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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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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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...
via livenation.comPaul McCartney's appearance this Saturday at the Sun Life Stadium marks the last of just four North American shows in his current, cheekily named "Up and Coming" tour. And while fans should, of course, expect him to perform any number of megahits by the Beatles and even Wings, hardcore...
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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...
The Wolfman has it all – mist drifting over moonlit moors; Geraldine Chaplin as a gypsy fortune-teller; a dark, gloomy castle full of cobwebs and family secrets; effective fake-out scares complete with crisply jarring sound; a bombastic score and a soundtrack overstuffed with creepy whispers. Benicio Del Toro stars in...
Update: Check out the slideshow of brewing at Big Bear, online now.Since 1996, Big Bear Brewing Co., Broward's only independently owned and operated brewpub, has been crafting award-winning beers in suburban Coral Springs. For the past nine of those years, the man behind the kettles has been Brewmaster Matt Cox...
via rhythmfoundation.comHe'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...
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,...
Even before Florida's new, expanded gambling laws took effect last month, more and more bettors in the Sunshine State were taking their cash to poker tables, and not to the wager windows at dog racing tracks, according to new statistics released by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation...
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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...
If "Chicano rock" ain't your bag, then you might not know Los Lobos too well. But at the very least, you should recognize them from the soundtrack to that 80's flick with Lou Diamond Phillips sporting a guitar and a Superman curl. You know the one, he dies in the...
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...
In March, after Dave Aronberg, a Democratic candidate for attorney general, said in a debate that there are more pain clinics in Broward County than McDonald's locations, we counted them. We found 71 sets of Golden Arches and more than 100 pain clinics.The next month, that same stat showed up...
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...
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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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...
Rachel GoodrichLooking 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
Brad Banks was a star at Belle Glades Central, where he led the team to the state championship his senior year. He was a two-time All-State selection and three-time captain of the varsity team. After one season at Central Florida University and another at a community college, Banks transferred to...