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Manny Alayeto’s Jack Daniel’s Passion Fruit Margarita

Everyone has his or her own set of talents -- some are obviously more notable than others. Sure, your little brother is an awesome gamer, but no one actually cares. A great mixologist, however, is something worth noting. Manny Alayeto of DaDa Restaurant & Lounge is one of the best...
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The Howlin’ Brothers Explain the Ways in Which They Wail

Don't be misled by the fact that the Howlin' Brothers made their bow on Brendan Benson's Readymade Records label. Howl has nothing to do with the modern pop motif that Benson is known for, both on his own and as a collaborator with Jack White in the Raconteurs. Howl is...
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Five Life Lessons Learned from Third Eye Blind Lyrics

Third Eye Blind's self-titled debut, released in 1997 on Warner Music subsidiary, Elektra, was a smash hit by all the regular standards: the record has gone platinum six times, has multiple number one singles, and is the quintessential document of the mid-to-late '90s phenomenon curiously dubbed, "alternative rock." Despite the...
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BC Cafe is Making Glazed-to-Order Cromagnuts – With Bacon!

Evolution is a wonderful thing. Wolves that want to eat us turn into dogs that want to love us and we go from cavemen to humans who eat everything else. Simple isn't it? We like our foods to evolve too. Take, for example the "cronut", which is the natural evolutionary...
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Federal Agent Shoots Pompano Man’s Car Over Road Rage Incident

A federal agent, apparently unhappy with the way a man was driving at the mall he was visiting, pulled out his gun and shot the man's car. Seems like a legit and reasoned response. The agent, Angel Echevarria, a Department of Homeland Security special agent assigned to the U.S. Marshals...
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FPL Tax Rate Hike Challenge Goes to Florida Supreme Court

Last November, Florida's Public Service Commission approved a $246 million annual rate hike for Florida Power & Light. The hike started hitting bills in January. But now, Florida's consumer advocate is asking the Florida Supreme Court to overturn the rate hike. At the time of the approval, the costs were...
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Redford’s All Is Lost a Genuine Nail-Biter

The title All Is Lost promises despair, especially with Robert Redford looking so stolid and weathered and still-got-it golden on the poster. Could this near-silent, you-are-there survival story be another of Redford's yawps of boomer gloom? Another complaint, like The Company You Keep, about the realization that the world we...
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Heavenly Trip: Inside the Peyote Way Church of God

A tall, heavyset man with shaggy blond hair and straight-cropped bangs stands in the middle of an empty gravel parking lot. He looks around aimlessly, hands shoved in his pockets. When he sees a car pulling up, he turns, hands still stuffed in pockets, and hurries over to a small...
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SOSOS: Far Better Than Merely So-So

Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida's musical environs. This week, SOSOS's Americana indulgence. I've mentioned it before in this column, but I suspect I'm slowly losing the argument. "South Florida has never been a haven for genuine Americana." We...
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FTAA Ten Years Later: Protesters Reunite This Weekend, Fight TPP [UPDATED]

Another decade, another trade pact, another round of protest. Ten years since anti-globalization demonstrations at the FTAA in Miami broke down into a full-scale police riot, veterans of that battle and new adherents to their cause are gathering throughout South Florida to mark the date and raise the banner anew...
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Down In the Dives

With unclogged toilets and an ornate backlit bar display, the Dive Bar doesn’t live up to its name. The kitschy fishing décor, bargain well drinks, and first-name rapport — on the other hand — very much do. Boasting local live music performances four days a week, the joint has seen...
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Florida Boy Discovers Ancient Dugout Canoe

A 7-year-old boy has already done more in his young life than you ever will after he got his Indiana Jones on and discovered what appears to be an ancient canoe. Koen Ergle was scuba diving in Owen Lake near Ocala when he spotted a piece of wood dug into...