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Miami Surges in Ranking of Global Fashion Capitals

We're not sure what the editors of Vogue would think, but the Global Language Monitor has an interesting ranking of the world's top fashion hot spots. The Austin, Texas-based company used its Predictive Quantities Index to make the list, a measure that, according to GLM's website, is "a proprietary algorithm that tracks words and...
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Study: Miami Amongst 20 Weakest Metro Areas

Here's the bad news: According to a new study of the 100 most populous metro areas in America by the Brookings Institution, the Miami area, including the rest of South Florida, is one of the 20 economically weakest metro areas in the country. Here's the good news: We're only 82,...
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Miami Family Health Care Costs Highest in the Nation

According to the Millman Index, the average total medical costs for a family of four rose 7.4% in the past year to $16,771. Miami has the heaviest costs in the entire country, with an average of $20,280. That costs includes employer contributions, deductibles, and co-pays. Americans pay about 15.2% of...
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Wednesday Night: New York Dolls at Culture Room

New York Dolls  Wednesday, June 10, 2009  Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale  Better than: A half-authentic tribute act.  Maybe I'm a natural-born negative creep. Or maybe my inner lonely planet boy has been shocked out of his bubble a few too many times by the cruel, harsh realities of our post-punk...
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Housing Prices Have Dropped 32% In The Last Year

Integrated Asset Services released their latest IAS360 House Price Index, and as you might expect, the news isn't good. Between January of this year and January 2008 housing prices have dropped a total of 28.4% in South Florida. That's 29.1% in Broward, 18.8% in Palm Beach, and a whopping 32.3%...
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Pint-Size Preacher

On a treeless cement slab of Northwest Miami-Dade, a swarm of spruced-up families filters into New Harvest Missionary Baptist Church. In a cluttered office at the building's rear, Terry Durham sits quietly on a folding chair, his knee bobbing anxiously. He's dressed with flamboyant confidence in white alligator skin boots...
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Over the Weekend – Scarface, Biz Markie and Dirty Bird

Miami's heat index seems finally to be falling. Nights don't feel like an asphyxiophilia's (look it up) dream. While we still have a few more months of crazy weather and hurricane threats, the city's low-season is finally coming to an end and with it come back the tourists and big...
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Sorry Charlie Crist, McCain Picks Palin

via Wikimedia Commons Palin proudly wears a coat made of the toupees of all the male politicians she beat out. After months of speculation, turns out Gov. Charlie Crist won't be number two on the Republican ticket. Instead McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah "PUMA bait" Palin. Buzz that Crist would...
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The Hand of Justice

Inside his spartan, tan ranch-style house just a few dozen feet from the Dolphin Expressway and close to the now-vacant lot where the Orange Bowl once stood, Julio Cabrera shows off the root of his troubles.The fit, olive-skinned 39-year-old's left hand is frozen — fingers clenched unnaturally against his palm...
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Art Basel Invasion!

Artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez has toiled mightily on her ambitious project "Giants in the City" to prepare for this year's Art Basel, which runs from December 4 through 7. For months, she and nine others have been designing and constructing 30-foot-tall inflatable sculptures that will be lighted after dark, creating a...
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Namaste Miami: How to Play Dead in Yoga

It sounds so easy when yoga teachers tell you to relax into Savasana, or corpse, the final resting pose that can stretch five to fifteen minutes. Physically, it is: You lie on your back, eyes closed and palms up with your arms and legs slightly spread and feet falling apart...
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Nintendo’s Wii Fit ignites yet another fitness fad

Somebody forgot to tell Nintendo that "strenuous indoor exercise" does not top anyone's summer fun list. This, of course, does not explain why poor suckers everywhere are lining up for Wii Fit, an exhausting personal trainer disguised as a videogame. Me? I'll be kicking back with Mario Kart Wii and...
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Pelican and Thrice

Both Pelican and Thrice are stretching the boundaries of their sounds and others' expectations. Pelican's City of Echoes soft-pedals the band's usual throb, taking its complex art-metal instrumentals in a melodic direction. The tracks are still dense but don't unwind as far, getting through each thematic movement with heretofore unseen...