Each year, screenwriters kill off enough offscreen children to fill a Chuck E. Cheese's. A dead son or daughter gives a movie the illusion of depth plus an easy explanation for whatever the script ladles on the surviving parents. Binge-drinking? Nymphomania? Sudden bouts of break dancing? Blame the wee coffin...
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There are few hard-and-fast rules in screenwriting, but here's one we can probably agree on: Something has gone wrong if your crowd-pleasing family drama asks audiences to hope a child's father proves to be a crackhead. That's one baffling turn in Mike Binder's Black or White, a movie about race...
A protest against the lack of indictments in Ferguson and New York City -- as well as the killing of local teen Israel Hernandez by Miami Beach police -- quickly moved from Wynwood to the 195 expressway. More than a hundred protesters have now shut down traffic in both directions,...
Finally, some Floridian behavior to celebrate. A new report concludes that Florida has the second lowest smoking rate amongst high school students of every state in the union. In fact, Florida's efforts to curb youth smoking has been so successful that researchers are actually issuing a "Florida Challenge" to other...
Agnostic Front is the greatest New York hardcore band of all time. And the crew has earned this title with 35 years of furious music. But before lead singer Roger Miret ever set foot in Queens, he was stepping off a plane from Cuba onto the grounds of Opa-locka Airport...
There's a meme that's been going strong on Reddit's Florida page all summer. It shows Rick Scott and Charlie Crist side-by-side with the caption "Giant Douche Versus Turd Sandwich." That South Park reference seemed to resonate especially in Democrat-rich South Florida. As Riptide noted yesterday, local Facebook feeds and Twitter...
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Yesterday's joint announcement from President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raúl Castro that they intend to normalize relations between the two long-divided countries was undoubtedly the most momentous day in U.S.-Cuba relations in more than a half-century. It was business as usual at Yoyito Café. As cameras mobbed a tiny...
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Miami’s Dirty Dozen of 2014
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke calls out the Florida Democrats for failing to get black voters to the polls. Well, Charlie Crist and...
Miami's viral disease specialists went on high alert yesterday after a boy visiting from West Africa showed up at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach with flu-like symptoms. Was it Ebola? The boy was quickly taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where nearby streets were blocked, hazmat crews were assembled,...
Charlie Crist won the Cuban vote by four points, according to the day-of Edison Research exit polls used by most of the media. Those polls also showed Crist winning the overall Hispanic vote by 20 points. Rick Scott's own internal polls, however, claim that he won the Cuban vote by...
City ranking are fun (*cough* *cough*), but depending on the data used (if any) you can get some very different results. In fact, this week Miami Beach was named both Florida's most livable city and its most dangerous city by different websites...
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's tumultuous marriage is the stuff of legend. In a relationship situated somewhere between codependent and abusive, the two Mexican painters married in 1929, divorced in 1939, and remarried in 1940. Though deeply fraught and troubled, the appeal of their relationship endures in large part because...
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East Meets West
On the bright side, weekends in South Florida just got incredibly less depressing. The Miami Dolphins' and the Miami Hurricanes' 2014 seasons came to a fitting end this weekend, with matching embarrassing, uninspired, and downright unacceptable performances. Both teams began the season with catchy slogans pointing to renewed hope, change,...
There was funny energy in the room before Phish took the stage to kick off its New Year's Run 2015 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. It's unusual that the first of a four-night Phish gig is also the big NYE celebration. Usually, that occasion is the climactic finale...
If you're lucky enough to work from home, you know the dangers of staying in your pajamas and posting up on your couch with your computer (falling asleep and watching too many cat videos). This is why people work in coffee shops. Know what's better than a coffee shop? A...
Growing up in Brooklyn, my parents had a bar. Purchased through the Macy's catalog, it was a small octagon end table that opened up into a place to store bottles and glasses. Though they were quite proud of their swanky addition to the avocado green sofa they had purchased the...
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East Meets West
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Religious Banter
On March 7, off a dirt road 40 miles west of Miami, swamp buggies careened into the thicket and little kids shimmied up a 40-foot wooden pole trying to grab the $50 bill stapled to the top. At a booth, Betty Osceola, a Miccosukee tribe member with a long black...
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