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Christina Swanson sits backward on a chair, cocks her head, and wraps her rough hands with tape. The younger fighters try not to stare. Maybe it's the moon-shaped scar on her...
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Leonardo DiCaprio made it look easy when he painted Kate Winslet’s character in the buff on the doomed cruise ship the Titanic. But in real life, unless the setting is as...
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After dark, Paul Gaeta, AKA PG-13 and the founder of Circuitree Records, can be found blistering local clubs with hip-grinding electronic and hip-hop beats. But by day, the...
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During club nights at chichi South Beach venues, ladies wear dresses that resemble sausage casings, fellas don bedazzled T-shirts, and everyone waits outside, hoping to be one...
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The silver lining around the Pig-Pen-like cloud of humidity that descends over Miami is that Miami Spice — the citywide festival that offers gourmet food at incredible...
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Since debuting the Wildcat formation last September in a defining win against the Patriots, Tony Sparano and company have been guarding the recipe like Fort Knox gold. What new...
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At the first annual Sunset Spa Soiree benefit this Saturday, your little black dress and stilettos won’t be required. Host organization the Miami Light Project asks only...
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Our daddies taught us two important lessons in life: Never start a land war in Asia, and never play dominoes against a guy with a Puerto Rican flag tattooed on his arm....
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Azúcar! If your hips start moving at the mere mention of Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa, put on your dancing shoes and get on over to the eighth annual Miami Salsa Congress...
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The third annual Red Bull Manny Mania is a contest including 50 local amateur skateboarders who compete for $7,000 in prizes as well as national glory. But here’s the...
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The Village People have made it so that we can't go to our local purveyor of free fitness and (we hope) judgment-free locker-room sex without humming the legendary tune. Hell,...
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What is Montreal’s impact? Mostly banana-hammock bathing suits, “Je me souviens” license plates clogging the fast lanes in February, and the band Of Montreal,...
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Julio “the Kidd” Diaz was born in Coachella, California, presumably during the third encore of a Wilco concert. Inside that seasonal cloud of dehydrated hipsters,...
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Now and again, it becomes absolutely necessary to revisit your teen self, resetting to age 16 for a minute. Things these days can get desperate; maybe life is a permanent lost...
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Jazz combos helmed by a bass player have a solid track record: Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, Dave Holland, and, if electric is your thing, Stanley Clarke. Maybe one day,...
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After stepping out of the limelight for eight years, neo-soul innovator Maxwell finally has a new album out: BLACKSummers Night (Columbia). It’s the first part of a...
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Origin stories have taken over comic books; why not the rest of literature?
Herman Melville's Captain Ahab is one of the more intriguing characters in American bookdom, but by...
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Remember when there was an understanding that if an actor’s career crossed the hills into the San Fernando Valley, she was done as a serious actress? My, how things have...
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If the last time you ate at a buffet was in 1996 when you and your meemaw hit the Sizzler for platefuls of sliced meat, it might be time to revisit the idea of copious amounts...
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Committing murder usually results in arrest, sentencing, and a lifetime of trying to hold onto the fabled soap. But the Miami Beach Botanical Garden is putting the fun back...
