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Feature
Revenge of the Nerd
Perez Hilton, a pure product of South Florida, makes bitchery pay
By Francisco Alvarado
Published: March 27, 2008
It happened in 1996. Mario Lavandeira Jr. can't recall the exact date, but it was late in his senior year at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, the all-boys Catholic institution...
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News
Cane Collapse
How Florida's only team in the NCAAs almost did it
By Sam Eifling
Published: March 27, 2008
On Sunday, you, dear University of Miami fan, watched the Hurricanes nearly claw their way past the favored Texas Longhorns into the Sweet 16. And as you did, you probably...
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Bob Norman
Trailer Trashed
Hallandale draws a bead on its most vulnerable citizens
By Bob Norman
Published: March 27, 2008
Serge Leon sits on a step in his recently renovated mobile home. He has clear plastic tubes running into his nose and a rather dazed, faraway look in his eyes. Then it changes...
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Tailpipe
Save the Fishies
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: March 27, 2008
SpongeBob and Saint Patrick Star, Too Ever since the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, the ritzy Town of Palm Beach has been angling to pull off a $9 million project to widen a...
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Music
Justice on the Dance Floor
An erstwhile hobby spells success for this Parisian duo
By Eryc Eyl
Published: March 27, 2008
Xavier de Rosnay's honesty is refreshing — even if the words he's just uttered won't exactly go down as the most artistically inclined assertion ever made. "We make...
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Short Cuts
Maceo Parker
Roots & Grooves (Heads Up/Telarc)
By Mark Keresman
Published: March 27, 2008
Outside of jazz, there aren't many alto saxophone playing star-types left. In fact, aside from Maceo Parker, none come to mind. In the 1960s and '70s, Maceo was one of the...
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Subtropical
Flo Rida
Mail on Sunday (Atlantic)
By Evan McGarvey
Published: March 27, 2008
If the Southern-rap money train ever ran out of steam, it would be fitting for that end to take place in the land of its Technicolor, reality-detached origin: Miami. Flo Rida,...
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Live Wire
Nick Catchdubs
By Tamara Palmer
Published: March 27, 2008
This New Yorker is a DJ who has the talent to venture from rap to rock to house to electro to whatever, without losing people or sounding strained. He was formerly an editor at...
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Outtakes
Erykah Badu: the Plebeian, Militant Homegirl
No songs per se, but plenty of deep grooves on Mama Gun's latest
By Miles Marshall Lewis
Published: March 27, 2008
New Amerykah, the first real Erykah Badu record in eight long years, kicks off with agitated funk guitar and the Roy Ayers brass-horny blaxploitation groove of "Amerykahn...
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Dred Scott!
Live Nation Swallows Fantasma
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: March 27, 2008
After longtime concert promoter Jon Stoll succumbed to cancer in January, at 54 years old, realizing that he'd suffer no more was probably a bittersweet relief for those who...
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Night Watch
Spring Brake
What's the world coming to when you can't even find any college girls to get hosed down in their T-shirts?
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Published: March 27, 2008
With the month of March drawing to a close, a bar-hopping people-watcher like me has had her fill of sightings of sunburned youths in Greek-lettered T-shirts. Scores of them....
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Dish
Yes, We Have Guacamole
But try the puff pastry too at El Chamol
By Gail Shepherd
Published: March 27, 2008
Read anything about Mexican mole (pronounced MOLE-ay), a sauce so contrarian few have been able to define it, and you'll probably run across at least two origin stories. One...
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Film
Counting Sheep
21 doesn't hit the jackpot. Doesn't even come close
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 27, 2008
Ben Mezrich's 2002 bestseller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas For Millions was a smart narrative about... well, you did see the...
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Night & Day
“Can We Make It Look Like Pan’s Labyrinth?”
By Terra Sullivan
Published: March 27, 2008
In your daydreams, your yard is a place for fabulous garden parties where you serve guests tri-colored salad greens and cocktails embellished with bouquets of edible flowers,...
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Night & Day
Dancing With the Idols? American Stars?
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: March 27, 2008
It’s a question that’s haunted us since the dawn of time: What would happen if Dancing With the Stars and American Idol merged? Holy shit. Would Earth implode? Would...
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Night & Day
Rock is From Mars, Prog is From Your Anus
By John Linn
Published: March 27, 2008
It takes a special appreciation for 10-minute-long, prog-infused orgies of guitar, keyboard, percussion, and brass to dig The Mars Volta. That shit ain’t for everyone....
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Night & Day
What Happens in the Swamp, Stays in the Swamp.
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: March 27, 2008
Growing up in mid-century New York, Elliot Tiber was just another struggling artist. Then, Woodstock happened. Throughout the ´60s, Elliot had been struggling to keep his...
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Night & Day
The Foxtrot That Sank Next Season
By John Linn
Published: March 27, 2008
Did you happen to catch Dolphin’s key defensive end Jason Taylor on his first night of Dancing with the Stars? JT was off the hook, kid. He was gliding around the floor...
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Night & Day
An Affair to Remember
By Heather Burdick
Published: March 27, 2008
You’ve seen the commercial: Its slogan “The Delray Affair – See you there” has the sort of down home sound that makes urbane urbanites raise their noses....
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Night & Day
March of the Panthers
By Sam Eifling
Published: March 27, 2008
Finally, the Panthers have shown some pluck! After losing eight of 10, Florida won everything they played in the first half of this month, setting a franchise record for...
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