The new SoLita Las Olas sure looks South Beach chic. It’s as much a bar as a restaurant, with two lounge areas and a living-room-style hangout with couches and love seats smack in the middle. There are tables for dinner too, but it’s clear by the trip-hop bass thumping in…
West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel is to give Ozzy Osbourne a key to the city at a ceremony tonight, marking perhaps the most meaningless key to the city handoff in the history of key to the city awards.And there’s a long history of embarrassing key handoffs, although perhaps none…
The class-action lawsuit that claims the website Yelp uses threatening tactics to get ads was filed by South Florida attorney Jared Beck, who says he’s now getting inundated with requests from people who want to join the suit. Beck spoke from his law office on Flagler Street in Miami, where…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
Jack Seiler is having it out with Chaz Stevens after the mayor found the blogger in his law firm’s parking lot Sunday morning. Seiler chased Stevens off his property and said he called the cops to investigate, starting an exchange of heated words today from both of them.It began last…
Lately, somebody has been posting comments about Broward County Judge John “Jay” Hurley on this blog and others, whether the items have anything to do with the judge or not. They claim what a great guy he is. They claim he volunteers at a soup kitchen. They boast about his…
Idris brand Fiery Ginger Beer, an import from England seems to question your manhood. “Try me if you dare!!” it boasts on the label. The top of the “Y” in Fiery curls into a devil’s tail. And with the painted flames bursting from behind the letters, it seems clear this…
The Food Network is dominated these days by reality-TV-style cooking shows, and one of the best of them is Chopped. Hosted by Ted Allen, it pits four chefs against one another in timed matches with mystery ingredients. It’s often more drama than cooking, with chefs splattering one another with hot…
Dolphins fans don’t need another reason to hate the Jets, but New York’s head coach sure gave us one more on Saturday. That’s when Rex Ryan flipped off Dolphins Fans at a mixed martial arts bout in Sunrise. An astute spectator snapped a camera phone image, above, of Ryan’s expression…
Think you know the best record shop, burger, and gay bar in Broward and Palm Beach counties? Your votes — and some of the messages you leave in the comments field on the items below — will be published in our annual New Times Best of Broward Palm-Beach issue June…
The annual New Times Best Of Broward-Palm Beach edition doesn’t cover the Keys, so it seems reasonable that we could name the best burger in Key West any other time of the year. So after a recent visit down to the end of U.S. 1, I’m ready to declare a…
This shadowy photo of the Le Tub cheeseburger is appropriate to the experience of eating one: While some say it’s the best burger they’ve ever eaten, probably just as many will swear to never go back to the place.Sure, nothing chars a burger patty better than the blazing charcoal grill…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com…
Tell us where to find the best hamburger in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here for an archive of articles about some of the best local hamburger joints.And click here for a master list of all Readers’ Poll…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 99: Primanti Bros. SandwichJust by the description, the Primanti Bros. sandwich sounds like another example…
This week’s restaurant review features a list of lackluster dishes I ordered at much-loved Anthony’s Runway 84. There’s the Italian Sunday Feast, above, a $29 pile of Italian staples that I’m pretty sure somebody could whip up in the time it takes Rachel Ray to complete a meal.But the worst…
We stood in the hallway entrance of Anthony’s Runway 84, all of us fuming over what had just happened. My wife was applying lip gloss in the bathroom and rehearsing how she would tell off the maître d’. My aunt and uncle figured we ought to just drop it, but…
By now you’ve probably heard that Tiger Woods set sail on his boat Privacy from its dock in North Palm Beach, likely hoping to put all those headlines about his affairs in his wake. But two journalists who have been staking out the boat say it never happened. And People…
While working on this profile of Dolphins coach Tony Sparano, people kept swearing that the guy had a great sense of humor. It was hard to see, considering his normal grumpy demeanor in press conferences and most public appearances in general. But then I watched the clip above of Sparano…
Miami Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano stomped off the team plane at 10 o’clock the night of November 29. The round-faced 48-year-old was still wearing the clothes he requires every game day: white cap, white long-sleeved T-shirt, teal windbreaker, and pleated khaki pants. Six hours before, the team had lost to…
My first experience with cracklins came when I moved to Houma, Louisiana, after college. I’d make the hour drive to New Orleans on weekend nights, and along the way, there were two important stops: the drive-through daiquiri shop and one of the gas stations where they’d cook up Cajun finger…
