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Standing in a dark suit during an Oval Office ceremony on May 29 with his brother Jeb at his side, President George Bush announced that the federal government would rescue Big...
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Whatever you call the Damn Personals, please, please don't refer to them as the saviors of rock and roll, even if their retro indie rock is the stuff that makes lazy music...
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I could blame Zagat for my heading to Caffe Vialetto with visions of haute conch and upscale callaloo in my head, but I'm too big for that. It's true the dining guide ranks...
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Roger Avary's screenplay for The Rules of Attraction is a remarkable work of literature: the disassembly and reconstruction of an impenetrable book by Bret Easton Ellis; a...
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Check beneath overpasses throughout Miami during the evening and you're sure to find more than just the homeless, assures Greynolds Park naturalist Paula Schneeburger. Making...
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One of the fascinating oddities of theater in South Florida is the offbeat locations where it turns up. Local companies are found in some of the least likely places: The...
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Jorge Mursuli has carved out a career in Miami as a tireless defender of personal freedoms and free speech. He is the former director of SAVE Dade, a gay-rights group; a board...
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Beneath the shimmery dresses and couture suits, Miamians are social animals driven into the night by the basic need to connect. No one really likes to be at home on a city...
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In terms of lunch-hour possibilities, 41st Street is a great place to make a bank withdrawal, but not such a great place to spend same on grub. Not that there aren't eateries...
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The legend of director Werner Herzog goes something like this: Raised in a remote mountain village in the Black Forest of Germany, the young director-to-be lived with no...
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For the members of the Bonsai Society of Miami, size matters. Rather than dwell on the large, this assortment of tree lovers think diminutive is the desired scale -- at least...
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At a time when painting seems to be metamorphosing into myriad subcategories, few of them include direct figurative images set out of the ordinary. Christian Curiel is an...
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It's Saturday afternoon, October 5, just before the start of the inaugural Grand Prix Americas, the brand-new ultra-chic three-day motorsport extravaganza that commandeered...
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Maria Marocka is no schoolmarm. Over at Biscayne Gardens Elementary in North Miami, she's the cool teacher. Tall and glamorous with funky clothes and an asymmetrical haircut,...
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Where have all the Bahamians gone? The short answer: home. Seems like when I moved here a little more than a decade ago, Bahamian culture was dominant, and its influence was...
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"A lot of people say I'm difficult," Robert Rosenberg muses with an awkward smile, pausing over a description he's been hearing quite a lot lately. Leaning forward at a table...
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Ruben Blades has always made music that is a record of his time. In representing the soul of a marginal Latin American culture that has since moved into the mainstream, his...
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Was it the Brady Bunch who sang something like, "When it's time to change, you've got to rearrange?" Well, it might as well have been the Mango Gang. Joining Norman Van Aken...
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Poor Miami: No Tears
Don't just sit there -- do something substantial: Thanks very much to New Times for the special report on poverty in Miami ("We're Number One!" September...
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"I'm like the only Latin woman in hip-hop," declares radio personality/rapper Angie Martinez. Hmmm, what about fellow Puerto Rican rapper Ivy Queen? "Maybe this will make it...
