If many of those in attendance at the 27th Annual 99.9 KISS Country Chili Cookoff were official representatives of the United States, they'd offer a sort of dim but realistic view of American history. We have a longstanding history of demonstrating unfailing pride for living in the land of the free, the home...
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In the sparkly, off-kilter world of Miami electro-pop duo Afrobeta, a new party anthem is bubbling under the surface all the time. Even if it's outside of official studio hours and even if half the group is sleeping and even if that song started as a fragment or a half-joke...
Not surprisingly, the headliners for this year's South Florida Fair are about as rich artistically as corn dogs and elephant ears are nutritionally. And about as diverse as a diet centered around those fried, sugared items. It is a mainstream country-driven affair, with a couple of tired rock acts thrown...
Responding to this week's cover story about the charter school chain he runs, Frank Biden continues to insist Mavericks in Education Florida is not profiting from its schools. He says it's just the school buildings that bring in the dough."We're not profiting from our schools. Anybody with half a brain...
Miami Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison spends the morning of Valentine's Day 2012 at the nearly empty Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, the team's spring facility. He hits balls in a cage, sweats on a stationary bike, and works on stretching and strengthening his right knee. Morrison — who has been...
We made a brief post last night announcing the arrest of Boynton Beach Mayor Jose Rodriguez on three criminal charges -- including one felony -- and now that we've had a chance to check out the probable-cause affidavit, we'll let you know what happened.According to the report from the Palm...
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A couple of years ago, I was asked to judge a sushi competition. Among the heavyweights were chef Kaz Okochi, who owns two acclaimed sushi restaurants in Washington, D.C., and Toshio Takeishi, the man who opened one of New York's first sushi counters in the 1960s. Now retired, Takeishi consults...
Solid is the best word to characterize "D.B.A. 2012," the latest group exhibition featuring graduates of Broward County's Artists as Entrepreneur Institute. The show's title stands for "Doing Business As...," and the show itself features ten artists, most of whom any sane curator would never put together. The common denominator...
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions and observations about the local scene. This week: South Florida's foremost Americana auteur collaborates on a project that resonates like a resurrection... It wasn't that long ago that South Florida stalwart Jim Wurster was trumpeting the latest in a...
Imagine for a moment all of the strange things that have to happen in the backseat of a taxi in the Florida Keys.Now imagine that the driver of that car may not have been some burned out beach bum, but instead an undercover cop.We'd like to think the detectives from...
An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist will probably be the most successful silent movie since the days of the Gish sisters. It might also be the first silent film many of its viewers have ever seen. Although many of the technical aspects of the...
On their sophomore LP Glazin', Miami's Jacuzzi Boys exhibit no signs of slumping. If anything, the group is entering its prime. Everything that was great about previous album No Seasons is here, with an extra coat of semi-gloss: wild guitars, big hooks, and most importantly, audible smiles. Overall, the pace...
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An early-morning breeze rustles palm fronds like paper sheets at Harbour Towne Marina in Dania Beach. Fishing boats in slips lumber in a wake, antennas bobbing in unison. Boats knock the pilings. I've risen this early to meet fisherman Al Rodriguez at his boat, the Sea Owl. "Don't be late,"...
The American press continues to report the body count in Mexico's "War on Drugs" at more than 50,000 dead. But Molly Molloy, a researcher at New Mexico State University, tallies more than 100,000 Mexicans killed to wage a war financed and mandated by American authorities and led by Mexican president...
Clean Plate Charlie is pitting our eight best dining areas against one another in a March Madness-style bracket. Later this month, we'll crown a winner -- an undisputed champion city that can boast to have the best food scene in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Below, read up on No...
If you've been complaining that your cocktail didn't pack enough power for you, then you're going to want to reach for one of these explosive libations.Filmmaker Ty Migota shot cocktails exploding at 5,000 frames per second. Martinis got 8,900 frames per second as part of the opening sequence for the...
Elton John is the owner of six Grammy awards, has a net worth of $320 million, and despite his extensive history with drug abuse and his unabashed honesty when it comes to pop culture, he remains an inspirational figure in music.The legend transgressed from a young man, yearning for a...
Looking to start a bar fight at your favorite neighborhood haunt? If so, there are several tactics to use that are guaranteed to result in hurt feelings and/or fisticuffs.These tactics include but are not limited to-- poorly executed your-mama jokes, extolling the virtues of Neil Diamond, and hurling insults about...
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During Gov. Rick Scott's announcement of his budget proposal today, he took questions from media members curious about his ideas.One of those people asking questions ended up being Aasif Mandvi, a "correspondent" for the Daily Show With Jon Stewart.He wanted to know, of course, whether the governor would pee into...
Legend has it that in the process of filming the 1972 movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, lead actress Joanne Woodward became so engrossed in her sordid part that it strained her relationships off set. Her character was Beatrice Hunsdorfer, a...
Hip-hop has been changing the world of music since the Last Poets dropped their debut album in 1970. By nature, the peripheral evolution is a signal sent from the depths of the underground, representing a heartbeat that drives the creative genius behind the genre. The wavelengths, at their peaks, create music...
Even after being christened by the music media elite as an "it" band, the noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells has yet to forsake its Florida roots. It's true that singer Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek E. Miller got their big break not in the Sunshine State but in Brooklyn. But Florida...