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Night&Day
Are You a Side Door Man?
By JOSE D. DURAN
Published: October 15, 2009
South Beach's Rokbar is really neither a rock club nor a bar. Instead, the hip lounge focuses on bringing together beautiful people with a yen for bottle service and plenty of...
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Night&Day
P-Lo and All That Jazz
By Christopher Lopez
Published: October 15, 2009
Yo P-Lo, this is C-Lo. I just want to say, I dig your groove. For those of you as yet unfamiliar with the P-Lo in question, he is none other than Patrick Lopez (no relation),...
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Riptide
Miami commission candidate Frank Carollo had bitter breakup with Roy Black's ex and lied to cops
By Tim Elfrink
Published: October 15, 2009
Just before 2 a.m. inside a tony Key Biscayne waterfront condo, a woman clad only in panties chased a dark-haired 22-year-old into the hallway, screaming and smacking his...
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Riptide
Miami's MSG Cartel graffiti crew crumbles
By Natalie O'Neill
Published: October 15, 2009
Atomik, a hot-tempered graffiti bomber, shakes a can of yellow spray paint and nods toward a pair of toothless Haitian men. "These guys won't mind if I tag their dumpster," he...
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Riptide
Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter threatened at gunpoint by her father, Tamarac mayoral candidate Ed Portner
By Bob Norman
Published: October 15, 2009
Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter was literally being backed into a corner in her Parkland home, afraid for her life. Her 84-year-old father, Ed Portner, angry and distraught,...
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Metro
Hoops hero Rumeal Robinson lost his Maserati, machine gun, and mom
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Published: October 15, 2009
With three seconds left in the game and his University of Michigan squad trailing Seton Hall by one point, 22-year-old guard Rumeal Robinson lined up for two all-important free...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of October 15, 2009
Published: October 15, 2009
Talkin' Terrorism You bet we're a beacon: "Holy War" (Trevor Aaronson, October 8) is yet another tragic example of how this country made the decision many years ago to forego...
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Magic City Kitty
Friends and maybe lovers
By Raina McLeod
Published: October 15, 2009
Hello, Kitty: After eight long years of friendship, I'm ready to tell my bff I'm in love with her. When we first met, it was under the pretense that I wanted to date her, but...
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Music
Los Amigos Invisibles play downtown Miami's Kukaramakara this Sunday
By Christopher Lopez
Published: October 15, 2009
Los Amigos Invisibles' stylistic self-pronouncement on their 1995 debut was misleading. The album was called A Typical and Autoctonal Venezuelan Dance Band, a title clearly...
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Crossfade
Head Spins: DJ Damaged Goods helms the decks at Louis and White Room
By John Hood
Published: October 15, 2009
For a cat who claims he'd play whatever it takes to get folks on the dance floor, DJ Damaged Goods has a rather rarefied playlist. A pairing of Soulja Boy's "Turn My Swag On"...
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Crossfade
Tiesto plays Saturday at the Fontainebleau's LIV
By Tony Ware
Published: October 15, 2009
Dutch DJ Tiësto is like clubland's equivalent to J.R.R. Tolkien's one ring. The recipient of multiple "world's number one DJ" awards from DJ magazine and other...
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Crossfade
Bay Area breakbeat god Bassnectar hits White Room
By John Hood
Published: October 15, 2009
If Adbusters made music or Negativland veered more toward the dance floor, the result might come off booming like Bassnectar. Of course, the world would have to be ending...
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Livewire
Alex Cuba
By Arielle Castillo
Published: October 15, 2009
Now based in British Columbia, of all places, singer-songwriter Alex Cuba is surely a long way from the homeland reflected in his stage name. Born in the town of Artemisa some...
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Livewire
Shit Robot
By Arielle Castillo
Published: October 15, 2009
The little "influences" box on a musician's MySpace page is usually a repository for unfunny irony or complete BS. Shit Robot's, however, is as sincere and accurate as this...
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Livewire
Leonard Cohen
By Mark Keresman
Published: October 15, 2009
Few singer-songwriters are genuine trailblazers. Leonard Cohen is a poet pioneer rooted in the Dylan pantheon in terms of artistic influence and resilience. But while Cohen's...
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Livewire
Thursday
By Arielle Castillo
Published: October 15, 2009
In the post-hardcore pantheon, the New Jersey guys of Thursday are millennial gods. Led by the unapologetically erudite frontman Geoff Rickly, in the late ’90s and early...
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Cafe
Botequim Carioca brings gutsy, affordable Brazilian fare to downtown Miami
By Lee Klein
Published: October 15, 2009
"It is Brazil's time," an exuberant President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva exclaimed when his country won the bid to host the 2016 Olympics. A rowdy crowd at Botequim...
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Film
Where the Wild Things Are: Let the mild rumpus begin!
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 15, 2009
Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are might be the toughest adaptation since Tim Burton fashioned...
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Film
Couples Retreat
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: October 15, 2009
Couples, retreat. In the latest from Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau (co-starring and co-writing), we learn that one compelling reason to make a life commitment is so you will...
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Art
"Imperfect Archives" at 801 Projects poignantly portrays the past
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: October 15, 2009
Sitting at a work table, Nereida Garcia Ferraz hands out recipes for boniatillo con queso to a throng of strangers cramping her installation at Little Havana's 801...
