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Big Boi at Revolution Live June 5

What Is a Movie Critic's Job in the Summer of Comic Books? A Discussion

Julie Delpy Rocks New York

"2 Days in New York": Julie Delpy Brings the Paris Gang to NYC

Julie Delpy Rocks New York

Always more than an ingenue, she's taking on everything that's wrong with movies — and she's bringing Chris Rock.

Sun-Sentinel Editor Declared Bankruptcy, Left Millions: The Questions Howard Saltz Won't Answer

Court documents reveal that Howard Saltz, editor of the Sun-Sentinel, bailed on more than $3 million in debts just months after arriving in South Florida last year. There is also evidence of numerous foreclosures, repossessions, and short sales on properties Saltz invested in over the course of abou ... More >>

Arizona's Immigration Enforcement Law: Florida's Stances on Both Sides of SB 1070

This week's issue includes a four-story special report from Village Voice Media about SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law that both casts criminal suspicion on anyone who looks Latino and transforms local law enforcement officers into immigration investigators. It's featured nationally because it i ... More >>

Gluten Intolerant? Master Baker Tries Hookworm Cure

​A couple years ago, Mark Bittman wrote about the recipe for no-knead bread from maverick baker, Jim Leahy of Sullivan Street Bakery. Suddenly everyone from Martha Stewart to The Amateur Gourmet were making it, and home bakers from Oregon to South Florida were following along. Because of this incr ... More >>

Train's "Drive By" Beats "Hey Soul Sister" But That's About It

​Some people reading that headline will probably think they've stumbled upon the ultimate pop song. (Especially Grammy voters.) Yes, Train is back with a brand-new invention, "Drive-By," and it should be nearly as beguiling as their comeback single "Hey Soul Sister" was a couple years ago. Unfor ... More >>

Is Anyone Up? Founder Hunter Moore Hosting New Year's Eve Party at Speakeasy Lounge

Cyber Monday: How We Spent $35 at eMusic for $10

​It won't be long before Black Friday and Cyber Monday are joined by Overdraft Tuesday and Refinance Wednesday and Bankruptcy Thursday, so it's grand that our corporate parent today offers up a Daily Deal that we can endorse. eMusic is like the iTunes for vinyl enthusiasts. Although some of its in ... More >>

Obama's War on Weed Represents a Strange About-Face on Medical Marijuana

Link Roundup: Florida's Hunger Stats, an App for Beer Geeks, and Sietsema's Not @RuthBourdain

​​We've scoured the internets to find today's selection of food news from the Sunday papers and elsewhere. According to Good Magazine, Florida is one of three states with the fewest number of families to report struggling to feed themselves and their kin. At percentages falli ... More >>

Meet Jesus Hernandez, Fort Lauderdale's Unsuspecting, Unauthorized Monkey Salesman

Rafiki, the 1-year-old marmoset monkey that's causing problems for Jesus Hernandez.​When a young man came to Jesus Hernandez's Fort Lauderdale home the other day to buy the marmoset monkey he'd been advertising online, he thought he was going to get $2,700 and say so long to 1-year-old Rafiki.Inst ... More >>

Out of the Closet, Into the Tropics

Cinema Paradiso Chases Out Top Managers

Photo by Eric Barton​If you hit Cinema Paradiso's Italia Film Festa this past weekend you might have been lucky enough to catch Come Undone, a steamy flick about an adulterous affair set in Milan. After seeing it in December, Village Voice reviewer Nick Pinkerton wrote: "The hot sex has the rhythm ... More >>

Escorts Who Met Clients at Hotel Rooms Found Themselves at the End of a Gun, Cops Say

​Police say a gang of men came up with a novel idea for a series of robberies: Call escorts, meet them at hotel rooms, and then rob them at gunpoint. For some reason, the robberies sometimes ended in the men pepper spraying the escorts. In response, cops from Plantation Police, Fort Lauderdale Pol ... More >>

How "Policing the Police" Cover Art Was Made

Illustration by Pete RyanThe final product.​We did something cool for this week's feature (or, at least, we're excited by it). We asked our cover illustrator, Pete Ryan, to provide video evidence of how he creates the illustrations Broward-Palm Beach New Times commissions him for. Click here ... More >>

Before Allegedly Shooting Escort, Jimmy Dac Ho Had Backpage Run-in With Fraudsters

"Stephanie," in an ad for her escort services​Jimmy Dac Ho lived a troubled life with a gun on his belt, first as a Lauderhill police officer and, until yesterday afternoon, as a member of the Florida Atlantic University police force. From 2002 to 2004, he worked for the Broward Sheriff's Office b ... More >>

Huge Dogfighting Bust Went Down Only After Cops Brought Their Pit Bulls to the Fight

2010 James Beard Winners Announced

​Last week, the James Beard Foundation announced its 2010 winners for food media and restaurants. Although South Florida had a few dogs in the race, Broward and Palm Beach didn't come up with any wins. But Miami's own Michael Schwartz of Michael's Genuine Food & Drink managed to snag Best Chef ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Becomes State Policy, Thanks to State Sen. Russell Pearce and Gov. Jan Brewer

Juarez: The Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

Seeing Capitalism: A Love Story with a Real-Life Capitalist

​Near the beginning of Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, the filmmaker calls upon Wallace Shawn, an actor/writer friend of his, to explain our economic system in terms he could explain, presumably because Shawn is one of the more knowledgeable people Moore knows when it ... More >>

Set to Explode

As unconventional as the warfare it depicts, The Hurt Locker is a ticking time bomb of a movie.

"Craigslist Killer" headlines threaten to overshadow Craig Newmark’s memorial speech for victim

Pickett's Recharge

A new Bloodshot Records anthology resurrects one of South Florida's most revered rockers

Cannes Class of 2008

A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama

Justice on the Dance Floor

An erstwhile hobby spells success for this Parisian duo

Not Your Father's N Word

Eight months after its "burial," the world's most dangerous epithet is more popular than ever in hip-hop

Guitar Zero

Maybe the next generation won't even play instruments. Clapton and Hendrix? So passé.

Intelligent Design

PYT seduces her literary hero in the astute Starting Out in the Evening

The Year in Music

Our 2007 listening party with Vanilla Ice, Davy Jones, and Al Franken

Like a Complete Unknown

I'm Not There and the changing face of Bob Dylan on film.

Concert Preview: James Blood Ulmer at Colony Theatre

Saying Goodbye To Two Giants of Cinema

Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007); Michelangelo Antonioni (1913-2007)

Cleaning House

The Caldwell catches a play hot off its premiere in New York — and nails it

The Real Tony Ortega

Tie Me Up, Nawashi

They're just a bunch of kids who like to bind one another with ropes

Song of South Florida

How Humbert attacked the music industry in Austin, Texas, and maybe, sorta, won.

Help a Dying Man? Don't Bother

A Glowing Review

Lisa Teasley spans the globe in search of offbeat protagonists

Lipstick Traces

You wanna kiss Jessica Stein, but does she merit the attention?

Sex, Slides, and Spy-Film Takes

Sex Mob

Stalker Fiction

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Fight Club

Chris Paciello, the dangerous darling of the South Florida nightlife set, has a reputation for fisticuffs. And Mob ties.

Quiet as They Wanna Be

Slow music...worth the wait

Beatcrazy

A Little Help From His Friend