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Night&Day
No Smoking Jacket Required
By Raina McLeod
Published: May 21, 2009
If you want to go to a cigar bar without smelling like you went to one, try Cigar Bar 31, which sits on the terrace outside Area 31, high above Miami on the 16th floor of the...
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Night&Day
Man Up to Memorial Day
By Raina McLeod
Published: May 21, 2009
You might have thought about avoiding South Beach for this weekend’s Memorial Day activities, and in past years we might have encouraged it, but for 2009, we say suppress...
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Night&Day
In Living Color
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: May 21, 2009
Welcome to Men on Film, starring me, Antoine Marryweather, where I review films from a male point of view. Tonight we have a brand-new sponsor, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &...
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Night&Day
Leave Those Kids Alone
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: May 21, 2009
Since his 1999 directorial debut, Ressources Humaines (Human Resources), a heartfelt portrayal of class divisions in contemporary France, Laurent Cantet has been making the...
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Night&Day
A Festival We Believe In
By BRETT GILLIN
Published: May 21, 2009
Here's a music festival you can feel good about attending. The May Flowers Music Event is coming to the Corporate Pavillion at C.B. Smith Park on May 23, and net proceeds will...
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Night&Day
New Blood
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: May 21, 2009
The New World School of the Arts has already proven that it can produce world-class writing for the stage. 20-something graduate Tarell Alvin McCraney is one of the hottest...
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Metro
Dog Fight
Pit bull ban, what pit bull ban?
By Tim Elfrink
Published: May 21, 2009
Back in February 1989, a 7-year-old girl named Melissa Moreira was walking home on SW 18th Terrace near FIU after a night of shopping with her family when a neighbor's pit bull...
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Riptide
Urban Beach Week Returns
Watch out on Memorial Day — you might end up jailed.
By Jesse Hyde
Published: May 21, 2009
SoBe resident and Peruvian native Pablo Mejia has a plan for this weekend: Stay home and lock the doors. "It's a black day holiday, as far as I'm concerned," he says. "They...
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Riptide
University of Miami Bans Indie Magazine
Print is dead.
By Natalie O'Neill
Published: May 21, 2009
Things are bleak in the world of publishing. Quick-fix readers gobble up blogs instead of books, journalists curse the Internet and collect unemployment checks, and even...
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Riptide
Junk Cars for Cash
A South Florida Craigslist schemer wants your dubiously acquired vehicles.
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Published: May 21, 2009
Last week, Craigslist scrapped its "Erotic Services" category after one too many murderers used it to lure victims to their deaths. But petty criminals should not despair:...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of May 21, 2009
"They tried to make him out as an innocent victim, but he has a record of drinking, drugs, and speeding."
Published: May 21, 2009
The Great Native American Debate Those kids stink: Gus Garcia-Roberts's May 14 story, "Renegade Road," has much more information than the Miami Herald. I am shocked with the...
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Loon Over Miami
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang at Exxxotica
At a world-class porn show, we deliver innocence.
By Elyse Wanshel
Published: May 21, 2009
In a large cylindrical cage, a tiny Asian dancer named April attempts to swing from a black plastic chain. But her red painted toes clumsily catch on the plush, pink carpeting,...
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Magic City Kitty
Mom Bakes More than Cookies
By Raina McLeod
Published: May 21, 2009
Hello, Kitty: My relationship with my mom has been strained ever since I dropped out of college to pursue a career selling jeans at the Gap. But not long ago, I lost my job,...
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Music
Jim Jonsin Is on Top of Hip-Hop
The South Florida native is the new producer king.
By Jason Handelsman
Published: May 21, 2009
It's a recent Saturday night, and producer Jim Jonsin is installed at the console of his midtown Miami studio, as he is for about 15 hours on an average day. It's been a banner...
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Music
A Club Guide to Memorial Day Weekend 2009
By S. Pajot
Published: May 21, 2009
Every year during Memorial Day weekend, Miami earns its reputation as the East Coast's most banging club city. More than 300,000 party people, pro athletes, porn stars,...
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Burner
Head Spins: DJ Keoki
The original superstar DJ makes a move to South Beach.
By John Hood
Published: May 21, 2009
Not many DJs can boast a big-screen portrayal by Wilmer Valderrama. Then again, not many DJs can brag about surviving some of the most decadent nights of 1990s New York...
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Burner
Jacob's Ladder Makes an Upward Climb
Miami Beach indie trio sets out on its second national tour in two months.
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 21, 2009
Out of the countless towns he's played during his band's national tours, Sammy Gonzalez, bassist for local trio Jacob's Ladder, still prefers tiny Frankenmuth, Michigan. An...
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Burner
Swedish Producer the Field Returns with More Open Techno Expanses
By Tony Ware
Published: May 21, 2009
Stockholm-born Axel Willner has, since 2006, braided together two full-length albums from the chromosomes of minimal techno and trance. His latest, Yesterday & Today...
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Livewire
Phonique
By Sean Levisman
Published: May 21, 2009
Deep house is making a bit of a comeback in the world of electronic dance music. It boasts roots in so-called U.S. garage and the soulful, gospel-tinged stylings of early house...
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Livewire
Young Love
By Emily Zemler
Published: May 21, 2009
Watching Young Love mastermind Dan Keyes wriggle his hips behind the microphone as he yelps, "If you get the chance/You must dance, dance, dance," on the R&B-tinged "Find a New...
