In March, the music critics at the New York Times ran a piece titled "Why We're Not Making Plans for Coachella and Bonnaroo." In it, the authors raise several valid concerns and criticisms regarding the current state of American music festivals. Chief among the points discussed is the uncomfortably similar...
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Here's about as convincing an argument as I can imagine for the existence of the modern Hollywood blockbuster. Disney and Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book reinvigorates an oft-told tale with star power, technology and calculated charm. It's been billed as a live-action remake (it's too good to be called a...
Women-centric High Heel Brewing is coming to Florida in mid-June, bringing with it a duo of craft beers aiming to fill what master brewer Kristi McGuire calls “a gap in the market” of product that targets women. “There isn't a beer that's speaking to them,” she says. It may come...
If you have ever listened to the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, George Harrison or Joe Walsh, you have heard Dave Mason, too. He founded the band Traffic, but can also be heard on the Stones album Beggars Banquet, and Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland. “I...
Florida wildlife officials last year allowed a highly controversial black bear hunt. Officials had said that the state's 3000+ bears needed to be managed, while environmentalists argued that the real problem was not bears, but rather, habitat loss and fragmentation. The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has since released updated...
The second season of Amazon's Catastrophe might do for the #TGIF-style family sitcom of the late ‘80s and ‘90s what the first did for the ailing rom-com: open-mouthed resuscitation on the operating table after one too many Garry Marshall–fueled heart attacks like Valentine's Day. (Or New Year's Eve? It doesn't...
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Beverly Hawthorne is thrilled to celebrate her 65th birthday with her grandchildren later this month. For 35 years, Hawthorne struggled with a crack addiction that kept her cycling between the streets, jail, and the emergency room. Finally, in January 2014, Hawthorne filled out a survey, which revealed that of the...
32 East bar manager John Fitzpatrick wasn't always behind the bar, but after more than 20 years behind a number of different ones, from New York City to South Florida, today it's his profession of choice. "You could say I've been redirecting dispositions in Manhattan and South Florida for nearly...
It's a little after 10 p.m. on a below-freezing February night in tiny Florence, South Carolina, a town of 38,000 not far from the coast. Just across from the municipal airport — which offers a grand total of three commercial flights per day — Club Compound is overflowing with sweaty...
Today is April 20, also known to many as four-twenty, AKA National Weed Day. While it's becoming increasingly legal to possess it, smoke it, eat it, and even sell it in a medicinal, recreational, or retail settings, there's still one thing you can't do with cannabis. "You can't drink it," says Weston native...
Banko Cantina, slated to open in mid-April in a historic building off South Olive Avenue, will specialize in Northern-Mexican cuisine. The transformed 13,000-square-foot space will feature a 130-seat main dining room on the first floor, second floor was designed specifically for special events, and a 3,000-square-foot partially-covered rooftop with...
Firehouse Subs is a chain restaurant that whips up hot sandwiches. The shop has a firefighting theme: firefighters’ equipment is posted throughout the store and local firefighting history is mounted on the walls. However, according to one lawsuit filed last month in Palm Beach County, this firefighting theme and décor...
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Thursday 7/14 If you're known by the company you keep, John Caparulo is most certainly a redneck. The Ohio native and nearly 20-year standup veteran raised his national profile on Bill Engvall's Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Next Generation, appeared on Ron White's Salute to the Troops on CMT, hosted...
By 2045, sea level is expected to rise at least a foot. In South Florida, where most land sits five feet above current sea level, homes and roads are expected to start flooding more frequently. It’s only a matter of time, scientists and economists warn, before it becomes so unbearable...
Judging from the tinge of academia coloring everything the Helmsmen do — including their name, borrowed from their high-school mascot, and the titles of their debut EP, Homework, and forthcoming followup, MidTerm (out June 18) — you might assume the Jupiter five-piece is a bunch of geeks. You'd be right...
New Times has announced a new food festival slated for September, and this year's E.A.T.! is gearing up to be bigger — and tastier — than ever before. E.A.T.! — which stands for "edible, artisanal, and tasteful" — will be a gastronomic adventure that promises to be more than your...
Whether their stadium will be ready or not, the Miami Dolphins are nearing a return. Every year, we see the signs: Hurricane season starts, summer begins, July 4th passes. When the dollar store starts selling those autumn colored placemats, we have officially passed phase one. You should probably buy some bottled...
Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is an impeccably crafted cinematic torture machine — in the best possible way. The premise will make some cringe, while making others giddy: A punk band, trapped in a club in the middle of nowhere, have to fight off a bunch of murderous skinheads to get...
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Celebrity chef Justin Warner gave Fort Lauderdale a taste of his culinary stunts at Taste of Fort Lauderdale Series's New Style Remix dinner with Kuro executive chef Alex Becker — part of this year's South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Unless you're already familiar with Warner — maybe youonce salivated over...
The Brothers Grimsby is a movie for those who thought Kingsman: The Secret Service didn’t go far enough. If all the exploding heads and anal-sex jokes and creative impalements of Matthew Vaughn’s tongue-in-cheek spy thriller didn’t do it for you, rest assured: This time, we get to see British super-agent...
When you meet someone new, you scan their features. If the eyes are narrow, brow prominent, and jaw square, you recognize the person as male. If the eyes are rounder, nose slimmer, and chin pointier, you register the person as a female. According to Dr. Vartan Madirossian, gender detection happens...
Authentic. It's a word that gets thrown around a lot but often without much merit. For most, the word evokes the idea of something pure or unadulterated. A letter of authenticity, for example, confirms something as not counterfeit. It's genuine — a true representation of whatever it stands for. Which...