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100 Favorite Dishes: Georgia Pig’s Bacon

As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 34: Georgia Pig's Bacon Georgia Pig's bacon is sliced thick and sizzled on the griddle,...
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SXSW: Even Aussie Group Karnivool Has Experienced Outback Steakhouse

Photo by Bradford SchmidtKarnivool (L-R): guitarist Andrew Goddard, singer Ian Kenny, guitarist Mark Hosking​Building on our obvious love for music and meat from down under, there aren't enough bands out there like Australia's Karnivool. Delivering monumentally thunderous riffs that still sound beautiful, catchy hooks that don't get cheesy, and extended...
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DJ Boris at Monarchy’s One-Year Anniversary

In a world where divas are bionically enhanced, the bloom of marquees and floodlights can be seen from space, and the energy crisis has been averted by harnessing the kinetic motion of dance floors, power house is the genre of choice. And those who choose choose power house DJ Boris,...
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What Killed Brianna Negron and Casey DiStefano?

In May, paramedics were called to Richard Lippner's Fort Lauderdale condo, where they found a young woman, 20-year-old Casey DiStefano, unconscious on the floor. It was the second time this had happened in four months. She wasn't breathing; her lips were blue. Lippner told police she had a history of...
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Tamarac Officials Shaking as Corruption Investigation Heads Into Town

By all rights, Tamarac should be the most boring city on Earth.  The Broward suburb started, after all, as a retirement community and is still dominated by senior condo housing. It's named after a chain of car washes that were owned by city founder Ken Behring ("Car-A-Mat" spelled backward). Here's how the city was recently sold in a newspaper real estate special...
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Concert Review: Raffa & Rainer Sweetly Serenade the Bubble on March 20

myspace.comRaffa & Rainer playing, but not at the Bubble​Raffa & RainerWith Bridget + Luke and Sweet BroncoThe Bubble, Fort LauderdaleSaturday, March 20, 2010Raffa & Rainer, the sweeter-than-honey folk duo from Miami, have turned into an army with their latest effort No Mercy. The follow-up to the stripped-down, understated Stolen Coal...
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Gratify in West Palm Beach Should Be Better Than It Is

I've got some major beef with the potato chips served at Gratify. These chips, the bar's equivalent of complimentary bread and butter, are crinkle-cut and fried in-house, which is admirable. But they're also sliced so thick that, in order to get them to crisp, the kitchen has to practically burn...
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Boynton Beach Dogfighting Suspects Plead Guilty to Reduced Charge

Last year, we brought you the story of three Boynton Beach men charged with operating a large-scale, Michael Vick-esque dogfighting ring. Paul Green, Ricky Norfus, and Samuel Denson were arrested in September 2007 and went to trial on felony charges, each facing up to 15 years in prison.But the first...
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James Randi Headlines Singularity Summit

One of the world's most famous skeptics was the keynote speaker at this weekend's Singularity Summit at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco.The annual event draws curious minds from around the globe to discuss a number of topics related to technological singularity, the theoretical moment in the future when a...
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Concert Review: TopSpot USA Showcases Young Punks at Talent Farm

Photo by Mikayla DavisVega Under Fire guitarist Brad Shellito is calling Dr. Love​TopSpot USA Industry ShowcaseWith Vega Under Fire, New City Lions, Easton, So Long Davey, and Not Here NowThe Talent Farm, Pembroke PinesSaturday, April 3, 2010Under the sparkling Talent Farm lettering, five young bands that all deserve "punk" attached...
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Cheap Wine That Doesn’t Suck

Pinot Grigio is the cream of wheat of the wine world--bland, boring, inoffensive, with as much character as a politician running for re-election.  Most of the time, anyway.  One of those other times is when you crack a bottle (and you do crack it; it's a screwtop) of the 2008...
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Concert Review: Erykah Badu at American Airlines Arena, April 8

Photo by Gina DiazErykah Badu, Mistress of the Universe at Miami's American Airlines Arena​Erykah BaduWith Bilal and Robert GlasperAmerican Airlines Arena, MiamiThursday, April 8, 2010Erykah Badu's video for her latest single, "Window Seat," features the neo-soul singer sprinting through downtown Dallas, stripping off baggy sweatclothes to her essence, and what...
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Court Records: Billionaire Bentley Driver Goodman Has History of Cocaine Abuse

Wealthy Palm Beach polo patron John Goodman has a history of cocaine abuse and was accused this past April of dodging divorce-court-ordered drug screenings, according to records in his divorce court. Goodman, who is under investigation for his high-speed stop-sign-running Bentley crash that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson in Wellington last week, was accused last year in...
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Beer of the Week: Dogfish Head Squall IPA

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...