Over the weekend, Donald Trump supporters showed up at early voting sites in West Palm Beach. Videos show them at the West Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections office shouting with bullhorns at voters and breaching the 100-foot electioneering line mandated by Florida law. It got so bad that the Palm...
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The French are known for many things: braids, manicures, horns, fries, toast, kissing — you get the point. Among their many culinary delights, the best aren’t always so obviously named. So, let’s be clear here: We’re talking crêpes.
At tonight's commission meeting, the City of West Palm Beach is planning to ban "conversion therapy" on minors. It's a cruel practice that essentially stigmatizes homosexual attraction as a mental illness. Similar bans have recently passed in Miami Beach, Miami, and Wilton Manors. Conversion therapy is predominantly regarded as a...
Ever since a whistleblower pointed out that there might be some serious flaws in the DNA analysis performed by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the crime lab has been in a tailspin. Its leaders are fighting to maintain accreditation and the Broward state attorney’s office has been forced to re-open as many...
Expect to see Diplomat Beach Resort emerge as one of South Florida's top culinary destinations, says Howard Wein, founder of Howard Wein Hospitality (HWH) and The Diplomat Restaurant Group. Celebrity chefs Geoffrey Zakarian (former Iron Chef competitor, chef, restaurateur, and culinary consultant), Michael Schulson (a Philadelphia-based chef and restaurateur, and owner...
This should be fun. The Donald arrives in West Palm Beach this morning for his first rally since March. To be held at the South Florida Fair Expo Center, it is his fourth Florida appearance this week following a Tuesday rally in Panama City Beach and Wednesday rallies in Ocala and Lakeland...
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Attention beer lovers: the 2016 Beerfest is happening next weekend, and if you love craft beer, you won't want to miss this year's new and improved festival. More than 60 breweries have signed on to attend, which means there will be more than 100 different beers — some local, others...
Did you know the word karaoke is a combination of two Japanese words whose translation in English would be "empty orchestra"? Yes, the Japanese must have a different interpretation of the purpose and aim of a night of karaoke than us amateur singers of South Florida. If we were to...
Sixteen years ago, hanging chads sent the nation into a spiraling constitutional crisis. For a month after the November 7, 2000 election, America panicked. Would Texas Gov. George W. Bush or Vice President Al Gore become the new commander-in-chief? Election night ended in a virtual tie. Bush had the edge,...
A Catholic church is suing the City of Oakland Park for infringing on its religious freedom by prohibiting its food sharing operation in 2014. All Saints Catholic Mission on Powerline Road has racked up more than $10,000 in fines for dodging a cease-and-desist order and continuing its daily 2 p.m...
In the dim light of South Florida's most famous gay hangout, two dozen men curl around the center bar to down two-for-one drinks on a Monday evening. Some are balding with graying hair. More rugged gents sport baseball caps. A few clean-shaven yuppies in suits scroll through social media feeds...
It's been a bad couple of weeks for the Boca Raton-based GEO Group, the country’s second largest operator of private prisons. After the Department of Justice announced on August 18 that it would discontinue use of private prisons, stock prices plummeted. Now, investors are suing. A lawsuit filed against the...
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Brio Tuscan Grille's South Florida locations recently launched a new menu for a more modern take on the chain's traditional Italian dining. While the Brio menu continues to feature many of the concept's most popular dishes, the new additions bring an imaginative twist to many Tuscan classics, says Brio culinary...
We've got our share of city life and plenty of swampland, but it is our sandy beaches that give the fair state of Florida its good name. Of course, one of the next things that come to mind when thinking of Florida is drinking alcohol. When you combine the two,...
As crowds stumble along South Beach's most iconic strip of art deco hotels and restaurants on a hot Saturday in July, the chipper sidewalk hostesses do a quick mental calculation, looking for a phrase that might lure passersby. "Table for two?" they hawk. "Happy hour!" "Two-for-one drinks!" It's 5:45 p.m...
One of the great virtues of calling South Florida home is that we can be outside year round. Sure, the summer months are a bit tough with the heat, mosquitoes, and torrential downpours, but those are mere nuisances with what our loved ones up North have to deal with in...
The Rio Olympics start this Friday, and South Florida is well represented, with a dozen athletes who call Broward or Palm Beach home. Need help picking someone to root for? Or just some fun facts to make you look smart at parties? Here're the folks who call our piece of...
After snipers opened fire at a rally in Dallas on July 7 and killed five officers, police spent hours in a standoff with one suspect who was cornered in a parking garage. Finally, just before 3 a.m., they sent in a robot that had been jury-rigged to set off a...
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The hot dog: it's almost more American than hamburgers and French fries and July is National Hot Dog month. So there' s no better time to go out there and try all that Broward and Palm Beach County have to offer when it comes to the tube-shaped beef. Whether you...
Ahhh, Lake Worth. It's one of Palm Beach County's most — er, shall we say, unique? — municipalities. It would make sense, of course, that a town as colorful as this one has some equally colorful kitchens as well — ones that are so uniquely ElDub that alone makes them eateries...
The City of Pompano Beach is about to joins Spiegel Grove in Key Largo and the USS Vandenberg in Key West as a destination for artificial reef diving with their sinking of the Newton Creek (rechristened the Lady Luck), a 324-foot tanker vessel one and a half miles off the shore. It...
Four months after North Carolina lawmakers required transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender listed on their birth certificates, the City of West Palm Beach has announced that it will now make life a little easier for its transgender employees and their families. Now the city's health insurance...