These days, politicians are probably better off in a sex scandal than tied to BP. That’s why state Sen. Dan Gelber, who’s running for attorney general, just can’t seem to shake his connection to the company responsible for wrecking the Gulf.Gelber, a Democrat from Miami Beach, used to work for…
Usually when we bash a restaurant, as we did with a review of Zed451 in November 2008, the place fades into restaurant obscurity and eventually quietly closes. It’s not that restaurant critics have a crystal ball — it’s just that bad restaurants tend to die early deaths. Not so with…
A Michigan woman sentenced to spend nine to 30 years in prison for having sex with her son shares some similarities to the story of Bruce McMahan, the Fisher Island millionaire who married his daughter. New Times broke the McMahan story in the September 2006 cover story titled “Daddy’s Girl.”Like…
NBA free agent LeBron James announced tonight that he’ll be joining the Miami Heat in South Beach, apparently declaring a new home for South Florida’s basketball team.LeBron’s announcement was made live on ESPN in a chatty town-hall-type discussion, with James waiting to make his decision until about four minutes in…
Prosecutors typically don’t cite reporters as a source when they’ve built a criminal case, and today’s indictment of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin is no different. So here’s a little footnote.Today’s charges would likely have never happened if not for this March 2005 article by New Times columnist Bob Norman…
The subject of this week’s cover story in New Times is Dr. Patricia Wolff, who’s trying to cure malnutrition in Haiti with use of a vitamin-enriched peanut butter. Her efforts are nothing new to South Florida’s own Aaron Jackson, who built an international charitable organization off his wages as a…
It’s a fair guess that Publix may sell Grace Kitchens Cock Flavoured Soup simply as a novelty item. Sure, it’s in the ethnic aisle with the other Caribbean foods, and yes, people in other countries do prize soups made out of roosters. But the fine folks at Grace Kitchens have…
This week, we published a list of the top 50 happy hours in Broward and Palm Beach counties, and we admittedly left off one of our favorite drinking spots: the Square Grouper. The problem is that the famous strip of sand with a Tiki hut doesn’t technically have a happy…
Jeremiah Buchanan and Zandra Lindgren met about ten years ago when he went to Sweden as an exchange student and stayed with her family. “I knew right then he was the guy I was going to marry,” Zandra recalls.They stayed together through high school and while both of them set…
Las Olas has lots of pricey options, but aside from the Floridian, that solid-for-breakfast-dead-for-dinner mainstay, and old stalwart bakery Gran Forno, there are few places to score a quick and cheap lunch. So that’s the hole Eten Food Co. is hoping to fill, with takeout-only soups, sandwiches, and prepared foods.Eten…
For the past year, our staffers and freelancers have sacrificed themselves for you. They’ve eaten the best pizza. They’ve logged their time at stellar art shows, plays, music venues. They’ve become barflies at strip joints and coffeehouses. They’ve paddled the coolest kayak trips and hiked the top trails. So now,…
It’s fair to blame the Tour de France for this. Riders in that race, needing lots of calories as easily as possible, popularized the idea of eating food out of squeeze containers. So now we have snacks like Justin’s Natural Honey Peanut Butter Blend, a squeezable container of a peanut…
Tonight, for one night only, you have the chance to yell out “Free Bird” without sounding like a moron. That’s because Lynyrd Skynyrd is actually in town tonight, and if someone yells “Free Bird” and they don’t actually play it, the crowd is legally obligated to burn the place down…
Now that Scott Rothstein has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for his billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the question is whether he’ll actually serve all of it. The answer is likely no, but his best-case scenario still may not save him from dying in prison. Legal experts say Rothstein has…
New Times is putting together a list of the 50 best happy hours in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Got a spot you always hit at 5 o’clock? Know of a bar with the best drink prices come quitting time?If so, send an emailed suggestion here, or leave a note…
Georgie’s Alibi showed the chains how it was done at Friday night’s Burger Battle, turning in one mean ground chuck burger for the victory. But there were some downright disgusting excuses for America’s favorite sandwich that night too. Below, the three worst offenders…
Wilton Manors bar and restaurant Georgie’s Alibi had a spot on the west side of last night’s Riverwalk Trust Burger Battle, and that meant the wind was blowing right towards the grill. All night, the smoke blew straight into the face of Chef Ron Kerr.”I literally couldn’t see,” Kerr said…
After Florida Atlantic University fired student newspaper adviser Michael Koretzky on May 18, school officials warned that he may be arrested if he showed up at newspaper meetings as a volunteer. Those threats didn’t keep Koretzky away, so now FAU is threatening the newspaper’s editor.On Wednesday, FAU Director of Student…
Bova Prime, that Las Olas staple of chic, appears to have closed its doors for good this week. But before it did, Bova hosted a gathering May 20 for members of Emerge Broward, the popular young professional’s organization. The party was packed, but it was also symbolic of what went…
Back in January, we asked you to vote on your favorite local bands, bars, restaurants, and everything in between for our Readers’ Poll. And you sure voted — we logged 2,351 of them. The full results will be printed in our Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition July 17. Below is…
Back in January, we asked you to vote on your favorite local bands, bars, restaurants, and everything in between for our Readers’ Poll. And you sure voted — we logged 2,351 of them. The full results will be printed in our Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition July 17. Below is…
It would’ve been easy to assume that the trophy for Riverwalk Trust’s Burger Battle on June 4 would be a simple trophy-store special, with a baseball player replaced by a plastic hamburger. Yeah, no. Instead, the Riverwalk Trust commissioned Tamarac artist George Gadson to create a burger sculpture. His finished…
