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Tim Burton: A History of Our Complicated Affair

Tim Burton doesn't know it, but we are frenemies.Frenemies have a relationship that is both mutually beneficial or dependent while being competitive, and fraught with risk and mistrust. That's exactly what Burton and I have. He needs me as an audience member, and I need him as a creative force...
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Marco Rubio Tops Vice Presidential Poll

Marco Rubio has certainly been mentioned several times by Republican candidates as a possible running mate, and it appears that GOP voters agree. Fairleigh Dickinson University released the findings of a poll today in which they asked 799 registered Republicans across the country who they'd like to see be their...
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Ben Franklin Practiced Vegetarianism

For those who shy away from the prospect of going vegan or vegetarian because they think it's too new-fangled, you might find it interesting that in 1722, one of the smartest, most productive, versatile, and respected men in our nation's history adopted vegetarianism at a very early age.I read a...
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Smokin’ Arts: Ten Works in Miami Best Viewed While Stoned

For the past several days, Antonio Manfredi, the director of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum near Naples, Italy, has been burning artworks to protest the lack of government funds for his institution. That's just uncivilized. Rather than setting any more paintings aflame, what the cash-addled Manfredi needs to do is...
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The Balvenie Road Trip: Two Guys, One Car, Lots of Scotch

Generally, brand ambassadors at spirits companies have pretty good jobs -- going to bars and events and talking up whatever brand of booze you're representing (and giving out free samples along the way). But last year, Balvenie brand ambassadors Nicholas Pollacchi and Andrew Weir received a new assignment from their...
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Babies Don’t Want Vegan Mommies? What a Load of Baloney

This past weekend, the LA Times published an editorial suggesting pregnant women who adhere to a vegan diet and subsequently raise vegan children are irresponsible. The writer, Alexandra Le Tellier, was responding to the release of Vegan Is Love, a new children's book that explains and advocates a vegan diet...
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DJ Seasunz: A Murder Kills a Nightlife Scene

It was 9:45 a.m. on October 11, 2009, when Juan Carlos Portieles parked his beat-up Toyota Camry on a quiet side street in Cutler Bay. Tall and heavyset, with close-cropped brown hair and traces of stubble on his jaw, the 30-year-old DJ walked several blocks to a cluster of condominiums...
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Illegal Cambodian Weed Sales: Authorities Are Clueless

In a small farming village hidden down dirt roads among shrubs and tall grass, everyone's sleeping, and the rain won't stop. It's early afternoon on a Tuesday near Rosharon, a small town south of Houston, and the downpour has canvassed the paths with deep crevices and pockmarks, making driving all...
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The Hood Internet’s Gonna Mash All Night Long at Mansion on March 2

​Though obviously rooted in the beat matching and live mixing of the disc jockey, the mash-up, as we know it today, is a distinctly 2000s phenomenon that revealed itself at the very beginning of the decade. The modern blueprint for expertly splicing together two songs (often from sources so disparate...
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Cinco de Awesome

When Miami Heat team president Pat Riley pulled off the sports coup of the century two off-seasons ago, his vision expanded beyond Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh. Sure, putting those three out there by themselves is doing better than most NBA rosters, but as the supergenius builder of...