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Ex-North Miami Mayor Elton Gissendanner Is Back
A prison stay and bankruptcy can't keep him down.
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Published: September 18, 2008
"He's a politician?" cracks the construction worker assigned to guarding the flooded road. "Throw him in the creek!" But then he allows the 80-year-old man in the driver's...
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Crimson and Saffron
By PEGY
Published: September 18, 2008
Crimson and Saffron is a journey into the Indian roots of Flamenco. This rare dance and music event, featuring renowned Flamenco dancer Clarita Filgueiras and Kathak dancer...
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Havana, We Hardly Knew Ye
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: September 18, 2008
Growing up, Vivien Lesnik Weisman found her father a bit of an enigma. To understand Max Lesnik, the filmmaker traveled to Cuba to helm The Man of Two Havanas, a memoir of her...
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Mickey Slipping on Ice
By BRYNA GREENLAW
Published: September 18, 2008
Who knows what lurks in your home? Crack open your flooded emergency-preparedness kit and empty the water onto the floorboards. All manner of creatures will come floating out....
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A Chorus of Angels
Seraphic Fire opens its seventh season with a bang.
By PENN BULLOCK
Published: September 18, 2008
Seraphic Fire, a Miami-based choral ensemble with a cool name, broke into pop music in 2005 when it lent its soaring collective voice to Shakira's platinum album Oral Fixation...
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Retail Therapy
Shop till you drop at Jungle Island, of all places.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: September 18, 2008
What’s the thing those politicians are always yammering about on television every night? Oh yeah, the economy. From what we’ve observed while flipping channels to...
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Dancing Machines at Your Service
America’s Best Dance Crew can move!
By Raina McLeod
Published: September 18, 2008
Each week, millions of dance lovers tuned in to America’s Best Dance Crew to watch groups of kids from across the nation pull off moves that would cause the normal human...
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Chopper City War Horse
Mount up for Peterson’s Key West Poker Run.
By JACOB KATEL
Published: September 18, 2008
American biker lore speaks of the four-corners run, a rumbling pilgrimage to the farthest corners of the United States. One of the must-ride destinations — Monroe County...
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Ridin’ Vintage
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: September 18, 2008
Getting in the ol’ automobile and heading down south to Cauley Square feels like a trip back in time. You can practically imagine homesteaders in their horse-drawn buggies...
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Trap or Die
Miami FC kicks through the Silverbacks.
By JACOB KATEL
Published: September 18, 2008
It’s the final game of the season for the Miami FC Blues and they’re in last place. But don’t let that stop you from heading out to the game Sunday night;...
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A Jackfruit a Day ...
Exotic fruit, cooked slow at Fairchild.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: September 18, 2008
In a perfect world, big, ugly chain restaurants wouldn’t be raking in money hand over fist. In a perfect world, the American diet wouldn’t regularly include heaping...
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It’s Chili in Here!
By Raina McLeod
Published: September 18, 2008
Decades before you could buy chili in an oversize can at the local Publix, women wearing rainbow hues walked the streets of San Antonio passing out the good stuff, bowl by...
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Just BeKaws
Hip-hop comes to the art gallery in a celebrity-curated spectacle.
By Raina McLeod
Published: September 18, 2008
It’s taken you almost 12 months to recover from last year’s Art Basel — the annual clusterfuck of exhibits, parties, and, let’s face it, more than a little...
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Feels Like the Last Time
Out of contention, the Marlins look to play spoiler once again.
By Chris Joseph
Published: September 18, 2008
We were all hoping the final Super Saturday of the season would be about the Florida Marlins taking sole possession of first in the NL East. Instead, when the Fish face the...
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Show Your Credit Card Some Love
And the community will thank you for it.
By Raina McLeod
Published: September 18, 2008
You’ll gladly shop for a pair of shoes, a better deal, even for a potential mate, but when was the last time you headed to the mall to carry out a completely unselfish...
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Havana, I Thought I Knew Ye
A Miami auteur captures her dad’s love-hate affair with Cuba.
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: September 18, 2008
Growing up, Vivien Lesnik Weisman found her father a bit of an enigma. To understand Max Lesnik, the filmmaker traveled to Cuba to helm The Man of Two Havanas, a memoir of her...
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Game On!
Players gotta play Tuesday nights at Sunset Tavern.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: September 18, 2008
Flannel shirt? Check. Skinny hipster jeans? Double-check. Now all you need are instruments, a garage, a half-ounce of weed, and three other shaggy-haired Nirvana fans and you...
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Shake, Stir, Sip
Martini Mondays at the Biltmore does it dirty.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: September 18, 2008
Whether it’s made with gin or vodka, dry white or sweet red, a real martini can be boiled down to these essential elements: vermouth and clear, strong, pure alcohol....
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Lift Every Voice and Sing!
By Raina McLeod
Published: September 18, 2008
Gas prices are sky-high, political crap is ruling the airwaves, and unemployment rates are at a point where Ph.D.s are applying for jobs at Mickey D’s. Although your first...
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Hey, Everybody, We’re All Gonna Get Laid!
Well, some laid-back golf, that is.
By John Linn
Published: September 18, 2008
As far as golf scrambles go, the Puma Open, cohosted by Maxim magazine, is sort of like the golf tournaments you see in beer commercials. You know the ones — where a...
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