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Day Strippers
While you're at work, Miami's exotic dancers put on a naked lunch.
By Janine Zeitlin
Published: July 24, 2008
The silver pole squeaks between her pale, toned thighs as she lifts her 110-pound frame high into the club's rafters. Her strawberry blond hair tumbles loosely over her blue...
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Shake It Like Your Favorite Condiment
By PRISCILLA GOMEZ
Published: July 24, 2008
It’s Tio Pepe’s birthday party and you spot a cute girl to talk to. Suddenly Celia Cruz’s voice bellows “Azúcar!” Toes start tapping and some...
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Crazy Fingers Forever
Chick Corea and Return to Forever bring jazz to The Fillmore.
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: July 24, 2008
Jazz fusion began with Miles Davis's heroin addiction in the Sixties and exploded into a full-fledged movement in the Seventies through disciples John McLaughlin, Carlos...
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Of Dreams and Dresses
The costumes of Calderón take center stage.
By MARIA DE LOS ANGELES LEMUS
Published: July 24, 2008
The playwright who scribed “For all of life is a dream/And dreams are nothing but dreams” could never have imagined just how much that simple verse would inspire...
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We’re Dreaming of a White Summer
But like one you’ve never known.
By Raina McLeod
Published: July 24, 2008
The wind whistles and howls to announce the entrance of buckets upon buckets of faux snow, forcing you to realize you’re not in Kansas anymore, sweetie. An orchestra...
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Chow Down for Charity
The finest foods are at Taste of the Nation.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: July 24, 2008
This city is chock full of restaurants where you go to be seen by the scenesters, and you can’t swing a Serrano ham on South Beach without hitting a celebrity chef....
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The Best Defense Is a Good Offense, or Not
By Chris Joseph
Published: July 24, 2008
The Miami FC Blues continue to claw their way up the United Soccer League standings like an army of determined spider monkeys. Spider monkeys that play smothering defense but...
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Yee-haw!
Lobster Rodeo is now in session.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: July 24, 2008
Mini lobster season in the Florida Keys begins Wednesday, and there you go, slipping on your flippers and searching for your snorkel like you know what the hell you’re...
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Aqua Boogie
Aquapalooza reminds you that boats are for happy times.
By KYLE MUNZENRIEDER
Published: July 24, 2008
Sometimes boating can be so lonely. You're on a tiny white speck of fiberglass surrounded by the ocean's blue waters, which drop off at the edge of infinity. The farther you...
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Homestead Crank That
By JACOB KATEL
Published: July 24, 2008
Ever seen somebody push a 1098cc Ducati to the 190-mph mark? Barrett Long can do it. The Miami motorcycle racer, competing in the unlimited division of the Championship Cup...
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Hot as Hellbound City
The tunes are sizzling and the meat is succulent.
By JACOB KATEL
Published: July 24, 2008
You’re naked in your living room, each foot in a bucket of ice water, head wrapped in a wet towel, sitting in front of your air conditioner and watching television reruns...
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Forget the PS Triple
It’s all about the 360, baby.
By John Linn
Published: July 24, 2008
Gaming systems are sort of like sports teams: Each has a dedicated fan base that shamelessly exalts its system of choice at every opportunity while simultaneously bashing the...
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What Is the Deal?
Jerry Seinfeld steps out of your TV set and onto the stage at The Fillmore.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: July 24, 2008
Even though every episode of his self-titled TV sitcom began and ended with Jerry Seinfeld doing what he’s always loved best, it’s still a little disconcerting to see...
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Explore Your World
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: July 24, 2008
When you visit any other city, you’re totally game to stroll around the main thoroughfares and take photos of the architecture. But when you’re at home, you’re...
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Midlife, Made Funny
Laughing and singing in the face of decrepitude and certain doom.
By PENN BULLOCK
Published: July 24, 2008
Menopause, balding, memory loss, wrinkling, sagging, increased susceptibility to disease, weight gain, prostate enlargement, erectile dysfunction, incontinence, and, finally,...
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This Isn’t Haiku
Slam poets drop some WMDs at the Wallflower.
By Raina McLeod
Published: July 24, 2008
It’s not easy to convert the innards of your soul into scrawled words on paper and then wax rhapsodic into a microphone as hundreds of judging eyes stare at you. Not easy,...
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Bright-Light Balsero
Freedom cabaret shines at the Arsht.
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: July 24, 2008
For homegrown telenovela star Jencarlos Canela, playing Pepito, a balsero who writes his name in neon across the Magic City, was a natural. “I feel very identified with...
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For the Love of the Stage
A celebration of urban theater brings stars to Miami.
By Raina McLeod
Published: July 24, 2008
When primordial urban theater emerged from the theatric ooze, critics and Broadway snobs were quick to downplay its importance and label it the “chitlin circuit.” But...
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Sweat to the Rescue
Music Movie Mondays are exactly what you need.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: July 24, 2008
Let’s look back to a magical year called 1984. Vanessa Williams had to leave the Miss USA title behind in the wake of her Penthouse scandal. The first Mac computer went on...
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RX Bandits
By Jason Handelsman
Published: July 24, 2008
This 5-piece band from California plays Dick Dale style surf-punk, but then they get all crazy and experimental. Having been together for over ten years, the music just flows...
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