Around the Voice - Isaac Hayes, Anime Music Videos and U.S. Air Guitar Championship

Alexandra Lipsitz Talk about creepy: Village Voice's Sound of the City posts up a promo picture for the movie Soul Men, which features the late Isaac Hayes and the late Bernie Mac. Quick, someone get Samuel L. Jackson to a panic room! LA Weekly gives us a glimpse of the...

By Jose D. Duran

August 15, 2008

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Alexandra Lipsitz

Talk about creepy: Village Voice's Sound of the City posts up a promo picture for the movie Soul Men, which features the late Isaac Hayes and the late Bernie Mac. Quick, someone get Samuel L. Jackson to a panic room!

LA Weekly gives us a glimpse of the world where anime and music collide to form anime music videos or AMVs for short. Geek-tastic!

With the advent of Guitar Hero why even bother with the sport of air guitar anymore? Well, some people still prefer to kick it old school, as SF Weekly reports from the U.S. Air Guitar Finals.

-- Jose D. Duran

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Jose D. Duran has been the associate web editor of Miami New Times since 2008. He's the voice and strategist behind the publication's eyebrow-raising Facebook and Twitter feeds. He has also been reporting on Miami's music, entertainment, and cultural scenes since 2006, previously through sites such as MiamiNights.com and OnBeat.com. He earned his BS in journalism with a minor in art history from the University of Florida. He's a South Florida native and will be a Miami resident as long as climate change permits and the temperature doesn't drop below 60 degrees.

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