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2006 Stories by Jean Carey

• 2006: The Year the Superstar DJ Died

  published December 28, 2006

  For nearly a decade, the giants of electronic dance music, a cold-blooded cadre mostly from northern Europe, lumbered across the earth. Tiësto, Paul ... More >>

• Stop the Cat Box

  published December 14, 2006

  So Art Basel is finally over, leaving in its book-fair-fatigued, film-festivaled wake a gasp of air before Winter Music Conference lethargy sets... More >>

• Dubai by D.C.

  published December 14, 2006

  Following the ambitious (some would say exhaustive) disc that was 2005's George Is On, which featured the inescapable "Flashdance" single,... More >>

• Creating Monsters

  published November 30, 2006

  Miami-Dade Animal Services faces an insurmountable task of education and control amid an unstaunchable flow of ignorance — the drama embodied... More >>

• Real Genius

  published November 23, 2006

  Clothing in Miami is impermanent. There's the resurgence of Eighties-inspired punk gear, the sometimes sky- high hemlines, leopard prints, and... More >>

• Table 8 Is Enough

  published November 16, 2006

  There are so many rude and incompetent public relations professionals (and of course many thorough, decent, and rigorous agents) right here in... More >>

• The Moon Is the First TV

  published November 9, 2006

  Somehow those who love art find a way — even in Miami — of pursuing their passion. Visiting a gallery, wandering through a museum,... More >>

• Rhythm Robots

  published November 9, 2006

  South Florida's thriving dance music scene affords the opportunity to tire of Paul Van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, and even Tisto because they are in... More >>

• Aluminum Can Omen

  published November 2, 2006

  He was a glutton, a drug addict, an absentee father. There are many more reasons, beyond sonic and canine aesthetics, to loathe Jerry... More >>

• Role Bounce

  published October 19, 2006

  Stacy Provines is that rarest of all human specimens, a true brown-eyed blond. The 30-year-old native Miamian is also a makeup fiend and an... More >>

• Hustlin' Flow

  published October 19, 2006

  On the Saturday before the Monday that was Memorial Day 2006, the poolside party at Hotel Victor in Miami Beach was off the chain, even by hip-hop... More >>

• Insolence Ointment

  published October 12, 2006

  Robert Burr is an affable, silver-haired Coral Gables guide-book publisher, deep-ocean diver, and all-around raconteur who leads the... More >>

• Nonapparent Servitude

  published September 28, 2006

  Maitre d': Your usual table, Mr. Christopher? Carlo Christopher: No, I'd like a good one this time. Maitre d':... More >>

• Various Artists

  published September 28, 2006

  Gothic music's sibling, industrial, can be tricky to key. Is Nine Inch Nails's Trent Reznor just a guy who backed conventional rock guitars with a... More >>

• Brazilian Girls

  published September 28, 2006

  When Brazilian Girls singer Sabina Sciubba took the stage at Studio A this past March for one of the club's inaugural shows, she strutted and... More >>

• Lyre Lyre

  published September 21, 2006

  When The Bitch was a puppy, she spent hours listening to ad hoc lectures about the ancient world by her trusted advisor Sheramy Bundrick,... More >>

• Natacha Atlas

  published September 21, 2006

  Belgium produces some of the most energetic, fun, crazy "world" music (in the sense of traveling the world, not tie-dying it) in the, well,... More >>

• Ampersand & More

  published September 7, 2006

  This summer has seen the quiet launch of two niche magazines in the Magic City's jumble of glossies, trades, and rags. When Indi Live... More >>

• Whisper Campaign

  published August 31, 2006

  There are two things going on in gossipland that demand no further deconstruction. But since readers and tipsters actually asked for a... More >>

• DJ Bardi Johannsson

  published August 31, 2006

  Like fellow Vikings, artists, DJs, and quirk-rockers Eirik Glambek Boe and Erlend ÿye of Kings of Convenience, Bardi Johannsson persists in... More >>

• Lowest Forms

  published August 24, 2006

  This past April, The Bitch was at a party (of course) where she met a pleasant, nattily dressed human male named Jim Konschnik.... More >>

• Subsideways

  published August 17, 2006

  Just northwest of Homestead and Florida City, in the delicate agricultural buffer between the suburbs and the Everglades known as the Redland,... More >>

• Sidekicks

  published August 17, 2006

  In the Scandinavian fairy tale popularized by Hans Christian Andersen called The Snow Queen, a brother and sister begin seeing everything... More >>

• AGHORA

  published August 10, 2006

  Despite deeming themselves progressive, the members of AGHORA appeal to those of the death-metal old school, those who like their guitar dirges... More >>

• Hater Blockers

  published August 3, 2006

  When he lived in Miami, he was known as Mario Lavandeira, a self-described "z-lister" who attended Belen Jesuit Preparatory School. "I... More >>