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Her, Joaquin Phoenix’s Latest, Strains to Connect

The terrible reality of modern life is that even beautiful young people on a first date can't go a whole evening without checking their phones. We need to be potentially connected to every possibility at all times; just allowing the present to happen has become increasingly foreign. That's the idea...
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Yardbird Southern Table & Bar’s Clayton Miller on The View (Video)

It was a longer trip than most Yardbirds ever make, but the Miami Beach restaurant's chef Clayton Miller flew to New York City recently to compete in the New York City Wine and Food Festival's Chicken Coupe. The "coupe" was hosted at Chelsea Piers by comedian/television host Whoopi Goldberg and...
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Darkman: Celebrating Sam Raimi’s Descent Into Utter Madness

No matter what else he does, director Sam Raimi has two unassailable fan favorites under his belt: 1987's Evil Dead 2, and the 1992 trilogy-capper Army of Darkness. (His first film, 1981's The Evil Dead, is more "respected" than "loved" by the fans.) Released between those two films, Raimi's 1990...
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Thanksgivukkah: Turbrisket, Menurkey, and a Movie (Video)

This Thanksgiving, members of the "tribe" will experience a phenomenon that won't (thankfully -- pun intended) occur for the next 70,000 years. On Thursday, November 28, Thanksgiving and Hanukkah collide. This holiday-in-a-holiday has created a whirlwind of strange new pseudowords and souvenir items that mesh both occasions -- with tragicomical...
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High Voltage

This long-anticipated solo exhibition by the TM Sisters boasts sensory-jarring video installations, sculpture, collage and performance work. Monica and Tasha Lopez De Victoria are harnessing light and sound waves to fuel their conceptual legerdemain with prisms, muscle-testing, and psychological frameworks. The results on display are a rainbow-bright spectacle of refracted...
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Blackbrick Opens This Week: We Get a First Look

Blackbrick, Richard Hales' new restaurant, brings Chinese cuisine to midtown this week -- just in time for Art Basel. Chef/owner Richard Hales gave us a tour and a taste of things to come, telling Short Order that he hopes to open the restaurant this Thursday, December 5, with a limited...
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Conan Remakes Scarface… With Oreos

Have you heard that Oreos are as addictive as cocaine? A new study from Connecticut College shows that laboratory rats found Oreos to be pretty delicious. The college's research concluded that the cookies "activated more neurons in the rat brain's pleasure center than drugs such as cocaine", according to Time...
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Antony and Cleopatra Is McCraney’s Masterpiece

Of all the historic masterworks in the Shakespeare canon, Antony and Cleopatra might be the least likely play to appear in a given company's season, for a simple reason: It's really hard to do. The play, written in 1606, dramatizes nothing less than the collapse of Rome's triumvirate and the...
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Warhol versus Wookies

Andy Warhol isn’t that different from Yoda from Star Wars. Think about it: Like Yoda, the white-wigged Warhol was inscrutable, his force was far-reaching, and he was the lord of his universe. For London-based artist RYCA, who pays tribute to his Pop Jedi master through a filter of Star Wars...
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Jeff Ireland Should Get Fired After Dolphins Collapse Against the Jets

Welp. That about wraps 'er up. On Sunday, the Dolphins completed one of the most disappointing, weirdest, deflating and confounding seasons in Dolphins history (no small achievement, all things considered) by once again coming out largely flat and lifeless against a division rival. The Dolphins fell to the Jets 20-6...
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Why Miami Christmas Is the Best Christmas

It's Christmastime again! It's that time of the year when the weather gets colder and the people get warmer (generally), and when red and green become the most popular colors around town (and on ladies' fingernails). The radio stations start playing that jolly Christmas music, and the cheesy - yet...
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Pepe Billete’s Open Letter to Elian Gonzalez

Dear Elian, I'm writing to offer you a bit of the wisdom that was passed down to me by my Cuban abuelos, because after reading your comments in the interview you recently gave on the heels of your trip to Ecuador, I think it's the least I can do for...
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Poker Player Traveling With $100,000 Cash Foiled Two Robberies in One Day

The poker player's white Nikes had just hit the concrete outside New York's John F. Kennedy Airport the night before Thanksgiving. The sky was bruising over with twilight. Terminal 5 was a hectic holiday beehive of passengers hustling for last-minute JetBlue hops. And there was Eric Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years...
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Toxic Ash Closes Douglas Park

Miami-Dade's newest toxic playground is the City of Miami's Douglas Park. City officials say arsenic, lead, barium, and other hazardous substances have been found at levels far above the threshold considered safe for human exposure. The park will be fenced off and closed to all visitors, says assistant city manager...
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Du Pont Estate: Coconut Grove’s Buried Poison

At the end of a leafy, dead-end street in Coconut Grove, past actor Christian Slater's new digs and the sprawling grounds of Hollywood director David Frankel's home, sit mounds of rubble. Just a few days ago, this was one of Miami's grandest, most envied private homes: the five-acre, 26,000-square-foot du...