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Check Out Lil Wayne’s NCAA Bracket

Every so often, the all-consuming brand that is Lil Wayne stops by the ESPN studios to dazzle sports journalists and former jocks alike with his reasonable (and often correct) sports predictions. Two years ago, he perfectly predicted the NCAA Tournament's final four teams. (Last year he didn't get to make...
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Torche at Propaganda 3/26

Is Torche a metal band? Depends on whom you ask. Despite their pop leanings and lead singer/guitarist Steve Brooks' repeated claims that Torche is not a metal band, their fan base consists largely of stoner-rock and postmetal fans. Why? Well, first, Torche is signed to Hydra Head Records, the mostly...
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Vegalicious Recipe Scholarship Contest: Deadline Friday

In junior high, my best friend accompanied me to a science fair where one student's experiment surrounded around what happens when you put a mouse and a snake in the same small glass case. I'll spare you the slow motion National Geographic details and just tell you that the snake eventually...
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MP3: The Chemical Brothers’ “The Devil Is in the Beats”

Let's dispose of too much discussion of how often you've listened to the Chemical Brothers in the past decade. The headliners of Sunday night at Ultra have probably been at their jobs longer than you've been at yours, and it shows.Last year's Further was a career record, and the soundtrack...
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Top Chef Masters Recap: Heaven and Rock ‘n’ Roll RV Hell

The cheftestants walk into the kitchen to see Curtis and gourmet ingredients. Curtis says these ingredients are heavenly... Quickfire Challenge The table is full of heavenly ingredients like foie gras, scallops, and prime beef, and nary a bug or canned good is in sight. The catch? Remember the quickfire challenge...
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Restaurant News: Big Al’s Opens in Palm Beach Gardens, Rocco’s Taco’s an Official Hot Spot, Stick a Fork in Mambo Italiano’s?

•    The cheesesteak empire of Big Al Costilo and sons just got a little larger with the debut of the fourth local Big Al's Steaks (11290 Legacy Ave., 561-866-7516) in the Legacy Place complex in Palm Beach Gardens. Along with the eatery's true-to-Philly cheesesteaks (thin-sliced ribeye, Philadelphia bread, Cheez Whiz),...
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Slideshow: Mike Mineo’s Nashville Road Trip

In January, area singer/songwriter fella Mike Mineo went mobile to really tap into his soulful side up in Nashville. Photographer Alex Markow hopped in the van with Mineo and his brother Johnny for the excursion.The resulting product was a four-track EP, titled B Is the Key, created specially for U.K...
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Leif Inge Brings 24 Hours of Beethoven to 18 Rabbit Gallery

Norwegian composer Leif Inge has taken a recording of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" and stretched it out to 24 hours — about 24 times its normal length — and without changing the pitch. The daylong result came out on two DVDs last year from the Table of the Elements label, that...
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Murs at Culture Room

Though Murs got his start in L.A. in the early '90s, his message has always been anti-gangster, thumbing his nose at the violent outlook of gangsta rap over beats that are just as infectious. His delivery is strong, clear, and honest — whether he's making social commentary about race and...
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Country Music Legend Charlie Louvin (1927-2011)

​The music world lost one of it's most lovable and influential voices early Tuesday morning when Charlie Louvin passed away at his home in Tennessee, at the age of 83, as a result of a battle with pancreatic cancer. Louvin was a grandfather figure in the world of country music,...
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100 Favorite Dishes: No. 11 — “Guido” Rib Eye From Vivo Partenza

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. 11: "Guido" Rib Eye From Vivo PartenzaSorry, folks. The jig is finally up for "value cut"...
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“A to Z” at the Norton Museum Gets Back to Basics

If you're going to hang an exhibition on a gimmick, make it a really good one. Fortunately, that's the case with "A to Z: 26 Great Photographs From the Norton Collection," a terrific little show now on view. The idea is to take a whirlwind tour of the Norton Museum...
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Meltdown Fears Growing

Two explosions in three days have rocked the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. An endless stream of nuclear industry cronies has claimed there is really not much to worry about, but the money is doing the talking: Nuclear industry shares have already lost more than $1.5 billion in the market. Now, a...
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Ann Murray Is a Bigot, And So Am I

This is a confession.Like most SoFla news junkies, I've followed with interest the ongoing controversy surrounding Broward school board member Ann Murray's regrettable use of "the N-word" in a conversation in 2007. For those few who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a quick breakdown: On the 18th,...
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Young People No Longer Moving to Florida. Wonder Why…

Early results of last April's census are out, and the news is grim. South Florida's heretofore bullish population growth has slowed and may stop. In a Sun-Sentinel article published yesterday, authoritative-sounding people blamed the economy. A lack of jobs, said the consensus, is repelling prospective Floridians in droves. We might...