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Winner’s Circle: Cheaters Prosper at Calder Race Course

One by one, horses strut into the stadium for the second race of the day. Each is a sleek machine shining under the sweltering midday sun. Their sinewy legs sway under muscular torsos rippling with veins like river deltas. Portly Jamaicans and aging sailors with faded forearm tattoos stand in...
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Corals Can Get Herpes; Valtrex Not an Option

Coral reefs have taken a beating in recent decades. Ask someone who dove off the Florida coast in the '70s and he'll tell you the reefs today are a shadow of what they once were.Overfishing, reckless coastal development, pollution, careless boaters, and human plundering have all had a perilous effect on the increasingly...
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Doug Darling, Rick Scott Job-Creation Adviser, Quits

The man who oversees much of the state's job-creation effort submitted his resignation late last week for "personal reasons."It's not clear why Department of Economic Opportunity Director Doug Darling, who was hired for the gig last July, is calling it quits, but it probably isn't for a lack of results: The...
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Gay Bullying Goes From Rite of Passage to Public Enemy

Bottle-blond bangs swept over one eye — this, the other boys whispered, was not a man's haircut. One of them — a popular, handsome specimen — grew particularly incensed at his classmate's new look. He formed a posse and found a pair of scissors. After locating the blond boy, the...
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Don’t Miss Misfit Home Brewers at New Times Beerfest

Misfit Home Brewers have been prepping for New Times Beerfest, where they'll offer 105 gallons of home brew at their tents this Saturday.  George Garcia started it all, brewing in college as a means of drinking cheap beer five years ago. Last year, he gathered Piero Rodriguez, and Robert Tejon...
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7 Seas Play Talent Farm and Offer Five of Their Favorite Local Acts

7 Seas is a band that claims to have "no limitations." Musically, that is. Their worldly name indicates their exploratory nature. Drummer Andrew Nicholson says that the diversity of sounds, people, and cultures living around the world's seven seas influenced their moniker and that you can hear the versatility of styles in the writing...
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Vote for the Best Hairstylist of 2012

Update: We've suspended voting here after some serious ballot-stuffing. Click here for the hack-proof version. Here's your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers' Poll 2012 for your favorite hairstylist. The results will appear in our annual Best Of Broward-Palm Beach issue June 14. Click here for...
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South Florida at the Bottom of New Job Creation Rankings

​More than one in five South Florida residents said their employers were firing workers in 2011, according a Gallup poll released this morning.In a Gallup ranking of the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas, the "Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach" area ranked 44th out of 50 for job creation last year -- the worst...
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Robb Bank$ Thinks He May Be Happy

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Misfit Home-Brewers Land Top Prize at New Times Beerfest

If there was one big winner from Saturday night's Beerfest, it was the small brewer. The home brewers and the upstarts took home a couple of the biggest prizes from our Clean Plate Charlie awards, a remarkable feat considering the megabrewers that were present. Here, then, are our winners from...
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Vote for the Best Local Artist of 2012

Update: We've suspended voting here after some serious ballot-stuffing. Click here for the hack-proof version. Here's your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers Poll 2011 for your favorite local artist. The results will appear in our annual Best of Broward-Palm Beach issue June 14. Click here...
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Happy Birthday, Cyndi Lauper… And Girl, Keep On Havin’ Fun

Born Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper on June 22, 1953, Cyndi Lauper is best known as the kooky, squeaky-voiced singer with the multi-colored hair and a giddy onstage persona. Yet despite that flighty attitude, she made some serious impressions on the pop charts early on. In the mid '80s she dominated...
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Happy Birthday, David Byrne! Here’s to Icons of Imagery

Born May 14, 1952, David Byrne would have made a totally significant mark in the world of music even if he'd only remained at the helm of Talking Heads. As singer and songwriter for one of the most innovative outfits involved in New York's punk/new wave scene from the mid...