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Eats for Under $7: Rice Balls and Spinach Rolls at Carini’s

You'll have to do a little ordering at Carini's to get a filling "meal" for under $7, but it's worth the effort. Carini's is a New York-style pizza joint on Federal Highway in Hallandale Beach worth visiting for the cheap appetizers alone. The mini rice balls (which are about the...
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Ethics Allegations Surface for Two More Broward Hospital Commissioners

Shortly before Laura Seidman was pressured to resign as general counsel of Broward County's public hospital district last year, she expressed concerns that three of the district's commissioners were "using their public offices and powers improperly and for their own purposes." She named Commissioners Rebecca Stoll and Maureen Jaeger, both...
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The Killers Will Play AAA October 3

via myspace.com/thekillersLas Vegas post-punk glamazons The Killers almost lost the pop honors they earned with Hot Fuss when they decided to get serious with the Americana travesty Sam's Town. Coupled with inflated egos (Lead singer Brandon Flowers said Sam's Town would be "one of the best albums of the past...
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West Palm, Miami Lose “Sweatiest City” Honor to Phoenix

In an unabashed marketing ploy, the makers of Old Spice deodorant have ranked the Top 20 All-Time Sweatiest Cities.  Phoenix took the top spot, Miami came in at number 7, and West Palm Beach placed at number 8. Old Spice number-crunchers say that "Phoenix's average temperature was 94 degrees in...
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Local Motion

Call It Radar We Need Our Friends to Be Closer (self-released) callitradar.com Tom Gorrio hung up the towel on Call It Radar not too long ago with the intention of taking his solo work on the road. Well, he did just that, but the power of Call It Radar still...
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Stealing From the Restaurant: Marumi Sushi’s Tofu Steak

Marumi Sushi's tofu steak is made of pure win -- it's a thin brick of tofu that's been lightly floured and pan-fried, then topped with about a pound of mushrooms, onions, and silky sake butter sauce. The mushrooms are amazing. There are about seven kinds on top, including regular buttons,...
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Elastic Bond Plays Transit Lounge for Indie-pendance Day

Don't spend this Fourth of July in a drunken (and perhaps drug-addled) haze. You've been doing that and sitting in the back of your friend's hatchback going oooh and aaah to the fireworks for far too long. Why not try something different, with just as much wow factor. Like what?...
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Shape Shifters

Let's go back, for a minute, to the year 1991. America seems like a much different place — except it really isn't. The nation finds itself entrenched in war in the Middle East, with oil prices spiking and consumers scrambling. Everyone teeters on the brink of a vast and ominous...
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Michelle Bernstein’s at the Omphoy First Impressions

Last weekend, perhaps Miami's best-known restaurateur, Michelle Bernstein, made the trip up north to Palm Beach and debuted her new restaurant, MB at the Omphoy. From her days at Tantra and Azul to the opening of her flagship restaurant, Michy's, in 2005, Bernstein has long captivated Miami with simple, elegant...
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Buika Performs at the Gusman Center on July 9

Concha Buika is not your traditional flamenco singer. Originally born in Equatorial Guinea, she grew up near a gypsy community on the island of Mallorca in Spain --a perfect place for such an artist to lay her foundation. But hers is a non-traditional take on Spain's most traditional sound. Influences...
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Former School Building Chief Sentenced to Probation

Well, the Pulp has helped bring another public official to justice. Or maybe I should say "justice." Remember Ron Morgan, the now-former chief building official at the Broward County School Board? I reported back in January that he was unlicensed to do his job. After that, I found that Morgan not only...
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Carrabba’s Settles With Flamboyant Server

A few weeks ago, we wrote about a biologically male food server in Boca who claim to be fired from Carrabba's Italian Grill for being too flamboyant. Alexis -- as she prefers to be called -- has breasts, long hair, and the (surgically altered) facial structure of a woman. She...
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Throwing Shade

In January, indie toy and art shop Pink Ghost held a release party for the local hip-hop T-shirt line, Shadesofredd, right outside its storefront. The Shades crew brought together a host of dance and hip-hop collectives from across South Florida to dramatic result: the pop and lockers, collaborative dance acts,...
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Brotherly Love

Success has fractured many brotherly relationships. Just ask Oasis, the Kinks, or the Black Crowes. But acoustic rockers the Avett Brothers are not stressing over their recent mammoth achievements. There were the spring tour dates with the Dave Matthews Band, the recent recording sessions produced by Rick Rubin, and the...
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Goofy-Ass Broward School Video Raises Ire

The Broward Teachers' Union is sending out the following video made by staff at the Embassy Creek Elementary School in Cooper City. Titled "Budget Cuts No Problem!" it shows the school's principal, Bob Becker, and several staff members having chair races down the hall and feigning getting drunk. The BTU was left unamused, claiming the thing cost...
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Love Hurts

On the surface, (500) Days of Summer really is no different from, oh, let's say The Proposal, in which Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock spun box-office gold from romantic comedy's refrigerator fuzz. Former music-video maker Marc Webb's feature debut is as conventional as any made-for-cable rom-com, down to its soft-indie-rock...
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Oven Lovin’

Andrew Garavuso labors in front of the twin stone hearths in his restaurant, Sicilian Oven in Lighthouse Point. He's thin and youthful, with a penciled mustache and a ball cap that covers his bald head. In one smooth motion, he flicks his pizza peel underneath a pie sitting near the...
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Best Duo Exhibition

"Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities," Norton Museum of ArtNot since Mr. Reese introduced peanut butter to chocolate has there been such an inspired pairing as this show of more than 40 O’Keeffe paintings and more than 50 Adams photographs. The two met during their first extended stay in New Mexico in 1929, when she was 42 and he was 27. She eventually settled […]
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New in Film for Friday, July 10, 2009

Adoration Atom Egoyan's 12th feature film offers a typically kaleidoscopic rumination on voyeurism, videography, the relative nature of truth, and the aftermath of tragedy. It's closer in form and tone to the Canadian auteur's early work (particularly his 1987 masterpiece Family Viewing) than to his erratic recent literary adaptations (Felicia's...