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Night&Day
Justice on the High Seas
Getting revenge is sweet at the Miami Billfish Tournament.
By BRYNA GREENLAW
Published: April 3, 2008
Vigilante justice. Man versus the ocean. It’s a tale as old as Moby Dick. The saga continues this weekend, when South Florida fishermen take to the seas during the Miami...
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Night&Day
Winos Welcome
DIY is what’s for dinner at the Miami Wine & Food Festival.
By Raina McLeod
Published: April 3, 2008
Ahhh, grapes. Who would have guessed that a fruit no bigger than your big toe could bring the world so much joy? Kids love the refreshing taste of its juice poured over ice,...
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Strouse
Che Guevara Who?
Cubans get pissed, an artist gets even, and the supreme prosecutor of the Cuban revolution gets booted from Dadeland.
By Chuck Strouse
Published: April 3, 2008
Stone serious, the dapper elderly gentleman in gray slacks, a black and white tie, and a neatly pressed green shirt firmly gripped my shoulder from behind: "You'll have to...
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Metro
Arrested Development
Miami Beach Police just won't let Gregory "Silk" Thomas go straight.
By Francisco Alvarado
Published: April 3, 2008
For most of his life, Gregory "Silk" Thomas was a pimp and a drug dealer. In the 30 years he has lived in Miami Beach, the 45-year-old ex-con has been arrested so many times...
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Riptide
Scarface in Miami
Twenty-five years ago this month, the gangster epic caused a local stir.
By Frank Houston, Amy Guthrie, Tamara Lush and Francisco Alvarado
Published: April 3, 2008
News The Day Scarface Came to Town Twenty-five years ago, politics derailed De Palma's Miami plans. BY FRANK HOUSTON Brian De Palma's Scarface might hold a record for the...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of April 3, 2008
Let's hope anyone who reads Mr. Thorp's opinion will see through his "blah, blah, listen to my cleverness" rhetoric.
Published: April 3, 2008
Something Stinks Brandon K. Thorp's "Sour Milk" (March 27) is a great article and a fantastic critique of Edge Theatre's The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. "Shatner...
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Music
Nito Mestre Does Macarena
The rock en español pioneer says he's everybody's cousin.
By Julienne Gage
Published: April 3, 2008
Will you recognize me?" Argentine singer and part-time Miami resident Nito Mestre asks New Times during a phone conversation to set up a face-to-face interview. It seems like...
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Suicide Blonde
I'm a WMC Survivor
The highlights of this year's Winter Music Conference.
By Arielle Castillo
Published: April 3, 2008
The 23rd edition of Winter Music Conference took place in Miami Beach last week. An estimated 40,000 music fans and industry types attended events at more than 85 venues....
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Music
Glamming It Up
David Johansen dresses up the New York Dolls one more time.
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 3, 2008
If David Johansen had earned a dollar for each time a music journalist mentioned him or his band, the New York Dolls, he'd be richer than Croesus by now. Instead, he's still a...
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Burner
Cop to It
Toronto's Tokyo Police Club hits Studio A on Friday.
By Tom Bowker
Published: April 3, 2008
Click here to see a slide show of the show. In the Nineties, when the masses bought CDs by the millions in places called "record stores," releasing an EP as your debut was the...
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Burner
Nothin' But a Good Time
Baseball with a side of cock rock.
By David Gurney
Published: April 3, 2008
What's more wholesome and American than the grand sport of baseball? A brightly sunlit day, a gentle breeze that carries the scent of hot dogs and the proverbial Cracker Jack,...
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Burner
Alone Together
Ben Prestage's one-man blues.
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: April 3, 2008
In today's tough economic times, being a one-man band could be considered as much a function of financial necessity as a measure of instrumental dexterity. After all, given the...
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Livewire
Punk Bunny
By Pete Freedman
Published: April 3, 2008
A word of warning: Punk Bunny shows aren't for the prude. In fact don't even bother heading to this concert unless you're superhorny and/or strong-stomached. The only thing you...
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Livewire
Rick Udler
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: April 3, 2008
Brazil is known for many things — its cosmopolitan ambiance, a wealth of spectacular beaches, the wildest Carnival celebration in the civilized world, and hordes of...
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Livewire
Poppa E
By Eric W. Saeger
Published: April 3, 2008
Not long into our conversation, Poppa E settles into his preferred intimacy zone by dubbing me "Brother Eric. " So take it from a brother: The 60-year-old blues guitarist...
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Livewire
Caribou
By Ray Cummings
Published: April 3, 2008
As the irresistibly luminescent new CD Andorra demonstrates, Caribou's Dan Snaith has come a long, long way since being legally stripped of his old Manitoba moniker. These days...
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Cafe
Low-Key Glee
Locanda outshines its flashier neighbors with good food and good vibes.
By Lee Klein
Published: April 3, 2008
Something seemed amiss as soon as we entered Jason's at the Harrison. The vaguely Vegas room, with black-and-white tiger-skin motif and thumping club music, didn't gel with the...
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Film
Some Country for Old Men
Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again.
By Camille Dodero
Published: April 3, 2008
Mick Jagger's most essential physical feature, according to Martin Scorsese, is his bellystache. On the poster for Shine a Light, the big-shot director's Rolling Stones concert...
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Film
Fourth and Inches
George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.
By Scott Foundas
Published: April 3, 2008
When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note not even a question mark at the end — you didn't...
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Film
Now Playing
Snow Angels
By Nathan Lee
Published: April 3, 2008
An unusually blunt melodrama by David Gordon Green, melodious poet of sentimental delicacies such as George Washington and All the Real Girls, Snow Angels introduces a pair of...
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