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    March 19, 2012

    The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

    The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

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    January 24, 2012

    Los Tigres del Norte Announce 2012 Tour Dates With West Palm Beach Concert on February 24

    ​The life of migrant farmers and Mexican immigrants are topical subjects often overlooked by the American music industry. But those issues weigh heavily on Los Tigres del Norte. The norteño group is considered one of the most influential acts of all time. On record, Los Tigres share the plight ... More >>

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    December 28, 2011

    Cheetah the Chimp Died in Florida, But There's Little Evidence He Was Actually in Tarzan Movies

    ​To hear the story repeated from fine bastions of journalism like the New York Times, NPR, and CNN, you'd be lead to believe that the chimpanzee who played Cheetah, Tarzan's ape companion in the famed 1930s movie series, recently died in an animal sanctuary in Palm Harbor, Florida. Don't believe e ... More >>

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    December 20, 2011

    Best Albums of 2011: Cults' Cults

    ​This time of year, hipsterdom's virtual playground -- i.e. the blogosphere -- is littered with arbitrary "best of" indie music lists. Everyone from NPR to Pitchfork, our sister blogs around the Village Voice, and yes, even Crossfade, have declared this year's alt world favorites. While the li ... More >>

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    December 19, 2011

    Macarons are the New Cupcakes; Solo Has Them Starting Today

    Lee KleinMacarons at Vida brunch at Fontainebleau​Macarons are absolutely the new cupcakes.I know this because I was watching ABC News and they said that "macaroons are the new cupcakes." The next day Time magazine came in the mail and in it was an article entitled "Will Macarons be the new cupcak ... More >>

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    December 15, 2011

    The Santaland Diaries: David Sedaris's hilarious, scathing look at the holiday shopping season

    Lee KleinMacarons at Vida brunch at Fontainebleau​Macarons are absolutely the new cupcakes.I know this because I was watching ABC News and they said that "macaroons are the new cupcakes." The next day Time magazine came in the mail and in it was an article entitled "Will Macarons be the new cupcak ... More >>

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    December 8, 2011

    Gene Simmons vs. The World: KISS Frontman's Top Five Feuds

    Gene Simmons is a smarmy motherfucker.​Maybe we were born too late. Or in the wrong part of the country. But quintessential '80s hair-metal extravaganza rockers KISS have always come off as kinda goofy. Alice Cooper, The Stooges, Black Sabbath ... Now there's some blues-derived din that knew how ... More >>

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    December 8, 2011

    Sedaris's Holiday Humiliation

    Gene Simmons is a smarmy motherfucker.​Maybe we were born too late. Or in the wrong part of the country. But quintessential '80s hair-metal extravaganza rockers KISS have always come off as kinda goofy. Alice Cooper, The Stooges, Black Sabbath ... Now there's some blues-derived din that knew how ... More >>

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    December 1, 2011

    Holiday Humiliation at Arsht with David Sedaris' The SantaLand Diaries

    ​While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris took a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy's in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, The SantaLand Diaries, which he read on NPR in 1992, marking t ... More >>

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    November 17, 2011

    Miami Book Fair: Guide to the street festival

    ​While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris took a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy's in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, The SantaLand Diaries, which he read on NPR in 1992, marking t ... More >>

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    November 3, 2011

    Birds of Paradise

    ​While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris took a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy's in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, The SantaLand Diaries, which he read on NPR in 1992, marking t ... More >>

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    October 27, 2011

    Occupy Miami: Snoring, politics, and Dead Can Dance

    ​While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris took a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy's in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, The SantaLand Diaries, which he read on NPR in 1992, marking t ... More >>

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    October 27, 2011

    Live From New York

    ​While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris took a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy's in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, The SantaLand Diaries, which he read on NPR in 1992, marking t ... More >>

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    October 21, 2011

    A Night in the Life of Occupy Miami: Snoring, Politics, and Dead Can Dance

    It is 8:30 p.m. and Occupy Miami's general assembly is raging outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami. This gathering of about 60 borderline yuppies, people stylin' with handbags, bike folks, and South American grandfather revolutionaries started two hour ... More >>

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    October 20, 2011

    You Can’t Be Sedaris

    It is 8:30 p.m. and Occupy Miami's general assembly is raging outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami. This gathering of about 60 borderline yuppies, people stylin' with handbags, bike folks, and South American grandfather revolutionaries started two hour ... More >>

