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News
Cracked Cowboy
Threats, violence, and kilos of coke are just the start for Hollywood's Jon Roberts.
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Published: June 25, 2009
Former mega-smuggler Jon Roberts, who flooded Miami with $2 billion worth of cocaine in the '80s, naps away his days in a quiet lakefront Hollywood home. But soon, if what he...
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Bob Norman
Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter and Sheriff Al Lamberti Face Campaign Finance Investigations
By Bob Norman
Published: June 25, 2009
Broward County's Sheriff Al Lamberti and Mayor Stacy Ritter have been waging a high-profile public fight over who wastes the most taxpayer money. Maybe both should be paying...
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Music
Superstar Drummer Josh Freese Sells Himself to Promote His New Album
By Vickie Chang
Published: June 25, 2009
As the sun sets over a courthouse parking lot, one of the best and busiest session drummers in the industry stands motionless, a pair of shearing scissors in one hand, a...
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Live Wire
Juan Luis Guerra
By Christopher Lopez
Published: June 25, 2009
It's nearly impossible to write a concise description of Juan Luis Guerra that sums up his accomplishments and accurately conveys just what he has meant to not only the...
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Music
One Cool Cat
Fresh-faced Boca chanteuse Cat Shell expands her reach.
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: June 25, 2009
When New Times first caught up with Cat Shell last year, the Boca-based singer/songwriter was trying to accomplish that age-old dream: making enough money from music to quit...
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Night Watch
Waddle You Have?
Evenings are well-spent with the cast of characters at the Duck.
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Published: June 25, 2009
The Duck Tavern's two large, windowed doors were open, and I could hear the faint buzz of raucous laughter and blue-collar camaraderie. I darted in and found the quaint dive...
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Outtakes
Head Spins: DJ Billy Paul
Bringing the world to South Beach and beyond.
By John Hood
Published: June 25, 2009
On any given Thursday evening at the Palms Hotel on South Beach, you'll find an intimate confab of hipsters swaying to a decidedly worldly beat. The party's called Sip and Spa,...
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Dish
Al-Salam Brings Mideast to Plantation
By Gail Shepherd
Published: June 25, 2009
Obama is speaking in Cairo, even quoting verses from the Qur'an, glad-handing Arab leaders, and no doubt settling down for intimate talks with King Abdullah II over a pot of...
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Dish
Joy Noodles & Rice
By Gail Shepherd
Published: June 25, 2009
The well-heeled boomers who live in the swank Mizner mansions behind the new Joy Noodles & Rice are already steering their Benzes and Beemers into Joy's cramped parking lot for...
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Film
Enthusiasm, Curbed
Not even the great Larry David can salvage Woody's shtick.
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 25, 2009
Character is destiny — at least for Woody Allen's Whatever Works. Allen's exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a snatch of Groucho Marx singing his trademark...
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Night & Day
The Price Is Right (If It Pays Your Bar Tab)
By Mickie Centrone
Published: June 25, 2009
Game shows mostly fill the air slots of daytime television - and during the day, it's exciting to win prizes such as a really cool orange juice maker. (Or so it seems by the...
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Night & Day
Crêpe Expectations
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: June 25, 2009
You're hopeless at wooing. Your last date was offended by your venue choice - even though Bow Hunter magazine assured you that chicks dig taxidermy. And the one before her?...
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Night & Day
Welcome to the Dollhouse
By Terra Sullivan
Published: June 25, 2009
If you were an American girl living in the last fifty years, you belonged to one of two groups: The pro-Barbie set, who lauded the Mattel creation for her iconic fashion sense,...
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Night & Day
I’m the Ross
By Chris Joseph
Published: June 25, 2009
The Florida Marlins' favorite tackling dummies, the Washington Nationals, are in town this week. And you could not ask for a better match up for a team that seems to have...
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Night & Day
Get Your Grooves
By Erica K. Landau
Published: June 25, 2009
In the land of iPods and iTunes, CDs are passe and eight tracks are prehistoric. But to music geeks, nothing can replace the rich sound quality of records - or the implication...
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Night & Day
Walk the Skank
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: June 25, 2009
Though mostly unknown to international audiences, Skank is one of the most revered rock bands in their native Brazil, owing to their catchy songs and fiery shows. Lead vocalist...
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Night & Day
The Dub Club
By Jason Budjinski
Published: June 25, 2009
While the ska resurgence that began in the mid-'90s brought renewed interest in the music of the late-'70s/early-'80s U.K. scene, there was a noticeable generation gap between...
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Night & Day
Bringing Sappho to South Florida
By Erica K. Landau
Published: June 25, 2009
Virginia Woolf once said, “All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn… for it was she who earned them the right to speak their...
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Night & Day
Comedy Central Takeout
By Mike Sauer
Published: June 25, 2009
If you tune your cable box to Comedy Central at any given moment, chances are you will find a South Park re-run or a marathon of the film Beer League (the funniest movie ever,...
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Night & Day
Off White
By Brett Gillin
Published: June 25, 2009
Local comedian Marvin Dixon (he's from Miami) has been hosting comedy shows like Def Comedy Jam, BET's Comic View, and Showtime at the Apollo for 15 years. You've just never...
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