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This Pint-Sized Preacher May Be a Prophet, But Who’s Profiting?

On a treeless cement slab of Northwest Miami-Dade County, a swarm of spruced-up families filters into New Harvest Missionary Baptist Church. Terry Durham sits quietly on a folding chair in a cluttered office at the building's rear. His knee bobs anxiously. He's dressed with flamboyant confidence in white alligator-skin boots...
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Pelican to Perform at Culture Room Saturday, November 15

The instrumental rock quartet Pelican has markedly evolved in recent years. Perhaps it was a result of moving from the band’s original hometown of Chicago, for the sunnier climes of Los Angeles. For where the earliest Pelican material skated around the borders of metal, as time has passed there’s been...
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Wednesday Night: New Year’s Eve Overthrow at Heathrow Lounge

Ian WitlenNew Year's Eve Overthrow with DJ Tamara Sky Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Heathrow Lounge, South Beach Better than: Ringing in the New Year wearing the played out all-white uniform of post-Diddy South Beach parties. Way too many times South Beach club parties end up being more hype than substance...
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Oh, hey. Dr. Marion Thorpe Also Is Running for Senate

Yep, while nobody (except maybe the unsleeping eye of Anthony Man) was watching, Dr. Marion Thorpe announced that he would be proud to serve Florida in the U.S. Senate. That declaration didn't make much of a splash. Hell, the Quinniapac poll released last week didn't even bother factoring Thorpe, the...
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Rap & Bullshit

VIBE Music Editor Sean Fennessey recently argued that contemporary R&B music has gone soft. He's onto something — there are too many emasculated, blue-balled crooners on the radio right now with no true identity. (Hell, whispering whiner/platinum sensation Lloyd's last name is Polite.) But Fennessey overlooked a larger point. R&B...
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Liveblogging the Muni Election

8:31 Welcome to the Juice muni elections liveblog. I will be doing the play-by-play. At my left is the color commentator, a highly flatulent greyhound who somehow managed to cast a ballot (for Al Capellini, natch) and has been flaunting her "My Vote Counted" sticker to all the other mutts...
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Lab Journal

Removal of subjects’ temporal lobes reveals an absence of typical grey matter in these outwardly normal cranial cavities. In what would, under typical conditions, be merely a canal for the optical nerve, these specimens’ visual passageways are flooded with shuffling cogs, glitchy synthesizer illuminations, and bounce houses. Prodding further unveils...
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Three Local Live Nation Venues Say Bye-Bye to Ticketmaster

This past December, Rolling Stone published an interesting industry - centric article detailing the ongoing business battle between ticket-sale monolith Ticketmaster, and live-show monolith Live Nation. Of course, everybody knows that until very, very recently, Ticketmaster was inescapable, even at certain small venues (locally, for instance, even Culture Room uses...
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On the List – Election Day Edition

ZOMG, ya'll! It's Tuesday, so what the hell is On the List doing up so early in the week? Well, in case you didn't know, today is Election Day, and whether your candidate of choice wins or loses, there will be plenty of alcohol flowing and music pumping in the...
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Aterciopelados

If the rock-inflected energy of Aterciopelados' 2006 album, Oye, was a response to the more electro-pop avenues the band had found itself wandering down beforehand, then this year's Rio stands as further proof that the Colombian group's grasp of organic, muscular pop remains one of its strongest attributes. Though somewhat...
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Mutual Benefits used dirty money to pay its legal defense

North Palm Beach attorney Joseph Murasko remembers when Ken Keechl, the future vice mayor of Broward County, told him that the company he was representing was branching out to South America. "I looked at Ken and said, 'Be careful,' " Murasko told Keechl. " 'You don't want to piss somebody...
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Introducing Mike Banger, Miami’s Future Super Producer

Mike Banger subscribed to our You Tube channel. He's a talented music dude. Here's the interview.New Times: How'd you get your nameMike Banger: You may know the slang term "banger" when speaking of a hard track. Well, when I first began producing I made nothing but hard mean heavy colossal...
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For Those About to Wok

If failed attempts to replicate your favorite confetti-like fried rice takeout only result in a dense pile of tamari-drenched risotto at home, one thing is clear: a Wok Star, you are not. Why not try again and take a recipe card from the pro, self-appointed “Wok Star,” Eleanor Hoh? Hoh’s...
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It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Happy Halloween! And what are you supposed to be? You may have noticed this week has been heavy on the booze. Well, I thought I'd keep that theme going with a post on one of my favorite drinks, the Charlie Brown. It's basically a Black and Tan, only instead of...
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Bloc Party

Transitioning from overhyped buzz generator to perpetual powerhouse ain't easy, even for figures as charismatic as the Party men, and on their third long-player, the strain shows. "Ares" is the sound of a band trying too hard, albeit with assists from some pretty interesting elements: screaming sirens, kinetic beats, and...