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Feature
Renegade Radio
A Miami radio station makes waves — short waves, that is
By Mariah Blake
Published: December 22, 2005
If you want to meet self-declared prophet James Lloyd in person, you have to drive twenty miles up winding dirt roads deep into the Oregon mountains. But there's no real need...
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Music
Holiday Dysfunction
It's the crap, crappiest season of all
By Cole Haddon
Published: December 22, 2005
When asked about favorite Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa memories, most people remember the good times. Ask a musician the same question and, instead of poignant tales of...
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Cafe
La Dolce Vida!
By Lee Klein
Published: December 22, 2005
The plates placed before us each contained two thin, bloody red strips of duck magret draped over an ever-so-slightly sweet risotto, rife with cooked cubes of Granny Smith...
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Film
Yuletide Fear
Wolf Creek rings in Christmas with a band of butchered tourists
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 22, 2005
The notion that Wolf Creek is opening nationwide Christmas Day brings to mind the scene from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, in which a young boy opens up his...
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Night&Day
New Year's Eve Listings
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Published: December 22, 2005
You can find these and more NYE listings in our Listings Search on the Night & Day page. Acqua. New Years at Acqua: Kickoff the evening celebrations with a festive...
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Night&Day
Grab Your Partner
By KAREN R. FIGUEIREDO
Published: December 22, 2005
So it’s almost 2006, and your idea of coordinated Latin dancing is a perfect rendition of the Cha-Cha Slide. Do you jump onto the dance floor for the Macarena, and run...
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Stage
Good Santa Hunting
You want face time with the Big Guy? Hand over some plastic, Mom
By DAVE AMBER
Published: December 22, 2005
Regardless of the damage done by David Sedaris's Santaland Diaries and Billy Bob Thornton's Bad Santa, the wide-eyed hope inspired by Santa lives on. Tots dressed in their...
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DVDish
The Impossible Bomb
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Published: December 22, 2005
Serenity (Universal) Joss Whedon's film version of his TV series Firefly came and went like a lightning bug in October; the predicted phenom stuck around the multiplex just...
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Metro
No Foul, No Crackup
After the ’cane, things were safer than you thought
By Forrest Norman
Published: December 22, 2005
Miami was quiet after Hurricane Wilma's winds subsided. Millions of people sat in shuttered homes listening to the final raindrops and withering gusts. But within hours, people...
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Apollo Kid
The Reggaeton Bible?
By Sam Chennault
Published: December 22, 2005
The Source Latino made its debut on newsstands across the nation this week. The South Beach-based publication is the first nationally distributed magazine to concentrate solely...
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Cafe
As Italian as a Caesar Salad
By Pamela Robin Brandt
Published: December 22, 2005
When in Rome, fourth-century Italian Saint Ambrose advised Saint Augustine, do as the Romans do. In terms of food, that would mean eating appetizers such as supplì al...
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Film
Tragedy Re-Revisited
Spielberg's Munich rehashes a tale we've heard before
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 22, 2005
Those who will sit around wondering whether Munich is the work of an anti-Israeli or just a self-hating Jew — which is to say, Steven Spielberg, who has been branded both...
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Art
Master of All He Surveys
Kingpin dealer stakes grand claim on the hood
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: December 22, 2005
On one of Wynwood's grittier side streets, a towering Fernando Botero sculpture of a nude male torso squats majestically behind a gated sidewalk, its crotch covered by a fig...
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DVDish
The Impossible Bomb
By Luke Y. Thompson, Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper
Published: December 22, 2005
(Universal) Joss Whedon's film version of his TV series Firefly came and went like a lightning bug in October; the predicted phenom stuck around the multiplex just long...
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Metro
Dangerous Work
Clean up at UM and you just might get burned
By Forrest Norman
Published: December 22, 2005
"I've only worked there for about five months. I was in good health when I started working there, but now I'm sick." Gisela Ochoa cleans bathrooms and offices at the...
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Burner
Bah ... PC Bug
By Sam Chennault
Published: December 22, 2005
Last month it was revealed that Sony BMG Music had been covertly installing spyware on its new CDs to combat music piracy. Sony used a program called XCP, created by UK firm...
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Art
Art Capsules
Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions
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Published: December 22, 2005
A Day and Forever: Ali Prosch makes a jaw-dropping statement with this multimedia exhibition sprinkled with witty doses of flair and drama that portray the lifestyles of the...
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Game On
Loaded GUN
Activision brings the neo-western to videogames, genocide included
By Gary Hodges
Published: December 22, 2005
The myth of the Wild West has mutated over the past half-century. Where once we thrilled to the wholesome exploits of the Lone Ranger, now we wallow in the mesmerizing...
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Metro
Coral Cataclysm
Teens clean in hurricane's wake
By Rob Jordan
Published: December 22, 2005
On the morning of Saturday, December 10, a dozen Miami Jackson Senior High School students sit with blank stares outside the Biscayne National Park visitor center in Homestead....
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Burner
Native Son
By Fernando Ruano, Jr
Published: December 22, 2005
It has been fifteen years since Albita Rodriguez decided to pack her bags and leave Cuba. And much has changed with the expressive and vocally gifted Cuban sonera/songwriter....
