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Night&Day
Your Passport to France, from Cuba
By Raina McLeod
Published: June 4, 2009
If you’ve ever thought about hitting the friendly skies or high seas and heading to France (pronounced frah-nce) in search of creative stimulation, you’re in great...
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Night&Day
Arsenals and Agendas
By Dominic Sirianni
Published: June 4, 2009
Miami has a bunch of art that goes on outside of Wynwood and Art Basel, and it isn’t always put on by some hipster. Sometimes it’s a guy from Hialeah who gets...
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Night&Day
Aural Filth
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: June 4, 2009
The evolution of dubstep as a musical genre reads like some kind of “origins story” for a character in a graphic novel. Formed from dissonant and minor key bits and...
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Night&Day
A Decade of Poplife
By JOSE DURAN
Published: June 4, 2009
It's official: Poplife turns 10 next month. Last year, when we sat down and spoke with founders Aramis Lorie and Barbara Basti about the party turning 9, we thought that was a...
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Night&Day
From Trashy to Classy
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: June 4, 2009
Ever since Robert Rauschenberg elevated the craptastic into high art by yoking a stuffed Angora goat with a truck tire, artists have been creating subversive works using the...
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Night&Day
The Pickle Will Thump
By Sean Levisman
Published: June 4, 2009
The PL0T folks are doing it again this Friday night with a double booking of DJ sets by Seth Troxler and Lee Curtiss at the Electric Pickle. Troxler and Curtiss are part of a...
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Night&Day
This Ain't No Little Feat
By Christopher Lopez
Published: June 4, 2009
You may not be familiar with Little Feat, but you sure as hell should. They've been around for 40 years, during which time they've worked and shared the stage with some of...
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Night&Day
Last November Tries Transit
By Arielle Castillo
Published: June 4, 2009
Atlanta-based trio Last November plays two gigs in South Florida this weekend, hitting an early all-ages gig tomorrow night at Respectable Street Cafe in West Palm Beach, and...
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Night&Day
Last November Gets Respectable
By Arielle Castillo
Published: June 4, 2009
Atlanta-based trio Last November plays two gigs in South Florida this weekend, hitting an early all-ages gig tomorrow night at Respectable Street Cafe in West Palm Beach, and...
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Night&Day
Put Your Pinkies Out
By Raina McLeod
Published: June 4, 2009
Chai or Earl Grey? Sugar or Splenda? Milk or honey? Milk and honey? Choosing the elements of the perfect cup of tea can be a bit daunting. In a perfect world, the spot-on spot...
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Metro
Edison High Football Star Makes a Great Escape
Philip Thomas dodges the tackles of a crime-ridden childhood.
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Published: June 4, 2009
Philip Thomas often speaks so fast he seems to interrupt himself, but his soft, light brown eyes keep earnest contact. The muscular six-foot, 185-pound teenage athlete wears...
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Strouse
Spies in the Magic City
The Supreme Court will decide whether to reconsider conviction of the Cuban Five.
By Chuck Strouse
Published: June 4, 2009
Miami is on trial this month. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide June 15 whether we are scum-sucking Cuba haters. Five men — Gerardo Hernández, René...
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Riptide
Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones Beats Corruption Charges
By Francisco Alvarado
Published: June 4, 2009
On the afternoon of May 27, the thunderstorms had just subsided outside the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church at 301 NW Ninth St., but inside, Commissioner Michelle...
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Riptide
Father Alberto Cutie Isn't the First to Change Religions
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Published: June 4, 2009
Last Thursday, TV personality, beach canoodler, and sometime Catholic priest Alberto Cutié joined the Episcopal Church. His official reason: He had "searched [his] soul...
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Riptide
Bay of Pigs Vet Seeks Miami City Commission Seat
By Francisco Alvarado
Published: June 4, 2009
After 11 years away from elected office, Luis Morse is ready for a comeback. The 69-year-old Bay of Pigs veteran is one of seven contenders looking to take the Miami City...
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Magic City Kitty
Three Was Company
When a mènage á trois becomes a twosome.
By Raina McLeod
Published: June 4, 2009
Hello, Kitty: A few weeks ago, I came home to find my husband having sex with my cousin. When I walked in the door, they looked at me and then just kept pumping away. The three...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of June 4, 2009
"I've seen racing greyhounds covered in mud, fleas, their own feces, and sores and gashes that would horrify even a vet."
Published: June 4, 2009
No Justice Sloppy reporting: I remember the William Fenzau murder case from The First 48, but I don't get the angle of Francisco Alvarado's May 28 story, "Rush to Justice."...
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Music
Poplife Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary
The long-standing local shindig went down at White Room.
By John Hood
Published: June 4, 2009
"They've created the party that they want to go to themselves." That's DJ/remixer Nick Catchdubs, talking about the folks behind Miami's own Poplife. Catchdubs knows of what he...
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Burner
Head Spins: DJ Jenni Foxx
The go-to gal for good times.
By John Hood
Published: June 4, 2009
Hurricane Wilma was devastating for a lot of folks, but not for Jenni Foxx. See, on that 2005 day after the storm hit, she happened to have a scheduled DJ audition at the...
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Burner
Animal Collective Tunes In, Drops Out, Grows Up
On the radical serenity/serene radicalism of Merriweather Post Pavilion.
By Mike Powell
Published: June 4, 2009
Animal Collective has released nine albums in the past nine years, all challenging, all imperfect but innovative, all substantially different. Some are placid, others...
