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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?
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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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Party Crashers
If you think Ralph Nader won't screw the Democrats again, you're not paying attention.
By John Geluardi
Don't let Tera Melos fool you with its textbook cover. For this California three-piece, "math rock" means much more of an affinity for chaos theory than for the staid and stoic world of algebraic expressions. In fact to the uninitiated, the term might call to mind things like precision, restraint, and formula. While accurate in a sense, these words find a whole new meaning when fed through a dizzying array of perception-warping time signatures, effects pedals, and sideways harmonic sensibilities.
Jarring rhythmic transitions, caterwauling anti-melodic shenanigans, and a total disregard for the listener's ability to keep pace are all integral variables in the Tera Melos equation. At times it almost seems as if bassist Nathan Latona and drummer Vince Rogers' primary goal is sonic vertigo. Just when you think you know where they're going, they turn about face and head in the other direction. One minute, guitarist Nick Reinhart is tapping his way through graceful and tuneful arpeggios; moments later, he's sending his axe shrieking against the grain he'd so carefully exposed. Like a bunch of kids playing dominos, they set you up only to knock you down. And you're glad to be treated so roughly.
