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Night&Day
Total Blast from the Past
By ERICA LANDAU
Published: May 28, 2009
Unless you slipped into a coma during the mid-eighties, you couldn't have missed dance-pop sensation and Paula-Abdul contemporary Taylor Dayne, who produced '80s gold like...
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Night&Day
Be Among the First to Take a Bite
By JACKIE SAYET
Published: May 28, 2009
Hailing from West Hollywood, CA, glitterati gastrolounge Apple is getting its first taste of living it up Miami. And it's a wet one. Thanks to our token inclement summer...
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Night&Day
Don't Let the Name Scare You
By S. PAJOT
Published: May 28, 2009
Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, Surf Nazis on Ecstasy are a thrash-punk trio who, despite their name, are neither beach bums nor fascists. And they definitely don't do raves....
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Night&Day
Format: B Play
By Sean Levisman
Published: May 28, 2009
For those of you still aching for some ich bin Berliner tech grooves after Phonique's stellar set last week, Format: B will be in town and throwing down an exclusive live PA at...
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Night&Day
The Empress of Hip-Hop
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 28, 2009
If you like your local music smart, conscious, uplifting, and all kinds of other complimentary adjectives, then you've probably heard of Soulflower. If not, get with the...
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Night&Day
Get schooled in the Miami School
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: May 28, 2009
Way back in 1994, the New York Times shed light on a revolution going on in the University of Miami Architecture School, where a couple of brothers, Jorge and Luis Trelles, had...
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Night&Day
Get BFGF
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 28, 2009
Ever loved your sugar pie honeybunny pookie bear soooo much that your relationship already felt like beautiful music? I guess that's what Me She and Chris V of new local act...
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Night&Day
Saturday Recession Crawl
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 28, 2009
*Transit Lounge in Miami hosts the En Tu Ciudad Tour, featuring the cross-cultural sounds of Suenalo, Minimal, and Radioboxer, with a DJ set by Eddie of Bachaco. Admission is...
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Metro
Chicago Basketball Star Coaches J.V. in Broward
For Deon Thomas, a new career starts in the suburbs.
By Thomas Francis
Published: May 28, 2009
Deon Thomas is a Chicago hoops legend. In college, he was one of the University of Illinois' all-time basketball greats. For the past decade-plus, he's been a globe-trotting,...
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Metro
Virtual Book Tour Hits Books & Books
Has your favorite author visited Miami for the last time?
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: May 28, 2009
This past Saturday, May 23, author Libba Bray gave a reading at Books & Books in Coral Gables. A crowd of fans listened to her discuss her latest book, The Sweet Far Thing,...
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Riptide
Marco Rubio Takes a Swipe at Sonia Sotomayor
Wing-nut Cuban-American criticizes first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.
By Kyle Munzenrieder
Published: May 28, 2009
Marco Rubio is desperate. The former Florida House speaker was probably the first Hispanic to take a swipe at new Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. The Cuban-American...
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Riptide
Disabled Reggaeton Star Sues Calle Ocho
Rapper's despair.
By Tim Elfrink
Published: May 28, 2009
In his 17 years, Bryant Amastha has survived 56 major surgeries as a result of a rare muscular disorder. So when he began rapping, he felt like he'd earned his nickname: El...
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Riptide
Helio Castroneves Strikes Back
After a year of dodging tax charges, Miami's fastest driver takes the Indy 500.
By Francisco Alvarado
Published: May 28, 2009
Watching Helio Castroneves sob joyfully as he sipped from his victory bottle of milk, Riptide couldn't help but feel all warm and fuzzy. After all, we like it when a Miami...
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Magic City Kitty
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Together)
By Raina McLeod
Published: May 28, 2009
Hello, Kitty: A few weeks ago, my BFF from elementary school came to Miami for vacation. Though she usually stays at a hotel, this time she crashed at my place to save money....
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of May 28, 2009
"They are all in hiding, living like Anne Frank, victims of a pit bull holocaust in Miami-Dade."
Published: May 28, 2009
First Came the Greyhounds Balanced: Michael J. Mooney's May 21 story "Track Star" was incredible. You had me in tears. You were so good about showing both sides of the story....
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Music
Iggy Pop: King of the Dogs
He gets down, dirty, and quieter on his new album, written in Miami.
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 28, 2009
Sometime in the past few years, between digesting French literature and watching birds alight on the placid South Florida waters, Iggy Pop, the Godfather of Punk, decided,...
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Burner
Head Spins: DJ Anthony Pisano
Broward and the Palm Beaches' most active head spinner.
By John Hood
Published: May 28, 2009
Some people work at ambition while others are born to it. And then there are those who take the ambition they're born with and work it till it gels into something successful....
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Burner
It's a Freestyle Invasion!
Taylor Dayne, Debbie Deb, Johnny O, Judy Torres, and many others.
By José El Rey
Published: May 28, 2009
In Miami, freestyle still reigns supreme. The Latin rhythms and synth stabs, combined with earnest, passionate lyrics, struck the heart of nearly everyone in town old enough to...
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Burner
Lissy Trullie Plays Culture Room
The axe-wielding New York chanteuse gets the party started.
By Reyan Ali
Published: May 28, 2009
Mysterious 20-something singer Lissy Trullie has just begun her musical journey, and yet the media myth-making and labeling has already begun. Trullie fashions lean, sharp...
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Livewire
The Business
By Dominic Sirianni
Published: May 28, 2009
Since the late 1970s, Micky Fitz and the Business have been doing their thing — writing songs for the working class, in the tradition of street punk and Oi! Fitz formed...
