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Night&Day
Curiouser and Curiouser
Bring your own subtext to Alice at The PlayGround Theatre.
By BRETT GILLIN
Published: March 27, 2008
Let’s face it -- there aren’t many reasons to see the Miami Heat right now. The games are meaningless, and without Wade, the prospects of playing spoiler to playoff...
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Night&Day
Curiouser and Curiouser
Bring your own subtext to Alice at The PlayGround Theatre.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: March 27, 2008
Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has proven to be the rarest kind of cultural phenomenon – a literary work beloved by adults and...
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Metro
Cane Collapse
How UM's March Madness came to an end.
By Sam Eifling
Published: March 27, 2008
On Sunday, you, dear Miami fan, watched the Hurricanes nearly claw their way past the favored Texas Longhorns into the Sweet 16. And as you did, you probably thought the same...
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Metro
Kid Stuff
Politics helped propel college dropout Carlos Manrique to the top of the educational ladder.
By Francisco Alvarado
Published: March 27, 2008
On a recent Thursday about 1 p.m., Carlos Manrique is driving his white Hyundai SUV west on the Dolphin Expressway when he grins and compares himself to the founder of software...
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Riptide
Cops Are Cranky
Miami spends $50K to find out the obvious.
By Tamara Lush, Francisco Alvarado and Janine Zeitlin
Published: March 27, 2008
$50,000 News Flash! Cops Are Cranky Filed under: News Results from a Miami Police Department "work climate" study are in, and it suffices to say the men and women who patrol...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of March 27, 2008
"To think otherwise would imply he is a panderer and a racist."
Published: March 27, 2008
Poison the Fox If you don't, you'll drink contaminated water: I applaud Isaiah Thompson for writing "Poisoned Well" (March 20). It has been a matter of great concern for all...
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Music
Sound Advice
How to indulge your musical ADD at Ultra.
By Tamara Palmer
Published: March 27, 2008
The real joy of a music festival is discovery, and the 10th edition of Ultra offers plenty of opportunities for it, whether through presenting familiar favorites in a new...
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Music
Kickin' It Old-School
DJ Jazzy Jeff and Biz Markie splash down at the Shelborne Hotel's Sunday pool party.
By Bernard Hacker
Published: March 27, 2008
Old-school, for people in their twenties to forties, is all about memories of growing up, from block parties and your uncle's Soul Train moves to Miami Vice-sytle silk...
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Burner
Witch Board Blues
The Mars Volta's ghoulish space race.
By John Hood
Published: March 27, 2008
The legend is such: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, six-string slinger and otherworldly composer for The Mars Volta, was one day rummaging around a junk shop in Jerusalem when he...
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Burner
Twilight Zone
Detroit's DJ Godfather wires up the ghetto.
By Tamara Palmer
Published: March 27, 2008
Soulja Boy might know how to "Crank Dat," but Detroit's DJ Godfather still had to crank the kid up several notches — and maybe Superman that ho — for his unofficial...
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Burner
Acceptable in the '00s
Calvin Harris didn't create disco, but he sure is giving it a new swing.
By John Hood
Published: March 27, 2008
Some critics just don't get it. Or maybe they just don't get it enough. 'Cause if they did, they wouldn't get miffed about Calvin Harris's sexy two-step. Sure, the cat swings...
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Rotations
Señor Flavio
Supersaund 2012 (Nacional)
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: March 27, 2008
Argentina's Flavio Mandinga, one of the founding members of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, has crafted a solo project that explores various sonic textures and defies genre...
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Rotations
Fuck Buttons
Street Horrrsing (All Tomorrow's Parties)
By Ray Cummings
Published: March 27, 2008
Despite the eyebrow-raising moniker's aggressive overtones, the Bristol, England duo of Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power wants little more than to give your cerebellum a...
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Rotations
Jamshied Sharifi
One (Ceres)
By Julienne Gage
Published: March 27, 2008
Your stomach grumbles as the office clock ticks slowly toward lunch hour. A co-worker is oblivious to the racket made by her speakerphone, and her fave totally-Eighties radio...
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Rotations
Frightened Rabbit
The Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat Records)
By Ryan Foley
Published: March 27, 2008
Basic human behavior dictates you walk backward for one of two reasons: You're either arguing with someone or acting like a dunderhead. In "My Backwards Walk," Frightened...
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Livewire
dirtybird records
By Tony Ware
Published: March 27, 2008
Though an official label for only three years, dirtybird records and its quad crew of freq-y producer/DJs are no fledglings. San Francisco-based Claude VonStroke, Justin...
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Livewire
Gui Boratto
By Tamara Palmer
Published: March 27, 2008
At a time when São Paulo, Brazil, gets a whole lot of ink in the hipster press for its street-hewn favela beats, city resident Guilherme Boratto is focused on an...
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Livewire
Daz-I-Kue
By Tamara Palmer
Published: March 27, 2008
The Dirty South has a fascinating new musical addition, with Londoner Daz-I-Kue now dividing his time between the UK and Atlanta. This should open up a world of possibilities...
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Livewire
Damian Lazarus
By Tamara Palmer
Published: March 27, 2008
Before settling into his current and hopefully permanent role as a producer and DJ, Damian Lazarus wore a few different hats in the music and media businesses. In the early...
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Livewire
Amp Fiddler
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: March 27, 2008
Hailing from Detroit, this singer and keyboard player is more like a man with a mission. Amp Fiddler travels in a multitude of directions, challenging the listener as he...
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