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Archive | December, 2012

Before You See Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” Check Out the Original “Django” at Miami Beach Cinematheque

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Quentin Tarantino’s new Western slave epic, Django Unchained, has momentarily resurrected Franco Nero in a hat tip to one of the actor’s more iconic roles, a coffin-wielding drifter named Django. Now through January 3, Miami Beach Cinematheque will be showing Django. For Tarantino fans, it should be a compelling footnote. Nero has long been one of Italy’s rawest, most vital [...]

Top Five Alternative Albums of 2012

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Grant James sifts through new releases each week to bring us some of the good, the bad, and the Evanonsense. These are his five favorite alternative releases of 2012. They are all available at Radio-Active Records and Sweat Records.  5. The xx, Coexist After the band’s 2009 debut album, xx, established their subtle, sensual sound, Coexist became a highly [...]

Dear Internet, Hating on Christianity Has Gotten Old

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Dear Internet, Hating on Christianity has gotten old. I know that many of you believe that hating on Christianity at any chance you get is justified. And to be fair, we are given no shortage of chances. “But Jesus Camp!” you think. “The Westboro Baptist Church! Women’s rights! It’s all their fault!” Maybe you heard [...]

Five Worthy Weekend Activities for the Home Stretch Before New Year’s

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We’re coming up on the last half of that long, indeterminate holiday stretch between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. You might be saving your energy and bucks for Monday night’s shebang, but there are still a few interesting things to check out around town this weekend. Here are five. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 Cristy Road’s Spit [...]

Danation: Farewell to Daniel Inouye, the Senate’s President Pro Tempore — and Its Biggest Badass

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Among all the talk of fiscal cliffs and shootings, the death of Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii on Monday didn’t reach the level of newsworthiness to which it was perhaps due. Following the death of Sen. Robert Byrd in 2010, Sen. Inouye became the longest-serving member of the Senate’s majority party, and thus the Senate [...]

Capitalist Food Production: A Leading Cause of Hunger, Illness, Ecocide, Exploitation, and Imperialist Domination

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Capitalism is a dysfunctional economic system that benefits a few while exploiting and neglecting the majority. But it’s not only that. It’s also a social relationship of domination, where a small class of capitalists exerts power over the whole society through the private ownership of the means of production. Under capitalism, the purpose of all commodity production (including food) is [...]

Borscht 8 Was the Film Festival’s Best Program Yet

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Saturday night at the Arsht Center in downtown Miami, the main event of the quasi-annual Borscht Film Festival proved triumphant on several accounts. For Borscht Corp. itself, the program turned out to be its most ambitious to date. The evening boasted nearly three hours of impressively high-quality short films in one of the city’s fanciest [...]

Holly Hunt’s Album Release Party for “Year One” Torched Churchill’s

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Wearing short pants, short sleeves, and a neck bandage over a brown-spider bite, Matt Preira lamented still not being able to escape the humidity, and the sweat pouring out during his frenetic errand running — from making sure the plugs on the back patio work to smoothing over line-up issues — suggested he would melt [...]