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Failed School
In Allapattah, kids threaten teachers, and bosses look the other way.
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A Felony with That Croqueta?
Criminals are everywhere at the nation's best-known Cuban eatery.
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Lambs to Slaughter
Miami's Catholic leaders covered for a priest who drugged and sodomized at least a dozen boys.
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Puff, Puff, Class
We’re hitting the hookah at the Ritz-Carlton.
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Cuban Ballet in Exile
Some of the world's best dancers hang out at Costco, then perform Swan Lake.
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Failed School (99)
In Allapattah, kids threaten teachers, and bosses look the other way.
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Shirley Q. Liquor's Racist Scum (24)
Ban ugliness from Miami Beach.
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A Pregnant Pause (12)
Drink heavily and don't worry. That baby will be fine.
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Lambs to Slaughter (8)
Miami's Catholic leaders covered for a priest who drugged and sodomized at least a dozen boys.
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Carbonell Cold Shoulder (8)
We're all losers at South Florida's biggest awards show.
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Remaking Michael Jackson
Why waste money on (or steal) those bogus Thriller remixes when you can get better ones legally for free?
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A Pregnant Pause
Drink heavily and don't worry. That baby will be fine.
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Blaze of Glory
Jon Bon Jovi for governor?
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No One Ever Really Disappears
Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again.
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A Wizard Among Us
Todd Rundgren's space-age power-pop culture crash.
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Recent Articles By Abel Folgar
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Local Motion
A sampling of some recent Miami music releases.
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The Waterford Landing
Bullet Park EP (Applied Chaotics)
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Junc Ops
2013 (Circuitree Records)
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Boy Prostitute
Boy Prostitute (Ramhaus Records)
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Lost and Found
Lose the Rookie reunites this weekend at PS14.
National Features
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
Last Step to Redemption
Drug counselor Richard Entrekin swam a little too easily in a sea of sharks.
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Village Voice
The Cro-Mag Diaries
Remembering the brutal life and times of John "Bloodclot" Joseph, New York hardcore icon.
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Seattle Weekly
Being Gary Busey
Everybody thinks Jeff Swanson is somebody famous. And he does nothing to dissuade them of the notion.
By Aimee Curl -
SF Weekly
Party Crashers
If you think Ralph Nader won't screw the Democrats again, you're not paying attention.
By John Geluardi
Down Home Southernaires
Negro en Bicicleta (Floridita 1800 Records)
By Abel Folgar
Published: May 8, 2008
Down Home Southernaires were at one point known as Pygmy, and as Pygmy, they were great. As DHS, they are even better. Imagine some country-fried soul R&B in the vein of Hialeah's pride Coke (the band!) mixed with Clarence Reid's "Blowfly" high jinks. Add Elastic Bond's eclectic Dashiki express and throw in some of Philip Bailey's Earth, Wind & Fire peaks.
There is some serious craftsmanship here. Levels are of the high order and the gonads get rustled honestly. José Castello rocks the keys and the vocals while Kristopher Pabon and Max Johnston duel on the guitars over the solid backbone of Jarrett Hann's bass and Jorge Rubiera's drums. Edward Adames lends effects and tambourine sensibilities throughout. While the organic musings are on point, it's the little Casio-tones and loops that give the album its carnivalesque feel and allow listeners to buckle away without restraint.
"Otro Sur (Sagan Samba)" and "Israelis on the Beach" bring the Brazilian sound into the Miami funk fold. "Sex Itself" and "Anthro-Apology" hand you a Marshal's baton during Trinidad & Tobago's finest parade. "Let's Fall in Love with Each Other" licks at the lips of The Clash with a stripped feel only people a few shades darker than these boys could have. Great album. Great songs. Let's all go and get laid tonight.
