The Navy veteran ...]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/restaurants/broward-s-homebrew-craft-beer-scene-can-brewers-turn-a-hobby-into-a-business/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/lt-i-gt-star-trek-into-darkness-lt-i-gt-is-grand-familiar/ "Who are you?" pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek Into Darkness. The answer is Khan. And that's not a spoiler — it's a selling point. A less secretive director (i.e., all save the ghost of Stanley Kubrick) would trumpe...]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/lt-i-gt-star-trek-into-darkness-lt-i-gt-is-grand-familiar/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/expand-or-die-for-at-any-price-director-ramin-bahrani-bigger-films-demand-bigger-targets/ Responding to the uproar earlier this month over the passage—and President Obama's signage—of the so-called "Monsanto Protection Act," the gene-bending agri-giant Monsanto issued a press release dismissing any attendant conspiracy theories as "worthy of a B-grade movie script."

Macci was meeting with Williams and his two young daughters, Venus and Serena, as...]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/compton-royalty-documentary-examines-venus-and-serena-s-rise-from-their-upbringing-in-southeast-l-a/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/lt-i-gt-the-iceman-lt-i-gt-follows-mob-sociopath/ Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/lt-i-gt-the-iceman-lt-i-gt-follows-mob-sociopath/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/lt-i-gt-peeples-lt-i-gt-delivers-farce-without-compromising-realism/ Think Like a Man), overt sentimentality (Jumping the Broom), or, in Tyler Perry's work, both. Long gone feel the days of complex films like Two Can Play That Game, Mark Brown'...]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/lt-i-gt-peeples-lt-i-gt-delivers-farce-without-compromising-realism/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/lt-i-gt-at-any-price-lt-i-gt-finds-dennis-quaid-zac-efron-down-on-the-farm/ At Any Price finds tension between rapacious capitalism and the idealized fiction of rural life in farming communities, especially as they engage in decidedly unpastoral, commodity-based feeding frenzies. Here it's not bad weather or greedy banks that places a ...]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/lt-i-gt-at-any-price-lt-i-gt-finds-dennis-quaid-zac-efron-down-on-the-farm/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/lt-i-gt-the-reluctant-fundamentalist-lt-i-gt-a-sensitive-retrospective-on-radicalization/ Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/lt-i-gt-the-reluctant-fundamentalist-lt-i-gt-a-sensitive-retrospective-on-radicalization/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/music/maydaze-pagan-rave-revelry-at-club-cinema-with-etc-etc-and-mobius8/ Thousands of years ago, ancient Celtic and Germanic civilizations celebrated the first day of May — a month eventually named for Roman fertility goddess Maia — with dancing, drinking, and general merriment. Christians came along and kind of ruined the whole pagan thing, but the tradit...]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/music/maydaze-pagan-rave-revelry-at-club-cinema-with-etc-etc-and-mobius8/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/news/kashi-ashram-claims-of-rape-child-abuse-and-kidnapping/ The night the dark-haired guru declared herself greater than God, the chanting started at dusk.

Scores of sweaty followers squeezed around a platform and closed their eyes. Their features slackened, and they rocked to a rhythmic mantra echoing inside the cramped hall. Before them, sinking...]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/news/kashi-ashram-claims-of-rape-child-abuse-and-kidnapping/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/news/the-battle-for-rickross-com/ Men speaking in strange tongues call Rick Ross late in the night and ask him questions involving matters of which he has no knowledge. In English more broken than Tim Tebow's NFL chances, they ply him for info on his next ill beat. They croon how much they love his jam.

Then, the white 61...]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/news/the-battle-for-rickross-com/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/news/tea-party-to-recount-votes-in-allen-west-congressional-loss/ A Texas-based Tea Party organization and the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections have agreed on a plan to provide the group access to county voting records from the 2012 federal election and voter registration and other records going back to 2009.

Planning an audit "unprecedented in ...]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/news/tea-party-to-recount-votes-in-allen-west-congressional-loss/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/news/shame-upon-shame-use-bittorrent-to-snag-some-free-porn-the-feds-may-be-after-you/ Let's say you... err, no... your friend happened to illegally download some porn over the past year or so. Now, your friend knew he was breaking the law when he did it. And sure, it's gross, but he was sad and cripplingly lonely, and they had just installed high-speed Wi-Fi in his condo building....]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/news/shame-upon-shame-use-bittorrent-to-snag-some-free-porn-the-feds-may-be-after-you/ http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/uwe-boll-interview/ Uwe Boll will no longer fight you -- at least, not with his fists. Often lambasted by critics as the worst of the worst, Boll once literally got into the boxing ring with four film bloggers, but these days prefers to combat negative press with what he claims are more serious and polished w...]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2013-05-16/film/uwe-boll-interview/