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Kill Gus Boulis's Killer?
Paul Brandreth didn't want to murder anybody. Or did he?
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Silly Wabbit
So a guy in a bunny suit walks into a bar ...
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Mayor of the Nude Beach
So he's naked and in his seventies. He's still the coolest guy you'll ever meet.
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Vamos a Cuba!
Join us as we try to hitch a ride to the island before the gold rush strikes.
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Sarnoff Turns His Back on Blacks
Coconut Grove's other half feels left out.
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Sarnoff Turns His Back on Blacks (20)
Coconut Grove's other half feels left out.
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Sarnoff Shmarnoff (14)
Commissioner Marc's claim to a famous bloodline just might be fiction.
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City Hall Stinks (58)
There's a war on Dinner Key, and Marc Sarnoff is a bomb-thrower.
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Mayor of the Nude Beach (5)
So he's naked and in his seventies. He's still the coolest guy you'll ever meet.
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The Reporter and the Tranny (4)
He kissed her, um, him, and that was only the beginning.
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La India, Pitbull, and Menudo ...
Celebrate Carnaval Miami at Little Havana's Calle Ocho.
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Pick Up and Go
Blue Martini is maybe a good place to meet a significant other. But first listen to the stories they tell.
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The Prodigal Piano Man
Johnny Rodgers plays his hometown a song.
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As Nastie as They Wanna Be
This wrestling makes that Ultimate stuff look wimpy.
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Miami Movement
Our guide to the 15th annual Caribbean Festival.
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Jason Taylor Wins Over Dancing Judges, My Heart
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Magic City Kitty -- Can One Blow Job Lead to Another?
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Pretty in the City - Shape Up at The Brow Shoppe
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Last Bit of SXSW Wrap-Up (2/3): the Black Keys, Torche, Ash Grunwald, Working For a Nuclear Free City, Dirty Novels, and more
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Last Bit of SXSW Wrap-Up (1/3): Napalm Death, Motörhead, Tigercity, the Noisettes, Jens Lekman, Dizzee Rascal, and more
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Stream Flo Rida's album, out tomorrow
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La Oreja de Van Gogh
Lo Que Te Conté Milentras Te Hacías (Sony Discos)
By Enrique Lopetegui
Published: December 11, 2003Instead of Lo Que Te Conté Mientras Te Hacías la Dormida (What I Told You While You Were Pretending to Be Asleep), this album should be titled What We Played While You Were Ignoring Us. With only three albums, La Oreja de Van Gogh (which translates to, you guessed it, Van Gogh's Ear) has far outsold most established acts, in any genre, in Spain. (Sorry, I mean the Basque country.)
But, as often happens to good Spanish rock acts, commercial radio inexplicably ignores La Oreja, despite the fact that the group offers a catchy collection of keyboard-driven Eighties mild-rockers and midtempo ballads (and the occasionally decent rumba flamenca) that deal with boy-girl love, love, and more love, from a million different angles. Perhaps the group's penchant for sneaking subtle allusions to both Argentina's desaparecidos (that subtly condemn the right) and the Cuban exiles (that infuriate the left) into its music is too ambiguous for pretentious Latin radio programmers. But no, those hacks are too dumb to even notice. I bet my money that they'll just ignore the album: There's too much regional crap available (a sin the so-called Latin rock intelligentsia in this country also tends to commit). But the truth is that if everyone gave La Oreja de Van Gogh a chance, it could become the guiltiest pleasure in Latin pop-rock. -- Enrique Lopetegui
