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Christmas on Las Olas: Cookie Battle Debrief

Throngs getting a start on holiday celebrations strolled the boulevard last night for the 49th-annual Christmas on Las Olas. Onlookers saw everything from cherubic angels reciting wish lists for Santa to slutty elves hawking cocktails. Kids loved the ski jump, ice rink, and carnival rides over at YOLO. Adults beelined...
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Sex in South Florida: Our Survey Finds That We Sure Like Our Kinks

The woman doing burlesque on a stage in Wilton Manors sheds her one-piece schoolgirl getup within seconds of the music starting. She's wearing knee-high stockings, Mary Janes, boy shorts, and sparkly apple pasties. She's a slim brunet with grapefruit breasts, black glasses, and Bettie Page bangs; she sways her hips...
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PL8 Kitchen Scores Highly During Inaugural Clean Plate Charlie Night

Last night, we asked you, our readers, to become food critics during the first Clean Plate Charlie Night. Held at PL8 Kitchen (formerly Himmarshee Bar & Grille), dozens of you voted on the dishes of the new small-plates-style menu.The results in a nutshell: You liked almost everything. Of the 33...
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Sylvia Poitier Found Guilty on Four Counts of Falsifying Public Records

A jury convicted suspended Deerfield Beach Commissioner Sylvia Poitier today on four misdemeanor counts of falsifying public records.Poitier, 76, was arrested in April on five charges of falsifying documents -- which were related to a loan to her brother, who was part of a city-tied organization -- although the fifth...
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Snooze Theatre Raided by Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office

Essential local DIY live-music venue the Snooze Theatre had its Monday-evening entertainment cut short by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office this week. The Lake Park venue, which was previously a blues club called the Orange Door, has been open for a little more than half a year. This is...
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South Florida’s Official Sandwich: Where to Find It

Over at Good Magazine, it's Sandwich Week, when the site reveals results for each state's official nominations. Earlier in the month, the editors had asked Trina Sargalski of the Miami Dish blog for her selection. The choice, as you'd imagine, is a Cuban sandwich. She breaks it down as...
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Alternative Press Tour, November 16

There are about a million current underground rock microscenes that, at one point, shared an evolutionary branch way back in punk rock. Trends in them are born, copied, and then summarily killed seemingly before anyone can even blog on Tumblr about them. Yet somehow, the national glossy Alternative Press remains...
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Hate It or Love It? A Tale of One Dish

While tallying results of this year's ballot winners for New Times Pairings, we stumbled upon the most compelling item:short rib buns from STK Miami. Turns out, it was the most divisive dish. Two judges loved the sandwich, awarding it a...
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The Beach Boys Reunion: Can They Live Up to Their Legacy?

The news that the Beach Boys are reuniting for an album, tour and all the general hoopla that's certain to accompany their 50th anniversary festivities set to start in earnest next year, rings with a certain irony. Not to mention, plenty of marketing manipulation. Anyone who caught Brian Wilson, the...
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Meaty Question: Are Butcher Shops a Dying Breed?

"This is my life," said Dave Crumbaker of Smitty's Old Fashioned Butcher Shop in Oakland Park. It's where he's worked seven days a week, even when it's closed on Mondays, for the past 30 years. On a recent afternoon, a handful of people browse among the pork bellies, crown roasts,...
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Live: John Ralston at Harold’s Charity Music Event, November 18

John RalstonWith Voodoo RemnantsHarold's Coffee ShopSunday, November 18, 2011Better than: Not helping a good cause.It's just another Sunday afternoon at the 514 Northwood Road address just north of West Palm Beach. There's an attractive blond singer strumming her acoustic guitar. She wears a bindi on her head and a sparkling...