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2003 Stories by Juan Carlos Rodriguez

• Lord of the Rings

  The ringed planet is at its brightest; check it out

  published December 25, 2003

  No planet is cooler than the sixth one from the sun. Not Mars. Not Venus. Not even your cute little Uranus. No other rock orbiting the sun has... More >>

• This Week's Day by Day Picks

  published December 25, 2003

  Thursday 12/25 Beware of cantors from the Great Smoky Mountains: They come bearing guitars and singing funky Jewish folk tunes. Cantor... More >>

• Shell Game

  published December 25, 2003

  NOW 24/7 You walk down the beach, searching for seashells, but as far as the eye can see there are none. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Gone. When... More >>

• Jobie-palooza

  published December 25, 2003

  TUE 12/30 Jobie, the on-again-off-again mascot of the Junior Orange Bowl Parade, is on again, at least for this year. Today the... More >>

• World Beats

  published December 25, 2003

  WED 12/31 The philosophical roots of Paul Miller, AKA DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, run deep. More than just a mixer of... More >>

• Royal Blues

  published December 25, 2003

  WED 12/31 The thrill is definitely still there when it comes to 78-year-old master blues guitarist B.B. King. In a career that... More >>

• Helping the Helpless

  It's high holiday time to help out kids affected by AIDS

  By Juan Carlos Rodriguez

  published December 18, 2003

  Worldwide the number of children affected by AIDS continues to grow. In South Africa thousands of so-called AIDS babies are abandoned each year,... More >>

• Jesus Christ!!

  published December 18, 2003

  NOW 24/7 I found Jesus in a black velvet dinner jacket hanging on a rack at the Douglas Gardens Thrift Shop. Flared at the... More >>

• Sayonara, Fatso

  published December 18, 2003

  NOW 24/7 Pudge, Pudge, Pudge. How we loved chanting your name this championship season. Your chubby image spoke of... More >>

• No Whining

  published December 18, 2003

  THU 12/18 Venevision International Theater's production of Kvetch: The Art of Complaining calls for an end to whining.... More >>

• This Week's Day by Day Picks

  published December 11, 2003

  Thursday 12/11 In the midst of the crummiest Christmas of his life, Joe, the protagonist of Teatro Avante's latest production,... More >>

• Lights Fantastic

  published December 11, 2003

  Bill Clot has bragging rights to being the grand pooh-bah of holiday yard decorations. The Pinecrest man is the owner and possessed designer of... More >>

• Music to Our Eyes

  published December 11, 2003

  FRI 12/12 Everyone is familiar with the World Trade Center collapse and the vast number of people who died as a result. But how many... More >>

• Tee and A

  published December 11, 2003

  FRI 12/12 Babes and booze and good food, but forget the ménage à trois: We're talking strictly foursomes, about 20 of... More >>

• Wee Divas

  published December 11, 2003

  THU 12/11 Barbie dolls don't quite figure into the Miami Children's Theater's new production of Little Women. Based on... More >>

• Sailing On

  published December 11, 2003

  FRI 12/12 "I'll sleep when I'm dead." Famous last words from Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), symbolic of how the prolific... More >>

• A Sweet Suite

  published December 11, 2003

  FRI 12/12 Well, of course you've seen it before. Onstage. On TV. On ice even. Mushrooms dance to its music in Fantasia. Barbie... More >>

• Food Stuff For Basel

  published December 4, 2003

  Muffins. Artist Carlos Betancourt is contemplating muffins outside a warehouse full of art owned by New York art dealer Robert Miller. The... More >>

• This Week's Day by Day Picks

  published December 4, 2003

  Thursday 12/4 It's that time again. Time to drape yourself head to toe in black and do your best art collector impression (a beret... More >>

• True Romance?

  published December 4, 2003

  THU 12/4 Kathe Izzo vows to fall in love with anybody who makes an appointment with her. She offers a deep, telepathic connection based... More >>

• Sexless Beast

  published December 4, 2003

  NOW 24/7 P. Diddy, O.J., Lenny Kravitz, Iggy Pop, Ben Affleck, Michael Jackson: You never can be sure what celeb-hunk-or-junk sighting... More >>

• Plaid Prance

  published December 4, 2003

  SAT 12/6 While Scottish actor Billy Connolly is busy frittering his talent away on that Crichtonian cow of a flick, Timeline,... More >>

• Radio Days

  published December 4, 2003

  FRI 12/5 About the only people up before 5:00 a.m. are insomniacs and truck drivers, which is what you'll have to be to catch the... More >>

• The Beach Welcomes All

  published November 27, 2003

  Miami Beach is known to gay and lesbian tourists as a friendly destination. Events like White Party Week and the Winter Party attract... More >>

• Shopping Sickness

  published November 27, 2003

  Are you feeling overwhelmed by the global corporatization über-fuck at the heart of modern-day culture? Does the gestapo-chic... More >>