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Music
Rock ’n’ Roll Replay
For Craig Martin, re-creating the greatest albums of all time is his life's passion
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: September 18, 2008
First there's that familiar "suuuuuuump," then the rattle, followed by the first verse: "Here come old flat top, he come groovin' up slowly..." and then "Come Together," the...
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Dred Scott!
Broward Carnival Woes Begin Already
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: September 18, 2008
When it comes to the Caribbean carnival season in South Florida, there's usually no shortage of fun-filled drama affiliated with the weekend-long fete. Big parties, colorful...
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Outtakes
Funky Cowboy
Nightlife ace Funky Junction moves to Spirits
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: September 18, 2008
It's an early Sunday morning inside Spirits Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, and as usual, the ground floor is filled with hip-hop and reggae beats galore....
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Outtakes
Fistful of Nostalgia
Is U2's latest reissue package worth the cost?
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: September 18, 2008
When U2 first came onto the international scene in 1980 with its debut album, Boy, it had yet to grow into the ungainly behemoth that audiences know and love today. Arena-rock...
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Outtakes
Local Motion
Three more recent Miami releases
By Abel Folgar
Published: September 18, 2008
Eric Stinnett Chocolate Soul (SMG Music Group) www.ericstinnett.com Chocolate Soul is exactly that. Well, it's Eric Stinnett's chocolate soul, and that means jazz-driven...
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Live Wire
Hercules & Love Affair DJ Set
By John PAYNE
Published: September 18, 2008
Any moment now, it will be dubbed prog-disco or sexy-cheese-disco or even chamber-disco. Whatever the case, the "-disco" must be appended and heeded, for it is back. Hercules &...
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Live Wire
Nicole Henry
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: September 18, 2008
It is little wonder this Miami-based 30-something has been getting a lot of attention since signing a national distribution deal through a major label. An experienced singer...
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Live Wire
The O'Jays
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: September 18, 2008
In spite of the fact that this legendary trio hasn't scored a hit in the 30 years since "Used to Be My Girl" charted back in 1978, the O'Jays still have a huge following among...
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Live Wire
Enrique Iglesias
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: September 18, 2008
In many ways, you could consider this Madrid transplant a Latin pop pioneer. He was one of the first Spanish-language artists to play for arena-sized audiences in the United...
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Dish
Up-Tempo
Métronome
By Gail Shepherd
Published: September 18, 2008
Few restaurants are perfect. And most of us don't demand perfection anyway. We just want to have a place to hang, eat, and drink, secure in the knowledge that we're not going...
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Film
Your Friends and Neighbors
Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 18, 2008
Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to be a blond, blue-eyed...
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Night & Day
Fulfill Your Uniform Fantasy
Without getting Tasered
Published: September 18, 2008
Almost anytime you get the opportunity to see a police officer fight someone up close, you have a few of these things in your future: a) Taser, b) pepper spray, c) handcuffs,...
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Night & Day
Art, Music, Wine, And Weed
By Riki Altman
Published: September 18, 2008
What did you plan to do this Thursday night now that American Idol is over? Pluck your eyebrows and wash your pet ferret in the sink? Don’t waste your time. Instead go...
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Art
Where the Rubber...
... meets the rhododendrons. That's where photographer Alex Heria finds art.
By Michael Mills
Published: September 18, 2008
The photographs of Alex Heria have an eerie quietness that's sometimes at odds with the means of their creation. Take the triptychs from a series called "Roadside Gardens,"...
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Stage
Black and White
Mosaic Theatre gives August Wilson the bad guys he never wanted
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: September 18, 2008
August Wilson, in case you're not a fan or happened to miss the obits in 2005, was a half-black, half-white American playwright who, in a scattershot way, attempted and...
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