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• Picturing Latino life in the U.S.

  A snapshot of Latino life in the U.S., at the CCEMiami.

  CCEMiami (Centro Cultural Español en Miami), the Spanish cultural arm here, too often falls of the radar when it comes to the arts. Since moving into the bustling downtown area on Biscayne Boulevard (from its sometimes forbidding building in [...]

  From Knight Arts at May 24, 2013, 1:25pm in Arts and Entertainment

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• Media City Film Festival kick-off & Memorial Weekend preview

  The 19th Media City Film Festival kicked off at MOCAD  (a Knight Arts grantee) on Tuesday, May 21st with a live musical performance featuring Michael Snow/Canadian Creative Music Collective and Wolf Eyes. The international film festival, which has run the last two nights, will continue through Saturday, May [...]

  From Knight Arts at May 24, 2013, 1:20pm in Arts and Entertainment

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• Dancehall's Sanchez on Best of the Best: "Everybody From Every End of the World Comes to This Gig"

  Sanchez is the anti-Pat Boone. Where the conservative crooner made early rock and roll "safe" in the '50s by taking all the edge of out of songs like "Tutti Frutti," Sanchez has made a career of ...

  Continue reading "Sanchez on Best of the Best: "Everybody From Every End of the' [...]
  From Crossfade at Fetched: May 24, 2013, 1:09pm in Music, Nightlife

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• Miami's Five Best Eats and Drinks This Weekend: Memorial Day Edition

  It's Memorial Day weekend. The "Official Unofficial" start of the summer. Which, in Miami, doesn't mean all that much since most of our days are filled with beach outings (try surfboarding in M...' [...]
  From Short Order at May 24, 2013, 1:03pm in Food and Dining

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• Kaitlyn Hunt Refuses Plea Deal, Could Turn to "Romeo and Juliet" Law

  Kaitlyn Hunt, the 18-year-old high school student facing felony charges in connection to her arrest after she had a same-sex relationship with a younger student, was offered a plea agreement of ... [...]
  From The Daily Pulp: Bob Norman's Blog at May 24, 2013, 12:49pm in News

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• Lesbian, 18, rejects plea deal that would have kept her off sex-offenders registry; case headed to trial

  BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

  An 18-year-old high school senior, accused of having sex with her then-14-year-old girlfriend, has rejected a plea deal that could have kept her off Florida's sex-offender registry.

  Kaitlyn Hunt of Indian River County is charged with two felony counts' [...]

  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 24, 2013, 12:33pm in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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• Palau project to move forward

  The developers of the Palau condo — the condo-retailed project that includes the old Mark’s Cleaners site — have made peace with their Sunset Harbour neighbors, The Miami Herald is reporting. According to an agreement provided last week to the … Continue reading → [...]
  From Belle Isle Blog at May 24, 2013, 12:11pm in Communities, Living

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• ‘Pass It On’: New project to free imprisoned dissident rapper in Cuba

  Pedazos de la Isla has launched a new project to help secure the freedom of imprisoned Cuban dissident and rapper, Angel Yunier Remon. I seriously doubt Beyonce or Jay-Z will be joining this worthwhile campaign (they most likely don't want to insult Cuba's repressive apartheid dictatorship who hosted them),' [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 24, 2013, 12:00pm in Cuba

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• God Versus Science In Moore, Oklahoma

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  BY SAM FIELDS

  If there was one thing that was predictable in the news coverage of the Moore, Oklahoma tornado it was the survivors “thanking the Lord”.

  It was, therefore, amusing to see the link that I was sent by a Browardbeat.com reader.

  In it CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asks a mom holding her [...]

  From BrowardBeat.com at May 24, 2013, 11:54am in News, Politics

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• LGBT activists (mostly) applaud, conservative groups deplore Boy Scouts decision allowing gay youths

  Here are various public reactions to the Boy Scouts decision on Thursday to allow gay scouts, but not adult gay leaders:

  HRC, Human Rights Campaign:

  WASHINGTON – In a historic move, 1,400 leaders from the nation’s local Boy Scouts of America Councils gave the green light [...]

  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 24, 2013, 11:49am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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