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Get more than just dinner at Gay Grocery Nights.
By Dan Renzi
Published: October 2, 2008
Everyone in South Beach knows the gayest grocery store is the Publix on West Avenue (1920 West Ave., Miami Beach). Yes, gays also like Epicure, but that place is crazy...
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Game On
For Those About to Rock... Again
Rock Band 2 turns it up to... ugh, you know the rest
By Chris Ward
Published: October 2, 2008
This summer, the drummer from Joan Jett and the Blackhearts threw a drumstick at my face. To be fair, that's what drummers do — even fill-in, faux-Blackhearts from Joan...
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Feature
Amazonia
Big Girls, Little Guys, Lots of Fun
By Natalie O'Neill
Published: October 2, 2008
The elevator doors part, and Mikayla Miles joins a trio of clean-cut executives on the way up to the ninth floor. It's 8 p.m., and the businessmen, still in their suits, cease...
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Bob Norman
Billed for Bull
Broward County Commissioners want you to pay for their pet projects
By Bob Norman
Published: October 2, 2008
It was a stunning about-face for the man who runs the Broward County Courthouse. Chief Judge Victor Tobin, the same man who had virtually pleaded with commissioners for months...
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Tailpipe
You're Fired!
Crossing the Donald
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: October 2, 2008
The fate of one New Times sidewalk distribution box doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this cockeyed world of ours. It's there one minute — on the sidewalk in front of...
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Letters
Letters for October 2-8, 2008
Published: October 2, 2008
Triple Threat Wow! What a story ("Packing a Tune," Penn Bullock, September 25). And that song "Change" is great too. Not many guys can rub you down, write you a tune, and sell...
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Music
Pickett's Recharge
A new Bloodshot Records anthology resurrects one of South Florida's most revered rockers
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: October 2, 2008
The case of Charlie Pickett is one of rock 'n' roll's classic stories of almost-was. The Dania Beach homeboy spent much of the '80s working the road from here to the heartland,...
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Music
The Balding and the Beautiful
Atmosphere's emo king, Slug, talks hip-hop, groupies, and how hair loss saved his life
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: October 2, 2008
So I'm on the phone with Sean Daley — better-known as the rapper Slug — who alongside his producer/beat-making partner, Anthony "Ant" Davis, forms Minnesota's...
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Dred Scott!
A Blues Hound Walks Straight
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: October 2, 2008
It's possible that there's never been another singer who defined the genre of rhythm and blues the way Bobby "Blue" Bland does. With a homegrown singing style that's two parts...
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Outtakes
Glam Supreme
A new book captures the New York Dolls
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: October 2, 2008
"I really didn't care if they were gay or not," Debbie Harry says in just one of the many quotes collected for this photo retrospective on glam icons the New York Dolls. Music...
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Outtakes
Subterranean Finds
Digging below the surface to discover stellar new sounds
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: October 2, 2008
Jeff Finlin Ballad of a Plain Man With a voice that's as fluid as molasses, Finlin sings from a weary but resilient point of view. Sounding like a cocksure barfly, he...
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Outtakes
Head Spins: DJ Le Spam
A true-blue vinyl maniac
By John Hood
Published: October 2, 2008
If there were a DJ equivalent to late, great Cuban bandleader Mario Bauzá, it would have to be Miami's DJ Le Spam. Like Bauzá, Le Spam is renowned for bringing...
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Night Watch
Don't Google Screech
Football on the Quarterdeck is more than a game
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Published: October 2, 2008
I've always hated football. Maybe it's because I personally suck at organized sports. Maybe it's because I just never saw the appeal of watching a bunch of hulking idiots...
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Pub Stalker
The Lounge
By Bryan Falla
Published: October 2, 2008
The Lounge has a penchant for left-field art and trippy experimental music. Accordingly, cute artsy types parade in and out of this place with perfect just-out-of-bed hair and...
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Live Wire
Brother Bean
By Taylor Divico
Published: October 2, 2008
The Melbourne-based group Brother Bean recently posted a new MySpace blog called "We Have You and You Have Us," accurately depicting the communal vibe so characteristic of its...
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Live Wire
The Roots
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: October 2, 2008
You never know what you're going to get when you see the Roots in concert. The band has roughly 14 years of material to draw from and ten albums full of hits that often keep...
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Live Wire
Apocalyptica
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: October 2, 2008
With its sleek rhythms, sophisticated arrangements, and intricate picking patterns, thrash metal has come to be regarded as a legitimate art form (by those in the know) in...
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Live Wire
Blues Traveler
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: October 2, 2008
If you're wondering what happened to popular '90s band Blues Traveler, the answer is draped all over its latest CD, North Hollywood Shootout. The ten-track disc, released this...
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Dish
How Sweet It Is
Miss the old Herban? Sugar n Spice is just as nice
By Gail Shepherd
Published: October 2, 2008
I never believed that bit about little girls being full of sugar and spice. My experience has been that little girls are mostly made up of piss and vinegar and that they don't...
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Film
Fade to White
Blindness nails the bleak before succumbing to the sap
By Anthony Kaufman
Published: October 2, 2008
The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando Meirelles' mostly harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's international bestseller Blindness, mixes the high-velocity...
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