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2010 Stories by S. Pajot

• Bringing the Blues Back

  published November 18, 2010

  After a three-decade career providing percussion and other background sounds for iconic artists such as Ike and Tina Turner, Bill Withers, and... More >>

• Loitering in the Library

  published September 9, 2010

  Sure, we all know Miami-Dade public libraries are packed with freeloaders getting their Tom Clancy fix, trawling YouTube for funny crotch shot... More >>

• Burritos, Tacos, and Beaners

  published September 2, 2010

  When Carlos Mencia first brought racist road signs, Peter Boyle reading hate mail, and terrorist snacks to the American television audience... More >>

• Pure From Pyre

  published August 19, 2010

  With the brutally beautiful swells of “Siegfried’s Funeral March” swooping around inside your skull, it can be easy to forget... More >>

• Life in a Cage

  published August 12, 2010

  The perils of fighting for your rent money are legion — scar tissue, shattered bones, blood loss — but none is worse than defeat. Even... More >>

• Auto Eroticism

  published July 29, 2010

  On your bedside table, there’s a fat stack of auto porn — Hot Rod, Lowrider, Super Street, etc. — and a half-used bottle of motor... More >>

• Keeping It Weird

  published July 22, 2010

  Surrounded by steaming swampland rife with 20-foot pythons, man-eating gators, and marauding skunk apes, our station at the end of the continent... More >>

• Misfit Fridays

  published July 15, 2010

  Hipsterism is a devilishly tricky game. It's all about transforming your day-to-day life into an almost unmanageable mountain of MP3 mixtapes,... More >>

• Return of the Nordic Wonder

  published July 1, 2010

  The big, blonde behemoth, otherwise known as Brock Lesnar, has traveled a weird and twisting road. Back in the day, he was the 2000 NCAA... More >>

• Beasts, Tears, and Lesbian Weddings

  published July 1, 2010

  Sequins? Jazz hands? Bawdy show tunes? Nope. The inaugural Out in the Tropics performing arts festival is all about the kind of gay,... More >>

• Hungover from Too Much Freedom

  published July 1, 2010

  We all know that the grand old U.S. of A is just as green as it is red, white, and blue. Money is green. Fatigues are green. Sweet kush is green.... More >>

• Family of Freaks

  published June 24, 2010

  Once upon a time, heavy tattage was the exclusive brand of sea dogs, sideshow freaks, and antisocial slime. Today, though, everybody’s been... More >>

• Buy a Boat, Meet a Mermaid

  published June 3, 2010

  At first, the South Florida Boat Show seems boring. But then you imagine cutting waves from the Caribbean to Key West in a cigarette boat... More >>

• Blood Brothers

  published June 3, 2010

  You work hard, but you party hard-core. So it’s not entirely uncommon for your weekend to start 24 hours early with a testosterone- and... More >>

• Wet Dreams Come True

  published May 13, 2010

  Only one in every million boys is blessed with a 9.75-inch penis like gnomish übermensch Ron Jeremy. For the rest of us short, fat,... More >>

• Hot Rod Blacktop

  published May 6, 2010

  Whether you own a $135,000 Maserati GranTurismo S or a ’96 Ford Taurus that can only be driven downhill, your ride probably qualifies for... More >>

• Hardcore Karaoke

  published April 29, 2010

  If you happen to be a 20-something punk whose experience of ’80s hardcore is wholly derived from digitized back issues of Slash and a bootleg... More >>

• Boozers Versus Beasts

  published April 29, 2010

  As a rule, it’s a really bad idea to get drunk at the zoo. Consuming mass amounts of alcohol while surrounded by wild, vicious beasts could... More >>

• Underdogging It

  published April 22, 2010

  Sure, Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat closed out the final month and a half of the regular season by posting 17 wins and only four losses. But... More >>

• Lady Parts

  published April 15, 2010

  With an acting résumé that stretches from Gablestage and New Theatre to a featured role alongside Paris Hilton in the 2006... More >>

• Me and My 500,000 Friends

  published April 8, 2010

  Straight out of Springboro, Ohio, via the virtual reality of the internet, Mitchell Davis is a 20-something-year-old kid who’s... More >>

• Bling Brothers

  published April 8, 2010

  A gift of extravagant jewels has always been the best way for one man to tell another how he feels. So when Florida Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria... More >>

• Scrap Heat

  published April 8, 2010

  The Eastern Conference has pretty much been all about the Cavaliers and Magic this season. But no team is entering the post-season hotter than the... More >>

• The Business of Torture

  published April 1, 2010

  You’re a popular dominatrix with ten years of experience in torture play. You’ve got an extensive collection of rubber cudgels and... More >>

• Alicia Keys' Freedom Rings at American Airlines Arena

  published March 25, 2010

  In the eternal pantheon of R&B divadom, there's a hierarchy and a history. The rank and order of things, though, is something that will be... More >>