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Weekend Preview: Get your party on, get your swede in
Here's what's on our mind this weekend: Low-budget movies, cheap drinks, free music, Ben Taylor, Mike Piazza and two leading curators of the cultural drift: Augusten Burroughs and KRS-One. SWEDE ME, BABY Organizers of the second annual South Florida...
Tags: Ticketmaster, Star Wars (movie), Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Budgets and Budgeting, Elysium (movie)
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To do Friday: Troy Roberts, Deerfield Beach Wine and Food Festival and Fort Lauderdale Bus Loop
Bus Loops Fort Lauderdale Bus Loop: It's always a good idea to take public transportation after consuming a huge amount of alcohol, but here's another reason: the Fort Lauderdale Bus Loop, rolling its trolleys to Fort Lauderdale's throng of beach bars...
Tags: Entertainment, Festive Events, Deerfield Beach, Arts and Culture, Coral Springs
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To do Wednesday: Cash giveaways, Sham-Rock-It and Tip-a-Cop fundraiser
Gambling Cash giveaways: It's called Two Days, Two Chances To Win, and Wednesday is day two. Repeating a promotion it ran on April 11, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino will give away $500 every 30 minutes from 2 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. to five patrons....
Tags: Broward County Sheriff's Office, Fort Lauderdale, Special Olympics, Weston (Broward, Florida)
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Why are lawmakers concerned with abortion?
A March 3 letter to the American News regarding abortion statistics prompts this letter. Fundamental extremists in the right to life movement seem to be more concerned about the preservation of an intrauterine conceptus than in the welfare of an...Tags: Politics, Abortion, Abusive Behavior, Social Issues, Medical Procedures and Tests
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State Task Force Examines Prevalence of Human Trafficking in Alaska
Channel 2 NewsHuman trafficking and sex trafficking occurs in Alaska but how often remains unclear, according to a recent study by a state task force. The report was compiled by a working group appointed by Gov. Sean Parnell in 2012. The five-month study examined the...Tags: Alcohol Addiction, Prostitution, Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Research, Immigration
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Weekend Preview: Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Nina Agdal... Any questions?
When the 2013 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is published on Tuesday, Nina Agdal will be as anxious as you are to see the cover. She may be on it. If so, it will not be the only thing she has in common with last year’s wildly popular cover...
Tags: Sports Illustrated, Sparrow (music group), Ticketmaster, Music, ESPN (tv network)
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For beer lovers, a week to celebrate
Eighty pounds of porcine meat will blaze at a Boca Raton eatery come noon this Sunday, while patrons wait to get their share of Cuban-style roasted pork, likely kicking back a beer sent from Tampa. The occasion will be the Sybarite Pig's caja china...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Bars and Clubs, Boca Raton
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Best South Florida Beer Week events by county
BROWARD Swamp Head and Cigar City at Riverside Market, 7 p.m. Monday Not only is Riverside Market the chillest beer bar in Fort Lauderdale -- no other trusts boozers enough to let them drink right out of the fridge, racking up no tab other than the...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Deerfield Beach, Dining and Drinking, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Bars and Clubs
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The Go Guide Weekend Preview: This is not Del Boca Vista
It's been nearly 20 years since Jerry Seinfeld began visiting Del Boca Vista, the fictional South Florida retirement community where parents Morty and Helen battled crotchety neighbors, ate dinner at 4:30 p.m., didn't run their AC much and reaffirmed...
Tags: 12th Planet (music group), Florida Gators, Major Lazer (music group), Ticketmaster, College Football
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The Go Guide Weekend Preview: Drink and run in your Daisy Dukes?
After a few years practicing in cities around the country, and a couple of last-minute test runs in St. Petersburg in November and in Orlando at Christmastime, the Tap ‘N’ Run is ready for the fit and fashionable athletes of Fort Liquordale....
Tags: Florida Gators, Whoopi Goldberg, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Bank of America Corp., Fort Lauderdale
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The Go Guide weekend preview: Dream girls we love
A dream I have. I originally worded that the other way around, but didn’t want to trivialize the brave vision of Dr. King, who, as I was explaining to the kids the other day, should be represented right next to Lincoln on Mount Rushmore, which...
Tags: Dr. John (music artist), Florida Gators, Ticketmaster, Dining and Drinking, Charlie Sheen
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Dot Foods donating $61,126 to assist superstorm victims
In response to the tragic events of Hurricane Sandy in the northeastern United States, Dot Foods is donating $61,126 to the American Red Cross and Covenant House New York to be used toward disaster relief. “With our distribution centers in New York...Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, Family, American Red Cross, Career and Workplace, Jim White
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