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Archive | August 24, 2012

California Bill Will Deem Reparative Therapy Abuse, But What About Raising Children in Certain Faiths?

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California’s Senate Bill 1172 shall soon be on its way to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown, where it will almost certainly become law. The bill, the first of its kind in the nation, bans the administering of “reparative therapy” to minors. That is, it prohibits parents from hiring psychiatrists, psychologists, or counselors to de-gay [...]

Local Album of the Week: “Mutant Meat” by Suede Dudes

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Just looking at the name, listeners over the age of 30 may associate Fort Lauderdale’s Suede Dudes with the shoegazing 1990s act Suede (a.k.a. London Suede). But these older listeners should be quickly dissuaded from this ill-advised free association with the opening notes of Mutant Meat, which came out Aug. 21.  The metallic guitar work [...]

No Country for Pop Stars: Can Robert Elias Find His Way in South Florida’s Musical Landscape?

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Robert Elias is a pop musician in the truest sense of the term: an adorably groomed specimen with a knack for injecting danceability and universally relatable lyrics into the same song. Based in Miami, he once explained to our very own Arielle Castillo that, as a purveyor of a sound unfriendly to both Churchill’s and [...]

Landmark West Palm Beach Venue Respectable Street Celebrates 25 Years on Saturday

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Allan Bowron, general manager and booker for the now-legendary West Palm Beach club Respectable Street, joined the venue’s staff in 2005. But really, he’s been with the place from the beginning, when it opened in 1987. As a disaffected teen from Atlanta visiting his mother in South Florida, he’d wait in lines that wrapped around [...]