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Best of Miami 2009
It's a steal.
Published: June 11, 2009
Miami and crime go together like Crockett and Tubbs. This city, after all, has been the backdrop for Grand Theft Auto, CSI: Miami, and that infamous ’80s TV show that...
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Be There, If Not Always, At Least For Tonight
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: June 11, 2009
Kathleen Hudspeth was born in Miami and has been working her butt off in the art world for longer than 99% of the local galleries have existed. Whether exhibiting at Bass and...
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The Magic Eye
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: June 11, 2009
During the past few decades, Leonard Krakovitch King has tinkered with the way we see ourselves. In 1972, the innovative Coconut Grove artist invented a contraption he calls...
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The Lovin’ Gallery-ful
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: June 11, 2009
One thing Wynwood is short on is trees, which somewhat spoils the prospect of strolling around and peeking your head into art galleries during the month of June. But the folks...
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Cocaine Waterboys
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: June 11, 2009
After seeing almost a hundred years’ worth of gangster films, we’re all familiar with the tropes: greed, betrayal, restitution, etc., and of course the black-market...
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The Rule of Three Goes Musical
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: June 11, 2009
Summer — the triple plague of humidity, mosquitoes, and bored teenagers — is upon us. The folks at the SoBe Music Institute can’t solve the first two, but...
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Bling-Bling You Can Make-Make
By Raina McLeod
Published: June 11, 2009
Once you’ve felt the weight of 24-karat gold on your earlobes, it’s tough to go back to rockin’ the stuff that turns your listening machines green. Same goes for...
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Take It Offshore
By JESSIE LUTTMAN
Published: June 11, 2009
Leave your topsiders at home, Pops — this definitely isn’t your grandfather’s afternoon regatta. The biggest powerboats in the nation are revving it up in Sunny...
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Their Skills Are Blazin’
By Raina McLeod
Published: June 11, 2009
You don’t have to have silver hair or a neck full of wrinkles to enjoy the sounds of music that emanate from the Miami chamber choir Seraphic Fire. This assemblage of...
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Can We Call You Yak?
By Raina McLeod
Published: June 11, 2009
While the rest of the country is frolicking in unabashed sunshine, we’re cursed with a summer of dank, rainy weather. We’d bet that weeks full of days that make you...
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Flying Solo
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: June 11, 2009
Michael Genovese’s art career began with professional training in sign painting, a skill set that perhaps explains why his work is so technically precise. From his...
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Unnecessary Fitness
By Raina McLeod
Published: June 11, 2009
January brings cold ocean temps, but in the 305, there’s always at least a heated pool you can dive into. Yet corporate America seems to think the arrival of June means...
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Who Got Hex?
By Raina McLeod
Published: June 11, 2009
In case you thought Miami was all about McMansions and 24-hour high-rises, get acquainted with Coral Castle. Built in 1923 by Edward Leedskalnin, a Latvian-American whose...
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The Granddaddy of Groove
By S. PAJOT
Published: June 11, 2009
The average lifespan of a Miami Beach club is a stat that seems to be continuously closing in on zero. That’s why Jazid, only now entering its teens, can be said to have...
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Big Ideas, Little Haiti
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: June 11, 2009
One of the benefits of having artists hanging around town is that while we’re working, they’re thinking. The bad ones are usually thinking about themselves, but the...
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Play Polynesian
By MIKE SAUER
Published: June 11, 2009
If the extent of your knowledge in Tiki culture is the talking parrot ride at Disney World, it’s time to wise up. For the past seven years, a band of so-called Tikiphiles...
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Shut Your Mouth, Sojourner
By Raina McLeod
Published: June 11, 2009
The term blaxploitation was coined to describe a film genre that targeted urban audiences, was often set in U.S. ghettos, freely used the word honky, and stereotyped blacks as...
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A New Edition to Your Weekend
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: June 11, 2009
Hey, lady friend, we’ve been going steady for five months now and Daddy thinks it’s about time we take that next step. It’s time to put on that red dress, those...
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Wag the Art
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: June 11, 2009
Dog-themed art has a message for you. It doesn’t appreciate being reduced to the series of 16 “dogs playing poker” paintings that Cassius Marcellus Coolidge made...
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Mascot Wars
By JACOB KATEL
Published: June 11, 2009
At 12:10 p.m. this Thursday, the Florida Marlins will play the St. Louis Cardinals. Cardinals are stupid. Wikipedia says they’re “seed eaters.” What kind of...
