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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Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke looks back on 2013's best hits. A lot of folks get upset over the things I write, but...
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
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
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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...
May the geeks happily invade Miami, because for the first time ever, there's a science fiction film festival happening in our midst come January 2014. A few years back, two work buddies who shared a common interest in science fiction set out to create a movie. That little movie was...
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What to Do With an Emu Egg
Shortly after Charlie Crist announced he'd be running for governor as a Democrat on Monday, word came that he'd be doing his first big cable news interview as a candidate on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. Crist was likely hoping this would be a chance to raise his national profile...
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Billy Corben, Sandwich Man
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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The exhibit "Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs," which opened last week at the Frost Art Museum, was two decades in the making. The idea began with Cyma Rubin, a Tony Award-winning producer, writer, and director. Rubin came up with the idea when she was working in Japan as...
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...
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...
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
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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Any college football fan who does a lot of Googling knows that when you search for a team's name the search engine pulls up a specialized results page that include a header with the team's latest score and upcoming score as well as a sidebar with general information on the...
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...
Last month's elections in Miami Beach were a clear call for change. Four incumbents and past office holders were defeated at the polls in favor flesh blood. But that notably left Miami Beach, a city with a 53 percent Hispanic majority population, without a single elected Hispanic civil servant in...
If the results are any indication, Hilda Caballero Diaz-Balart was a supermom. Her sons Lincoln and Mario grew up to become congressmen. Her son Rafael is a banker, and her other son Jose is the main national news anchor for Telemundo. The Cuban matriarch passed away yesterday afternoon at the...