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Round Three: Miami Herald To Cut 119 More Jobs

By Bob Norman
Miami Herald Publisher David Landsberg announced in an email to employees this afternoon that the newspaper is cutting 119 jobs in what amounts to the third round of buyouts, according to two newsroom sources. The cuts are being made across the McClatchy Company, which in total is slashing 1150 positions...
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Biden-Palin Debate Rundown

By Bob Norman
Just for the hell of it. I'm not coming at this from a substantive point of view so much as an opinion on how it played across this great land of ours. -- Good debate by historical standards (ever see the national disgrace that was the George H.W. Bush/Geraldine Ferraro...
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Read and Rejoice

Miami Book Fair International gets graphicWhat’s most compelling about this year’s landmark 25th incarnation of the Miami Book Fair International? Maybe the reading by renowned theoretical physicist Dr. Bryan Greene from his book Icarus, which describes the winged punk’s dicey approach to a Black Hole. “It’s going to be a sleeper,” suggests Mitchell Kaplan, the tall and wiry owner of […]
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“Made in Canada”

By John Linn
Our neighbors to the north, those wily Canadians, craft some pretty cool things. Canadian bacon, for example: Who doesn’t like a slice on an egg sandwich? Hockey is also a fun and rewarding sport (that’s our official line). Pamela Anderson? Now we’re talking. It’s in this spirit that the Bear...
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Developer Tibor Hollo Helped Build Miami

By Tim Elfrink
His thin, 81-year-old frame draped in a tan suit, his sharp eyes shaded by wraparound sunglasses, Tibor Hollo stands before a rusted fence bearing a spray-painted "No Trespassing" sign. Beyond the chainlink, strewn with weed-choked bottles and crushed cans, two of the finest acres in Miami stretch to the edge...
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Holy Hustler

By Gus Garcia-Roberts
On a sun-blasted Tuesday morning in the last weeks of 2008, four people pedal camouflage-painted bikes toward NW 61st Street and 13th Place, one of the busiest intersections for Liberty City's booming drug trade. Donald Vamper, a jovial 46-year-old wearing a camo bandanna Tupac-style; his cornrow-tressed wife, Sylvia; and Chris...
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Anthony Green

By Monica Cady
Singer/songwriter Anthony Green is best-known as the emotive lead singer for Philadelphia-based prog-rock band Circa Survive. Powered by a combination of ballerina-gone-ballistic stage moves and melodic, screaming vocals, Green has earned a demigod reputation in the tattooed emo tween scene. When the group recently took a short break, a tireless...
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What’s Your Foodie Rating? The Omnivore’s Hundred

By John Linn
Perhaps I have a smidge of room left for the brunost. In yesterday's blog watch we linked to a piece on Tinkering with Dinner that discussed the Omnivore's Hundred, a kind of foodie scavenger hunt that allows you to gauge the types of foods you've eaten or would never eat...
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Heimlich Maneuvering

To fellow reformers across the nation, Miami Mayor Manny Diaz touted it as one of his "best practices": teaching young children life-saving techniques such as CPR and the Heimlich maneuver. It seemed like a great idea. There are thousands of latchkey kids in poor neighborhoods, and quite a few care...
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Hitting The Links

By Bob Norman
I have to apologize to you for neglecting the Pulp lately -- been on deadline with my real job. Here are some links that I've been wanting to post, but haven't had the time. Hey it's the weekend. Raise a toast and have a good one. -- Here's a story...
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Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Preview

By Brandon K. Thorp
The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival opens officially on Friday, and it will close on November 11. In the intervening month, the festival will proceed much as it has for the past 22 years. Movies will play, celebrities will party, and a small coterie of extremely dedicated festival organizers will...
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The Florida Panthers and star Jay Bouwmeester toil in obscurity

By Thomas Francis
It's halfway through the first period of the Florida Panthers' game against the Minnesota Wild. Panthers goaltender Tomas Vokoun skates behind the goal to retrieve a puck. He whacks at it, trying to send it around the boards. But his fat goaltender's stick misses the puck. No time to swing...
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Blog Watch: Stuff from All Over

By John Linn
My soul mate, the great J. Wellington Wimpy. This week, on the (dun dun dun!!!!) BLOG WATCH: All Purpose Dark skips town. Hey, it sounds like a good idea. Labor day weekend is upon us, and I know I'm definitely due for a road trip. Naples sounds nice, but I...
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Save Me

By Ida Nolikit
Deep in Hialeah, among body shops, crisscrossing highway ramps, and tall, scattered palm trees, is a porn shop. You can find the same old skankiness here — whips, midget porn, ice trays shaped as tiny penises, and, of course, the Jack Rabbit. But in a glass case that snakes around...
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You Can Never Go Home

By John Linn
Some people can’t wait to leave home. They constantly annoy their friends with comments on how much “it sucks so bad here, man,” and they dream of the day where they can venture off into the great unknown. Others can’t dodge their birthplace. Maybe something terrible happened there, or maybe...
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UPDATED: Gold Medal Wine Tour Stops in at Two Chefs Too

By John Linn
Good news for fans of wine pairings: The Gold Medal Wine Tour, a for-charity, touring wine event taking place at classy restaurants across South Florida, is making a stop at Jan Jorgensen's latest joint Two Chefs Too on September 24 (this Wednesday). For $150 (payable directly to charitable organizations like...
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Waltzing Down the Rabbit Hole

By John Linn
Some stories just can’t be done through interpretive dance. For example, Platoon would be a bitch to pull off. (Unless of course you got the real Willem Dafoe to express the sadness of being left behind in the Vietnamese jungle by busting into an oddly depressing jitterbug – that man...
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The Palm Beach Post Retreat Memo

By Bob Norman
Somebody had commented on here about a big management retreat for Palm Beach Post poo-bahs -- and now we have the resulting memo (thanks to my colleague Deirdra Funcheon, who obtained it). The June 16 directive charts out a path for the future of the Post, a future that apparently...
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Spam All-Stars Pay Tribute to James Brown in New York

By Jose D. Duran
Ernest Barteldes Still Black, Still Proud: The African Tribute to James Brown with the Spam All-Stars August 22, 2008 Lincoln Center, New York Shortly prior to nightfall in Manhattan, Miami's own Spam All-Stars hit the stage during the last weekend of summer outdoor concerts at Lincoln Center to kick off...
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Skot Olsen Solo Show at Bear and Bird

By John Linn
Skot Olsen is one of those painters for whom everything he does looks like a window in a magical world — one where bizarre creatures roam the land and humanity holds dark secrets. In Olsen’s creations devils walk among us, sowing the seeds of chaos, while mere mortals struggle against...