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1. Feature

   Poisoned Well

   What was contaminating our drinking water? Who knows - Dade officials stopped looking.

   By Isaiah Thompson

   Published: March 20, 2008

   Bill Brant, then-director of Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department, got the news January 4, 2005: Benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, had been detected at a county water...

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   Calling All Vets

   By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

   Published: March 20, 2008

   You sign up for the military because you’re a patriot, because it seems like a great way to pay for tertiary education, because you know in your heart it’s the right...

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   Protect Ya Neck

   Real hip-hop finally gets downtown respect.

   By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

   Published: March 20, 2008

   Winter Music Conference blows into town tomorrow. It’s going to tantalize you with a flurry of sights and sounds (and drugs) and then leave you shaking in the gutter...

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   Nothing Corny About It

   At MBC, learn more about America’s most ubiquitous grain.

   By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

   Published: March 20, 2008

   It’s in your soda. It’s in your snacks. It’s in your spaghetti sauce, syrup, and salad dressing. If you eat a hot dog or hamburger, it’s in the bun, the...

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   Putt-Putt Paradise

   By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

   Published: March 20, 2008

   You’re a two-time foosball champ and can beat any fourth-grader in a game of arcade hoops, but your athletic prowess pretty much ends there. People like you are the reason...

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   Tune In, Turn On, Root Out

   Rusted Root comes bearing trippy fruit.

   By DAVE GURNEY

   Published: March 20, 2008

   It's hard being a hippie. You claim to be about peace and love, but others see you as a self-righteous drug addict. Your groovy threads are a fashion faux pas, and the long...

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   Eggs on ’Roids

   No offense, J.C., but we like the Easter Bunny too.

   By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

   Published: March 20, 2008

   Technically Easter is the most important religious feast of the Christian calendar, but we all know it’s so much more than a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus...

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   Bellissimo!

   By P.SCOTT CUNNINGHAM

   Published: March 20, 2008

   Best known in America as “The Man Who Made the Film that Was Remade into Pee-Wee's Big Adventure,” the neo-realist Vittorio De Sica ranks as one of Europe's finest...

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   Blow Out the Candles!

   Do gardens cry at their first birthday party?

   By Raina McLeod

   Published: March 20, 2008

   In the past year, you’ve journeyed to the exact same urban oasis on Biscayne Boulevard, but for a variety of reasons. On Thursdays the movies lured you, on Tuesdays free...

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    The Tide Is High

    Drift over to Stiltsville for a slice of Miami history.

    By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

    Published: March 20, 2008

    They hover above the aqua waters, charmingly interrupting the horizon on the mud flats near Key Biscayne. Locals often gaze at Stiltsville in wonder from the shore or from...

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    Swamp Thing

    Party in the name of environmental protection!

    By ERIC BOJNANSKY

    Published: March 20, 2008

    For 10 bucks, you can learn a little something today about the Everglades: Why we need it, how we are destroying it, and what you can do to save it. Oh, yeah, and you can also...

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    Feeling Haute Haute Haute

    Glamorous fashionistas show a fresh face tonight.

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: March 20, 2008

    From the low-budget runway shows you put on for Mom and Dad as a kid, to the way you stare longingly into boutique windows -- it’s safe to say you’ve always had a bit...

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    Hey, Purdy Ladies

    Shake your booty with DJ Le Spam tonight!

    By Alexandra Quiñones

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Given the ridiculous prices people pay for overrated clubs that assault patrons with crappy music, Purdy Lounge could probably make a mint off Bemba. But that’s not what...

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    Take Me Out to the Ballgame

    Before it gets too hot outside!

    By Chris Joseph

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Let’s face it. Catching a Florida Marlins day game during the summer can be downright masochistic. No other baseball team holds matchups in a football stadium in the dead...

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    Who Needs a Coach Anyway?

    By BRETT GILLIN

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Just when we think the Miami Heat’s season can’t get any worse, the AP reports Pat Riley might miss a game or two so he can scout during the NCAA Tournament. That...

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    Culture, Not Cocaine

    Pablo Is Gone traffics in Colombia’s traditions, not its drug trade.

    By KYLE MUNZENRIEDER

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Being from Florida, we didn't know much about hockey before we saw The Mighty Ducks; apparently it's not part of the Canadian Creation myth involving the half-goat Puck. Cinema...

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    TGIF, Baby!

    Leave your workplace woes behind at Uva69.

    By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

    Published: March 20, 2008

    It’s Friday night and finally another week of excruciating employment has come to an end. All you wanna do is kick back with a couple of cocktails, the stronger the...

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    Smackdown at the Mall

    The WWE Fan Axxess tour rolls up to the Dolphin.

    By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Boys and their wrestling – so adorable, am I right, ladies? Your man might be a 33-year-old doctor with intelligence and cultural savvy to spare, but once he sits back to...

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    Old-Time Days

    At Dade Heritage Days, celebrate what once was.

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus

    Published: March 20, 2008

    With the exoskeletal grid of buildings belching over the Big Mango, it can often be difficult to decipher the history behind our growing city. Not to worry, clueless ones. The...

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    Love Is in the Air

    By Raina McLeod

    Published: March 20, 2008

    The sun is at full blaze, but you’re blocking the rays with your fedora, so it’s not bothering you. The temperature is set to “Hell,” but you don’t...