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Florida Panthers Should Move to Canada, Claims Math God Nate Silver

While today's public sports fan debate centers on the quality of Miami Heat fans, The New York Times' resident stats geek Nate Silver decided to focus on the quality and quantity of NHL fans last month. His conclusion: The Florida Panthers should either move to Canada or be eliminated.

The Silent Threat: Canadian Snowbirds Could Stay Longer in Florida Under Immigration Bill

As the U.S. Senate's immigration overhaul has inched forward, shepherded by our own Sen. Marco Rubio, South Floridians have hotly debated the most contentious issues: English-speaking requirements for immigrants, long wait periods for citizenship, a ban on LGBT benefits. But it seems we've ignored ... More >>

Happy Hurricane Season! Florida Might Get Hit By a Named Storm This Week

It's the first Monday of hurricane season, which means all across the Sunshine State thousands are heading into work with the vague feeling they've forgotten something important (PSSST! Hurricane supplies, people. Specifically: vodka and board games.). Well, here's a kick in the ass to get that kit ... More >>

Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

Mama Is Less Scary Than a Call From Mom

Praying for Better Brickell Restaurants

It's enticing to bring friends, in town for vacation, to Brickell and show them Miami's progress as an action-packed metropolis. They can walk to one of three Publix stores or buy cigarettes, Red Bull or whatever stimulant tickles their fancy at the shiny new 7-Eleven. Yet when time comes to grab a ... More >>

Guillaume Coutu Dumont Talks Mutek Festival, New Album, and New States of Consciousness

Turns out the Canadian city of Montreal is a real hotbed of forward-thinking electronic dance music. A few natives we've chatted with just this past year are Akufen, Footprintz and Blond:ish. And another luminary of that Northern city is producer and multi-intrumentalist Guillaume Coutu Dumont. I ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover: Montreal Means Trouble (A Recap)

​As the opening credits start, I can't wait to see where Tony is taking us to on his little overnighter that he calls The Layover. I've been on an extended vacation and haven't checked the internet to find out the targeted city.  So many exciting cities to visit -- Paris, London, Nairobi, San ... More >>

Help Arcade Fire Rebuild Haiti; Get a "Nifty Little Postcard" Signed by Win and Regine

Photo by Anton Corbijn​About a month or so after Arcade Fire rocked the music industry by walking away with the Grammy for Album of the Year, the Montreal-based group celebrated with some friends in Haiti. Some 250 people packed into the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince -- many of whom were "exp ... More >>

Sax Man Jowee Omicil Returns to South Florida at MOCA Tonight

​Easily one of the most multitasking players in the contemporary jazz field, Joseph "Jowee" Omicil returns to South Florida, this time to delight art patrons at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator, it's easy to lose foc ... More >>

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Jowee Omicil Appearing Twice this Week in South Beach

​First and foremost a sax man, Joseph "Jowee" Omicil is equal parts multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and educator. With two CDs under his belt, the most recent of which, Roots & Grooves, he's forging a path between the smoother elements of jazz that toe the line between the world sou ... More >>

Swedish band the Sounds rocks Revolution in Fort Lauderdale

He's Everything

Fred Everything Plays Electric Pickle this Friday

Fred Everything (born Frédéric Blais in Quebec) got his moniker back in the rave days, when he was known as DJ Everything, because he'd spin everything from house and techno to drum 'n' bass. With a prolific career dating back to 1993, when he first opened for Sasha at Montreal's club Metropolis, ... More >>

Friday Night: Celine Dion at American Airlines Arena

Celine Dion
Friday, January 23, 2009American Airlines Arena, MiamiBetter Than: Going To VegasCeline Dion. She of the fabulous legs. Celine Dion. She of the non too subtle emotions. Celine Dion.  She of the rubber faced camera muggings. Celine Dion. She of certifiable stardom.Truth be told, th ... More >>

Bone Up on Basel

Where Roadkill and pussy pundits thrive.

Q&A with Fedde le Grand

Put your hands up for Fedde le Grand. Everyone knows Fedde le Grand, the Dutch DJ/producer who burst onto the mainstream dance scene with "Put Your Hands Up For Detriot." It was one of those tracks everybody easily loved. It had awesome hook, dirty beats, and an outrageous climatic peak. But with ... More >>

Supermarket Sweep

Male fulfillment and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion.

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Up the Yangtze

Border Patrol in Little Havana?

Artist makes mobile art of the immigrant's plight.

Moments Like These

Our time-traveling reviewer peeks into Kelly Clarkson’s future.

On the Move

The Stills lose their feathers

Grandmasters in Guayaberas

Little Havana's chess connection vies for the national crown

Vive le Cirque

Performance art soars to new heights under the blue-and-yellow grand chapiteau

Letters from the Issue of January 8, 2004

Side Dish

See how well you know our culinary scene

Time Out of Mind

The epic sweep of Timeline is easily forgotten

Cookin' Sounds

Gerber's blues are like poultry, er, poetry

Emma Goes to France

Amelie serves up a daring, moving take on Jane Austen's best-loved heroine

Big Top Broadway

The score for Cirque du Soleil's Dralion depends on precise timing, fuzzy ethnicity, and a short attention span

Bless the Blockhead

How A Charlie Brown Christmas almost wasn't, then became a tradition

Praising the Bar

The Bar

Staging a Crisis

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The Secret Life of J.M. Denis

By day he manages the parking facilities at the airport. By night he's Jan Mapou, Miami's guardian of Haitian culture.

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

Real to Reel

When an old friend told me she had produced and directed a major motion picture, I was pleasantly surprised. Then she told me what the movie was about.

Unforgiven

News of the Weird

Robert Isn't Here

If county bureaucrats have their way, the venerable South Dade farmer's market will be forced to change its evil ways: No more milk shakes!

Lack of Concentration Camp

No, You Listen to ME!

Wanna get in touch with South Florida's rage? Read through the complaint letters to local radio stations.

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

The Great Jet Ski Caper

What kind of world do we live in when a poor soul can't even own a jet ski without fear of losing it to thieves and brigands?

Type O Personalities

The world's foremost bloodstain-pattern analysts convene at a local Holiday Inn to trade gore stories and chatter about spatter

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