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New Times Cleans Up in National Prizes

When news broke last week that Senior Writer Michael E. Miller had won the 2014 Sigma Delta Chi award for nondeadline writing, it was just the cherry on top of an unparalleled year of national prize-winning for Miami New Times. Miller's award comes for his feature story "Champ," which tells...
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The Psychedelic Furs Head to Culture Room Monday Night

Thirty years plus and the Butler brothers are still going strong with their new-wave concoction, the Psychedelic Furs. Led by singer Richard, with his sibling Tim on bass, the group emerged from Britain's late '70s postpunk scene to become one of the genre's founding troubadours. Thanks in large part to...
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Funky Buddha to Release More Moro Blood Orange IPA

Summer is here which means a proliferation of fruit-tinged beers will hit the market in the next few months. Funky Buddha celebrates the marriage of fruit and hops with its next bottle release - More Moro Blood Orange IPA. See also: Funky Buddha's Small Batch Bottling Of A Fan Favorite,...
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DEP and Collier Commission Clash Over Everglades Oil Drilling

In an ominous public statement this week, regulators at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection told Collier County officials to back off a legal challenge to a controversial oil-drilling operation in the Big Cypress Swamp watershed. In effect, the DEP told the Collier Commission "Trust us; we got this." See...
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Air Travelers Kicked Off Flight Sue WestJet

Face it: The glam days of air travel are dead and buried. Now, it's $50 for that carry-on, $6.75 for water from the cart — plus tax — though attitude from overworked flight attendants is gratis. According to a lawsuit filed in South Florida, one air carrier went overkill with...
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The Engrossing Teenage Shows Why They Are Who They Are

Today it's hard for us to fathom why preachers used to rail so vehemently against jitterbugging. Even with cultural context — black music infiltrating white America, the revolution of rhythm over melody — the athletic, whirligig, swing-time boogie craze of the '30s and '40s now looks as wholesome as the...
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Everymen’s Capt’n Bobo: “I Am Living My Dream”

Lake Worth does certain things exceedingly better than the rest of South Florida, like how the area breeds hippies with uncanny efficiency. Between Tacos Al Carbon and Lupitas, Lake Worth's authentic Mexican cuisine game is untouchable. Also, the city has spawned and sustained a unique music community entirely its own,...
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Street Artists to Show Work Inside at FAT Village Artwalk on Saturday

Street art has been appearing in Broward County news this week. Earlier, we told you about downtown Hollywood's upcoming mural project expansion. Up next is Saturday's opening of Inside FACES, at FAT Village's MAC Fine Art Gallery. In case you missed it, MAC is that lime-green building near the train...
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Nick Cutter’s Death Exposes Neglect Scandal at Miami VA Hospital

The man eating breakfast certainly looked like Nicholas Cutter. He had the same pale skin. The same shaved head. The same technicolor tattoos peeking from beneath his T-shirt like graffiti on a whitewashed wall. Yet, from across the kitchen table, his sister Rainy saw a stranger. Once an extroverted older...
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Maleficent: Behold, Jolie the Great and Powerful

Boil Maleficent down to one newt's nose-size piece of advice and you'd get this: Don't dump Angelina Jolie. It's not a problem most mortals will face, but as seen through director Robert Stromberg's lens, the antlered arch-villain of Sleeping Beauty is a sympathetic scorned woman, equal parts Gloria Gaynor, Princess...