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Sokurov’s Faust Is a Dark Deal Worth Taking

A lurching crawl through the moldering, candlelit passages of a pre-hygiene medieval meta-Europe, this new version of the Germanic legend from Russian cine-volcano Alexander Sokurov may be the freakiest gloss this deal-with-the-devil story's ever gotten, down to the ghost-zombies and Icelandic geysers. Mostly shot in the oldest, filthiest castle alleys...
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Video Shows City Workers Harassing Miami’s Homeless

Yesterday, New Times broke the story about allegations from homeless individuals throughout downtown Miami who say city workers have harassed them andd stolen their property. Over the course of several months, people have claimed workers from the Miami Homeless Assistance Program (MHAP) -- often called "green shirts" because of their...
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They Might Be Giants

While on a plane bound to Mexico City from Miami in 2008, local artist Alejandro Mendoza had one of those rare “aha” moments. His vision: giant sculptures you could pack in a flight bag. His flash of inspiration resulted in the project “Giants in the City,” in which Mendoza and...
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Miami Residents Sue Anheuser-Busch Claiming Deceptive Advertisement

Two Miami residents have filed a lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch claiming false advertisement. Lady J. Suarez and Gustavo E. Oliva say that the mega-brewery has violated the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. The lawsuit, filed last month, claims A-B's Kirin beer is deceptively advertised as being imported from Japan...
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India + Amsterdam = Seduction

The red-light district of Amsterdam has always been known for its “women of the night” who are lit up in windows, showing their wares silhouetted under the glow of a red light. The Manganiyars, on the other hand, are a tribe of people from northern India known for their nomadic,...
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Second Saturday Art Walk Guide: January’s Best Gallery Shows

Beatriz Monteavaro's enigmatic work is not exactly primitive stuff. These aren't works you'd expect to find on a caveman's wall. Instead, the Miami artist's early inspirations stemmed from sources as disparate as horror movies, 1980s British subcultures, and America's fading theme parks. Her haunting creations are on view in Monteavaro's...
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What to Do With an Emu Egg

There they were at the Grove Green Market. Even on a table filled with hot-pink dragon fruit and spotted beans, they catch the eye of everyone who passes by. Maybe it's because they look so surreal. Green from a distance, the objects are speckled with blue hues upon closer inspection...
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Billy Corben, Sandwich Man

Billy Corben is disappointed he has been selected for the New Times People issue instead of the food issue. Fortunately, aside from being a person, Corben is also a sandwich. Whereas Corben the person is Miami's leading documentary filmmaker, Corben the sandwich is twin slabs of brisket on Portuguese muffins...
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Yardbird Southern Table & Bar’s Clayton Miller on The View (Video)

It was a longer trip than most Yardbirds ever make, but the Miami Beach restaurant's chef Clayton Miller flew to New York City recently to compete in the New York City Wine and Food Festival's Chicken Coupe. The "coupe" was hosted at Chelsea Piers by comedian/television host Whoopi Goldberg and...
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Her, Joaquin Phoenix’s Latest, Strains to Connect

The terrible reality of modern life is that even beautiful young people on a first date can't go a whole evening without checking their phones. We need to be potentially connected to every possibility at all times; just allowing the present to happen has become increasingly foreign. That's the idea...
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Thanksgivukkah: Turbrisket, Menurkey, and a Movie (Video)

This Thanksgiving, members of the "tribe" will experience a phenomenon that won't (thankfully -- pun intended) occur for the next 70,000 years. On Thursday, November 28, Thanksgiving and Hanukkah collide. This holiday-in-a-holiday has created a whirlwind of strange new pseudowords and souvenir items that mesh both occasions -- with tragicomical...
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Darkman: Celebrating Sam Raimi’s Descent Into Utter Madness

No matter what else he does, director Sam Raimi has two unassailable fan favorites under his belt: 1987's Evil Dead 2, and the 1992 trilogy-capper Army of Darkness. (His first film, 1981's The Evil Dead, is more "respected" than "loved" by the fans.) Released between those two films, Raimi's 1990...
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High Voltage

This long-anticipated solo exhibition by the TM Sisters boasts sensory-jarring video installations, sculpture, collage and performance work. Monica and Tasha Lopez De Victoria are harnessing light and sound waves to fuel their conceptual legerdemain with prisms, muscle-testing, and psychological frameworks. The results on display are a rainbow-bright spectacle of refracted...
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Conan Remakes Scarface… With Oreos

Have you heard that Oreos are as addictive as cocaine? A new study from Connecticut College shows that laboratory rats found Oreos to be pretty delicious. The college's research concluded that the cookies "activated more neurons in the rat brain's pleasure center than drugs such as cocaine", according to Time...
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Blackbrick Opens This Week: We Get a First Look

Blackbrick, Richard Hales' new restaurant, brings Chinese cuisine to midtown this week -- just in time for Art Basel. Chef/owner Richard Hales gave us a tour and a taste of things to come, telling Short Order that he hopes to open the restaurant this Thursday, December 5, with a limited...