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A Thousand Horses Live

Join America's Backyard and KISS Country 99.9 as we bring you A Thousand Horses. "A Thousand Horses is a fresh fusion of classic sounds – a hybrid of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers, Black Crowes and Exile on Main Street-era Rolling Stones, wrapped up in a modern-country context. The band’s...
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Las Vegas Cuban Cuisine

This Fort Lauderdale Cuban restaurant has several locations across Broward County, the first of which has been in operation since the early ’90s. As a result, the menu offers a taste of Cuban fare at its finest. The Cuban sandwich it delivers is thick and meaty, with plenty of cheese, pickles, and mustard to balance […]
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Greenpeace Releases a Canned Tuna Shopping Guide

Whether it's canned tuna or prized tuna sashimi, the big blue fish seems to find itself in the midst of controversy time and time again. From canning processes to mercury levels and fishing practices that fail to comply or rather completely ignore responsible standards, tuna has become more than just...
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Mr. Nick’s Sub Shoppe

Cheese steaks are one of those foods that incite furious debate, turning friends into enemies and enemies into nemeses. Folks hailing from Philadelphia claim that only sandwiches adhering to a strict code of ethics even earn the right to be labeled as such. And shouldn’t they have the right? Cheese steaks have been bastardized throughout […]
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West Palm Beach Among Most Popular Private Jet Routes In The World

A new study released last week by the global real estate consultancy Knight Frank suggests West-Palm Beach is one of the top destinations for wealthy people and their wealthy-people planes. The Wealth Report lists New York to West-Palm with the fourth most private jet traffic, and West Palm-New York as...
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DOJ Audit Says GEO Group Misspent $3 Million in Troubled Prison

Local activists last week protested Boca Raton-based GEO Group for abuses in the highly profitable private prisons it runs. Meanwhile, the company is under scrutiny by the Department of Justice for wasting at least $3 million while operating a troubled rural Texas prison that has seen riots and death in...
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Military-Style Raids for Minimal Drugs Turn Deadly in Hallandale Beach

The SWAT team snakes behind a one-story pink and yellow house an hour before dawn breaks over a silent working-class block in Hallandale Beach. As the heavily armed cops in black military gear pour into the small backyard, Tank, a 15-year-old pit bull, rises from the concrete ground, straining at...
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Rick Scott Gives Up on Welfare Drug Testing

Is it possible that Rick Scott 2.0 will be a kinder, gentler governor? Uh. Maybe? In a first term that was filled with dickhead moves, Rick Scott's primo dickhead policy position was probably his push to drug-test welfare recipients. Grounded in the imaginary conservative bogeyman that welfare recipients sit around...
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Oakland Park Brothers Plead Guilty to Terrorism Charges

Two South Florida brothers have pleaded guilty to terrorism charges stemming from their plan to blow up New York landmarks. Raees Alam Qazi, age 22, and Sheheryar Alam Qazi, age 32, both of whom once resided together in Oakland Park, have been charged with conspiring to support the al Qaeda...
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Ten Solo Artists Who Got Bigger Than Their Bands

British DJ Fatboy Slim makes his return to South Florida this week, with a show at the Fontainebleau’s LIV Nightclub on Saturday. To most U.S. audiences the DJ, real name Norman Cook, first made his mark with the joyously triumphant, sonically pulverizing 1998 album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby,...
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12 Best Sangrias in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

It's a steamy summer evening, and with an exhausting week at its end, you're positively yearning for a drink. Right? And preferably something cool and refreshing. While an ice-cold brewski or chilled cocktail will do, a glass of the quintessential summer drink sounds even better. That's right. We're talking sangria. Even if...
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Ten Characters to Watch in Orange Is the New Black Season 3

Prison life is reliably repetitive, but conditions can be frighteningly unstable, too. Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, which returns for its third season on June 12, reflects that paradoxical state of affairs by delivering more of the same — heartfelt but complicated relationships, inspired capers, compelling personalities, stomach-twisting flips...
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GoBistro

We’ve all had ramen. For most Americans, it comes from styrofoam cups in flavors like “oriental” and “seafood.” We eat it when we are short on time, hungover, broke, or living in a dorm. If cup o’ noodles instant ramen is all you’ve ever known, it can be hard to get excited about a bowl […]
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Seaquarium Trainers in Danger Riding Lolita?

Recently, officials have been considering whether the act of trainers riding Lolita the orca at the Miami Seaquarium should be considered harassment under the Endangered Species Act. Meanwhile, activists are also arguing that such behavior poses a significant risk to the safety of the marine park's employees.   In July of 2014,...
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New Plan to Manage Homeless Is Dumb, Say Homeless

A coterie of about 15 homeless folk gathered two weeks ago on a balmy Monday evening under the copious canopy of a banyan tree in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the mood, if not quite funereal, was understandably somber. For six years, "the Tree" — located at the site of the long-abandoned...
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Racks Italian Bistro and Market

The concise menu here is slightly more extensive than at owner Gary Rack’s other venue, Table 42 Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar in Boca Raton (formerly Coal Mine Pizza). Both spots specialize in coal-fired pies but also offer starters, salads, and pastas; Racks adds a handful of fish, meat, and poultry entrées to the mix. […]