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Night & Day
Summertime…
And the short plays are funny
By Penn Bullock
Published: June 26, 2008
A gay sheep, a Canadian mime, a Holocaust denier, two Holocaust survivors, and a 19th-century diva are gracing the stage at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (201 SW...
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Night & Day
From Faux Chick to Chick Flicks
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: June 26, 2008
Wendy Wasserstein is dead, which is a damned shame — now, there’s hardly anybody left in the theater community willing to explore chick-ish issues like togetherness...
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Night & Day
Yan Can Box
By John Linn
Published: June 26, 2008
Anticipation for the 2008 Olympic Games is heating up — especially for boxing — and sports fans the world over are keeping their eyes on the athletes. Cuba, for one,...
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Night & Day
Make with the Funny
By Brett Gillin
Published: June 26, 2008
There are tons of improv sketch comedy groups scattered across the country, many of them filled with unfunny hacks that are more annoying than funny. The Groundlings are...
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Night & Day
“But Thaaat’s My Life!”
Neil Hamburger brings the sad sack back to Miami
By John Linn
Published: June 26, 2008
On first look, it’s hard not to feel sorry for America’s Funnyman, Neil Hamburger. A greasy combover flops across his sweaty forehead, which itself is furrowed with...
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Night & Day
Chew It Up & Dance It Out
Two local benefits help raise funds for cancer victims
By Riki Altman
Published: June 26, 2008
Cancer’s a bastard and there’s nothing we can do to stop it yet. So in the meantime, let’s throw some celebrations in the spirit of helping those who are...
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Night & Day
How Do I Look?
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: June 26, 2008
How do you tell a friend that their fashion sense sucks? We’re not talking about a subtle, mixing-different-shades-of-black misstep — we’re talking about your...
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Stuff
The Diceman Cometh...Again!
Even 20 years on, the man behind the dirty nursery rhymes is the same as he ever was.
By John Linn
Published: June 26, 2008
If you're old enough to rent a car legally, then you remember Andrew Dice Clay. Dice was, for a glorious minute or two, one of the biggest comedians of the late 1980s, a guy...
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Artbeat
In Focus
By Marya Summers
Published: June 26, 2008
Our vision of the world is defined a great deal by what we focus on. This is demonstrated in a practical way in the 12th-annual "In Focus" juried competition of 75 images from...
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Game On
Blast Works makes blowing stuff up DIY-friendly
By Chris Ward
Published: June 26, 2008
The words "user-generated content" usually mean you're about to encounter one of two things: an irritating Super Bowl commercial made by 16-year-olds, or another dramatic...
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Music
Punch Drunk
Is Miami rapper Punchanello punching out?
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: June 26, 2008
There's a sense when you're watching Punchanello perform that he's simultaneously the most loved and hated MC in the room. Watching him onstage instantly puts a smile on your...
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Short Cuts
Coldplay
By Lily Moayeri
Published: June 26, 2008
Coldplay has a lot riding on its fourth release, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. Not only is the band's viability at stake; the survival of EMI (Capitol's parent...
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Live Wire
Rooney
By Arielle Castillo
Published: June 26, 2008
The L.A. quintet Rooney has not exactly suffered from its Hollywood-style connections or good looks. Frontman Robert Schwartzman is the brother of actor (and occasional rocker)...
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Outtakes
DJ Mena Joins the Angels
Tragedy strikes one of Hialeah's up-and-coming DJs
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: June 26, 2008
It's always a tragedy when a young person dies before his or her prime. In the music industry, the preferred age for dying young tends to be 27. A host of rock legends...
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Film
Violence Is Golden
With its secret boys club and bloody good fun, Wanted has all of the fight with none of the guilt
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 26, 2008
Of the summer's many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies — from The Incredible Hulk all the way down the megaplex food chain to The Foot Fist Way — Wanted...
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Short Cuts
Asylum 7 & Eddie Logix
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: June 26, 2008
One of the best things about Midwest hip-hop is that it's not beholden to any one sound. Detroit-based lyricist Asylum 7 and his production partner, Eddie Logix, recently...
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Live Wire
Radioclit
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: June 26, 2008
They've got perhaps the best DJ-collective name of all time. That alone is reason enough to pay these guys some attention. And when you think about it, if you're an audiophile,...
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Outtakes
Augustus Pablo's Sonic Fetish, Remembered
A master of deep, exotic dub gets the five-disc tribute he deserves
By Richard Gehr
Published: June 26, 2008
Born Herbert Swaby in 1954, Augustus Pablo was an orientalist before orientalism was uncool. The minor-chordal "Far East" sound the reggae auteur favored as a composer,...
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Short Cuts
Radius
By Dominic Umile
Published: June 26, 2008
In a fond tribute to his hometown, producer Ramon "Radius" Norwood dedicates each of the 11 instrumental entries on Neighborhood Suicide to an area in the Windy City. Unless...
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Live Wire
DJ Irie
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: June 26, 2008
When it comes to basketball-arena announcers, nobody in the country is as good at it as the Miami Heat's DJ Irie. While a lot of b-ball fans are familiar with him only through...
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