The sensitive MC has always been a rare figure in hip-hop. Although the early 2000s did see a spike in "politically conscious" backpack rappers like Talib Kweli and Mos Def (both of whom took a page from Common's socio-empathetic rhyme book), it's been 99 percent bitches, guns, money, and so...
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"How important is egg in a sushi restaurant?" I asked Takeshi Kamioka, owner and sushi chef at Gaysha New World Sushi, which opened in the Wilton Manors gayborhood in August. My friend and I sat at the counter well after 9 p.m. on a Tuesday, having worked up an appetite...
Hip-hop culture has long had a turbulent relationship with law enforcement. Some has been pure posturing, some is a result of actual law-breaking (spray-painting Subway cars looks cool, but it's not legal), and some is just straight up bad behavior by the men in blue. Further cementing the final notion,...
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Happy Birthday, Jerry Lee Lewis!
On Tuesday around 6 in the morning, John Pappa was awakened by a pounding at his door. "I thought someone was trying to break it down," said executive chef of Tropical Acres Steakhouse, the Dania Beach restaurant that was stricken by a fire that erupted just before 4 a.m. on...
The Pulp has been following the case of a Broward woman who says that a cosmetic procedure destroyed her face and neck with keloids and that her surgeon didn't tell her about scarring risks beforehand. Now, Enid Perrins-Whittaker's surgeon, Dr. Juan Felipe Garcia, has joined Lifestyle Lift in responding to...
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Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side streets while using her left hand to hold a Flip cam to her face. The inside of her car — a weathered Honda Civic with "Nobama," Marco Rubio, and Tea Party bumper stickers — smells like it was fumigated with sweet incense...
Back in 2008, longtime friends Vitek Benton, Eric Carter, and Corey Lindholm decided to do what they'd wanted to do for a while -- start a band. So they got some instruments, figured out how to play them, and did so. Three years later, Fort Lauderdale's self-described "postpunk" outfit Retrocities...
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A Thank-You Note From Rick Scott
Stephen Colbert made a disturbing discovery on the Colbert Report. Turns out that some wacky Chinese scientists, in another effort to feed the world, are genetically modifying dairy cows by implanting human genes into cow embryos. The result being these poor cows will produce human breast milk. Colbert wonders what's...
Tucked away in a Tudor-style meeting house on Washington Street, a hearty-looking German Frau in a dirndl serves frothy beer in giant mugs at the German American Society of Greater Hollywood. A brass band belts out the John Denver anthem "Take Me Home, Country Roads," followed by a round of...
Modern EnglishRespectable Street, West Palm BeachThursday, September 22, 2011 Better than: Staying home to watch Valley Girl. It has been almost two decades since the original Modern English lineup took the stage, and although they look a helluva lot different (see random details 1 and 2), you could close your...
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Marielena Stuart stood in the middle of a quiet street, 120 miles across the swamp from Miami, and stared down the black plastic barrel of a news camera. Behind her loomed a monstrous church, its 100-foot orange brick façade shimmering like scales in the nighttime spotlights. Stuart glanced up at...
West Palm Beach had to let little birds Hear Hums leave the nest some time ago. While it was sad to see them go, comfort was found in the fact that the move was for their own good. Having called Gainesville their home for over a year now, we welcome...
Tuesday mornings aren't exactly high-traffic times at South Florida casinos.Things were a little different yesterday, though, when dozens packed into a huge tent just outside the Seminole Casino Hollywood's front door for an odd giveaway, even for a casino. The winner of this contest would get a job.Though these days...
Here's one they don't teach in Management 101.A local microbiologist claims that her boss would unzip his pants and touch himself when she met with him to talk about work, according to a recently filed lawsuit. To make matters worse, the woman claims, she was passed up for a promotion at...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two broke box-office records this part weekend, grossing about 100 gazillion dollars. The bad news is that we said goodbye to Harry Potter forever. The good news is that Guy Fieri has taken Harry's place at Hogwarts. What? Guy Fieri? The crazy-haired, tattooed...
A Dodge Charger apparently decided to play Knight Rider's KITT at a Boynton Beach car wash yesterday when a man was "thrown" from the car and it kept on going, according to Boynton Beach police.The cops say a 68-year-old employee of the Main Street Car Wash in Boynton Beach was...
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UPDATE: The Monroe County Sheriff's Office tells us Thomas Swindal died of a cocaine overdose.On the list of things not to do when you discover a mysterious package full of white powder, snorting the substance is probably near the top of the list.Unfortunately for 53-year-old Thomas Swindal, he did not...
Funny what a studio owned by a shoe company (owned by another shoe company) can churn out. Although the output of Matt & Kim, Soulja Boy, and Andrew W.K. hadn't crossed paths before, Converse Rubber Tracks got 'em all in for an ominously titled song, "I'm a Goner." Unfortunately, there...
In today's newsrooms, using Windows 95, connecting to AOL 3.0 with a 56k modem, and using Adobe PageMaker to complete a newspaper would sound like an absolute nightmare.Then there are the collegians at Florida Atlantic University who decided to make it even worse -- taking newspapers back to a day...
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