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Guitar Zero

Maybe the next generation won't even play instruments. Clapton and Hendrix? So passé.

By Ashley Harrell
Feb 14, 2008

It was around 9 p.m. on a recent Tuesday when the kid strolled into Java D'Lites, a Coral Springs Coffee Shop. With the shop buzzing over the night's event — South Florida's first legit Guitar Hero competition — the kid's entrance didn't get much attention. Matt Lozano was just one...
Art Blobble

Even the Broward and Palm Beach holdouts are getting sucked into this year's Basel

By Ashley Harrell
Dec 6, 2007

Yeeeow! It's eating everything in sight! Run for your lives! It's growing, growing, growing! No, not the Blob. It's Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB). Since its inception in 2002, this Basel thing has engulfed every art fair for miles around, even surpassing its daddy, Switzerland's Art Basel, as the biggest...
Wish I Was in Dixie

Dania Beach still struggles to find racial harmony

By Ashley Harrell
Nov 15, 2007

Every man has his limit. For Taurus Barron, it came when his boss told him to park behind the Dania Beach Water Plant, where he worked as a water plant operator. Well, OK. But why? Why behind, rather than in front of the plant, where all the white employees parked?...
Car Club Crazy

The South Florida Dubs go scrapingly low

By Ashley Harrell
Nov 8, 2007

Crash Test Mark and his three-Volkswagen entourage pull up at my apartment at 5:45 on a recent Sunday morning. The plan: to drive across the state with 70-something members of two car clubs, then chill at FixxFest, a yearly drag-racing competition in Bradenton. Although I had no idea what it...
Back in (Ian) Black

By Ashley Harrell
Oct 25, 2007

You've beheld his physical beauty on Sierra Mist commercials. You've constructed shrines to his biting commentary on VH1's I love the ´90's and his comedic genius in cult-classics like Wet Hot American Summer and The Ten. Why not go see the whole live man? He’s a wonderful man. Oh yes...

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