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These Could Be Yours

No surprise when it comes to breasts, Miami is best

By Josh Schonwald
Aug 31, 2006

Breasts. Boobs. Tits. Heaving cleavage. Plunging décolletage. If you think there might be more of this in Miami-Dade than any other place, you might be right. And it's not because Miamians are naturally endowed. It's thanks to the genius of saline and silicone. To be sure, breast implants are on...
Shoe Magic

Miami City Ballet's shoemaster is its sole provider

By Josh Schonwald
Aug 31, 2006

The Shoemaster, a wiry man with a shaved head, white T-shirt, and black leather loafers, holds what looks like the innards of a broken slipper. It's weeks before the shoe season begins in earnest, and he's patiently explaining, in a thick Spanish accent, how to counter some of his biggest...
Metal Magic

Loud rock music, sleight of hand, and life in a trailer. What a combo!

By Josh Schonwald
Aug 17, 2006

It isn't the rabbit living in his bathroom, the videotape he sent to Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, the three shots of Jägermeister he had as a lunch appetizer, the Eighties hair band pictures carpeting his walls, or his habit of making Marlboro Lights vanish in midsmoke. It isn't even,...
Weed Warriors

Hydroponic marijuana production is growing up

By Josh Schonwald
Aug 17, 2006

Last summer, Miami-Dade Police Sgt. Mauricio "Mo" Smith, a veteran of the cocaine cowboy Eighties and an expert on heroin, was shocked to discover a Kendall house where four men were raising more than 30 five- to six-foot-tall marijuana plants. A suburban hydroponics lab — that's routine. But this was...
Fun Bus to the Keys

It costs a pittance and takes you to Margaritaville

By Josh Schonwald
Jun 22, 2006

Two weeks ago Eric Lesch, a connoisseur of extremely cheap travel, pointed across the parking lot of the Publix store on Marathon Key toward his prize discovery. There, choking up black smoke, directly in front of the Brass Monkey liquor store, was a gray bus with JGT scrawled on its...

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