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Hanging in the Studio With Que Lastima

When we last left Que Lastima, the band was melting speakers with its debut album, Fever Dreams, inciting riots at music venues across South Florida. The album cracked like a whip, making it tough to guess how they might move forward without retreading former glories. But anyone who's followed Que Lastima's...
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Best Things to Do in Broward and Palm Beach This Week

Thursday, May 19 There are a great many topics on which the U.S. citizenry cannot agree. But this week is a period to come together to celebrate the one thing 99.9 percent of us adore: beer. American Craft Beer Week is here. Celebrate at these South Florida spots: • Thursday...
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Will the 2000 Presidential Recount Repeat in 2016?

Sixteen years ago, hanging chads sent the nation into a spiraling constitutional crisis. For a month after the November 7, 2000 election, America panicked. Would Texas Gov. George W. Bush or Vice President Al Gore become the new commander-in-chief? Election night ended in a virtual tie. Bush had the edge,...
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Ocean Drive’s Party Days Could End as Crackdown Looms

As crowds stumble along South Beach's most iconic strip of art deco hotels and restaurants on a hot Saturday in July, the chipper sidewalk hostesses do a quick mental calculation, looking for a phrase that might lure passersby. "Table for two?" they hawk. "Happy hour!" "Two-for-one drinks!" It's 5:45 p.m...
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How Critics Became TV’s Newest Stars

Critics rarely receive love from filmmakers. Last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Birdman, featured a vengeful harpy of a theater reviewer (played by Lindsay Duncan) hellbent on annihilating a play before she’d even seen it. Birdman was joined in its release year by other unfair portraits of critics in Top...
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The Eight Best Jamaican Restaurants in Broward and Palm Beach

It seems fitting that Jamaica's official motto, "Out of many, one people," serves equally well to describe the nation's melting-pot cuisine. This is one culture where you can truly taste the country's history in its food, from jerk chicken and curry goat to stew peas and rum cake. Today, the...
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Circumcised Men in South Florida Try to Regrow Their Foreskins

The blinds are drawn in Murphy's Miami Beach bedroom as the 33-year-old pulls a white, silicone, four-inch conical contraption from his nightstand. Called a TLC Tugger, it was designed to stretch skin gradually, as earlobes are stretched for gauges. Except Murphy isn't stretching his earlobes. His project is much more...
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A Bronx Tour

When he was 9 years old, Chazz Palminteri received an index card from his father that read, “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.” That axiom stayed with him through his time as a struggling actor and as a club bouncer in New York City, even when he was...
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Jeb Bush Is Petty and Vindictive

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, his face contorted in a scowl, doesn't get up to greet Alex Villalobos when the big-eyed 42-year-old state senator enters the dimly lit office connected to the executive suite of Tallahassee's Capitol building. It's early May 2006, shortly after the last day of the legislative session,...
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Fort Lauderdale Draws Disappointing Score on LGBT Municipal Equality Index

For a city with the highest concentration of same-sex couples, Fort Lauderdale got a pretty substandard score in the Municipal Equality Index this year. The index, released annually by the gay-rights group Human Rights Campaign, grades how municipalities across the country treat lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents. And Fort...
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Publix To Expand Benefits To Include Same-Sex Couples

The Sunshine State's largest employer, Publix Super Markets, will expand its spousal benefits to include married same-sex couples beginning on January 1, 2015-- just days before the lifting of a federal stay is expected to bring marriage equality to Florida. According to Equality Florida, one of the state's leading LGBT...
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Zinburger Fights Prostate Cancer With Pumpkin Stache Shake

Conceived in 2009 as a fun way of helping in the fight against cancer, No Shave November is the spiritual cousin of the Movember movement. Founded in 2009 by Rebecca Hill and Bret Ringdahl, No Shave November has grown from an initial pool of about 50 Facebook supporters to a...
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Spirit Airlines Concludes That Everyone Hates Flying

Spirit Airlines -- the cheap-airfare airline headquartered in Miramar -- has been widely known to piss off pretty much anyone who has even flown it. Be it on Twitter, Facebook, or the water cooler at work, people love to talk up how much Spirit has screwed them one way or...
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#FanGate Reactions Dominate Post-Debate Spin by Politicians

The room was cluttered with a dizzying array of voices. Bodies crushed in together. Lights flashed. Cameras buzzed. The so-called post-debate Spin Room -- the designated area where politicians go and talk to the media about how their candidate won the debate -- was a steaming goulash of pant suits,...