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    October 18, 2011

    Moby Dropping Art Basel Miami Beach DJ Set at Mansion December 3

    Facebook​There are very few bald men as gnarly as Richard Melville Hall, especially in the record business. Better known as Moby, the 46-year-old DJ, producer, and songwriter is an electronic music pioneer who's broken cross-genre stereotypes with countless collaborations and massive commercial su ... More >>

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    October 4, 2011

    Gaby Moreno, Parks and Recreation Theme Song Composer, Playing Bardot October 11

    ​Guatemalan blues. No, that's not right. Bilingual bossa nova. Eh, it sounds fun. But it doesn't quite capture it all. OK, We think we've got it. We'll call it music. Better yet, damn good music. After all, a word that accurately describes Gaby Moreno's eclectic blend of '20s and '30s blues, Bra ... More >>

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    September 23, 2011

    Pumpkin Shortage to Ruin Halloween

    Photo by Bob PelletierCream of the crop 2011.​Hurricane Irene grazed past the Northeast this past August completely missing Miami, thankfully. (We are glad NY and the other Northeastern states have recovered.)Irene did, however, manage to destroy a multitude of pumpkin farms all across the East, w ... More >>

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    September 8, 2011
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    July 21, 2011
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    April 21, 2011

    Animal Collective's Geologist Creates Original Soundtrack for Coral Morphologic

    The Coral Morphologic guys. Magical visual manipulators of sea life Coral Morphologic, comprised of Colin Foord and Jared McKay, not only landed a spot at the Borscht Film Festival, screening their short "Man O War," but also an original soundtrack for the film by Animal Collective's Geolo ... More >>

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    March 31, 2011

    Guerrilla mural in Overtown pays tribute to police shooting victims

    The Coral Morphologic guys. Magical visual manipulators of sea life Coral Morphologic, comprised of Colin Foord and Jared McKay, not only landed a spot at the Borscht Film Festival, screening their short "Man O War," but also an original soundtrack for the film by Animal Collective's Geolo ... More >>

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    March 28, 2011

    As Miami Police Shootings Hit National News, More Lasting Memorial Painted in Overtown

    photo by Tim Elfrink​Mark March 22 as the moment the world started paying attention to Miami's embattled police department. That's when an ex-Miami Herald reporter named Don Van Natta Jr. parachuted in to write a New York Times piece telling millions of readers what everyone in black Miami knows t ... More >>

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    January 27, 2011

    Quiz Show

    photo by Tim Elfrink​Mark March 22 as the moment the world started paying attention to Miami's embattled police department. That's when an ex-Miami Herald reporter named Don Van Natta Jr. parachuted in to write a New York Times piece telling millions of readers what everyone in black Miami knows t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2010

    Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner, Stacy Wakefield, and Zachary Lipez at Miami Book Fair Today

    Photo by Nick ZinnerYeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist and photographer Nick Zinner.​For such a tiny book (a 112-page, six-inch square), it sure took a whole team of authors to complete Akashic's Please Take Me Off the Guest List. The most famous contributor, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, snappe ... More >>

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    November 4, 2010

    Glass of Wine

    Photo by Nick ZinnerYeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist and photographer Nick Zinner.​For such a tiny book (a 112-page, six-inch square), it sure took a whole team of authors to complete Akashic's Please Take Me Off the Guest List. The most famous contributor, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, snappe ... More >>

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    September 2, 2010

    That's Rich

    Photo by Nick ZinnerYeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist and photographer Nick Zinner.​For such a tiny book (a 112-page, six-inch square), it sure took a whole team of authors to complete Akashic's Please Take Me Off the Guest List. The most famous contributor, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, snappe ... More >>

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    November 10, 2009

    Former Gourmet Editor-in-Chief, Author Ruth Reichl Dishes on the Art of Recipe Testing at Miami Book Fair

    Jackie SayetJudge this book by its cover.​Last night was one of many funerals for a fallen hero taken before its time, Gourmet magazine. Ruth Reichl, its jilted guardian, gave a remarkably candid and emotional eulogy for her final book tour appearance.The remarkably (yet not surprisingly) composed ... More >>

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    December 13, 2007

    Sex Offenders Set Up Camp

    The Julia Tuttle becomes a colony. Politicians pass the buck.

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    January 13, 2005

    Night&Day

    The Julia Tuttle becomes a colony. Politicians pass the buck.

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    November 25, 2004

    Night&Day

    The Julia Tuttle becomes a colony. Politicians pass the buck.

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    May 8, 2003

    This Week's Day by Day Picks

    The Julia Tuttle becomes a colony. Politicians pass the buck.

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