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Riptide
Sweet Truth
A filmmaker's exposé peeves the sugar powers.
By Edmund Newton, Alexander Zaitchik and Francisco Alvarado
Published: May 29, 2008
Culture Sweet Truth A filmmaker's exposé peeves the sugar powers. By Edmund Newton If they gave an Oscar for the muckraking documentary that most riles the world's...
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Metro
Finally Florida
A rogue state meets presidential candidates who pine for its fickle heart.
By Thomas Francis, Brantley Hargrove and Michael J. Mooney
Published: May 29, 2008
It's May 21, and residents of the Sunrise Lakes condos are getting a lesson in the virtue of punctuality. Though it's three hours before Hillary Clinton will arrive at her...
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Strouse
Johnny Winton Speaks
The commish talks for the first time about his 2006 arrest.
By Chuck Strouse
Published: May 29, 2008
The story went this way: Stuck at MIA en route to Houston, flyweight Miami Commissioner Johnny Winton gulped down 16 drinks — wine, whiskey, amaretto, and beer. Then he...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of May 29, 2008
"You hypocritical justice-mongers are nothing more than chicken-shit cowards, spewing political rhetoric as if it's the cure instead of the band-aid it really is."
Published: May 29, 2008
Best? Give It a Rest Another great "Best of Miami" issue (May 15), with a few exceptions, but one glaring fairy tale of note: Best Criminal Conviction of the Past Year. Do you...
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Music
The Bloodclot Diaries
John "Bloodclot" Joseph: New York hardcore icon, Krishna devotee, hustler, survivor.
By Rob Harvilla
Published: May 29, 2008
We should begin with the time John "Bloodclot" Joseph dressed up as a retarded, wheelchair-bound Santa Claus and scammed horrified Staten Island shopping-mall patrons on behalf...
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Suicide Blonde
Denny's Adopts Rock Bands
The diner chain now serves up a little rock on the side.
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 29, 2008
Standing in a weirdly calm commercial kitchen and looking both bemused and amused, Taking Back Sunday frontman Adam Lazzara grabs a tray with two Polish sausages. Then he...
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Burner
The Art of Doing Nada
For pop-rock trio Nada Surf, slowing down actually led to long-lasting cult band status.
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: May 29, 2008
"Everyone else who gets the one-hit-wonder tag had real hits," chuckles Nada Surf frontman Matthew Caws. Caws should know about real hits. His band scored one in 1996 with the...
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Burner
The Young Guard Grows Up
Brazilian songster Roberto Carlos marks his fifth decade in the business.
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: May 29, 2008
In the Sixties, while British Invasion bands dominated the Anglophone music scene, a group of young Brazilian performers took their own unique look at the possibilities of rock...
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Burner
Local Motion
We review some more recent independent South Florida releases.
By Abel Folgar
Published: May 29, 2008
Apakalypse Walking Coma (Rhyme Network) www.myspace.com/apacalypse Hey! Not bad. This is some kind of paranoid hip-hop that has brewed in some thick blunt smoke, videogames,...
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Rotations
Foxy Brown
Brooklyn's Don Diva (Black Rose Entertainment/Koch)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: May 29, 2008
It's natural that Foxy Brown is the object of Ali G's affections — with her foul mouth and short skirt, she epitomizes the fake gangsta-ism he parodies. At least she has...
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Rotations
Meshuggah
obZen (Nuclear Blast)
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: May 29, 2008
Prong's Tommy Victor recently remarked that metal bands can't play in standard E tuning anymore because they'd "sound like the Eagles." Not that Meshuggah ever had anything to...
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Rotations
No Age
Nouns (Sub Pop)
By Justin F. Farrar
Published: May 29, 2008
No Age, the axe-'n'-drums duo from L.A., has reconnected with the quirky and all-too-damaged spirits coursing through old-school American indie rock. Nouns' title stinks...
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Rotations
Various Artists
Blackstars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation (Outhere)
By Phil Freeman
Published: May 29, 2008
The image of African music, as seen through American eyes, goes through phases. Right now we're in a retro moment: It would be easy to look at the deluge of compilation CDs...
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Livewire
Progressive Nation 2008 with Opeth and Dream Theater
By Scott Harrell
Published: May 29, 2008
Long established as the most accessible act in contemporary prog-metal, New York's Dream Theater is probably more accurately described as a hard rock band whose members just...
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Livewire
The Cultura Festival
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 29, 2008
The apparent goal of this local-artist extravaganza, according to the tireless Oski Gonzalez and his cohort, the anonymous Queen of the Scene, is to present "culturally diverse...
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Livewire
Down Home Southernaires
By Abel Folgar
Published: May 29, 2008
This weekend, Down Home Southernaires hit NE 14th Street two nights in a row, to play two neighboring venues. The Vagabond and PS14 are nice venues for dancing and drinking....
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Livewire
Modeselektor
By Doug Wallen and Arielle Castillo
Published: May 29, 2008
After getting Richie Hawtin down here outside of Winter Music Conference for a packed-to-the-gills one-off last December, the local promoters of Future Mob have scored another...
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Livewire
Ian Friday
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 29, 2008
Beyond the crush of Winter Music Conference, the folks behind Soul Simple Entertainment have been keeping it real for lovers of house music on that, well, soulful tip. They've...
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Cafe
Value Veal
Milan it ain't, but this basic Italian joint is a downtown deal.
By Lee Klein
Published: May 29, 2008
Ristorante Fratelli Milano's umbrella-shaded tables are tightly clustered together on pinched, pedestrian-clogged SE First Street. Two dozen indoor seats are just as closely...
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Five Questions
Philippe Ruiz
Biltmore Hotel
By Lee Klein
Published: May 29, 2008
Philippe Ruiz, from Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France, began his stint at the Biltmore Hotel in 1999. Few local chefs can match Ruiz's resumé of Michelin-star...
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