…
We’ve made our list, checked it twice, and today you’re going to find out everything that’s on it. Yep, we’re ready to debut New Times’ annual Best Of issue for 2011 — in which we pick our favorite people, places, and things in all of Broward and Palm Beach counties…
