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Justin Bieber Wins a 2011 CMT Award

Thanks to the results of last night's 2011 CMT Awards it looks like the down-home Southern-bumpkin style of music so lovingly referred to as "country" has gone a little insane. It used to be that country music was known for it's twangy banjo and lyrics that cried about broken marriages,...
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Weekend Playlist: Strange Surf

Surf Rock may be more than 50 years old, but it's far from being a dead genre.On the contrary, it's a style of music that has continually risen from its grave. It seems that every so often, small pockets of bands appear to twist and tweak it as they see...
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Kings of Leon Cancel U.S. Tour; Gatorade Not Blamed

The Kings of Leon have just issued a statement announcing cancellation of the remainder of the band's U.S. tour. After a pretty hairy show in Dallas over the weekend, which included vocalist Caleb Followill leaving the stage midset because of reported heat problems, things weren't looking too promising.Obviously, KOL will...
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Allen West Proves The Onion Sometimes Gets It Right

The Onion may be the world's greatest source of satirical news, but sometimes its hilarity actually yields more fact than fiction.For President Obama's birthday yesterday, The Onion ran a news brief with the headline "Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition.""After months of heated negotiations and failed attempts to achieve any...
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Hacker Claims to Have Revealed Part of Florida Voter Database

A hacker going by the name Abhaxas claims to have hacked part of the Florida voter database and publicly posted his findings.Using his Twitter account, Abhaxas posted this text file of Florida voting information, saying, "Who believes voting isn't being tampered with?"From the names of the files the hacker allegedly...
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P.F. Chang’s Free Dim Sum Offer

Mall favorite P.F. Chang's has a good happy hour offer this week, just in time for your weekly Friday  office outing.Become a fan of the Asian Warrior and his giant horse on Facebook and receive a coupon good for one free dim sum or street food item on the menu. ...
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“Conan the Barbarian” a Bloody Good Reboot

A cinematic reboot for the patron saint of 98-pound weaklings, Conan the Barbarian is both truer to the vision of its character's creator, Robert E. Howard, and more satisfyingly pulpy than John Milius' 1982 movie incarnation. Director Marcus Nispel, along with no fewer than three screenwriters, eschews the lugubrious mythmaking...
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Rick Scott on the Ballot for “Worst Governor Ever”

Here's a new election where people may actually want to vote for Gov. Rick Scott again -- the race for the "Worst Governor Ever."As part of an online campaign by the Transport Workers Union of America, Scott joins Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, New Jersey Gov. Chris...
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Five Annoying Service Trends

Being a server is among the toughest jobs. If your salary ends up averaging ten bucks an hour, you're lucky. The hours are long. You're on your feet all shift. You're not paid when you're sick. We customers can be unbearable: undertipping, ordering things on the side, having allergies, or...
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Astrea Corporation’s Carly Garrett on Interactive Sharing & Swarm 666

​Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Astrea Corporation.It's been established that Astrea Corporation make music for and from the future: somewhere between trip-hop and dubstep and...
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Martorano Launches Video Cooking Series

Cook, restaurateur, cookbook author, businessman, buddy to the stars. . . now Steve Martorano has one more title to add to his resume: cooking teacher.  In a series of nine videos entitled Yo Cuz: The Italian-American Cook, Martorano mixes a bit of Oprah-esque self-esteem building with his patented South Philly...
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Backstage: A Response to NPR Regarding Kate Bush

Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions and observations about the local scene. This week: Fueling some feedback...  It goes without saying that one of the hazards of being a writer is having to open yourself up to feedback, either positive or negative, and in...
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South Florida’s Dirty Dozen: Our Annual List of Our Worst

Put down your margarita for a second and imagine a South Florida without bad guys. No scumbags, hucksters, shysters, megalomaniacs, sleazeballs, or assholes. Nothing but peaceful existence, marked by occasional strong weather. Rolling tides and the buzz of insects and not a dollar to be made. Almost paradise. That place...