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Jeopardy! and Alex Trebek Dis Miami's Ice "Billion" Berg as "Not a Successful Rapper"

By B. Caplan
Nov 6, 2014

Ice "Billion" Berg is "so fucking fly" that he "can stand on the ceiling." And though standing on the ceiling is not one of the listed Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, given that Berg is going to buy your bitch and start claiming your daughter -- never mind that...
III Points Festival 2014: Diggy Lloyd Makes Millennials Cry in Her 20-Something Series

By B. Caplan
Oct 8, 2014

Reducing a person to a sobbing heap is a rare trick for any artist. But for photographer Diggy Lloyd, it often happens before she's even pressed her shutter release. "It hits them without warning," she says of the millennials she has been shooting and interviewing for her 20-Something series, on...
Spanglish and Seedy Theme Parks: MTV's Happyland Has a Decidedly Florida Flavor

By B. Caplan
Sep 30, 2014

Public sex on theme park rides, fiercely independent Latinas, brawls between really high teens, and a dash of incest: These are the childlike joys of Happyland, the new MTV dramedy chronicling the day-drunk, partner-swapping, clear-skinned, young employees of a Disney-ish park. The show, which debuts today at 11 p.m., is...
New Cookbook Has 90 "Drool-Worthy" Recipes to Prevent Beatings from Your NFL Husband

By B. Caplan
Sep 23, 2014

Human beings know not to blame the victims of domestic abuse. But what about blaming the victims' cooking? In a news release of colossally bad taste, the publisher of a new cookbook by a Miami Dolphins player's wife suggests that if only these other wives had spent a little more...
Salvador ¡Dale!

By B. Caplan
Sep 4, 2014

Ah, autumn comes to Little Havana. The crunch of acrylic nails underfoot. Neck chains jangling as the bro harvest nears. It’s still disgustingly hot and humid, of course, but the oppressiveness has been downgraded from, say, a Fidel to a Raúl. Why not celebrate at the Little Havana Art Walk?...

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