APRIL 21 – 27, 2016 | VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 26 BROWARDPALMBEACH.COM I FREE 2 April 21-April 27, 2016 NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | STAGE | NIGHT+DAY | NEWS | PULP | CONTENTS | browardpalmbeach.com browardpalmbeach.com | CONTENTS | PULP | NEWS | NIGHT+DAY | STAGE | ART | FILM | DISH | MUSIC | NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH APRIL 21-APRIL 27, 2016 3 NBROWARD PALM BEACH ® BROWARDPALMBEACH.COM ▼ Contents 2450 HOLLYWOOD BLVD., STE. 301A HOLLYWOOD, FL 33020 [email protected] 954-342-7700 VOL. 19 | NO. 26 | APRIL 21–27, 2016 EDITORIAL EDITOR Chuck Strouse MANAGING EDITOR Deirdra Funcheon EDITORIAL OPERATIONS MANAGER Keith Hollar browardpalmbeach.com ASSOCIATE WEB EDITOR Jose D. Duran browardpalmbeach.com STAFF WRITERS Laine Doss, Jess Swanson FELLOW Jerry Iannelli MUSIC EDITOR Falyn Freyman ARTS & CULTURE/FOOD EDITOR Rebecca McBane CLUBS EDITOR Melissa Guzman PROOFREADER Mary Louise English CONTRIBUTORS Emily Bloch, Nicole Danna, Michelle DeCarion, Doug Fairall, Abel Folgar, Cristina Jerome, Natalya Jones, Jonathan Kendall, Angel Melendez, Dave Minsky, Andrea Richard, Jesse Richman, David Rolland, Gillian Speiser, Terra Sullivan, John Thomason, Sara Ventiera, David Von Bader, Lee Zimmerman | CONTENTS | | CONTENTS ART ART DIRECTOR Miche Ratto ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Kristin Bjornsen PRODUCTION PRODUCTION MANAGER Mike Lugo PRODUCTION ASSISTANT MANAGER Jorge Sesin ADVERTISING ART DIRECTOR Andrea Cruz EWS | PULP EWS Photo by Karli Evans Karli by Photo N ADVERTISING ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Alexis Guillen ONLINE SUPPORT MANAGER Ryan Garcia Y | MARKETING DIRECTOR Jennifer G. Nealon Featured Stories ▼ EVENT DIRECTOR CarlaChristina Thompson DA MARKETING COORDINATOR Kristin Ramos SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Sarah Abrahams, Peter Heumann, Kristi Kinard-Dunstan, Andrea Stern Under the Sea Miami Beach is scrambling to ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Paige Bresky, Melanie Cruz, Alyson Puccetti fight the rising oceans. CLASSIFIED BY JESSICA WEISS| PAGE 9 GE | NIGHT+ SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES A Patrick Butters, Ladyane Lopez, Joel Valez-Stokes T S Tell Us a Story CIRCULATION CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Richard Lynch Modern storytelling great CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Rene Garcia David Sedaris comes to Parker BUSINESS Playhouse. GENERAL MANAGER Russell A. Breiter ACCOUNTING MANAGER Jeff Stewart BY ANGEL MELENDEZ | PAGE 17 CREDIT MANAGER Moses Betancourt JUNIOR ACCOUNTANT James Marquez Punk Pioneers PUBLISHER Adam Simon NOFX’s Fat Mike talks Voice Media Group LLC about the band’s new book EXECUTIVE EDITOR Christine Brennan EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE EDITOR Andy Van De Voorde and 13th album. EDITORIAL DIGITAL DIRECTOR Kelsey Whipple BY ANGEL MELENDEZ | DIGITAL DESIGN DIRECTOR Darrick Rainey PAGE 23 EDITORIAL DESIGN DIRECTOR Tom Carlson NATIONAL CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Curt Sanders | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | | NEWS NIGHT+DAY STAGE | PULP | CONTENTS | | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | MUSIC DISH FILM ART CORPORATE CONTROLLER Beth Cook LEGAL COUNSEL Steve Suskin CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Jeff Mars CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Scott Tobias 6 The Pulp INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 15 Night & Day CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER Gerard Goroski EACH DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL PRODUCT MANAGEMENT James Hamilton 17 Stage B INFRASTRUCTURE DIRECTOR Dave Marcon OPERATIONS MANAGER Brian Heimert 18 Film NETWORK SUPPORT MANAGER David Fearn 21 Dish NEW MEDIA DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY & SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT Kevin Spidel Small Plates.............................22 DIRECTOR OF SALES AND MARKETING Stuart Folb WEB SUPPORT MANAGER Michael Uchtman 23 Music NATIONAL DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGIST Jenna Corday Music Previews ....................... 24 VMG Advertising 26 Classified Section NATIONAL ADVERTISING vmgadvertising.com, 888-278-9866 SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Sue Belair SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES OPERATIONS Joe Larkin NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH BROWARD-PALM TIMES NEW NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM FOR DISPLAY ADVERTISING, CALL: 954-342-7769 FOR CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING, CALL: 954-342-7676 FOR MIAMI NEW TIMES, CALL: 305-576-8000 FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING, CALL: 602-238-4800 DISTRIBUTION New Times is available free of charge, limited to one copy per reader. Additional copies of the current issue of New Times may be XX, 2012 XX, purchased for $1, payable at the New Times office in advance. New Times may be distributed only by New Times’ authorized distributors. 