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Buena Vista

Beautiful vistas and panoramic scenery have long inspired the visual arts. But what happens when, to quote Joni Mitchell, they pave paradise and put up a parking lot? “Contemporary Landscapes,” a new exhibit at Bakehouse Art Complex, examines current depictions of the pastoral, particularly those achieved through technology. Curator Nina...
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Courtney Love Gets the Hole Band Back Together (Sorta)

Room, meet the rhinoplastied elephant in a tutu. To address the new Hole record, Nobody's Daughter, without considering Courtney Love's chaos-prone reputation — the "Courtney Love Monster," as she recently described it on Twitter — is to analyze the recent health care bill without acknowledging President Barack Obama. It's impossible...
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Beer of the Week: Southern Tier Hop Sun

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...
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Accidental Death Case Changed to Homicide; Suspects Arrested

The death Saturday of a homeless man, Bradly Schmidt, was not accidental, as investigators first believed. Rather, the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office has reversed its original ruling, based on what it has learned from detectives, and is now calling the case a homicide:From the Fort Lauderdale police news release:Investigators...
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Juiced: The Week in One Gulp

Here's what happened this week in Juice:The Puppy Palace protests got personal. Juice posted photos from the most recent face-off at the Hollywood pet store, where Palace defenders used a Facebook photo of a protester's 5-year-old daughter in their counterprotest signs. More photos from the protest here.Palm Beach billionaire Jeff...
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Oil-induced Tourism Slump: No Match for our Pun-tastic Slogans

As a general rule, people like going to the beach and splashing around in the ocean, but they tend to get fussy when they emerge covered in toxic tar sludge from an exploded BP oil rig. Strange, I know--but decidedly true.Although the April 20 catastrophe has already released 6 million...
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Golden Filter Hosts Soundtrack Listening Party at W Hotel Fort Lauderdale

Symmetry means that it sounds equally awesome in each ear​Symmetry, a new compilation curated by W Hotel's Global Music Director Michaelangelo L'Acqua, made the rounds at Winter Music Conference, and now there's an event planned for Fort Lauderdale's W Hotel at Living Room (401 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd.) May...
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Broward’s Water Boys of Corruption

Crazy week. Not a lot of continuity, but then again, you don't expect continuity from Broward Town. Above, you have photos of the Frick and Frack of Broward County corruption, Roy Rogers and Norm Ostrau. Both men pose as ethical champions while they hypocritically enable the worst of it. Both men,...
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Surreal Arts

There’s a renewed interest in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, and as a result, the rightful tea partiers are back: the Mad Hatter ones. The Miramar Cultural Center took notice, and on display until September at Ansin Family Art Gallery is a travelling Salvador Dali exhibit called “Down the Rabbit...
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Allen West Pins Oil Spill on Obama, Democrats

President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress failed to see into the future and prevent the April 20 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. What's more, it's apparent that the White House and Congress are not experts on how to prevent an oil well 5,000 feet below the ocean's...
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Top 10 Easy Grilled Side Dishes for Fourth of July

Fourth of July is right around the corner, which means getting your friends together in your backyard for a little bit of grillin' and chillin'. Hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, and barbecued pork are all the norm for this meatcentric holiday. And that stuff is all fine and good -- everyone...
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Local Motion: Miss FD’s Monsters in the Industry

​Miss FD Monsters in the Industry (Quantum Release) It's been a long time coming for the Fort Lauderdale goth-pop artist now known as Miss FD. This fiery-haired, gloomy gal endured a three-year battle with her former management label based in the United Arab Emirates which prohibited her from releasing any...
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Sentencing Debra Villegas

Might as well start this up now. Scott Rothstein's right-hand woman, Debra Villegas, is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at the federal courthouse. This post will be updated, certainly after the sentencing. Incidentally, her estranged husband, Tony Villegas, accused of murdering her best friend and former Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler attorney...
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Florida Men Don’t Measure Up, According to Condomania

Men of Florida, don't despair: There's always somebody out there with a willie smaller than yours.This month, condomania.com released the results of its extensive survey of penis sizes around the nation. The company says it gathered "detailed information" about 27,000 peckers so to better design its condoms, which come in...