Broward Center

See a show; get deals on dinner.

Forget dinner and a movie. For a more interactive experience (and a lot more excitement), there's dinner and a show. Now, the Broward Center for the Performing Arts has partnered with several Fort Lauderdale restaurants to offer theatergoers discounts, freebies, and perks -- just by showing your ticket stub from the playhouse.

What's best about this offer? The ticket stub does not have to be from that day's performance -- so if you have a hankering for dinner at, say, 15th Street Fisheries three days later -- you're covered as long as you still have those tickets down in the bottom of your handbag somewhere (we knew there was a good reason to be a paper hoarder). What happens if you cleaned out all those loose receipts and can't find that stub from last evening's performance? Just mention that you're a Broward Center patron and you'll still score the deal!

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Free drinks at Downtowner Saloon Friday.

What's better than starting the weekend with a a few drinks with friends? When someone else picks up the tab!

On Friday, June 21, we're picking up the tab for you (and all your friends) at our Happy Hour Mobile App Party at the Historic Downtowner Saloon.

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- Voice Places: Brand-Spankin'-New-and-Improved!

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Tastemakers of Delray Beach (not to be confused with Clean Plate Charlie's Top 30 Tastemakers list) is an annual event that provides attendees with the opportunity to sample signature dishes and cocktails from all of the downtown area's restaurants.

The two-day event takes place from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday, August 8 and Friday, August 9. August is still pretty sweltering, but for locals, it's the last hurrah before the snowbirds begin migrating in with the good weather. Tastemakers also give the restaurants a much needed boost at the end of the slow summer season.

Tickets, or passports, are $30 each and go on sale July 1. Passports can be purchased at any of the 18 participating restaurants -- cash only -- and $1 from each passport goes to the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum.

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Monica McGivern

By now our lovely regular readers are familiar with Voice Places, the listings engine behind all of New Times Broward-Palm Beach's restaurant reviews and calendar picks. Today that engine got a lot more powerful, with a new design that brings even more content to the fore.

The new version includes:

• Cleaner design with editorial and reader reviews brought to the fore
• More lateral links between pages
• A blog section to keep the homepage fresh
• Integration with Foursquare
• Trending events and locations
• Improved photo galleries

Take a look. You'll find more pictures, more stories, more user reviews (hey, that's you) and even integration with tips from Foursquare. If you're already a commenter on Clean Plate Charlie, you can start leaving reviews immediately. Otherwise it sounds like you've got some good excuses to sign up.

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Who knows, you might even get a bit of Carnival.

With the glut of Jamaican restaurants near U.S. 441 in Pembroke Pines, June Ali and her husband, chef Badal Ali, decided it was time to show off Trinidad and Tobago's food.

Their restaurant, Hot Peppers, is offering you a (free!) taste of some of the island's cuisine Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. The trademark of the island's food is the myriad cultures that have influenced it and the heavy spice and seasonings, such as culantro, called Shado Beni in Trinidad, found in many dishes.

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Don't let the ocean view fool you. With Larry Bird memorabilia lining the walls, the Celtics game on the TVs, and the best New England clam chowder you'll get outside of the Northeast, Boston's on the Beach is intrinsically linked to its namesake city. More than 1,400 miles away, this joint experienced the Boston Marathon tragedy alongside its Bostonian brethren, scared and shocked at the senseless horror of that day.

It's been more than two months since the Boston Marathon bombings, and through the tales of triumph and comeback, there are at least 200 people in need of assistance as they recover. Lending a helping hand, Boston's on the Beach will be holding a fundraiser to benefit The One Fund, which has raised more than $50 million for victims and their families thus far, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 26.

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Sara Ventiera

The controversy over Genetically Modified Organisms -- AKA GMOs -- rages on.

A new study, recently released by a joint collaboration of Australian scientists and U.S. researchers, indicated that pigs fed a GMO diet had much higher rates of severe stomach inflammation.

While many GMO proponents have dismissed the study as junk science, GMO activists and many in the medical community are using the study as further evidence of the unknown health effects of consuming GMO products.

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- GMO Bills Passed in Connecticut and Maine; Senator Sachs Revising Florida Bill for Next Session
- Target Launches Clean Food Line, Reduces GMO Products

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There's a funny stereotype when it comes to women bartenders: If they're pretty, you don't expect them to be talented or smart.

As is often the case, those negative patterns of belief get proven wrong.

Amanda Padilla of Cantina Laredo in Hallandale Beach is proof. This beautiful bartender not only whips up a damned good drink but she'll do it while discussing philosophy. With that, we decided to pick her brain about the ins and outs of tending bar, as well as her chosen drink for Sartre.

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- Bartender Q&A: Mark Parisini of III Forks Steakhouse on Jessica Biel and Espresso Martinis
- Summer Restaurant Deals for Locals in Broward and Palm Beach

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Candace West

Max's Harvest is brown bagging it!

It's lunchtime and you're starving, but as a public service, we're imploring you to put down those Lunchables you stole from your kid's lunchbox and order something a little fresher -- like a sandwich or salad from Max's Harvest.

Yes, you thought Max's Harvest wasn't open for lunch, and technically it's not. But the
award-winning farm-to-fork restaurant has just teamed with the Delivery Dudes to bring you a healthier and tastier brown-bag lunch, delivered to you (lunch is not available at the restaurant). Lunch delivery will be available from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and will feature a rotating selection of three sandwiches and salads, with the menu changing regularly.

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Slow Food Truck is in the spotlight.

Sure, we think Slow Food Truck has some great grub. After all, we just named them "Best Food Truck" for their, "buttery lobster roll ($15, in season), filled with chunks of sweet, pink crustacean meat", among other things.

Soon, however, admiration for SFT will become global. Eat St., the Cooking Channel series that features food trucks in all their glory, has just aired their 62nd episode in Canada, featuring south Florida's own Slow Food Truck.

See also: Best Food Truck: Slow Food Truck

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