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TV on the Radio

By Michael Roberts
Although the Radio crew's talent is well-established, the band's music has always raised user-friendliness questions: Sure, 2006's Return to Cookie Mountain was excellent, but did anyone other than rock critics listen to it? Dear Science tackles this conundrum head on, upping the accessibility quotient without smacking of sell-out desperation. "Crying,"...
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Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 2

By John Linn
One of Costa Rica's many beach-side sodas, shaded from the hot coastal sun by an umbrella of tall trees. Yesterday I talked a little bit about Costa Rica's plato tipical, casado - and more specifically, rice and beans. Now, when you're producing rice and beans in such quantities as to...
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Top Indie Rock Albums of 2008

By Jose D. Duran
In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today's record industry, most major-label executives don't have the time or energy to convince music fans they might like something a little out of the ordinary. They're too busy recycling variations on what...
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Crazy for Funk

By Julienne Gage
After ten years in the business, two years of heavy touring, and a fourth baby to rock and burp through the night, members of Miami's premier Latin urban orchestra could be forgiven for being exhausted. But on the contrary, this Grammy-nominated unit appears to be hitting its prime. Only two...
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Miguel Migs

By Cory Casciato
Miguel Migs knows his history. His soulful, song-oriented deep house draws heavily on the style's disco roots, tinting it with soul, funk, hip-hop, and reggae influences. In the studio, Migs employs live musicians and soulful vocalists, skillfully blending organic elements with electronic textures and programmed beats to create ultraslick yet...
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Fort Lauderdale Philanthropist Tied To Epic Swindler Madoff — UPDATED

By Bob Norman
Michael Bienes doesn't make a lot of news and hasn't been involved much in local politics, but if you look around you'll see the tall and seemingly kindly Fort Lauderdale multi-millionaire's name all over the place. At Holy Cross Hospital, there's the Michael and Dianne Bienes Comprehensive Cancer Center. At the Broward County Library in downtown...
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Leashed Lightning

By Ella Taylor
With his blazing-white coat and pig-pink ears, to say nothing of the zigzag of lightning cut into his flank, the eponymous canine lead of Disney's lively new animated movie Bolt looks a little bit real and a whole lot not. That's not a failure of craft: Goofy and sweet like...
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Q&A With Satyricon, Playing at Club Cinema This Sunday

By Arielle Castillo
It's hard to overstate the influence of the long-running Norwegian band Satyricon on the world's extreme heavy metal scene. Its tenacity alone is amazing -- the core of the band, frontman/songwriter Satyr and drummer Frost, has been playing together continuously since 1992. On albums and tours, an all-star cast of...
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Somewhere Over the Date Line

By Ella Taylor
You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit lit, classic melodramas, Westerns, war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the likely outcome of Baz Luhrmann's Australia within its first 15 minutes, but any or all of the above will help. Tightly wound and corseted posh...
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That 1 Guy

By Tom Bowker
When Bay-area avant-garde funkateer Mike Silverman, AKA That 1 Guy, hits the stage, even the most jaded music fan needs a double take to discern what in the hell is going on. Just when you've recovered from the visual freak-out of Silverman's invention, the Magic Pipe — a two-stringed, 13-trigger...
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That 1 Guy

By Tom Bowker
When Bay area avant-garde funkateer Mike Silverman, AKA That 1 Guy, hits the stage, even the most jaded music fan needs a double take to discern what in the hell is going on. Just when you've recovered from the visual freak-out of Silverman's invention, the Magic Pipe -- a two-stringed,...
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U.S. Military Deserters No Longer Find Solace in Canada

By Megan Feldman
Just five feet tall, with a baby strapped to her chest and a soft, faltering voice, Kim Rivera is anything but soldierly. Yet two years ago, she was a private in the War on Terror, guarding a gate with an M4 rifle and frisking Iraqi civilians at a base in...
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Still White, Fat, and Over 40

By John Linn
Louis C.K. is the Emmy-winning writer of The Chris Rock Show, I Think I Love My Wife, Pootie Tang, and HBO’s Lucky Louie. He draws deeply from his personal life, transforming uncomfortable or taboo subjects into comedy. In his routine, Louis (whose last name is actually Szekely) explores everyday issues...
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Carlton Moore splits the Lauderdale scene. With polite venom.

By Edmund Newton
It was a momentous occasion for Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Carlton Moore: his last commission meeting after two decades of service. Moore, whose district includes Sistrunk Boulevard and other economically depressed portions of the city's northwest corner, is known for championing affordable housing and commercial development for his constituents. The sometimes-abrasive...
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This is What it’s Like When Worlds Collide

By John Linn
When Jordan and Pippen were together, they were unstoppable. Kobe and Shaq, despite their differences, were also a vicious duo. Chocolate and peanut better — lets just say they both kick some major ass. Point is, when two heavyweights team up, the result is often magical. So it’s reasonable to...
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Letters for September 11-17, 2008

The One-Out-of-Ten Result Hmmm. Scott Israel will win in November despite the facts that he has been less-than-honest about his partisan leanings, has a record of troubled arrests, and has blown his résumé item of police chief of North Bay Village (36 employees) into the equivalent of running a major...
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Top Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

By Jose D. Duran
A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age...
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Letters for November 20-26, 2008

Icetastic What a great article on Jay Bouwmeester ("Iced," Thomas Francis, November 13). I haven't seen a piece of journalism that was this in-depth and outside-the-box in ages. You said the things that others are afraid to say, and kudos for that. I've never heard of New Times before, but...
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Celebrate the Bear

By Tara Nieuwesteeg
I love Santa Claus. I wish it was because I'm fascinated by the way his modern-day story evokes folkloric traditions, possible real people, and pre-Christian mythology. Or because he's got a toy shop, magic reindeer, a flying sled, and it's cool to lie to little kids about his existence. But...
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Abrams: Obama Election A ‘Wake-Up Call’

By Bob Norman
The latest think piece from Tribune Co. Innovation Chief Lee Abrams. He's gone gaga for the election (the collector's item status of the election edition has "spurred a lot of thinking and action across the Tribune Nation") and he wants to capitalize on it. "This idea is all about DRIVING...
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Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Jose D. Duran
It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and...