Marta Giraldo is a inching a little bit closer to understanding what happened last Thursday morning -- but she's far from getting closure. As we described in this post, immigration officials pounded on the door of her Pompano Beach house a bit after 6 in the morning last Thursday, woke...
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In Mario Batali's newest book, Molto Gusto — a gorgeous full-color picture book that omits big protein-based main courses and features dreamy antipastos instead — there's a chapter devoted exclusively to cured Italian meats. Seeing the five types of prosciutto pictured there is so high on my food-porn scale that...
Evan Rowe is a local songwriter and performer best-known as Catalonia, a professor of political science and history at Broward College, and a small-d democratic strategist with no party affiliation. Each week, we surrender our space for his thoughts on the music industry and how they relate to our region...
Also writing a letter to Judge Cohn for Scott Rothstein was attorney Bill Scherer, who is not only a member of the bankruptcy committee but is also a representing several of Rothstein's victims in a civil suit against alleged co-conspirators. I've reported here before that Rothstein was giving Scherer information...
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The Crappy Kitchen Cookbook
In Cap Haitien, Haiti, everyone rises with the roosters, and by 8 a.m. the unpaved streets outside Hospital Justinien are jammed. Taxicabs and pickup trucks, some painted with religious slogans and turned into makeshift buses called tap-taps, jostle for space on the narrow thoroughfares, dodging potholes and negotiating chaotic corners...
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Thursday's show at the Fillmore marks the Arctic Monkeys' first performance in South Florida, but the Sheffield, England, rockers already count a famous Miami resident as an unlikely fan: Diddy. About this time last year, the band was in New York, putting the finishing touches on some studio tracks with...
Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein is in custody at the St. Lucie County Jail, according to the National Victim Notification Network database VINELink. Click here and you can see the results of a Rothstein search on the website, which was created to help crime victims find inmates. Here's what comes on the...
I barely even have to chew," my friend Jeffrey said, pausing for a moment from sucking sticky-sweet barbecue sauce off the business end of a baby back rib. "They fall right off the bone." He and I and about a dozen of my friends were hovering over aluminum trays outfitted...
If you're thinking this means Transit Lounge's little eats spot next door is now serving pasta, you're wrong. Or you could be right. Frankly, I've never really looked at the menu. It's my understanding the offer late-night pizza and chicken fingers to soak the booze in your belly, but that's...
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An Immigrant’s Heart
Harrington after her victory in the primary.Karen Harrington knows she has an uphill battle in front of her. But she also knows a thing or two about long, hard fights. After all, Harrington is a two-time cancer survivor and the sister of Billy Mitchell, the videogame whiz framed as the...
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Since releasing a rhapsodic, fuzz-laden debut, Carnavas, in 2006, the Los Angeles-based Silversun Pickups have assiduously chiseled a name for themselves in modern rock's pantheon. Carnavas' hissing kickback set against lead singer Brian Aubert's bittersweet melodies was immediately embraced in the hip L.A. neighborhood, Silver Lake, that the band calls...
These years have not been kind to the proverbial Floridian wallet: If Madoff didn't take your money, then Rothstein probably did, and good luck selling that four-bedroom for more than the price of a Lego pirate ship. Now, Florida's own cash crop, sugar cane, is under fire as the Environmental...
Even a board specifically appointed to promote harmony and mediate opposing viewpoints has a rough time getting residents -- or themselves, for that matter -- to see eye-to-eye in Lake Worth. Harsh words were exchanged Monday night when the Lake Worth Community Relations Board heard from activists about local hate...
A fried seafood combo costs just $20 at Papa Hughie's Seafood World in Lighthouse Point. The platter comes with three fat diver scallops, three jumbo shrimp, three conch fritters made from homemade batter, and four thick wedges of local hog snapper. Each piece of seafood is lightly coated in a...
The Gulf oil leak is playing out right now like a disaster movie in desperate need of a hero. The oil is gushing from the deep-water well into the Gulf right now at an estimated clip of 145 gallons a minute -- or about 2.7 million gallons since the oil rig explosion...
Facebook.comHe won't share his real identity. Not yet, anyway. For now, the man known around the Florida Atlantic University campus as "Green Mann" enjoys the stunned reactions and awkward stares he gets as he dances around in a skintight, bright-green Spandex-esque costume.He doesn't speak while wearing the green suit --...
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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...
It's a bad day to be Mike Good. The longtime Hallandale Beach city manager is facing termination following a vote this afternoon by city commissioners. At today's meeting, those commissioners complained about his being absent from City Hall and his spotty record for communicating with city staff and commissioners. Ultimately,...
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Finishing School
Tonight, why not come be a part of a little history in the making within your local music scene? Having a party tonight at King Is Dead to celebrate a milestone for this upstart band, to which you're all invited--Xperimento. In case you've somehow managed to miss this group gigging...