Vietnam

How to Eat Durian, a.k.a. Stink Fruit

If you've ever walked into your local Asian grocer and gasped for air, just wait until you get up close to a durian. Also known as "stink fruit," this exotic import can have an odor so offensive it's actually banned from most public places in Southeast-Asia, including hospitals, buses, trains and ho ... More >>

The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Returns for Its 27th Incarnation With 200 Films From Across the Globe

Is Peanut Butter Racist?

The Portland Tribune recently wrote about a program in Portland public schools called "courageous conversations", where educators attend training sessions and meetings designed to understand their own 'white privilege' so that they can "change their teaching practices to boost minority students' per ... More >>

Wild Hair at the Kravis Center

Half Baked: Restaurant Quality?

Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half-Baked. Photo by urbaninvestigations I wish food shopping was always this pretty.​ Earlier this week, I advised a sick friend the only real remedy to any illness is chicken ... More >>

"Song of the Living Dead" at the Promethean Theatre: Raising the Bar for Zombie Comedy

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 39 -- Grilled Pork, Shrimp, and Spring Roll "Bun" From Saigon Cuisine

John Linn​As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 39: Grilled Pork, Shrimp, and Spring Roll "Bun" From Saigon ... More >>

"Connected Warriors" Yoga Class for Veterans Combats Trauma with Mindfulness

​A bunch of grizzled veterans sit around in a hot room, bending into strange contortions. No, it's not an off night at the Elks Club. It's a new program that offers free yoga classes to armed-services veterans.The "Connected Warrior" classes, currently at Yoga South in Boca Raton, are led by ... More >>

Five Broward Restaurants That Don't Care if it's Christmas

​This time of year is surreal in South Florida. It never really feels Christmas-y. Snowmen are extinct. Without cues from Mother Nature, Christmas week doesn't have the smoky whiff of holidays up north.Restaurants sometimes go all out and prepare a massive banquet, all of them basically on a big o ... More >>

Witness to Beach Place Murder-Suicide Haunted by Disturbing Scene

flickr.com​Though most of the scene had been cleaned up by this weekend, the patrons and employees of Beach Place were still discussing the shocking murder-suicide that took place there, in front of at least a dozen witnesses, in broad daylight last Wednesday.One man was standing right outside Mau ... More >>

Peace, Love, and Terror

The Weather Underground talked of peace, but FBI agents say members also planned a cop killing.

Ruining Woodstock

Who knew three days of peace and music would oppress us for 40 years? (Plus: this movie)

Woodstock Turns 40

City Fish Market Rides the Fresh Fish Wave in Boca

Wolverine Finally Screened for Disappointed Critic

It's never a good sign when the studios won't show us a movie in time for the print edition. That's what happened with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. So with no review in the print edition of New Times this week, below is a late and very disappointing review.Without fail, the dullest installment in any s ... More >>

RIP Doug Delp

What is it Good For?

Sallah On Saigon

Risky Business

Jinja makes a stab at CityPlace

Francesca Ancarola

Lonquén (Petroglyph)

Politicians Feed At Super Trough

Smells Like Victory

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer The Simpsons: The Complete Eighth Season

The Weird Al Show

Simple Girl

Pink just wants to rock out — and rock the boat.

Jingle Hell

A holiday truce quells the horrors of war in the masterful Merry Christmas

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 1

Free at Last

A harrowing journey leads to America, then to someplace better

War Bonds

At the Mosaic Theatre, limping home from Iraq means renegotiating the family

Bitter Lemon

Wallace Shawn's characters take a twisting stroll through history at the Sol Theatre

Stagebeat

Capsule reviews of current area stage shows.

Stagebeat

Now Showing

Stagebeat

Just Africa

Old Crow Medicine Show

O.C.M.S. (Nettwerk)

The Bong Show

This fusion joint almost has it together

A Year That Trembled

From the grindhouse to the art house, movies in 2003 made us shake with sadness and fear

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

An Absolute Disgrace

Outraged New Times readers and a Fort Lauderdale office skirmish are only part of the equation

Quiet Strength

Love it or hate it, few will be able to look away from Phillip Noyce's provocative Greene adaptation

Top Gun

An American ace brings his war stories to the Pompano Beach Air Fair

Paul Westerberg

Mono and Stereo (Vagrant)

Letters for October 10, 2002

Hawks versus doves versus free-weekly lovers versus anti-Semitic rag haters

That '70s Movie

Moonlight Mile wastes its setting and its star

Bowowow --yippyoyippyay!

The Norton Museum takes the phrase "dog days of summer" quite literally

Pink

Missundaztood (Arista)

The Allure of the Leurre

Where sushi meets French cuisine — with delectable results

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

Heart of Stonewall

The Stonewall Library and Archives

The Elements of Taste

Echo

Ménage à Chess

A cabinetmaker and would be inventor has spent the last 15 years obsessing over his three-way game. He expects to make millions.