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...
Search the results for: results
Showing 595 - 616 of 6237Use quotes to search for a phrase or name: "toy story", or "brooklyn bridge".
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...
Miss Cleo — AKA Cleo Harris — walks briskly across the parking lot of Sawgrass Mills mall, her face hidden behind a pair of mirrored sunglasses. But Carmel Cafiero has already recognized her. Dressed in a plain navy suit and clutching a Channel 7 microphone, Cafiero chases down the fraudulent...
Ramen-loving vegans looking for a solid bowl of soup finally have a place to call home. At One Kombucha in North Palm Beach you can now find a sort of pop-up ramen shop, where owner and brewer Danny Mancini is making some pretty solid takes on the beloved bowl of...
When you’re a United States Congressman you can pretty much count on the best table at any restaurant. South Florida has no shortage of amazing places to eat, so why would an esteemed member of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee be grabbing eats at Whole...
In 1984, Ulf Erlingsson was a Ph.D. student at Uppsala University in Sweden, studying physical geography. There, he designed a device that could measure sediment to a tenth of a millimeter. He patented the invention, and 36 years later Erlingsson, now 55 runs his company Lidorm from Medley, Florida. It...
advertisement
In 2014, Fort Lauderdale commissioners passed a city ordinance that prohibited “personal property to be stored on public property.” The law states that "'store' means any action to place, leave, park, locate, or set an item upon the public property for a period of time in excess of twenty-four (24) hours...
When the Palm Beach Zoo opens on Monday after being closed to the public over the weekend, it won’t quite be business as usual. Zoo employees have been mourning the death of zookeeper Stacey Konwiser, who was killed by a male Malayan tiger on Friday. Her death made international news. ...
When you were a kid, there was something immensely exciting about playing in the front yard and hearing the sweet song of the ice cream truck making its way around. Sure you could have bought those crappy desserts at any old convenience store, but there was something special about chasing...
As cinematic year 2015 reaches its end, the FOMO specter threatens to haunt us all. If you pored over the results of our film poll and felt aghast at how many apparently great movies you’ve yet to see, here at last is a chance to catch up without braving traffic...
Hardcore Henry screened as a midnight movie at last September’s Toronto Film Festival, and was so ecstatically received that a distributor bidding war ensued. Six months later, the film has hit theaters nationwide and fallen flat, thanks to intensely negative reviews from critics upset by its unceasing violence. It didn’t...
It took four entire paragraphs in James Tracy's latest press release before he accused someone of orchestrating a conspiracy. We can only imagine how long that wait must have felt for him. Tracy, who was fired from his tenured position as a Florida Atlantic University professor in January after the...
advertisement
Monday Meatfull Mondays The Sybarite Pig (20642 State Road, 7, Boca Raton) will offer their very first installment of Meatful Monday Dinners. Tritip steak and potatoes au gratin with idiazabal cheese is the meal featured for this week’s installment. This event starts at 5 p.m. with beers by the mug...
A fractured film about a fractured family, Louder Than Bombs takes a potentially tired premise and reshapes it before our eyes. It opens on a newborn’s tiny hand helplessly clinging to a father’s finger, and ends with a different father watching his two sons sleep. In between is a story...
I’ve been the editor of the student newspaper at Florida Atlantic University for a year, but until this week, I’d never been threatened to be struck down by a “higher authority,” or had tweets written about me telling people to pray for me. And our beardy mountain man of a...
Drone warfare is a moral grey area, and this movie is on it. Gavin Hood’s Eye in the Sky stands alongside Drones and Good Kill as the cinematic equivalent of online commenters shouting “First!” on on a hot topic but not bothering to say anything new or insightful about it...
Nezar Hamze is a deputy with the Broward Sheriff's Office. When he Googles himself, the top result is a post from a right-wing blog called FrontPage Magazine, which accuses Hamze, who is Muslim, of being a sleeper-cell terrorist, hell-bent on destroying the sheriff’s department from the inside. “By employing Nezar...
The call came in to police at 1:16 a.m. November 22, 2009: a burglary in progress at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina, a former yacht club that had become a resort hotel perched on the Intracoastal Waterway just off the 17th Street Causeway. Kenneth Post, the burglar, was a 46-year-old,...
advertisement
Paula Deen, the smoothie queen? Maybe it doesn't have quite the same ring as her Butter Queen moniker, but these days the chef is seeking to live a healthier life. The celebrity chef, who hit a rocky road after Food Network refused to renew her contract in 2013, has since...
Memorial Day: For many it means the official start to summer, warmer weather, a day off from work, and the revival of all your white clothes that have been packed up since Labor Day. But we all know the history of Memorial Day is more meaningful than shallow fashion rules. After...
Thursday, June 9 For Gen-Xers, Heathers was one of the defining films of the 1980s—a coffin-black satire about the cruel, libidinous cesspool that we call public high school. The lead character, 17-year-old Veronica Sawyer, has recently been invited to join her school's elite clique of much-feared mean girls—the "Heathers"—until her...
With floppy ears, a speckled snout, and a winning smile, Jason looks like the picture of piggie bliss. Just five months ago, this special swine was living on an illegal farm in Loxahatcheee, awaiting his turn to (potentially) be boiled alive. In October of 2015, he was rescued in a...