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Last Night: Panda Bear and No Age at Karu & Y

By Jose D. Duran
Art Damage with Panda Bear and No Age Friday, December 5Karu & Y, Downtown Miami Better Than: Everything happening that night on the planet Earth if you happen to take Pitchfork or College radio charts as the gospel. The Review: The rumors of a No Age/Panda Bear double bill during...
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Abrams: Tribune Should Study USA Today’s Success

By Bob Norman
We have the latest think piece from Tribune Co. Innovation Chief Lee Abrams and it's another doozy. I can't begin to capture the Abrams vibe, but here are some highlights:   -- He proposes to "blow up" an underperforming TV station in the Tribune chain and totally "rethink" the medium. His ideas include counting...
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Oyster Lovers, Unite

By Robb Walsh
Nearly four inches long, the "Sand Dune" oyster from Prince Edward Island was so plump that it bulged out of its shell. "Like a large breast in a small brassiere," Rodney Clark, owner of Rodney's Oyster House in Toronto, put it. Intensely briny and wonderfully sweet, the big, fat, beige...
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Kasai Allstars

By Jason Ferguson
The third installment in Crammed Discs' awesome series of "Congotronics" releases continues in the praiseworthy path of its predecessors, delivering yet another defiantly nonacademic album of African music. Just like the first "Congotronics" album, the unfuckwithably mind-blowing Konono N°1 disc that gave the series its title, this set from the...
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Weekend at Sammy’s

By Edmund Newton
So what does it take to get people's attention in Broward County nowadays? Apparently, a lot more than dumping a corpse in your backyard. The Broward Sheriff's Office says Samuel Nesbitt and Richard Isaac, housemates at 2844 NW Sixth Ct. in unincorporated Broward, got into a fight in June resulting...
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AIWF Rib Cook Off

By Gail Shepherd
There's some seriously saucy Sunday shenanigans coming our way in the form of the American Institute of Wine and Food's Annual Rib Cook-off, scheduled for Sunday, October 12 at 4 p.m.. Local students from Florida Culinary, Johnson and Wales, The Art Institute of FTL, Cordon Bleu, and Florida International are...
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Abrams: Time To Give Readers “Recession 101”

By Bob Norman
On the day the company declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Tribune's Chief Innovation Officer, Lee Abrams, issues a "think piece" to staff in which he says Tribune newspapers must "own" the recession: THE RECESSION: Discussion on we should position our papers and TV as the vehicles that helps people through the recession...
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Two Tales From the Trail

By Bob Norman
When John Rodstrom Googled himself, he didn't like what he saw. At the top of the first page of the search engine's results was a link from a blog called Florida Masochist naming the veteran Broward County commissioner as its Knucklehead of the Day (for failure to vote on a...
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Post Turns To Consulting Firm For Answers

By Bob Norman
As if the Palm Beach Post newsroom weren't taxed enough, now its journalists are going to have to deal with a consultation company in "intensive strategy sessions." Post Publisher Doug Franklin announced to staff this past Friday that the newspaper had hired Frank N. Magid Associates to "help shape our...
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The World Is a Stage

By Scott Foundas
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape, and walked through the adjoining door of the interstellar hotel room at the end of 2001, you might end up somewhere in the vicinity of Charlie...
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Murder, Spies, & Voting Lies and Boogieman

By Brandon K. Thorp
Murder, Spies, & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story is an exhaustively (and exhaustingly) thorough investigation of the claims of Clint Curtis, the man who was allegedly approached by Florida Rep. Tom Feeney to design a software program to throw the 2004 presidential elections to George Bush. The film has...
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Beyond the Hood

By Ben Westhoff
"Turn your TVs on/Bet ya all you see is me!" DJ Khaled raps/sings on "Standing on the Mountain Top," his only tangible musical contribution to his third album, We Global (We the Best/Koch/Terror Squad). This boast is not exactly true — when I turn on the TV, I see mostly...
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Politicians in Sunrise have plenty of mud to sling

By Bob Norman
Sunrise is a pretty dark place today. This city on the edge of the Everglades is in the midst of a political war — and the air is so full of vitriol now that it's hard to tell which side is in the right, if any. The conflict involves lawsuits,...
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The Great Voodoo Tiki Tequila Taste Test

By John Linn
Two frosty bottles of Voodoo Tiki. Drink up. We have a tradition around the New Times offices called Beer Fridays, where we basically reserve the last two hours of a workweek to drink in excess. It's a good tradition, as you might imagine, and it was upheld this past Friday...
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Sex Crime

By Robert Wilonsky
There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor Mancini with severe Mommy issues — fucking in a cramped airplane bathroom, on a barnyard's itchy haystack, in a grimy toilet stall, in a hospital chapel even...
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An Interview With Ted Allen

By John Linn
C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also featured...
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Booze Hound – Chef Allen’s

By Jose D. Duran
Elyse Wanshel As far as I know, there wasn't a full moon last night -- I didn’t accidentally rub my big ass against a lamp, resulting in a magical genie oozing free with a pocket-full of wishes to be used at my disposal. Hell didn't freeze over, pigs never flew,...
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Food Without Fire: Raw Food at Whole Foods

By Whitney Roux
Bathed in a homemade sauce, I scarf down my “raw fajita”. The vegetables are crunchy and fresh, the collard green in place of a tortilla holds the succulent flavor of the red peppers, avocado and portobellos. To think just minutes ago this was a few vegetables sitting on the table,...
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Covers à Go-Go

By Lee Zimmerman
A covers album from a South Florida combo is hardly breaking news, considering that this a locale where well-crafted original music is a rare commodity. But when you're talking about the sophomore set from the Postmarks, a group widely hailed for purveying a distinctive style, it's initially surprising that, two...
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Year of the Ram

By Scott Foundas
I hated the '90s. The '90s fuckin' sucked," professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson says early on in The Wrestler — and he should know. Over the hill and past his prime — his steroidal body a palimpsest of battle scars, his graying hair dyed a Nordic blond — Robinson...
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Beck

By Michael Roberts
Danger Mouse is arguably the most adventurous producer to tackle a Beck project since the Dust Brothers helped birth a 1996 baby called Odelay (the Dusters' return for 2004's Güero doesn't count). The resulting sound is satisfyingly dense and intricate; the neo-surfisms of "Gamma Ray," the delicate psychedelia of "Chemtrails,"...