Coal Energy Drink: Who Needs Bull When You Have Fossils? (Video)

It’s 2 p.m. and you’re crashing. Last evening’s happy hour ended at midnight and you had to get up for the weekly management meeting. Now you need a serious boost.  Heading over to the convenience store gives you an even bigger headache — so many energy drinks to choose from…

South Florida Craft Beer: Why Hoppy Is Sexy Right Now

Why are hops-forward, American craft beers so popular right now? And why are there so many hoppy Marzen beers, a style that has not been a traditionally hoppy beer? These are the questions that grew out of our beer exploration in this week’s review. For an explanation, I asked expert Greg Engert — the…

The Situation Launches His Own Lollipop

First there was the Situation GTL bag, which holds your laundry (buy one here for $11.99); then Sitch got a sweetheart deal (and partial ownership) at Boca Tanning Club.  Wait — it doesn’t stop there. Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is also the spokes-guido for Devotion vodka, the first casein-infused vodka…

“Save Fudgie the Whale” Campaign Seems a Bit Fishy

A recently created Facebook page titled Save Fudgie the Whale makes it sound like Carvel might be thinking of dropping the ice cream cake. The company has sold the thing for four decades, so it’s natural that there might be some Fudgie supporters out there willing to rally to its…

Oktoberfest in South Florida: A Survival Guide

Tucked away in a Tudor-style meeting house on Washington Street, a hearty-looking German Frau in a dirndl serves frothy beer in giant mugs at the German American Society of Greater Hollywood. A brass band belts out the John Denver anthem “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” followed by a round of…

Doner Pocket Opens on Clematis (Video)

German kebab joint Doner Pocket has infiltrated America with the opening of its first shop in West Palm Beach. The restaurant serves meats slow-cooked on rotating skewers, served on platters and pitas. Doner Kebab is based on the many “kebab shops” in Germany — small restaurants that serve doner pockets,…

Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde Closes Her Ohio Restaurant, Citing Bad Economy

Chrissie Hynde closed her vegan restaurant on Sunday, citing a bad economy.  The Akron, Ohio, restaurant was open four years and was voted one of the top five vegan restaurants in America by Business Week.The Vegiterranean served vegan dishes with an Italian-Mediterranean flair. On the restaurant’s site, Hynde, 60, posted…

The Vegan Drag Queen: Cooking in Heels

There are so many cooking shows on the internet… go surfing for a recipe and you’ll get everything from Martha Stewart showing you how to bake a pie to druggies cooking up a batch of crystal meth. With all these choices, we look for something that can inform and entertain…

Clean Plate Charlie Night at PL8 Is This Thursday

Only two more days until Clean Plate Charlie Night at PL8, during which diners at the restaurant between 6 and 9 p.m. on Thursday can weigh in on menu items to help determine the final cut.At dinner, you’ll receive this ballot, on which you can rank delicious dishes a 5,…

Pumpkin Beers: A New Times Taste Test

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, inspiration for our second round of seasonal beer tastings. For those who’d prefer drinking pumpkin pie to eating it, these are the beers for you. At the Great American Beer Festival in Boulder, Colorado, last week, there were 37 entries for the pumpkin beer category, with…

Dine Out Lauderdale: The Five Most Compelling Menu Deals

In “What Would You Order for Your Last Supper?” in the Food and Drink issue of the New York Times Magazine, New York chef and cookbook writer David Pasternack lists a dozen local oysters and clams paired with Pabst Blue Ribbon in a can on his fantasy menu, while Mario…

Going for Blood: Food and Drink for Vampires

October ushers in the month of ghastly visions, including those at Saturday’s Endless Night Vampire Ball featured on today’s slide show. Vampires’ thirst for blood has inspired today’s roundup of blood-themed food and drink, either in name or reality. Sound disturbing? Just this past weekend in the New York Times’…

SNL Rocks: Melissa McCarthy Is a Crazed Salad Dressing Tester (Video)

Have you ever done a focus group?  You know, when you share your opinions on a new product sell your soul to the Corporate Marketing Machine for a crisp $100 bill in an envelope?Melissa McCarthy (who made Bridesmaids so freaking funny) played a particularly enthusiastic ranch-dressing tester in the focus…