New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Complete Issue

Broward and Palm Beach's Ten Best Burgers

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Some food items elicit intense reactions. New Yorkers trash any pizza from anywhere outside of their dear city limits. Chicagoans won't eat hot dogs without their traditional toppings. Kansas City residents scoff at any other barbecue.

But good burgers can be found pretty much anywhere. E...

Fast & Furious 6 Is Sublime Dumb Play

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

There's one key truth that separates the tank-topped gearheads of the Fast & Furious movies from the rest of us. Every problem these lugnuts face can be solved by doing the one thing these lugnuts love most: driving really fast. It's like if you could deal with your taxes by hunkeri...

The Hangover III Punches Down

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

The unlikeliest of all the Hangover trilogy's comic implausibilities might be its four pampered, rich-boy leads unironically calling themselves the "Wolf Pack" without anybody ever making fun of them.

In the slobs-versus-snobs comedies of the 1970s and '80s, the snooty rich kids we...

The Rascals and Steve Van Zandt Bring Broadway Hit Once Upon a Dream to Hollywood

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

It was the mid-'60s, and the British Invasion was well underway. Aside from a handful of intrepid defenders — the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Byrds, and the Lovin' Spoonful in particular — it was lonely on the front lines of the American resistance. Fortunately, there was another ban...

Michelle Braun: Notorious L.A. Madam's South Florida Adventure

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

In the waning afternoon light, the five-foot-nine blond with Tina Turner lips and Pamela Anderson breasts opened the doorway of her cramped apartment on Boca Place Drive and began to scream.

Standing there beneath the palm trees in the sprawling parking lot was a darkly handsome man with ...

Tick tick... Boom! at Outre Theatre Company: The Better, Younger Sister of Rent

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

The set design for Outre Theatre Company's forthcoming production of tick tick... Boom! begins at the foot of the stage with a white picket fence enclosing the action. But it's not just any fence. It's also designed to resemble a piano, complete with painted-on black keys and decora...

Thomas Kramer's South Beach Story Ends With $200 Million Court Judgment

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Red-eyed with exhaustion, Thomas Kramer slumped behind his empty desk. The real estate tycoon had been up all night worrying about how to break the news to his employees. As they filed in, he reached across the desk and grabbed a bottle of pills. Behind him, green lights blinked on an oversize ma...

The "Ag-Gag" War: Behind the Scenes of the Death Match Between Big Ag and Undercover Animal-Rights Activists

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Cody Carlson had no way of preparing for this moment. He was a Manhattan kid, days removed from working as an analyst for a business-intelligence firm, where he scrutinized corporations and their executives.

Now he was standing in a bleak barn at New York's largest dairy farm.

The...

Renoir: A Languorous Look at the Last Days of the Storied Painter

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

In Renoir, a languorous look at the last days of the storied painter, we get a view of the artist at odds with a blue-haired lady's notion of her favorite impressionist. It's a pivotal moment of Renoir family history, with father and son both taking creative and sexual inspiration from a s...

Cannes: The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

I. First, Something About the Badges (Then We'll Get to the Coens)

Someday I'm going to write a song and call it "Ballad of the Blue Badge." I haven't figured out a rhyme scheme yet, let alone a melody, so please allow this outline to suffice: At Cannes, the color of your badge det...

Cannes: In Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), Benicio Del Toro Acts Again!

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

In Arnaud Desplechin's English-language Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), Benicio Del Toro—freed at last from the tyranny of playing bit-part heavies in American thrillers and action movies—is James Picard, a Blackfoot Indian who has lost his way in post-World...

Cannes: Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra is a Delightful Little Curio

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Ladies and gentlemen—anyone, really, who cares about his or her mug—step right up. According to a bit of advice proffered in one of the festival editions of The Hollywood Reporter a few days back, the beauty product to buy while in Cannes is Avibon, an "only-in-France aging cre...

Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Justin Lin may strike some as out of place in the pantheon of contemporary auteurs. The Taiwanese-born American filmmaker, best known for having directed Fast Five and its sequel, Fast & Furious 6,...