Your Evening Sift

Boo! It's raining up here in Fort Lauderdale so I'm wondering how that bodes for trick or treaters out tonight. I'm playing it safe and hanging out at a local Starbucks until the ghouls and goblins head in for the night. Enjoy your not-so-scary evening Sift.

A- The Reid Report links to a New York Times column that discusses how Tea Party patriots are being used by establishment Republicans to advance their cause.

B- South Florida Lawyers notes how the mainstream media and specifically, the Miami Herald, is so liberal...except when it isn't.

"Tens of thousands" is technically correct yet highly misleading. That makes me think maybe 40 to 50 thousand showed up. For that matter it would be technically correct to say "tens of hundreds."

C- South Florida Food and Wine asks blogger Dirt Cheap Wine a few questions as part of her Blogger in the Spotlight feature.

South Florida Food and Wine: What is your most memorable blogging/writing moment?

Dirt Cheap Wine: That would have to be when I found out how popular my blog was. I stopped writing it for a while, and after a month or two I started getting comments and e-mails asking when I was going to come back and that they missed my reviews. Up until that point, I didn't realize that people were paying any attention.

D- Green Parrot Bar posts a series of videos that capture Spiritual Rez's wild performance. I have Clip 3 for you.

E- Miami on the Cheap has a get rich quick tip for parents...here's my tip: do it while your kids sleep tonight.

Several dentists in South Florida are participating in a nationwide program to buy back Halloween treats from kids.

The program offers kids a reward — $1 a pound — and sends all the extras to U.S. military troops.

F- Wondering how to navigate Art Basel Miami Beach? Liam Crotty has the video as well as some photos from a "how to" event that was held today at Locust Projects.

G- Lots of photographs from the Annual Halloween Bash at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens are up at Soul of Miami.

H- No Exit at Naked Stage is well worth your time, according to South Florida Theater Review, who finds the plot intriguing, as I do, too.

First produced in France in 1944, No Exit looks at three deceased persons—a journalist, a postal clerk and a high society matron—locked in a room together. They are actually in Hell, and while they each expect the clichéd stories of torture to befall them, no torturer arrives. At first they wonder why they were chosen to be locked up together. They pass the time by talking and fighting, extracting confessions of each others’ sins and seeking validation. They soon realize the premise of Sartre’s celebrated quote: “Hell is other people.”

I- Pontiac is history and Bark Bark Woof Woof remembers.

I remember Pontiac, though, as the first car I remember our family owning: a 1954 station wagon, light green with dark green trim, a three-speed column shift, and a big round radio speaker that I tried to steer like a steering wheel. And I think that's when I fell in love with cars. My parents can tell you, much to their chagrin, that I was able to name the brands of cars long before I could master the multiplication tables.

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