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Miami New Times Ten Most Read Feature Stories of 2013

Miami New Times has never had a year quite like 2013. In January, we dropped a bomb on Major League Baseball when our Biogenesis investigation revealed a massive doping scandal in Coral Gables. In April, Michael Bay released "Pain & Gain," a major production with the Rock and Mark Wahlberg...
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In Defense of Ultra Music Festival

Won't somebody please think of the children! Is everyone done with the pearl clutching in regards to Ultra Music Festival? I get it -- EDM is Satan in musical form. And if you'd believe Mayor Tomás Regalado and City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, Ultra is the ninth circle of Hell. The...
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Fiennes’ Prickly The Invisible Woman Is Hard Not to Love

A tale of love complicated — if not thwarted — by prior responsibilities, intractable barriers, and the rigid high-society norms that frustrate its Victorian characters' attempts to live as they so desperately want, The Invisible Woman finds Ralph Fiennes proving as adept behind the camera as he is in front...
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Art Basel 2013 Exhibit Guide

What might the late Rocky Pomerance have made of Swiss artist Olaf Breuning? Pomerance was the Miami Beach Police chief in 1972 when Vietnam protesters on the streets surrounding the Miami Beach Convention Center were tear-gassed by cops during the Republican National Convention. Now, 40 years later, Breuning is set...
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Where Is Le Baron? The Parisian Pop-Up Club Returning for Basel 2013

Art Basel is about art, and the art scene is all about sexy, exclusive gatherings and cultural mayhem. If we accept this as truth, then the annual, mysterious, seductive Le Baron is the height of Art Basel extracurricular activity. Last year, the crowd favorite turned tradition upside down and broke...
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TerRio’s Dance Blew Up the Internet, But What’s It Doing to the Kid?

TerRio is exhausted. The 6-year-old internet star is slumped over on the hood of a limousine outside downtown Miami's Grand Central nightclub. It's only 9:47 p.m. on a Saturday, but filming on TerRio's first professional music video is scheduled to continue through 7 a.m. the next day. Suddenly, the somnolent...
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Concrete Beach Brewery: Miami To Get Another New Beer Maker

Another new brewery could be coming to Miami. Alchemy and Science Brewing Collaborative, the Vermont-based company with a growing brood of craft breweries, filed a trademark application for Concrete Beach Brewery in August. Even more telling, a basic search for the aforementioned name yields three trademark results, all of them...
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Too Future

Scientists constantly strive to design technology to make navigating life seem simpler. But for many artists, newly developed devices and computer systems provide the fodder for novel ways to interpret the resulting conflicts between humans and machines in a rapidly changing world. In short, they’re complicating the world in a...
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Luke’s Best Columns of 2013

A lot of folks get upset over the things I write, but I call 'em like I see 'em based on facts. The Florida Press Club has cited the stuff I've come up with, so I know I'm pushing the right buttons sometimes. And judging by the ten most popular...
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Del Toro Pop-up Shop Opens in Miami Beach During Art Basel

Sure, there's a fair amount of Art Basel events this week that seem better suited for New York Fashion Week. But while some argue that these grandiose fashion parties are not exactly art-related (cough, cough New York Times), even the most artistically astute know that fashion is, in fact, art...
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MasterMind 2014 Honorable Mention: Alma Leiva

Miami New Times' Mastermind Awards honors the city's most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We'll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year's three Mastermind Award winners...
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Miracle Fruit Plants Available at Home Depot: LSD for Your Mouth

Have you tried miracle fruit? The small red berry, native to West Africa, contains a protein called miraculin, which binds with our taste buds and, when introduced to acids, makes sour taste sweet. Called "LSD for your mouth," the fruit creates a result that's supposed to be strange. There's a...
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Heat Wins. LeBron’s Ankle Loses. Pacers Tomorrow.

It was the game before the game last night. It was sandwiched between LeBron's old team and the Heat's biggest threat in the East. It was the 117-94 Heat win Monday night game against the Jazz, because people had already bought tickets, and it was mandatory...
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Miami Beach Cop Blames “Sexual Aid Cream” for Firing

Miami Beach cop Reinaldo Casas really wants his job back. He wants it back so badly he's willing to admit he was once an aficionado of the most embarrassing product ever. Sexual aid cream. On February 27, the Miami Beach Police Department fired Casas -- who's been reprimanded for making...