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Cope

A mainstay of the Tampa scene, Cope returns Friday to the Dive Bar for the second time in 2010. Riding a wave of support for its new, sophomore album, Going Home, and continuously touring the Southeast, this band is really pulling into the barrel. It's the project of the Stadelman...
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Beer of the Week: Mini Brewfest at Brother Tuckers

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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Lost Weekends

If ever there was a night made for the kind of brain-bashing mayhem that results in permanent memory loss, it’s Saturday. And if ever there was a punk club made for the kind of epic Saturdays you’d totally love to remember, it’s Churchill’s (5501 NE Second Ave., Miami). No shock,...
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Lawsuit: New York Hedge Funds Knew Rothstein Scheme Was a Fraud

Two New York hedge funds -- Platinum and Centurion -- poured an estimated $200 million into disbarred lawyer Scott Rothstein's Ponzi scheme, according to a massive amended civil complaint filed earlier this week. Both hedge funds -- which had nearly a billion dollars at their disposal -- are now named as defendants in attorney...
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Emails Reveal School Board Chairwoman Romanced Schools’ Banker

He was one of those bankers, working the deals behind what has become $2 billion in Broward School Board debt. Both were married with young children. And after meeting and flirting at an all-you-can-eat lobster and steak dinner put on by Citigroup for elected officials at The Palm restaurant in Tampa, romance blossomed between...
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Q&A With Caetano Veloso, Playing the Fillmore Miami Beach Tomorow Night

via rhythmfoundation.com​He's been called "the Brazilian Bob Dylan" on too many occasions to count. But he could just as easily be considered the Brazilian equivalent of Leonard Cohen, someone with a deep appreciation of both the classic and the modern, and unafraid to bring both to a profound and often...
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Kentucky Police Struggle to Halt Pipeline of Pain Pills From South Florida

Florida has given the rest of America so much over the years: delicious orange juice, great football players, cop dramas, a preposterous quantity of Disney paraphernalia, and more recently, the devastating social destruction of prescription pill addiction. Wayne Bird, chief of police in Williamsburg, the southernmost Kentucky town on I-75,...
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Vanilla Ice to Perform Live on Lopez Tonight Tonight

How much do you yearn for those sweet, innocent-ish years in the early '90s, when John Candy was in every comedy and a young Vanilla Ice was dancing and rapping across the set of Arsenio Hall's show? How about Super Mario Brothers 2? American Gladiators? New Coke? Crystal Pepsi? Sodas...
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Record Number of Florida Panthers Killed By Vehicles Last Year

One of the latest came at the end of December, on I-75 in western Broward county. It was a 110-pound male, crossing the highway around 1 a.m. Last year, 17 Florida panthers were killed by vehicles, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. That's nearly 20 percent of...
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100 Favorite Dishes: Sliders From Zed451

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...
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Cooking With Dried Chilies, Part 3: Barbecued Pork al Pastor

Welcome back to Charlie's dried chili adventure. In previous installments, we talked about how to prepare dried chilies as powder or puree and how to transform those ingredients into award-winning chili con carne. Today, we're going to use our chilies to make pork al pastor, a Mexican dish I put...
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Fantasy Meets Harsh Reality as Rob Marshall Takes on a Fellini Classic in Nine

There's no city-clogging traffic jam in Nine, the musicalized version of Federico Fellini's movie-about-moviemaking urtext 8 1/2, but the result feels like the celluloid equivalent of a 12-car pileup. An assault on the senses from every conceivable direction — smash zooms, the ear-splitting eruption of something like music, the spectacle...
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Sweat Records Announces Rachel Goodrich Video Contest

Rachel Goodrich​Looking to score $500? Are you handy with a camera? Do you enjoy local music? Well, Sweat Records has got a contest for you. The Little Haiti record store is calling for aspiring music video directors to act, animate or whatever Rachel Goodrich's track "Light Bulb," which as we...
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You Are What (Sandwich) You Eat

Forget psychology, astrology, and numerology. If you really want to know what someone is like or whether her or she might be the bread to your mayo, you have to turn to the science of sandwichology.  WTF?  Yes, the fuck. Did you know that people who prefer club sandwiches are...