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The Talk of the Green Iguana
Will American voters elect the first gay vice president in November?
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Are We There Yet?
Jeez, can we just embrace the electric car already?
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Accidental Hit Man
Sure, Paul Brandreth talks like a wiseguy. But is he a cold-blooded killer?
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They'll Take Your Houses
South Florida's real estate forecast calls for pain
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The Muscle Men
Inside the "Rejuvenation Centers" at the heart of the nation's largest illegal steroid and HGH operation
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Man-Child in the Promised Land (11)
Pop star Sean Kingston hopes the party's just begun
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Your Mom Thinks He’s Hot (6)
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The Talk of the Green Iguana (4)
Will American voters elect the first gay vice president in November?
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Guitar Zero (2)
Maybe the next generation won't even play instruments. Clapton and Hendrix? So passé.
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Shooting the Moon (2)
Aim high or aim low, you're bound to hit something, even if it's the sleep button
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Cheat Sheet to Langerado
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Licensed to Chill
How the Beasties went from hip-hop pranksters to musical renaissance men
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Paul Potts
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Not Your Father's N Word
Eight months after its "burial," the world's most dangerous epithet is more popular than ever in hip-hop
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
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Sun-Sentinel To 'Improver The Spirit' and Become 'Disneyland for the Mind'
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Hurry Up And Spit!
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Black Journalists Association Workshop In Miami
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Guest SXSW Blogger: Rachel Goodrich, Torche, Ash Grundwald
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Guest SXSW Blogger: the Wedding Present, Van Morrison, R.E.M., the Lemonheads, and more
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The Cool Kids + Black Punk Done Right
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Canine Crusaders
That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
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Miami New Times
Picked On
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Village Voice
"Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal"
An election-season essay from one of America's greatest playwrights.
By David Mamet
At long last rescued from the out-of-print wilderness, Sonic Youth's self-titled, under-heard debut reveals itself as quite the opposite of the festering, tonal Hades implied by subsequent records like Confusion Is Sex or Bad Moon Rising. Here we find a diminutive, blond Art Forum contributor picking up a bass, a pair of Glenn Branca-affiliated guitar soldiers, and a not-long-for-this-lineup drummer, then thoughtfully laying the groundwork for a quarter-century of aural expansions, redecorations, and wainscottings. Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore come correct with uniquely tuned guitar clangs and boings, throwing down tasteful effects-pedal scree on occasion. Kim Gordon's basic-yet-bold bass parts are distinctly audible in the mix and more integral than they are now, driving forward with the help of Richard Edison's precise wallop. Sonic Youth's true Holy Grail? The live bonus tracks from 1981, particularly "Cosmopolitan Girl," a dissonant, scintillatingly simplistic bit of sarcastic Gordon punk that likely helped launch a dozen riot grrrl bands.
