As the law stands right now in Florida, if you're caught with a bottle of pain pills, you'll face the same sentence as someone charged with lewd and lascivious conduct with a child. That's 25 years in prison, with no parole, the mandatory minimum sentence.But since Gov. Rick Scott announced...
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Over the years, we've kept in touch with South Florida doctor Sanford Siegal, inventor of the Cookie Diet phenomenon. When we heard he had released a new cookbook (with surprisingly yummy low-calorie recipes... including chocolate and cheesecake!), we had to catch up with him. His son, Matthew, who handles the...
Plantation-bred J-O, AKA Jonathan Olivert, has a hip-hop name that makes sense -- it's his initials. Right now, though, a certain popular fabric retailer's site is up top of the search results. This guy hasn't even reached his 20th birthday, according to his Facebook page, so he's got some time...
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock 'n' roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week, a twist on a name and a photo foible. It doesn't take much to spark one of my musical memories. The recent visit by the...
To see more photos, click here. It's Saturday night, and you're driving around Palm Beach County looking for pizza. Where do you go? That's the question my friends Eric and Cristina had posed to me a few weeks ago when I visited them at their home in Boynton Beach. According...
Photo by Ian WitlenBefore riotous Boca rockers Blond Fuzz gets to be known as a retro cover act -- recent Tina Turner and Velvet Underground revamps are doing wonders for that rumor we just started -- the upcoming release of new album Perfect Breakfast will bring the focus back to...
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Sure, a mixture of ice cream and beer sounds like a vomit-inducing concoction. And that is exactly what prompted three young adults (my friends) to recently undertake the tasting of 14 beer milkshakes (which I invented and foisted upon them).All beers on the following list were bought at Total Wine,...
Ron Price needs his milk shake. It's 10 o'clock on a Monday morning, and the baldheaded, barrel-chested former bodybuilder is shuffling around the kitchen of a posh rehab clinic in Tijuana, wearing slippers and a blue Gold's Gym T-shirt. Price had worked as a stockbroker in New Mexico until his...
Janka Nabay, who is from Sierra Leone and now lives in Philadelphia, recently hooked up with Carlos Charlie Perez, a music video director with South Florida roots (more on him here). The results of their collaboration is the "Ah Mufan" video, a follow-up single to Nabay's Bubu King EP, which...
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Hail to the King, Baby!
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Don’t Shoot the Messenger
Hundreds of labels died off during the past decade and a half, but independent hip-hop purveyor Duck Down Entaprizez has survived and thrived. Established in 1995 by Black Moon MC Buckshot and business partner Dru-Ha, the label released only four albums in its first three years — Smif-N-Wessun's Dah Shinin',...
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For 30 years, Bill Kreutzmann was the sensitive stick-wielder channeling psychedelic rhythms as the Grateful Dead's drummer. After Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, Kreutzmann moved out to Hawaii — something he and Garcia had promised to do together if the band were ever to break apart. Since then, Kreutzmann has...
If you have a lemon, you make lemonade. If you have a preserved lemon, you can make just about any damn thing taste a little more interesting. Except lemonade. That would really suck. Preserved lemons are a staple of Moroccan cooking, basically just lemons stuffed in a jar with lots...
The dance battles that structure the Step Up films are all about "the move" — the one unexpected, mind-blowing, totally impossible move that ends a competition and raises the game. The franchise itself has attempted such a maneuver with its third installment, Step Up 3D. Meant to take the scrappy...
Photo by Ian WitlenCocoRosiewith Raffa & Rainerat Revolution, Fort LauderdaleFriday, September 24, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here.Better than: A drum circle with a beatboxer, a pianist, a woodwind combo, harp, and images of horses and beach scenes. Wait. Does that even exist?The review: Attending a CocoRosie show...
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Beer of the Week: Beer Mixology
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Recipe: Braised Beef Short Ribs
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"You look like a playground to me, player," a lyric from Of Montreal's forthcoming False Priest, is one of the myriad ways frontman Kevin Barnes keeps turning heads. Aside from an unpredictable stage show that can involve face paint and coffins filled with shaving cream, this time around, Barnes takes...
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it's all about the love of the brew. If you...
James Randi, the grandfather of modern skepticism and founder of the Fort Lauderdale-based James Randi Educational Foundation, has for decades offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can successfully demonstrate any paranormal ability in a laboratory setting. Now he's extending the offer to manufacturers of homeopathic medications while at...
Debra Villegas, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with Scott Rothstein's Ponzi scheme, will not be sentenced on Friday as planned.Rothstein's former right-hand woman has two more months of freedom, thanks to summer vacation scheduling conflicts and her lawyer's insistence that she's working "diligently" to...