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Motion City Soundtrack to Play Culture Room

Motion City Soundtrack isn't exactly a household name beyond its Warped Tour disciples. However, the Minneapolis-grown and road-groomed melodic punks' fourth studio effort, the recently released My Dinosaur Life, is destined to expand that reach, regardless of the band's intentions. The quintet's sound blends fuzzy-guitar-filled pop-punk with other subgenres like...
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Mark Foley Gets a Shoutout on 30 Rock

​Disgraced Congressman turned West Palm Beach consignment-shop owner Mark Foley got a mention right in the middle of NBC's Thursday-night prime-time lineup. Though it probably wasn't the kind of shoutout he would appreciate.On last night's season opener, 30 Rock made reference to Foley's scandalous time in conservative politics. It happened...
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Lake Worth and Immigration: A Call for Reasonable Debate

After last week's Community Relations Board meeting in Lake Worth, where a reading group from the Night Heron Grassroots Activism Center presented a PowerPoint lecture on hate groups operating in Lake Worth, I posted a couple of items on the meeting here and here.I spent a lot of time last...
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Local Wiccans Disavow Christine O’Donnell at Pagan Pride Day

flickr.com​There was no Satanic altar. There was no blood. There was no animal sacrifice. And as far as I could tell from talking to people at the Pagan Pride Day Celebration Picnic, held this weekend at the at Unitarian Universalist Church in Fort Lauderdale, there was nobody who believed anything...
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Random Album Review: Ike Reilly – Hard Luck Stories

​Ike ReillyHard Luck Stories (Rock Ridge Music)If you took the Pogues and multiplied them by the Clash, then divided by Dylan the result would be Ike Reilly. Over the past decade, he's quietly amassed one of the most raucous and literate catalogues in rock and roll. His peculiar genius is...
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A Graffiti Crew Mourns the Loss of One of Its Own

"Can you come scoop the dukes?" There was Ynot — all sharp, scrawny joints and ink-soaked skin — and his two boys, Quake and Pucho, and they sat inside Club Eden, a little nudie bar in Davie, commiserating alone. And even amid the distractions of neon and bouncing silicone, they...
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Taking a Hard Hat Tour of Frank Gehry’s New World Symphony HQ

John Hood​The story goes like this:A few of the principals behind Miami's New World Symphony were sitting around discussing their dream of building a combination campus/concert hall that would be large enough to handle an ever-increasing crop of talent and bold enough to wow the world.At one point someone mentioned...
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And Gringo Was His Name-O

For each phrase that ends in someone gasping, “That would make a great band name,” there’s an equally lazy epiphany that results in bands winding up with names like !!!, The Devil Wears Prada, and Gringo Star. Luckily, Atlanta-based garage-rock rising stars Gringo Star are more than just a derivative...
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Blast From the Past: Anti-Justice’s Self-Titled EP

Tim Den​Anti-Justice Self-Titled EP (Self-released) Chances are you never heard about Anti-Justice and while I'd love to follow where alcohol leads and promote my coolness over you; I will not - not out of some "professionalism" or because I've been edified and tempered by age. No, I will not laud...
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Are Greyhound Track Owners in Business With a Mexican Cartel Financier?

Earlier this year, the American Greyhound Track Owners Association, which is headquartered at the Palm Beach Kennel Club, took on a new member with a questionable, controversial past. At the AGTOA's spring conference, held in Las Vegas, then-President Karen Keelan called MIR/Caliente the group's "newest and most supportive member."MIR/Caliente is...
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This Week’s Broward-Palm Beach Music Section: TopSpot USA Showcase

Photo by Ari Justin RothenbergTopSpot USA asking Alesana's Shawn Milke the tough questions​The Broward-Palm Beach Crossfade contingent is definitely the opposite of emo about our feature, "TopSpot USA Showcase Punks Up the Talent Farm" in this week's music section.We caught up with TopSpot USA founders Sean Russell and Frankie "Famous"...
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FAU’s Public Ethics Academy a Bad Joke

The so-called "Public Ethics Academy" at Florida Atlantic University is supposed to serve as something of a lifeboat of good government in Broward County's sea of wrongdoing public officials. Instead the academy is nothing more than a symbol of the county's ethically bankrupt nature, and it should be disbanded immediately. I say that not just because its...
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Educating Maria

On a recent afternoon inside the bustling day-care center Las Familias del Pueblo in downtown's Skid Row, Alice Callaghan heads toward a ringing phone. The middle-aged Episcopal minister, who was once a Catholic nun, still wears a kind of religious uniform that's both pragmatic and modest: a khaki skirt cut...
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A Blossom Recipe Blossoms

Now that the Sunshine State has actually seen a couple of weeks of sunshine, all those fruits and veggies that were hiding out for our wretched winter are now, well... blossoming. And with our weekend farmers' markets in full swing and such full-time produce markets as Harvest Time (4361 Hypoluxo...
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Love Taps

Four weeks ago, the Miami Heat flailed without Dwyane Wade, when he was sidelined due to a strained calf. They dropped games against the lowly T-Wolves and middling Bucs. They fell below the .500 mark and into third in the Southeast Division. D-Wade’s return game against the Orlando Magic was...
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“That’s Commissioner Chaz”

God help us, Chaz Stevens has been appointed to the board of the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority. Not even a very loud "No!" from Commissioner Marty Popelsky (at 1:20 in the video above) could stop Stevens' rise to power.Of course, the activist blogger (he prefers "genius") played a crucial role...
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Weezer Leads SunFest’s New Music Night Lineup

Since 1982, SunFest has grown from a quaint jazz and arts festival to something worthy of Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Black Crowes, and now Weezer. As headliner for Wednesday's New Music Night, the alt-rock superstars help kick off five days of music on Flagler Drive in downtown West...
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The Natto Project? No Thanks!

Ever had natto? The Japanese foodstuff is made of fermented soybeans that have a type of bacteria called bacillus subtilus added. The bacteria lends the beans a super-strong smell and also develops a stringy, sticky filament around them called neba. This combination of texture and smell is somewhat acquired, to...