27, 2016 27, ONTH No person may, without prior written permission of New Times, take more than one copy of each New Times weekly issue. pril New Times Broward-Palm Beach is published 52 times a year by New Times BPB, LLC, P.O. Box 011591, Miami, FL 33101-1591. All rights reserved. First SUBSCRIPTIONS copy of this publication is free. Each additional copy costs $2. New Times XX–M 21-A Domestic subscriptions may be purchased for $50 yearly. assumes no responsibility for the care and return of unsolicited materials. Delivery may take one week. Postmaster: Send address changes to Return postage must accompany any material to be returned. In no event shall unsolicited material subject this publication to any claim for holding pril New Times BPB LLC, P. O. Box 011591, Miami, FL 33101-1591. fees or similar charges. ONTH A NEW TIMES MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 011591, Miami, FL 33101-1591 New Times: (ISSN 10723331) (USPS 010669) is published weekly by New M STREET ADDRESS: 2450 Hollywood Blvd., Ste. 301A, Hollywood, FL 33020 Times BPB, LLC., 2450 Hollywood Blvd., Ste. 301A, Hollywood, FL 33020. FOR GENERAL INFORMATION: 954-342-7700 Periodical postage paid at Miami, FL 33152. Please call the New Times office for back-issue information. Postmaster: Send address changes to New Times BPB LLC, P.O. Box 011591, Miami, FL 33101-1591. 4 4 browardpalmbeach.com | CONTENTS | PULP | NEWS | NIGHT+DAY | STAGE | ART | FILM | DISH | MUSIC | NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH April 21-April 27, 2016 5 | THE PULP | ▼ DRUG WARS BLOOD SPORT CHRIS BOSH IS PUSHING A DRUG THAT CRITICS SAY CAN LEAD TO browardpalmbeach.com UNCONTROLLED BLEEDING. browardpalmbeach.com BY TIM ELFRINK he TV ad opens with Chris Bosh sinking a three in a dark practice TS | TS N gym and then turning solemnly Ttoward the camera. “When I was side- TE N lined with blood clots in my lungs, it was O C serious,” the ten-time All-Star says. “For- tunately, my doctor had a game plan.” The camera then catches up with Bosh at a golf course, where he meets | PULP Arnold Palmer, comedian Kevin Ne- alon, and NASCAR driver Kevin Vick- EWS EWS ers, who all join him in praising the N drug Bosh credits with saving his life: Y | Xarelto, a new-wave blood thinner that’s become a billion-dollar bestseller. DA “Treatment with Xarelto,” Bosh says, before letting Palmer finish his thought, “was the right move for us.” It wasn’t the right move for Jessica Brown, though. The 37-year-old South Florida Photo by Allen Berezovsky / Shutterstock.com GE | NIGHT+ A medical technician says she suffered terrify- out warfarin, a type of drug most commonly That’s what Brown says happened Not-so-posh Bosh. T S ing blood loss while taking the drug — and sold as Coumadin, which has long been the to her. To treat her irregular heart- she’s far from alone in those claims. In fact, most popular treatment for clots. But warfarin beat, her doctor placed her on Xarelto “All anticoagulants, or blood thinners, more than 3,400 lawsuits around the nation comes with onerous side effects, including to prevent clots. But when she got her carry the risk of bleeding, and the prescrib- have been filed against Xarelto’s maker and restrictive diets and regular check-ins. Xarelto next period, she began bleeding heav- ing information for Xarelto has always distributors, alleging the drug has caused doesn’t. That helped it top $1 billion in sales by ily. Soon she was weak and unable to warned of these risks,” the statement says. numerous deaths and is to blame for unstop- last year, according to the Wall Street Journal. walk. She was rushed to the ER and Bosh hasn’t responded to a request for pable bleeding in thousands of patients. But lawyers across the country are needed a two-pint blood transfusion. comment sent through the Miami Heat. “I’ve seen that commercial with now arguing there’s a dark side to that “I could have bled to death,” she says. But his own medical story hasn’t had the Bosh and the other guys, and it’s full convenience. Though warfarin-based “Thank God it was just my period and it happiest ending. After a stirring comeback of crap,” Brown says. “I just shake my drugs also increase the risk of mas- wasn’t a head injury or something.” season, his clots reportedly returned, and head seeing them pushing this drug.” sive bleeding, it’s easily counteracted in Thousands of suits like Brown’s have he’s back on Xarelto. And the risk of getting Xarelto, which is made by Bayer and hospitals. There’s no such antidote for now been consolidated in a Louisiana hurt during a game and bleeding uncon- distributed by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Xarelto, says Boca Raton attorney Joseph federal court. “It’s our position that the trollably has kept him off the court since. | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | | NEWS NIGHT+DAY STAGE | PULP | CONTENTS | | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | MUSIC DISH FILM ART received FDA approval four years ago. It’s Osborne, so if a patient on the drug falls drug never should have been approved “Say you get hit in the head; that could part of a new wave of drugs trying to knock down the stairs or is injured in a car ac- as a once-a-day tablet,” Osborne says. end up being fatal or disabling,” Dr. Robert cident, bleeding can be uncontrollable. Asked about the lawsuits, a spokeswoman Myerburg, a physician at the University “You’re at a much greater for Janssen sent a lengthy response high- of Miami Health System, recently told EACH B READ MORE NEWS DAILY AT risk of bleeding out compared lighting the drug’s benefits and arguing the the Miami Herald.