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1. Letters

   Letters from the Issue of November 29, 2007

   "We need 100 more Patrick Williamses. I would cheerfully sign a petition for a statue in his name."

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Liberty City Eight Put the prosecutors on trial too: Regarding Bob Norman's November 22 story "Have Terror, Will Travel": Great article about the work of a great investigator...

2. Night&Day

   On to the Next Holiday

   Get in the Christmas spirit at Festival of the Trees.

   By PRISCILLA GOMEZ

   Published: November 29, 2007

   After you’re done with the leftover turkey (or tofurkey) and you’re fed up with pesky relatives, it’s time to escape and surround yourself with some of the most...

3. Night&Day

   A Hidden Gem

   By ALEXIS CAPUTO

   Published: November 29, 2007

   In a city as diverse as Miami, Café Soul, an intimate lounge in Liberty City, has plenty to offer. Jazz in the City at Café Soul is a secret salon of culture for...

4. Night&Day

   Vive Haiti!

   Celebrate our island neighbor at the Haitian Heritage Museum.

   By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Today -- just in time for the hustle and bustle of Art Basel, in the middle of the Design District – art lovers and culture appreciators will celebrate the opening of the...

5. Night&Day

   Calling All Wenches

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Are you pale, malnourished, and gap-toothed? Can you mimic a generic English accent, or jam your ham-size mammies up through a corset? Do you strum a mean lute? Do you carry...

6. Night&Day

   Who Let the Dogs Out?

   Tame those claws and pamper your paws at Meduhr.

   By Raina McLeod

   Published: November 29, 2007

   This morning the sound of Daft Punk blaring from your clock radio jerked you from a blissful state. You felt a draft swirling over your body, looked down, and found your bed...

7. Night&Day

   Seeing the Light

   Blind Melon emerges from the Nineties relatively unscathed.

   By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

   Published: November 29, 2007

   You’re an early-Nineties band that gets pigeonholed into the “alternative” category. You have one big, insanely overplayed MTV hit, which you follow up with an edgier, darker...

8. Feature

   Haitians Sent Home

   Refugees fled slavery, slaughter, and starvation, and got rejected.

   By Janine Zeitlin

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Swami Lalitananda planned to hit the gym this past March 28. But then she decided on an early-morning stroll along Hallandale Beach. She crossed A1A and watched the 15...

9. Metro

   Haven and Hell

   As Chávez grabs more power, three Venezuelans who fled death threats find their struggles don't end with asylum.

   By Janine Zeitlin

   Published: November 29, 2007

   Roger Vivas peels off his headphones after reading the 5 p.m. news on La Poderosa (670 AM) from the station's offices on SW 27th Avenue. The dark-eyed 56-year-old Venezuelan,...

10. Metro

    Students Get the Shuffle

    Is anyone teaching Patrick Williams's classes?

    By Francisco Alvarado

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Entering his senior year at William H. Turner Technical Arts High School, Miami Gardens teenager Julio Gonzalez was looking forward to his third-period AP Spanish class this...

11. Riptide

    Doppelganger Goes Down

    Longtime con man Thomas Barrett Stringer gets caught

    By Francisco Alvarado, Janine Zeitlin and Calvin Godfrey

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Doppelganger Goes Down Filed under: News When I wrote the tale of Thomas Barrett Stringer, a 42-year-old con man with a record of stealing identities and committing financial...

12. Music

    Pop Culture

    Iggy and the Stooges are back and still searching to destroy.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Rock historians regard the glory years of the Stooges to be 1969 and 1970, when the proto-punk act released The Stooges and Fun House, their two most influential albums. But...

13. Music

    Space Oddity

    Coheed and Cambria create their own peculiar universe.

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: November 29, 2007

    At times, the oeuvre of Coheed and Cambria can make classic rock works like The Wall or Tommy seem as though they were based on the flimsiest of gimmicky ideas. Really. The...

14. Rotations

    Chris Brown

    Exclusive (Jive)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Chris Brown has been well known to the screaming underage masses for a minute now, but he broke out to a wider audience at this year's MTV Video Music Awards show. There he...

15. Rotations

    The Libertines

    Time for Heroes: The Best of the Libertines (Rough Trade)

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Pete Doherty can skim a police blotter and place tiny red check marks next to all possible offenses. What crime hasn't our gack-obsessed, Coleridge-invoking roue committed?...

16. Burner

    Moments Like These

    Our time-traveling reviewer peeks into Kelly Clarkson’s future.

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Concert Review: Kelly Clarkson at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace — November 14, 2025: It's been 22 years since Celine Dion turned the Colosseum at Caesars Palace into...

17. Burner

    Put on Your Yarmulke

    Hypothetical Hanukkahs with some of our favorite stars.

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: November 29, 2007

    These days most gentiles — that's non-Jews, folks — think Hanukkah is some sort of Christmas equivalent for God's chosen people. But the truth is, it's one of...

18. Burner

    Fishin' for Bass

    Former 'N Sync member's memoir is a surprisingly good read.

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: November 29, 2007

    'N Sync was so popular around the turn of the millennium that even I — jaded, posturing music critic — bought the band's second album, No Strings Attached. It sold...

19. Livewire

    Plastic Parachute

    By Eric W. Saeger

    Published: November 29, 2007

    Kicking off Friday's Suenalo Sound System show at Jazid are Deb Hooks's do-me pumps. Um, I mean Plastic Parachute. The alt-pop quartet is a road-dog-and-a-half, doing about 250...

20. Livewire

    Artevivo

    By Julienne Gage

    Published: November 29, 2007

    In today's world of Cuban music, there's nothing really exotic about a band as well rehearsed in chamber music as it is in rock. But roll back the clock to the end of the Cold...