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Fireman Derek Kaplan on Pumpkin Pie, Baking, and Opening a Retail Space

This Thanksgiving, why waste time baking a pumpkin pie when you can just buy one? We're not talking about a mass-produced puck from Publix. We're talking about the ultimate pumpkin pie from Fireman Derek's World-Famous Pies. Derek Kaplan -- a six-foot-two, tattooed City of Miami firefighter -- has been baking...
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SoBe Conspiracy Theorist Uri Dowbenko Sues Google for Libel

One of the world's foremost conspiracy theorists doesn't want people to get the wrong impression when they Google his name. "Mind Control: The Ultimate Terror"? Fine. "New (Reptilian) World Order"? Hey, he wrote that article. But calling him an "American loon"? That's cause for a libel suit, according to Uri...
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The Best Movies of 2013: Take One

Here's where I write about how hard it is to draw up a 10-best list at the end of the year. Except it isn't: I think of drawing up a list as an honor and a necessity, a way of putting 12 months of moviegoing into some sort of perspective...
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Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

You can't possibly attend all of the flashy, A-list-celebrity-frequented bashes that go down in Miami every weekend. That's why the Magic City throws so many of 'em almost every night of the week. Just check out the six best parties to crash on South Beach. See also: Five Best Concerts...
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PAMM Opens Today, and It’s More Beautiful Than You Imagined

Two thousand words is too many for a Wednesday morning, but too few to do the new Pérez Art Museum Miami justice. So we'll put it simply: the new Herzog and De Meuron (HDM) edifice on museum island is, no exaggeration, exquisite. Naturally, in this story, we'll be describing the...
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The Sunshine Stampede: Gay Cowboys, Drag Queens, and Bull Riders

The goat doesn't want to wear the undies. Can't blame him. Plus-sized, bleached-white tighty whities are not very chic. A tall man, blue shirt tucked neatly into his jeans, holds up the animal's brown-and-white-mottled back end, while his teammate, a squat woman, tries to work the underpants on. The goat's...
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The 12 Craziest Things That Happened in Florida in 2013

Only in Florida. Every week, so many Americans mutter those words while marveling at the latest insanity to come from our state that Tallahassee really ought to put the phrase on license plates. At Miami New Times, at least a third of our work is done by those crazies. Although...
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South Beach Conspiracy Theorist Sues Google for Libel

One of the world's foremost conspiracy theorists doesn't want people to get the wrong impression when they Google his name. "Mind Control: The Ultimate Terror"? Fine. "New (Reptilian) World Order"? Hey, he wrote that article. But calling him an "American loon"? That's cause for a libel suit, according to Uri...
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The 12 Craziest Things That Happened in Florida in 2013

Only in Florida. Every week, so many Americans mutter those words while marveling at the latest insanity to come from our state that Tallahassee really ought to put the phrase on license plates. At Miami New Times, at least a third of our work is done by those crazies. Although...
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UM Cancer Research Doctor Says the School Misused a $1 Million Gift

When Dr. Norman Block got the news in May 2012, he was incredulous. The Nobel Laureate he'd brought to the University of Miami to work on cancer research — a groundbreaking drug researcher named Andrew Schally — would lose $150,000 in funding. Schally would have to lay off two researchers...
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Ra Ra Riot of Their Own

What do you do when you find yourself stuck in a frustrating present? Look to the future, of course. Ra Ra Riot is no newcomer to the indie-music-sphere. With three successful albums and a host of famous friends (like Vampire Weekend, whose members have collaborated on various albums and side...
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Libertarian Columnist Wonders if Jonathan Martin Is Gay; Blames Obama

Well, we've found it. The worst professionally written piece about the Dolphins' Richie Incognito mess has been identified. Congratulations to the OC Register's "libertarian humorist" Ron Hart for penning a column that is all at once racist, sexist, completely stupid, and manages to both wonder if Jonathan Martin is gay...