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Best Waterfront Dining

Hyde Beach Kitchen + CocktailsBroward County’s shorelines are no Miami Beach. But the opening of Hyde Beach Kitchen + Cocktails in Hallandale suggests that the all-night, over-the-top soirees typically found 20 miles south might just be coming our way. The two-story chic building oozes a 305 vibe. Neon lights, swank design, eclectic food, and occasional DJs fill the SBE […]
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Oliver Stone’s Snowden Is a Somber, Conventional Study of Bringing Secrets to Light

Set aside your visions of histrionic, paranoid fireworks. Oliver Stone’s whistleblower biopic Snowden finds the director in an unusually somber and controlled mood, perhaps because of the introverted, awkward nature of Edward Snowden himself. The former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor, who in 2013 exposed the U.S. government’s...
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State Regulators Do Nothing to Sanction Bad Cops

The grainy security video shows Steven Rodgers, a 43-year-old Miami-Dade County Public Schools Police officer, inside his Miami Edison Senior High School office. His silver badge glints against the dark blue of his uniform as he grins into the camera. And his penis is in his hand as he pleasures...
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Hollywood Bans Sale of Pets From Puppy Mills

In a 6-1 vote, Hollywood city commissioners approved an ordinance yesterday that bans the retail sale of pets that come from puppy mills. The goal of the ban is to rid the area of mills, which have animal activists have decried for years due to concerns that the large scale...
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Riverland Residents Fight to Save 400 Trees From Developers

Riverland Road is known for its quiet streets and veil of tree canopy. When one owner wanted to dissect his 5.19-acre property into 13 parcels of land to make way for a new road, sidewalk, and 13 new homes, the residents of Riverland worried about the fate of the more...
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Ciao Cucina & Bar in Coconut Creek Offers Modern Italian Riffs

South Florida has two types of Italian restaurant: the upmarket ristorante with regional specialities aligned into indecipherable menu items that require a Google search, and their no-frills, red-sauce kinsmen that dole out the type of hearty, oleaginous fare any Sicilian grandmother would feel compelled to stuff every family member with...
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BSO Crime Lab Could Be Mishandling Crucial DNA Evidence, Whistleblower Says

In March 2015, prosecutors temporarily stopped sending evidence to what was then a state-of-the-art city forensics lab Washington D.C., over concerns that lab technicians had bungled cases and and "understated or overestimated the likelihood that a particular person’s DNA was left at a crime scene." Earlier this month, the crime lab...
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Hero Trying to Save Thousands of Kittens

Here’s a fact guaranteed to ruin your day: in the month of May, more than 200 kittens that came into Broward County’s animal shelter were euthanized—either because they didn’t have homes, or because they were suffering from serious illnesses. It’s kitten season, which lasts from April to October. During that...
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Eastwood’s Sully Continues the Director’s Interrogation of American Heroism

Like American Sniper (2014), Clint Eastwood’s Sully is a movie of nightmares. In Sniper, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) sits rigidly in the living room, imagining the gunfire, roaring helicopters and wailing bystanders of Fallujah playing out on a turned-off television as his children race through the house. In Sully, Chesley...
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Drawn to Misery: BoJack Horseman‘s Third Season Is Its Best Yet

Just over a minute into the third season of the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman, an entertainment-news interviewer asks our hero, “What would an Oscar nomination mean for BoJack Horseman?” The rest of the season is dedicated to answering that question, tracking BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) from press junkets...
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Mo’Booty Bringing Surf Noir to Dada July 7

Visual artist Monica McGivern and musician-about-town Alexandre "Booty" Merbouti are a little like Bennifer and Brangelina. Their band, Miami art rockers Mo' Booty, got its name when the pair decided to join forces. "Monica lived for a couple months at noise rock legend, Rat Bastard’s recording studio." Merbouti reminisced.  "She...
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Léa Seydoux Enthralls in a Patchy Diary of a Chambermaid

Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, a 1900 novel about the depravities in all social strata written from the point of view of a servant named Célestine, has famously been adapted twice before, by two of cinema’s immortals. Benoît Jacquot’s uneven take on the material won’t challenge the stature...
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Maybe Florence Foster Jenkins‘ Unsung Heroine Should Have Stayed That Way

Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins is a likable study of delusions of grandeur. Working from real-life material, Frears creates an alternately funny and mysterious portrait of someone whom most viewers either don’t know at all or regard as an odd footnote in musical history. We first see Florence (Meryl Streep)...