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Burner
Head Spins: DJ Billy Paul
Bringing the world to South Beach and beyond.
By John Hood
Published: June 25, 2009
On any given Thursday evening at the Palms Hotel on South Beach, you'll find an intimate confab of hipsters swaying to a decidedly worldly beat. The party's called Sip and Spa,...
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Livewire
Los de Adentro
By Christopher Lopez
Published: June 25, 2009
Hailing from Baranquilla, Colombia, this three-piece comprises lead singer Joe Carvajal, guitarist Eliuth Martinez, and keyboardist Johan Daccarett. They're not exactly new to...
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Livewire
On a Square
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: June 25, 2009
On a Square is unapologetically old school, a band that seems to relish in hum-worthy melodies and feel-good sounds, even at the risk of appearing somewhat archaic. Truth be...
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Livewire
DJ Chachi
By John Hood
Published: June 25, 2009
It would be enough of an accomplishment if 24-year-old DJ Chachi simply spun at Tenjune — after all, it is one of the Big Bad Apple's hippest hot spots. But that's not...
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Livewire
Juan Luis Guerra
By Christopher Lopez
Published: June 25, 2009
It's nearly impossible to write a concise description of Juan Luis Guerra that sums up his accomplishments and accurately conveys just what he's meant to not just the tropical...
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Livewire
MSTRKRFT
By Reyan Ali
Published: June 25, 2009
Do thumping club tracks move better when they're being pumped out by a couple of guys donning gold Jason Voorhees masks? Maybe. In the four years that Toronto duo MSTRKRFT has...
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Cafe
Flapjack Flip-Off IX: Special Hoity-Toity Hotel Edition
Recognized, if not widely, as one of the planet's grandest griddlecake events.
By Lee Klein
Published: June 25, 2009
Hotcakes are hotter than ever, but we at Flip-Off Headquarters humbly refrain from taking all the credit; we're probably only 80 percent responsible, 90 tops. Of course there...
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Film
Whatever Works: Enthusiasm, Curbed
Not even the great Larry David can salvage Woody's shtick.
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 25, 2009
Character is destiny — at least for Woody Allen's Whatever Works. Allen's exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a snatch of Groucho Marx singing his trademark...
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Film
Transformers: The Mighty Have Fallen
Michael Bay can't live up to Michael Bay in Part 2.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 25, 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a bewildering, noisy, sloppy, cynical piece of work, a movie that sneers at the audience for 147 minutes and expects us to lap it up as...
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Art
MoCa's Meet and Neat
No convention will ever be the same after this new show in North Miami.
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: June 25, 2009
Dave McKenzie plans to meet a stranger at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. He'd like to take that person to dinner and pick up the tab. The Jamaican artist has...
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Stage
Adrift in The New Century at GableStage
You'll fall in love with these characters.
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: June 25, 2009
The New Century will be a gay one, or so Paul Rudnick seems to suggest. His play's three central characters — a Jewish mother of three sodomites, the self-proclaimed...
