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Livewire
2020Soundsystem
By Tony Ware
Published: November 5, 2009
Hailing from Leeds, England, 2020Soundsystem is a quartet that puts the disco in disconnected. The combined effort of Danny "Dubble D" Ward, Ralph Lawson, Fernando Pulichino,...
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Livewire
Sander Kleinenberg
By Jose D. Duran
Published: November 5, 2009
You already know Sander Kleinenberg's music, although you might not be aware of that fact. You probably first heard it at a certain Park West nightclub at 8 a.m. while rolling...
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Livewire
Mixhell
By Arielle Castillo
Published: November 5, 2009
It's enough to make metal purists wail and gnash their teeth. Half of the producer/DJ duo Mixhell, Iggor Cavalera cofounded seminal Brazilian groove-metal act Sepultura when he...
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Livewire
Damas Gratis
By Christopher Lopez
Published: November 5, 2009
Unless you reside in Little Buenos Aires (around North Beach, where Las Vacas Gordas throw down!), it's possible you're unfamiliar with Damas Gratis. Hailing from Argentina,...
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Livewire
The Black Death All-Stars
By Arielle Castillo
Published: November 5, 2009
And so continues DIY punks' fascination with bluegrass. Among a subset of youth that patches its own pants and enjoys hitchhiking to places such as Pensacola, the fiddle and...
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Livewire
Badfish
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: November 5, 2009
Long Beach-bred punk-ska band Sublime was on the verge of national success when frontman Brad Nowell died of a heroin overdose in 1996, right after work on Sublime's...
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Cafe
Balans has good food, cocktails, and ambiance but lacks character
By Lee Klein
Published: November 5, 2009
Eating at Balans is like buying clothes at the Gap. It's like reading a novel by John Grisham. It's like being a Blue Dog Democrat. In a word: meh. This occurs to me while...
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Film
The Men Who Stare at Goats: Did aliens abduct George Clooney's sense of humor?
By J. Hoberman
Published: November 5, 2009
Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination, and 9/11 are all naturally understood as the stuff of unimaginable...
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Film
A Christmas Carol: A very CGI Christmas
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 5, 2009
It's not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved (and much lampooned) Dickens tale that has survived nearly two...
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Film
This Is It: Michael Jackson goes out with a whimper
By Zach Baron
Published: November 5, 2009
Less documentary than closely and manipulatively edited homage to the new-agey “genius” of frequent Michael Jackson collaborator and High School Musical auteur Kenny...
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Art
World leaders should see the Frost Art Museum's latest exhibits
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: November 5, 2009
October was a strange month. It began with Barack Obama shunning the Dalai Lama in order to keep hardliners in Communist China mollified. Just a few days later, the president...
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Books
The 2009 Miami Book Fair offers a strange brew of talent
By P. Scott Cunningham, Natalie O'Neill, Lee Klein and Arielle Castillo
Published: November 5, 2009
Call it Book Fair Ultra, but not Book Fair Lite. Thanks to state budget cuts for the arts, the staff at the Florida Center for the Literary Arts had to brew this year's 26th...
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Current Art Shows
Art Capsules
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: November 5, 2009
Devil's Disciple Through November 21. O.H.W.O.W., 3100 NW Seventh Ave., Miami; 305-633-9345; oh-wow.com. Monday through Friday noon to 5 p.m. NeckFace, the graffiti ghoul who...
