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    April 25, 2012

    Ben Novack's Mistress Rebecca A.. Star Bliss Testifies Against Narcy Novack

    Yesterday, jurors in White Plains, New York, heard from the mistress of Ben Novack, the Miami Beach scion of Fontainebleau Hotel builder Ben Novack Sr. Junior was brutally tortured and murdered in a Rye Brook hotel room in July 2009, and Bliss's testimony added a new, tawdry layer to an already incr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Tonight! Alexisonfire, La Dispute, Trash Talk, Therefore I Am at Ground Control in West Palm Beach

    ​Ontario prog-punks Alexisonfire leads an aggressive bill at West Palm Beach's Ground Control (122 N. Military Trail) this evening. According to On Fire Booking, the doors open at 5 p.m.Also on the bill: Sacramento's hardcore pummelers Trash Talk, aggro-punks La Dispute from Grand Rapids, Michigan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Video: Cheap Girls' "Ft. Lauderdale" Never Hits the Beach

    Lansing, Michigan's Cheap Girls sure live up to their name when it comes to music video budgets. We kid, that pig mask wasn't cheap! Even if the lyrics are the most vivid part of "Ft. Lauderdale," it still has all of its power-pop elements as sweetly condensed as vintage Sugar or the Lemonheads. Th ... More >>

  • Music

    November 19, 2009

    Ska Is Dead tour lands at Culture Room this Thursday

    Lansing, Michigan's Cheap Girls sure live up to their name when it comes to music video budgets. We kid, that pig mask wasn't cheap! Even if the lyrics are the most vivid part of "Ft. Lauderdale," it still has all of its power-pop elements as sweetly condensed as vintage Sugar or the Lemonheads. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    A Primer on the '90s Survivors at the Ska is Dead Tour, Thursday at Culture Room

    The fourth edition of the recurrent Ska is Dead tour lands at Culture Room on Thursday with a bill straight out of 1997. Ska has been reviled and declared dead for about the last 30 years, but it seems its horn-heavy effervescence just can't be dampened. The genre itself pre-dates reggae, coming out ... More >>

  • Music

    January 3, 2008

    2007 Music Year in Review

    It's all in the stars.

  • Music

    November 15, 2007

    Diva of Song

    Lilian Garcia steps out of the ring with ¡Quiero Vivir!

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2006

    Go Heat

    Lilian Garcia steps out of the ring with ¡Quiero Vivir!

  • Music

    March 17, 2005

    305 Fest

    Lilian Garcia steps out of the ring with ¡Quiero Vivir!

  • News

    February 19, 2004

    Almost a Saint

    People were drawn to him and his inspiring devotion to the downtrodden. They wanted to help, to give him money. And they did -- right up to the day he vanished.

  • News

    January 11, 2001

    Tough as Nails

    Three years after the immigrant workers at Aljoma Lumber voted to unionize, they still don't have a contract. Why? José Lamas refuses to give them one.

  • Music

    March 4, 1999

    Rotations

    Three years after the immigrant workers at Aljoma Lumber voted to unionize, they still don't have a contract. Why? José Lamas refuses to give them one.

  • Music

    April 9, 1998

    Skankin' Out Racism

    Three years after the immigrant workers at Aljoma Lumber voted to unionize, they still don't have a contract. Why? José Lamas refuses to give them one.

  • News

    August 14, 1997

    Go Marlins!

    Three years after the immigrant workers at Aljoma Lumber voted to unionize, they still don't have a contract. Why? José Lamas refuses to give them one.

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