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Miami’s Ten Most Unusual French Fries

The term "French fries" may refer to elongated pieces of fried potatoes, but it can mean so much more. You can have them straight, curly, fat, thin, sweet, garlicky or crinkle cut. Although the options don't end there. This is Miami, we like our papas accessorized, blinged out. We have...
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In Russian Hit Stalingrad, the Block Busters You

In the admittedly dubious interest of using national stereotypes as a way of understanding human nature, let's posit that while Americans have always emerged from the womb cheerfully, pleased with their right to pursue happiness, Russians were born to suffer. That may help explain why Fedor Bondarchuk's 3D spectacle Stalingrad...
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Reader Mail: Teens Tied Down and Drugged

Torture Center Citrus is the worst: My nephew is bipolar and has been in almost every psychiatric hospital in both Broward and Dade counties, so I was interested in reading your investigation into the troubled Citrus Center in Hialeah ("Throwaway Kids," Kyle Swenson, February 20). The story confirmed what we...
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Miami City Ballet “Triple Threat” Soars, With Occasional Slips

--Octavio Roca, artburstmiami.com Emotions ran high even before the dancing started. Lourdes Lopez, Miami City Ballet's artistic director, stepped in front of the curtain Valentine's night to speak lovingly about her two teachers, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, and announce that George Chakiris was in the audience. Chakiris, who starred...
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Mastermind 2014 Finalist: Jordan Marty Gives Old Technology New Meaning

Miami New Times' Mastermind Awards honors the city's most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30, and finally, nine. We'll be profiling those finalists in the days to come. This year's three Mastermind Award winners will be...
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Flaunt Magazine Didn’t Pay Its Art Basel Bills, Locals Say

Well, that didn't take long. The dust hasn't even settled yet on this year's Art Basel but already accusations of broken promises and unpaid bills are emerging. Los Angeles-based fashionistas Flaunt Magazine, for instance, hosted a much-hyped party at Wynwood's Mana warehouses featuring Kendrick Lamar. But locals say Flaunt founder...
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Chavez, Matisse, and the Heist That Shook the Americas

In the dark of the hotel room, the ultraviolet lamp ignited like Promethean fire. A middle-aged American with gray hair leaned low over the bed, his gaunt face glowing in the purple light. Beneath him lay a weathered canvas, its edges cracked and crumbling. The man inhaled deeply. Then, with...
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Chris Christie Gone in Florida. Rubio Rising.

Big news today is that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fulfilled everyone's political expectations and killed his own candidacy for the Republican nomination for presidency in 2016. A top aide, it seems, pushed for "traffic problems" in the city of Fort Lee as retribution against a mayor who wouldn't back...
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Viral Rapper Stitches: Some Truth, Many Questions

A gleaming white Cadillac Escalade lurches to a stop in a grimy South Beach alley. A slender, olive-skinned dude in a T-shirt steps out holding a bulky duffel bag. He approaches a husky, Mohawked young man with gold teeth and a face full of startling tattoos that include a microphone,...
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Poetry, Meet Therapy

For its December production of one-act plays, Miami’s new kid on the beachside block — the hardworking Collins Avenue hot spot Storycrafter Studio — is transporting audiences to a Noh man’s land before settling them into more familiar and modern territory. The first of the two plays, Music of Broken...
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Justin Bieber’s Drunkenness Exaggerated by Miami Beach Police?

Beliebers are beliebing that there's been some mistake. Yesterday, the Miami Beach Police Department confirmed via Twitter that Justin Bieber had been arrested on charges of DUI, resisting arrest without violence, and driving with an expired Georgia driver's license. Later, the MBPD blasted out the Biebz' mugshot and arrest report...
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Bocce Bar: Midtown Miami’s Restaurant of the Moment

Timon Balloo doesn't want to dazzle you. At Bocce Bar, he cooks things simply — braising duck legs in stock before plunging them into a pan with orecchiette, squash, and Parmesan. They are finished in a sauce that's thick enough to coat a wooden spoon and tastes of sage and...
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The Ten Guys You Meet on Tinder

Match is for desperados, eHarmony for old fogies, and Christian Mingle for closeted freaks, leading us cyber whores to the next best thing - Tinder. Meant to serve as an on-the-go service for both social and non-social single specimen, this dating app triggers and targets local hotties (and sometimes the...
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Ultra 2014’s Ten Worst Moments

Ultra Music Festival is epic. Until it's not. There is much about the EDM fest that's awe-inspiringly, eye-bulgingly, brain-meltingly awesome. It's among one of the best raver parades on the planet. It's got 200-foot LED stages that look like arcades from outer space, complete with lasers, pyrotechnics, and other expensive...
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Bocce Bar Is Midtown’s New Italian Darling

Timon Balloo doesn't want to dazzle you. At Bocce Bar, he cooks things simply -- braising duck legs in stock before plunging them into a pan with orecchiette, squash, and Parmesan. They are finished in a sauce that's thick enough to coat a wooden spoon and tastes of sage and...
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Andrew Zimmern’s Appetite for Life: DIY (Make a Crab Trap)

You may recall that Andrew Zimmern, food maven, professional eater, and award-winning writer and television host was in Miami in early January to film several Miami restaurateurs and chefs for his web series, Appetite for Life: DIY Kitchen. The Miami episodes are up and Zimmern can be seen all around...
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Miami Dolphins Will Play a Game in London Next Year

Amid the mixed results from the NFL's ongoing push to make British people care about American football by playing a few games every year in London, one bizarre fact remains constant: Among Brits who do enjoy the pigskin, the Miami Dolphins are oddly popular. A survey of fans at this...