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Night&Day
Jews Got The Beat
Bayfront Park hosts the Aviv Music Festival.
By KYLE MUNZENRIEDER
Published: April 17, 2008
All the major religions have one thing in common: When they hold a spiritually themed concert, there are guaranteed to be squeaky-clean mamas’ boys in their nicest suits...
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Night&Day
Mama Said Knock You Out
See what happens when warriors collide at the Seminole.
By Chris Joseph
Published: April 17, 2008
It’s been some years since boxing has seen a puncher like Juan Urango. He’s got a no-holds-barred approach that blends discipline with pure power. It’s a style...
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Metro
Shirley Q. Liquor's Racist Scum
Ban ugliness from Miami Beach.
By Tamara Lush
Published: April 17, 2008
When drag queen Shirley Q. Liquor takes the spotlight at this weekend's Exxxotica convention in Miami Beach, she will say something like this to her audience: "I'm gonna burn...
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Metro
The Man Who Made Generation Ñ
A decade after Newsweek named him tops, Bill Teck is back.
By Janine Zeitlin
Published: April 17, 2008
Angie Martinez, an alluring, curly-haired entertainment lawyer, poses near a walk-in closet exploding with limited-edition Pumas, heels, and secondhand purses. It's a random...
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Riptide
Toke It Easy
Snap out of it, 4/20 revelers: Florida legislators want to stomp on your buzz.
By Francisco Alvarado, Michael J. Mooney and Thomas Francis
Published: April 17, 2008
News Toke It Easy Snap out of it, 4/20 revelers: Florida legislators want to stomp on your buzz. By Francisco Alvarado The good people who run the State of Florida are...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of April 17, 2008
Two months ago, I dropped my Herald subscription after 42 years. Same old bull!
Published: April 17, 2008
Drinking for Two Regarding "A Pregnant Pause" (by Elyse Wanshel, April 10): That is incredibly hilarious. I'm totally going to try wearing a pregnancy pad at clubs this...
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Music
The Stones and Scorsese
Shine a Light is a meditation on aging.
By Cole Haddon
Published: April 17, 2008
Shine a Light makes even the biggest comic-book superhero collaborations look lame. The upcoming concert documentary, previously released on IMAX, recently arrived at regular...
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Music
Play It Back
Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle proves why she's one of the most recorded voices in history.
By Julienne Gage
Published: April 17, 2008
Beach Food Market clerk Pratap Chowdhury spends a lot of time focusing on South Beach diplomacy efforts. He practices basic Spanish, learns customers' names, and reaches out...
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Burner
Road Warriors
Downtime isn't in Motion City Soundtrack's vocabulary.
By Arielle Castillo
Published: April 17, 2008
Although Motion City Soundtrack originally started about 10 years ago in Minneapolis, things have recently picked up for the quintet. One reason: an official seal of approval...
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Burner
Planet Rock
The giants of the Sixties and Seventies were also a little "green."
By Cole Haddon
Published: April 17, 2008
These days, there seems to be nothing trendier in rock than a green tour. Even if you're not being environmentally friendly on the road, you're at least joining the fight to...
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Burner
The Chronicles
A new unauthorized biography of Dr. Dre comes from inside his own camp.
By William Hernandez
Published: April 17, 2008
The public has heard Dr. Dre's records and seen him on television, but few really know how he got there. That is, except for one man: Bruce Williams, Dre's personal...
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Rotations
Boy Prostitute
Boy Prostitute (Ramhaus Records)
By Abel Folgar
Published: April 17, 2008
One of the trends in punk rock that I happen to enjoy very much is how influences shape a 30-plus-year-old genre. C'mon, there's only so much one can do with three chords,...
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Rotations
Cat Shell
Cat's Outta the Bag (Self-released)
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: April 17, 2008
When you first pop in Cat Shell's debut disc, Cat's Outta the Bag, you can't help but notice the retro sound of the lead-off track, "I'm Torn." It's full of simple and subtle...
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Rotations
The Pinker Tones
Wild Animals (Nacional Records)
By Lily Moayeri
Published: April 17, 2008
Barcelona, Spain-based duo the Pinker Tones uses its nonconformist Catalan background as something of an excuse for its unconventional approach toward music. On their third...
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Rotations
These New Puritans
Beat Pyramid (Domino)
By Jonathan Garrett
Published: April 17, 2008
On early single "Elvis," These New Puritans promised to tell their secrets. Yet Beat Pyramid, their debut record, is as inscrutable and cryptic as hieroglyphics. The album's 16...
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Livewire
Earth, Wind & Fire
By Eric W. Saeger
Published: April 17, 2008
From the tight-songwriting-and-flashy-pants black hole of old Seventies space-junk, Earth, Wind & Fire rises, touring every year with such predictability you could set your...
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Livewire
The FIU Laptop Ensemble and Sam Pluta
By José Dávila
Published: April 17, 2008
In recent years, conceptual electronic music has come a long way, with young artists using their tweaked computers to rearrange traditional sounds. But it's often a lonely...
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Livewire
Michael Dixon Band
By Eric W. Saeger
Published: April 17, 2008
Michael Dixon and his crew don't get off "the rock" — that's Key West — very often. "This is our first trip to play Miami," says Robin Menard, the band's sax player...
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Livewire
Fifth Annual Miami Music Festival
By Arielle Castillo
Published: April 17, 2008
All right, all right, so this is billed, officially, as a celebration of local music culture of all genres and scenes. But it takes place at famously freewheeling Churchill's...
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Cafe
Too Will Do
The new Two Chefs isn't better than one, yet.
By Lee Klein
Published: April 17, 2008
Eleven years ago, a pair of Danish chefs, Jan Jorgensen and Soren Bredahl, opened Two Chefs restaurant in South Miami. Bredahl returned to his homeland quite awhile back, but...
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