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When Barack Obama donned the crusader's mantle during the 2008 presidential campaign, his web-savvy team created KeatingEconomics.com. The main video showed Charles Keating...
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Just before midnight, the Pollo Tropical is empty except for a couple of teenagers pointing toward the window and smirking. They've spotted a peculiar-looking 38-year-old who's...
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Of the many memorable nights at Revolution over the past five years, the best was arguably Peter Murphy. Really. Although the nod too could go to the Spoon/Walkmen/White...
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A cross between the melodic punk of Lawrence Arms and the churning hardcore of Rise Against, AWS combines a high quotient of heft and hooks. Original drummer Nicholas Pasquale...
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Trying to describe the sound of the New Orleans quartet Mute Math can bring to mind that music-writing adage — it's like dancing about architecture, i.e., inaccurate and...
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You've got to love Fort Lauderdale, where stilletoed women drink directly from the beer tap, where "happy hours" last eight hours, and where the geriatrics can put 'em away...
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The enthusiasm was infectious on a recent Friday night at Carousel Can Can in CityPlace. Surveying the half-empty dining room of mostly couples and well-coifed gals out on the...
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As we were finishing our entrées, the woman with the Karen Carpenter voice had an announcement to make. She paused before a rendition of "Son of a Son of a Sailor" to...
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Less documentary than closely and manipulatively edited homage to the new-agey “genius” of frequent Michael Jackson collaborator and High School Musical auteur Kenny...
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It takes considerable effort to make Darren Aronofsky seem like a model of restraint, but Robert Siegel pulls it off in Big Fan. Siegel's screenplay for The Wrestler insisted...
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Say adieu to the candy-corn nightmare before Christmas because Halloween’s over. Now, the season of magical trees, potential eggnog overdoses, and whimsical dreams of...
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During an off-season that the Cavaliers added Shaq and Vince Carter was traded to Orlando, the Miami Heat stood pat, thinking it could build on last year’s 43-win season...
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A little park in Wilton Manors is hosting a feast fit for a king — maybe several or dozens of kings. For the 4th annual “Taste of the Island” event, 48...
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I’m writing this letter on behalf of humankind to thank you for defining our lives. You showed us all, via the greatest movie of all time, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,...
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If you think that your hair’s jaunty curl is avant garde, the creations you’ll witness at Glynn Jackson’s Hairtopia will make you reconsider. Because unless...
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Yes, this Saturday’s Captain Morgan’s Fantasy Fest Parade on Duval Street in Key West is a healthy distance from Broward or Palm Beach, but is a few hours really so...
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If you were born in the late ’80s, your exposure to Styx may only consist of a snippet of “Mr. Roboto” on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of the ’80s....
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Here’s a spooky, tragic story. In 1940, on the way to a fire, firefighter Robert Leeland Knight jumped off the fire truck and landed in a charged puddle of water. A power...
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Pagans, you live by the cycles of the moon. You celebrate the sun. And while most folks participate only in trick-or-treat matters, you know today is Samhain, the greatest sun...
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On Halloween, female Willy Wonkas are sexy. So are women dressed up as clownfish, and hell, even female Ghostbusters are provocative. Guys can dress up as a smoldering pirate,...
