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Indoor Block Party

Now that the heat of summer has kicked in, true Floridians will tell you to go out only at night. Norton Museum is offering a summer kickoff for its latest installment, Block by Block: Inventing Amazing Architecture. Block by Block is the result of too many hours with oodles of...
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Boynton Beach Art District Drops Burning Man Live Feed But Parties on Anyway

Rolando Chang Barrero, the inspired eccentric and mastermind of ActivistArtistA -- the gallery at the heart of the Boynton Beach Art District -- had a great idea. Some time ago, he got in touch with organizers of Burning Man, the annual alternative festival/freak show/transitory community in the Nevada desert, and...
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Chipotle’s Scarecrow: Monsanto-Like Dystopian Future

Chipotle might have finally stumbled on a way to make Americans care about factory farms, GMO foods, and what one might call "the Monsanto problem": a heartbreakingly adorable Pixar-esque animated short film and an iPhone game titled, Scarecrow. Caring about the industrial food complex; there's an app for that. Though...
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Five Great Summer Movies You Might Have Missed (And Can Still Catch!)

As another summer movie season characterized by cynicism and excess draws to a close, there are few activities less valuable or interesting than complaining about it. The blockbusters arrived, flattened cities, vomited effects, deafened with explosions, made money, didn’t make enough money, pleased populist critics, displeased elitist critics, and finally...
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South Florida Police Departments Now Hiring

The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display...
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Trader Joe’s Opens in Miami: Here’s What to Expect

Here's some Trader Joe's-related good news and bad news for your Friday. The good news: Southeast Florida finally has a Trader Joe's. The store officially opened at 8 a.m. today, October 18, with a ceremonial lei cutting. The bad news: This particular Trader Joe's is in Pinecrest, a tony suburb,...
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Our Love/Hate Relationship With Pumpkin Beers

Cinnamon. Allspice. Nutmeg. If these words make you think of cool autumn evenings, the changing of leaves, and fresh baked pies, then you're probably a big fan of pumpkin beers. Of course, we don't get much in the way of change for autumn; nothing much more than a slow months-long...
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South Florida Police Departments Are Hiring; New Times Tried Out

The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display...
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Former Champions Jam into the Future Despite Electronic and Human Challenges

Employing guitar, bass, drums, keys, vocals, and computers, Former Champions alternate between structured song and extended improvisation. The resulting offering is a dancey, trancey, trip-friendly atmosphere for folks looking to get high (with or without controlled substances). They make use of available technologies and human energies in order to explore...
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MasterMinds 2014

A stage visionary redefines the way South Florida sees theater. A thrift-shop connoisseur turns his love of collecting into an art career. A musician describes himself as "half Cuban Native Indian, half German Anunnaki wolf." You can say a lot of things about 2014's MasterMind Award finalists, but you can't...