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Endless Love Earns Its Title the Bad Way

The endless love in question unfolds in that universe where shy, bookish teenage girls are always catalog-model beautiful, not a pimple in sight or a pound overweight, not a garment from Hot Topic darkening their closets. The movie tells us that 17-year-old Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde) is “awkward” and has...
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Pinball Wizard: Atticus Palmer Aims for National Gold

Suburbs don't get much tidier than Coral Springs. The boxy patch of West Broward is made up of neighborhoods of modest ranch homes planted evenly on shady, manicured lawns. It's Mayberry 2.0, a David Lynch movie before shit goes bad. Behind the front door of one such modest suburban house...
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Muppets Most Wanted Is a Great Caper

If you count forward from Jim Henson's mid-1960s TV appearances with a fringy pup named Rowlf and the lizard, made from an old winter coat, who would later become Kermit the Frog, the Muppets have outlived most of their early puppet peers by more than two generations: You don't see...
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Bring Me the Head of Han Solo

Harrison Ford has been a good soldier in the Star Wars. He did whatever was asked of him by his commanding officer, George Lucas, even when his commanding officer was wrong. Now that Ford is back in Star Wars, and J.J. Abrams is running the show, Abrams's first order of...
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Pill Mill Docs Get Reduced Sentences for Ratting On One Another

Nothing quite kicked a hole in the social fabric of South Florida than the pill mil craze of the early aughts. Back during the boom, it seemed like every strip mall in the tri-county area packed a pain clinic where you could scoop up weapons-grade pharmaceuticals. Now, after a crack...
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Jason Handelsman: the Poet Preacher of Cutler Ridge

The night before I met Jason Handelsman at the Sports Grill on the Green (the one at the Palmetto Golf Course off U.S. 1), I was pacing in my bathroom and brushing my teeth when, out of nowhere, I felt like Jason and I were communicating somehow -- both of...
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Nude Beaches Disappoint Google Team Filming Florida Coastline

Earlier in the year, Google and Visit Florida recruited four men to walk 825 miles of Florida's coastline, with the goal of photographing Florida's beaches, then posting the results on Google Street View for all to see. The journey for the four men consisted of lugging around 45 -pound backpacks...
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Vladimir Putin Gets Dolled Up On New Beer Label

The 2014 Winter Olympics are about to begin in the 'resort' town of Sochi on the Black Sea in Russia. As you may know, scandal after scandal has hit the administration of president Vladimir Putin, including the Olympic site not being finished and the numerous human rights issues aimed at...
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Beach Day Set to Release New Album, Performs in Hollywood Saturday

This Saturday night, locals'll get a rare opportunity to witness Hollywood's own trebled-out surf rockers Beach Day in their own element. The trio will be performing in their hometown at the ArtsPark in Downtown Hollywood, the first time the band has taken the stage at this unique venue, according to...
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Lavola Returns with a Forceful New Album

Lavola is back, and in a big way. County Grind received word last week that one of Palm Beach County's fiercest sonic forces had just completed its next album titled This Book Is My Cowardice. Through the social media webs, we heard a smidgen of Lavola frontman Julian Cires' next...
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25 Pilot Whales Found Dead in Florida; Officials Begin Necropsies

Sadly, Florida has seen a lot of pilot whales wash ashore or beach themselves in the past couple of months. Last Sunday, 25 pilot whales were found dead off the shores of Kice Island, in the southwest part of the state. On Friday, a team of biologists began performing necropsies...
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Spinal Cord and More Unearthed in Delray Beach Backyard

Twenty-two-year-old Alayna Lakatos admits that the backyard of her house on Seventh Avenue in Delray Beach needs landscaping. There's hardly any grass. She moved in last month with two roommates, but on Saturday, January 25, her roommate's dog, Otis, a German Shepherd-Lab mix, was outside working in the yard. When...