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1. Preliminaries
I got an e-mail from a potential editor early one morning a couple of months ago. It gave me the okay to preach my particular brand of smack via an article on...
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The premise for Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz latest video, "Play No Games," is a straight-up contradiction. On the followup single to "I Don't Give a," the reigning Kings of...
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At the start of a new year everyone makes resolutions, 99 percent of which involve losing weight. Who makes these resolutions? Skinny people, like Miami's models. Curse them!...
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While filmgoers hungrily await this year's Miami International Film Festival feast, there are several tasty cinematic hors d'oeuvres now being offered at the Cosford Cinema....
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"There's no other dog like a dachshund," says the first line of the "Dachs Song," penned in 1991 by Paul de Vries and Murray Weinstock and available on CD via...
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In some ways schlock is similar to pornography: You may not be able to define it, but you know it when you see it, and there's a lot of it to be seen on South Florida stages...
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Kingsley Barham seems an unlikely candidate for king of crass. The once-handsome, now-haggard 56-year-old sleeps on a sofa bed in a ramshackle Delray Beach home from which he...
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It's been a long love story, but Martirio keeps romancing misty souls. The torch singer of the new Spain sets feet tapping and heads bobbing through a cigarette haze. Wearing...
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Restaurant reviewers and spies have a lot in common. We work covertly, report our findings, and get to attend the occasional cocktail party. True, the life of a spy is more...
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Compiled in the cold light of day, the sum of Chuck Barris's contributions to American culture are the top 40 ditty "Palisades Park," which he wrote in 1962, and his...
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"I feel most honest and sincere when drawing on paper," artist Pedro Vizcaino confesses in the slim catalogue accompanying the exhibition "Drawing Conclusions," which opened...
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Does John Renfrow suffer from a severely impaired memory? Or does Renfrow, director of Miami-Dade County's Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM), just want...
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Unlike the vast hordes of snowbirds, retirees, immigrants, exiles, and carpetbaggers who make up the bulk of the South Florida population, those born and raised here might...
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For one thing I've never sampled one, so I didn't know what it was supposed to look or taste like; baking blind can be as much of a gamble as an untried amusement park ride is...
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It all begins with the word. "I believe I may have a first sentence," murmurs Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) to her husband, Leonard (Stephen Dillane), commencing labor on the...
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The new program director of WMIB-FM (103.5) hasn't slept in three weeks. In fact he hasn't even left that radio station's Miramar studio. Instead he's manned the controls...
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You want to know how to play the game out there in the mean streets of clubland? You want to know how to get with the in crowd instead of having to call it an early evening...
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Here's some advice for The Bachelor -- and all those seeking to emulate him: Instead of pretending to be a millionaire, learn how to cook. The Ritz-Carlton in Coconut Grove is...
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Small-town stud Tully (Anson Mount) works the family farm with his younger brother Earl (Glenn Fitzgerald) and their inexpressive, unsmiling widower Dad (Bob Burrus) in Tully....
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Your Weakness, My Strength
The Herald and WLRN, imperfect singly, are perfect together: To learn from Rebecca Wakefield's article that cross-marketing opportunities could...
