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Dissin' Cousins
Give this man a polygraph!: Congratulations to Miami New Times and Francisco Alvarado for having the courage to print the truth about my first cousin, Chris...
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There aren’t many professions where tight pants, big hair, and hard living are applauded, but when a rock star clocks in, those are exactly the traits that make stadium...
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Say what you will about Dave Chappelle, but dude knows what’s important in life. He had a fat $55-million contract to continue doing Chappelle’s Show for Comedy...
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“A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but ...” you know what? Marilyn Monroe got it wrong. Diamonds are beautiful and all, but the whole conflict controversy...
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Back in 1965, a young Philip Glass learned the intricate techniques of Indian music from legendary sitar master Ravi Shankar. Enamored with those exotic Indian ragas, the...
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Before the sun rises over Miami — before the highways swell with traffic and the streets begin to hum with the sound of a million motors turning at once — the...
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On December 12, three days after her brother caught a stray bullet during a drug turf war in one of Opa-locka's notorious HUD apartment complexes, Natasha Irving unleashed her...
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By Deirdra Funcheon, Francisco Alvarado and Janine Zeitlin
Published:
January 31, 2008
The D-Train Leaves the Station
Filed under: Sports
That giant sucking sound?
It was the now-familiar whoosh of baseball talent being slurped away from the...
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Three skulls lay in the dust beneath silvery buttonwood leaves. Two were covered in rotting flesh. One had been severed by a hacksaw.
That was December. A month prior, a...
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Placing a phone call to Austin Barber, vocalist and guitarist for Oakland-based quartet Saviours, can be off-putting. After a few rings, his voicemail greeting comes on, a...
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"My Lord," you might be saying, "Ween is still around?" And how, brother. Dismissed for two decades as a joke band, Ween has labored in sorta-obscurity while somehow...
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Steve Bug will not make you run through the streets nude. Using digital production suite Ableton Live, Bug has strung together 22 druggy, dubby, minimal-funk tracks that will...
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Sweet post-holiday stocking stuffer or iPod space waster? That should be the only relevant question when discussing a free 13-song "album" from the established rap statesmen...
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A brilliant South African warrior and king in the 18th Century, the legendary Shaka Zulu was one of the great unifiers of his nation. On the other hand, he was a...
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The debut EP by Los Campesinos!, Sticking Fingers into Sockets, noodled its way onto an infinity of 2007 best-of ballots. Colorful aural confetti like "We Throw Parties, You...
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I don't care about his feathered hair. I don't care about his unfortunate fascination, in the Seventies and Eighties, with puff sleeves. Or his continuing fascination with...
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There's nothing I could say about local band The Eat that is not going to come across like some dribbly fanboy slosh. But I'll say it now, as I've said it a thousand times and...
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Admit it: Sometimes you're sitting around listening to your old Sex Pistols records and thinking, Which punk-rock icon has the biggest schlong? Or maybe you're wondering, What...
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Considering Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are headlining Super Bowl XLII's halftime show, we couldn't help wondering which other acts would deserve the chance to play to one...
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Led by singer/guitarist Mike Montero, OSO exhibits a great knack for spacey, jammy prog-rock reminiscent of Particle. The band's full-length LP, You Know, was released...
