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Obama’s Birth Certificate and the Unsinkable Donald

It takes a special kind of person to be smug about conclusive proof of one's idiocy, but Donald Trump has practice. He was smug about the disastrous bankruptcy that resulted from his hubristic overreach; he was smug about refusing to pay unknown millions to European creditors after the real estate...
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Florida Teachers Union Hops on the “Sue Rick Scott” Train

In the fourth recent lawsuit targeted at policies of Gov. Rick Scott, the Florida Education Association is now suing over a 3 percent pay cut to the salaries of teachers and other school workers.According to a news release from the union, the lawsuit was entered today in circuit court, alleging...
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“Cultural Collisions” at Broward College Mixes Art That Doesn’t Mingle Well

One of the ideas behind "Cultural Collisions," now at Broward College in downtown Fort Lauderdale, was to bring together four artists from different cultural backgrounds and see what kind of cross-pollination might result. The artists — American Timothy Leistner, Venezuelan Francisco Sheuat, Honduran Julio Green, and Dominican Carmen Cordero —...
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Best Live Band: The Dewars

New Times' Best of Broward/Palm Beach 2011 is live! This week and next, County Grind will bring some more information about winners relevant to our audience.West Palm Beach's western community is home to the best twins since Aphex Twin, the Dewars. None are more deserving of the coveted Best Live...
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Sylvia Poitier Cruises to Victory, Other Election Results

Random election results: UPDATED: The votes are in, and all of the races below are official. ​​The first is that Sylvia Poitier is sailing to reelection in Deerfield Beach, despite all the scandal and her painfully obvious corruption. With only one precinct uncounted, just 714 people voted in her district, which isn't...
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American Idol Finale: A Hollywood Tragedy

Last night: Entertaining in the same way as an especially energetic Chris Botti concert. Probably the most boring American Idol episode of the season. Maybe ever. Maybe the most boring two hours in the history of television outside the HSN.It was Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery, each singing 1) their...
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Michelle Braun, Former Madam to the Stars, Charged in Boiler-Room Bust

A former madam to the stars who supplied porn actresses and Playboy models to Tiger Woods for threesomes was arrested in South Florida this week. Michelle Braun, 33, is suspected of running a Fort Lauderdale-based boiler-room operation that sold a total $402,000 in phony stock to 39 small, unsuspecting investors.Braun...
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Five Summer Bummer Songs for July

Ah, summer. Though it officially started on June 21, it might as well have started in April, given our location. We're clearly in the throes of mosquitoes, an increase in daytime drinking, and temperamental rain. According to the fable of summer, this is the season to expose skin, drop ice...
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Live: Dr. Dog at Culture Room, April 15

Dr. DogWith Floating ActionCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleFriday, April 15, 2011Better than: Asking for an extension on your taxes.It could be a new batch of stimulants, a sudden rush of endorphins, or a compelling late-night engagement that was running through Dr. Dog's mind during Friday's Culture Room performance, but the result...
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100 Favorite Dishes: Dover sole from La Cigale

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 6: Dover Sole from La Cigale With food as with many things, simple pleasures are almost...
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Now Ann Coulter Warns About “Radiological Danger”?

Now, this isn't exactly a new Coulterian utterance, but it is a remarkable one. Remember last month, when Ann Coulter put her foot in her mouth by claiming to know more about radiation than physicists? Remember how she claimed that nobody died of radiation poisoning as a result of the...
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Biker Boys, Skateboarders, and Surfers at the Art and Culture Center

The initial visceral impact of "Ryan Humphrey: Fast Forward" is considerable: You walk into the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, and the main gallery has seemingly been transformed into a small-scale skate park for in-line skaters, skateboarders, and BMX bikers. At either end of the space, BMX bicycles have...