In the pantheon of American First Ladies, Jacqueline Kennedy was no Eleanor Roosevelt. She didn’t push for policy, didn’t relinquish her pillbox hat to walk among the needy, didn’t travel to foreign countries as an ambassador and certainly didn’t advise her husband on matters of war. Jackie Kennedy’s role was...
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a small film burdened with the epic, thanks to both its subject and its setting. Based on Ben Fountain’s 2012 novel, it depicts a day in the life of a young soldier (Joe Alwyn) briefly returning from Iraq to be honored with his squad...
Words can't do justice to the singular power of Keith Maitland’s documentary Tower, a you-are-there reconstruction of the harrowing 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin, where 25-year-old former Marine and engineering student Charles Whitman planted himself in the school’s clock tower and shot 49 people, killing...
Fort Lauderdale's parking scofflaws beware; the City has found a strange new way to strong-arm drivers to pay outstanding parking fines. By blocking a driver's view, The Barnacle uses two commercial grade suction cups to latch onto windshields with 750 pounds of force. This peculiar bright yellow contraption is supposedly more efficient...
Hurricane Matthew continued its march toward Florida last night, slowing a litle but not really changing its path. It now appears the storm will arrive in the area late Thursday with 130 mile per hour winds, according to the 5 a.m. forecast from the National Hurricane Center, though rainfall from...
This might be the only time you'll hear me say this: Gas station food is tops. My new favorite tacos are being served not at a fancy new restaurant but instead at a place where they pump petroleum in Parkland. It's called Los Bocados, which translates to "snacks," "a bite," or "mouth" in Spanish. This past October, Boca Raton City Fish Market executive chef Anthony Hoff teamed up with longtime friend and local...
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Command and Control is frightening for a whole pants-shitting list of reasons, but perhaps the scariest is that the near-detonation of a nuclear warhead in 1980 was sparked by the tiniest imaginable accident. A technician working on a Titan missile in a Damascus, Arkansas, silo dropped a wrench socket from...
A court victory that gives the Seminoles blackjack for the next 15 years gives them leverage, so legislators might be more willing to knuckle down.
The Handmaiden, Korean director Park Chan-wook’s Gothic lesbian tale of romance, revenge and (light) bondage, is the kind of electrifying indulgence only he can make. The film is a loose adaptation of Welsh novelist Sarah Waters’ 2002 thriller Fingersmith, about a female pickpocket who poses as a maid for a...
Like many Americans, last Tuesday I found myself first in shock and then in fear for our country and the civil liberties we cherish. This was because of how the campaign of President-elect Donald Trump stoked racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic fears, promising polices that, if enacted, would be...
Eventually, there will be so many films about a sullen or damaged man returning to his provincial town to face the demons of his past that Netflix will make a separate category for them. At their worst, these movies are navel-gazing vanity projects for their writers and directors (Cameron Crowe,...
On December 29, 2015, Harold “Hal” Howard, 76, showed up at the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office headquarters in Belle Glade saying that he wanted to report an assault. He told officers he’d been leaving a friend’s house in his Dodge Ram pickup truck nine days earlier when he spotted kids...
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The American Civil Rights Union. a conservative group, says census data proves more people are eligible to vote in Broward County this November than are currently alive. “The result could be people inadvertently voting who are not registered to vote,” says Joseph Vanderhulst, an attorney with the Public Interest Legal...
Tomorrow, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will meet in Eastpoint — in the Panhandle — to discuss whether Florida will have another bear hunt this fall. A controversial hunt last year resulted in the deaths of more than 300 bears. FWC staff and hunters maintained that the hunt...
Back in 2005, Ruggero’s Restaurant in Sunrise was highly praised by critics and foodies alike. The dining was described as “a sophisticated white-tablecloth spot, tailor-made for anyone with an appetite for Italian with a side of steakhouse” by Judith Stocks of the Sun-Sentinel. Although circumstances led to Ruggero’s closing...
As Hurricane Matthew's dark clouds appeared over the the Sunshine State as a category 4, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith assured his Florida viewers, that if they were caught in the path of the storm that they and "everyone" they know, including their kids, were dead. That was not reporting,...
It's easy to miss the David Family Company's roadside eatery, Troy's Bar-Be-Que, driving down the somewhat desolate strip of Federal Highway just north of Boynton Beach Boulevard in Boynton Beach. But when clouds of smoke are billowing from the large black steel smokers outside the tiny brick and red-walled building...
Gina Prince-Bythewood has directed two of the most devastatingly romantic films of this millennium — Love & Basketball (2000) and Beyond the Lights (2014) — so it might seem odd at first to see her at the helm of a TV show about police violence, unsolved murders, and race relations...
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Dear Stoner: I’ve been smoking pot for a few years, but in the last six months I’ve started smoking more as I drink less (I’m 25). My parents have always been against marijuana, but I want to be honest with them if I continue to partake. How should I break...
As you might have guessed from your Facebook news feed, a plethora of Democrats (who share many views with Greens) are not happy that Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party's presidential candidate, is running for the Oval Office. They believe that Stein may steal votes from Clinton, and, in this close...
It was a seafood bonanza at New Times' Inaugural E.A.T! foodie festival last night at the BB&T Center. Nearly all the participating restaurants were serving some form of shellfish, fish, crustacean, or sea creature for their signature bite, following the South Florida trend for all things fresh and local. The...
Pablo Larraín is having a good year. The Chilean director, Oscar-nominated a few years ago for his 2012 political drama No, has just released Jackie, featuring a striking Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of her husband’s assassination. He is also about to release Neruda, a complex,...