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This past April, when Rene Rodriguez retired as director of the Miami-Dade Housing Agency, his surprise announcement was accompanied by a florid memo to County Manager George...
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Urban Beach Week ... is the ultimate Beach Party ... You arrive on Thursday ... You check into your hotel ... and you begin to see people already mingling ... The road blocks,...
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By this time in a year of typical South Florida weather, locals would have retreated indoors weeks ago, not to emerge from our excellent air conditioning till October or so....
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Those people who live in small towns, they're not like you and me. So naive, so innocent. And adorably quirky. Why, they've got so many lovable quirks you just want to run up...
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Mention the name "Double R" to any semihip urbanite and they'll know what you're talking about: Ruff Ryders.
The phenomenon was born in New York with Ruff Ryder Records, home...
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There are few sure things in theater, as in life, but a sex comedy from funnyman Steve Martin performed by a first-rate cast should be one of those. Sad to say, The Underpants,...
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Life could hardly get any worse for Mario Barcia. He's unemployed and broke. He and his wife have crammed themselves into the home of a relative. A court order prevents him...
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Evolution can't happen without the past and house music can't move forward without its history intact. This is the philosophy Grammy-winning DJ/producer Peter Rauhofer...
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Sitting through Raising Helen is an exercise in frustration, because somewhere inside this big heap of Hollywood nothing is a something (someone, actually) worth saving and...
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By Nina Korman and Juan Carlos Rodriguez Published:
May 27, 2004
Thursday 5/27
Since February literary types have been reading, discussing, and analyzing Edwidge Danticat's novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, as part of the One Book, One Community...
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As much as Miami has grown as an arts capital, there still is much to be done. The art explosion fostered by the migration of Art Basel has been terrific. Yet our city will not...
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The Bitch has been thinking and cannot come up with one single reason why it would possibly ever be okay to drive a Boeing 747 up and down the boulevards of our municipality....
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It's not easy keeping up with Lil' Jon. On a warm spring evening inside Jonathan Smith's mansion on the exclusive South Beach community Sunset Island Number One, a temporary...
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Run-D.M.C.'s pristine Adidas, Biz Markie's big diamond-encrusted nameplate, Flava Flav's bigger watch, giant gold rope chains, enormous boom boxes, Futura 2000, Doug E. Fresh...
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Carlos Suarez De Jesus, Alfredo Triff and Michelle Weinberg Published:
May 27, 2004
i am the resurrection: Works by Daniel Arsham, Ian Cooper, Jay Heikes, and Rachel Howe circle cautiously around Goth culture and the spate of recent school shootings by...
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Hooligan's Pub owner Jay Love touts himself as a common-sense alternative to the career politicians and slick elites populating the pack in the upcoming Miami-Dade mayoral...
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Against All Authority
Against All Authority has just returned from a two-month tour across the States on which it shared the bill with the Code and the Suicide Machines. On...
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Nina Korman and Juan Carlos Rodriguez Published:
May 27, 2004
NOW 24/7
The violence was appalling. The coverup was scandalous. The acquittal by an all-white jury in Tampa of four white Miami-Dade County police officers charged with...
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A Grateful Mother, a Lost Son
And a crime unsolved: Bill Jensen's article about my late son RJ Lockwood ("Hardcore and Bleeding," May 20) was great except for one thing: I...
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Several years ago, U2 singer Bono told Rolling Stone magazine about a visit he and bassist Adam Clayton once made to the home of fellow devout Christians Johnny and June Carter...