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Autograph Fakery: Two Firms Monopolize a Lucrative Business

There aren't many places more sublime than Augusta National Golf Club on an early April morning. Dew sparkles on the greens, delicately raked sand traps beckon, and the best golfers on Earth stroll around the fairways, imagining the strokes they hope will lead to the Masters' green jacket. April 9,...
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Miami’s Toxic Parks: Leaders Ignore Problems Beyond Coconut Grove

After locals were stung by the revelation that Miami leaders have known for two years that toxic ash is poisoning the Coconut Grove neighborhood surrounding its long-closed "Old Smokey" trash incinerator, city officials wasted little time last week confronting the latest environmental crisis. Just four days after learning that soil...
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Top Chef New Orleans Recap: Rebuilding and Feeding

New Orleans is one of the oldest and greatest cities in the United States, filled with people who have deep roots and love for their crazy, enchanted place in the world. A visit to the French Quarter or Garden District now, shows an area that's thriving and alive. But further...
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Italian Mojito at Sardinia: A Cocktail You Can’t Refuse

A colleague tipped us off to the Italian mojito at Sardinia Enoteca Ristorante in South Beach. The cocktail muddles tomato instead of lime and uses basil instead of mint. It also substitutes vodka for rum. Quite simply, the term "mojito" is being used liberally here. The brand used is Stolichnaya...
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Fences: August Wilson Returns to Miami

By many accounts, Troy Maxson, the 53-year-old protagonist of August Wilson's Fences, is a loser. He's the bitter breadwinner of a small Pittsburgh family who lives in the thwarted pipe dreams of his past as a once-promising baseball player. And he operates with such blinding resentment — brought on, in...
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University of Florida Gators Are Racist

The University of Florida Gators are coming to town this Saturday for a football game against the University of Miami Hurricanes. So now is a good time to reflect on UF's long history of racism. For decades, the Gainesville school's overseers were instrumental in preventing African-Americans from getting a higher...
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Florida Youth Academy Kids Riot Over Cup Noodles

Violence erupted at a rural correctional youth academy on Saturday night over a lost bet, two basketball teams and three Cup Noodles. "It was a full blown riot," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told ABC. "I watched them throw objects at us and our deputies. I watched them break windows."...
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Saints Crush Dolphins 38-17

Well, that fucking sucked. The fiery blaze you witnessed last night -- descending unto the Earth with inestimable velocity and indiscriminate violence -- was not the meteor that yielded the Chicxulub crater, but that previously sweet Dolphins high you were nursing. The Dolphins came into New Orleans feelin' pretty damn...
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Dolphins Top Browns 23-10 in Season-Opening Win, Wallace Whines

Before yesterday, the Dolphins had been 1-6 in season openers dating back to 2006 -- but lucky for them, the Browns had been a more dismal 1-12 in season openers dating back to their second go-around as a franchise in 1999. The Dolphins took advantage of this by whoopin' some...
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Chucherias Hondureñas: Excellent Pupusas in Daytona Beach

In Daytona Beach, just a few miles away from Johnny Rockets and Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, a teeny restaurant serves pupusas, pastelitos, and mondongo from a mobile home. At $5 a pair, the pupusas at Chucherias Hondureñas are the best I've had in quite awhile. A yellow-tinged disk made with...
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Five Great Summer Movies You Might Have Missed (And Can Still Catch!)

As another summer movie season characterized by cynicism and excess draws to a close, there are few activities less valuable or interesting than complaining about it. The blockbusters arrived, flattened cities, vomited effects, deafened with explosions, made money, didn’t make enough money, pleased populist critics, displeased elitist critics, and finally...
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South Florida Police Departments Now Hiring

The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display...