Japanese television show producers recently called the Wolfsonian Moving Image Archive, desperate for footage of French poodles trained to bark simple words (the footage exists, and it is every bit as unsettling as you think).
SOUTH FLORIDA
The best birthday Emery Copeland ever had was a couple of years ago. He celebrated with one friend, two beautiful women and an incredibly huge amount of crack cocaine that kept the party going for approximately two weeks.
SOUTH FLORIDA, U.S.A. BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER
A few days before the Carnegie Hall debut of the Barry University Chamber Ensemble, some sopranos stayed after rehearsal. ''Not only have I never been to Carnegie Hall, but I've never been to New York,'' said Elizabeth Garrard. ``I got the smallest camera I could find and the smallest purse, so I can just slip it in my back pocket.''
SOUTH FLORIDA, U.S.A. | BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER
It may come as a surprise to you that Miami is the cleanest city in the United States. It came as a surprise to readers of the Forbes.com article where this was reported.
Bud Collins -- whose name, when it appears in print, is almost always preceded by ''tennis commentator'' or ''tennis icon'' -- was back in Key Biscayne for the Sony Ericsson Open.
SOUTH FLORIDA
The toastmaster killed. Ditto for two of the three featured speakers. The grammarian merely robbed. Welcome, distinguished guests and Gavel Club Gavaliers, to the Voices of Time Gavel Club.
SOUTH FLORIDA, U.S.A. | BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER
This much we know about the Southeast Asian sport of Sepak Takraw: It is 1,000 years old, or maybe 500, and looks a lot like badminton, or soccer, or possibly volleyball, but not really.
SOUTH FLORIDA, U.S.A. | BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER
The Veggie Bus has 100,000 miles on it, has traveled to all of the lower 48 states, and gets six to seven miles per gallon of deep-fried grease.
SOUTH FLORIDA, U.S.A. | BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER
Ninety models were playing volleyball at the South Beach nightclub Nikki Beach Saturday morning. The cause was not cancer or child poverty but a free trip to Turks and Caicos for the winning team, because extremely beautiful people need to vacation as much, if not more, than the rest of us.
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Trucker school, also known as the Commercial Drivers' License School Inc., abutted a Honda repair joint on Northwest 27th Avenue. The walls were lined with pictures of S-cam drum brakes, clutch brake squeezes and a giant portrait of I-95. The highway was utterly traffic-free and any Floridian would call that sublime.
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Twenty cadets of the Civil Air Patrol's Tamiami Composite Squadron sat in front of flying ace Lt. Col. Don Blakeslee at Wings Over Miami, the air museum at Kendall-Tamiami Airport.
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