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Compiled By Bill Gallo, Melissa Levine, Jean Oppenheimer, Luke Y. Thompson and Robert Wilonsky Published:
December 29, 2005
Amid Hollywood's zillion-dollar explosions and computer-enhanced trickery, plenty of quieter, better films sneaked into theaters virtually unnoticed this year. Following are...
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Hip-Hop Hors D'oeuvres
There were at least a couple of classic albums (Beanie Sigel's The B. Coming and Kanye West's Late Registration) and a slew of great ones (Madlib's The...
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Wine bars have quietly become big business in Miami. Among the better of our relatively recent arrivals are D'Vine District Restaurant and Wine Bar in the Design District, Vine...
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The gifted Irish novelist and filmmaker Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins) says that his overriding concern is "how individuals work with what they've been given."...
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Continuing the tradition of bringing the world’s performers to its stages, the Carnival Center presents Yin Mei in Nomad: The River. A dancer and choreographer borne of...
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A night of drinking in Coconut Grove can feel like some kind of extreme sports competition. The rickshaw dudes pop wheelies, testing their passengers’ fluid-retention...
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Exits and Entrances: When Athol Fugard is in town, he has the well-earned ability to suck the air out of any other plays competing with him on any given night. This snapshot of...
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With a Blade TV show in the works from Spike TV and powder-faced My Chemical Romance fans carrying the goth torch at Hot Topic, this would seem the perfect time to resurrect...
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Microsoft isn't described as an underdog very often. But in the world of videogames, Sony's PlayStation is king, and all others fight for scraps. While Microsoft's Xbox managed...
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Nowhere Man (Image Entertainment)
There's good reason why you've never heard of this UPN show from the mid-'90s, which lasted 25 episodes before getting shuttled off to, well,...
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On the last Saturday before Christmas, Mr. Pocketbook, a purse store, was blissfully void of holiday cheer — no windows adorned with mechanical elves, no Kenny G...
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Hate it or love it, reggaeton was everywhere in 2005. It became the format for dozens of Latin radio stations across the nation. Two of its biggest stars — Tego Calderon...
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Eating your way through the creations served in Miami's restaurants is a lot like picking wild berries. Sometimes what you're faced with are immature and not ready for...
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In 1968 it was a movie. In 2001 it became a musical. Now it's a movie again? Yes, and there's actually good reason to return The Producers to the screen. The original film,...
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Stepping inside Wynwood's new Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (HACS), one is instantly surprised by an image of a visibly aroused Jesus Christ lounging atop a tattered red...
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2005 may be the last hurrah for this generation's aging consoles, but sugar, they're going down swingin'.
The PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Game Cube age gracefully, pushing their...
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On a recent Tuesday evening, Moshe Tendler, an influential Orthodox rabbi and Yeshiva University biology professor, ambled onto the stage at Kovens Conference Center in North...
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This year's crop of electronic music seemed more concerned with looking in than locking in. For the most part top producers haven't seemed as worried about innovation as...
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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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Ab-Normal Beauty (Tartan)
Art of the Devil (Tokyo Shock)
Bram Stoker's Dracula/Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Sony)
Caged Heat (Buena Vista)
Dark Water (Buena Vista)...
