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Jim Lauderdale: “Slugging Along and Slugging It Out”

It's little wonder that any attempt to get Jim Lauderdale on the phone can become something of a challenge. After all, given the man's propensity for extreme multi-tasking, any chance of catching him when he's not in the studio would seem to require both expert timing and enormous luck. Indeed,...
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Hannah Arendt: Writer-Philosopher Is Brought to Life by Barbara Sukowa

Pouncing on the chance to cover the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, resulting in her controversial pronouncement about the disparity between "the mediocrity of the man" and "the horror of the deeds," writer-philosopher Hannah Arendt is brought to life by a mesmerizing Barbara Sukowa in Margarethe von Trotta's film. Despite...
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Biogenesis Just Hints at Florida’s Anti-Aging Catastrophe

Outside a $600,000 Coconut Grove condo, the pool glittered blue in the afternoon sunlight and tennis balls popped off a green asphalt court. Inside, a tornado hit. Sharon Cohen watched her heavily tattooed Spanish husband, Alvaro, slam his head over and over against a TV set. She'd recently filed for...
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Fireman Derek Kaplan on Pumpkin Pie, Baking, and Opening a Retail Space

This Thanksgiving, why waste time baking a pumpkin pie when you can just buy one? We're not talking about a mass-produced puck from Publix. We're talking about the ultimate pumpkin pie from Fireman Derek's World-Famous Pies. Derek Kaplan -- a six-foot-two, tattooed City of Miami firefighter -- has been baking...
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SoBe Conspiracy Theorist Uri Dowbenko Sues Google for Libel

One of the world's foremost conspiracy theorists doesn't want people to get the wrong impression when they Google his name. "Mind Control: The Ultimate Terror"? Fine. "New (Reptilian) World Order"? Hey, he wrote that article. But calling him an "American loon"? That's cause for a libel suit, according to Uri...
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The Best Movies of 2013: Take One

Here's where I write about how hard it is to draw up a 10-best list at the end of the year. Except it isn't: I think of drawing up a list as an honor and a necessity, a way of putting 12 months of moviegoing into some sort of perspective...
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The Sunshine Stampede: Gay Cowboys, Drag Queens, and Bull Riders

The goat doesn't want to wear the undies. Can't blame him. Plus-sized, bleached-white tighty whities are not very chic. A tall man, blue shirt tucked neatly into his jeans, holds up the animal's brown-and-white-mottled back end, while his teammate, a squat woman, tries to work the underpants on. The goat's...
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Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

You can't possibly attend all of the flashy, A-list-celebrity-frequented bashes that go down in Miami every weekend. That's why the Magic City throws so many of 'em almost every night of the week. Just check out the six best parties to crash on South Beach. See also: Five Best Concerts...
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PAMM Opens Today, and It’s More Beautiful Than You Imagined

Two thousand words is too many for a Wednesday morning, but too few to do the new Pérez Art Museum Miami justice. So we'll put it simply: the new Herzog and De Meuron (HDM) edifice on museum island is, no exaggeration, exquisite. Naturally, in this story, we'll be describing the...