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Ignored and Cheated
Farm workers earn nada in America's green bean capital.
By Janine Zeitlin
Published: March 13, 2008
It's the height of winter harvest season in the southern reaches of Miami-Dade County. Turkey vultures swoop overhead, their sable wings lifted by winds redolent of damp...
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Sigher Education
Get your Ph.D. in bOINK-ing today.
By Raina McLeod
Published: March 13, 2008
So maybe your college years consisted of spending afternoons at the library and nights with your face buried in a book. If you were being studious while your classmates were...
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Breakfast with Ballers
By Chris Joseph
Published: March 13, 2008
Miami-Dade is one of the most sport-friendly counties in the nation, with more than 20 golf courses; innumerable baseball, softball, and soccer fields; as well as a plethora of...
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A Pretty Penny
Beauty has a price at the Lowe’s big auction.
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: March 13, 2008
With the economy on the skids, it’s hard to imagine getting cranked about investing in culture. Even worse, those $300 government cheese rebates we’ve been rubbing...
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The Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
Tonight! At the screening of Festival in the Desert.
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: March 13, 2008
One might imagine the Rhythm Foundation is a collection of fortysomething bongo drummers who meet in their parents' garages Tuesday nights to cover Graceland-era Paul Simon...
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The Shape of History
By MARA LEVENTHAL
Published: March 13, 2008
Since Miami is probably the only major city founded by a woman, its residents should have a strong connection to their feminine side. Unfortunately Julia Tuttle isn’t the...
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What’s in a Name?
There are lots more reasons to love Patrice O’Neal.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: March 13, 2008
We admit it -- our initial attraction to comedian Patrice O’Neal was a little silly and a lot self-absorbed. But ever since we laid eyes on the six-foot-five, 300-pound...
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Joe Torre's Revenge
Marlins eye another chance to embarrass legendary manager.
By KYLE MUNZENRIEDER
Published: March 13, 2008
“On the sixth day, God created Man, and on the seventh day, he made some of those men into New York Yankees so he could watch some good baseball as he rested.” This...
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In Heaven There Is No Beer
That is why we drink it here!
By TOM MCFADDEN
Published: March 13, 2008
The Irish love a good story so much that the art of embellishing a tale is often called “Irish liberty.” The legend of Saint Patrick is steeped in such adornments: A...
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Al Gore Would Approve
By Raina McLeod
Published: March 13, 2008
In the good ol’ days, not even the sight of tourists in unforgiving thongs or the attack from cancerous sun rays could spoil your mood when you were chillaxing on the...
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Raiders of the Lost Season
The Heat keeps finding ways to lose.
By Chris Joseph
Published: March 13, 2008
On March 2, the Miami Heat finally played its best half of basketball of the season. Then everything went to shit. Miami squandered a 23-point lead to Ron Artest and John...
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Storytelling Gone 3-D
Take a trip to Zoraville.
By Raina McLeod
Published: March 13, 2008
Depending on who you ask, legendary writer Zora Neale Hurston is a Floridian. Some say she was born in small-town Eatonville, though others say she was born in Alabama....
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Red Carpet Rollups
The search for America’s next top cigar roller heats up.
By KYLE MUNZENRIEDER
Published: March 13, 2008
We imagined the El Crédito Cigar Factory's hall of fame as a gilded, smoke-filled room where large portraits of Winston Churchill and George Burns hang on the walls and...
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Blue Skies Ahead
Susan Marshall’s Cloudless drifts across our horizon.
By ERIC BOJNANSKY
Published: March 13, 2008
Susan Marshall is a genius. That's why the choreographer, who uses everyday movements to tell a story, received a $500,000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...
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Wrecks and Effects
By Julienne Gage
Published: March 13, 2008
Frustrated by the anticlimactic feeling you get when Wynwood and the Design District lower the curtain on the cultural stimuli of their monthly early-evening art walks?...
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A Party with Purpose
Support Overtown while you get down.
By Raina McLeod
Published: March 13, 2008
You vowed to be more philanthropic in 2008, and although giving a couple of dollars to the homeless guy with the “Why lie? I need a cold beer!” sign is a step in the...
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Misty Blood-Colored Memories
Dancers evoke the passage of slavery.
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: March 13, 2008
It’s one thing to visit a museum of African-American history and lament the loss of the brothers and sisters who were felled along the passage of time. It’s quite...
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Twisting the Night Away
Join the big gay-bar crawl on SoBe tonight!
By Dan Renzi
Published: March 13, 2008
What's better than a gaggle of gays all in one place? Gays on the move! Tonight the streets of South Beach will be crawling with gay men partaking in the...
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Snap Your Affection
There’ll be sweet tunes aplenty at Dolphin Stadium today.
By Raina McLeod
Published: March 13, 2008
Some festivals wobble into town with a whimper, others with a cough; then you have Jazz in the Gardens. This two-day extravaganza of smooth grooves is coming down Dan Marino...
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Sweet Sounds of Steel
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: March 13, 2008
This year’s Tropical Baroque Music Festival has been pleasing Miami’s most erudite ears since March 1, with classical music and opera resounding from churches and...
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