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Burner
Head Spins: Induce
Our new occasional series checks out who's behind the decks.
By John Hood
Published: June 12, 2008
You go out — some might even say you go way out. But you wouldn't be able to do either if it weren't for the work of the DJ, the kitten or the cat who soundtracks each...
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Burner
Close to Us
The Cure long ago discovered the antidote to clichés.
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: June 12, 2008
Much like a lover who keeps threatening to pack up and leave, The Cure's Robert Smith has suggested often that each successive album or tour by the band would be its last. This...
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Burner
Five-Star Fusion
The Erico Schulz World Band brings global beats to the elegant set.
By Julienne Gage
Published: June 12, 2008
Argentine guitarist and producer Erico Schulz has spent the past few years showcasing a higher-falutin' musical fusion at the city's five-star hotels and restaurants. In fact...
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Rotations
The Tim Version
Decline of the Southern Gentleman (No Idea Records)
By Abel Folgar
Published: June 12, 2008
The Tim Version, hailing from Tampa, comes with a pretty good punk rock pedigree. These ne'er-do-wells have taken their wares across most of the States, parts of Europe, and...
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Rotations
Usher
Here I Stand (LaFace/Sony BMG)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: June 12, 2008
You really can't fault entertainers claiming "player for life" status — at least they're being honest. Everyone from Rod Stewart to Karrine "Superhead" Steffans knows...
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Rotations
Spiritualized
Songs in A&E (Universal)
By Ryan Foley
Published: June 12, 2008
The title of the latest effort by Spiritualized is a play on accident and emergency ward, a place where the group's songwriter and main man, Jason Pierce, spent nearly a month...
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Rotations
Dizzee Rascal
Maths + English (Definitive Jux)
By Pete Freedman
Published: June 12, 2008
The stateside release of Dizzee Rascal's 2003 album, Boy in da Corner, found the grimy, reggae-influenced London rapper in a precarious spot: forced to follow fellow Brit the...
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Livewire
AZ
By Eric W. Saeger
Published: June 12, 2008
Let's put it this way: When was the last time you heard a non-bling-oriented MC not say modern hip-hop is a fucking old mess? For some rappers, making inflammatory statements...
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Livewire
Mudhoney
By Chris Toenes
Published: June 12, 2008
Like many of its Seattle peers (and famous followers, notably Nirvana), Mudhoney was branded with grunge's scarlet letter. It's a hollow label, of course, ignoring the...
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Livewire
We Love Techno starring Marko Nastic
By Arielle Castillo
Published: June 12, 2008
"Big in Serbia" might sound like a joke to the public at large, but dance music cognoscenti know better. Balkan beat conductor Marko Nastic is huge in his home country, but...
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Livewire
Gogol Bordello
By Jason Ferguson
Published: June 12, 2008
There's a line in Gogol Bordello's 2002 song "Let's Get Radical" that goes something like this: "You know, Mother, some things are actually sacred, and tapping your foot to the...
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Cafe
Kobe Raises the Steaks
This is the steak house of Marilyn Manson's dreams.
By Lee Klein
Published: June 12, 2008
Jeffrey Chodorow, head of the China Grill Management restaurant empire, has always brought a Ziegfeld Zeitgeist to the table. Sure, he hopes customers laud service and cuisine...
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Five Questions
David Fast
By Lee Klein
Published: June 12, 2008
Hot summer days call for cool, revitalizing cocktails, so we figured this would be an ideal time to speak with David Fast, who's been a bartender at Lido at The Standard since...
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Film
The Not Terrible Hulk
In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 12, 2008
In recent days, Universal has been running a TV spot for The Incredible Hulk that gives away what should come as no surprise to any fanboy worth his action figure collection:...
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Film
Get Out of Jail Free
Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure.
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 12, 2008
It's been 20 years since Errol Morris made The Thin Blue Line — a found "noir" that served to free an innocent man convicted of murder. Gathering evidence and dramatizing...
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Film
Now Playing
Kung Fu Panda
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 12, 2008
By all means, gather up the little ones and take them to this perfectly pleasant, very good-looking, modestly funny, dispiritingly unoriginal variant on the nerd-with-a-dream...
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Night&Day
Glass Spilleth Over
A gleaming exhibit opens at the Lowe.
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: June 12, 2008
You might feel like a bull in a china shop while visiting the stunning new exhibit of glass sculptures at the Lowe Art Museum. Local collectors and University of Miami alumni...
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Night&Day
THComedy
Take a toke on these jokes at the Miami Improv.
By Raina McLeod
Published: June 12, 2008
That huge hole in the ozone layer has everyone talking about which color to go, but you’ve been going green forever. You caress the flora, lovingly separating it from its...
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Night&Day
Why So Paranoid?
At this webcast Gus Van Sant Q&A session, you can ask him yourself.
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: June 12, 2008
Though now 55 years old, Gus Van Sant continues to tell stories about the passing of youth. From his first feature, Mala Noche, to network television's favorite rerun, Good...
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Night&Day
Pretty Random
Eddie Izzard is bringing lipstick and comedy to The Fillmore.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: June 12, 2008
Rambling, circuitous, twisty, and random. Eddie Izzard’s damn-near-inimitable style of comedy has been called all of this and more. He’s known for donning fabulous...
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