When it comes to pastries, nobody does it better than the French. Sure, we have cronuts, but who do you think invented the namesake croissant and doughnut anyway (actually, they call them beignets, but whatev)? Since the days of Marie Antoine Carême (1784-1833), the world's first celebrity chef, the French...
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At the age of 32, Mary Siragusa got sick. Her doctors recommended she see a specialist immediately. Already a believer in the power of whole foods -- as a teenager, she served sprouted grain sandwiches to lifeguards out of a juice bar in North Miami Beach -- Siragusa decided to...
Gov. Rick Scott is hungry for more souls to eat four more years, so he's announced that he wants to cut $401 million in driver license and registration fees. In an appearance in Tampa, Scott whipped out a proposal that will apparently cut auto registration fees that would save motorists...
TerRio is exhausted. The 6-year-old internet star is slumped over on the hood of a limousine outside of downtown Miami's Grand Central nightclub. It's only 9:47 p.m. on a Saturday, but filming on TerRio's first professional music video is scheduled to continue through 7 a.m. the next day. Suddenly, the...
The first time I met artist Virginia Fifield — during an art show opening at ArtServe, where she was on the board and I was working as a marketing consultant — I asked what she did. The elegant brunet merely responded, "Oh, I do drawings of animals." Several months later,...
Thanksgiving is the time for families to gather for a family meal. It's also the time when tensions run high as new people are introduced into an already-tight family unit. The introduction of a new sweetheart to a family is nothing new. In fact, Hollywood has made so many movies...
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Few journeyman NBA ballers have come to the league packing as much braggadocio as Damon Jones. The Houston native played on 11 teams in as many years, earning a reputation as a deep three man... who came through occasionally (.407 lifetime field goal percentage). But meh stats can always be...
As of this writing, the Netflix Instant catalog boasts more than 10,000 titles available for online streaming a number that, as per the official Netflix rhetoric, seems colossal. But the landscape of this digital paradise may not be quite so idyllic. As classic film enthusiast Jaime Christley reminds us,...
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Jim Wurster returns with his boldest effort yet. Jim Wurster can claim credit as one of South Florida's most original musicians, not simply because he possesses a singular sound but,...
Leicester Bryce Stovell, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who insists that he's LeBron James' biological father, has filed an appeal with a federal court after a U.S. District court judge shot down his previous lawsuit. Stovell has claimed that he and LeBron's mother, Gloria James, had a one-night stand after meeting...
By 2 p.m. on the Fourth of July, the bacchanal at Nixon sandbar just off Key Biscayne is in full swing. A few hundred feet from the sprawling waterfront mansions of Harbor Drive, dozens of women in bikinis gyrate atop boats, strangers with supersoakers generously squirt rum into one another's...
A majority of Lake Worth's City Commission voted Tuesday to ignore the result of a March referendum to limit building heights in the city. Voters approved the measure --a charter amendment -- by 56 percent to 44 percent. But even before the commission acted, the referendum's organizers went to court...
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A tale of love complicated — if not thwarted — by prior responsibilities, intractable barriers, and the rigid high-society norms that frustrate its Victorian characters' attempts to live as they so desperately want, The Invisible Woman finds Ralph Fiennes proving as adept behind the camera as he is in front...
Is the West Palm Beach condo called South Tower CityPlace for white people only? Yesterday, the Fair Housing Center of the Greater Palm Beaches Inc. announced that it filed a federal lawsuit against Al Coker & Associates, GB West Palm, Gulfstream Capital Partners, and Cervera Real Estate -- the developers...
Another day, another poorly thought-out article: Are Alt-Weeklies Over? That the New York Times published this drivel yesterday is proof the Gray Lady is just as "over" as any news outlet. Let's get a few things straight...
A woman says she was chased by a bear while walking her dog Tuesday night. The chase happened around 8:15 p.m. in Longwood, a suburban area in Orlando, when Stefani McCoy says she spotted a bear wandering around a neighbor's yard. She also spotted two cubs in a tree nearby...
About a year ago, Disney announced that it would be moving away from paper tickets and instituting a system of "Magic Bands" -- computer-chipped, scannable, waterproof rubber bracelets that would work as entry ticket, FastPass, hotel room key, and credit card. Some preapproved Disney guests were first given Magic Bands...
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Everybody knows about the sea turtles, how the night lights of civilization disorient their newly hatched young, luring them inland rather than to the sea, and to their deaths. But light pollution may do more, according to the South Florida chapter of the International Dark-Sky Association, impacting human health and...
Being a stand up comedian is one thing, but being a stand up comedian on a nationally televised reality competition show is an entirely different level of standup-ness (cause we just made that a thing). Tom Cotter jumped into the spotlight as the runner up during the 2012 season of...
It's not even November yet, and a record number of manatees has died this year. The total of 769 is more than has perished in any year since record keeping began, according to the Save the Manatee Club. More than 100 of them were babies. Almost 300 of them died...
Chanel Farrell Phillips, the Jupiter woman who was missing since Saturday and was found with her car submerged in a Abacoa pond, died of drowning, the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner determined. The medical examiner also said that foul play is not suspected. Meanwhile, investigators are waiting on toxicology results,...