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Bottled Water Gets the Boot
As containers and costs mount, tap water is the rule in eateries.
By Lee Klein
Published: August 14, 2008
1. Days of Water and Roses The couple peruses the menu from plushly pillowed pods set along the perimeter of a Zen-like reflection pond. After they decide on wok-fried lobster...
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Big Hair, Bigger Instrument
Young Esperanza Spalding is going to be a star on her own terms.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: August 14, 2008
Fresh-faced jazz chanteuse Esperanza Spalding cuts a striking figure, with her oversize Afro and petite frame. She looks positively teeny next to the upright bass she plucks,...
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Melodious Thunk
An old modern master visits Miami.
By Greg Baker
Published: August 14, 2008
For all his vast and venerable sonic contributions to Jazz (with an uppercase J), Ellis Marsalis should also be remarked upon for a profundity of teaching. During decades of...
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Marry Me at Blue Martini
By Raina McLeod
Published: August 14, 2008
Dating is like a box of chocolates: You might pick out psycho mama’s boy on Tuesday, ’roided-up dude on Friday, and closet pedophile McDreamy on Sunday. But if you...
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Giving Voice
Cinema for grownups at the Jewish Film Festival.
By BRYNA GREENLAW
Published: August 14, 2008
Did someone punch his Adam’s apple? After audiences have spent an inordinate amount of energy pondering Batman’s voice, the Jewish Film Festival comes as a welcome...
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Kicking Ass, Eating Ice Cream
This Marlins/Cubs game is all about the kids.
By Chris Joseph
Published: August 14, 2008
It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since the Marlins won the World Series at the Cubs’ expense. Yet Cubs fans continue to blame that historical NLCS loss...
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No Belly Flops Here
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: August 14, 2008
The Olympics are here! The Olympics are here! And with them comes our favorite spectacle of sport: the high dive. There are so many things to love — the poetry of...
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Bring Miami Spice to Your Rack
But don’t burp — it’s rude.
By Raina McLeod
Published: August 14, 2008
Miami Spice Restaurant Month is a time when frugal foodies get to dine at restaurants such as Ortanique on the Mile and Table 8 for prices that rival T.G.I.Friday’s and...
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Language Barriers
GableStage takes on a touchy topic in its latest play.
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: August 14, 2008
Ways to get ostracized from the Junior League of Baghdad: (1) Wear an abaya made by Z. Cavaricci, (2) table-dance at the annual fundraising dinner, or (3) get a job as an...
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Sharp-Dressed Men
Visual artists interpret the classic rockin’ beards of ZZ Top.
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: August 14, 2008
New York-based performance and visual artist Rafael Sanchez has discovered the risks that scraggly chin fur can pose in post-9/11 America. “I began growing my beard in...
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White-Collar Dollar Clones
Free your wallet at Poplife.
By JACOB KATEL
Published: August 14, 2008
The fluorescent lights buzz ceaselessly above you, their hypnotic drone pushing you into a zombielike state. Gossip and shit-talk, squabbles and hearsay, idle hands, idle...
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Mandarin Lessons from the Pros
And dim sum at Mr. Chu’s.
By Raina McLeod
Published: August 14, 2008
In American culture, we reach for Hot Pockets, Totino’s Pizza Rolls, or McDonald’s apple pies when we want to satiate our cravings for handheld filled goodies. But...
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Rare Sightings
Wholphin shakes things up at Sweat’s Music Movie Mondays.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: August 14, 2008
When a killer whale and a bottlenose dolphin happen across each other in the ocean’s dark depths, one of three things can happen: (1) They pass like two impressive ships...
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It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere
By Raina McLeod
Published: August 14, 2008
We are a culture of imbibers, and whether we’re celebrating a life, a death, or a pink slip, you can bet there’s a bottle of hooch in the vicinity. During happy hour,...
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Poor Judas
Ground Up and Rising takes on another controversial play.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: August 14, 2008
Is there any biblical figure more reviled than Judas Iscariot? The name of the disciple who hath betrayed Jesus with a kiss is universally synonymous with all that is evil,...
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A Paler Shade of Sexy
Jim Gaffigan brings The Sexy Tour to The Fillmore.
By KYLE MUNZENRIEDER
Published: August 14, 2008
Jim Gaffigan has milked his pale complexion for a lot of laughs, most notably with Pale Force — a recurring skit on Late Night with Conan O'Brien featuring animated...
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An Extravaganza of Excess
Not on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday — it’s on Friday, Friday, Friday!
By MIKE SAUER
Published: August 14, 2008
Could there be a better time to attend a monster truck show? With rising gas prices, a mounting recession, and environmental paranoia, it might be our only escape from reality....
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Bye, Haters!
Miami Live is going strong, despite your ill wishes.
By JACOB KATEL
Published: August 14, 2008
Michael Madd loves "the haters." The more they hate, the harder he works. He says they're jealous, that it's in their nature to envy, that every successful person experiences a...
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Head, Shoulders, Legs, Toes
By Raina McLeod
Published: August 14, 2008
In office spaces across the city, workers make the 9-to-5 grind more bearable by promising themselves an after-work happy hour filled with fried cheese sticks and dollar beers....
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There Can Be Only One
Kara-O-King reigns over Miami’s amateur live-singing scene.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: August 14, 2008
There used to be stiff competition on Miami’s karaoke scene before 1998. In those dark ages, would-be singers who yearned to belt out “I Will Survive” someplace...
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