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Letters
Letters from the Issue of July 3, 2008
"Are you homophobic? I am appalled that any reporter would write such garbage."
Published: July 3, 2008
Hey, Old-Timer Um, did he read the byline?: Regarding Arielle Castillo's "Metal Rules" (June 26): Your words are as lame as your opinions. What a jackass. You are obviously...
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Loon Over Miami
Drunk Spelling Bee Buzzes Purdy
They came, they drank, they spelled.
By Elyse Wanshel
Published: July 3, 2008
A Happy Meal at McDonald's will get you little more than a fist-size cheeseburger and a plastic toy. But at Purdy Lounge (1811 Purdy Ave., Miami Beach; 305-531-4622) on any...
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Music
2 Live Crew Returns
The original members bounce back. And without Uncle Luke, thankyouverymuch.
By Jason Handelsman
Published: July 3, 2008
"Life is life. There's only X amount of time to shine," says Chris Wongwon, a.k.a. Fresh Kid Ice, a.k.a. Chinaman, on a recent Wednesday afternoon. The cofounder of notorious...
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Music
Common Is in Rare Form
The MC-turned-actor looks to the movie biz to expand his musical freedom.
By Cole Haddon
Published: July 3, 2008
"Put it this way: I want to not only be the leading man, I want you to be able to say, 'Common's one of the great actors of our time,'" the rapper known as, well, Common, says...
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Burner
Head Spins: Mark Leventhal
This keen-eared classicist boasts a mental musical encyclopedia.
By John Hood
Published: July 3, 2008
If you've been to any club on South Beach over the past decade, you've swung to the beat of Mark Leventhal. Okay, maybe not any club, but any club that mattered. In fact,...
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Burner
They Won't Go Quietly
Not even death can stop Foghat's slow ride.
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: July 3, 2008
As much as some of us might fantasize about it, becoming a household name obviously has cruel consequences. This is particularly true for artists who are remembered for a...
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Burner
For the Red, White, and Blue
A patriotic mixtape for July 4.
By Cole Haddon
Published: July 3, 2008
With Independence Day around the corner, we've been debating what songs qualify as the most patriotic ever recorded in these here United States. Or at least songs that wanted...
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Rotations
N.E.R.D.
Seeing Sounds (Star Trak/Interscope)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: July 3, 2008
Seeing Sounds is the third album from N.E.R.D., the "artist" project from Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of production team the Neptunes, along with their buddy Shay Haley....
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Rotations
The Electric Bunnies
Chewing Gum (Florida's Dying Records)
By Abel Folgar
Published: July 3, 2008
The Electric Bunnies' music makes me feel like I'm beating off to pornography while my wife sleeps in the same room. Good thing I ain't married and can enjoy the Electric...
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Rotations
Silver Jews
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
By Michael Roberts
Published: July 3, 2008
Singer-songwriter David Berman is as much of an ironist in life as he is in art. After landing in rehab following a Xanax overdose (an act with sardonic aspects of its own), he...
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Rotations
The Virgins
The Virgins (Atlantic)
By Jonathan Garrett
Published: July 3, 2008
The Virgins may be inexperienced, but on their debut album, naiveté proves to be an asset. Where the Strokes (to whom the NYC foursome is often compared) traffic in...
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Livewire
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: July 3, 2008
Joan Jett never seemed overly concerned with glass ceilings. A very tough girl in a very male-centric industry, Jett simply showed up, rocked her ass off, and returned the next...
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Livewire
Fourth of José and Nastie Fourth of July
By Abel Folgar
Published: July 3, 2008
We have come a long way since July 4, 1776. A real long way. But pseudo-commentary on the Bush administration aside, one thing a bunch of dead, crusty white dudes will not deny...
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Livewire
Gilberto Gil
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: July 3, 2008
"I have a hard time with modern technology," Brazilian icon Gilberto Gil says, describing the theme of his latest CD, Banda Larga Cordel. "I admit that I use it with...
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Livewire
Peter Murphy
By Arielle Castillo
Published: July 3, 2008
The pale, delicately boned wraith known as Peter Murphy gained his seat as an anointed dark king in the Seventies and Eighties as frontman of the legendary Bauhaus. Channeling...
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Livewire
Kill the Noise
By Eric W. Saeger
Published: July 3, 2008
Ewun, hailing from Rochester, New York, has made a lot of drum 'n' bass hay out of his love for hip-hop, distortion, and glitchy breakbeats. Unbeknownst to d'n'b scenesters,...
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Cafe
Recession Busters
Meet the real Miami spice, at a price that's real nice.
By Lee Klein
Published: July 3, 2008
Recent articles have explored some of the revenue-enhancing measures that restaurateurs have undertaken to counter rising food costs — smaller portions, cheaper...
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Five Questions
Cheryl Chin of Jamaica Kitchen
By Lee Klein
Published: July 3, 2008
Cheryl Chin, of Jamaica Kitchen, was raised with four siblings in Kingston, Jamaica. Their father told them: "You're all going to America and you're all going to college."...
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Film
Superzero
Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 3, 2008
The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its followup, Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis as the walking...
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Film
Mongol
Now playing.
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 3, 2008
You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance, and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny old-school epic to make the CGI...
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