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Riptide
In Carlos, We Trust
The boss pays you. time to pay him back.
By Francisco Alvarado, Natalie O'Neill and Janine Zeitlin
Published: May 15, 2008
Politics In Carlos, We Trust The boss pays you. time to pay him back. By Francisco Alvarado A couple dozen high-level, well-paid Miami-Dade County executives are investing...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of May 15, 2008
"The public school system has created a shameful legacy."
Published: May 15, 2008
The Language of Madness Carlos Suarez De Jesus's article about outsider art, "Madness and Art" (May 8), was often beautifully written. But on these occasions, it was...
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Music
Duran Duran Does Boca
The Red Carpet Massacre brings the band full circle in time to tour.
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 15, 2008
Duran Duran boasts a rare longevity in the world of pop music — 12 albums and some 30 years in the business. The group's two distinguishing members, synth master Nick...
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Music
Timeless, More than Ever
For Sergio Mendes, "Nada" was just the start of it all.
By John Hood
Published: May 15, 2008
Of all the many musical exports Brazil has unleashed upon the world, no single piano player has done more for popularizing that country's music than Sergio Mendes. In the...
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Burner
Get Mau5-Trapped
White-hot producer Deadmau5 hits Mansion.
By Eric W. Saeger
Published: May 15, 2008
Once his shit's all the way together, Joel Zimmerman is going to explode. He seemingly can do no wrong — even his joke-band collaboration with Steve Duda, BSOD,...
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Burner
Southern Hip-Hop = Fox News?
Both appeal to red-staters, and both are unfairly maligned.
By Ben Westhoff
Published: May 15, 2008
If there's one thing the self-satisfied, liberal, tofu-munching, cappuccino-sipping, in-vitro-fertilization-using coastal elite hate, it's FOX News. The Rupert Murdoch-owned...
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Burner
Local Motion
Check out these South Florida releases.
By Abel Folgar
Published: May 15, 2008
Fiyawater Covert Propaganda (self-released) www.myspace.com/fiyawater Hailing from the culturally diverse hub of South Miami-Dade's Perrine (P-rrine!) comes the hip-hop duo...
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Rotations
The Roots
Rising Down (Def Jam)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: May 15, 2008
If the recent Smirnoff showcase in New York — in which Common, Q-Tip, and KRS-One disconcertingly sold their skills to the British-owned vodka company for some quick...
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Rotations
Portishead
Third (Mercury)
By Michael Roberts
Published: May 15, 2008
In 1997, when Portishead's self-titled second album arrived, the group's sound was routinely described as trip-hop. Eleven years later, that term is as dead as Fatty Arbuckle,...
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Rotations
Jamie Lidell
Jim (Warp)
By Mark Keresman
Published: May 15, 2008
Blue-eyed soul singer Jamie Lidell's Jim ranks as one of the most unabashedly retro albums ever made — an inspired throwback/tribute to late-Sixties and early-Seventies...
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Rotations
Lurker of Chalice
Lurker of Chalice (Southern Lord)
By Daphne Carr
Published: May 15, 2008
As the side project of one-man band Leviathan, Lurker of Chalice exists as a place for odder sounds that his main gig's black-metal specs permit. Wonderman Wrest, a.k.a Jeff...
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Livewire
Carly Simon
By Esther Park
Published: May 15, 2008
Speak to anyone in their fifties about Carly Simon and their eyes flicker. It's like asking today's youth about Jay-Z or Radiohead, a musical powerhouse that changed the...
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Livewire
The Spencer Davis Group
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: May 15, 2008
Going to see the Spencer Davis Group these days is a bit like drinking nonalcoholic beer. The name's the same, but the oomph is all gone — that oomph, of course, was...
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Livewire
Paul Rodgers of Bad Company
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: May 15, 2008
Ahh, to be an aging rock star. What better possible way could there be to live out one's golden years than trying vainly to relive one's golden youth? Leather pants, screaming...
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Livewire
The Virgins
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 15, 2008
The last time Donald Cumming, the 25-year-old frontman for the New York quartet the Virgins, visited Miami, he ended up in jail. Somewhat forcibly transplanted by his mother to...
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Loon over Miami
Potty Humor
Those people manning the head take the coke challenge.
By Elyse Wanshel
Published: May 15, 2008
Dale Spitler folds his arms across a fitted gold vest that's complimented by a matching bowtie. Then the tall, stern-looking man with close-cropped blond hair leads me through...
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Cafe
Mint Leaf Makes Debut
Woodlands Indian restaurant chain comes to Miami.
By Lee Klein
Published: May 15, 2008
A cacophony of chatter and clatter greets diners as they enter Mint Leaf, which has sprouted in the spot once occupied by Darbar Indian Restaurant and, most recently, by...
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Five Questions
Jonathan Eismann
Pacific Time
By Lee Klein
Published: May 15, 2008
The landmark Pacific Time shuttered its Lincoln Road digs last August, but chef/owner Jonathan Eismann is just a couple of weeks away, final permits permitting, from opening...
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Film
Prince (Less) Charming
Facing Indy at the box office, Narnia sequel ups the action and loses some magic.
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 15, 2008
"Things never happen the same way twice." Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the Son of God, briefly popping his computer-generated shaggy head into The...
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Film
New Blood
The joys of DIY filmmaking persist in Son of Rambow.
By Jim Ridley
Published: May 15, 2008
No adult has ever been able to codify what separates a good movie from a classic. In kid terms, though — those favored by Son of Rambow, a chipper tribute to the cinema...
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