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A Mayor Named Sue

They just voted Sue Gunzburger the new Broward mayor to replace Ken Keechl. Hey, it was her turn. Commissioner Kristin Jacobs made a very lame motion for Gunzburger, saying that "when each jewel is allowed to shine, the whole crown shines." Yuck. Now Mayor Gunzburger is talking about a "new day," yada yada yada...
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Sheriff Al to Dump Republican Party?

It's just about time to report this: Sources are telling me that Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti may leave the Republican Party. What is absolutely true is that Lamberti and his camp are talking about it. What isn't known is what exactly he'll actually do after the November elections. Understand that this has...
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What’s the Difference Between Shoulder, Picnic, and Boston Butt?

My editor is a die-hard barbecue fan. But even he was curious about the picture on the right, part of the slideshow from our review of East Coast BBQ, online this week. He asked me why this piece of pork shoulder, used by the restaurant to make pulled/chopped pork, contained so...
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Putting Your Pizza Stone to Work: Whole Wheat Butternut Squash Pizza

Yesterday, we talked about pizza stones and how you can improve upon those store-bought ones with cheap unglazed quarry tiles purchased at Home Depot. Today, let's put those tiles to the test with a delicious Fall-oriented pizza made with butternut squash instead of tomato sauce. I made this pizza over the...
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Happy Cheeseburger Day! Five Memorable Moments in Cheeseburger History

emerson12Is your mouth watering yet?​ Normal Saturday, September 18, is a national holiday -- National Cheeseburger Day. The perfect time for lactose-tolerant carnivores to salute the gussied-up sibling of the humdrum hamburger, to celebrate the harmonious marriage between burger and cheese.The invention of the cheeseburger cannot be credited to...
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UPDATED: Want More David Eller Stimulus? Elect Allen West

One might assume the $7 million stimulus contract that Deerfield Beach businessman J. David Eller recently won for his family's manufacturing company, MWI Corp., was the result of some successful schmoozing or campaign donations to his congressman, U.S. Rep. Ron Klein.But Eller's no Klein fan. When contacted last week, Klein...
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Muscles’ “Girl Crazy Go” Video Is Out; Hide the Reddi-Wip

One of the more innocuous moments of "Girl Crazy Go."​Australian scuzzy dance outfit Muscles has always had a strange relationship with the party atmosphere his music can't help but cultivate. Although his 2007 album, Guns Babes Lemonade, has a magnificent Italo disco sheen, many of the lyrics seem to hold...
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Felon Voting Laws, Racism, Rick Scott, and Pam Bondi, Part II

The Florida Clemency Board's decision last week to reinstate an archaic felon voting ban has set off a storm of protest. The new rule, which requires nonviolent felons to wait five years after completing their sentences to apply for voting rights, can easily be seen as a tool to disenfranchise...
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Five Most Surreal Moments From the Lackluster Marlins’ Season

flickr.comVolstad versus Morgan was possibly the most memorable moment of the year.​The Marlins mercifully finished their 2010 season this weekend, ending the year with 80 wins and 82 losses, good enough for third in the division. The longest winning streak of the year was all of four games, and other...
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Five Really Useful Kitchen Gadgets

​Americans love gadgets.   It's in our DNA, hard-wired in our brainpans, infused in our mother's milk. If some nitwit on late-night TV promises that his cheap 'n' cheesy invention will shave a few seconds off a simple task or make it easy enough for a blind, paraplegic monkey to perform,...
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Robert “Big Bob” Scandiffio, 1960-2010

Of all the people hurt by Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, his bodyguard Robert "Big Bob" Scandiffio may have been hit the hardest. Scandiffio lost his vehicle, his house, his job. He traveled to Morocco at Rothstein's request where he said the former lawyer tried to convince him to take the fall...
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Over the Weekend: Funky Buddha Brewery Grand Opening

To see more photos from the grand opening of Funky Buddha's Brew Pub, click here.Who would've thought coconut-rum-infused red ale would be so damned good?The Funky Buddha Brewery, South Florida's newest brewpub, arrived with a bang Saturday night. The long-popular lounge added 13 homespun beers to its repertoire -- creative...
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Myung Ga Tofu & Barbecue in Weston: You Can Handle the Spices

Just the sight of the hellishly red noodle dish called nakjikuksu at Myung Ga Tofu & Barbecue in Weston is enough to send spicephobic eaters into heat stroke. The pencil-thick udon noodles are napped in a chili sauce so intensely red, it looks like it was painted into existence by...
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East Coast BBQ in Pompano Beach Melds Innovation With Tradition

To see more photos, click here. Behind the stainless steel cook line that spans the entire west wall of East Coast BBQ is a square smoker the size of a smart car — and nearly as clean-burning. Where most barbecue joints scattered across South Florida employ smokers that burn thick,...
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LCD Soundsystem at Fillmore Miami Beach, October 6

LCD SoundsystemWith Sleigh BellsFillmore Miami Beach, MiamiWednesday, October 6, 2010View a slideshow of the concert here.Better than: 50 percent of the two Devo shows I've seen.The review:Many of the best parts of LCD Soundsystem's performance Wednesday reeked of dance-floor nostalgia. Be it a drum break that simultaneously conjures up Prince...
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“Waiting for Superman” Ignores Too Many Inconvenient Truths

Davis Guggenheim's call-to-arms documentary on the failures of the U.S. public-education system — thoroughly laudable in intention if maddening in its logic and omissions — originated with his own guilty conscience. An Academy Award winner for 2006's An Inconvenient Truth, the director, whose debut doc, 2001's The First Year, heralded...
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“Lebanon” Takes You Inside an Israeli Tank and the Reality of War

Lebanon, written and directed by Samuel Maoz, is the strongest new movie of any kind I've seen in 2010. Like Ari Folman's groundbreaking animation Waltz With Bashir before it, Lebanon is a film by a traumatized veteran. But where Waltz With Bashir is mainly concerned with the recollection of that...